About Mental Health

  Introduction  

  1. What is Mental Health?  

Do you know that every 15 minutes, someone dies from committing suicide which is roughly 38000(Thirty-Eight Thousand) suicides each year? Well, roughly 90 percent of all suicides are deeply related to mental health illness.

World Health Organization(WHO) defines health as complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of diseases or infirmity. Mental well-being is the part of the health.

  2. What are the signs of Mental illness?  

⟶ 1 in 4 people worldwide will be affected by a mental health disorder at some point during their lives.

  3. Why is Mental Health important?  

Mental health is essential in today’s world. It completely influences every aspect of our lives. It can hamper our thoughts and actions. It empowers our brains to work on challenges. Mental Health is important to prioritize and address mental health issues through education, early intervention, and access to care which can help individuals lead fulfilling lives and reach their full potential.

  4. How to improve your Mental Health?  

⟶ Here are some tips to improve mental health.

✔. Use your body

Essentially within the human being, there is a certain allotment of energy action, intellect, emotion, and so on. This differs from person to person but generally, the amount of energy allotted particularly for physical action and emotional dimension remains unused in today’s world. Using your body to play any sport like tennis, swimming, and music helps to recover quite wonderfully.

✔. Exposure to nature

During free time always spend time walking in the jungle or boating in the river for some exposure to nature is needed. You need to understand that your physiological and psychological health can be very easily managed if you are in touch with the elements of nature water, soil, light, and things like that. The more exposed you are, the more balanced you are both physiologically and psychologically which must happen to every human being.

✔. Eat the right food that enhances your mental ability

Eating the right food helps enhance your physical and mental capability. If you consume a glass of ash gourd juice every day, you will see the sharpness of your intellect will enhance itself. You will be mentally much sharper than the way you are right now.

✔. Keep your colon clean

Do you know whatever cleansing process that happens in your body, whether emptying your bowels, bladder, or sweat these are the different ways the body is trying to clean itself? Your colon is not clean and psychological disturbances are very directly connected.

✔. Engineer yourself for wellbeing

There are only four things with you that you can make use of your body, mind, emotion, and energy. Most human beings in different levels of activity in their life need all these four things to be in reasonably good shape. So, Inner Engineering is trying to cater to that as to how to bring human beings physical health, mental peace and joy, emotional stability and exuberance, and highly effervescent energy and balance within themselves.

  5. How does social media affect Mental Health?  

The more time you spend on social media the more negatively impacts your mood. Everyone knows that we have good days and bad days but what I see when I log on to social media is one person having fun enjoying the party along with his friends. The next day I see the same thing that I saw yesterday again and again I log on to social media, and I see the same type of content which is very relatable to the previous. Every time I log on to social media what rises to the top is what I like the most where people are having the most fun does that make sense? So every time I log on what I see is the best moment of 365 Lives and then what it gives me the impression of is everyone is out there having fun all the time I only have fun parties with friends only some days but everyone is having so much fun all the time. So it creates the false sense that everyone out there is living this perfect life whereas my life is just ordinary and in the face of a perfect life the ordinary life feels depressing.

  6. when is men’s Mental Health month?  

⟶ June is the men’s mental health month.

  7. What are the types of depression?  

Depression is the most commonly diagnosed mental health condition but the term depression refers to multiple different diagnoses. Depression comes in many different forms and affects each person in different ways leading to multiple classifications.

Depression is also known as a depressive disorder which is a common mental health disorder that involves a depressed mood or loss of pleasure or interest in activities.

a. Major Depressive Disorder (Clinical depression)

According to APA (American Psychological Association) major depressive disorder or clinical depression is a depressive disorder characterized by persistent low moods, loss of interest in your favorite activities, and lack of motivation to carry out basic tasks.

b. Persistent Depressive Disorder

Persistent Depressive Disorder is a depressive disorder similar to MDD except that it is long-lasting. It includes the common symptoms of MDD. Each symptom must occur at least two years before being diagnosed.

c. Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder is a group of mood disorders in which symptoms of mania and depression alternate. DSM-5 has four different classifications for the condition.

Bipolar 1 Disorder is where the individual fluctuates between episodes of mania and major depressive episodes or experiences a mix of these.

Bipolar 2 Disorder is when the individual fluctuates between major depressive and less intense manic episodes known as hypomania.

Cyclothymic Disorder is recognized by periods of milder and depressive episodes and hypomania.

d. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Seasonal Affective Disorder is a disorder in which there is a predictable occurrence of major depressive episodes, manic episodes, or both at a particular time of the year. The typical pattern is the occurrence of major depressive episodes during the fall or winter months but in some cases can occur in spring and summer.

e. Postpartum Depression

Postpartum Depression is a medical condition that many women get after having a baby.

f. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder is an unusual disorder that begins the week before menstruation begins and subsides within the first few days of menstruation.

g. Atypical Depression

Atypical Depression is a major depressive episode characterized by features that are unusual in other forms of depression. Most commonly, your depressed moods improve significantly when you hear good news.

h. Psychotic Depression

Psychotic Depression is a mental disorder in which a person has depression along with a loss of touch with reality. The psychosis can take forms such as hallucinations, delusions, having false beliefs, or some other break with reality.

  8. How to deal with depression?  

If someone is depressed what they need to do is get up early, get some light in their eyes, and get some movement these are not even tips they are tools that are grounded in excellent science. You get the dopamine released early in the day which is anti-depressive. For most people that’s accessible and they should be doing it every day.

You can even fight depression by doing the following things:

✔. Herbal Supplements

✔. Exercise

✔. Let the sun in

✔. Eat more veggies and nuts or seeds

✔. Staying away from alcohol and caffeine