The Importance of Prioritizing Mental Health in Today's Fast-Paced World
Introduction to Mental Health: Mental health is a state of emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It's not just the absence of mental illness. Mental health includes our emotional reactions to daily life situations and how we cope with those reactions. Mental disorders or illnesses are conditions that affect your moods, thoughts, or behavior; they can be mild to severe and vary in duration from brief episodes to lifelong disabilities. They may be caused by a combination of genetic factors (inherited traits), environmental factors (such as trauma), lifestyle choices (like smoking) or some combination thereof. The most common mental disorders include: depression; anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder; schizophrenia spectrum disorders such as schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder; bipolar disorder also known as manic-depressive illness; obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); eating disorders like bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa; substance use disord...