What are problems such as stress, low self-esteem, and anxiety classified as?

[marlyly]

I'm doing a presentation on the personal, social, and family side effects / problems of obesity, and have gone through most of the health problems already (things like diabetes, liver disease, skin diseases, cancer etc) but I also need to talk about stress, low self-esteem, anxiety and depression, and want to seperate these problems out from those that effect the body more than the mind (how the patient is 'feeling'). But, as you can tell, I really don't know how to describe them - are they more psychological problems, or emotional, what's the right term to use, is there one? Thanks for any help in advance!

[Bex x]

Psychosocial effects is the term I'd use personally, as those problems will affect your relationships with others as well as yourself.

[Diya]

either physiological/psychological or physical/mental health

[craigos25]

I would class them as psychological effects. No particular term to classify all those 'symptoms' into one definition. You could argue however that the anxiety is possibly psycho-somatic??

[couldntgetaname]

Run with psychosocial - while in abstracted isolation, they are 'psychological' [leaving aside the physiological components of stress and anxiety] in the context of actually living day to day they all represent potentially significant social challenges.

You wouldn't be wrong to frame them as psychological issues, but if you opt for psychosocial you can discuss impacts and effects on daily living etc. without having to even consider the minefield of theoretical/conceptual psychological perspectives on the abstract symptoms.

[Psych grad in a previous life]

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Originally Posted by marlyly

I'm doing a presentation on the personal, social, and family side effects / problems of obesity, and have gone through most of the health problems already (things like diabetes, liver disease, skin diseases, cancer etc) but I also need to talk about stress, low self-esteem, anxiety and depression, and want to seperate these problems out from those that effect the body more than the mind (how the patient is 'feeling'). But, as you can tell, I really don't know how to describe them - are they more psychological problems, or emotional, what's the right term to use, is there one? Thanks for any help in advance!

Marlyly, I have noticed that you are posting an awful lot of questions on course material on message boards at the moment. Whilst that is obviously fine to do, from a perspective of your education I would suggest you look at other methods of learning. I am wondering whether you might benefit from something more interactive with your Imperial peers rather than keep posting such questions which are usually easily answered by a small group discussion with everyone contributing. In the longer term this will be far more beneficial for you and better to develop good learning skills now rather than struggle later in your training.