Personal Health

Personal Health

            Personal health is a multi-dimensional approach of an individual wellbeing. Mitigating suicide in a generation that seeks help and comfort from social media is my idea. As per the World Health Organization personal health refers to a state where one has complete social, mental, and physical well-being. It is not necessarily the absence of infirmity of disease.’ Extensively, personal health stretches to the people around us. When one is in a complete mental state, they have the urge to ensure the people around them are in the same state. Wellness have different dimensions including physical, financial, emotional, intellectual, psychological, spiritual, and emotional wellness (Kneale 127-129). Committing suicide fall in the emotional wellness dimension. Lack of stable proper functioning emotional state can drive an individual to commit the act. Suicide rates have been on the rampant in the 21^st century especially among the youth since pressure from social media gives them a feeling that they need to have instant gratification in everything that they are pursuing. Failure to achieve this leads to a sense of loneliness, self-blame, and worthiness thus; prompting one to commit suicide (Henry, 50-53).

The idea calls for cooperation and help from all the institutions as well as the individual. The individual can start by understanding that one does not need to have it figured out yet instantly. Things take a good measure of time and, this requires one to have patience. Additionally, they should learn ways of curbing pressures that come from both within and without. According to Graves (760-76), people should engage in activities such as meditation, resolving to stay away from social media for some time, forming a social group of friend who often meet to discuss their achievements and shortcomings, taking sufficient sleep, doing walk, camping, and reading motivational books. These activities will engage the mind by feeding it with sound information which is vital for helping one divert from the toxic suicidal thoughts thus, a crucial tool in mitigating suicide in this generation.

Institutions are also vital in the call for ensuring that this idea is practical. They can do this by erecting posters that advocate for emotional wellbeing. For instance, putting billboards that say, ‘Speak out, depression is real’ or ‘Walks for healthy minds’ or Twenty minutes of exercise every day to keep the mind healthy’. These efforts will remind the individual reminded of the need to maintain their emotional wellbeing which stretches to a greater extent to the other dimensions of wellbeing. Websites should also promote personal health by providing safety health information that shows individual how to cope up with life and ways to ensure that they do not fall into the temptation that will propel them to be suicidal. Institutions should also stress on innovations and inventions that can be helpful to mitigate the same. For instance, innovations such as stress balls which an individual can be pressing against his or her palm should be introduced to help in mind diversions. Sensitizations, educational programs, and communal activities should increase because they give an individual a sense of belonging (Fink 9-12).

Personal health involves dimensions of wellbeing such as social, emotional, physical, and financial dimensions. Suicide is an emotional dimension of personal health and it is on the increase in cases where people resolve to social media to get answers to their problems. Ways of mitigating this issue requires both individual and institution efforts which will work together to ensure that the individual does not get overwhelmed with the need to instant gratification and give them a sense of belonging which will be of great importance in curbing the issue

Work Cited

Kneale, Laura, and George Demiris. “The Role of Senior Housing Programs in Facilitating Use of Personal Health Records among Older Adult Users.” Seniors Housing & Care Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 127–136. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=130697631&site=ehost-live.

Henry, Dayna S., et al. “Status of Personal Health Requirement for Graduation at Institutions of Higher Education in the United States.” Journal of American College Health, vol. 65, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 50–57. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/07448481.2016.1238383.

Graves, Janessa M., et al. “Suicide Prevention Training: Policies for Health Care Professionals Across the United States as of October 2017.” American Journal of Public Health, vol. 108, no. 6, June 2018, pp. 760–768. EBSCOhost, doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304373.

Fink, David S., et al. “Increase in Suicides the Months after the Death of Robin Williams in the US.” PLoS ONE, vol. 13, no. 2, Feb. 2018, pp. 1–12. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0191405.