Now we have already looked at mental health and the description, good mental health but mental health now, but it's important also to understand that your mental health is complex, the fact that a child is not displaying and you know, science that exploded of explicit and doesn't mean that a child is flourishing. Probably there may be something there. But as long as it's not persistent. It's, you know, it's okay for us not to pay so much attention. Yes, like adults. Children go through mental health issues and experience them and then go over it.

So if it's not persistent, it's okay that we allow them to learn to regulate their emotions. But if we find that it's going on and on and on, then we need to seek help. Let's just look at the commandment health care. folders. Children experience quite a lot of mental health disorders, but I might just discuss the three and that is the mood disorders, anxiety disorders, ADHD and behavior disorders. Okay, let's just start with anxiety disorders.

Anxiety disorders would include generalized anxiety, where a child worries about the fact that they're worried and OCD when we have children who have OCD where children have, you know, obsessions or get intrusive thoughts. And also there is PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder children to experience PTSD because they have been exposed to some form of trauma of their witnessed some form of trauma, especially with children who have family issues or in gun and gun life environment. such children would experience PTSD in children who have been abused, sexually abused, or even physically mentally emotionally abused. So such children would have some form of anxieties. Children also display health anxieties or experience and health anxieties, social anxiety, separation anxiety, children get panic attacks, so they end up with panic disorder, and others. The main element here is that children would be fearful and will be worrying a lot.

Also, they would have behaviors that would be repetitive or they'll be they'll be unusually fearful about things or things. So that would be an indication that there is some anxiety that is involved. Let's go on to motor disorders mood as ETS is low mood, sadness. And in this category, the most common presentations are depression, bipolar, the child who is depressed, you know is still really sad, loses motivation has no interest in anything doesn't want to challenge themselves, you know, their concentration, their learning is affected. And for some children, they just don't want to be there. self harming is also another sign that the child is going through depression, bipolar, they're going in and out.

They're very, very good one day the next day, they have a very bad you know, the feeling so low, that's so heavy. And then another day, they're really high. You notice that there is you know, the screen in and out in and out. That's an indication that there is a motor disorder. Now, behavior disorders, children with behavior disorders Display impulsive behavior, their attention is, you know, is so impacted on. So they're not very attentive, they're hyper active.

And this children need to be handled in a way that this form of behavior is, you know, under control. In most cases, this is picked on at very, very early age. And when it's picked on, then the child is the support that they need or the attention that they need. Now, if you find that the child you know, his ex is displaying this form of behavior, then it's important that you contact an educational psychologist or clinical psychologist, most likely educational psychologists to have a look at other disorders that children you know, common ones would be eating disorders, mainly for children or children. Because their friends will be calling them names, their friends would be labeling them. So they decide not to eat.

And if they do not eat them, you know, of course, they'll go on to for, you know, eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia, you know, so it's important as well to keep an eye on their eating habits. These serious mental health disorders, on addition to the ones I've talked about, and what we say, psychosis. spraining is also common among children. So it's important that we get to know this common disorders, so that at least when we make a referral or signpost, them, we have an idea. We can help the mental health professional who's going between classes. So we'll go on to the next topic.