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World mental health day – Superhero contest – Best Essay


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One can easily come to a conclusion about the lack of mental health awareness by seeing the revenue of Tamilnadu TASMAC .I have seen people at cinemas literally sighing at the start of the movie when they hear “drinking is injurious to health and smoking kills ” .They simply think they know enough about alcohol ,cigarettes and drugs and when the time comes they will stop taking these .They think its just a piece of cake for them.Lack of awareness.The reality though is quite different.They have to be thought it’s not even near to easy to abruptly stop taking something that they have been having for years .Recreational drugs ,marijuana, alcohol cigarettes they don’t just impact your health but your morals ,social skills and economy. Youngsters knows most of these drugs are hazardous but they still want to settle their thoughts in the mythological and false belief that these drugs do good for the body and promotes them instead .Its necessary to educate youngsters right from high school about what these drugs can actually do to their Brian and body .Steps like increased taxation of alcoholic beverages and cigarettes can reduce their consumption. For example I have seen tons of posts about the benefits of marijuana(which increases your chance of getting schizophrenia) filled with just rumors and not scientifically proved facts.Drug and alcohol addicts or their families have to be explained that at an early intervention along with the cooperation of the patient a complete remedy is almost possible.

The fact that more than 20% of elderly experience one or the other type of mental illness seems to be always falling on deaf ears.People seeking medical advice for the elderly in India is very low comparatively the western .social withdrawal, dementia ,sadness or depression , inappropriate guilt are symptoms that had to be explained to the families to watch out for .Be friendly initiatives , community and day centers with whom they can interact have to be preferred .proper care and involving them in decision takings can make them better.

Statistics say every one hour a student or a youngster commits suicide in India all these are because of improper mental health instabilities. We always are keen to impart knowledge , morals , cultural values to our kids .but we fail in the basics of parenting that is to impart human values to our kids .what it takes to be a good human .They must make the kid aware that they are easily approachable what so ever and life must go on whatever happens .

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