Mental Illness As A Component Of Human Health In Adolescents

Abstract

Adolescence is a unique stage, in which there are physiological and psychosocial changes, which can be exposed to physical or sexual abuse, which make people more fragile to the different difficulties of mental health, where mental health disorders in young people are: anxiety, depression or anguish, suicide, neuro-developmental disorder, as well as psychotic disorders, as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), stress-related disorders, as well as eating disorders, elimination disorders, misbehavior disorders, substance-related disorders and addictions, while the objective is to identify mental conditions and risk parameters that assess mental health in children and adolescents. The method applied has a quantitative approach, which allows to identify, conceptualize and assess, under an experimental research. It is given by the difficulty that adolescents have to control themselves when they are angry in 85% of them, while 90% have consumed some psychotropic substance, in addition 65% detailed that young people have presented psychotic symptoms, in the same way in 60%, they indicate that they have had suicidal ideas, reaching up to 90% to lose sleep because of some concern. Therefore, it is determined that regarding the comparison of the percentage of mental illnesses, the author's percentage is 81% and 72.98% of the alternatives, verifying that the minimum percentage is 47%, in adolescents who do not have a clear goal compared to 75%.