What affects mental health

What can affect my mental health?

• Biological factors, such as genes or brain chemistry.
• Life experiences, such as trauma or abuse.
• Family history of mental health problems.
• Your lifestyle, such as diet, physical activity, and substance use.

1. What factors affect mental health?
2. What can affect mental and emotional health?
3. What are 3 factors that cause mental illness?

What factors affect mental health?

For example, the following factors could potentially result in a period of poor mental health:

• childhood abuse, trauma, or neglect.
• social isolation or loneliness.
• experiencing discrimination and stigma.
• social disadvantage, poverty or debt.
• bereavement (losing someone close to you)
• severe or long-term stress.

What can affect mental and emotional health?

Depression, anxiety, stress, poor body image, grief, loss, a major change in your life such as becoming a new parent can all affect your mental and emotional health and day to day living. Sometimes it is hard to know if what you are experiencing is depression or sadness, worry or anxiety.

What are 3 factors that cause mental illness?

The exact cause of most mental disorders is not known, but research suggests that a combination of factors, including heredity, biology, psychological trauma, and environmental stress, might be involved.