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Your Emotional Health
What is Emotional Health?
Emotional health is…
- part of our overall health concerned with the way we think and
feel.
- it refers to our sense of well-being, our ability to cope with
life events.
- and our ability to acknowledge and respect emotions, our own
and those of others.
People do not automatically have either good
or poor emotional health; you’re not given a particular level of
emotional health at birth. Your emotional health depends on the
circumstances you grow up in, the knowledge and skills and
experience collected throughout life, and how these are used.
You can think of emotional heath as being a
sort of sliding scale. At one end of the scale you have a sense of
distress and despair, at the other a feeling of security and being
able to cope. And people will go up and down this scale – that’s
part of life and an important part of being emotionally
healthy.
Find out more about Emotional
Health
How do Samaritans help support emotional health?
Our core service is provided by phone, email, letter and face to
face in some branches. If we can improve someone’s emotional
health, they become more confident, secure and self-aware. These
people are then more likely to be able to support others. In this
way, Samaritans can benefit everyone in the local communities we
work in.
For Samaritans, our work in emotional health
promotion very much represented the logical extension of our
helpline services. We felt that if we could reach people earlier,
create more supportive peer groups and address the stigma
associated with help-seeking, then we would be closer to our vision
of a more emotionally healthy society where fewer people die by
suicide. We decided early on to stick to specific target
groups where we already had a presence and where our specific
knowledge and experience would be useful. These are:
Schools
Workplaces
Prisons
The
media