ABSTRACT
The phrase Social, Emotional and Mental Health is usually associated with school-aged children, and particularly with children with special educational needs and disabilities. When people are malnourished, their basic health and social care outcomes are significantly affected, making malnutrition an important patient safety issue. It continues to be both under-detected and undertreated, with potentially fatal consequences. Short-term insomnia is common and can occur in association with stressful events or changes in sleeping patterns such as illness, financial difficulties, the birth of a child or environmental disturbance. Chronic insomnia commonly co-exists with other psychiatric and medical conditions. The release of dopamine and serotonin helps us to activate our parasympathetic nervous system, or our “teddy bear system”, which is needed to decrease stress, during and after an experience of fear or anxiety.
