There are so many things which are important to us for a better living apart from all the daily routines that we practice. Because life is not just only about mere living if it is not worth a living. There is a very important thing which we often miss to recognize i.e. mental health. Despite its physical presence around us, its impact on our overall life is of immense amount because it controls all our emotions, feelings and ways of living in day to day life. Our entire understanding of our living derives from the understanding of it. In the present world, we often fail to understand about it and hence it has now become a silent epidemic most commonly found in younger generation. Everybody is looking for peace or a better life by underestimating it. That’s why we can see several numbers of suicidal incidents, people going through depression, cutting themselves from the closed ones and society. Mental health is a very silent but lethal disease which is very hard to identify but yet very common. Many people come across it at their different stages of their lives but find it very difficult to express it. That is why it is a silent epidemic of our society.

There are not any physical symptoms of it since it is not a clinical disease rather it is a psychological disease. Thus if the victim is not so much expressive you might never know if he or she is having this trouble. The victim should feel disturbance in his feelings, emotions or should be having anxiety, stress at over anything because, in our life we always try to please our physical being at the cost of anything without even considering once where our peace lies at. We never try to understand how we can attain our mental peace. Instead we keep on doing whatever we have to even if it is going against our will. Thus we tend to put more pressure on our mind. The complications regarding mental health is of tremendous amount and it can cost someone’s life too. The suicidal behaviour has become so common in our societies among the people being mentally disturbed.  Many teenagers are not brave enough to face the realities and hence keeping their inner thoughts within themselves is like pushing themselves more into the dark tunnel. Though there is light on the other side of the tunnel but they get so deeply trapped in the dark, they fail to see the light. They fail even to express to their closed ones. Thus they are hurting themselves breeding within the most lethal disease. People might not get its gravity in general but in a longer sense its impacts are enormous. There are many reasons attributing to it like a bad relationship, career, family related issues or work stress etc.

What does a child know about the harsh realities of life? They right from the childhood find happiness in smaller things. But we are responsible somehow in pushing them to the dark web, the consequence which is seen later on. We push them into the world of competition and let them know the high expectation the people has got from them.  People set the goals for them and things to be done without giving any thought what they actually want to do. Putting so much pressure on them to succeed everytime and success becoming the addiction leads them to a state of mind where failure becomes intolerable and does not know how to react to such kind of situation. When closed ones do not hear them out or understand them, the frustration inbuilds within them and they end up doing into something which they never meant to do but situation impulses them to do so.  

However, the best way to tackle this silent monster is by letting the potential victims more expressive. The more they discuss about their issues to the outer world, the more lighter they will get of their issues. They need to be engaged socially. The people need to hear them out, understand them, and feel them. Family has to let them know the true meaning of living a life. It should not be important to anyone to compete with everyone and be the best but to realize where the happiness comes from and go after it. But equally important is the proper guidance from the closed ones in chasing his or her dream.

Byline

Sangita Gogoi is an Assistant Professor of Geography Department, Manohari Devi Kanoi Girls’ College, Dibrugarh (Assam). She did her graduation from Cotton College and post graduation from Cotton College State University.  She has completed her M. Phil from Gauhati University in 2017 and currently persuing her Ph.D from Geography Department, Gauhati University. She has keen interest in doing research on social issues and publishes paper on UGC Care-list journal and Scopus publication.