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Good Mental Health In Shaping

An Ideal Lifestyle

GROUP B CONSOLATION Lee Jia Jie - 190045 - 4S Zhong

truly believe that everyone goes through

I a ‘rough’ stage in their life. Many terms

have been coined for these long, treacherous

periods of time, such as the infamous ‘mid-life
crisis’. Admittedly, and shamefully so,

possessing mental health issues has been
normalised in our society. Many, seeing that

having conditions such as depression or
anxiety is just a normal occurrence, do not

seek help or find solutions to their problems. It First of all, mental stability assures that

is one of the more ‘hidden’ problems plaguing we are able to conduct daily activities

our society, slowly but surely ‘infecting’ more smoothly. It is extremely difficult for mentally

and more unsuspected victims. This can be unstable people to perform their daily rituals

seen through the fact that suicide rates have well. In fact, people with bad mental health

skyrocketed in recent years. Experts have have been proven to be less able to focus on a

attributed this to high-pressure work single task. As an example, anxious people are

environments and coarse family relationships. always worrying about many things. Their

I, for one, was formerly a victim of this thoughts fly from mountain to mountain,

potentially deadly condition. It was terrible. ocean to ocean. As a consequence, they

Today, I would like to talk about the cannot concentrate in school or at work. This

importance of good mental health to shed causes their productivity to plummet. In my

some light on why solving these mental health opinion, these are the reasons why employers

issues is of the utmost importance. or educators must care for their workers’ or

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