What we can do.

 The mental health nowaday is an unspoken issue, like a tabu theme. We don't like to think there's something wrong with ours minds, so we ignore the current situation or we don't know how to manage it. And how could you seek for help if you don't know what your problem is? There are a lot of people facing real problems as anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress, depression, etc., just for mention a few, and there's a lot of misinformation and ignorance surrounding a problem that is real, that actually exists.

We need to be conscious that mental illness is not been crazy and anxiety is not been nervy and shaking, this is a sickness that causes disturbances in thinking, behavior or emotions and can be an obstacle for any person in the ordinary life.

We need to be aware that worldwide the 70% of people with some kind of mental illness is struggling with the lack of health treatment, most of them are teenagers with this problem, a problem that needs to be treated, starting by recognized that we need to change our thoughts about the theme, speak openly, without assumptions, critics and judging others situation. Is our job as citizens to make a change and promote help, share information, knowledge and investigations about the subject, with the purpose of change the people points of view. This means understand the gravity of a person situation and comprehend the issues that this person is going through. We can give support, guidance and a safe space where people can feel confident enough to speak and seek for help if is needed.

There's nothing shaming about taking care of your mental health, and we should brake that stigma. Our goal should be make this world a more comprehensive place and try to be more empathic with our pairs, taking in consideration that just because there is not a physical problem at sight, doesn't mean there isn't one.

References

Henderson, C., Evans-Lack, S., & Thornicroft, G. (2013). Mental Illness Stigma, Heplp Seeking and Public Health Programs. American Journal of Public Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105%2FAJPH.2012.301056

Holthaus, J. (n.d.). The Importance of Mental Health Awareness. Retrieved January 31, 2021, from http://www.pinerest.org/mental-health-awareness-blog/

National Institute of Mental Health. (2012). Mental Illness. Retrieve January 31, 2021, from http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness.shtml

Hello! World

 Hi! I'm Fabiana and this are a couple of facts about me.

I'm from a small town named "La Lucia" in Potuguesa state. I'm 22 years old and I'm student of Modern Language Education at University of Los Andes. My favorite place to be is wherever my family is too, and the place which my mind usually takes me back is Heroinas square in Mérida city, where I shared beautiful moments with my friends and my happy place is wherever my family meets: hearing the sounds of children playing, lively conversation, singing and laughing in the background. I'm a very homely person as you can read but I also enjoy going out with my friends. 

This blog was made in order to portray our thoughts, experiences and ideas about the currently world's situation and how we can make it better, then we should wonder to ourselves, what are we doing to make it happen? how we make the world a better place?

What am I doing to make the world better? Personally I do my best to act with responsability, knowing that my actions had an impact in other people, an impact in the world. I do my best to treat people with respect and show positivism to adversity, knowing that the way we treat people is a reflection of who we are as a person and we all want to be treated in a good way, so we need to be an example of it. I think we need to be emphatic with any living criture and be aware that the natural resources are not endless, and that we need to take care of what we got and appreciate it.