Truth and Tales of Mental Health

What is mental health?  Our general concept about mental health is very conservative the more we approach towards this issue, the more we get closer into the conservatism in the context of mental health.

 Mental health is basically the state of our Mind and Emotions, how we think, feel and handle life. The whole psychological wellbeing of a being is known is mental health.

The mythologies of mental health are now just myths nothing else, it’s no longer a whisper in the shadows, it has been the backbone of the personal and social well-being. Despite the critical role of mental health in various daily doses, it often doesn’t receive that much attention as deserves, particularly in the peculiar mind sets.

Many research highlights that mental health services in the low income countries or developing countries are very weak as needed, where young people face unique challenges like stigma, childhood traumas and many more. Yet the attention is completely critical because of the mythological concepts on which they believe, of course the role of spirituality can play a vital role in healing but sometimes it doesn’t work at all. The theological concept of spirituality is very different than that of the frameworks provided by mental health awareness.

Let’s dig into the function of body upon the concept of mental health;

It’s simple like a car engine if every part is doing well the ride will be comfortable, if a single part is missing then it will not be your worst ride but not comfortable.

Many wonder how our body will work according to our mental health conditions. How well our minds handle the Ups and Downs?

Every aspect of life is connected to our mental health whether it’s Building Relationships, Coping with Stress or making decisions, varies according to the mental health of each current situations.

• State of Emotional Well Being

It’s simple like a car engine if every part is doing well the ride will be comfortable, if a single part is missing then it will not be your worst ride but not comfortable.

Many wonder how our body will work according to our mental health conditions. How well our minds handle the Ups and Downs?

Every aspect of life is connected to our mental health whether it’s Building Relationships, Coping with Stress or making decisions, varies according to the mental health of each current situations.

• State of Emotional Well Being

Emotional wellbeing is all about the balance emotions within the psyche, a harmonious between the Id, Ego, and Superego. My favorite Neurologist, Sigmund Freud, believed that when these three elements are in sync, a person can achieve psychological stability and emotional mental health.

The Id, first part of his theory of emotional wellbeing, it’s all instant gratification, the primal part of our mind, driven by desires whether food, sex, and pleasure.

The Superego, “Just do think about the food I mentioned in the last paragraph”, this is what superego tell you, it’s your inner voice of societal rules and ethics that keeps the id in check. It is always shaped by the external stimuli but following the internal stimuli which make a sense of confusion in the case of Right and Wrong.

Lastly, Ego, the meditator, what ego wants will follow the rest of two, Id and Superego. It balances the impulsive behavior between these two making rational decisions that align with reality. When it successfully balances the demands of these both, we experience the emotional wellbeing.

But the problem starts from here, what will happen if the there is an imbalance?

Freud argued that the emotional distress, anxiety or neurosis, arises when the ego struggles to balance these two. If the Id dominates the Superego we might act impulsive or destructively towards a case of our daily life or decision, ignoring long term consequences. On the other hand if the superego takes over, we might feel overwhelmed by guilt or shame, becoming overly self-critical.

To restore the emotional well-being in your daily, one needs to understand the importance of emotional well-being. True emotional well-being isn’t about being conflict-free; it’s about inner conflicts and understanding yourself deeply. By recognizing unconscious fears, desires, and motivations, we can gain insights achieve personal growths and can maintain a sense of inner peace.

State here we are digging into more deliberate concepts in the mental health issues;                    

• Cognitive function

When comes to C-function, we will not only focus on the modern cognitive functional theories but will dive into the depth of the flow by our emotional wellbeing to understand each concept and its function in the context of Mental Health and Neurosciences. I usually don’t write medical conditions but will mention here that Sigmund Freud is my favorite neurologist of all time; I will share what I learnt from him and his concept of neurosciences. Freud had given the unique spin of all time about the cognitive function on how mental process works, the conscious and the uncurious mind.

The conscious mind, the stuff we are really aware of that, such as the thoughts, perceptions, like memories or ideas, let’s suppose this, before reading this post we might have been aware of many mental thoughts and ideas but in the context of mythology, when we read this post we aware of the real concept of the mental health. These things are called the part of the conscious mind but after reading the post we just added some more stuff. In simple every real time data is called the conscious mind.

The unconscious mind, what you don’t know but still exists is the unconscious mind. The deep, hidden stuff repressed desires, fears and unresolved conflicts that influence our thoughts and behavior without you even realize it is know is the stuff from the unconscious mind. Freud in this context argues that much of our cognitive functions are influenced by unconscious mind. He believed that our unconscious mind is paying huge role in shaping our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. 

Therefore in sum up to the cognitive function it’s not only about the logic and reasoning, also tied to the emotional and unconscious process. What we think and do is shaped by hidden forces from which we are not even aware. Understanding the cognitive function is the interplay between conscious and unconscious mind.

• Social connections

Our social connection are deeply influenced by the unconscious dries, particularly the life early stages connections if we struggle with bad mental health conditions these connection can easily influence our relations. The idea of object presented by Sigmund is that we direct our emotional energy towards those people or things we’re attached to. We don’t always express this energy directly instead we often sublimate it into the social acceptable outlets. However the same energy that connects us can cause conflicts, like jealousy and rivalry, when it becomes overly focused on specific relation.

A child idea of object is that the energy of every child is firstly directed towards their parents due to the focused relation. Social connections are a mix of conscious desires, early attachments and the ways we direct our inner energy into relationships and society.

If our mental health is imbalanced the social connection can seriously tangled up because of the unresolved inner conflicts. Ultimately mental health issue is not only how we think and feel, they ripple through every part of our lives, especially how we connect with others. To restore everything we need to bring unconscious conflicts into awareness, resolve inner struggles, and strengthen the ego’s ability to meditate between our instincts and societal norms.

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