The World Health Organisation recognises World Mental Health Day 2019 on 10 October. This year’s theme set by the World Federation for Mental Health is suicide prevention.
The following link will take you to a blog on the theme for World Mental Health Day 2019;
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/blog/world-mental-health-day-suicide-prevention
The Mental Health Foundation have put together a suicide prevention advice poster;
We all have mental health and our mental health can vary from day to day. It can vary as we move through different stages of our lives and deal with different life events.
Mental Health can often be referred to as emotional health or wellbeing.
Our mental health is just as important as our physical health. Yet people talk much more about their physical health and often shy away from addressing the subject of their mental health. In general people do not like talking about their feelings but it is healthy to be able to know how we are feeling and to talk about how we feel and to communicate this.
1 in 6 in the past week
Mental Health problems are common, you are not alone. The following statistics are from the Mental Health Foundations website;
As found by the APMS (2014), 1 in 6 people in the past week experienced a common mental health problem.
Anxiety and depression are the most common problems, with around 1 in 10 people affected at any one time.
On World Mental Health Day 2019, take some time to visit the Mental Health Foundation website where there is a wealth of resources https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/
Talk to your friends and loved ones if you are struggling, speak to people and seek help.
Yoga can help us with greater self awareness so that we can become more aware of our triggers. We can become aware of the early signs of stress or anxiety and then we have an opportunity to try and deal with this at an early stage. This may be through breathing practices or relaxation or just taking some time for yourself. Ahimsa – Compassion – directed towards ourselves is a very important part of yoga. Practicing ahimsa is to take care of yourself – both your mental and physical wellbeing.
We all have to learn to live with our minds and we are all dealing with this on a daily basis. Some days it goes well and some days less well. It is something we all experience, when you feel low you are not alone, reach out and talk.
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