 Hello everyone, I'm Dr. Harneep Korkuli, Consultant Psychologist, Manipal Hospital, Patiala. 10th October is known as World Mental Health Day. And the logo for 2023 is End the Stigma and Discrimination. Let's together fight the stigma. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but the stigma and bias shames us all. What is mental health? It is the ability to think, feel and act. It is the ability to overcome the stress in life. Mental health is very important since childhood to adolescence and adulthood. There are various mental disorders. Let's discuss a few. First of all is the mood disorder in which comes the depression. Most common is depression, then bipolar. Let's talk about a few more mental disorders like anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders. There are psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, many personality disorders, like histrionic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, anti-social personality disorders, borderline personality disorders and so on. What are the signs of poor mental health? It is when the person usually feels very low, loneliness is there, there is loss of concentration, loss of memory, the person doesn't feel like eating or eating too much. There are sleep disturbances, or lack of sleep, or lack of memory. He feels like sitting alone and doesn't want to talk to anyone. These are all the symptoms of poor mental health. Let's talk about the symptoms of good mental health. Good mental health is when a person feels like waking up in the morning. There is a purpose of life. There is a goal in life. A person feels happy. He is in a good mood. He is in a good relationship with others. He feels like working with people cleanly. There are conflict resolution skills. He doesn't feel scared of the fight. He knows how to solve the problem. So these are all the signs and symptoms of good mental health. So let's talk how to improve our mental health. One has to be very creative. There are some hobbies that you can use. Do drawing, painting, dance, music, do yoga, involve yourself in more in nature, work, try to eat healthy, relaxing exercises are very important like meditation. If you still feel like you are not able to overcome stress, there are many things which you are not able to solve. Go to a psychologist, take the help, solve your problems. Don't try to solve yourself if you are not feeling well. Try to take help from your family members, friends and so on. So let's promise ourselves that we will not take our mental health lightly and we will take care of ourselves because if a person is having a healthy mind, then only he will have a healthy body. Thank you.