How Can Students Improve Their Mental Health

 

According to NUS (National Union of Students) majority of students face mental health issue at some point, this is not solely based upon depression, but several other stuffs include like stress, anxiety, loneliness, sleeping issue, eating issue, low self-esteem and substance abuse. Mental health awareness is equally important for everyone, but for student it directly effects on their academic performances. Their academic performances reduce in term of declining their abilities in concentration, energy level, dependability, mental ability and optimism.

 

Mental Health: -

Mental health includes number of things like our emotional, psychological and social well-being. It influences on our thinking, feeling and acting abilities. It also helps us to handle situation related to stress and make choices. A mental health illness is an illness of brain that cause disruption in thinking, behavior and emotions that make us difficult to cope with ordinary situation of life. The two most common mental health problems are:

Anxiety Disorder: - In this brain alert us about future danger. Occasional anxiety is OK, like before taking test and making big decisions. But in disorder, anxiety become constant and overwhelming with fear. The excessive anxiety causes us to avoid class, family get-togethers and other social situation.

Mood Disorder: - Health professional use mood disorder widely that include all type of depression and bipolar disorder. It primary effects person emotions and person feel extreme level of happiness, sadness or both for long period of time.

 

Keeping Healthy Body and Healthy Mind: -

During study we care much about money and other materialistic things and sadly focus less on personal matters that lie deeper below the surface. As discussed above, according to NUS, majority of students face mental health issue and this becoming increasingly prominent issue.

To keep a healthy body and minds throughout your studies, here is five tips for you;

Recognize strong relationship between healthy body and minds

Keeping a physical fitness and balance diet during study in university will impact hugely on both physical and mental health. The impact of mental fitness is huge and sometimes by just adopting a small thing we can make a big positive difference.

Take time for you

A study conducted by professor Matthew Zawadzki, says that leisure activities provide intimidate stress relief and others many health benefits. In order to get full results, the activity must be based upon mentally engaging, otherwise it will negate the impact.

When students go for a leisure activity, they have less stress level that cause less boredom and sometimes absolutely zero boredom which can help students to avoid unhealthy behavior.

 

Get enough sleep

With every additional insufficient sleep, the risk of mental health problem will also increase. Students should get proper sleep to stay focused and improve concentration in their academic performance. Beside attention and behavior problem, students can get obesity, type 2 diabetes, poor mental health and injuries. At the end these all effects on poor grades in result.

This insufficient sleep can impact on overall personality of a students in a long run. Hence all institution, which includes, schools, parents and health care professionals should play their role for the betterment of students in society.

Schools can add sleep related courses in curriculum to help students understand about importance of sleep. Parents can encourage those habits through which children’s get proper sleep. Parents can set regular bedtime and rise time including weekends. Health care professionals can also educate students and their parents about the factors that contribute to insufficient sleep.

 

Do regular exercise

We do physical exercise to off-load stress, but exercise in not only for physical but can calm our mind too. We can burn off unwanted feeling by doing many exercises like running, power walking, swimming, cycling. Moreover, every student has their own strengths and weaknesses. Those students who work hard and still get depressed for not achieving good grade, sports is a field where they shine themselves. This sense of achievement is a building block of their self-esteem. Physical exercise also releases endorphins in the brain, this will help children to feel more happier.

 

Eat healthy organic food

Beside nutrients, organic food helps us in combating with cognitive decline and with symptoms of dementia. The less of both have very harmful effect on academic performance. Organic food can boost up immune system and help us to fight with infections diseases, through this student can avoid skipping classes directly to save their that they have to allocate for doctor.

 

Achieve some small goals.

Creating goals involves our intention, planning and realistic actions. Goals ensure us, we can making positive change for ourself. Those students who set some small goals and achieve them, have higher self-motivation, self-esteem, confidence and independence. These small goals are important, because they give us sense of purpose and something to struggle.