Mental Health

By Mala Wijeweera

To improve the knowledge about mental health and to recognize mental sickness as any other disease. Mental health carry physical ,psycological conditions in individuals. There is a social stigma attached to mental patients and mental sickness and mental health.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Mar 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493141067

Mala Wijeweera

I am an operating theatre qualified nurse from St Georges' Hospital London in1971

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Copyright © 2014 by Mala Wijeweera. 602501-WIJE

ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4931-4105-0

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Rev. date: 05/06/2014

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Contents

1. Understanding Mental Health

2. Stress of work in Mental Health

3. Mental Health among older people

4. Conflicts of Mentally ill neighbours, Friends and Relatives.

Understanding Mental Health

Mental and emotional distress has been described as an illness of the body, mind and brain as well as one’s own life events and social relationship with the environment interacting or overlapping with one another, influenced by one’s own culture and experience. In the 19th Century Emil Kraeplin believed mental illness was not being able to cope up with everyday life.

In understanding mental illness one must recognize the distressed individuals from a medical point of view of diagnostic purposes and for analysing problematic behaviour with signs and symptoms of the disease.

Mental distress and disturbing behaviour, wild, violent and dangerous actions have been described as madness, lunacy or mania. In the 18th century these individuals were diagnosed in various terminology and psychotic and neurotic and other diagnostic labels in psychiatric medicine.

Neurotics, Reactive depression, psychotic illnesses labeled as hysteria in a woman, Endogenous mood disorders, Mood disorders, Bodily disorders, overwork or exhaustion or stress, Epilepsy, Schizophrenia, Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa, Amnesia, Akathisia, Agraphobia, Repression, Senile Dementia, Autism, Manic depression, Catatonic schizophrenia, Claustrophobia, Confabulation Conditions, Acute form of delirium, Delusions, Drug addiction, Alcoholism, Condition of de-personalization, Projection, Rejection, Anxiety states, Sexual deviations, Frustrations, Guilty conscience, Displacement, Hebephrenics, Hypochondriacs, Illusive behaviour, Insomnia, Mutism, Neuroleptics, obsession, Panic attacks, Sexual overtones, Paranoia, Parkinson’s disease, Personality disorders, post natal depression, Post natal psychosis, post traumatic stress disorders, Stupor, Tachyphrasia, Thought disorders, Tourette’s syndrome, Ticks or strange movements,

The labels help the psychiatrists and psychologists to understand and diagnose different categories of mental disorders and to deliver medication and treatment to patients and arrest mental illnesses in early stages of the illness for treatment, response and cure, there are more advantages in receiving financial benefits from the state welfare services.

In reference to Steve Morgan and Jill Reynolds, there are rehabilitation centres, day centre, for social and recreational activities. The disadvantages are the labels which leave scars on individuals. They are discriminated, isolated and stigmatised by society. In admission procedures, compulsory admissions and sections for patients, they lose their freedom of individuals in employment. In sheltered employment there is a low wage, untapped and undervalued skills which are under used and with no interaction with other ordinary job opportunities. In informal admissions, the patients consent is necessary.

In defacto detention section 3 Act 1983 discharges of patients and vice versa, in the