Yes 🙌🏻 💯 I don’t believe taking pills will cure depression, it just puts a plaster on it.
Change how you see life, be grateful and get out in the fresh air, exercise and eat well.
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Yes. And people need to understand that mental illness must be treated the same way physical illness is. It is called mental and not emotional illness for a reason. Your brain is nothing but an organ, just like your heart, liver, lungs and everything else that would cause you any physical illness. Mental illness is physical illness with symptoms that are expressed differently. Therefore, the "sadness" many people seem to think is the cause of depression should be treated/viewed as the result of it (a symptom). Your environment and experiences can and will definitely affect your mental health but it is still chemical imbalances we're talking about. And that's why both therapy and medication are equally important.

My mental health didn’t improve at all until I started with my physical health.

Everyone is a fictional scholar and knows fukk all about what they're saying, just echoing snippets that have been said hundreds of times.

"Pills don't cure"

No shiit, pills don't cure,they treat physical illnesses too. Don't cure.

Physical illnesses also require different treatments depending on the individual so obviously the same course of medication will not work for everybody in mental illness either.

And since the same thing doesn't work for everyone, that applies to life style changes. It would not work for everyone.

If people really cared what they're spouting they'd research it themselves instead of feeding that arrogant, hedonistic part of the brain that enjoys being right about something, at the expense of what's best for other people.

Lot of you here need get over yourselves before you end up being the reason someone commits suicide because you thought your facebook banners' wisdom of self delusional fù_ ckery is good enough to save them.

Talk when you sort out your lives.

My unpopular opinion...while I totally 100% get that mental health conditions are serious and that suffering from depression etc can be really debilitating, I feel like every second person barks up this tree these days and wants to call themselves depressed. Especially a lot of younger peeps.
So yes, one's mental health is definitely important, but for many everything gets blamed on your mental health these days.

It's more important. Mental issues have a bearing on physical health...

Here it's out dated and if you find a good private professional you're lucky and on a more personal note, I pick my medical professionals privately. If I need emergencies there's hospital then you notify them who your professional is and I think things even out then.

We are a complex bioelectro-chemical organism.
Our bio mechanics are incredibly complex, and drive our mental and emotional states more than we fully understand yet.

We are just discovering that some species of bacteria in the bowel excrete neurotoxins, that our microbiome diversity and levels can affect hormones and chemical supply in the brain and so much more.

So id say that mental health can be severely affected by our physical state.

If doctors are helping people with mental and emotional problems by giving them medication to assimilate, then it only proves my point. How your body works or rather, how well it works, (or not) can affect the chemical levels and interactions it has.

So physical things like movement, exercise, digestion and breathing all play a part in our mental health.

And i imagine, that in the future we will undertand this better.

And that one solution is not always suited to everyone .
Some thrive on being vegan, some on high meat diets.
Some people need exertive exercise , while otjers do better on gentle.

So as important as mental health is, i think physical health is a priority starting point.

If a body is failing, its likely a mind will struggle too.

And sometimes its a vicious cycle. So vicious that often starting with the physical is better, becuase the mind needs healthy support first before any healing can start.

Yes, it is important. It is connected to physical health, as others have said. I think mental health is only beginning to get the same kind of attention that physical health has always received.

It's more important. Look at some people who suffered serious injuries and permanent damage to their body and yet roll forward no matter what. Some of them show such amazing willpower and achieve far more in life than those crippled with self-doubt and severe phobias.

Absolutely. It actually can affect physical health.

i feel it's important but also there's a group that nobody talks about and that's those that treat is like a fashions accessory. it's mostly teens but i swear if i see one more person bragging ( literally BRAGGING ) to their friends they have bipolar or depression for clout i'm gonna drop kick em into a padded room myself.

There must be BALANCE first and foremost. Mind, body, and spirit. Without this balance, people will not thrive.

Doctors of homeopathic medicine, (unfortunately never covered on anyone's insurance), address ALL these elements, and even include the environment.

More so. Although, one hand washes the other.

Yup. Two sides of the same coin.

Perhaps even more important

I think they are one in the same.

Without mental health, physical health begins to decline.

Yes ,even more so

Absolutely

Yes

I believe some mental health is actually misdiagnosed as being mental when usually they're has been proven the mental health issue was secondary to some sort of traumatic event or chemical imbalance which makes it an neurological issue rather than a mental one

Filtered information, physical exercise, Vit D, B1, B6 and B12 all combined have helped me alot.

I think it's even more important because I believe physical health is all rooted in mental and emotional issues anyway.

Absolutely it is as important. Oftentimes if not more

Yes if your mental health is bad your physical health can be greatly impacted. It's a symbiotic relationship

for the most part it's a money grab

Totally..mental and physical are connected!

We can’t parse the two.

Countless lives are born and raised into a man made reality that is insane. It's my opinion..

Absolutely.

Yes, of course.

yes

Yes

very much so

Yes.

If not more. It needs to be studied a lot more than what it is

I think they are linked and a lot of the way the world is structured in developed areas really hinders our mental and physical health. But it is up to us to navigate that and figure ourselves out.

I very much believe in therapy, and without it I do very poorly because of my mental condition.

I think there is too much emphasis on it now.

Yes I do. I might have a bias seeing as I have OCD, ADHD and depression.

And physical health influences mental health and vice versa

It's not like real disease. Theses people simply waste everything and all the resources they can access.

Absolutely it is. And they tend to affect each other.

I'm agin it, dagnabit!

They only really work in tandem and fucking up either one sufficiently can kill you pretty fast.

It is just as important but it is the one few people give a shit about.

They are both equally as important. A chemical imbalance can’t always be treated by exercise, meditation or natural remedies. Medication is needed and why wouldn’t you take it? You would take meds for high cholesterol, high BP, diabetes, etc.