Importance of Good Mental Health in life.
Good mental health is more than just the absence of mental illness. It means you are in a state of wellbeing where you feel good and function well in the world. If you have good mental health, you might have emotions including happiness, love, joy and compassion, and you feel generally satisfied with life.
You probably have good mental health if:
- 1. You are confident when faced with new situations or people
- 2. You feel optimistic
- 3. You do not always blame yourself
- 4. You set goals
- 5. You feel good about yourself
- 6. You have good self esteem.
Tips for good mental health.
Build Relationships:
Having good relationships with other people is the most important factor contributing to a sense of wellbeing. This can include relationships with family, friends, workmates and others in the community.
Exercise and stay healthy:
Exercise has been shown to increase wellbeing as well as reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Good physical health is related to better mental health so a healthy diet, cutting back on alcohol and other drugs, getting a good night's sleep, and regular checkups with the doctor can all help.
Develop Gratitude:
Count your blessings. Try keeping a gratitude journal and writing down 3 positive things each day. This can lead to increased wellbeing.
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS
Mental health awareness campaigns have yielded positive outcomes. Some of the strategies undertaken to target awareness and address stigma around mental illness include participation by family members, sensitization to treatment and social inclusion. Lack of knowledge about the mental illnesses poses a challenge to the mental health care delivery system. Research has highlighted the role of community-based systems in low-income countries and has also yielded positive results in creating awareness, thereby impacting participation.
Health literacy has been depicted as "capacity to get to, comprehend, and utilize the data to advance and keep up with great wellbeing.
Mental health literacy encompasses recognition, causes, self-help, facilitation of professional intervention, and navigating the information highway.
Government Programs
Despite some caviling about the quantum, the government remains the biggest single spender in the mental health sector. While most new interventions remain isolated and confined to urban areas, it is only the public health system through large programs which can reach the rural masses. Apart from the National and District Mental Health Programs, the National Rural Health Mission is on its way to becoming the vehicle for delivering mental health as a part of integrated primary care at the cutting edge of the public healthcare system. Seeing that it partners with existing private and alternative care providers in a nonthreatening manner, shall help such large interventions synergize and succeed.
Conclusion
Considering that most of the earlier strategies to enhance mental health have not succeeded over the past six decades or more in less-developed countries, the time has come to take on a new approach with renewed vigor. Mental health awareness can become both the means and the way of ending this apathy. Progressive government policies based on evidence-based approaches, an engaged media, a vibrant educational system, a responsive industry, aggressive utilization of newer technologies and creative crowd-sourcing might together help dispel the blight of mental illnesses.
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