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What Are The Major Factors Affecting Mental Health?

Mental health is a condition of mental well-being that helps people manage the stresses of life, learn well and work well, realize their abilities, and contribute to their community. It is an essential part of health and well-being that supports individual and collective abilities to build relationships, and make decisions. Mental health is a basic human right, that is essential to community, personal, and socio-economic development.

Mental health conditions contain psychosocial disabilities, mental disorders, and other mental states related to considerable distress, risk of self-harm, or impairment in functioning. People with mental health illnesses are more likely to encounter lower levels of mental well-being. Mental health conditions are increasing worldwide. Specifically, because of demographic changes, there has been a 13% incline in mental health conditions and substance use disorders in the last decade. In addition to this, according to the research report of Astute Analytica, the global Mental Health Market is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.43% during the forecast period of 2023 to 2031.

Factors Affecting Mental Health

Changes in circumstance

Life is always evolving. Whether the change is impulsive, or it is expected, positive or negative, people can still see it hard to manage. Moving home, aging, having a baby, changing school, and starting university or a new job, are all parts of the change that can impact mental health. 

Social Connections

Relationships with other people are an essential part of life. If people encounter a dispute or a loss of one of their relationships, they are likely to sense emotions related to grief. Loneliness can have a bad influence on mental health and also impact anyone.

Upbringing and childhood trauma

The environment in which people mature shapes their brain growth when they are young. Traumatic events can include negative and long-lasting consequences on their mental health.

Genetics

According to some research, mental illness can vary in families but there is currently no known gene that has been identified to interpret mental health problems. Many people who undergo mental health problems do not have any relatives with the same illness.

Physical health

Health problems, life-threatening illnesses, long-term illnesses, medical tests, and appointments can have a significant effect on the mental health of people and can make them feel depressed and anxious.

What are the care and treatments for mental health?

Based on the community, mental health care should be guided via a network of corresponding services that comprise:

Mental health services are incorporated in general health care, commonly in general hospitals and via task-sharing with non-specialist care providers in primary health care.

Community mental health services that involve community mental health teams and centers, peer support services, and psychosocial rehabilitation supported living services.

Services that provide mental health care in social services and non-health settings like school health services, child protection, and prisons.

The extensive care gap for common mental health conditions like anxiety and depression indicates countries must also find innovative ways to scale up care for these conditions.

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