Mental Health

Hi everyone.

I'm ali and my speech is going to be on

how mental health affects everybody and how it is,

an everyday struggle for

very, very many people.

I'm just going to get started with this and

to start off by saying that mental health is

the most neglected problem in the developing world.

I think that is very crazy to think about.

We do not treat mental health as important as we do as physical health,

and I think that

it is just as important if not could be more important in many ways. So I think

we just need to take it more seriously and I think I'm

very guilty of not making it a higher priority for myself.

So

um you're going to hear me talk a lot about how it affects our minds.

It really does affect everything we do.

Um it affects a lot of the choices we make,

how we relate to others and how we deal with stress.

So really every day we're kind of

making choices and

dealing with our mental health.

So, I found a quick little website. This was just the first one that popped up.

Um one of, I can only imagine how many uh it was a link that you choose,

kind of what you're going through, whether that be

grief, depression, there's anxiety.

Um

Those were just

the first three that may be stuck out to me

and you click on it and it directly sends you to a therapist and

um maybe let's say you're really going through it that day, um struggling,

maybe couldn't get out of bed.

I think it's very interesting that it's um you could

do it out of the comfort of your own home.

I think that's very

cool and you're still able to connect with someone.

Um even if you're really going through it, I thought that was really cool.

I can only imagine how many other ones like it there are.

So it really does affect all aspects of our lives.

It can start from childhood and it can go all the way to adulthood. It does not

discriminate. It does not matter your age, your gender,

your social status, your income, your race, none of it matters.

It truly affects everyone.

Even the people you think are perfect.

So to say there's been so many celebrities that have lost

their lives and

lost the battle that they struggled with

with model. So it really is real and it's serious and

it needs to be just taken more seriously. So

it affects how we feel and how we act.

I just don't understand why

um

since it is the most neglected problem,

I don't understand why it's not taking it seriously.

Um We wake up one day and let's say like our arms hurting,

it's never felt like this before.

Um You usually either look it up, you know, well there's a pain in my arm, you know,

blah blah blah.

What's wrong or you just go to the doctor and they help you.

Why don't we do that with mental off like one day you wake up,

you never felt like this before, A lot of stress, a lot of anxiety, you know

um

you have a

a job interview at the end of the week, I don't know, just a lot of stress,

why don't we talk to someone or

just do things that

help us relax and help us calm down um

Just to be at peace, you know,

just so we're not as stressed stress can drive people absolutely insane.

Um

And I think that people don't take it as serious enough.

Mental health is serious enough as physical health is because

they aren't physically hurting so they don't think they can't be mentally hurting,

which isn't true.

The common problems that start with mental health,

it can start with anxiety and depression and it goes all the way to bigger things

such as skits of,

wow, I'm sorry, such as schizophrenia and bipolar depression disorder,

which those are very serious.

Excuse me, I'm sorry.

Um

I don't think people really understand what mental health truly is

and

I just don't think it's not like taught enough,

it's not really like understood enough

and the only way we can make a change is

if we start educating people on what it really is

and how serious or how important it truly is and

then we'll hopefully start to see some type of change.

Um

I found in an interview,

I'm sorry, I'm really getting

out of myself

um I saw an interview that someone said, um, he quote,

I know now that if I felt there was something wrong, it's because there was,

but I didn't understand mental health fully.

It's a spectrum and you should be able to

decide where and when you are on that spectrum.

I don't think he could have put it into any better words. I think.

Um,

you know, you're going through it. Um,

yeah,

I think people think that if you're dealing with mental health,

you're not automatically crazy.

You know,

maybe you just, you want to talk to someone, you're not automatically crazy. Just

if you're struggling mentally,

I think is what I'm trying to put it as. So there definitely is a spectrum,

I don't think I worded that how I wanted to, but I'm going to continue

just how there's a spectrum with autism. There is, you know,

my mom's a special ed teacher. There's minor

and it can go all the way to serious and more major.

Um,

autism as it is with mental. There is,

you know, minor,

maybe you struggle with it weekly or monthly and it

can go all the way to every day every hour.

So I, I like how you put that on the spectrum, I think that's very true.

Um,

you're thinking your mood and your behavior

can be affected and definitely is affected

when you're kind of going through mental health struggle

or just mentally, your behavior is

always affected.

Um, I think everyone deserves to be happy and deserves to be in a good,

comfortable or stable state of mind. So I wish that

um

me myself as well, I wish I would

make this a higher priority and

I think this is,

I'm like persuading,

is that even the right word, persuading myself into

taking my mental health more seriously as well?

Um

You know, that's why there's so many people out there, they're trained,

they have gone through the training and they know

the skills and they know what it takes or

um

they just know what they're doing and they've seen it work,

but they know it can benefit.

So they're there to help you. There's so many people that are there to help you and

maybe you could spread that and you could also tell that to other people and

hopefully that really does work for someone.

Um

So I found some surveys, the rate of suicide was highest in middle aged white men,

remember,

And in 2019,

million attempted suicide, and then also in 2019,

Um suicide was the second leading cause of death from ages 10-34.

An unintentional injury was the first one.

Um So men definitely this is a struggle that everybody

goes through and I think sometimes men feel like they'll be

excuse me, look down at her, look differently.

Not at all, don't be afraid to speak up.

Um

you'll feel like you'll be looked at in a better way

by many because you are wanting to get the help and

um you know, you need help.

I think that's a big thing is admitting that you definitely need help

on some steps. I found just um

simple, simple little steps. I think it definitely starts with,

it starts here um talking about your feelings, I think that's a big one,

bottling that up

does not make it any better.

You're going to come to a point where you definitely explode and

it's definitely going to be a big downhill from there.

I think taking a break from things is a big one.

me personally, I need to take a break from my phone. Social media is extremely toxic.

Um I do nothing.

I do not benefit in anyways being on my phone really

all I do is compare myself to others and I just wish I had this wish I had that.

I truly do not benefit

from being on social media, social media at all.

I think this one I liked was do stuff you're good at,

you know how to do it, You know what you're doing?

Maybe you can gain a little bit of confidence from this

and you'll feel better about yourself in some type of way.

So I kind of liked that one.

Um

getting enough sleep, I think that's very important

and then getting physically active.

That was just those were some of the many, like very very

little of the many I found getting physically active. I like that one.

Even like going for a little walk. I personally do that.

I feel like it's a little therapy session for myself

and I enjoy just

being outside the fresh air. It's like a fresh little,

I don't know, a little time for me. Um

You know, just looking around seeing the nature, very peaceful and very calming.

I feel very at peace

with myself for that little short of time. So I really do enjoy that.

So if you

I can take anything away from this speech,

I think that it's there's so many people that are out there to help you,

they want you to be better.

Um

So do not be afraid at all to talk to anybody.

There's people that care about you

and

stay positive.

Thank you.

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