mental health research

 Mental Health Research

What is Mental Health?

Mental health includes our emotional, psycological, an socail-well being. It effects how we feel, act and think. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Over the course of your life, if you have mental health problems, your thinking, mood, and behaviour could be affecte. many factors contribute to mental health problems, including: 

• Biological factors, such as gene or brain chemistry
• Life experiences, such as traume or abuse
• Famly history of mental problems 

Early warning signs 

• Eating or sleeping too much or too little
• Pulling away from people and usual activities
• Having low or no energy
• Feeling numb or like nothing matters
• Having unexplained aches and pains
• Feeling helpless or hopeless
• Smoking, drinking,or using drugs more than usual
• Feeling unusually confused , forgetful, on edge, angry, upset, worried or scared
• Yelling or fighting with family or friends
• Experiencing severe mood swings that cause problems in relationships
• Having persisitent thoughts or memories you cant get out of your head
• Hearing voices or believing things that arent true 
• Thinking of harming yourself or others
• Inability to perform daily tasks like taking care of your kids or going to work or school

Smiling can benefit these mental health problems however this can be used as a mask most of the time especially used in depression. Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses, people who deal with this don't open up to people mainly because they think that they will get judged or that no one else will understand. They tend to overthink, be low in spirit, unhappy, suicidal etc... however once they are doing something that they love and smiling it creates an escape route and distracts them for a moment of time. the reason for why how smiling benefits mental health s because, smiling releases endorphins, which help a person feel happy and more positive. Therefore smiling helps mental health as it makes the person happier.