Are you aware of your Mental health?
Mental Illness awareness week takes place from Oct 3rd -9th. What is the significance of this? How much importance should we give to the mental health? To know this first of all we have to be aware of the mental illnesses so that we can understand someone who is going through it and support them to come out of it.
What is a Mental illness?
A Mental health condition that has a negative effect on the way an individual speak, feels and behaves.
Types:
- Anxiety disorder
- Eating disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Depressive disorder
- Bipolar disorder
-Sleep- wake disorders
Is social media affecting your Mental health?
Signs:
- It distracts you from work
- You use it as an escape from bad emotions
- You spent more time online than you spent with your friends and-you are being trolled or cyber bullied
Warning signs of mental illness?
- Feeling very sad or withdrawn for more than two weeks.
- Significant weight gain or loss
-Trying to end one’s life or making plans to do so
-Excessive use of alcohol or drugs
-Risk taking behavior that cause harm to self or others
- Fear that get in the way of daily activities
What to do?
- Talk to your physician about what you are going through. Diagnosing mental illness isn’t a straightforward science. The symptoms may overlap or may not be at all. Leave it to your physician.
How to look after yourself?
- Talk with your friends and family whom you trust
- Increase focus on self care and kindness
- Think about a past experience you have coped well and inspire from it.
- write a to do list so that you can focus on the present if your mind wanders, make a routine
-Take each day one step at a time. Be easy on you. Give yourself some time.
Homoeopathy and Mental Illness:
Homeopathy gives great importance to mental health both in the treatment of physical and mental illnesses. The homeopathic understanding of health is intimately connected to its understanding of the mind in general. They generally assume that body and mind are dynamically interconnected and that both directly influence each other. Thus Homoeopathy can cure through it’s holistic approach.
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