World Mental Health Day 🧠🧠

World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against the social stigma. It was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health.

A global mental health organization with members and contacts in more than 150 countries across the globe, on this day thousands of supporters come together to celebrate this annual awareness program to bring attention to mental illness and its major effects on people's lives.

Mental Health is an important factor involved in a human being' s life, a mentally ill individual needs help he or she must have some support

World Mental Health is supported by World Health Organization through Ministries of health and civil societies, it aims at focusing on good mental health with the development of technical and communication materials.

A good mental health does not sees any age it can be in any form depression, stress, and anxiety some people are unbale to convey their problems openly it's time that we help such people with their mental well - being.

Nowadays, being under stressful situations during work hours or coping up with stress becomes difficult for adults and children on a critical basis.

Anxiety faced during the exams, is very common deliberating discomfort affecting their overall performance it is experienced by students of all ages.

According to a survey conducted by NCERT a total of 81% students were reported facing anxiety due studies and exam results while, experiencing certain amount of anxiety during exams known as "eustress" can help actually perform better during the exams.

Some of the common signs of anxiety include difficulty with sleep, irritability, mood swings, changing patterns of eating, increased consumption of coffee and many more.

Few signs which you shouldn't ignore:

1. Being sad or irritable, lacking in motivation and losing interest can be symptoms of depression.

2. Having excessive fears or feeling tensed for a prolonged period of time.

3. Feeling guilty or worthless.

4. Paranoia involves intense anxiety and fearful feelings causing delusions can also be triggered by an underlying metal health disorders.

5. Taking extreme measures such as starving for losing weight or enormously gaining weight.

6. Changes in behavior or feelings.

7. Emotional outbursts it can be observed through sudden and dramatic changes in mood such as extreme distress or anger.

8. Sleep problems lasting changes to a person's sleep patterns can be a symptom of mental health disorder.

9. Loss of Concentration trailing off during conversations or losing track of thought may indicate issues with memory and it can be a symptom of depression.

The pandemic alone caused a 25% increase in the prevalence of anxiety and depression worldwide, it created a global crises for mental health and leading to growing social and economic inequalities, protected conflicts, violence and public health emergencies affecting whole populations are threatening progress towards improved well -being.

At least 84 million people were displaced by the conflicts and natural disasters in 2021 at the same time WHO says, "mental health services have been severely disrupted, and the treatment gap for mental health conditions has widened.

People with mental health conditions die prematurely as much as 20 years earlier than an average due to preventable conditions they are also more likely to suffer human rights violations, discriminations, and stigma in some countries.

An estimated 12 billion working days are lost each year to depression and anxiety, which the WHO estimates costs the global economy nearly $1 trillion. Even when there is help available, stigma and discrimination prevent many people from getting care they need.

The United Nations' Good Health and Well -being Sustainable Development Goals calls for 80% of nations to integrate mental health into primary healthcare by 2030.

Young people are particularly affected by mental health issues the WHO says almost one in seven adolescents aged 10 to 19 live with some form of mental health condition.

Suicide is the fifth most prevalent cause of death in the age group of 45, 800 die each year, one every 11 minutes. Almost one in five 15-24 years old in a global survey for the WHO reported that they often felt depressed and had little interest in doing things.

According to the UK Mental Health Foundation, half of mental health conditions are established by the age 14 and 75% by age 24.

The World Economic Forum's Uplink innovation crowdsourcing platform is helping to find new ways of helping young people with mental health conditions. Its a Youth Mental Health Challenge attracting 75 solutions to tackle this issue.

I hope you like this article protect your mental health and keep focusing on what's good for you.