Okay we're at the end of lecture 2. So what have we covered? Some really big questions. What is mental health? And what causes mental illness? So what did we learn about mental health? We learned that mental health, generally at this point in our history, is referring to an overall sense of positivity, wellness, well being, and we see that is something that is implicable to everyone. That it is something that, no matter what other things are going on in your life, we can always talk about whether or not you're in a state of positive or mental health. We distinguish that from mental illness which we, which is now being talked about as if it's on a separate dimension. And so we can talk about when people are experiencing mental illness and sort of have a sense that if somebody is experiencing mental illness there's something going on with them that's affecting them biologically, but manifests as things that we're seeing in terms of the way that they're feeling, the way that they're thinking, that's cognitions and the way that they're behaving. So that's mental illness. What turned out to be a bit more complicated, although it's all pretty complex, is when you determine that somebody has passed from a, a state of being okay, functioning normally into a place where we start to think about them having problems with their mental health or having a mental disorder or mental illness. And there are many different perspectives on that. We, what we all seem to agree on, or everyone seems to agree on, is that there is some point at which we start to think of somebody as not being mentally well anymore. But how that gets determined is a very complex thing and it's not just about what's going on with them biologically, psychologically. It's also about what we as a society think is so called normal behavior and acceptable behavior. And it has to do with things, there are all kinds of complexities that get added in terms of our thinking about social control and the use of power and privilege and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Things that we are going to be talking about throughout the rest of the course. So those were the some of the big ideas we talked about. And then in terms of what causes mental illness we looked at that from the biological perspective. We looked at that a bit from psychological perspective and we'll do more on that later. And we also talked a great deal about that from a social perspective in terms of the social determinants of health and then pulled that all together in the end by looking at the bio psycho social perspective on mental health and illness. I thought that was pretty interesting [LAUGH] so we're going to be carrying on with that as we move forward and I will look forward to seeing the discussion that comes up in the forums based on the questions that have come from this lecture. So, what's going to happen next? What happens in the week in between? You know that, next week, we're going to be talking about the social context of diagnosis and treatment. So that's going to be pretty interesting. It's going to bring us, and you're going to be building on the information from this week to move into that week. you don't have a new homework assignment this week. Because your homework is to mark the other assignments, to mark the assignments from last week. So I do want to take a moment to say that this is really important. I hope that you are submitting your homework. And I hope that you are also following through on marking other people's homework because this is how we get more people to be able to complete the course and I have an agenda here. I would like to see lots and lots of people complete this course, both because I think it's a very interesting topic and because I just want Coursera to know that the most committed learners in the world are in the social context of mental health and illness. So let's do that together. [LAUGH] So, so make sure that you're marking homework and make sure that you, you get your own homework because, because it'd be great to see people completing the course. And then the other thing is the discussion of forums. I've already mentioned those. So we have some questions there about the bio psycho social perspective and social determinants of mental health. Wherever you are, you know, we've got the whole world in this course. I know I'm looking forward to seeing how these things are dealt with or thought about in other places. so I'll be in the discussion forum and I look forward to seeing what you guys post there and maybe we'll get to even talk about it somewhere in between. So until then I'll see you next week. Bye.
