Mind and body

 Healthy Mind = Healthy Body

 

The saying always goes like a “healthy mind stays in a healthy body”, but what if I say that the statement is true when reversed. There are certainly examples where people don’t have a healthy body, but have a happy life. But there certainly isn’t a person with a healthy body and an ill mind, even so, their body starts degrading.

A depressed person releases higher levels of serotonin. This causes them to appear lazier, sleepy all the time. They might show symptoms like shivering, heavy sweating, dizziness and irregular heartbeat. This, at a chronic stage is not only bad for one’s emotional wellbeing but also bad for physical health.

About 14% of the global burden of disease has been attributed to neuropsychiatric disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabling nature of depression and other common mental disorders, alcohol-use and substance-use disorders, and psychoses. Such estimates have drawn attention to the importance of mental disorders for public health. However, because they stress the separate contributions of mental and physical disorders to disability and mortality, they might have entrenched the alienation of mental health from mainstream efforts to improve health and reduce poverty. The burden of mental disorders is likely to have been underestimated because of inadequate appreciation of the connectedness between mental illness and other health conditions. Because these interactions are protean, there can be no health without mental health. Mental disorders increase risk for communicable and non-communicable diseases, and contribute to unintentional and intentional injury. Conversely, many health conditions increase the risk for mental disorder, and comorbidity complicates help-seeking, diagnosis, and treatment, and influences prognosis. Health services are not provided equitably to people with mental disorders, and the quality of care for both mental and physical health conditions for these people could be improved. We need to develop and evaluate psychosocial interventions that can be integrated into management of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Health-care systems should be strengthened to improve delivery of mental health care, by focusing on existing programs and activities, such as those which address the prevention and treatment of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria; gender-based violence; antenatal care; integrated management of childhood illnesses and child nutrition; and innovative management of chronic disease. An explicit mental health budget might need to be allocated for such activities. Mental health affects progress towards the achievement of several Millennium Development Goals, such as promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women, reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health, and 

reversal of the spread of HIV/AIDS. Mental health awareness needs to be integrated into all aspects of health and social policy, health-system planning, and delivery of primary and secondary general health care.

Solution:

Although it is always recommended to seek professional help for such matters. Mind has always been a complex area of study and application. One should always try to avoid certain pitfalls if they feel a certain way. Although those pitfalls are different for every person, one thing remains common, they feel uniquely gloomy at start. That is the moment when one needs to stop all the pressure he/she is putting on themselves to avoid any further damage. They need to carefully introspect, because a mental problem always keeps changing with emotions. The best possible way is to seek for family support, they will definitely help you overcome if you share your problem with them.

Just knowing that you are not alone helps a lot, and don’t give up hope. If your case is a chronic one, just know that these are just temporary situations and even this will pass. Just don’t lose will and hope. That is your last resort. If you are developing anhedonia, don’t force yourself towards doing something that you don’t like, even if it is important for your career, your mental health comes first. Do everything in small bits and don’t get overwhelmed. Stay happy and healthy J