{"id":799,"date":"2022-05-26T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2022-05-22T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T23:38:00","slug":"the-mental-health-muddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"The Mental Health Muddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-800 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Venn-Diagram-of-Mental-Health-300x246.png\" alt=\"Venn Diagram of Mental Health\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Venn-Diagram-of-Mental-Health-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Venn-Diagram-of-Mental-Health.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>May is Mental Health Awareness month. And so it can be the easiest thing in the world to say, &#8220;Great, let&#8217;s just handle that then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that &#8220;Mental Health&#8221; is a bucket term that is impacted by a ridiculous array of inputs, including Biological, Social, and Psychological factors.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t handle that middle part until you understand which of the ga-zillion co-conspirators are involved, and which of them are the most important, and how they impact each persons behavior, and why it developed from their history &#8230; it&#8217;s wicked complicated.<\/p>\n<p>That said, we are beginning the conversation to better understand how to approach the issue, and this is a great start.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and btw, the other great beginning we have made is to start to take the stigma out of mental health. Needing this kind of help doesn&#8217;t mean your crazy, and it doesn&#8217;t mean your weak. It&#8217;s just another part of health that needs tending from time to time, like your heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental health awareness is gaining traction. And despite how complicated it is, we are starting to understand it better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health","category-wellness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Venn-Diagram-of-Mental-Health.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kBci-cT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}