Mental Illness

Mental Illness includes depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorder, addiction behaviors. This affects your mood, thinking and behaviors.

A mental illness can make your life miserable and can cause severe problems if not handled with proper care.

Here are few symptoms and signs of mental illness-

1. Feeling sad
2. Excessive fear or worries or guilty
3. Confused or reduced ability to concentrate
4. Extreme mood swings
5. Withdrawal from social life
6. Tiredness, low energy, sleeping problems
7. Delusions/paranoia
8. Excessive stress
9. Addictive/alcohols or drugs
10. Change in sex life
11. Excessive anger, hostility or violence
12. Suicidal thoughts

 

It is caused due to various genetic and environmental factors like-

1. Inheritance

It may affect you from your blood relatives

 

2. Environmental Exposures before birth

Stress, inflammatory conditions, toxins, alcohol or drugs intake may cause mental problems.

 

3. Brain Chemistry

When the neural networks are impaired and the nerves do not function as receptors leading to emotional disorders; you may face the problem of mental illness.

 

If you are suffering from these diseases; do follow these steps-

 

1. Pay attention to the doctor’s or therapists warnings.
2. Get routine medical care
3. Seek help whenever needed
4. Take good care of your body.