Mental Health Awareness

What is Mental health?

People becoming more aware about mental health, helps to address a lot of stigmas within the society, although this is not the only benefit of such efforts. For example, possessing a more informed view of mental illness may help individuals with identifying certain people around them who might be suffering from anxiety, depression, or any other mental disorder. This can even extend to an individual understanding of themselves. Furthermore, this change may also result in a stronger demand for social advocacy for mental health. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the Mental Health Month are two important initiatives that play a major role in creating an audience understanding towards mental illness, and tackling mental health stigmas.

 

Most Common Types Of The Mental Health Disorders:

Depression:

Depression refers to a wide range of psychiatric conditions characterized by lack of positive affect (liking and enjoying simple objects and experiences), low mood, and emotional, cognitive, physical and behavioral levels associated symptoms The distinction remains problematic and it is best to assume that depressive symptoms always occur during acute episodes and that often, in a major schizophrenia, mood and affect are not the setting about something and it keeps coming down every day. However, some people’s moods vary from day to day, gradually improving throughout the day and falling back to a lower level when they wake up. In other cases, a person’s mood may be normalized to experiences and events, although this heightened mood may be short-lived, and depressive feelings often return rapidly.

 

 Generalized anxiety disorder:

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by having at least six months on multiple days, associated with events or activities Individuals with GAD struggle to manage their anxiety and worry, which often it is restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension , disturbed sleep The anxiety and panic attacks that accompany GAD are not symptoms of other problems such as phobias or social shyness if it only happens often. Individuals typically suffering from GAD begin to experience excessive anxiety about the outcome of daily tasks, especially well-being tasks or many individuals often one s about separation from close family members

 

Panic Disorder:

Individuals with episodic panic disorder who experience intermittent fearful feelings and brief periods of sudden short-term anxiety, known as panic attacks, often seek to avoid certain situations to prevent agoraphobia the source of emotions that may or may not be caused by a particular situation. Panic attacks vary in frequency and intensity. Fear can be triggered by external or internal factors such as a feared object or situation or physical stimuli. Sudden panic attacks may be unconscious, meaning they are not immediately associated with a specific situation created by the person. Agoraphobia is basically the fear of being in situations where escape is difficult, humiliating or helpless during times of fear This anxiety often leads to avoidance of situations such as being alone outside or at home, crowded places, cars that used or in specific locations such as bridges and elevators