Mental health : Breaking the stigma

Mental health is important for each and every person. Specially among the student community it is extremely necessary. The age of 20-25 where most of the students go to the colleges and Universities is the most crucial years of a student life. As during these years there they have to fight with a lots of insecurities and many kinds of stress and that's also silently. Losing friends, dealing with new people, new places, communication problems, future insecurities, relationship insecurities there are lots of problems to face by a student during this period of time. The mental health of the students is mostly effected during this Covid 19 pandemic period.This unexpected lockdown bring so much of insecurities and unwanted stresses. The sudden change in social and educational life had a negative effect on their mental health. It becomes little easier for the extroverts to deal with these problems because they can easily share all these things with someone but many times they also face some difficulties which they can't share with anyone and that can make a man weak from inside. For the introverts, dealing with all these problems become the toughest thing cause they are not able to share with anyone. I think the main problem of today's students is vibing with someone. In this 21st century world we made lots of friends on Facebook , we have millions of followers in Instagram but in real life we are very alone. We don't even have one good friend with whom we can share everything. We think lots of things before sharing anything like 'what will they think?' , 'should I talk about this?' , 'What if they would judge me after this?' We are living our lives with lots of insecurities and loneliness. Those who have at least one person with whom they can share every little thing of life is the lucky one. Because who doesn't have anyone is fighting with lots of things within themselves . These loneliness can easily lead a good student to a addicted one. So it is very necessary to give importance to the mental well being of the students as well as the educational. There should be counseling services in every institutions so that it became easier for the students to deal with this unseen battles and they can lead themselves to a right path. Smita Bharali 1st sem, Department of communication and journalism.