Mental health can be defined as “a state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life”. Mental health is not mere absence of mental illness. Mental illness can be classified into three types: psychosis, neurosis and epilepsy. Addiction is a chronic progressive and sometimes fatal disorder with both genetic and environmental roots.
It manifests as a compulsion that drives on individual to continue to behave in a way that is harmful to self and loved ones, despite an intense desire to halt that behavior. Addiction transcends the economic, social, racial, religious occupational, or age group. Hereditary plays an important part in increasing the likelihood for an individual developing on addiction of illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco. ICD-10 recognizes the following psychoactive drugs, or drug classes, the self-administration of which may produce mental and behavioral disorders, including dependence: alcohol, opioids, cannabinoids, sedatives or hypnotics, cocaine, other stimulants including caffeine, hallucinogens, tobacco, volatile solvents, other, psychoactive substance, and drugs from different classes used in combination. These drugs provide excitement and make a person more active and wakeful. Withdrawal of these drugs shows the symptoms of restlessness, depression and anxiety. Community health service gives special attention to
i. The sanitation of environment
ii. Prevention and control of communicable diseases
iii. Maternal and child health and family welfare, and
iv. Social health service.
1 comment:
Please, see DSM-IV to know more about the classification of psychological disorders. It is not correct that it is classified into 3 types.
Sujen.
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