What is Mental Health?
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Having a better mindset is crucial to our lives.
Our bodies and minds are not separate, so it’s not surprising that mental ill health can affect your body. Depression can come with headaches, fatigue, and digestive problems, and anxiety can create an upset stomach, for example. Other symptoms can include insomnia, restlessness, and difficulty concentrating.
I know sometimes it gets challenging when faced with mental health issues in which we often feel alone and closed off from the world, we then hide our thoughts and feelings from everyone and tell ourselves no one understands or cares about our feelings or thoughts. We would even go as far as to convince ourselves that we do not want to hurt them by telling them, which is neither fair to our loved ones nor to us.
You are worth the time, you are worth the effort, you are worth the investment, but first, you’ve got to believe that your best investment is you.
It is important to have better mental health for a variety of reasons, here are a few
- Physical health and emotional well-being – We know that our status mentally dominates how we navigate our feelings towards relationships and challenges that arise. This can lead to chronic illness ( mood, personality, psychotic disorders, heart diseases ) which is physically spiritually, and mentally draining. Good mental health can promote great overall health in all these areas.
- Interactions/Relationships – How we interact in relationships whether work, family, or friends, is greatly influenced by our mental state. On the positive side, it offers good communication and better understanding, on the negative side, it causes a strain on the relationship.
- Mental Functioning – This speaks of your cognitive state, where you process information, thinking, and reasoning. Without good mental health, your decision-making process might be clouded.
Welcome to my blog, here we will discuss mental health, lifestyle, and personal development, because having better mental health matters.
I am not a mental health professional, I’m just a survivor who finally decided to start living.
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