Mental health problems are a direct threat to physical health. Long-lived stress, such as the development of anxiety or depression, is one of the predisposing factors to heart disease. It also compromises the immunity making people prone to sickness. Good mental health often leads to physical disorders such as tiredness and pain.
Ongoing mental health issues have a huge adverse effect on productivity. Depression requires a lot of energy and concentration, which is difficult to complete. The presence of anxiety causes a distraction that deprives one of concentration and effective decision making. This contributes to greater absenteeism and excessive presence, in that people are in work but do less.
The quality of relationships is strongly influenced by mental health. Depression makes us become withdrawn and irritated with the rest of the world. Due to anxiety, one may become overly needy or demanding. When the distress is linked to poor communication and low levels of empathy, it destroys relationships with the partners, family and friends.
There are also physical manifestations of ill mental health, which affect work and relationships. The lack of energy or discomfort all the time decreases both job performance and social life. The inability to cope with personal relationships is complicated by the feeling of being physically unfit.
Failure to take care of mental health can be disastrous. It directly leads to physical sickness, decreases work productivity and performance, and destroys interpersonal relationships. To avoid these negative consequences which are related to each other, mental health should be addressed.
Conclusion:
Lack of mental health leads to the onset of physical illness due to biological responses to stress. It slows productivity as it interferes with focus, energies, and making decisions. It destroys relations through withdrawal, irritability, ineffective communication, and low empathy. These influences relate with each other and are influential. Good mental health is required in order to stay fit both physically and be productive in the workplace as well as nurture healthy relationships.
