 I am Dr. Saiyantani Rukherjee, Consultant Psychiatrist at Manipal Hospital in Kharnadi, Pune. We are going to talk about World Mental Health Day which is today the 10th of October. This year, the theme of the World Mental Health Day is Mental Health is Global Priority for All and I could not agree more as mental health issues especially depression are going to take pandemic proportions by the year of 2030. Some predict also as early as 2025. So why do we need mental health awareness? Mental health is often stigmatized and pushed aside especially as compared to physical health issues but we do not realize how much the mental health impacts the physical health. The mental health is only the function of your brain which is like a software to the hardware that is the brain. So your mental health, your personality, your behavior, your habits are all coming under the applet of mental health. So even if you don't have any significant mental health issues like schizophrenia or bipolar but even shorter mental health inspends like just stress or adjustment issues or mild depressive issues do need a good amount of care. So what are possibly some practices we can inculcate from today onwards keeping to the theme of let us prioritize our mental health. The need of the hour is work-life balance as especially since the COVID pandemic and the work from whom culture has picked up. The work-life balance has gone for a toss because your private personal home life and your work-life is now completely interlaced. So we need to know that again office going culture has started, hybrid mode work has started we need to keep a very clear delineation between your work-life and your personal life at home. So even if you're working from home as soon as you shut your laptop or you finish up your work that is when the end of your work day. You have to enforce clear boundaries in terms of then how you will not take calls or check emails as now is the time for your relaxation. And what should you do in terms of relaxation every day? You should do something called self-care. What is self-care? Now self-care sounds like a very broad general term but in terms of mental health matters self-care means properly relaxing your brain properly relaxing and sitting down how we sit down after a day of physical work. We also need to make your brain sit down and relax. So when you're relaxing and watching TV or web series or playing with your family or going for gym you should not keep thinking about work or what is going to happen tomorrow. You should take the space to be in a zone where you are spending happy productive time energy energizing yourself, invigorating yourself. You need to make the delineation very very clear because your brain is connected to your physical health through nerves, your brain is controlling most of your body. So if you're mentally stressed you will suffer from physical issues like fast heartbeats, palpitations, choked breathing, acidity, migraines, even sometimes skin rashes, hypes and hair fall which is something we are always concerned about. So this one mental healthy let's make it a priority to pay attention to our mental health to make our community health, our personal health better. Thank you.