600 words essay on mental health

The core of ordinary people's mental health care has never been to "force yourself to be happy all the time", but to first allow negative emotions to exist, and then find ways to adjust to suit yourself. There is no need to apply a unified "emotionally correct" template.

Last week when I was volunteering in the community to popularize psychological science, I met a high school sophomore girl who was hiding in the corridor and crying. She failed twenty in the mock test. Her mother chased after her and said, "What's the point of crying about such a setback? You have to be optimistic." Instead, she squatted on the ground and cried until she couldn't breathe. This is actually the biggest misunderstanding that many people have about mental health: they think that only having no negative emotions and always being positive is healthy, but anyone who is a bit emo is "mentally fragile" and "can't think straight."

I have met psychological counselors with different orientations, and their ideas on emotional regulation are actually quite different. Psychodynamic counselors will say that the sudden irritability and sadness do not come out of thin air. They may be small wounds that have not been dealt with in the subconscious. Don't rush to suppress them. Spend two minutes thinking about "Why am I uncomfortable now?" It is more useful than saying "I want to be happy" ten thousand times. Friends from the cognitive behavioral school believe that if you are stuck in an emotion, it is better to jump out and do a small task that can be completed in 5 minutes, such as cleaning the table, getting a glass of warm water, going downstairs to throw away the trash. If you relax first, your emotions will often soften.

Nowadays, many people are debating whether to rely on self-digestion or professional help to regulate emotions. In fact, there is no standard answer at all. When I was so anxious that I had insomnia for three consecutive days, I tried the mindfulness meditation recommended by others. After sitting for ten minutes, I became even more irritable. Instead, I went downstairs and squatted in the green belt to pick up sycamore leaves for half an hour. Looking at the large handful of strange-shaped leaves in my hand, I suddenly calmed down. You see, there isn’t even a universal template for adjustment methods, so how can we expect everyone’s emotions to look the same?

Of course, if you can't feel motivated for more than two weeks in a row, can't eat well or sleep well, and even the things you usually like don't feel interesting, don't force yourself to do it. It's not shameful at all to talk to a professional psychological counselor. After all, even the stray cats basking in the sun downstairs have days when they don't want to be petted. Allowing yourself to be "unhappy" occasionally is part of mental health. (Full text 612 words)