Ever since after civilization when traditional world came into existence, people learnt to stay together, share and care for each other, help and support everyone and fulfil all their duties towards their family along with responsibilities related to their nation. Earlier, family and its happiness were everyone’s priority, people were satisfied with what they earned and could share sorrow with one other without feeling insecure and celebrated their achievements with a large group of people and enjoyed happiness with neighbours, friends and relatives. Children played with their friends and siblings as they lived in a joint family system and engaged themselves in games that involved more of physical activities, and after being tired from school, studies and play time, the kids went to sleep early, hence remained strong mentally and bodily as well.

In today’s world, everyone is busy making money, barely having family time to relieve from the mental pressure and workload stress. Rising competitions have given no option but to always strive hard to achieve goals in life. People are burdened with the race of a better and higher living lifestyle and in order to prove themselves in the family and high-class society. Humans are struggling to be fit in an ultra-modern digital world, not everyone has resources, access and financial bandwidth to enjoy the lavish life but definitely desire for it, hence people are in hunger to get the comfort with luxuries and have over loaded themselves with the materialistic goals rather than keeping their health as priority. This has naturally resulted in critical health conditions, self–destructive lifestyles and mental disturbance issues. People want to be ahead of each other and are competing to stay at the top, this is good if it is taken as healthy competition and not life life-ruining battle to survive. In order to lead the competition, people tend to overdo and neglect their body requirements of proper, timely food and water, caring for and loving oneself, most importantly, having restorative sleep to be mentally sound.

Modernization and Digitalization has given us lot of means to fulfil needs in faster and easy ways and people using social media to earn name, fame and money has developed a sense of insecurity towards an individual to perform best to get likes, subscribed and comments on their post and if they fail in doing so people even take away their life. They have become impatient and are not able to accept the failure which is due to lack of love and affection from family and peers, people find another way to connect with others and in case if they fail to do so, then they are not mentally stable to decide what is right or wrong and take dangerous actions that are not expected at all.

Especially the young teens, those who are at adolescence age and have not experienced and understood the reality of life, are immature to judge priorities and get influenced by others so much that they forget their own value and capabilities, just to impress others, lose mental peace and happiness. Students aspiring to join Civil services or wanting to become Doctors, Engineers or Entrepreneurs or any professionals have to focus with full concentration and dedicate their full time to studies, even after doing all this they don’t achieve success it becomes extremely difficult for them to stay away from depression or anxiety without any moral support as family and social pressurizes to prove themselves by being successful in life rather being satisfied and peaceful in life.

All these factors mentioned above have raised an alarm of growing mental health issues amongst students, teens, adults, employees and working professionals. Everyone is now concerned about how to manage their emotions with work-life balance and mental calmness for students. Schools, offices and corporates are now aware that mental health of a person is as important as physical so they are conducting meditation and yoga sessions, psychologist and counsellor’s seminar for them to with combat with daily life struggles and also employee engagement and recognition activities that shows appreciation and motivates them to perform better which ultimately brings satisfaction to the job do and gives mental pleasure. The Government of India has also taken various initiatives and conducted various programmes, rehabilitation centres, helplines and schemes free of cost for those who suffer with mental health issues. There are private clinics, institutes and mental health care centres that help people to deal with their problems that are causing them mental disturbance and costing their lives.

People should learn to control their emotions, manage work-life balance, engage in social gatherings, have more physical games and activities, sit together with family and eat a balanced diet, avoid fast food, smoking, drinking alcohol, and sleep properly with less screen time. Their routine should include yoga or meditation and brisk walking, jogging and exercises to keep themselves mentally and physically absolutely fine. Every individual must learn to value themselves, try to be happy and satisfied with what they have and work in a positive spirit, have quality time with family, friends, relatives and colleagues when the time permits. As family is the first point of contact in every individual’s life and plays crucial role in providing love, care, guidance, emotional support, a sense of belongingness and values to live a socially acceptable life, hence all family members should connect with each on daily basis especially the parents with children, so that no one is feeling isolated and left out to manage their problems all alone.

It is necessary to understand that humans are social animal and they need someone or the other to be for them, listen empathetically and help them, spend time with, share and care for them, fulfil their needs and understand their problems, provide solution and suggestions to them, give moral support and all for these humans are depended on each other. 

To get this support people primarily seek family and relatives as their best partners if they do not receive that response or affection from there, then they are inclined to move to neighbours, friends, peers, colleagues or sometimes even to unknown person through common groups or social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and YouTube etc. This is very challenging and sometimes life-threatening, hence to avoid devastation in our personal lives, everyone must practice the habit of checking on each other in the family regularly, spending time together, engaging in conversations with children and seeking guidance from elders and being in touch with each other as much as possible. Give the love and support as and when required to maintain the sense of belongingness and feel that we have someone who will stand for us whenever we are in need. All these ways will surely help to reduce the growing mental health concerns of today’s world.

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