Mental Health: Who Am I?

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When someone mentions the word “health,” the first thing that generally comes to mind is physical health. Good physical health is part of the foundation of being a happy person and living an enjoyable life. Typically for teenagers, eating healthy and getting enough sleep are weaknesses and I am one of those people with those weaknesses. Exercise is also sometimes a weakness, but I find that exercise is very fun if you do something you enjoy. For example, I take dance lessons which are two hours a day, five days a week. By doing this, I easily get necessary exercise while also enjoying it. I believe that at this stage in life, mental health is reaching the peak of development. As we go through life, we constantly change our state of mental health, but I believe that adolescents are at a point where they form who they are and who they will be as an adult. We try to learn to filter the person who other people think we are in order to truly discover what type of person we are. A strength of mine is that I am generally a responsible person and know how to make good decisions, which I think is mainly from my parents and how I was raised. A weakness that I have is that I don’t like trying new things very often if at all, but this behavior restricts me from learning what my interests are. Once, I was invited to go rafting with some friends and I was quick to reject the invitation and because of this, I will never know if I enjoy rafting or not. Probably the area I have the most trouble in is emotional health. It’s an area I believe is the most intense apart from spiritual health. You have to stop and analyze how you feel and how your feelings have been affected by other people’s feelings. It’s something that is sometimes difficult to co... ... middle of paper ... ...things in our environment. An environmental strength that I have would be that I the seasons of the year. I like the differences in each one and enjoy them when they come around. I could improve on taking better care of the environment, so I suppose that is a weakness of mine. I’m currently only doing the basics. For example, I often recycle and try to never liter. I could take this a step further so that this weakness becomes a strength. As people, we are constantly changing ourselves and our ideas as we experience new things and meet new people. I know that my beliefs as an adult will be different than what they are now. I will go through many obstacles as I become an adult, but I know that they are going to shape me into the person I’ll be in the future. I as I grow into an adult, I hope that I can improve my overall health rather than diminish my development.

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