Commentary - (2022) Volume 7, Issue 2
Received: 26-Jan-2022, Manuscript No. IPJHCC-22-12090; Editor assigned: 28-Jan-2022, Pre QC No. IPJHCC-22-12090; Reviewed: 11-Feb-2022, QC No. IPJHCC-22-12090; Revised: 16-Feb-2022, Manuscript No. IPJHCC-22-12090; Published: 25-Feb-2022, DOI: 10.35248/2472-1654-7.2.7007
Psychologically and Emotionally well-being are all components of mental health. It has an impact on cognition, perception, and behaviour. It also influences how a person deals with stress, personal relationships, and decision-making. Subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence, and self-actualization of one’s intellectual and emotional potential are all examples of psychological health. Positive psychology and holism view mental health as an individual’s opportunity to appreciate life and strike a balance between life activities and works to reach psychological resilience. Cultural differences, subjective evaluations, and competing professional theories all influence how “mental health” is defined. Sleep irritability, a lack of energy, and thoughts of injuring yourself or others are some early signs of mental health issues. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, mental health is a person’s ability to feel, think, and act in ways that improve one’s life quality while respecting personal, cultural, and cultural boundaries. Impaired performance in these areas is a risk factor for mental disorders or mental illness, both of which are components of mental health. Mental disorder is defined as medical issues that cause and alter cognitive functioning, emotional responses, and behaviour in people who are distressed or have impeded functioning. The International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD- 11) is the global standard for diagnosing, treating, researching, as well as reporting numerous mental illnesses. The DSM-5 is the mental disorder classification system used throughout the United States. A variety of lifestyle factors, including diet, exercise, stress, drug abuse, social connections, and interrelations, are linked to mental health. Treatments including such therapy, counseling, or medication can be administered by therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, registered nurses, or family physicians to help manage mental disorder. William Sweetser was the first to coin the term mental hygiene in the mid-nineteenth century, which could be seen as the precursor to modern methods to promoting positive mental health. The American Psychiatric Association’s fourth president one of its founders, Isaac Ray, implicit message hygiene as “the art of preserving the mind against any and all incidents as well as influences determined to worsen its qualities, impair its resources and energy, or derange its movements.” Mentally ill patients were thought to be religiously punished in American history. This reaction persisted into the 1700s, along with inhumane incarceration and stigmatization of such people. Dorothea Dix (1802–1887) was a pivotal figure in the “mental hygiene” movement’s development. Dix was a primary school teacher who worked to help people with mental illnesses and to reveal the deplorable conditions in that they were placed. The “mental hygiene movement” arose as a result of this Prior to this movement; it was not uncommon for people suffering from mental illnesses to be severely neglected, often being left alone in deplorable conditions without adequate clothing. From 1840 to 1880, she managed to win the federal government’s support to establish over 30 state psychiatric hospitals; even so, they were understaffed, under-resourced, and charged with violating human rights. Mental illnesses outnumber cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Over 26% of all Americans over the age of 18 are diagnosed with a mental illness. According to evidence, 450 million people worldwide suffer from some form of mental illness. Major depression is ranked fourth among the top ten leading causes of disease in the world. Mental illness is expected to overtake physical illness as the leading cause of the disease worldwide by 2029. Women are more likely than men to suffer from a mental illness.
Every year, one million people commit suicide, with another 10 to 20 million attempting it. According to a World Health (WHO) report, the global cost of mental illness in 2010 was nearly $2.5 trillion (two-thirds in indirect costs), with a projected increase to more than $6 trillion by 2030.
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Citation: Rajesh Boddu (2022) An Overview on Mental Illness and Mental Care. J Healthc Commun. 7:7007.
Copyright: Rajesh B. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
