Grade 11 Healthy Active Living Education Additional Supports ...

Positive Mental Health and Stress
Public Profile
Unit #3 Activity #3
Teaching Learning Strategy #1
Teacher Resource (Background Information)
Catholic Profile
Unit #5 Activity #1
Teaching Learning Strategy #2,7
Mental Health Definitions (Also enlarged as Teacher Overheads on subsequent pages).
1. The National Mental Health Association describes mentally healthy people as those
who:
• Feel comfortable about themselves. They are not overwhelmed by their own
feelings, and they can accept many of lifeÕs disappointments in stride. They
experience all of the human emotions (for example, fear, anger, love, jealousy, guilt,
joy) but are not overcome by them.
• Feel right about other people. They feel comfortable with others and are able to give
and receive love. They are concerned about the well-being of other people and have
relationships that are satisfying and lasting.
• Are able to meet the demands of life. Mentally healthy people respond to their
problems, accept responsibility, plan ahead without fearing the future, and are able to
establish reachable goals.
OR
2. A mentally healthy person is not unduly upset by difficulties encountered; attacks
problems in a real fashion; accepts the inevitable; understands and accepts his/her own
limitations and those of others. He/she does not feel guilty of failing after having done
his/her best. This involves a satisfactory relationship with i) self ii) others iii)
environment.
OR
3. Mental health is more than the absence of mental illness.
Good mental health is when everything feels like it is working well. You feel good about
yourself, your relationships with other people and are able to meet the
challenges/demands of life. I
t is important to realize that mental health is a continuum. Your mental health may suffer
when things in your life go wrong, and you have difficulty coping with everyday
problems and changes.
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