Do you know nearly 1 billion people in the world are suffering from mental issues? Do you believe you've experienced mental issues?
You could encounter challenges with your emotional health issues. For example, you may experience feeling depressed at some point, perhaps after losing a loved one, job, feeling rejection or failure. Mental illnesses can affect anyone, regardless of age, race, or gender. Mental illnesses can affect you in any way. You can't assume that it doesn't exist.
Many people with mental health problems don't get the help they need. This must change. It is important that everyone, everywhere be supported.
Why are mental treatments so important?
Mental health problems can range from mild to severe and can include conditions such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
Untreated Mental Illness could lead to:
Irritation or anger: Your behaviors are influenced by your mental health. Having a mental illness can affect your relationships with friends, family, and coworkers.
Low mood and unwillingness to participate in daily activities
More mental issues as trauma-induced, self-destructive behaviors
Physical illnesses
As one of the functioning of the hippocampus is to learn and store long-term memories, anxiety and chronic stress can increase the risk of depression and dementia and may damage the brain Mah& Fiocco, (2016). So, it is essential to treat your mental problems.
How to treat your mental problems?
1. Avoid whatever elevates your stress levels even small things. Instead, embrace maintaining good mental health.
2. Increase your mood, your motivation and energy to do more.
5. Find new hobbies to help you socialize, hobbies to help you to be more socialize as connecting with old and new friends, building your knowledge, keeping more creativity, or doing voluntary jobs.
6. Ask for professional help: Your mental illnesses can be managed with professional treatment and support. Think about mental health more openly and destigmatize mental illness.
Stay Positive and Keep Calm
Resources
Mah, L., Szabuniewicz, C., & Fiocco, A. J. (2016). Can anxiety damage the brain?. Current opinion in psychiatry, 29(1), 56–63. https://doi.org/10.1097/YCO.0000000000000223.
