Opinion | Mental Health and Mental Illness.

By Shahnaza Rafiq

{ MENTAL HEALTH }:- It includes our emotional, psychological, & social well-being & mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioural or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. What happens in human life, how it happens, is because of something, these inanimate objects already show us, but regrettably we do not empathise. As many things as there are in the world excluding humans, a human gains experience, unfortunately they still can’t comprehend themselves.

* { AS THE WORLD PROGRESSES, SO MUCH CAUSES WORST IMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH }:- Homo sapiens commence to live more & more solitude & began to talk her/himself. At home currently, each family member lives in their own corner of the room, if someone has work, they are called on the phone or someone has to eat, everything pass off through communication, as the result, the social life end, it causes psychological threat, threat of emotional, social, & behavioural threat. A human mind is like a phone’s memory card, when it runs out of memory, automatically phone turns itself off, it no longer functions beyond that, similarly, when a person sits in one place & thinks too much, there comes a time, when his/her mind gets too tired, beyond that they can’t be able to think much more, the result is that a human becomes a living corpse, human looses interest in the world, interaction with people ceases, can’t concentrate, can’t respond, can’t focus, a person goes to another world, in the world of depression, anxiety, they feels themselves in a black hole.

CHILDREN’S MIND ARE IN A “BLANK SLATE” ( FREE OF EXTERNAL MEMORY ):- whatever they get from the environment esipecially from their parents, they will do the same again & again, nothing will betide here & there. When a husband /wife doesn’t respect his wife/ her husband in front of his/her children, children learn & con from them, the upshot is this, they get reflection from them, they altercate with their parents & also quarrel outside the society. When parents show esteem for each other, their children also respects them, then there will not be such a turn, that you will not be able to command & control them. When you teach your children, what is right or wrong, they can easily severalise it, then there is no necessitate to get disquieted.

* { HOW MIND SETUP IMPACTS ON MENTAL HEALTH AS WELL AS MENTAL ILLNESS }:- e’er create a positive mind set up, but not a negative mind set up, the way you set up your mind, the same way your body will function. A person should always try to stay away from unwanted thoughts. Exercise is very important for a person’s mental health, you yourself is responsible for your happiness as well as sadness, that is how you can set up your mind. If you think positively, so that life will go on positively, if you think negatively, life will go on negatively, so that it is your own responsibility, wheather you will become your life garden or lifer. Different people think differently, some people confront but some take serious, recapitulate again & again in their own mind, that causes detrimental impact on mental health.

* { WHAT IS THE REALISM IN HUMAN LIFE }:- A human is not ready to accept it, when they try to believe, the same belief creates psychiatric disorders. I will give you some examples to illustrate it properly. What is the greatest truth in human life, they always come in opposition eg, [ LIFE & DEATH ] when a person enjoys life in this world, they become very happy after seeing the beauty of the world, but when abruptly, they see someone dying, so that happiness will come in opposition, that is { HAPPINESS VS SADNESS }.

{ HOW DRUGS & ALCOHOL CAN EFFECT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH}:- Recreational drugs, used as temporary enjoyment, but creates permanent worst impact on mental health. When a person becomes addicted to these things, it becomes very difficult for him/her to stay away from these things. How drugs ruin the entire society, if a person in society uses drugs, looking at them, other people also use drugs, the result is this, drug addicts & drug abuse substance are disseminating & alarming more & more in the society, the entire society is involved & entrap in it. After using drugs, after sometime, after feeling momentary relaxation, tranquility, the same drug & the same person both will come in another appearance, when the drug has its tangible effect, the person become so much aggressive, anxiety, & depression, so that behavioural & personality issues will come out, a person who are in relapse mode, is not ready to get rid of from the addiction & then uses again & again, when their mental balance is interrupted, they start to talk & smile him/herself & not to other humans, at the end, they die a very bad & throbbing death.

* { SOCIAL LEARNING AND BRAIN }:- Whatsoever you can get from the environment or socialisation, you can get reflection, then you will do the same. This juncture is much more important in young children, because, they are completely unaware of the world. If someone is smoking or accusing & abusing over someone in front of children, they will do the same, it gives more & more anteriority for parents, who spend more & more time with their children, when your children will fight with other children tomorrow or misbehave with adults, you have no rights to scold your children on that day, because either you have done it yourself or you have not taught them anything about the manners,[ moral & ethical rules in their life.

{ SIBLING RIVALRY }:- This is usually the case nowadays, when a child sees things to another child, either that kid fights with that kid or shout & cry , they feel jealous with each other, sometimes elders tell them to fight, who won & who lost, gradually, such an images becomes in children, then they fight with other children. This phase will come in parental criticism.

* { HOW SUICIDAL THOUGHTS WILL COME IN YOUR MIND }:- There are so many causes of suicidal thoughts or feelings.

1 Mental health problems

2 Racism

3 Abuse

4 Bereavement

5 Money problem

6 Housing problems

7 Addiction or substance use

8 Postnatal depression

9 Trauma

Suicide is linked with mental disorder, various methods of suicide prevention are as under :-

1 World Health organisation- Suicide Prevention.

2 Suicide prevention Resource centre.

3 American Association of Suicidology.

4 International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP).

5 American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).

6 Veteran’s Administration Suicide Prevention.

* { WHY DOE’S A PERSON UNDERGOES ORGANISMAL SENESCENCE YEAR AFTER YEAR }:- As the world progresses, People die at a very young age, due to these psychiatric disorders, addictions necessities & much more towards substance use. Everyone hears this nowadays, the peace and tranquility that existed in the classical times or days is longed to be felt in today’s times. As technology has come, people have become so busy, everyone started doing their own work in their own profession, there is no leisure to sit together in the same place, as a result, socialisation ruins, depression, stress, phobia, & panic disorders increases so fastly, & then mortality rate also increases, that is year after year, young people are died in early age, even childrens are died due to cardiac arrest. How many youth died in our “KASHMIR” due to cardiac arrest in 2022. There are some things in nature, which disturbs the mental balance & some things which make mental balance so strong. Things that give peace & tranquility e,g Forests with river flow also known as healing forests, forests are responsible for a calm mind, a healthy body, a peaceful life, boosts body’s immunity, energy levels & healing ability.