MENTAL HEALTH

1. What is MENTAL HEALTH?
2. How is it related to general health?
According to the World Health Organization, ‘health is not merely the absence of disease’. It is ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being’. This means that mental health is an integral part of general health.

Mental Health can be conceptualized as a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.

Ill health or disease in any one or a combination of the four states of health. (i.e. Psychological, Social and Spiritual) can affect normal functioning of person in team of:
• Self-care , e.g. personal hygiene, food intake
• Work, Study… e.g.
• Developing and maintaining relationship with people…. e.g.

Conversely, well-being in the four states of health leads to ability to take care of self, capacity for effective and productive work or study and ability to develop and maintain healthy relationship with people.

Mental health too is not just the absence of mental disorder. It is also about mental wellbeing and the ability to take care of self, to work productively, to cope with normal stress of life, to develop and maintain healthy relationships with people, and to demonstrate healthy and positive behaviors.

က်န္းမာေရးအေၾကာင္းသိေကာင္းစရာ

က်န္းမာေရးအေၾကာင္းသိေကာင္းစရာ

(၁) က်န္းမာျခင္း (အဓိပၸာယ္ဖြင္႔ဆိုခ်က္)
ကိုယ္ခႏၶာေရာဂါ ကင္းရွင္းရုံမက စိတ္က်န္းမာရမည္႔အျပင္ လူမႈေရးက႑တြင္လည္း ျပည္႔စံုစြာပါ၀င္ႏုိင္ျခင္း။

(၂) စိတ္က်န္းမာျခင္း (ကမၻာ႔က်န္းမာေရးအဖြဲ႔၊ စိတ္က်န္းမာမႈ ကၽြမ္းက်င္မႈေကာ္မတီ၏ အဓိပၸာယ္ဖြင္႔ဆိုခ်က္-
(က) အၾကင္သူသည္ မိမိပတ္၀န္းက်င္ရွိ အက်ဳိးျပဳလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို ပါ၀င္ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္ျခင္း။
(ခ) မိမိ၏အတြင္းရွိ ပဋိပကၡဆႏၵမ်ားကို ညီညြတ္မႈရရွိသည္႔တိုင္ေအာင္ ေက်နပ္စြာထိန္းသိမ္းႏုိင္ေသာ အရည္အခ်င္းရွိျခင္း။

(၃) စိတ္က်န္းမာမႈဆိုင္ရာအဂၤါရပ္မ်ား
(က) က႑စံုတြင္ပါ၀င္ႏုိင္ျခင္း
(ခ) သက္ေတာင္႔သက္သာရွိ၍ ေၾကာက္ရြံမႈ၊ ေဒါသျဖစ္မႈ၊ ခ်စ္ခင္မႈ၊ မနာလို၀န္တိုမႈ၊ စိုးရိမ္မႈစေသာ စိတ္ခံစားမႈတို႔၏ ႏွိပ္စက္ျခင္းဒဏ္ကိုမခံရျခင္း။
(ဂ) မိမိကိုယ္ကို အထင္မေသးသကဲ႔သို႔ အထင္လည္းမႀကီးၾကသည္႔အျပင္ မိမိမေပ်ာ႔ကြက္ ဟာကြက္မ်ားကိုလည္း ေကာင္းစြာလက္ခံႏုိင္ျခင္း။
(ဃ) ေန႔စဥ္လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား လုပ္ကိုင္ရာတြင္ စိတ္ေက်နပ္မႈရွိ၍ သက္ေတာင္႔သက္သာလုပ္ႏုိင္ကာ သည္းခံႏုိင္စြမ္းစိတ္ရွိသည္႔အျ

ပင္ မိမိ၏မွားကြက္မ်ားကိုပင္ ျပန္၍ေလွာင္ၿပံဳးၿပံဳးႏုိင္ျခင္း။
(င) ခ်စ္ခင္ၾကင္နာေသာစိတ္ရွိသကဲ႔သို႔ အျခားသူမ်ား၏ ခ်စ္ခင္ၾကင္နာမႈကိုလည္း လက္ခံႏုိင္ျခင္း။
(စ) လူလူခ်င္းဆက္ဆံရာတြင္ ေက်နပ္မႈ၊ ႏွစ္သိမ္႔မႈရွိ၍ ေရရွည္ဆက္ဆံႏုိင္ျခင္း။
(ဆ) အျခားသူမ်ားႏွင္႔ မိမိ၏ မတူညီေသာအယူအဆမ်ားကို ေကာင္းစြာေလးစား၍ အျခားသူမ်ားအေပၚ ေထာက္ထားညွာတာစိတ္ရွိရုံမက မိမိသည္သူမ်ားအတြက္ပါ တာ၀န္ရွိေၾကာင္း ေကာင္းစြာသိျခင္း။
(ဇ) ေန႔စဥ္ၾကံဳေတြ႔ေနရေသာ ကိစၥအ၀၀ကို ရင္ဆိုင္ႏုိင္စြမ္းရွိ၍ ေဆာင္ရြက္သမွ်  လုပ္ငန္းအားလံုးတြင္ စိတ္ေရာကိုယ္ပါ ကိုယ္စြမ္းရွိသမွ် ဉာဏ္စြမ္းရွိသမွ် ေဆာင္ရြက္ေလ႔ရွိျခင္း။
(စ်) ျဖစ္ႏုိင္ေသာ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ပန္းတိုင္ ထားတတ္ကာ မိမိပတ္၀န္းက်င္အား ေကာင္းမြန္တိုးတက္ရန္ အခြင္႔သာတိုင္း လုပ္ေလ႔ရွိ၍ လိုအပ္ပါက လိုက္ေလွ်ာက္ရန္ ၀န္မေလးျခင္း။
(ည) ကိုယ္ပိုင္ဆံုးျဖတ္ႏုိင္ေသာ အရည္အခ်င္းရွိ၍ ေပးအပ္ေသာတာ၀န္ကိုယူရန္ လက္မေႏွး၊ အျခားသူမ်ား၏ အေတြ႔အၾကံဳ အၾကံဉာဏ္မ်ားကို လႈိက္လွဲစြာ လက္ခံႀကိဳဆို၍ ေပၚေပါက္လာေသာ ျပႆနာမ်ားကို လိုအပ္သလို အသံုးျပဳတတ္ျခင္း။

