Mental health is very personal and crucial for survival and living a healthy life. It is important to understand that mental health can be treated with if approached by a professional to seek help at the right time. There is no escape from mental health disorder; it will keep on deteriotinh if not treated or ignored. With the growing times the government has paid attention in establishing mental health facilities though mental health needs a lot of awareness and steps to be taken to provide an environment where one voluntarily likes to get treated to.

Let us the various mental health illness and the major cause for it

  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Panic attacks
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD)
  • Chronic illness
  • Psychotic disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Emotional numbness
  • Sleeping disorder
  • Mood disorder

Major causes for mental health disorders are-

  • Past Traumatic experiences that haunt the person throughout the life
  • Childhood trauma
  • Excessive intake of medications or antidepressants
  • Relationship complexity
  • Work losses
  • Family criticism
  • Loss or death of close ones
  • Bullying
  • Physical and mental exploration
  • Peer pressure

Mental health get affected through the activities that impact the person emotionally to an extent that their mental health gets affected. They start to lose their ability to respond to things positively and to work efficiently. The only feeling that is constant to those suffering from mental health disorder is that of vulnerability,miserableness and loneliness. The feeling of isolation and alienation extends so much that they tend to suffocated themselves and even take extreme steps like self harming and suicidal actions.

It is important to understand that mental health disorder requires process help and proper medication.

Types of mental health facilities –

  • Inpatient mental health facilities
  • Outpatient mental health facilities

Inpatient mental health facilities

These kinds of facilities are no less than a miracle for the people suffering from mental health disorder. It provides with-

  • 24 hour care and supervision by the professionals
  • Proper intake of medication is ensured by the health staff
  • Mindfulness exercises are given emphasis like the meditation and yoga. These help to provide peace and calm down all the chaos that goes within the mind.
  • Gourmet food is prepared that is healthy and nutritious keeping in mind the health of the person.
  • Regular checkups are ensured by the doctor, noting down the progress every passing day
  • Therapy sessions of various kinds be it individualised therapy sessions, support group sessions, family therapy sessions and group sessions are organised in frequent intervals. All these sessions are beneficial and help the individual understand themselves and the right approach to mental health.

Mental health illness is not a matter of shame but an illness that can be cured if taken the right steps at the right time with the right kind of treatment.more we normalise mental illness the more it will become easy for us as individuals to accept and be an inspiration for others if suffer from mental health disorder. Mental health is the same as physical health and both need to be looked after with care and awareness.

Awareness strategies

Let us examine various ways to create awareness among the society in order to normalise mental health illness-

Online awareness

This involves creating awareness through television advertisement, radio broadcasting, holding up various seminars and lectures on radio and television by news and entertainment channels.

This would help reach mental illness to thousands of people, making them understand the symptoms and approach it.

Offline awareness

The offline awareness can be simply explained by establishing mental health care centres, establishment of non profit organisations that caters to mental health awareness, government normalising it among youth through emphasises of mental health in the education system and various seminars to be held by government doctors in schools and other educational institutions.

Mental health- not taken for granted

Mental health should not be taken for granted nor the people suffering from it. There has been several cases where family couldn’t recognise the symptoms of mental illness because of lack of awareness or fail to take adequate steps because of societal pressure tends to loose their close ones to suicide. This it is the need of the hour to be supportive and empathetic towards people suffering from mental health disorder