Stress, anxiety, and mental health had been trending issues nowadays. These bring emotional instability or disturbed patterns of thinking or perception. This is classed as a serious mental health problem that may lead to self-harming or suicidal tendencies at worst.

          Mental illness has no age. It can be experienced whether you are young or old based on your emotional quotient and stability. Problems are part of our life. If you don’t have problems so then you are not living, you are just existing.  It tests our mental strength on how we overcome it. Intermediate learners seemed to be struggling with their emotions as if their life and maturity stopped for the last two years of the pandemic. Isolating their selves alone at home might impact their mental capacity. They are more sensitive and have poorer emotional awareness. This is evident when teachers conducted the psychosocial activity at the beginning of the school year. This activity heightens the creativity, imagination, expression, concentration, self-confidence as well as the emotional awareness and empathy of the learners. There are psychosocial factors that affect the mental stability of a person such as social support, loneliness, happiness, environment, and society. It is very alarming that at a young age they are battling among themselves, battling on their own emotions.

          Everyone has their own problems and their own way of handling things. Thus, we should think that we are all different. A problem may be easy for you but a great deal for others. A situation may be normal for you, but a different circumstance for others. Always keep in mind to be good to others, in that simple way, you can help to keep other people’s mental health better, unknowingly.

By: MRS. MARILOU O. DIZON | TEACHER II | OUR LADY OF LOURDES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | BALANGA CITY, BATAAN