Breaking the Taboo: The Urgent Need to Change our Attitude Towards Mental Health"

We need to change our view and attitude about mental health.

We all have bad and good seasons in our life…it’s a journey on rocky roads. Humans are social and emotional animals it's time we get an effective support system.

Yesterday was World Mental Health Day and I saw the World Health Organization’s animated video about Suicide prevention, and to be honest, it is frustrating. We are living in the greatest time in History. We have advanced technology, medicine and hospitals are on a whole other level system, even the fitness trend is catching on … but we also have a rise the level of mental health problems. According to the WHO every 40 seconds someone loses their life to suicide. If we start caring and listening to our fellow beings, then we could quite possibly save a lot of life. ...Check out the video link below from world health organization,preventing suicide campaign

Preventing suicide: information for health workers #.

 

Its high time we consider Mental health an important aspect of our lives and that there is nothing wrong with not being  able to figure out your way around, or getting caught up in toxic relationships or maybe we just need someone to hear us, help us around a little bit. It's human, it happens. Nobody is immune to it. The Joker once said, All is takes is one bad day to make the sanest man go mad. Albeit it is a fictional quote but there is some truth to that. Our unhealthy materialistic life style and attitude know no bounds. We always need more or something better and we even move things around us to make that happen. A constant fight for the approval or to be the powerful in the room, the race, the society, the world, whatever. In the end, does it really matter? We take nothing when we leave not even our last shirt.

When we get caught up between Emotional and Physical turmoil we definitely need to someone to talk to or help us understand human emotions scientifically.

Every human brain and experience are unique even if you are born in the same family. Hence, there is no general solution for everyone, its important to understand your emotional fitness level and how to deal with this, so you can be at one with yourself or at least finish that last shift before completely losing your mind on somebody. When we have a headache or an allergy, we go to doctor but many times it could be emotional stress taking physical form. Which you won’t say and most likely you won't know and even the doctor might not know. Which will end up treating a disease you don’t even have and create a whole other problem.

With a busy lifestyle we wouldn’t eat or sleep right, overwork, do not have time for fitness and substance abuse, all of which creates a lot of pressure for the mind and body to handle. Unhealthy minds lead to unhealthy bodies.

So WAKE UP….  Take a look inward and watch yourself. It's important you understand your emotions before you focus on where others going wrong, how the situation is messed up, and what not. If you really need help and are confused go to a professional, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

Our brain is the main server of our body which is the main source of our emotions. It’s important to take care and understand the functions, if you have all the riches of the world and  do not have any control over your mind and body what is the point?

So getting mental health support is the best thing that you can do for yourself. Which all us need actually, on one or another day, in one or another way.

We need to change our view and attitude about mental health. To avoid violence, suicide, crime and most human atrocities this the only way, we are human, we emotional beings and we need to start helping and hearing our fellow people.

What Anger actually does with your Brain and Body

IN THE HEAT OF ANGER WHAT IS HAPPENING TO YOUR BRAIN AND BODY   

What Anger Actually does? How and where does anger impact?

Are you suffering from burnout ?

Anger will take away many things from you and It can quickly escalate and become destructive. Uncontrollable anger can often create problem at home in the workplace, it can also have dangerous physical consequences ...                            

What Anger Actually does?

What Anger Actually does?

SO WHILE ALL THIS IS GOING ON OUTSIDE, WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE BRAIN ?  KEEP READING

IN THE HEAT OF ANGER WHAT IS HAPPENING TO YOUR BRAIN AND BODY ?   

What Anger Actually does? How and where does anger impact?

When we talk about anger, we are talking about a state of emotional stress. Anger will take away many things from you and It can quickly escalate and become destructive.Uncontrollable anger can often create problem at home in the workplace, it can also have dangerous physical consequences.      

Last night I had dinner with my friend Susan and her boyfriend Charli, and I never saw Susan like this she was so angry at her boyfriend I have told her ’’if you do this, you will never convey to him what you want to tell him and you both will be building up more negative energy for each other and it will only worsen your relationship then she just left then I took a taxi back home,on my way back on the main street other SUV driver started yelling at my taxi driver even though other guy was wrong, my driver was very calm and polite, he was saying sorry, even though it is not his fault and I have asked him, ‘why are you saying sorry’', and he answered to me,It doesn’t matter that guy has bad day or he is frustrated, that’s why he can’t even understand who is wrong and just want to release his frustration and may be,now he must be feeling better, and he started laughing. I was very happy to see this humble Chinese driver’s attitude, we need many people like him, then I thought it is very important to know how to deal with destructive energy, In Eastern psychology we call it death energy, one of the life skills Gurus, Masters and Monks have and had Which comes with ancient wisdom which we know, and we forgot or ignored ! 

So, it is very important to convert this negative energy to positive so here first I am going to talk about what is really going on the brain and body when anger is ignited,it activates Amygdala Definition and Function of the Amygdala 

The amygdala is an almond-shaped section of nervous tissue located in the temporal (side) lobe of the brain.They are thought to be a part of the limbic system within the brain,

which is responsible for emotions, survival instincts, and memory  and its turn on stress response system  and we call it as HPA Axis,
(Hypothalamus  Pituitary’ Adrenal Glands ) we activate all the stress hormones which turn your body Fight or flight mode,Amygdala trigger Hypothalamus and Hypothalamus create CRH corticotropin and trigger Pituitary glands and Pituitary glands ignite adrenal glands by releasing ACH adrenocorticotropic hormones, which is not very nice for your body here we have hormones like cortisol,adrenaline and noradrenaline which will affect your neurons and cells and It makes your body in turmoil and if it fires too frequently and kills your cells quickly.. at this stage you want to know what happened to your body and brain or What this stress hormones can do with you and how they change your system …. Read my next article.