Talk Health, mental.

When something is pushing you within- more tawdry, more crude, depressive and disconsolately then how do you try anchoring your pain by holding it back? The prophetic world advises you to come out of your sufferings, struggle loss, and defeat!

You, take a pause!... boom!....Recover! 

It's perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious at the same time. You don't have to be positive all the time. Having feelings doesn't make you a negative person, but a human, as nicely stated by the author and founder of Tiny Buddha, Lori Deschene.


Today on October 10th, 2022, the world is observing Mental Health Day with its annual theme- 'Making Mental Health & Well-Being For All A Global Priority'. 

Mental Health is seen as a stigma in society. 

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), stigma, discrimination, and human rights violation against mental health conditions are widespread across communities. Stigma represents only a part of the issue; personal shame, internalised through an individual's mental health suffering, is an issue that exists silently, unaddressed and unattended within the communities.

This year's theme intends to appeal to the global communities and policymakers to act towards creating opportunities for those who don't have access to enhanced treatment facilities and urge care and support for the mentally affected people around them.

Recent COVID-19 pandemic has created a global crisis for mental health by fueling short-and long-term stresses and challenging the health of millions across the globe. As per the WHO, estimates put the rise in both anxiety and depressive disorders at over 25 percent during the first year of pandemic. 

WHO estimates that the burden of mental problems in India is 2443 disability-adjusted life years (DALY's) per 100 00 population; the age-adjusted suicide rate per 100 000 population is 21.1 and the economic loss due to mental conditions between 2012 to 2030 is estimated at USD 1.03 trillion.

In the year 2021, nearly 84 million people had forcibly migrated to other places worldwide in the wake of the pandemic. Growing socio-economic disparities, protracted conflicts, political instability, violence and public health emergencies have affected a major chunk of the population over the past few years.

Earlier, the World Bank's 1993-based report had cited that the disability adjusted life year (DALY) loss due to neuro-psychiatric disorder was much greater than other diseases such as diarrhoea, malaria, worm infestations and tuberculosis if studied in individual capacities.

According to the World Bank- "Over 160 million people need humanitarian assistance because of conflicts, natural disasters, and other emergencies. The rates of mental disorders can double during such crises. 1 in 5 people affected by conflict is estimated to have a mental health condition."

Today, nearly 1 billion people live with a mental disorder and in low-income countries, more than 75 percent of people with the disorder do not receive treatment. Every year, close to 3 million people die due to substance abuse.  Every 40 seconds, a person dies by suicide. About 50 percent of mental health disorders start by the age of 14.

Investing in mental health needs a multi-sectoral and integrated approach by scaling-up and speeding in addressing the illnesses to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Raising awareness and mobilising efforts in solidarity of mental health is quintessential for addressing the situation. Countless mental health determinants find a valuable place in tackling the condition such as one's ability to manage their thoughts, emotions, behaviours and interactions with others. Other factors such as socio-cum-cultural-cum-economic-cum-political and environmental determinants also play a vital contribution as do specific psychological and personality, and genetic factors.

World Mental Health Day was initially organised by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) on October 10, 1992. The then deputy secretary general of WFMH, Richard Hunter had proposed the idea of observing ‘October 10’ in support of mental health awareness worldwide.

#WorldMentalHealthDay2022 #MentalHealth #WHO #Community #EraseStigma #Multi-sectoralApproach 


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