Mental Health Day 2020: Know the IMPORTANCE to have good mental health
Gitanjali Mangal
October 10th 2020 04:20 PM --
Updated:
October 10th 2020 04:26 PM
Mental health is important at every stage of life, right from childhood through old age.
- Mental health is just as important as physical health and research has proved that depression or bad mental health leads to heart and vascular diseases.
- Mental disorders also affect one’s health behavior like eating sensibly, regular exercise, adequate sleep, engaging in safe sexual practices, alcohol and tobacco use, adhering to medical therapies thus increasing the risk of physical illness.
- Mental illness also leads to like unemployment, broken families, poverty, drug abuse and related crime.Also Read | Shameful! Sikh man’s turban pulled at BJP’s Kolkata march by Bengal Police
- It is very important to have good immunity. Poor mental health plays a significant role in diminishing immune functioning.
- Chronic illnesses like diabetes, cancer, heart disease increase the risk of depression and medically ill patients with depression have worse outcome than those without.-PTC News