This book unravels the difference between Mental Health and Mental Illness and the correlation between both. It also covers the importance of proper Mental Health, the effects of poor mental health, and mental illness on individuals, families, workplaces, and societies on a global scale.
In addition, it covers the major contributing factors to poor Mental Health and Mental Illness, including traumatic life devastating experiences like war, peril, abandonment, separation, divorce, pandemics e.g. COVID19. It speaks directly to some of the insightful aftermaths of Covid19.
One of the defining characteristics of Mental Illness is that it transcends all geographical borders, ethnicities, ages, sexes, socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, cultures, religious affiliations, etc.
Mental Illness encompasses one’s emotional, psychological, social, and cognitive well-being. It is biopsychosocial in nature and has touched the very core of the fabric of every society on a global scale. Upon that premise, please pay great attention to your Mental Health experience in the absence of Mental Illness. Nb. Some people are pre-disposed to Mental illness due to their genetic composition, but we can all help to reduce its effects upon those who are being affected.
Other components of this book include the stigmatization and taboo attached to Mental Illness and those most at risk for this illness and possible resources to find professional help for this disease.
This book forms a part of the collection of invaluable resources at the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ), since June 2024
