Psychologist guides how students can take care of mental health in Manaus

Guidance

Mental health improves academic performance and preserves quality of life

Manaus (AM) – Whether in the school or academic phase, mental health is essential for the quality of learning. With the pandemic and social distancing protocols, emotional difficulties have increased even further. And now, in the post health crisis phase, knowing how to manage emotions has become a priority for many students, especially those who felt anxiety, difficulty focusing, discipline and motivation.

“We started to have a more sensitive look at our students because mental health care will not only improve their academic performance, but also preserve their quality of life and even their very existence”,

pointed out the consultant for the Employee Skills Center at the Literatus Teaching Center, Marcilene Reis.

The Literatus EmpregueSkills Nucleus is responsible for offering training, guidance and monitoring of students and graduates in planning their careers. Personalized behavioral counseling, events, lectures and workshops are among the sector’s main activities.

Feeling versus Emotion

Psychologist Izabela Holanda explains that the first step for students to achieve good mental health is to practice self-knowledge, know their strengths and use them daily.

“In addition, develop healthy lifestyle habits, exercise, sleep well and drink plenty of water”,

advises the specialist, who came from Fortaleza (CE) exclusively to lecture on the subject to freshman students at the Centro de Ensino Literatus.

Expressing gratitude, generosity with yourself and others are also ways to cultivate health. “And train the brain, through the proper management of emotions and feelings”adds Izabela Holanda.

For this, it is necessary to differentiate both, while emotion is an immediate response to a stimulus, most of the time, external stimulus, something that moves you, the feeling is profound, because it involves a high degree of cognition, perception and assessment of something.

“Emotion is reaction while feeling is construction. If we learn to differentiate them and manage each one in its specificity, we will live happier and more peaceful days”,

emphasized the psychologist.

To manage emotion, it is necessary to use techniques to disconnect emotions, that is, to remove the intense focus that emotion brings to the situation.

“You can disconnect by leaving the stressful situation, direct your mind to remember situations where you experienced a high load of functional emotions, where you felt peace and happiness”,

suggests Izabela.

Another way is to write about the emotion or simply listen to music that you like, because at that moment, the individual is directing his brain towards a sense of well-being.

As for the feeling, it is necessary to understand what you are feeling, name the feeling, process why and then offer a new meaning to the situation, redirecting the thought and feeling to something functional and healthy.

*With advisory information

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