LIVING WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
When someone has mental health problems, the way they think and feel and their ability to handle issues that come in their day to day life is affected negatively. The following can help someone living with mental health problems cope with them and impact on their lives in a very positive way. The first thing that one can do is talking about their feelings. This helps in making someone stay in good mental health and it deals with the times when one feels troubled. Talking about one’s feelings is not a sign of weakness. It is the first step of
Varieties of mental health problems
According to Canadian researchers in psychology Flett Gordon and Paul Hewitt, personality is the key to a wide range of health problems resulting from stress. Perfectionism is one of the traits that make one less able to cope with stress and makes it very vulnerable. In over 20 years of research, these researchers found that perfectionists face constant stress which makes them prone to physical, emotional and relational stress, such as eating disorders, depression, marital conflict, chronic pain syndrome and even suicide. In various studies, perfectionism was found to be correlated with this problem, meaning the more perfectionism was present,