Mental Health..phew, how many times do we talk about that these days?
The answer? Not enough!
You’ve probably read about mental health and how delicate of a topic it is so many times, even including on this blog, but no matter how many times you see it, we don’t expect that you get worn out by it, but rather hold on to this tip- Anytime you see a Mental Health discourse, consciously take a moment and genuinely ask yourself how your mental health is faring. Basically, ask yourself “how are you?” and sincerely answer that.
That is one gaint step to being a Mental Health champion, because the first lap of solving a problem is identifying it.
With all the chaos and aches going on in the world, we can only conquer and win this fight against injustice and violence and everything else when we have conquered the chaos and aches within us, first.
Here are pratical tips to check and maintain mental health in this period:
–Be intentional and particular about safeguarding your mental health
Don’t feel bad for doing this. Make a clear stance about it, to yourself especially. Know when to be selfless and when you are the self that needs more.
–As much as possible, STAY AWAY FROM SOCIAL MEDIA (Are we screaming into your ears? Sorry, not sorry, we just care so much)
Social Media is where all the drama, gists, news and everything is, and naturally we need social media now more than ever to stay abreast with happenings and even with entertainment. Fair! but take a drastic cut-down.
You can even take full days off occassionally, and I promise you, you won’t die.
If Social Media is your work-channel, fair too! Still, filter.
Don’t jump on any and every news, every gist, every discussion, every trend, abi you no too like yourself?
CONSCIOUSLY filter. Guard your space like it’s a matter of life and death because guess what fam? it is!
See, if you miss out the news for a day or two, life will still move on and you’ll be fine.
Take this unconventional step, you’ll still make it.
Even 2020 is teaching us that, right?
–Priortise your health. Take it seriously. Put your health issue in the ‘Highly Important’ folder.
Study has shown that too much of screen light can cause blurred vision, teary eyes, fatigue, insonmia, and on rare occasions, brain damage.
Not to scare you but, need I say more?
*There is an article from Harvard Medical School you may want to check here.
The Mental Health push is not overrated and will never be.
The thing about keeping our mental health (a.k.a. sanity) is that it is pretty easy to ignore or go unnoticed because as we daily push to live, thrive, flourish, earn, groove, we forget the littlest details of our mental health -smothering it with all the noise and bubble the day can bring, or mostly, all the bubble we drag into our day.
When the curtain for the day wraps to a close, do we feel good only because we earned the cheque and beat the deadline, or also because we took a pause and checked ourselves and realise that our peace was indeed within us?
-Queen