Psychological health

Psychological health

determined by overcoming psychological challenges from decision making and problem solving

How can psychological health become + or -

Becomes + or - as a response to constant changing environment as adaptation

What makes it possible to feel good about having effect on environment

autonomy to make decision and control over your life

What are characteristics of psychological healthy people

Accept others and themselves, be creative, respond to changes, show appropriate emotional responses, be aware of reality, function independently, be concern over the needs of others, enjoy interpersonal relationships, have goals in life

What does accept others and themselves mean for psychological health

Accepting yourself or others

What does Be creative means for psychological health

Doing things in terms of making life

What does respond to changes means for psychological health

Sometimes people get stuck lacking the resilience to accept and move to grow from adverse conditions

Show appropriate emotional responses meaning in terms of psychological health

Functioning in social places and being alone, not being needy with a sense of autonomy attached

Aware of reality meaning in terms of psychological health

agreed on same situation, ex: agreed to being in a classroom

Function independently in terms of psychological health

Function in society to do independently as well in a group

Concern over needs of others in terms of psychological health

Empathy and guilt on opposite sides in check of impact upon others

Enjoy interpersonal relationships in terms of psychological health

Not enjoying a connection with anyone = becomes a problem

Have goals in terms of psychological health

Make meaning out of meaningless things due to time of dying

What does CNS do and what does peripheral do?

Central nervous does thought processing, peripheral relays info → CNS and from CNS

Temperament

the predictable way someone reacts to the environment relating to thoughts, feelings, and actions

What influences personality

culture, social, psychological, family members

Freud’s framework of personality

developed the defense mechanisms

What are the common defense mechanisms

Repression, rationalization, denial, projection, displacement, avoidance, regression

Why are defense mechanisms crucial?

Without a way to mitigate pain, not many generations of humans exist. Humans live in uncertain environments and are subjected to psychological pain at a given time. To keep thriving, defense mechanisms are needed

Maslow’s Hierarchy of human needs

Need safety. need love, need esteem, need self actualization

Psychological adjustment

when someone learns certain responses to cope with the change that happens

Psychological growth

realization of that adjustment strategies that work

Interpersonal conflicts

Found in struggling relationships where not being emotionally mature, without maturity resorts to go back to tantrums

What does positive self esteem include

Confidence, getting along with people, accept responsibility for things that happen and work with it, accepts challenges

What does low self esteem include

difficulty with decision making, hard to make clear path on own, resistance against criticism, putting down others to make self look better

How to improve psychological health

exercise, sleep, nutrition, social contacts

How to define a psychological problem

Judging severity over time and if it is a problem in life

Psychosis

thinking or feeling of perception outside reality

delusions

deals with thinking, perception, decision making on delusional thoughts not reality

hallucination

sensory-based, deals with hearing and sometimes seeing what is not there

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

repeating an action many times based on fear in uncertainty, driven by anxiety

Panic disorders

After time passing of uncertainty , panicking

Causes of psychological disorders

multi-generational family transmission, stressful experiences, drugs, injuries, pollutants

Treatments to psychological disorders

medications, counseling, group therapy, support groupsv

anxiety disorders

phobias, panic disorder , generalized anxiety disorder

Trauma and stressor-related disorders

PTSD, acute stress disorder, adjustment disorders

Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders

OCD, hoarding disorder, trichotillomania

Neurodevelopmental disorders

ADHD = short attention span, hyperactivity , Problem gambling

Mood disorders

Major depressive disorder, seasonal affective disorder, bipolar disorder

Feeding eating disorder

bulimia nervosa = excessive eating then vomiting, binge eating, female athlete triad, muscle dysmorphia