Why your mental health is as important as your physical health?

You wake up every morning to achieve as much success as you can. You study hard, sometimes even for the subjects you don’t like at all, you force yourself to be more and more ‘productive’, and you try to be as perfect as you can be for people around you. You take care of your physical health, you join gym, you take healthy diet and you drink enough water. Seems perfect?

It is, as long as you are also taking care of your mental health a little bit.

But more often than not, it’s not the case. Small stresses, tensions, or worries don’t look too big, but once they reach the point where you are continuously feeding your mind with bad diet, it can become as dangerous as diabetes or cancer.

What made me write this article is experiencing a similar case around me. I used to think, depression is not a big deal, after all it’s not a physical illness which can’t be treated by just talking or doing something. I was wrong.

There are so many mental disorders, some so severe that once you reach a certain stage you can’t live without medicines. Just like diabetes. You have to take medicines daily only to balance your mind. In ideal case, you might get perfectly okay but mostly it goes as it’s. There are changes in frequency, but your whole life is just an oscillation between different mental stages.

Coming back to the case I mentioned earlier, I have realised that any such extreme illness, especially ones which are not by-birth, can be avoided by diagnosing at the early stage. At the stage, where it can be handled by talking, by doing, by taking an initiative, by seeking help, and by going to a doctor just like we go to the doctor when we have fever or abnormal pain because we don’t want to convert this fever into something more serious.

So next time, please don’t ignore the slightest red flags. Whether it’s you or someone close to you. Seek help, there is nothing wrong in it. And most importantly, create a positive environment around you regarding seeking help. Because Mental Health Matters.