Mental Health🦾

PPD 1041 SOFTSKILLS AND BASIC VOLUNTEERISM

ACTIVITY: MENTAL HEALTH

NAME: SYAZA IZZATI BINTI ISMAIL

MATRIC NUMBER: 71742

Our activity this week is, we listening to talks on mental health by Dr. Ismail Drahman. Healthy means state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of diseases or infirmity. Many things were presented in the talk such as:

A healthy feature of a person is:

v  Maintain ideal body weight

v  Make time for leisure

v  Get enough sleep and rest

Mental health person (love yourself):

v  Respect yourself

v  Be realistic

v  Be tolerant

v  Able to accept disappointments

v  Not being too emotional

v  Able to deal with most situations

v  Take pleasure in simple things

Feel comfortable with other people:

v  Trust others, feel others will trust you

v  Feel you are part of the group

v  Have sense of responsibility to others

v  Understand / respect differences in people

v  Don’t take advantage of others /allow others to take advantages to you

Able to meet demands of life:

v  Use your talent

v  Plan ahead / don’t hear the future

v  Welcome new ideas / experiences

v  Set realistic goals for yourself

v  Able to make decisions

v  Tackle problems as they arise and adjust whenever necessary

v  Be satisfied with putting your best effort in what you do

State of well-being:

v  Individual realizes his / her own abilities

v  Can cope with the normal stresses of life

v  Can work productively

v  Able to make a contribution to his / her community

Human:

v  We are unique

v  We all have different needs

v  We all have different abilities

How do we know that our life is balance?

·         Do you take care of your body and mind by:

v  Healthy eating

v  Being active

v  Getting good night sleep

Do you regularly take time to be alone to think about yourself and your life?

è Ask yourself

Causes of mental health problem of staff / student?

v  Job related / course work

v  Role related

v  Relationship

v  Career development

v  Organizational change

Symptoms of mental health problems among staff / student:

v  Absenteeism

v  Presentism

v  Frequent MCs

v  Frequent minor illness:

§  Headaches / other aches

Managing stress

v  Be realistic about your work

v  Organize your work

v  Sharpen your problem solving skills

v  Practice effective communication

v  Foster social support within the workplace

A lot of information I got during the talk. The lectures taught me the right way to manage time so that problems would not rise. Through those talks, too, teaching me to care about myself. There are so many things that I don’t know what can cause a person to suffer. Therefore, I am very grateful to hear information from someone who is expert in this field. Moreover, what is important in this regards is to always be positive in order that bad things do not happen to us. I’m very happy because I can figure out what the problem is with myself after I know the root cause and nature of the problem. This talk tells a lot about how to manage stress. I feel very fortunate to have been one of the students listening to this lecture, reason I say that because some student sometimes suffer from severe stress and can lead to death and so on. Therefore, we as humans must be good at controlling emotions.