Take Care Of Your Mental Health!

What is mental health? Well, it’s basically our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects our everyday lives, including how we feel, how we think and how we act. Here, we will look at anxiety and depression, the 2 most common mental illnesses.

Anxiety

Anxiety is the state of worry, apprehension, or tension that occurs in the absence of real or obvious danger. While it can motivate us, excess levels of anxiety does more harm than good. One critical thing about anxiety is that it can impair your ability to function in daily life. Some symptoms include an interpretation of a neutral stimulus as threatening, excessive tension, and avoidance. Some ways to combat anxiety include talking it out with a trusted friend, exercise, quit that caffeine habit, eat healthy.

Depression

Depression is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide and its common symptoms are feelings of prolonged sadness. Even normal day-to-day activities require more effect than usual. Depression has a wide range of symptoms including overwhelming feelings of sadness, either a loss or excess of appetite, sleep problems, fatigue or loss of energy, impaired concentration or indecisiveness, loss of interest, and decreased sex drive. How do you deal with it when you feel like this? Reach out stay connected with friends, keep up with social activities even though you don’t feel like it, do things that make YOU feel good, exercise and eat well!

If you are feeling any of these symptoms, don’t be afraid to reach out. Life is hard and anxiety and depression makes it harder. Be gentle with yourself and give yourself time to heal. Your mental health is just as important as your physical health, if not more. You got this!