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Looking After Your Mental Health
We hear about mental health
so often it feels like someone
is holding a megaphone to
our ears screaming “Take
care of your mental health!”
everywhere we go. While it
may seem annoying, mental
health isn’t always taken
seriously. Health agencies
around the world are reporting
that an increasing number of
people (especially children)
Looking After Your Mental Health are suffering from poor mental
You’re drowning. Sure, you can swim out, but health, which can have disastrous effects. In
there’s no nearby land, and the water is sucking honor of Mental Health Awareness Month,
you further down like a black hole. No matter here are a few essential facts and tips for taking
how hard you try, you can’t just swim out. For care of yourself!
those suffering from mental health conditions,
such as depression, anxiety, or even learning 1. Many people believe that mental illnesses
disabilities like ADHD, autism, or dyslexia, this are no big deal. This couldn’t be further from
is what everyday life can feel like. the truth. Mental health conditions can affect
academic performance and increase the risk of
There are many different mental health heart disease, strokes, and cancer. It is extremely
conditions and learning disabilities important to reach out to a trusted adult such as
with different symptoms and causes.
For example, ADHD and autism are
learning disabilities that people are
typically born with, while other mental
health conditions, such as depression,
can be caused by having low levels
of dopamine, which is a chemical that
the brain produces whenever you do
something that makes you happy, like
eating your favorite food, participating
in an activity you like, or watching a
movie.
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there to help you; there is nothing
wrong with asking for help if you
are struggling.
6. You do not need to have
any mental health conditions to
visit a psychiatrist. Even if you
feel healthy, you visit a doctor
each year to make sure that you
haven’t gotten sick or developed
any conditions. Regularly visiting a
a parent, teacher, or school counselor, and see psychiatrist can be great for your
a psychiatrist. mental health since if you develop a mental
2. Self-care can help with mental health! health condition, they can catch it early and
Reading a book, watching a movie, or just start helping you.
taking some time to relax are great ways of 7. Remember that there is nothing wrong with
practicing self-care since they can crying! When you cry, your body releases stress
cause your brain to release dopamine. It’s hormones to make you less stressed, and it also
important to remember that while self-care is is an effective way of releasing emotions. When
essential, it isn’t a replacement for reaching out you keep bottling up your feelings, it’s similar
to a psychiatrist. to constantly putting air into a balloon. When
3. Remember to be kind to everyone. People there’s too much air, the balloon can’t take
are judged left and right, whether it’s for their anymore and explodes. Constantly bottling
interests, for struggling with tasks, or for not up your emotions can cause panic attacks,
being the best at everything. This constant anxiety, and even physical pain. Remember to
judgment can weigh people down. Small acts release your feelings in a healthy way, whether
like giving compliments, offering support rather it’s through crying, talking with others, or just
than judgment, or just being there for others can writing down how you’re feeling.
make their day and mean a ton to them. Looking after mental health is just as important
4. We all feel stressed and overwhelmed as looking after physical health, yet it is often
at times, and talking about your feelings with greatly misunderstood and stigmatized, which
parents, teachers, counselors, or a psychiatrist is causes many people to feel alone, ashamed,
a great way to manage them. Trusted adults are and less likely to reach out for help. However,
there to help you solve problems and manage by taking care of our mental health and being
emotions; it can sometimes just be enough to kind, we can help reduce the stigma around
have someone listen to you. getting help.
5. Homework and school can often cause
stress and make you overwhelmed. Taking
frequent breaks allows your mind to rest, and
Shaivi Patel is a high school student, a
while it is very tempting, procrastinating isn’t a french horn player in her school’s band,
very good idea. Remember that teachers are and a writer. She is from Largo, Florida,
and loves the beach, video games, and
movies.
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“Be Realistic: Plan for a
Miracle..”
“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a
masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know
it, to realize it.”
-OSHO-
“Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love
becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you
are in love - now you are love.”
-OSHO-
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