WHAT IS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH?

MYTHS ABOUT DEPRESSION

                     Whenever we say "mental illness", we think it's about the emotional breakdown or casual, regular failures or temporary sadness, etc. Or collectively we can say, we assume that it's totally about our "unwell" mind. We think it's probably all in your head. We think that it starts in your head and ends in your head. And that's one of the misconceptions!

HOW DOES DEPRESSION START

                    The truth is, depression affects in a particular direction. It affects in the "outside to inside" way. It doesn't affect your mind directly. It's a "slow but steady" process. Mind getting affected is the secondary stage of depression. The primary stage is "inferiority complex" and the primary victim is your "body"! Yes, it's your body! Simply, it all starts with inferiority about your body and slowly takes control of your mind.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTION

                      We generally consider our body separate from our mind. We think that body health and mental health are individual concepts, but it's all connected. Our body is probably one of the most important and most negligible parts of mental health. Everything that affects your mind, always started by affecting your body. Not every inferiority complex starts with doubting your intelligence or your creativity or your skill of making friends at a new place. Sometimes, it also starts with the complexity of your body.

HOW PHYSICAL HEALTH AFFECTS MENTAL HEALTH

                         This is one of the most common things seen among people who are diagnosed with clinical depression, is that they physically unwell or not confident in their body are more likely to get into mental depression. Even the people who are physically unhealthy, inactive are getting into laziness or lack of energy, lack of interest in everything, which makes them feel low at everything about their self worth, belief in themselves. And that lack of trust reflects in their work and personal life.

HOW MENTAL HEALTH AFFECTS PHYSICAL HEALTH

                    Also, poor mental health results in lots of unhealthy physical conditions such as lack of appetite, or increase in the rate of sleep, or not being able to sleep. So it all goes in a loop. Both physical health mental health has an impact on each other. So in the sense of getting good mental health, it is important to have positive about your body.

UGLY BEAUTY STANDARDS IMPACT

                       Having good physical health is not only about having muscles or less amount of fats on your body. It's also about body positivity! How much comfortable you are with your body, how much confident you are! You don't need to set into the ugly standards of beauty, you don't need to fit anywhere! You don't need to push yourself hard to look like someone, you don't need to lose weight, you don't need to gain weight, you don't need to look fairer, nothing to be insecure about! No one can look like you, no one can feel like you about your body. It's just yours! Look the way you look, take care of your body. Show more love towards it, towards yourself. And more you make feel your body well, your body will also respond you to be a more beautiful person!

                       The thing is, as the circumference of your world increases, the wrong definitions of perfection create some space in your mind. These wrong definitions are generated by some ugly standards or the people who carry such ugly standards, or now most probably also by the social media as well! which misguide kids in their journey of body exploration! And such wrong definitions are get converted into huge stereotypes, which feed major insecurities in the younger generation for a long time!

WHY SELF LOVE AND SELF IS IMPORTANT

                          If you notice one thing, we all keep saying that "look doesn't matter", but we still chase it so hard, and if we chase it, that means we probably had never believed it enough! Judging others, based on their bodies is the second part; But believing that there is something called a perfect body exists is the real initiative of body shaming, it is the real initiative of "inferiority complex"! So it's time to accept it with all your heart! It's time to show more love to your belly fat, it's time to love your double chin as much as you love your chin, it's time to realize how sexy your stretch marks are! And so on...!

CONCLUSION

                       We all have something good and bad within us. We all have a bad angle in photos, we all have a colour that doesn't suit us, we all have a dress we look funny in! We all might have thought somewhere, something could be thicker or thinner or better, and which is fine! We have to admit that we are not always going to look perfect, or we are just perfect as the way we are, in every single moment of life! It's that easy. 

                   Well, it doesn't mean that all the people who are taking efforts on their bodies are just insecure. No, I am just saying that it shouldn't be defined from a single perspective. It should be a choice. So if you are spending hours in gyms and loving your muscles, that's appreciated; or if you are munching chips while watching movies, and loving your chubby tummy, including health measurements, that's also appreciated! All that matters is love!

EXPRESS | ENCOURAGE | EMPOWER