Why is Treating Mental Health Issues Just
as Important as Your Physical Health?
Friday,
24 January 2014 13:00
Written
by Family
Guidance Center
It is common practice to treat cold or flu
symptoms. The options for Vitamin C supplements, cough drops and preventative flu shots are
widely available. What about mental illness, do people treat it like their
physical health and seek out treatment? Approximately one in every four adults
in the United States has symptoms of a mental illness yet many don’t seek the
help they need.
There are many studies that prove taking care
of your mental health is just as important as your physical health.
Think of it this way: We go to annual checkups with our family physician, our
dentist and our ophthalmologists, so why don’t we routinely check up on our
mental health as well?
One reason to take care of your mental health
is because it leads to better physical health. A study conducted in 2012 found
that among those individuals who have a mental illness, most do less for their physical health than
those who do not have a mental illness. Ultimately, their mental health has a
direct, negative effect on their physical health.
Source : http://fgcnow.org/why-is-treating-mental-health-issues-just-as-important-as-your-physical-health/
Analysis:
1. First Sentence : Simple Sentence
It is common practice to treat cold or flu symptoms.
·
S+to be+predicate+to infinitive+verb+noun+linking
word +noun
·
Subject “it” refers to : Why is Treating Mental
Health Issues Just as Important as Your Physical Health?
·
Lingking
word (choice): “or”
2. Second Sentence : Simple Sentence
The options for Vitamin C
supplements, cough drops
and preventative flu shots are widely available.
·
S+to be+Adverb+complement
·
Linking
word (addition) : “and”
·
Preposition
: “for”
· Object
of preposition : “Vitamin C supplements, cough drops and preventative flu shots”
3. Third Sentence : Simple Sentence
What about
mental illness, do people treat
it like their physical health and seek out treatment?
·
Do/does + subject + verb +object+comparison+possesive
adjective +noun+ linking word+noun
·
“What about mental illness” : not a sentence
(no subject, no verb),
·
“What” : a question word
·
“It” refers to : mental illness
·
Linking word (comparison) : “like”
4. Fourth Sentence : Compound Sentence (two clauses)
Approximately one in every four adults in the United
States has symptoms of a mental illness yet many don’t seek the help they need.
·
Clause 1: Adverb+S+have/has+object+preposition+object
of preposition
·
Clause 2: S+don’t/doesn’t+verb+object+object complement
·
Coordinating
conjunction : yet
5. Fifth Sentence : Complex Sentence
There are many studies, that prove taking care of your mental health is just as important as your physical health.
·
S + to be + predicate + Linking word+ verb +participial phrase+noun+ preposition +possesive adjective +object of
preposition +tobe+
adverb +as+adjective+as+Object
·
Linking word : “that”
·
Comparative degree : “as important as”
6. Sixth Sentence : Compound Sentence
Think of
it this way: We go
to annual checkups with our family
physician, our dentist and our ophthalmologists, so why don’t we
routinely check
up on our mental health as well?
· Clause 1 : S+verb+to invinitive+object+linking
word+possesive adjective +noun, possesive
adjective+noun+linking
word+ possesive adjective+noun
· Clause
2 : Question word + don’t/doesn’t
+ S + adverb+ object + preposition + object of preposition+
·
Imperative
sentence : “Think of it this way”
·
Linking
word : “with, and”
·
Coordinating
conjunction : “so”
7. Seventh Sentence : Complex Sentence
One reason to take care of
your mental health is because it leads to better
physical health.
·
S+tobe+subordinative conjuction+S+verb s/es+to infinitive+object
·
“It” refers to : One reason to take care of
your mental health
·
Subordinative conjunction (reason) : “because”
8. Eighth Sentence : Complex Sentence
A study conducted in 2012 found that among those individuals who have a mental illness, most do less for
their physical health
than those who do not have a mental illness.
·
S+Verb2+linking word+preposition+S+Object+noun+conjunction+noun
·
“who” refers to : those individuals
·
“than” : Conjunction for comparison
9. Ninth Sentence : Simple Sentence
Ultimately, their mental health has a direct negative effect on their physical health.
·
Adverb+S+have/has+object+preposition+object of preposition
·
“ultimately”
: conjunctive adverb
