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1 Basic Mental Health Awareness Adult Ppt
1 Basic Mental Health Awareness Adult Ppt
Awareness
1
Overview
• The statistics
2
What is mental health?
Loneliness is
estimated to be as
bad for people’s
health as smoking
15 cigarettes a day
What can affect mental health ?
• Poverty • Relationships
• Bereavement • Unemployment
• Imprisonment • Sexual abuse
• Divorce/separation • Addiction
• Loneliness/Isolation • Environment
• Long term illness • Caring responsibilities
What to look out for?
Self esteem
Resilience and problem solving
skills
Feeling in control
Individual
Social Access to
resources
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Looking after yourself
Things I can do
………by myself
………with others