Your Health

Emotional health

If you are emotionally healthy you will have ways of dealing with and overcoming depression, anxiety, chronic pain, loneliness and grief.

Emotional health can best be described as a state where you are in control of your thoughts, feelings and behaviours. You feel good about yourself and your relationships and can keep problems in perspective. Emotionally healthy people can still have emotional problems and mental illness, but they have learned of ways to cope with stress and problems and know when to seek help from their doctor or counsellor.

Anxiety or constant worry about financial situations, retirement, relationships and work can all impact on individuals and can be countered through a number of self help strategies as well as professional advice from your doctor.

Chronic pain is continuous pain lasting for more than three months.

Depression is a very common mental health problem which is significantly different from mere unhappiness or sadness.

The process of grieving is natural and can continue for a long period of time, but help is available to cope with the feelings of grief and loss.

Increasing your physical and social activity is the key to dealing with loneliness and social isolation.