Mindroot Seminar 4 Mental Health Awareness @ Jnv Bundi

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Mindroot Seminar 4 Mental Health Awareness @ Jnv Bundi

Mindroot Seminar 4 Mental Health Awareness @ Jnv Bundi

Mindroot Seminar For Mental Health Awareness @ Jnv Bundi:-

“PREVALENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN RAJASTHAN IS AROUND 20%” said Dr D. S. Poonia, MD Psychiatry, AIIMS New Delhi, Founder, The Mindroot Foundation Jaipur, Rajasthan.

The Mindroot Foundation is consistently involved in spreading awareness about mental health. It has been shown in multiple researches that lack of awareness and stigma about mental health is a key factor in treatment gap for mental illnesses.

The Mindroot Seminar on mental health awareness was organised at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Bundi in which all students, staff and there family (near about 700 people) were participated. The camp was held in coordination with The Mindroot Foundation.

School can be stressful. You can easily get depression and anxiety trying to juggle school, work, friends, and family while trying to figure out the rest of your life. Most of us bounce back but some of them progress to frequent, intense, and uncontrollable depression which interferes with there daily routines. Depression is a mental health disorder that affects every part of a person’s feelings and perception. It affects behaviors and attitudes and can affect people of any gender or age.

Aim of Mindroot Seminar @ Jnv Bundi:-

Mindroot Seminar 4 Mental Health Awareness

This Seminar is aimed at teenagers and adolescent and focuses on helping students develop resilience and improve their mental health (including dealing with issues such as stress, depression and anxiety) through discussing topics such as:

Resilience
Academic pressure
Future carrier stress
Bullying
Self Esteem
Relationships issue and more

Around 10–20% of children and adolescents have a mental health problem of some type. Including manifestations such as attention deficits, cognitive disturbances, lack of motivation, and negative mood all adversely affect scholastic development.

Definition of ‘mental health’

According to the WHO (World Health Organization), mental health is:

“… a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.”

The WHO stresses that mental health “is not just the absence of mental disorder.

There are many recommendations by many agencies to improve mental health at schools like changes in school’s climate (attitudes, convictions, and values); strengthening of social and emotional competencies combined with positive feedback if students achieve their learning objectives, universal and selective prevention in order to reduce the risk of developing internalizing disorders (anxiety, depression) and externalizing disorders (conduct disorders, violence, bullying/mobbing).

Mindroot Seminar 4 Mental Health Awareness

Symptoms of depression

• depressed mood

• reduced interest or pleasure in activities previously enjoyed, loss of sexual desire

• unintentional weight loss (without dieting) or low appetite

• delayed psychomotor skills, for example, slowed movement and speech

• fatigue or loss of energy

• feelings of worthlessness or guilt

• impaired ability to think, concentrate, or make decisions

• recurrent thoughts of death or suicide, or attempt at suicide

What to do ?? Help is available.

Students were taught about what to do in such circumstance and their many doubts were cleared at the spot by allowing them to ask any question related to mental health.

They were encouraged to speak about their mental health issues with friend, family member, teacher and psychologist or counselor.

If still they need an active intervention they can visit to MINDROOT or another psychiatrist for further help.

Disclaimer

The Mindroot Foundation (“TMF”) is in the exclusive business of spreading awareness about mental health problems and substance use disorders and to address the stigma associated with them. We also screen (for mental health issues) those whom we deliver seminars and provide consultation if found to have mental health issues.