Healthy Living

 Mental Health

Mental Health: What is it ?

Mental health is a mixture for emotions, thinking, communication, learning, resilience, hope and self-esteem. Mental health is also key to relationships, personal and emotional well-being and contributing to community.

Mental health is not just Disorder, it could be a Normal Metal Condition, that could be disturbed at any point of time in the day to day life of a Healthy Person.

As the physical health of a person can be easily identified by the physical condition of the person, Mental Health is slightly difficult to assess by just watching anybody.

When we talk about mental health, we think about some kind of sick people who are not normal in life but mental health of a person can’t be judged by just Face expression, to identify that what is the current mental condition of a person, we have to have a long discussion with them.

Mental health is an individual's capacity to feel, think, and act in ways to achieve a better quality of life while respecting others personal, social, and cultural life.

Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to deals with the day to day stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community.

Our day to day decisions totally depends on our mental conditions, how we behave, reacts, perform at work, manage difficult work or social relations up and down.

It is an integral component of health and well-being that affects our individual and collective abilities to make decisions, build relationships and shape the world we live in. Mental health is a basic human requirement to live.

Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders. It exists on a complex continuum, which is experienced differently from one person to the next, with varying degrees of difficulty and distress and potentially very different social and clinical outcomes.

Mental Health Issues:

Mental health conditions include mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities as well as other mental status associated with distress, or risk of self-harm. People with mental health conditions are more likely to experience lower levels of mental well-being.

. Mental health is a component of overall well-being. It can influence and be influenced by physical health.

Many people who have a mental illness do not want to talk about it. But mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, it is just a temporary medical condition, just like heart disease or diabetes. And cab be treatable.

Researchers continuously trying to understand, how the human brain works, and trying to find out best treatment to help people mental health conditions.

The Patients of Mental illness should not be discriminated; it can affect anyone at any point of time regardless of age, gender, geography, income, social status, race, ethnicity, religion/spirituality, sexual orientation, background or other aspect of cultural identity.

Mental illnesses can be mild, moderate or severe, can take many forms. Some are mild and only interfere in limited ways with daily life, such as some phobias (abnormal fears). Other mental health conditions are so severe that a person may need care in a hospital. Similar to other medical illnesses, so need appropriate medical treatments, sometime with just discussion with the Doctors/Psychiatrists/Counsellor and sometime with proper medication-care in controlled situations.

Mental Disorder:

About 970 million people worldwide suffered from a mental disorder, with anxiety or depression being the most common.

Mental disorders are defined as health conditions that affect and alter cognitive functioning, emotional responses, and behaviour associated with distress and/or impaired functioning.

Mental health is associated with a number of lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, stress, drug abuse, social connections and interactions.

Over 700 000 thousand people commit suicide every year and around 14 million attempt it.

A World Health Organization (WHO) report estimates the global cost of mental illness at nearly $2.5 trillion (two-thirds in indirect costs) in 2010, with a projected increase to over $6 trillion by 2030.

Evidence from the WHO suggests that nearly half of the world's population is affected by mental illness with an impact on their self-esteem, relationships and ability to function in everyday life. An individual's emotional health can impact their physical health. Poor mental health can lead to problems such as the inability to make adequate decisions and substance use disorders.

Good mental health can improve life quality, whereas poor mental health can worsen it.

Their research also concluded that people who lack emotional expression are inclined to anti-social behaviours, substance use disorder and alcohol use disorder, physical fights, vandalism, which reflects one's mental health and suppressed emotions. Adults and children who face mental illness may experience social stigma, which can exacerbate the issues.

How to Improve Mental Health:

Methods:

Drugs: The Anty-dipressional Pharmaceutical drugs are used by the Registered Psychologists/ Psychiatry professionals only in Controlled Conditions.

 Physical Activities: Physical exercise can improve mental and physical health. Playing sports, walking, cycling, or doing any form of physical activity trigger the production of various hormones, sometimes including endorphins, which can elevate a person's mood.

Studies have shown that in some cases, physical activity can have the same impact as antidepressants when treating depression and anxiety.

Activity therapies:  When people participate in any socio-physical activities organized themselves or by other in controlled conditions, also called recreation therapy and occupational therapy, promote healing through active engagement. An example of occupational therapy would be promoting an activity that improves daily life, such as self-care or improving hobbies.

 

Expressive Therapies: Art Therapy- Recreational Therapy- Poetry Therapy- Music Therapy- Dance Therapy are all come under Psychotherapy.

Each of these therapies have proven to improve mental health and have resulted in healthier, happier individuals. In recent years.

 

Lucid Dreaming: Lucid dreaming has been found to be associated with greater mental well-being. It also was not associated with poorer sleep quality nor with cognitive dissociation. There is also some evidence lucid dreaming therapy can help with nightmare reduction.

 

Spiritual Counselling: Spiritual counsellors meet with people in need to offer comfort and support and to help them gain a better understanding of their issues and develop a problem-solving relation with spirituality. These types of counsellors deliver care based on spiritual, psychological and theological principles.