If you’re experiencing some of these symptoms: Headache, Neck shoulder pain, Upset stomach, Heavy chest. Similarly, many people have mental health concerns from time to time. But a mental health concern becomes a mental illness when ongoing signs and symptoms cause frequent stress and affect your ability to function.

A mental illness can make you miserable and can cause problems in your daily life, such as at school or work or in relationships.

In most cases, symptoms can be managed with a combination of medications and talk therapy (psychotherapy).

Even though, Suicidal thoughts and behavior are common with some mental illnesses. If you think you may hurt yourself or attempt suicide, get help right away. According to WHO, “Affordable, effective and feasible strategies exist to promote, protect and restore mental health.

The need for action on mental health is indisputable and urgent. Mental health has intrinsic and instrumental value and is integral to our well-being.

Mental health is determined by a complex interplay of individual, social and structural stresses and vulnerabilities. Mental health is a basic human right. And it is crucial to personal, community and socio-economic development. Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders.

It exists on a complex continuum, which is experienced differently from one person to the next, with varying degrees of difficulty and distress and potentially very different social and clinical outcomes.”

Mental health conditions include mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities as well as other mental states associated with significant distress, impairment in functioning, or risk of self-harm. People with mental health conditions are more likely to experience lower levels of mental well-being, but this is not always or necessarily the case.

In the context of national efforts to strengthen mental health, it is vital to not only protect and promote the mental well-being of all, but also to address the needs of people with mental health conditions.

Protecting mental health at work is a growing area of interest

and can be supported through legislation and regulation, organizational strategies, manager training and interventions for workers.