HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gross National Happiness, Mental Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury
14 Dec 2016
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Line between physical and mental not as clear as dualists would assume, e. g. cause, experience, and symptom expression. Whether it"s how you experience these things (physical symptoms of depression, heart rate, respiration, nervous system may al reflect mental phenomena). Despite the links between body and mind, physical state cannot necessarily give an indication of mental health. Whether tense shoulders or shortness of breath, myriad explanations. Thus, mental health is almost entirely self reported because we cannot read the body we have to rely on first person accounts and this is signification because this changes everything. When we thin about medical signs they have been about objective reading of the body and to think about intrusmental things such as a thermom. Are important because it allows the doctors to tap into that persons body but with mental it depends on what the person has to say. So mental health enters the social world in a way physical health doesn"t.
