Self-guided improvement

  What is a healthy diet? Eating a healthy diet is not about strict limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, improving your health, and boosting your mood. Healthy eating doesn’t have to be overly complicated. If you feel overwhelmed by all the conflicting nutrition and diet advice out there, you’re not alone. It seems that for every expert who tells you a certain food is good for you, you’ll find another saying exactly the opposite. The truth is that while some specific foods or nutrients have been shown to have a beneficial effect on mood, it’s your overall dietary pattern that is most important. The cornerstone of a healthy diet should be to replace processed food with real food whenever possible. Eating food that is as close as possible to the way nature made it can make a huge difference to the way you think, look, and feel. By using these simple tips, you can cut through the confu

  Why is good mental health important for students? You need to feel happy and fulfilled to enjoy and live your life to the fullest. Many students struggle with poor self-esteem as a result of traumatic childhood experiences or poor upbringing. Traumatic events early on in life can be hard to work through and may linger on for a long time. Therefore, it is important that students have the space and resources to understand and address their issues in a timely manner. Common mental health conditions and their symptoms Depression Physical Symptoms.  Appetite loss, insomnia or oversleeping, headache, body ache,etc. Emotional Symptoms  Continuous sadness, hopelessness, feeling overwhelmed or powerless, etc. Behavioral Symptoms.  Loss of concentration, diminishing enthusiasm for daily activities, erratic or listless behavior, etc. Anxiety Unreasonable apprehension Stress, Irritability Poor concentration Dizziness and sweating Palpitations Muscle pain Headache Eating Disorders Distorted body

  What is Mental Health? Mental Health refers to our social, psychological and emotional well-being. The way we respond to difficulties, our ability to think, behave and analyze a situation- all of these contribute to our mental health. If you are in a healthy mental state, then your chance of leading a happy life automatically improves. You are able to copewell with day-to-day stresses and effectively contribute to your community for better. Factors that affect mental health of students Biological Factors-   If a family member suffers with an existing mental health issue, there are chances of it being passed down genetically. Environmental Factors-   When a child is not exposed to a healthy home environment, they may develop mental illnesses. This could be due to the emotional unavailability of the parents, financial stress, academic strain, etc. Introduction to stressors like alcohol, drugs and other toxins at an early age may also lead to mental health illnesses. Abuse-   If a child

  How to work on it?   Start thinking about yourself:   Prioritize everything you want and you do not want. What makes you feel lively and what is the best for you out of every situation. Learn to let go things just for your own sake of peace. Stay positive with the situations when things are not working out well in other words don't be harsh on yourself. It is completely fine to feel low sometimes but it is not fine when you don't do something to pull yourself out from certain things that let you and your peace drown. Take time to process and evaluate what is the best thing that will work according to the circumstances. Try to identify the pros and cons that might affect you in certain ways and pick the best decision for yourself. And apart from all this, never let your fear, guilt, pressure or any bad experience come in between while figuring out things for yourself that YOU think is appropriate for you. And also don't try to go along with the thinking of the crowd, w