The Importance of Your Mental Health

How is the wellbeing of your mental health? It’s easy to forget to think about that sometimes. After all, in contrast, with many physical ailments – we often have an unfriendly painful reminder that affects our day-to-day life. If we have a problem such as high blood pressure, our physicians will readily give you a reading on how our body is performing.

With mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, it’s easy for these problems to slide under our radar.

Here’s an unsettling fact: An estimated 1,814,000 of people here in the state of Pennsylvania are combatting a mental health issue. To put that number into context, that’s over six-times the population of the city of Pittsburgh.

The consequences have a tremendous ripple effect. Mental health impacts our personal and professional relationships. It negatively affects our performance academically and in the workplace. Furthermore, individuals with depression have a higher concern to develop substance abuse problems and criminal incarceration. 70% of youth in juvenile detentions have at least one mental health condition.