Mental Health - Some key points.

Mental health is the most discussed and concerned topic in recent times, specially post Covid era. The whole world gone under lock and key at one point of time when?we all were regularly checking death tolls throughout the globe. Lower social involvements, massive job loss, financial crunch & continuous life threat left people too prone to fall in trap of anxiety, panic, trauma. All of a sudden entire public life witnessed a massive change in all attributes and most of us couldn’t cope with such transformation. Result is origination of a lot of complications in human mind.

But, what most of us think about mental health is partially correct. General conception about mental health is all about psychological complications and subsequent psychiatric problems. Actually mental health is a vast process with wider periphery and comprised of all basic livelihood patterns.

Mental health means emotional, psychological and social well being. It affects how we think, feel?and react. How we handle pressure situations, how we relate to others and make healthy choices. Mental health is a state of well being in which an individual realizes his/her own abilities, can cope with normal stress of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to community.

Determining factors:

1.??????Violence and persistent socio economic pressure are recognized risk of mental health. Clearest evidence is associated with sexual violence.

2.??????Rapid social changes. It’s qualitative transformation within a society that can alter the prevailing societal state.?For example you can take abolition of transatlantic slave trade, civil right movement, feminist movement, political overpowering, LGBTQ?right movement, global worming awareness movement etc.

3.??????Stressful work condition. With each passing day, professional stresses are increasing. Changes of habit and choice had turned many industry giants into surviving strugglers. With random evolution in electronic industry, many iconic product had become obsolete?organizations who succeeded to smell these transformations early and reshaped their working style according to customer choice could only survive. Famous tech giant Samsung was founded on 1st March, 1938 as a grocery trading centre. After Korean war Samsung started to shift their focus from noodles to acquiring bank, cement and fertilizer, then departmental store to television production and slowly turned to newer version of electronic conglomerate. It’s a story of big house. But millions of small companies and business houses round the globe had been facing a lot of problems regarding changes as well as their workers.

4.??????Gender discrimination & social exclusion.

5.??????Unhealthy life style. It’s the main reason of today’s world having so many life style diseases like cardio vascular issues, brain related issues which are letting people with higher rate of disability and morbidity.

6.??????Some genetic factors also make people vulnerable to mental health problems.

7.??????Unrealistic social competitions are main source of emotional disturbances.

Now, the big question. A question to all of us who are in comparatively better physical, economical and social environment. What can we do for rest of society and how? [It’s applicable for all geographical locations.]

Promotion of Mental health:

1.??????Most important is early childhood intervention.?Parents/guardians/caregivers must consider kid’s emotional health with priority. There is nothing like good or bad kid. They are as good as their raisers. Because kids can’t follow, they imitate. Whatever example will be placed in front of them, they will think it as appropriate. Human basic cognitive pattern grows up to 18/20 years of age and then take a particular shape. So, educating child with adequate knowledge and life skills can construct healthy cognitive pattern which can help them not only to grow individually but also to become a better social element.

2.??????Youth development programs.

3.??????Socio economic empowerment of women. It can boost self confidence and financial independence to females?consequently diminishing gender discriminations.?

4.??????Social support to elderly people in terms of emotional support, clinical support & community hand shake to ensure their safety and security.

5.??????Programs targeted to vulnerable people including minority, indigenous people, migrants, conflict or disaster affected people.

6.??????Mental health promotional activities in schools and workplaces.

7.??????Housing policies & inter/intra community violence prevention.

8.??????Social protection for economically backward people & awareness program among them.

9.??????Anti discrimination campaigns, promotion of rights, opportunities & care of individuals with mental health disorders.

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It’s a big task and not so easy to perform as to utter. Mammoth size volunteer force needed to start and continue the program. To my belief it would be the best option to consider mental health awareness as a cause. If each one of us can take minimum amount of responsibility to advance the cause during our leisure time, it’ll have a huge impact on society &we can prevent many people from getting lost in cognition dilemma.?

Mental health is such a vast topic with widest range of coverage, it's almost impossible to cover everything in single article. I'll come with some details of emotional health next week. If you've any query, please feel free to reach me out to My mailbox or follow me at Althought or at Nirmalya Saha - Put life into focus or at Google