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