Health Sciences 1002A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Electroconvulsive Therapy, Dysthymia, Agoraphobia
27 Feb 2014
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Contributes to every dimension of wellness (i. e. difficult to maintain emotional, social, or physical wellness if you are not psychologically healthy) Capacity to think, feel and behave in ways that contribute to our ability to enjoy life and manage challenges. The absence of mental illness/ the presence of mental wellness. Hierarchy of needs: physiological needs, safety, being loved, maintaining self-esteem, self-actualization. Normality: the psychological characteristics attributed to the majority of people in a population at a given time, close to average. Normality is not the same as psychological health because not everyone is the same (i. e. we do not think the same or feel the same) Seeking help does not make you weak or psychologically not healthy. Cannot base mental illness just on the absence or presence of symptoms. Cannot judge mental health from the way a person looks (i. e. just because someone looks happy does not mean they don"t have a mental illness)
