hi I'm Jill I think vidcom and the
lesson today is on the subject of
physical and mental health okay so
physical your your body and mental your
mind okay
and health how you're feeling whether
it's good or bad okay for physical
health people talk about that a lot but
for mental health people maybe don't
talk about that so much because it's
maybe more embarrassing sometimes but
it's important to know these words and
you probably know the basic ones like
feeling well feeling ill or sick but
it's good to have other words as well to
describe different ways that you're
feeling especially if you're going to
see the doctor you need to be able to
explain as clearly as possible how
you're feeling so that the doctor can
help you or if you're just talking to a
friend it's important to be able to
explain how you're feeling okay so we'll
start with the physical health then and
looking at the positive ways if you're
feeling really well the ways of paying
that
okay so feeling well obviously I'm
feeling well I'm feeling good feeling
good is a little bit more colloquial
more informal but you say that to your
friend how are you oh I'm good
I'm feeling good okay
in the pink I think maybe this is a
little bit old old-fashioned but people
sometimes say oh I'm in the pink and I
think it refers to pink cheeked on your
face so maybe you have to be a white
person really
be able to say this if you have pink
cheeks it suggests that you're healthy
you can see the blood in the in your
face
so that suggests oxygen and good health
so in the pink that's what it means
even if people don't use it very much
anymore okay
just a straightforward one if you say
I'm in the best of health I'm very lucky
I'm in the best of health if someone has
a lot of energy and this one is a an
idiom if they say they're full of beans
or wine feeling full of beans today it
doesn't be it doesn't mean that
literally they have eaten a lot of beans
but it probably comes from the fact that
beans are very healthy food and they
give you energy and maybe protein I
don't know all the ingredients but if
someone is full of beans it means
they're jumping around and lots of
energy and so you might say oh he's full
of beans today but it doesn't mean he's
been eating beans literally it's an
idiom okay another one that people use
is a little bit old fashioned again full
of the joys of spring the season spring
because it's the time when everything
starts growing and new life and
everything and joy means happiness so if
you're full of the joys of spring if you
say I'm full of the joys of strength
spring today it may be because the sun
shining and you're feeling healthy
you're feeling good happy lots of energy
so that's the joys of spring and finally
for this section
I'm feeling
on top of the world so right up there on
top of the world another idiom it
doesn't literally mean you'd have to be
up on the the Arctic to be on top of the
world which wouldn't really be a very
comfortable place but on top of the
world just means your rear that you feel
you're on top of everything you you're
in control of everything and you're
feeling good okay right well those are
all the positive words we have in this
lesson and all the rest are negative we
have negatives for the physical health
and negative for mental health because
probably we take mental health for
granted and if we're in good mental
health we don't really need to say much
about it so anyway if you have to go to
the doctor because you're not feeling
well these are the kinds of words you
could use okay not feeling well I'm not
feeling well and then the doctor says
well what exactly is it so that's why we
need a few other words I'm feeling ill
I'm feeling sick sick sometimes you feel
like being sick vomiting but also in a
more general way if you feel sick it
doesn't literally mean you're going to
vomit it's just generally not feeling
very good okay tired if you have no
energy I'm feeling tired or I've been
feeling tired for the whole a whole week
worn out is another meaning for tired
worn out is more colloquial worn out
it's like with clothes if if you get a
hole in your elbow of your shirt it's
worn so if you physically are feeling
worn out and tired it's like a hole in
your shirt you know
you just need to recover one out
exhausted that's a more extreme word for
being tired I'm feeling exhausted or
I've been feeling exhausted just
generally you can say I'm not in the
best of health at the moment that's a
sort of general and then somebody would
say well what exactly is wrong this is a
very general thing I'm not in the best
of health without actually saying what
exactly it is out of sorts is a more
colloquial and casual way of saying
you're not really feeling well I'm
feeling out of sorts
and we're we had on top of the world
here we have under the weather it's as
if the weather is probably bad weather
rain cold horrible weather and you're
under it under the weather so it's
getting a bit it's weighing down on you
and you're feeling are there so that's
physical mostly physical words for not
feeling well okay so let's move on now
to the negative words for mental health
okay so if you're not feeling yourself
or you say I'm not feeling myself
it doesn't mean literally you're not
feeling yourself it means you don't feel
right something feels wrong so I'm not
feeling myself at the moment that sort
of thing you know something isn't right
but you don't know what it is okay
I feel as if I'm losing it meaning
you're losing a sort of some sort of
control on your life or on things or in
work you're losing it okay that's a very
colloquial term similar losing your grip
I'm losing my grip this is your grip
when you hold something so that's the
grip if you're losing your grip you're
not really holding things together
properly you're not in control of the
things you need to do in your life in
your work and so on I'm losing my grip
I'm out of my mind out literally not
literally but it's as if this is your
mind inside your head but you're
somewhere else you don't feel that you
and your mind are working together
properly I think I can't think how else
to explain that but oh you can sometimes
say I'm going out of my mind
I'm going out of my mind I think as a
song with those words in it going out of
my mind
similarly losing my mind I'm losing my
mind or I think I'm losing my mind means
you know your concentration is isn't
working properly you know having strange
thoughts all sorts of things are
happening you don't feel in control of
your thoughts losing my mind if you've
been upset by something that happened
and you can't come to terms with it okay
that sort of thing and then we have
going nuts which is a rather casual
informal jokey kind of thing to say nuts
oh he's nuts that guy you've heard of
the film the Nutty Professor nutty also
means
strange strange person strange in the
head we say sometimes so going nuts if
you're going nuts if you are nuts
you're already nuts if you're going nuts
you're gradually becoming nuts okay
okay more serious now worried to worry
is always to have things on your mind
always thinking oh I'm worrying all the
time or he he's such a worrier that
Batman is such a worrier warrior not
warrior warrior ier some people just do
worry all the time they get one worry
out of the way one issue and then they
replace it with another worry or issue
so some people are just like that
okay and anxious is another anxious is
another word for worry someone who's
always anxious they're always thinking
and thinking things are going to go
wrong okay depressed is a medical
condition really used by doctors feeling
low is an another way of saying that
feeling low okay your feelings are low
if depression tends to go on for a
period of time so that's important if
you feeling depressed that's what you
say to the doctor and then they can do
something to help okay
finally in a state if you're in a state
that's a little bit more nervous you're
feeling nervous and you can't relax
nervous and you can't relax so if you
say oh I
in a state at the moment or I'm in a bit
of a state at the moment because
something happened
I've lost my car or something just to be
in a state because you know you can't
relax until things get sorted out okay
Oh going nuts another one for that is
going crazy crazy is another sort of
jokey word casual informal word you
might know a song called crazy okay
which I'm not going to sing you'll be
glad to hear okay so there we are lots
of new words for you so if you'd like to
go to the website Ingrid com there is a
quiz there to test you on some of these
okay and come back again soon so see you
then bye