Mental Health
What is Mental Health?
Many of us have a notion that the absence of mental illness means mental health. However, in real sense, mental health means far more than that. It denotes the capacity of an individual to be able to strike a balance in life, encompassing all the aspects of life, be it social, spiritual, physical, economical and even mental, it is an ability to maintain harmonious relationship with the environment. When the mental functioning is normal and healthy, it results in productive activities and satisfactory relationships. People, who are mentally healthy, are able to cope up with changes and adversities of life. So, it is very important to have mental health to live a happy and successful life. An individual with a healthy mind is good in communicating, learning, and display an overall emotional growth, buoyancy and self-esteem.
What are the symptoms of mental breakdown?
Every individual should look after their mental health and should be as concerned as they are about their physical health. We must understand the symptoms of mental breakdown in order to keep it healthy, so that we can provide the help required, to keep a healthy mind.
Here are the symptoms of mental breakdown mentioned, following which one may understand that the mind requires attention and help;
- You will feel that you are not comfortable in social gatherings, avoiding friends and family members. You wish to remain alone most of the time.
- You feel lethargic and over sleep all the time.
- At times you keep on working at a stretch without taking rest, without feeling tired, trying to engage your mind so that you can escape from the thought you might not like.
- Anxiety never leaves you; you are always tense about something or the other.
- You are irritated by slightest efforts and for no absolute reason.
- Mood swing is very common when some one loses mental harmony. Sometimes you will be aggressive, sometimes subdued.
- You will lose interest in days work and productive activities.
- You do not feel like eating, or loose interest in food.
- You are not able to sleep properly for more than two to three days for no apparent reason.
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How to maintain Mental Health?
As we care for our health daily, we eat healthy food, take bath, sleep and relax, exercise, we should also care for our mental health.
Review your life style : Are you leading a life in which you are working too hard but not relaxing? Or you are working too little and doing nothing at all? There should be good balance of work and leisure in everyday life to maintain mental health.
Contemplate on your life : We need to sit and give ourselves time to contemplate on our own selves. Ask yourself what actually you wish to get from your life, what is your exact goal. How many steps you have taken towards achieving your dream or aim in life? Are you satisfied? You may find that till now you have not set any goal for yourself and that is why you have been living a life with no purpose. When you are not satisfied, you become depressed. So just give yourself time and think about your life to understand the events and flow of your life.
Body and mind relation : There is a very strong relation between body and mind. If the body is neglected, sleeping, diet and exercise are inadequate, the body as well as the mind will suffer and vice versa.
The influence of people : It is very important to have those people whom we love and trust, such as teacher, friends, lover, family members etc. When we are frustrated, in pain, they can help us to survive the adversities of life.
Social Contact : We should interact with people around, whom we like and keep ourselves open to meeting new people and making friends. In this way we can have a healthy social contact and circle, which is very important as man is a social being.
Escaping will not help : If you think there is a problem in your life, do not ignore or avoid, take steps to solve it. If delayed, the problem can turn worse and your life and health can be seriously affected.
Mind your mind : The irrational irritability, lethargy, sleep disorder may appear unimportant to you, but if you do not take care, it will be worse and you may end up with clinical depression. If you think you need help for your mental problem, do not wait to seek help from a psychotherapist. Do not let your life go depressed, it is a very serious mental disease which ruins other spheres of life as well.
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Above all, an individual's attitude towards life, how he looks at himself, others, evaluates his challenges and problems, his way of finding solution, handling stress, and decision making, everything depends on mental health. The common human has ignored mental health and suffered therefore. A case of mere depression which goes untreated for a long period of time will make it severe and chronic. This has been found by researchers that untreated cases of depression lead to substance abuse which ruins the health and leads to death. There are ways to hit the "mental blues" and lead a happy life. There are psychotherapies and medications for psychological problems like anxiety disorder, panic attacks, depression, insomnia, etc. To know more about depression, anxiety, panic and their treatment, click on Anxiety and Panic
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