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Understanding Mental Health
To understand mental health means to understand that everyone has it. It is what makes a person a person, it is what makes you you. To not understand and respect this is a disservice to yourself and others, as it dismisses an important aspect of yourself and other people.
Mental health is defined as our psychological, emotional, and social health and well-being. Each dimension and element of health is connected toward one's overall mental health. Mental health also affects multiple parts of a person's personality including the way they act and feel.
Disorders
Disorders of mental health are what detract from the well being of your social, emotional and psychological state. It can be defined as a signigasnt disturbance to all of these elements of mental health, and further influence physical health as well.
The most common diagnioses of disorders can be depression, anxiety, eating disorder, biopolar disorder, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), and schizofrenia.
Depression: Depression can be defined as a constant feeling of saddness and disinterest of certain things in life. Depression can be related to anxiety as they both are signifigant and constant negative feelings.
Anxiety: Like depression, this disorder causes several and random negative feelings. Instead of saddness or disinterest, it is more feelings of nervousness, stress, and dread.
Anorexia: Anorexia, or eating disorder is defined as abnormal eating habits that affect mental health and physical health. This disorder is most commonly present in adolecent or early adult hood as several external factors impact and can cause this disorder.
Schizofrenia: This disorder affects 24 million of the world's population. Characteristics of this disorder include common hallucinations, disorganized thinking, and difficulties functioning mentally and physically.
Raise Awareness: What Can You Do?
1. Education: Take the initiative to educate yourself and others about mental health by researching reliable sources, attending workshops, or organizing educational sessions at school or in the community.
2. Peer Support: Be a supportive friend and advocate for mental well-being among your peer
s. You can also encourage open conversations about mental health to further normalize it and provide resources to those in need.
3. Volunteer Work: By getting involved in local mental health organizations or volunteer helplines, support groups, or community wide wvents focused and dedicated toward mental health.
4. Social Media Awareness: Using social media platforms such as TikTok or Instagram to share informative articles, infographics, or helpful resources that are related to mental health. Sharing personal startegies for managing stress and ways to maintain self-care positively influences your followers and anyone seeing your posts.