Chapter 2:

By: Luke Frankel

Chapter 2 is all about psychological health. According to MyHealth, ” Psychological health is the sum of how we think, feel, relate, and exist in our day-to-day lives. Our thoughts, perceptions, emotions, motivations, interpersonal relationships, and behaviors are the product of a combination of our experiences and the skills we have developed to meet life’s challenges” (Donatelle 26). This means it is a multi-faceted subject that is complex in so many ways. However, the results that you want are usually pretty clear. What I mean by this is, we all want to feel happy in our daily lives, but the road to getting there is complex and sometimes seems esoteric.

In this Chapter we learned a lot about Maslowe’s Hierarchy of Needs and how the human brain can only advance once those needs are met on each individual level. I think it is important to understand each level by itself, because we need to know that not everyone has the same problems as others. You cannot think about your self esteem when you are struggling to eat and drink enough water every day. By that same token, if you are unsafe when you are trying to sleep at night, you will not be able to worry about things like spirituality. It all relates, and I think that is the most important fact to take away from psychological health, everyone’s is different.

Lastly, we need to understand the risk factors that put us in danger for things like major depression, bipolar disorder, etc. How those risk factors affect us, and what we can do to make our risk less. An important factor of this is having friends or close relationships with family who will be able to see you from an objective point of view, therefore broadening your own scope of self. If they see you acting a certain way or forming habits, its important to have someone you can trust that knows what to look for in these situations. Therefore I believe it is imperative that all of us understand signs for all different types of psychological breaks or health issues.