5 Reasons You Should Care About Your Own Mental Health

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Have you ever wondered why taking care of your own mental health is prime?

Saying this as we still live in an India where people don’t let us speak aloud about our own mental health, let alone of others in the community.

First, let us introspect and ask ourselves the following questions –

• Are mentally fit people the talk of the town?
• Are mentally unstable persons really that unstable?
• Or are they more level headed than most of the talked about brilliant minds that people hanker after?
• Why is vulnerability viewed with a disdainful glare?
• Why is it that mentally challenged people are looked down upon by society in general?

Answers to these questions lie in the reasons why mental health shouldn’t be ignored.

Here are 5 Reasons why you should care about your own mental health!

1. Better Mental Health leads to living a healthy life.
2. Improvement in productivity and performance.
3. Building strong relationships.
4. Satisfaction with yourself and with the people around you and with the outside world.
5. Helpful in overcoming your fears about mental health and your ability to circumvent situations even with the tag of being a mental health survivor.

The reasoning? Below!

People who acknowledge mental ailments are those who have gone through it.

But are all the so-called “normal” people able enough mentally, so much that they can climb mountains? Recently, some mountaineers climbed Mt. Everest, but even they weren’t spared of contracting COVID-19, let alone normal humans!

So, imagine the plight of the mental health survivors, who put their best foot forward and conquered their mental ailment, irrespective of all odds!

Tell me, why does it always have to be the survivor of any ailment, be the one to take upon him/her the onus of revealing their being normal as in what they feel is normal for them, and make themselves stand out in the midst of a normal crowd?

Why can’t the world know and learn just as if this were a common topic taught during regular matriculation or graduation?

This is prevalent in many foreign countries.

But what about India?

As said in the introduction, we live in a society that talks ill and prefers to dissociate themselves from this harsh reality.

This topic often bites the dust in our country.

Fact is – Talking about this is NOT a taboo!

If having blood pressure, diabetes, cancer or stroke is normal, know this – that mental ailments are too, NORMAL.

Don’t shun them, accept them just as your neighbour and treat them with respect, the same way you’d treat physically challenged people.

Give them a pat on their back or hug them and say, “You’re not alone in this, I am there for you.”

If physical ailments can be circumvented, so can mental ailments!

The positive aura you exhibit influences the society’s idea about you as well as their thought process about the mental health community.

In fact, mental health survivors might just become successful writers and bloggers in future, as was in the past even, take the case of acclaimed novelist, J. K. Rowling.

Remember, if the mind doesn’t work, manpower will not function and all will be awaiting doomsday. So, it is important to give that due credit to all minds, alike!

Inner peace and self care are two sides of the coin called mental health.

Allowing you to ponder over this, I end this blog post.