How, when, and where to seek mental health care
While browsing social media, you will find many self-help and wellness platforms that provide tips and tools to change your life or promote your mental health. On Global Mental Health Day, which falls on October 10, let's go back to the basics of mental health and mental healthcare to dispel any concerns and answer any of your lingering questions. First, for those who experience occasional stressors and want to address them, Joshi says they can learn skills to manage them through self-help tools, guides, books, and other mental health resources. "Mental health has now been seen as a "bio-psychosocial" viewpoint towards health and also treatment," says Bangalore-based psychiatric social worker Alen Chandy Alexander. Alexander, who works at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, analyses how social environments and settings like interpersonal relationships, families, schools, work, and religious institutions affect people's mental health.
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