Mental Health Self Assessment Paper

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Mental Health – Self Assessment 1) Explain in your own words signs and symptoms of depression (ensure you use reliable websites e.g. government websites, books and the DVD on depression and suicide). As much as being occasionally down is normal, when you start to experience that same feeling more often and worse than usual that’s the first sign of depression. When your sadness is worse than usual it means that you aren’t really even feeling sad, you are feeling empty, restless, uninterested, hopeless and unsocial. Depression is when you are experiencing one of those feelings that won’t go away. Having this feeling will affect your day to day life, school, work, sleep, social life etc. Most commonly people can’t control their negative thoughts, which makes there depression get even worse as they get even more negative thoughts. Loss of interest is another symptom to depression, in most situations the person with depression won’t notice this but their friends/family will. There is also a large amount of self-loathing this is when you’re feeling worthless or guilty and are also harshly criticizing your mistake, choices or fault. 2) Explain in your own words the signs and symptoms of anxiety (ensure you use reliable websites e.g. government websites, book and the DVD on depression and suicide). Anxiety is when you are…show more content…
Sickness and school is what has gotten me to my mental state. I suffer from migraines which when I have them effects my concentration and sight (makes things fuzzy etc) so when I have a migraine I can’t go to school because the only way to get rid of it is to rest it off. When my migraines become worse I get more time off school and then I get behind in school work which stresses me out and starts of my anxiety. Even if I didn’t have my migraines I would still be stressed about work but not to the extent I experience when I’ve been

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