Your Mental Health Matters! 

What is mental health?  

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.¹ Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.

Although the terms are often used interchangeably, poor mental health and mental illness are not the same. A person can experience poor mental health and not be diagnosed with a mental illness. Likewise, a person diagnosed with a mental illness can experience periods of physical, mental, and social well-being.Taken from the CDC

Everyone has mental health.  Try to make sure yours is healthy!

Your Mental Health Matters!

 COVID and our Health

Just as our bodies need time and nurturing to heal, so does our mental health.  COVID has affected us all in different ways, some physically and others emotionally.  Our bodies react to COVID just as it does other issues.  Some people can simply heal at home without the care of a physician whereas others need to seek help from a physician.  Whatever the impact, we need to tend to the symptoms present to be healthy again, whether physical or emotionally.  

Symptoms of mental disorders change over time as a child grows, and may include difficulties with how a child plays, learns, speaks, and acts, or how the child handles their emotions. Symptoms often start in early childhood, although some disorders may develop during the teenage years. The diagnosis is often made in the school years and sometimes earlier; however, some children with a mental disorder may not be recognized or diagnosed as having one. Taken from the CDC

Remember, everyone has mental health!  Try to make sure yours is healthy. 

           Crisis Help

In a crisis?

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Thinking of harming yourself? Please don't!  Just Dial 988

Contact NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness):  Text NAMI to 741741 Click here to get help through NAMI  or call 1-800-950-NAMI (6294).  You may chat or text from 9:00a.m. - 3:00p.m. Monday - Friday

Just need to calm down? Visit the virtual calming room. Click here

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