Mental health should be given more emphasis

MENTAL health is for every person. Mental health is just as valuable as physical health. However, mental health is also something that some people take for granted.

Childhood and youth can be the more vulnerable parts of the life of a person because they have not experienced much challenges in life which makes the hardships or suffering that they encounter the first time more likely to be painful. That could result to emotional pain that can stay embedded in the mind of a person for a very long time, which can cause different mental health concerns, including but not limited to feeling traumatized.

Others just dust off their mental health concerns and try to proceed with their lives out of fear of getting stereotyped as a freak and anything that is also hurtful. Unfortunately, bullying is common among children, some victims I happen to know. Flaws can and will be used against you.

However, what the people who do the act of teasing fail to realize is that their words can shatter the self- confidence of an individual because the harsh words and actions can hurt

Roxas CIty the person through their feelings and, in the case of the actions, there is going to be a chance that getting physically hurt adds to the trauma that a person feels just like what teasing is capable of.

There is also the pressure to succeed that comes from their family, teachers and circumstances, such as having a family of achievers or being a scholar, which can add too much of a burden for the person and it would result to an overwhelming level of distress.

Having too many academic requirements and having people who set expectations that the person finds too hard to reach also serves as a burden for people (some of which happen to be able to deal with it for a longer period of time than others but we are only human and we all get burned out). In school, the ways to be more mindful about mental health are to prevent people for giving each other any kind of discouragement when they have their flaws or for possessing flaws which require a lot to get rid of or is impossible to get rid of and when their performance is not as good as it can be and to teach and practice ways to handle mental health cases with effectivity and sensitivity. ( Paid article)