Early warning signs of mental problems Feeling sad or down Confused thinking or reduced ability to concentrate Excessive fears or worries, or extreme feelings of guilt Extreme mood changes of highs and lows Withdrawal from friends and activities Significant tiredness, low energy or problems sleeping Detachment from reality (delusions), paranoia or hallucinations Inability to cope with daily problems or stress Trouble understanding and relating to situations and to people Problems with alcohol or drug use Major changes in eating habits Suicidal thinking Comment is open for questions⬇️  

  So it's mental health week When people with mental illness will be given attention to When people can hear and maybe try to understand. They might understand what we go through  and try to intervene in ways they can and hear out But sometimes it's too late and they start to point fingers 1 in 4 people will have issues with thier mental health Irrespective of your status or wealth Mental health does not discriminate and it's not determined by fate . Some think it's spiritual,other thought it's karma but it can happen to anyone. So,we need to open our eye,listen to those silent cries Look for the need of hope ,help when people can't cope Reach out a helping hand,try to understand Share a caring word that is soothing to the soul Let us reduce the stigma because it's hinders solution Mental health is not an enigma,it can happen to anyone of us So let us stand up and create more awareness It is unacceptable in this day and age, that we don't engage and talk...

  What exactly is mental fitness, and how does it feel to be mentally fit? Mental fitness can be defined as having the skills and practices to improve and sustain one's own state of well-being and perform at best. It involves being aware of how you think, behave and respond to situation.  Mental fitness is more than the absence of mental illness.  It's about growth and thinking, feeling, and performing at your best in all areas of your life. Mental fitness is developed by equipping people to treat mental health as something that they can strengthen and improve by making it priority.  Mental fitness embraces the idea that individuals can develop a positive mental state that exceeds being “fine.” When you are mentally fit, you feel fully functional and confident of your ability to affect your own state. It isn’t that you feel “happy” all the time or that you are never sad but when you dip into not knowing what to do, you don’t panic, and you don’t stay there very long....

  Mental health is an aspect of health that gets stigmatized 😔so often in our society. If someone is having a mental health issue, they are less likely to get help because of that stigma which leads to shame But in this century we are,there’s nothing to be ashamed of because the chemical and hormones that goes around  the brain is not anybody's fault but the knowledge of what can cause it not to work or diminished it function need to be known .Hence,there is need for knowing the importance of mental health. According to CDC,mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. 💧Mental Health Affects Physical Health. Mental and physical health are equally important components of overall health because both can greatly influence...

I welcome you back to this space😁😘 Let us more shed light on the meaning of disorder before we discuss about today's matter. A disorder is a disturbance of the normal physical,mental and social wellbeing of the mind and body which may cause a person to change in the way they  perceives,thinks and perceive. Though people use both mental illness and mental disorder interchangeably because both point at the same end .The different between the two is the origin of the condition and from last week post we can see that mental health and mental illness/disorder are not the same but when one(mental health) is tampered with,it will surely leads to another(mental illness) Mental illness is an ongoing symptoms or group of symptoms that can affect a person,  perception,thinking,mood or behavior. From the definition above and to be specific, the clustering of different types of symptoms,they all gather to become a disorder that a person is at risk for which makes that individual to be of...

  Let us start with a scenario of a young child who developed  a moderate depression because her basic needs was not properly met. This is due to the financial incapacity of her parent because of the current socioeconomic factors. On the part of the parent,being responsible for the care of the child is their utmost priority but what can be done when there is unemployment and even the one that is available, the income per capital labour is very low? This young child,because of the community ninculcate values and expectations chose to keep up with demands as not to get her parent disappointed especially in her academics. She couldn't complain and neither does she get reinforcer and because of this,she was easily deceived to get her needs from a person who see her as an asset to be used and not a person .Her mental health was on a verge of crashing,she felt rejected  in the society because she can't even express her feelings and opinion since it does not change anything. Whi...