Mental Health Presenting Stages: Counselling vs Clinical Psychotherapy

Our mental health deteriorates over time if we do not attend to it and feed it with good and healthy habits By Psychotherapist Mertha Mo Nyamande We all have mental health issues, but some not as severe as the others; those things that we ourselves somehow do not feel right about, though not all the time, or those that others comment on, but we just don’t care or not bothered because it is who we are. Maybe we just do not sleep well/enough and never have but we have just gotten used to functioning on a couple of hours a night or just one meal a day, if that. Or we just cannot start a day without drinking alcohol or need to take a substance of sorts to get by situations. Nevertheless, we carry on as we are, we perform well in school, feed our families well, and life goes on. So, what is the problem? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); In Shona, there is a saying that goes “chisi hachieri musi wacharimwa”, simply to mean that things do not fall apart the moment we neglect them.