Health Unit 3 - Emotional Health and Wellness

3.11 - Mental health and disorders

• Mental health describes people's emotional, psychological, and social well-being. To maintain positive mental health, connect with others, stay positive, get physically active, help others, get enough sleep, and develop coping skills.

• Warning signs of mental illness may include mood swings, avoidance, changes in eating and sleeping patterns, anxiety, and negative emotions. 

• Mental health professionals who can provide resources and guidance include school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, and psychiatrists.

Eating disorders:

• Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that makes people lose more weight than is considered healthy for their age and height

• Bulimia nervosa involves periods of excessive overeating (or binge eating) followed by extreme methods of purging (or getting rid of the food)

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) involves repeated, upsetting thoughts called obsessions

3.12 - Social and Sexual health

It was all common sense and stuff I mostly already knew

3.13 - Emotional Wellness

Emotional Intelligence

• Being self-aware—Observing and recognizing a feeling as it happens

• Managing emotions—Handling feelings so they are appropriate; realizing what is behind a feeling; finding ways to handle fears and anxieties, anger, and sadness

• Motivating oneself—Channeling emotions in the service of a goal; emotional self-control; delaying gratification and stifling impulses

• Having empathy—Sensitivity to others' feelings and concerns and considering their perspective; appreciating the differences in how people feel about things

• Handling relationships—Managing emotions in others; social competence and social skills

5 stages of grief:

1. Denial

2. Anger

3. Bargaining

4. Depression

5. Acceptance

3.14 - Substance use and abuse

Alcohol

Tobacco and Vaping

Weed

Depressants

• Opioids

  • Heroin

  • morphine

  • codeine

  • methadone

• Alcohol and sedatives

Stimulants

• Meth

• Cocaine

  	DESCRIPTION	EXAMPLES	SIGNS OF USE
  Synthetic drugs4	Chemical compounds that are produced in illegal laboratories	Synthetic opioids, LSD, fentanyl, spice, bath salts	Anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, nausea, vomiting
  Inhalants5	Various substances that people inhale to produce a short-term high	Gases, nitrates, solvents, and aerosol sprays	Slurred speech, reduced coordination, euphoria, dizziness
  Hallucinogens6	Drugs that alter people's awareness of their surroundings as well as their own thoughts and feelings	LSD (a classic hallucinogen) and phencyclidine (PCP) (a dissociative hallucinogen)	Hallucinations, intensified feelings and sensory experiences, increased heart rate and blood pressure, nausea, sleep disturbances, loss of appetite
  Club drugs7	Psychoactive drugs that act on the central nervous system; often used by teenagers and young adults at dance clubs and bars or used as "date rape" drugs	Mollys, ecstasy, roofies, meth, speed, and crank	Changes in mood, awareness, and behavior
  Anabolic Steroids8	Synthetic variations of the male sex hormone testosterone	Common names include gear, juice, roids, and stackers	Muscle building, oily skin and acne, aggressive behavior, extreme mood swings, paranoia

3.15 - Stress

Positive stress

fight-or-flight response(stress response)

• GAS system

  • Alarm

  • Resistance

  • Exhaustion

Three(4) tips to handle stress

1. Positive attitude

2. Quality sleep

3. Connect with others

4. Use relaxation techniques (like meditation)