Mental Healthcare is a very important, yet one of the most ignored aspects of life. We go to doctors for our physical ailments, but when it comes to emotional issues, there seems to be a stigma attached to it. People will generally give statements like ‘why should I visit a therapist/psychologist? I’m not mad.’ Or they would even say something like ‘only weak people go to therapists.’ But these statements are far from true. It’s not necessary for you to have a severe mental disorder for you to be able to take help from a psychologist, nor does it mean that you are weak.

A skilled and trained therapist can not only help you deal with emotional conflicts, but also varied forms of stresses and struggles of daily life. Here are some of the areas where visiting a therapist can actually prove highly beneficial to you:-

1. Work Stress – Psychologists can help you deal with job-related stress, and also help you to make better career options and achieve goals.
2. Physical health – There is a high correlation between mental and physical health. When we are emotionally happy and stable, our physical health has a tendency to improve automatically. Therapy can also help us deal with psychosomatic health issues, thus improving our physical well-being.
3. Improve Relationships – Therapy can help us improve the quality of our relationships – with our family, friends and significant others, thus helping us have healthy relationships and boosting our overall well-being and happiness.
4. Focus and concentration – Therapy can also help to improve focus, not only in adults but also in children.
5. Emotional conflicts – Psychologists can help you deal with unresolved emotional issues and patterns, thus improving the quality of life.

Mental healthcare has a very negative connotation which stops people from seeking any help. It’s time we realise its important and allow it to have an equivalent status as the physical healthcare sector.