MENTAL HEALTH

Mental health determines how we make choices, relate with others, and handle stress . We must prioritize mental health and un-do the stigmas associated with it. Recent Research by World Health Organisation (WHO) showed that 15% of the total disease conditions are due to mental illnes s. Hence it is significant we check our mental health to live a happy, balancing, and fulfilling life. Mental health; It increases productivity and financial stability . Research shows that 200 million workdays are lost annually due to depression. This is a loss to a countries' economy; hence it is essential to take care of our mental health so s to improve overall productivity and financial stability. Helps in seeking life goals: Healthier minds are relaxed and focusing on achieving what they desire and accomplish in due time. It enables community-building. Continually advocating mental health awareness leads to better support facilities for those who have a mental illness. Eventually, lead to ...

  Definition of Depression                                       Depression can be described as a mental state characterized by feelings of                                                         sadness, despair, unhappiness, worthlessness, and hopelessness.  Depression Characteristics      Everyone has mood changes:                  sometimes feeling great                                   and at other times feeling a little down . Usually, we can swing up out of our depressed states by ourselves.   When a person's depression becomes such that the individual cannot function or is a dang...

Have you ever thought of an event where you created a positive impact whether in school, working place, or in your community? Youth leadership is empowering the future. When we will have the world get to look at our youth, beyond our years, and our ideas are keenly listened to and acted upon, the world will change. Society caged youth as just kids, not cable of handling situations simply because they are not experienced. Once they are pushed away, they doubt their own wisdom, and what they all think of is fear. Don’t forget they are growing fast and become mothers and fathers someday. Their kids should focus on their niche; what they love doing  Youths are ripe and they generate fresh ideas and have great wisdom. Many haven’t recognized their specialty because no one presents them. There is a poor representation of youth in the community today. No one is looking at them as leaders of tomorrow who can bring change to the world. They go to school to get power, to support their drea...

Covid-19 has led to a massive loss of human life worldwide and brought challenges to the public health sector. Many people have lost their jobs, thus falling into extreme poverty. During lockdowns, many are unable to feed themselves and their families. This is because the majority have no income during these trying times, meaning they have no food to eat, or few people who have been surviving with their savings have no money left. Families have been sharing food left in their stores until it has become empty. The pandemic led to the closure of borders, trade restrictions, and confinement measures, which have affected the entire food system. Workers and farmers are prevented from accessing markets to buy inputs and sell produce. Hence reduced access to healthy diets. And this poses a challenge to health conditions. There is an increased consumption of unhealthy foods, thus even increasing the risk of easily contracting Covid-19. The marginalized population from low-income countries bein...

   In simple terms, technology is a branch of knowledge that deals with the invention and use of technical means and their interrelationship with life, society, and the environment. Technology plays an important role in society, for it changed how a person conducts his/her own life in terms of communication, thoughts, and learning. It has both positive and negative effects. let us start with the positive impact of technology in; Communication Technology has brought many new electronic communication methods such as emails, telegram, Twitter, zoom, etc. You can have conferences and talk with people who are miles away worldwide. One can chat or mingle, share their thoughts, feelings, and emotions easily from where they are. Information or directions is easily transmitted, and feedback is given to fastening service delivery in the community.       2. Health sector  There is the increased accessibility of treatment since the introduction of technology in t...

Did you know that Gambling is a self destructive behaviour ? And this can bring about suicidal ideation. Learn more about this here!