HSS 1101 Chapter 2: Promoting and Preserving your Psychosocial Health
5 Oct 2015
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Psychosocial/mental health ecompasses the intellectual (thinking), emotional (feeling), social (relating) and spiritual (being) dimensions of health. You are psychosocially/mentally healthy when you develop each of these dimensions at optimal levels; and reserve energy for facing the normal ups and downs of life. Psychosocial health is a result of a complex interaction between your history and your conscious/ unconscious thoughts about and interpretations of the past. Intellectual health: thinking and rational part of psychosocial health - includes beliefs, values and attitudes. The healthy intellectual response is to take responsibility of your actions, or lack of actions. When a person"s intellectual health deteriorates he or she may experience sharp declines in rational thinking and increasingly distorted perceptions. As a result, they may experience mood swings or become cynical. Emotional health: the feeling or subjective side of mental health; the feeling reactions to life. Emotions: intensified feelings or complex patterns of feelings we experience on a day-to-day, minute-to-minute basis.
