Encourage Mental Health Events!

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Hello everyone!
Welcome back <3

We celebrated World Mental Health last week, on 10th of October. 
Last week, I was also presented the opportunity to attend a 'Mental Health Fest'; by the students - for the students *History textbook flashback*.

The event focussed on conveying various ideas on Mental Health using creativity as a medium such as music, dance, film making, street plays and more.

Attending this amazing event sparked an inspiration in me to author a post on why we should encourage Mental Health Activities around us.

Without further ado, let's get to it!

Mental Health is a highly stigmatised topic all over the world. Therefore, promoting the idea of speaking up about it, through various expressions of creativity not only instills innovation but also helps the youth become more vocal on world issues.

Nearly every person has had some experience with Mental health; it may not necessarily be a grave situation, but we've all had our ups and downs with it. 
Mental Health does not only mean depression or anxiety. There are so many other factors that leads to mental distress and the stories of most go untold. 
Using creativity as a medium, or for that matter, just a place to express gives people an opportunity to open up - in their own desired way.

Another advantage is awareness. If conveyed in the right way, mass media promotion on 'Mental Health' can be revolutionary.
In this generation, you would see a lot of Genz's posting on this topic - it's because we are aware. However, the couple of generations before us aren't. They didn't have this back then - no one spoke about it. 

Events and media coverage on topics have resulted in an intermixing of people to gain awareness.
Totally off topic example: 3 Idiots. I do not need to explain how this movie transformed most of the Indian mindset. 

In conclusion, conduct events on mental health because it is the need of the hour to speak about it!

That was it for today! Thank you to everyone on my Instagram who helped me with pointers.
Don't forget to share and comment for more content, every Friday!

Signing off,

Kuhu :)

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