IS EMOTIONAL HEALTH TESTED?

What is emotional health? Can it change our behavior?

“EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH represents a broad area of ​​our health and well-being whose value and scope often escape us.

Even today, so-called mental health and physical pathologies appear, in the minds of clinicians and patients, separated by conceptual barriers that prevent full integration of therapeutic interventions. 

This integration appears, today more than ever, urgent to the point that a conceptual and operational definition of the entire area is necessary.

EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH includes the entire area of ​​mental distress and psychiatric pathologies to which addiction pathologies, the area of ​​sexuality and couple problems must be added, all in correlation with numerous other areas of medicine.

At first glance they could be considered as conditions that are poorly homogeneous with each other, but they consist of clinical situations whose correlations are today increasingly evident and better understood.

This area also includes all those behaviors that are capable of improving or worsening our health, such as particular lifestyles, the consumption of alcohol and substances or correct adherence to therapies and medical prescriptions."

source: http://www.centronoesis.it/che-cose-la-salute-emotiva-e-comportamentale/

What interest could this topic have in terms of prevention?

When it comes to hygiene and safety, the areas concerned and involved are unquestionably broad and transversal.

It is therefore necessary to have the broadest vision to be able to identify the signals that can be emitted by those who have entered an area of ​​discomfort.

The World Health Organization is also taking an interest and is issuing extremely useful guidelines.

Research on the socio-emotional impact of Intesa San Paolo is certainly interesting reading.

Below is an excerpt.

The contribution of the Neuroscience Lab of Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center

“It's all in our brain. 

Signals that travel through the prefrontal cortex and regions of the limbic system to reach the brainstem and hypothalamus. 

Signs that during the lockdown pushed us to flash mobs, chants from buildings, display of the national flag or banners with the words "Everything will be fine". 

However, reactions can also be of a different type and the tension that accompanies stress can cause events to take a different course: increased aggression, impatience among young people, inclination towards racism, denialism, conspiracy theories, even to the point of domestic violence especially towards women.

These are phenomena that the Neuroscience Lab of Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center studied and described in his study "COVID-19 pandemic: the impact on social-emotional well-being in a neuroscientific perspective" which explains what happens in our brain in situations of fear and anxiety and gives precious indications to avoid situations of suffering psychological.

Distress must be prevented and fought with mental health experts and psychological counseling services, but we too can do a lot with our behavior. 

We must establish a daily routine with distinct spaces and times between work and non-work activities, recreational actions and physical exercise, without forgetting to take care of our appearance."

For more information: https://group.intesasanpaolo.com/it/sezione-editoriale/eventi-progetti/tutti-i-progetti/innovazione/2020/11/salute-emotiva-e-pandemia