Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. A presentation given by Swarup Satyadarshi Mishra on World Mental Health day, 10th October 2021

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Mental Health & Wellbeing
Presented By :
SWARUP SATYADARSHI MISHRA

2. What is Mental Health & Wellbeing?
"Mental health is not just the absence
of mental disorder. It is defined as a state
of emotional, psychological, and
social well-being in which every individual
realizes his or her potential, can cope with
the normal stresses of life, can work
productively and fruitfully, and can make a
contribution to her or his community.
Determines how we handle challenges,
failure & stress.

3. What it leads to?
1. Anxiousness
2. Fear
3. Stress
4. Helplessness
5. Anger
6. Sadness
7. Lost
8. Confusion
9. Frustration
10. Disappointment

4. How to deal with?
By going from auto-piloted Reaction
mode to Conscious and Informed
response mode.
To respond to the situation every time
usually comes slowly, but weighs long
term effects and stays in line with the
core values.

5. How to deal with?
By being mindful means maintaining a
moment-by-moment awareness of our
thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations,
and surrounding environment, through
a gentle, nurturing lens.
-Greater Good Science Center Berkeley
3 A's to be mindful:
Asking || Awareness || Acceptance

6. How to reach the stage of acceptance?
By taking “the pause”, the space to rest
and process to let things sink in
completely.
"Fully feeling what you are feeling is
very healing"
- By Nitya Shanti

7. Be Resilient
Resilience The capacity to recover
quickly from difficulties; toughness. It is
the process of adapting well in the face
of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats,
or Significant sources of stress –like
relationship issues, serious health
problems, or financial stressors.
Resilience helps to-
1. Adapting to the changing situations.
2. Bouncing Back- to pre-crisis status
quickly.
3. Helps in personal growth-emerging
stronger than before

8. How to survive in difficult situation?

9. Count your Blessings: Gratitude
Pen down the things and spending time
seeing the list everyday.
It fosters cognitive restructuring by
evoking positive thinking, reduces fear
and anxiety by regulating the stress
hormones, Enhances dopamine
hormone responsible for happiness.

10. Physical Wellbeing
• Exercise
• Nutrition
• Sleep
Strengthen the body to adapt to stress
and reduces the amount of damage
done due to difficult emotions and
boost immunity.

11. Meditation
When the mind is clear, whatever
we do has a huge impact.
We can do each activity with full
involvement can able to give our
100% to it.

12. Post Traumatic Growth
A growing body of research suggests
that humans can not only “Bounce
Back” from Trauma, but also yield a
positive life on the other side of a
traumatic experience.
How?
Appreciating life
Relationship with Self and others
New possibilities in life
Personal Growth
Finding Meaning
Thriving people are good at
struggling well.
Chris Peterson, Positive Psychology