Find out how self-knowledge is important for mental health

Knowing how to manage your emotions can help prevent psychological illnesses

The daily frenzy, demands and reported tragedies have increased the number of cases of anxiety, insomnia, panic and stress. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus may have caused a global crisis, as there was a 25% increase in cases of depression and anxiety in 2020 alone.

Data like this shows how investing in self-knowledge is essential to help deal with external problems. This means knowing your limits, ways of acting, and deepest feelings. This movement, in turn, allows us to understand skills and qualities that were previously unnoticed.

Importance of self-knowledge

For experts, understanding when the alarm goes off is crucial. According to Aline Melo, psychologist at the Center for Integral Health Care – CAIS, of the São Cristóvão Saúde Group, self-observation and self-knowledge they are great ways to realize when something is out of balance. He also recommends meditation as a way to help the patient get in touch with their emotions.

” Silencing our minds and getting in touch with our innermost beings can signal sensations that the frenzy of everyday life often doesn’t make us realize. Cultivating these possibilities for self-care helps to avoid major emotional problems and to recognize when we need help to deal with something that is causing you pain,” says Aline.

Factors that increase the risk of psychological illness

According to psychologist Aline Melo🇧🇷 The constant exposure to stress, daily pressures, demands (external and internal) and excessive competitiveness are the main factors that can lead to mental illness. “If we don’t have the slightest perception of our emotions, limits and weaknesses, we can experience disorders such as anxiety, depression or panic syndrome,” explains the psychologist.

Find out about other factors that can contribute to mental disorders:

• environmental factors: related to stressful lifestyle and poor working conditions;
• Sociocultural factors: such as financial and political problems;
• genetic factors: which include the history of mental disease in family.

Patients most affected by psychological disorders

A study by the Longitudinal da Saúde do Ensino (Elsa-Brasil), in the State of São Paulo, shows that the people most affected by disturbances they are young, women and with a lower level of public education. Experts point out that investing in mental health allows people to recognize limits, accept life’s challenges, know how to ask for help and, above all, feel good about themselves and others.

By Fernanda Martinelli

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