In Chapter 2 the focus is on Psychological health and wellbeing. This aspect of health is beneficial for overall health because if your not psychologically healthy you are not going to get the boost to go to the gym, eat healthy, and worry about how you look and feel. The thing that first caught my eye was the influences of psychological health and how your surroundings can help or hurt you. As stated “family members shape your psychological health”(Donatelle, 2019, p.33). So having a good support system around you is just going to make you benefit and build key factors that come along with psychological health. Which entails self-esteem and self-efficiency. These two characteristics come back to having a good support system as stated in the chapter, “Self-esteem results from the relationships we have with our parents and family growing up; with our friends as we grow older; with our significant others as we form intimate relationships”(Donatelle, 2019, p.34).
A topic that I found very interested this chapter was Mindfulness. Which is “the ability to be fully present in the moment; to focus your thoughts and engage in nonjudgmental observation(Donatelle, 2019, p.40). This is something I need to interpret in my daily life. This would help benefit in so many ways and help me grow not just physically but also mentally. Something that I believe would help with psychological growth that is discussed in this chapter is meditation. Meditation is so important is clearing and removing any negative energy from your body. It is so easy to meditate for 15-20 minutes a day and I think starting today I am going to implement this into my daily routine.
Overall Physiological health is so important for growth and people don’t understand the different disorders that people can develop. These disorders such as anxiety, mood, personality disorder, etc. are very deteriorating to our overall health. Thats why as discussed in this book I think to prevent these illnesses and successfully grow with age you need to interpret what the chapter discusses. I have inserted a quote that helps me time to time to realize and see why you should never give up. Which helps build my psychological health when I need the extra drive.
