How do mental and emotional illnesses affect social health? Check all that apply. They can cause a person to neglect relationships. They can lead people to choose unhealthy relationships. They can make people forget to practice appropriate hygiene. They can influence people to neglect their physical health. They can motivate people to engage in risky behaviors.

So-called mental and emotional illnesses are those that are “invisible” and cannot be diagnosed by physical examination. However, this does not make them any less important, as a back problem can be as paralyzing as a depression to prevent a person from performing their normal activities. The difference is that while one paralyzes the body due to pain, the other compromises the functioning of the mind, generating discouragement, low self-esteem, lack of motivation, slow thinking, among other symptoms, which make the life of the patient very difficult.

Mental and emotional illnesses interfere with every factor in an individual's life, can interfere with their relationships, make them move away from healthy relationships and even maintain unhealthy relationships, interfere with a person's hygiene by making them forget or unwilling to practice proper personal hygiene, interferes with physical health and causes people to engage in risky behaviors.