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                                     Mental health awareness


                                                     By Tuhin Rebek
                                                                       Excessive  fear,  worry,  or  anxiety;
                                                                       hallucinating  voices  and  believing
                                                                       false things.

                                                                         Yelling on friends and family members.

                                                                       Dramatic  changes  in  eating  or
                                                                       sleeping  habits;  having  low  or  no
                                                                       energy
                                                                 Generally these symptoms acts as a warning
                                                                 sign.  Psychologists  in  Bangladesh  says  that
                                                                 every  year  there  are  approximately  11000
                                                                 suicides  in  Bangladesh  and  the  rate  is
                                                                 consistently  higher  among  young  people
                                                                 which is concerning. Main cause of it is their
                    What  is  mental  health?  And  what  is     downfall of mental health. So we can verily
                    awareness  about  it?  Simply  putting  mental   evaluate  the  importance  of  taking  care  of
                    health is an average status of how you feel   our mental health.
                    about yourself, your life,  your environment
                    in  general.  In  our  country  it's  not  a   Ways to stay positive:-
                    debatable  topic  especially  with  our  family.   ◦To Remove toxicity from our life.
                    Starting  from  school,  we  don't  have
                                                                 Toxicity  and  attachment  might  be  co-
                    counsellors to cope up with various changes
                    in  our  teen  years  .Sadly  most  of  us  don't   related. In that case it will be hard. But we
                    share much with our parents either, thinking   got to do what we need to. At the end of the
                    they won't understand its depth. We are just   day the biggest  development in your  life  is
                    told to be the perfect human being without   to  take  a  step  forward  in  taking  a  positive
                    perfecting  the  art  of  mental  health     control of our life. Disclaimer: Toxicity can
                    awareness.  So  what  are  the  symptoms  of   be anything. It can be a person then again it
                    mental  health  problems?  How  do  we       can be the simple fact that we give too much
                    maintain  a  positive  outlook  towards  life?   energy  and  importance  to  social  media.  It
                    How do we take care of ourselves?            differs naturally as people have different life.

                    Couple  of  self-report  tests  showing  the       ◦ Pamper yourself. Does not matter if
                                                                 you are a male or female. Here the definition
                    common  symptoms  of  mental  health
                    problems:-                                   of pamper means doing something you love.
                                                                 A  hobby  of  yours  that  makes  you  feels
                         Long-lasting  sadness  or  irritability;
                         with    persistent   thoughts   and     comfortable. Something that keeps you calm
                                                                 and happy. In this busy life of ours we need
                         memories
                                                                 something  to  hold  on,  something  with
                         Extremely high and low mood swings;     which we can escape the busy city life even
                     feeling  unusually  confused,  forgetful,   for a few seconds. In brief, something which
                     worried and upset.                          makes  us  love  the  art  of  living  life  is  the
                                                                 exact  definition  of  pamper  to  me.  Do
                                                                 remember loving yourself is not related with




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