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Our mental health should also be taken care of..

Today I want to emphasize the importance of mental health and attaining a positively healthy state of mind!
 
Those of us who don't really know what mental health is, here is breakdown (remember that its always good learn a new term when you come across it☺)

MENTAL HEALTH includes our psychological, emotional, and social well-being.
                                  it impacts how we feel, how we acts, and ultimately how we act.

Sometimes having a lot of  commitments often puts pressure and a heavy weight on our shoulders. Our personal lives sometimes triggers stress levels and not having anyone to talk to about some of the challenges we often face can burdens us. So it is very important that we have a should to lean on, as should to cry on when we are at our lowest because sometimes we cannot deal with our problems on our own. 

How can we best take care of our MENTAL HEALTH?

We need to avoid keeping our problems to ourselves
Always try to tell someone whom we trust because sometimes just talking about what is has been bothering you to someone else makes a huge difference. 
Telling a friend how bad you think a test you wrote went for and how anxious you feel about the results may help in that your friend can motivate you not to give up and study even harder because you still have a chance to improve your results.

Most importantly, we need to know when to seek professional help. 
If you know that what you have been going through is suddenly affecting you daily routine and your usual state of being then you need to consider seeking professional help.  Seeking professional help does not make you any different, it means that your are putting your wellbeing as priority. Professional help includes consulting with a counsellor or a psychologist. Many institutions offer students  psychological services free of charge especially when students feeling that their academics are starting to overwhelm them to a point where they cannot cope anymore. Suicidal thoughts are the last factor that should alert you that you need to seek professional help. 

It is okay to distance yourself or take a break from something that you believe is affecting your mental health negatively.
If you feel like your circle of friends are causing you stress and you always feel pressure to please them by ending up doing things that you don't normally do, you may need to consider removing yourself from that friendship. If social media overwhelms you, you may consider taking a break from it until you feel ready to use it again.  If work and school load are becoming too much for you to handle, take a break, reflect and devise a strategy on dealing with the pressure and seek for advice from those who have experienced. It is important for us to refrain from situations that trigger our stresses and learn how to deal with such situations before they escalate and become detrimental to our mental health.


Lets be caring to ourselves, lets be gentle and start taking our mental health serious

Love and light💕💞💓💕💝
~Simply Kopano~

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