Sagar Tewatia – Mumbai Uncensored, 11th April 2022
When it comes to being fit, few of us still miss considering mental health, which is the most essential thing to consider to live a healthy and fulfilled life.
This article will help you know why positive mental health is required and what changes positive mental health can bring to our lives.
Let’s start with the basics.
What is Mental Health?
Mental health is a necessary element of health, including our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we acknowledge, feel, and act. It also helps define how we manage stress, relate to others, and make preferences. Mental health is essential at every stage of life, from childhood and juvenility through adulthood.
Poor mental health is also associated with immediate social change, stressful work circumstances, gender bias, social exclusion, unhealthy lifestyle, physical ill-health, and human rights breaches.
If you experience mental health problems throughout your life, your thought, mood, and behaviour could be affected. Many aspects are there which contribute to mental health problems, including:
- Biological elements
- Life incidents, such as trauma or misuse
- Family history of mental health issues
These days mental health problems are common, but help is available. People with mental health concerns can get sounder, and many heal entirely.
How do you identify that someone is living with mental health problems?
Not sure if you or someone you know lives with mental health problems?
Experiencing one or more of the below-mentioned feelings or behaviours can be an earlier warning sign of a problem:
- Eating or snoozing too much or too little
- Getting angry about small things
- Avoiding people and usual activities
- Experiencing low or no energy
- Feeling inferior or worthless
- Having unexplained discomforts
- Feeling powerless or ineffective
- Smoking or drinking more than usual
- Feeling confused, absentminded, upset, worried, or nervous
- Shouting or fighting with family and friends
- Experiencing drastic mood swings that are affecting our relationships
- Having endless thoughts and memories you can’t get out of your head
- Listening to voices or believing things that are not true
- A feeling of harming yourself or others
- Inability to accomplish daily tasks like taking care of your children or getting to your job or school
If you or someone you know are experiencing any of them, we suggest you talk; if you are not comfortable with family, then talk to your friends and tell them about what you are feeling, and feel free to visit a counsellor/ Doctor/ Healthcare expert, don’t worry about judgment, it’s their job to help you in getting out of this mental state.
Remember, “if we want our problem to be resolved, we have to find out the solutions and talk about them”.
What does positive mental health look like?
Optimistic/ Positive mental health allows people to:
- Discover their full potential
- Manage with the stresses of life
- Work persuasively
- Help others
- Compliment others
- Stay active in the present moments
- Experience the feeling of fulfillingness
Things we can do at our end to maintain positive mental health?
These are the things that can be done at our end to maintain positive mental health:
- Connecting with others
- Staying positive by loving what you are doing
- Getting physically active by doing regular workouts and taking required nutrition
- Helping others
- Getting enough sound sleep
- Shuffling things around you when you feel that life has become monotonous
- Discovering your passion could be playing the guitar, writing poems/ blogs/ stories, etc.
- When you crave food, don’t restrict yourself.
Apart from the things mentioned above, whatever makes you feel happy, do it without guilt unless it’s illegal.
Takeaway
Mental health problems are common but can be cured; a negative mind will not let us accomplish our goals; if you experience any of the symptoms, this is the time to discuss your problem.
We wish you good luck to live a healthier and more fulfilled life!