(၄) စိတ္ေရာဂါႏွင္႔က်န္းမာေရး
(က) ကမၻာအရပ္ရပ္စိတ္ေရာဂါျဖစ္ပြားမႈ
လူမ်ဳိးဘာသာ၊ အသားအေရာင္၊ အရြယ္မေရြး ကမၻာသားတို႔၏ (၅) ပိုင္း (၂) ပိုင္း စိတ္ေရာဂါျဖစ္ပြားျခင္း (သို႔) စိတ္ေရာဂါေၾကာင္႔ မသန္စြမ္းဘ၀သို႔ ေရာက္ေနၾကသည္။ သန္းေပါင္း (၁၂) မွ်ေသာ ကမၻာသူကမၻာသားတို႔သည္ စိတ္ေရာဂါစစ္စစ္ကိုေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း၊ မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါးေရာဂါကိုေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း၊ ဉာဏ္ရည္ႏွိမ္႔က်ေသာေရာဂါကိုေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း ၊ဦးေႏွာက္ပ်ကယိုယြင္း္စီး၍ ျဖစ္ေပၚေသာ စိတ္ေရာဂါမ်ားကိုေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း ခံစားေနရသည္ဟု ကမၻာ႔က်န္းမာေရးအဖြဲ႔ႀကီးကဆိုထားသည္။ အေထြေထြေရာဂါကုေဆးရုံမ်ား၊ ျပင္ပလူနာဌာနမ်ား၊ ေဆးေပးခန္းမ်ားသို႔ လာေရာက္ျပသကုသခံေနၾကေသာ လူနာမ်ားထဲမွ (၂၀) ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းမွ (၃၀) ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းေသာ လူနာတို႔သည္ စိတ္ေရာဂါတစ္မ်ဳိးမဟုတ္တစ္မ်ဳိး ခံစားေနရသည္ကို ခိုင္လံုေသာသုေတသနမ်ားမွ သိရေပသည္ဟု ကမၻာ႔က်န္းမာေရးအဖြဲ႔၏ ၁၉၇၆ ခုႏွစ္ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ထင္ရွားစြာတင္ျပထားသည္။

Top 10 Health Benefits of Drinking Water

Water is an important source which has many health benefits and play a vital role to the human body. Human body consists of 60-70% of water.

Below are the health benefits of drinking water: -


Number 1
Assist in Losing Weight

Drinking water reduces hunger as it’s an effective appetite suppressant so you’ll eat less.

Number 2
Cure Headache

Water also helps to relieve headache and back pains due to dehydration. Although there are many other reasons contribute to headache, dehydration is the most common one.

Number 3
Make You Look Younger

When your skin is properly hydrated, you’ll look younger as water helps to replenish skin tissues, moisturizes skin and increase skin elasticity.
Number 4
Reduce Possibility to Fall Sick

Drinking plenty of water also helps to combat against flu and other illness such as heart attack. Drinking water can improve our immune system.
Number 5
Relieve Fatigue

Water helps to flush out toxins and waste from the body. When the body is lacked of water, the heart will need to work harder, so are the rest of the vital organs causing them to be exhausted. So will you.
Number 6
Promote Metabolism

As water is the carrier of oxygen, nutrients, hormones to body parts, it is important to drink enough water to increase the metabolism rate.
Number 7
Help Digestion and Reduce Constipation

Drinking water raises your metabolism because it helps in digestion and thus, reduces constipation. Fiber and water works hand in hand to increase your bowel movement.
Number 8
Maintain PH Balance

Consuming lots of water can help you to maintain a healthy PH balance of above 7.
Number 9
Prevent Cardiovascular Disease

Water can prevent cardiovascular disorders by maintaining proper viscosity of blood and plasma and fibrinogen distribution.
Number 10
Prevent Kidney Stones

International Kidney Stone Institute recommends 2 litres or 10 glasses of water per day to prevent from kidney stones. Water helps to dilute the salts in the kidney and eliminate them in the urine.

How to Cope with Work Stress

Do you feel like changing your work? If yes, stress might be one of the many reasons as many people keep changing their work because they are not able to cope with work stress at the work place. Though this problem seems serious, there are actually tips you can do to cope with work stress and thus, be happy with your work.




Work Stress

Your work productivity starts with your lifestyle. If you’re sleeping late at night and waking up late to work, how would you manage to stay energetic and productive at work? Feeling sleepy and less energetic will make you feel stress as there is a lot of work need to be done. Thus, what you can do is to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Sleep early to get enough rest and wake up early to prepare yourself for your work ahead.

Handling task, assignment, meeting and dateline sure need a lot of effort and so it does with planning and schedule. Failure to plan and to stick according to schedule of course will cause stress. Be more organized, plan your work and stick with it. If you have too many tasks to do, put it in to-do-list. This way, the list will be able to guide you to finish your work on time and of course, it put stress at bay!


Other than abundance of work, working environment can cause work stress too. That is why you need to improve on communication skills. Try to talk with your colleagues, share opinion with your boss and participate with office program.

By right, if you love your work, you will not feel stress. So, you must love your work and have passion to it. However, if you hate it to the most, at least be positive with whatever you do.