13 Reasons We Must Talk About Mental Health

Are you still looking for reasons we must talk about mental health? Aren’t we all going through it personally or experiencing it around us already?  Post-COVID has been a successful curtain-raiser that has given us a sneak peek at the mental health requirements of individuals and how they can adversely affect the global economy in the long run.

In this blog, I am going to share a few reasons that will force you to think about the importance of good mental health.

13 Reasons We Must Talk About Mental Health

In our world, we need reasons, logic, and validations to support what we are saying, to believe something either we must go through it or something huge should happen, empathy and compassion quotient have gone off to slumber.

We talk a lot about how our sugar level has increased, how we are on a diet to lose weight, and how we are taking medicines to keep our blood pressure under control, but we never talk about our exhaustion, fatigue, or burnout. Even if we do we are blatantly judged, no matter what other persons say they don’t, they do and that makes it even harder to open up again.

We hardly understand the fact that mental health is as important as physical health, so here I am trying to share a few reasons we must talk about mental health and what might happen if we keep ignoring it.

1.)  It is NORMAL to go through it

One of the most important reasons we must talk about mental health is to understand that going through stress, depression, anxiety or any form of mental illness is normal. Although people casually term them abnormal or odd or misfit in society, this very stigma and shame attached to mental illness is the root cause of its elevation.

2.)  It affects you physically

Yes, it does, many mental illness conditions show physical symptoms and if not taken timely care of, it starts affecting your health. Have you ever gone through rapid heart palpitation, heavy breathing or an upset stomach just when someone argued with you, or when you sensed something was going to happen?

3.)  It affects your productivity

The continued stressful condition, and not being able to acknowledge what is going on inside you might affect your outer world. Your whole day, your work, and your productivity is based on your mood and mindset. You could have a super productive day just when you are full of energy and when you feel motivated or you can sulk and crib about everything when you are at your lowest energy levels, one of the other crucial reasons we must talk about mental health.

4.)  It affects your relationships

Like work, it affects your relationships as well. Relationship with you spouse, your children, parents and friends. Your emotional unavailability for them can cause stress to them as well plus if you are dealing with anxiety it might become difficult for your partner to deal with you. If you are stressed you might take out the frustration on your kids.

5.)  It affects your self-worth

It doesn’t makes you feel good about yourself. It makes you feel worthless, we might encounter these feelings once in a while under different circumstances but if this state becomes a habit then we must be aware, it is very unhealthy for our health.

6.)  It makes you feel left-out

Because you don’t feel comfortable around anyone when you are going through mental stress, you feel you are the only one going through it and everyone else is happy and living a good life, you feel left out in conversations, you feel left-out even in the public gatherings and among friends.

7.)  It makes you doubt yourself

Just like it makes you question your self-worth, it puts you in the zone of self-doubt, where you doubt everything you say and everything you do. It makes you fall for the never-ending mental arguments resulting in nothing, going nowhere, and only affecting your inner peace.

8.)  It affects your self-image

One of the other critical reasons we must talk about is mental health. Just when you begin to doubt yourself, you question your capabilities and with every decision you make you also doubt your mental image of self i.e. your self-image. You feel less confident, it lowers your self-esteem and you don’t feel the way you used to feel when you were in your happiest state.

9.)  It makes you think you are alone

Just because you feel sad, lonely and less-accomplished you feel you are alone and it is only you who is going through it. For some people it also becomes like its the world against them and they are all alone fighting to survive each day.

10.) It makes you feel ashamed

The stigmas and shame attached to it make you feel ashamed of what you are going through, you feel dejected. You curse yourself for being in such a condition and feel helpless, but it is not you, it is the perception about mental health care in our world, the less sensitisation and lack of awareness have never included people with mental illnesses and have only made it hard for them.

11.) It makes you feel guilty

The series of self-doubt and overthinking makes you a big-time procrastinator and then leaves you feeling guilty too. You want to do so many things but just because your mental health is not in a good state you fail to do it and then that constant guilt of not being able to do things makes you restless.

12.)  It isolates you

When you feel alone, when you feel you are not worth it, the world looks like a place you don’t belong to. You don’t feel welcome anywhere, people don’t relate to you and you hardly find anyone understanding your state of mind and acting according to it, hence you prefer staying alone and isolation helps you to escape from all the judgmental and labels.

13.)  It doesn’t let you seek help

The stigmas, stereotypes, shame and lack of awareness don’t let you seek professional help, even when your family members see you, they don’t feel the need to seek a counsellor which ultimately worsens your situation.

To conclude, I would say that just because of the lack of awareness people suffer and they suffer big time. With all the false perceptions, and self-diagnosis, we’re already glorifying mental illnesses like OCD, and anxiety in an inappropriate manner, so please be mindful of your surroundings, your emotions, and feelings and take the necessary steps.

So with this list of the reasons we must talk about mental health, I hope you understood the importance of talking about it. You always need someone to talk to, you always need to vent out, you always need closure, maybe not in the way you are seeking but in some or the other way find that closure and seek that help. Take full control of your life. Rise up!