Mental health and stress

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MENTAL HEALTH AND
STRESS

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Lesson objectives
To describe the principles of maintaining
good mental health

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Mental health and stress
What is mental health?

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Mental health is emotional,
psychological and social wellness.

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Reasons for mental health:
1) Biological factors
(genes)
2) Life experience
(trauma, abuse,
drugs)

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What is the stress?

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Stress is body response
against danger.
Psychological stress is
feeling pressure on.

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What helps to overcome stress?
Hobbies
Exercise
Enough sleep
Healthy life style
Sharing problems

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Effect of bad habits on nervous
system
Drugs is chemical
substance that affects
your body chemistry
and causes addiction

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Types of drugs:
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Stimulants are the drug that
makes nervous system faster
(caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, ecstasy,
amphetamines)

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2. Depressants slow down the
nervous system (alcohol,
tranquilizers, cannabis).

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3. Hallucinogens are the drugs that
causes hallucination (some
mushrooms and LSD).

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ALCOHOL
It is depressant
Causes addiction
Kills neurons, liver
cells
Decreases brain
size
It has hazards to
social life

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SMOKING
Tobacco contains nicotine
Nicotine is stimulant
Causes addiction
Damages nervous system, blood
vessels, skin, liver

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Let’s do activity on p.103 and 105

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Homework
Read p. 102-105
Answer to literacy questions on p 103
and 105.
New words