Mental Health
Mental Health

What is
Mental Health?
Our mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps to determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.
A person’s mental health is evolved through the short-term and long-term effects of their family relationships. Just like you can have good physical health and poor physical health, you can have good mental health at times and poor mental health at times. It can be enhanced or impacted negatively.
Good mental health is characterised by a person’s ability to learn, feel, express and manage a range of positive and negative emotions, cope and manage change and uncertainty, form and maintain good relationships with others, fulfil such several key functional activities.
Signs of Good Mental Health
include being able to
Realize Your
Full Potential
Work
Productively
Cope With
The Stresses of Life
Meaningful Contributions
to Communities
Signs that your Mental Health
requires attention
- Pulling away from people and usual activities
- Having persistent thoughts and memories you can't get out of your head
- Eating or sleeping too much or too little
- Having low or no energy
- Feeling numb or like nothing matters
- Having unexplained aches and pains
- Feeling unusually confused, forgetful, on edge, angry, upset, worried or scared
- Hearing voices or believing things that are not true
- Experiencing severe mood swings that cause problems in relationships
- Thinking of harming yourself or others
- Smoking, drinking or using drugs more than usual
- Yelling or fighting with family and friends
- Inability to perform daily tasks like taking care of your kids or getting to work or school
- Feeling helpless or hopeless
At Family First Foundation, we recognize the importance of an individual’s mental health and aim to provide support to those having concerns relating to:
- Adjustment issues
- Abusive family or marital relationships
- Psychiatric concerns - e.g: depression, anxiety
- Addiction
- A history of trauma
- Sexual abuse
