Mental Health

Topics:

• Mental IIlness
• Interaction Body-Mind-Soul
• Cultural diversity and Immigrant inclusion
• Connection and Healing

1) Mental IIlness

ANXIETY

Sleep disturbance,
irritability,
fatigue

Deconcentration,
constant alertness,
hurry to finish things that have not yet begun

Going vs. not going
Doing vs. not doing
Wanting vs. not being able to
Angel vs. Devil

Palpitations,
chest tightness,
sweating

Nausea, vomiting, empty stomach,
diarrhea

Shortness of breath, predominance of a wide muscle tension

Spasms,
torticollis,
low back pains

Impaired
attention,
memory,
interpretation
of reality

Intrusive thoughts go in an obsessive way, collapse body and cognitive system

Fear and insecurity hyperstimulate this mental process

Exhaustion:
event where our
adaptive resources are depleted

Responses of each person: ability to interpret, evaluate and face stress

DEPRESSION

Experiential narrowing,
moral suffering, global inhibition

Inability in decision
making and concentration

Sadness,
slowness,
inhibition
of all psycho
processes

Primitive emotions, childhood, things with no more access in memory

Self-devaluation, feelings of guilty, desiring or not caring about dying

Loss of: affection,
identity, place,
another person, relationship

MENTAL HEALTH
develops through a
bio-psycho-social
factor

Ask for help
Fight with determination
Embrace life with passion

The world belongs to those who fly over barriers and stigmas

Is there anything you can do right now that would have an immediate, positive benefit for your Mental Health?

Improving your mood, focus and could actually last a long time and protect your brain from incurable diseases?

The powerful effects of Physical Activity

Meditation
Mindfulness
Gratitude

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Lose with class and
win with boldness

“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
(Invictus)