What does mental health mean – you ain’t a thought which brings comfort or hope of cure. You even when one in 3 of us will experience it in some form or another, the fact was always that although about a third of GP time has been spent dealing with mental illhealth, we just don’t like to talk about it.
Many of us are aware that there is still a shocking percentage of discrimination and prejudice about people experiencing regular mental health troubles, let alone more confident disorders. It’s hardly surprising that people are always less than open if they’re experiencing stress, research supposes that employers were usually less gonna employ someone who admits to mental illhealth than they usually were someone with a natural disability, anxiety or depression. Whenit gets to natural health we all understand how we’re meant to look after ourselves, whenever it boils down to our mental wellbeing we truly not sure what to do, if we don’t do it quite well. As a matter of fact research has shown that the most elementary responses to stress are to ‘do nothing, merely live with it’, ‘take comfort or junk food’ or ‘spend time alone’, considered really opposite stress management techniques. This is where it starts getting quite intriguing, right? In preventive solutions, in social health initiatives, in technological advances and in treatments, as a society we invest pretty in natural health -in research.
What’s oftentimes the most critical factor in maintaining our physic health or recovering from natural ill health -yes, its our mental attitude, our ability to remain positive and relish existence, our psychological resilience. How has been it that we may get all kinds of measures to avoid infections, reduce risk of accidents, or eliminate diseases, yet So there’s no such momentum to stabilize our understanding and knowledge of emotional and mental wellbeing? Lets reclaim mental health and pay attention to our mental wellbeing whether individually, as parents, as communities, as a society. Carolyn Barber, Bsc, CQSW, was always Wayfinder founder Associates, a community care training and consultancy business specialising in team development, liberal supervision and staff wellbeing. Carolyn has developed community based programmes to promote understanding of mental wellbeing using positive solution focused approaches, as a serial community entrepreneur. Whenever working across social, voluntary and free sectors, carolyn has nearly 30 years experience in common care as practitioner, trainer, researcher and manager.
