Mental Health: Wellbeing and Happiness Series with MoNya-Mental: Mental Health Assessments

We often only consider mental health assessments when things have broken down to an extent, either an individual is, and has been abusing drugs or alcohol, engaging in aggressive, abusive, neglectful or violent activities By Psychotherapist Mertha Mo Nyamande This week on the Mertha Mo Nyamande page on the Digital Sunday Express, I would like to talk about Mental Health Assessments Mental health is essentially the total sum of our beliefs, emotions, and habits; whether these are helpful or constructive, disruptive or destructive to our livelihoods. So, when one gets to a point where there are struggling to the point of causing harm to themselves or to others, it is essential to get an understanding of how they arrived at that stage before any intervention can be considered.