Here are some important facts that everyone should know about mental health:
- One in five Americans has experienced some form of mental illness, with one in 25 experiencing serious mental illness, such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
- Suicide accounts for over 800,000 deaths globally each year, with over 41,000in the U.S. alone. It is the second leading cause of death worldwide for people belonging to the 15-29 age group.
- Many people do not seek treatment for mental illness due to the associated stigma. Only 44% of adults with diagnosable mental illnesses receive treatment.
Mental illness is one of the world's biggest and most devastating disabilities. In varying degrees, it incapacitates and tortures the inner life of an individual and its symptoms echo into a collective systemic and societal damage both emotionally and economically. What it takes can never be recovered and aside from the almost barbaric and blood-letting-like treatments we currently do have, there still is no cure or universally effective treatment.
If you don't believe me ….ask someone who suffers from depression or severe anxiety. Don't ask Web MD or the DR Person that can only describe symptoms they never have experienced. Just ask the 1 in 6 people that experience mental health issues.
Let's understand mental health
Let's work here with the phrase “mental health” to mean patterns of behavior and experience generated and perceived by the conscious being associated with a brain and body. This includes healthy and unhealthy experiences. Everything you experience cannot be separated from your physical being. The thought that there are you thinking is in itself a thought. The quality of your life will depend mostly on the quality of your physical being. Treating your body with healthy choices, diet, exercise, sleep, sanitary practices that reduce pathogens, these behaviors increases the quality of your life. Your consciousness is more than your body. You do exist, with awareness of self and not-self. You perceive, experiencing an outer world and an inner world, with thought and emotion. Mental health is about the quality of thought and emotion, and the choices they compel you to make. Your consciousness is a collection of desires, some of which are necessary to continued existence, and therefore you have a minimal choice about them. In terms of mental health, we're interested in your ability to choose, to direct your life. When you can guide your thoughts to a beneficial way of thinking, you can respond to the events of your life to your advantage. When you can experience your emotions without being flooded, the richness of life, the enthusiasm for living, fills your being like the breeze fills the sails of a boat.
Ways to improve mental health
1. Discussion about your sentiments
Discussing your emotions can assist you with remaining in great psychological wellness and managing times when you feel pained.
2. Keep dynamic
Customary exercise can support your confidence and can enable you to think, rest, and feel good. Exercise keeps the cerebrum and your other essential organs solid and is likewise a huge advantage towards improving your emotional wellness.
3. Eat well
Your cerebrum needs a blend of supplements so as to remain sound and capacity well, much the same as different organs in your body. An eating regimen that is useful for your physical well-being is additionally useful for your emotional well-being.
4. Drink reasonably
We regularly drink liquor to change our mindset. A few people drink to manage dread or forlornness, however, the impact is just impermanent.
At the point when the beverage wears off, you feel more regrettable on account of the manner in which the liquor has influenced your mind and the remainder of your body. Drinking is certainly not a decent method to oversee troublesome emotions.
5. Stay in contact
There's nothing better than finding somebody up close and personal, yet that is not constantly conceivable. You can likewise call them, drop them a note, or visit to them online. Keep the lines of correspondence open.
6. Consciously practicing focusing on the positive side
In every relationship there is a positive and negative side, optimistic people focus on the positive side and work on the negative whereas pessimistic people focus more on the negative and feel depressed and do nothing.
7. Meditation and Breathwork
Breath is synonymous with life and practicing breath work like pranayams followed by a simple focus on breath (meditation) can create a balance between thoughts - emotions - actions which is evidence of a good state of mind followed by right actions.
8. Being in the Right Environment
Our environment has a great contributing factor to our mental health and people around us are the highest contributing factor.
9. Hiring a Coach/Mentor/Therapist
A coach/mentor or therapist need not be hired when there is a problem but can also be hired ‘just to accelerate your progress and create great mental health’.
Let's be clear when mental health gets in the way of living a full and enjoyable life, the problem is not motivation. You are not lazy, unmotivated, or failing to try hard enough.
It takes a lot of trial and error, so even if you haven't found what works yet that doesn't mean you failed that just means the treatment failed.
Throughout the process, practice self-compassion. Don't try to motivate yourself by being critical. Instead, celebrate your tiny victories and be understanding when you have setbacks.
Your life won't be completely sorted out in a month with this method, but at least you will be making slow and sustainable progress.
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Dr. Gursimran
Dr. Gursimran has always been a passionate and ambitious student of medicine, a novelty seeker. He likes adrenaline rush events and always wanted to make difference in the lives of people. So, he chose healthcare as his profession
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