HLST 110 (Midterm 2) Flashcards
What is WHOS (2010) definition of Mental Health?
A state of well being in which an individual relies on their abilities, can cope with the normal stress of life, can work productively, and is able to contribute to their community.
What is the Canadian Mental Health Associations definition of Mental Health?
Resilience, self actualization, balance, and ability to enjoy life.
What is the heritability of BPD?
Roughly 85%
How can psychological determinants affect one’s mental health?
Example, PTSD: traumatic life experiences can leave people (ex. Soldiers, children) with life long ptsd.
How can the public and public norms against mental health cause inequalities?
- Discrimination (age, education, gender, ethnicity)
- Housing
- Income
- Education
- Food security
- Early Life
Briefly Describe Sangu Delle’s Ted talk
He felt shameful about being offered a meeting with a mental health expert in Canada because of his experience in Africa. Mental health in Africa is less than 1% of funds for medical care. Friend was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was heavily scrutinized.
According to the online survey, how does depression anxiety and loneliness affect people based on their gender, and age.
- Younger females (18-29) displayed greater anxiety, depressive, and loneliness than male counterparts.
- generally, females experienced higher depressive symptoms when encountering greater loneliness
Who was more affected in terms of mental health during the pandemic?
Individuals living alone, or with their parents. Especially young women.
Loneliness was significantly higher for those with annual income <$50,000
How were the elderly affected during the pandemic?
Really not much at all, even tho people were concerned about them.
What is Psychological well being?
- Lives going well
- Feeling good and functioning efficiently
- Painful emotions are a normal part of life
- it’s compromised when negative emotions are extreme or long lasting.
What are some factors that reflect psychological well being?
- Happiness
- Contentment
- Interest
- Engagement
- Confidence
- Affection
- Having some control over your life
- Having sense of Purpose
- Experiencing positive relationships
What is Happiness?
Can’t really be defined, but whatever it is, we know we want it, and that is just somehow good.
How can happiness influence the human body?
- Lower heart rate and blood pressure
- healthier patterns of heart rate variability
- less likely to develop coronary heart disease
- strengthens immune system
- decreased development of common cold
What is the Relationship between Happiness and Health?
Greatly interconnected, happier people tend to live longer
What is stress?
- A change in one’s psychological homeostasis
- Upsetting on a psychological level, can also trigger biological changes
- triggers changes in hormones and blood pressure
What can dampen the effects of stress?
Happiness
What’s the health expectancy of happy people compared too unhappy people?
Happier people were 35% less likely to die over the course of five years compared to unhappy counterparts.
What are the impacts of negative emotions?
- Serious sustained sets of fear can alter biological systems
- adds up to wear and tear
- Chronic anger and anxiety can disrupt cardiac function by changing the hearts electrical stability.
How come staying healthy isn’t as simple as just being happy?
Some environments and lifestyles don’t allow for one to simply not worry and be happy about things.
What is your birth disposition towards psychological states?
40-50%, psychological states such as anxiety, depression, happiness, optimism
How does money influence emotional well being?
A household income of about $75,000 helps raise the emotional well being of a family/person, and rises the more your income increases.
Why do we continue wanting more in terms of possession?
Once we get something new, we get more and more used to seeing it every day, and eventually get used to it and the joy fades.
How does happiness relate to aging?
It’s found that happiness tends to come with aging. Older adults are able to regulate their emotions very well, and experience less negative emotions.
What is mindfulness?
Being present in the moment and observing in a nonjudgmental way.
