Kidney Shilling
Happy Mental Health Month BISFA! Mental Health Month was started to help raise awareness for trauma developed through one's lifetime that negatively impacts their life and the impacts it can hold on the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of children, families, and communities. The Mental Health of America Organization declared May the official Mental Health month.
Mental Health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being/development. It affects how we think, feel, and act. Not only is it important to be aware and cognizant of others' mental health, it is also important to make yourself aware of your own mental health. Yet also bear in mind mental health is something very personal for each person so not everyone may be willing to share and that is okay. Not allowing yourself stress breaks or anytime to relax can be detrimental to your physical health too. It can cause a person to easily lose focus, constantly be too tired or not tired enough, as well as affect the way someone interacts with everyday life.
It’s important, especially for teenagers, to keep in touch with their mental state. In this generation it is often common for children and teenagers to set their mental health aside to accomplish the overbearing goals that are often pushed on them by their peers. Not only can this cause someone's mental health to greatly decline, it can also make a person develop long lasting mental illnesses such as, depression, anxiety, body image issues, and multiple other illnesses that can and will affect the way people communicate through everyday life. This can cause teenagers to fall behind in social situations along with school work and personal hygiene.
Since mental health has become a large topic these past years, many of us are able to scale how much stress or overwhelming emotions we can handle. Oftentimes, especially during a month full of testing, we can forget to give ourselves the love that we need and deserve. Whether it be a nap in the afternoon or remembering to drink water or to eat food throughout the day, we can get caught up in testing and forget that sometimes we need rest.
This month The Phantom would like everyone to take into account their well-being. To give yourself a little bit of a break between math homework or AP testing. Not only is this month about learning and growing awareness for different forms of mental health, but it’s also about keeping your mental health in mind.
Remember to check up on your friends, family, and even teachers throughout this month. You can also take this time to do research on mental health and how it may be impacting you and those you love. But while you do all of this, give yourself a break. Listen to music, take a power nap, go on a walk. Just do something to help yourself refocus on things that are going on around you. And remember, your mental health matters just as much as everyone else’s!
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