Stop discriminating mental health

                                    

                             Muscular Dystrophy Poses Mental Health Risks, so Care for Your Mind (musculardystrophynews.com)

I am going to start this new entry by defining the word mental health,

Mental health is often associated with a lot of stigma and discrimination, because no one believes in it, people tent to see mental health as a disease that belong to the insane people, but that is not true in fact that doesn’t matter because mental health is an integral and essential component of health. The WHO constitution states: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”, It is also important to clarify that mental health is more than just the absence of mental disorders or disabilities.

 

                                                   Mental Illness Types, Symptoms, and Diagnosis (verywellmind.com)

Talking about facts and how common are mental illnesses the CDC says this illness is.

“the most common health condition in the united states and more that 50% will be diagnosed with mental illness or disorder at some point in their lifetime;1 in 5 Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year ;1 in 5 children, either currently or at some point during their life, have had a seriously debilitating mental illness; 1 in 25 Americans lives with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression.” (CDC,2018)

According to what is explained before since mental health is still a taboo around the world is important to change this “bad” taboo into something that is more know and comprehensible by everybody that’s why this topic should be more normalize and spoken to encourage the people that is suffering metal health problem to find solutions and not to suppress their feeling and get worse due to the lack of communication because they are afraid to be judge by others, is important for them to know there is people out there willing to help

                                                                        Taking Care of Your Mental Health | U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc. (USPM)

Everybody that is looking at this post need to know that there is not a single cause for this illness  there are a lot of factors that can induce this illness such as trauma or history of abuse, experiences related to ongoing or past medical conditions, biological factors the lack of fiends and the feeling of loneliness, so if you are experience some of this factors don’t hesitate to look for help and reach others that can understand your feelings, and if you see that someone is suffering from this try to help instead of increasing the illness that they are facing, i had an aunt that was suffering from this and is hard to watch how a lot of people start to walk away from her (due to the lack of knowledge and understatement of this problem) to the point that instead of getting better she was getting worse to a never return situation.




References 

CDC. (2018, 1, 26). Retrieved from Learning about mental health: https://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/learn/index.htm

WTO. (2018, 3, 30). Mental health: strengthening our response. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-health-strengthening-our-response

 

 

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