What factors affect physical well being?
These lifestyle factors can influence the state of both your physical and mental health.
- Exercise. Physical activity in any form is a great way to keep you physically healthy as well as improving your mental wellbeing.
- Diet. Good nutrition is a crucial factor in influencing the way we feel.
- Smoking.
What are the factors on which the health of a family depends?
Family-level influences on health derive from 3 main sources: genetics, a shared physical environment, and a shared social environment. The last 2 factors become more important when family members inhabit the same household.
What are 3 positive factors that affect mental wellness?
Some of the factors that affect the mental health of youth are as follows:
- Self-esteem. This is the value we place on ourselves, our positive self-image and sense of self-worth.
- Feeling loved.
- Confidence.
- Family breakup or loss.
- Difficult behaviour.
- Physical ill health.
- Abuse.
What influences a person’s behavior?
Behaviour is affected by factors relating to the person, including: physical factors – age, health, illness, pain, influence of a substance or medication. personal and emotional factors – personality, beliefs, expectations, emotions, mental health. life experiences – family, culture, friends, life events.
What are psychological health factors?
Psychological factors influence not just the experience of health and illness, but also health behaviours. This influence can be reactive, e.g. drinking more due to stress, or proactive, e.g. making decisions about smoking cessation based on beliefs about health and belief in one’s own ability to make changes.
What are the main causes of psychological disorders?
The causes of psychological disorders are not known, but a number of factors are thought to influence their development. These factors include chemical imbalances in the brain, childhood experiences, heredity, illnesses, prenatal exposures, and stress.
What are the 2 main mood disorders?
Two of the most common mood disorders are depression and bipolar disorder.
What are the early signs of mood disorder?
Both a manic and a hypomanic episode include three or more of these symptoms:
- Abnormally upbeat, jumpy or wired.
- Increased activity, energy or agitation.
- Exaggerated sense of well-being and self-confidence (euphoria)
- Decreased need for sleep.
- Unusual talkativeness.
- Racing thoughts.
- Distractibility.
What it feels like to have a mood disorder?
If you have a mood disorder, your general emotional state or mood is distorted or inconsistent with your circumstances and interferes with your ability to function. You may be extremely sad, empty or irritable (depressed), or you may have periods of depression alternating with being excessively happy (mania).
How do I know if I have normal anxiety?
Normal anxiety is intermittent and is expected based on certain events or situations. Problem anxiety, on the other hand, tends to be chronic and irrational, and it interferes with many life functions. Avoidance behavior, incessant worry, and concentration and memory problems may all stem from problem anxiety.