THE HONEST IMPACT with Gideon Kapuka

 

  Why do teenagers cut themselves? What is obsessive-compulsive disorder? How can you tell if someone has this? Why are so many homeless people mentally ill? Why are so many artists mentally unstable? Is there ever a time when physical violence should be forgiven and forgotten? Is mental illness genetic? How much do genes affect a person’s ability to have mental health? How do you know when someone you love has a mental illness? How does the divorce of a parent affect the mental health of spouse and children?  Which is worse for returning soldiers (War veterans), their physical or their mental injuries? Which gender has the most mental illness, men or women? When a person is really a danger to themselves or others? What is the youngest age a person can be mentally ill? What is the physical effect of stress and anxiety? How does mental stress hurt our physical. What is the effect on children of their parent’s divorce?

 

Figuring if I can help anyone else out there who's dealing with mental health problems . So many people don't know how to classify mental health issues, mental health can play itself out as you know better than is as physical pain. It can play itself out as body aches. Our society hasn't properly responded to mental health conditions. Simple signs to realise that you indeed have, or experiencing mental health problems can be when your thoughts get radical and got to where you got to stop yourself and think out loud and say "What did you just think again?". Even if you've cried yourself to sleep with that thought on your mind and wake up the next day and be like "I cannot believe I was thinking like that", thoughts like taking your life. For the rest of people battling with mental health problems, sometimes it's simply because of the loneliness, so when you have no one to vent to. The moments behind closed doors, when the lights cut, and ther...

😎 I write because I believe that authentic mental health writing is badly needed in a sea of technical jargon and fear-driven, sensational headlines. I believe that mental health is so self-evident and inseparable from who we are as humans, that it baffles me that modern society has taken so long to accept that. It’s arguable that ancient societies understood the mind-body connection better than we do now. So let’s do something about that.

Mental Health Mental health refers to the psychological and the emotional well-being of an individual. A mentally healthy person is one that is properly adjusted to the emotional and behavioural requirements of the necessary stresses and conflicts associated with daily living. In other words for a person to be deemed mentally healthy, he or she must be ‘sound’ in the cognitive and affective aspects of his mental state. It is also seen as the absence of any sort of mental disorder. A mentally healthy person operates at an acceptable level of behavioural and emotional adjustment in his activities and interactions. Some of the characteristics of a mentally healthy person is zest for life and a balanced approach to the various activities and areas of operation that constitute daily living. The World Health Organisation (W.H.O) has a standard definition for mental health which incorporates all of these aforementioned qualities. It must be mentioned, however, that there are various definitio...