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Essay Unit 20 - Understanding Mental Wellbeing
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Unit 20- Understanding Mental WellbeingIntroduction
Health is defined as a person’s whole physical, mental, and social wellbeing, not only the
absence of sickness or disability (World Health Organization, 2023). It means feeling good in
your body, having a good mental position, and having good relationships with other people.
Mental health incorporates our emotional, psychological, and social welfare. It can influence
how we feel, think and act and can control how we handle stress. You can get mental health
at any point in your life from childhood through to older adulthood, even though you may
not know it. Mental health can be linked to a diagnosis. There are many factors that can
accord to mental health conditions including biological factors, life experiences like trauma
and family history (Samhsa, 2023). Mental wellbeing is how we cope with everyday life. If
you have a good mental wellbeing, you are more likely to be productive, get out of bed and
do day to day activities like going to work. It can fluctuate and sometimes and you could
have bad mental wellbeing and just lay in bed all day and do drugs and alcohol just to cope.
Just because you have a mental health disorder doesn’t mean that you have bad mental
wellbeing (Mind, 2023).
Mental health can sometimes be stigmatized by people because of what they watch in tv
shows/movies. An example of this is the movie split, in the movie Kevin who is diagnosed
with a dissociative identity disorder and has 23 alter egos who then proceeds to kidnaps 3
teenagers. He is portrayed as violent through kidnapping, harming, and scaring people and
eventually ends up killing in the movie. Many villains in films and tv series are portrayed as
mentally ill, and their acts of violence are caused by their mental illness, but this is damaging
for people who have been diagnosed with the condition as they could be stigmatised as a
dangerous person, and they are going to commit the same acts of violence. (Tabor, 2022)
Mental health has been stigmatised for a long time an example of this is in the Medieval
times (Please see appendices 1).
Mental capacity is being able to receive information about your lifestyle and once given the
information being able to process it to them make a decision. The Mental Capacity Act was
put in place to empower people who lack mental capacity to make their own decisions, but
they should have someone with them like an advocate with them to help with serious
decisions. They could also have people like a family member to help decide if they lack the
capability to do so. People who may come under this act are people with a mental health
problem, a learning disability, or an unconscious person etc. (NHS, 2021)
Mental capital is a person’s cognitive and emotional welfare. It incorporates the brains’
ability to learn and think and process information that you are given. It also includes a
person’s emotional intelligence about how we interact with other people and how we cope
and manage with stress. (Parliament, 2023)
Selena Gomez is an actress/singer who in 2016 had to stop her tour to focus on her mental
health as she had bad anxiety, panic attacks and depression. In 2018 she was admitted to a
psychiatric hospital after having an episode of psychosis, with her psychosis she
contemplated suicide for several years. In 2018 she was diagnosed with bipolar when she B: Selena after
being diagnosed
with bipolar and
seeing a
therapist.
, checked into a treatment centre, this gave her an explanation for why she was having
episodes. (Parkel, 2022) She felt free having her diagnosis and said, ‘she now lives with
bipolar instead of suffering from it’. She takes measures like seeing a therapist a therapist
and has books to help. One of the things she
says about mental health is that ‘if you are
broken you do not have to stay broken’.
The dual axis model of mental
health/mental illness shows that on the x-
axis a person can have no mental illness
and on the other side they can have a
serious mental illness. On the y-axis it
shows the way a person’s mental health
can change it can be flourishing or it can
be languishing. (Amit et al, 2020) With
both examples they have the same level of
mental illness because bipolar never goes
away. But mental health can fluctuate as
shown with A she was depressed and
wanted to commit suicide but with B she
is receiving help.
Mental health is measured by using the Warwick-Edinburgh
Mental Well-Being Scale, which is a scale of 14 positively
worded statements to describe feeling and functioning
aspects of mental health. It has five responses that range
from none of the time to all the time. (CORC, 2023)
Socioeconomics can cause mental health conditions such as depression as people do not
have enough money to pay the bills this can be seen at the minute in the UK there is a cost-
of-living crisis. It has been shown that 6 in 10 UK adults have had negative mental health due
to the cost-of-living crisis (money and mental health, 2023). The cost-of-living crisis is caused
by inflation, the price of things is rising rapidly including food prices, gas, and electric and
other bills but the average household income is staying the same. This means that
mortgages and rent are going up by at least £200 a month, this may cause people to have to
take money from their food shopping just to be able to afford to pay the bills. This can cause
depression since people are stressed about going into dept and losing their house.
Poor kids are an example of how socioeconomics can affect a person’s mental health. In the
documentary we meet Sam who says how he can’t have lunch most days because his dad
cannot afford it and explains he must wear his sister’s shirt and blazer as his dad cannot
afford new clothes, because of this he gets bullied by other children at school. His sister then
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