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When we talk about health issues, physical health, motor diseases, heart diseases, oncological diseases always come to mind, in addition to these types of diseases that worry a large part of the population. This disease is often a deadly disease, another type of disease has to be put on top of the table and at the same level as all of the others, mental illnesses or better mental health that can affect as much or even more than the aforementioned illnesses.A subject as sensitive as mental health has to be talked about openly and knowledge of it should be increasingly present in our minds, not only because we never know when we carry one of these “silent” diseases but also to be able to understand the other, it’s It is necessary to take into account that there are several problems that come from the psychological aspect. It can be said that today’s society can still suffer from a kind of social pressure that imposes on us the image of being always well and with a smile. Opening up to speak what is in our soul is a very long race and we often go through intermediate points that are not always clear and that cause us an inexplicable emotional pain. Nowadays it is still a big taboo to talk about psychological illnesses and even admit that we have them, from depression to panic attacks or anxiety-like all the other “silent problems” that are part of the lives of millions of people.
Mental health should be an important topic and, on the other hand, the strength of our mind is something that even today cannot be fully explained. The search to be able to understand our brain is still long and fortunately, today is known better, it can help us, especially those who suffer from silent diseases like these. The power of the human mind commands the strength of the body and often what is hard to believe for many is that if our psychological is suffering this is something that can often be reflected in our physical. Let’s focus then on the first and most common signs of someone who may suffer from a psychological problem, anxiety is something so common and yet it is ignored and there are certainly several levels of anxiety. Anxiety is something that can appear at one of the lowest levels as it can quickly develop into another more serious condition. What is anxiety? Anxiety is the way our brain works, where it puts us barriers that deep down we can’t understand how they came about, it’s the way we think too much about a subject or a topic that makes us have too many emotions that we can’t control.Social anxiety is the most common to be found within the anxiety chapter, social anxiety is directly linked to the individual’s lack of confidence.Social anxiety begins with the comparison with “what is normal” in the society in which each life and more than that, in the environment in which each one grew up. This is all because our first notion of what it is to live in society is with our family. After all, it is our first interaction with other individuals and their “judgments”.
What happens when we as individuals start to have different tastes/thoughts than what is “common” is that we start to be judged and often despised by people, starting with those closest to us (friends and family) for example a boy with 5 years old who likes to play with dolls is already “a headache” for parents, in this case, it is not a case of social pressure on others but on the parents who in turn exert it by the boy trying to change. you taste for “normal”. Passing the period from childhood to more or less to pre-adolescence (11/12 years) this pressure in most cases does not fall on the individual but on their students, at this age, you can say that the cruelty of children/pre-adolescent starts to come to the top, because when they see an individual who is their equal with thoughts or actions different from what they think is normal or what was instilled in them as normal the reactions are to confront and then exclude because the human being is used to marginalizing everything that is not normal tried to remove you from society. Here begins the social anxiety that comes from social pressure, that is, social pressure is the involuntary or voluntary pressure that an individual has on another and social anxiety is a reflection of this pressure within the individual who is its target. This social anxiety can manifest itself in several ways, such as a refusal of the individual to want to live with others, as an onset of depression and in more serious cases, self-mutilation and even suicide attempts, yes, all this at such a young age. for the lack of emotional weapons to fight these cases as it is often possible to observe a maturity above the average of the normal for the people who go through these situations and as they cannot see a future in which they will be happy makes these decisions so peremptory.
Still, on the topic of anxiety, this can be reflected in various ways, and depending on each person will be its effects. Anxiety in many people causes tremors in our limbs like legs or hands, our heartbeat increases due to our nervous system and this is often difficult to control. All these symptoms are inexplicable for those who do not understand them well, but for those who suffer from anxiety, these are the worst symptoms as anxiety or panic attacks can often occur right away and these are also quite painful as our body ends up reacting to an adverse psychological situation. There are various levels of anxiety and these tend to get worse when not controlled, everyone has suffered from anxiety spikes or some moment that made us more anxious but that does not mean that they are people who suffer from anxiety. A human being who suffers from this psychological condition with reflective pain in the body often tends to take some type of medication, whether derived from drugs or natural components, often the most common pains of this condition are stabbing pains in the chest that can be long or simply very short where it is often difficult for us to breathe well. Anxiety comes from our nervous system and many times it can be the accumulation of several experiences throughout life that make us someone with a very sensitive nervous system or a nervous system at its breaking point, so everything is an accumulation of sensations and emotions as well as thoughts that run through our mind in a loop mode from which we have no control over these involuntary brain actions. Analyzing the human mind is a lot of work because it is confusing to understand what not even the person can understand and so here we start talking about the strength of our brain. The nervous system that is close to its breaking point finds ways to betray our body such as anxiety attacks and panic attacks. Every person who has them usually has very similar symptoms or effects however it depends a lot on the person.Talking about psychological illnesses, we find one of the most worrying illnesses, depression. It wasn’t long ago that this very silent disease was considered only for “crazy” people or was even seen without giving much importance or relevance to the subject. Depression is also a very sensitive topic as it is quite difficult to explain due to the different types of depression that exist as well as their levels. In an open conversation on this topic, let’s put the clinical parts aside and talk about the experiences of this condition, it is something that does not choose age, that is, there is no defined time that tells us from what age we can develop this condition.
How it arises is not always something that is concrete, however, most of the time it is due to traumatic experiences in which our brain cannot make a selection of which to choose and give importance or not, and many times it simply has to do with the environment surrounding that makes us feel like different from society trying to distance us from what we find commonplace and making us feel out of this place. What depression makes us feel is often a pain inside us that we don’t know how to explain, it’s confusion inside our mind that consumes us and often makes us realize that inside us there is always a self-destruction button. Not all cases of people trying to commit suicide or not all people resorting to medication to help them with this condition. One of the common sensations of this condition so difficult to deal with is the lack of emotions or their presence trapped inside the body, the anguish, and anger, the lack of desire to be in the present world, and the lack of strength to get out of bed and face the world outside. The topic of depression and what it brings with it are sensitive points that not everyone is prepared to talk about or admit, the feeling of emotional defeat is huge and this is what makes us want to get out of bed or have the determination to do something. There is a multitude of factors that are relevant to this theme, however, not all of us can have the same symptoms although often those who suffer from some kind of mental illness usually feel more comfortable talking openly with someone no matter how much each one feels a different way. The feeling of comfort with a psychological environment that makes us comfortable is important to fight anxiety and even panic attacks, nowadays this type of symptom is still something mild or difficult for society to perceive, although they are things that actually manage to condition our physique. The strength of the mind is reflected when “that” that we think simply stays inside our head starts to have physical reactions, such as strong pain in some parts of our body, our organs also have the ability to manifesting stress or anxiety as incredible as it may seem is already quite common some kind of physical illness emergencies that become chronic due to the power that our mind has over the body. This works like a “fungus” that spreads through the body until this fungus completely consumes us.
Mental health is something that has to be taken as seriously as any other type of illness that affects our physique, you cannot trivialize something that is sensitive and we cannot expect everyone to have the same psychological capacity as others. This is something that affects each one differently and every one has its stage, its level as well as its theme. The feeling of defeat for something that not even the individual can understand is a more than frustrating feeling and psychological support should always exist. Knowledge of this immense topic is important because not all of us are specialized in this type of disease, but we can all be able to help and support those in need.