We are excited to announce a collaboration between Palette Magz and EVOLVERE Mental Health! Each of our teams have written an article about mental health, aimed towards youth.
EVOLVERE Mental Health is a new student mental health platform that:
· AMPLIFIES students’ voices in conversations about mental health
· FACILITATES open discussions about mental health
· EQUIPS youth with resources to help them actively care for their wellbeing
· EMPOWERS youth to advocate for their wellbeing
Read on for EVOLVERE’s side of the collaboration…
Your mental health is a critical part of your overall health and wellbeing, so working to improve and maintain it is key to living a healthy life. You have probably heard this message repeatedly, and as commonplace as it has become, it is a positive message to incorporate into your daily life. EvolvereMentalHealth.com is a platform that aims to equip youth and young adults with resources to help them improve their mental health and student life. Our main message is to “take steps to actively prioritize your wellbeing.” Prioritizing your mental health is a step towards ultimately improving your overall wellbeing.
What Prioritizing Your Mental Health Means
Life is a continuous balancing act – a dynamic that you have to consistently work to maintain, so that you can thrive in all aspects of your life. Prioritizing your mental health means highlighting mental health to a point where it is on par with other aspects of health as a determinant of overall health and wellbeing. You can prioritize your mental health by consistently incorporating actions that support your mental health into your daily routine. Reading a stream of uplifting quotes on social media can help to improve your mindset and outlook, but reflecting on things that challenge your mental health and finding effective ways to cope with them or bypass them altogether are active steps that you can take to support your mental health now and improve your resiliency in the future.
Why You Should Prioritize Your Mental Health
- Mental health is a fundamental aspect of human life.
Mental health is a component of overall health. Any individual can experience challenges to their mental health at any point in their life, but forming healthy habits by prioritizing your wellbeing can help to reduce or mitigate future challenges to your mental health.
2. You will be able to maintain and improve your functionality across different domains in your life.
Your mental health affects your thoughts, feelings, and actions in multiple aspects of your life, from your academic performance to your social interactions. Making a consistent effort to prioritize your mental health can help you function at your best in these and other domains of your life.
3. Your mental health is dynamic.
Mental health is not something that you can achieve in a day, it is a lifelong responsibility that must be consistently worked towards.
Prioritizing your mental health will not look the same for you every day. Some days are more socially demanding, while others are filled with academic deadlines. You may find that different demands are best addressed by different techniques that help you mitigate, bypass, or adapt to the situations that you are faced with. As a result, it is important to know which techniques work best for you in different situations – one way to figure this out is to use a trial-and-error system. Remember that the techniques that work for your friends may not be as effective for you, which is ok.
Which techniques do you use to prioritize your mental health?
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