Andrew
Online Reporter
NDINEWE Foundation, a youth-led organisation focused on tackling mental health issues, has launched a booklet to raise awareness on the contemporary disorder.
Titled ‘Understanding Mental Health’, the booklet simplifies mental health, which often leads to depression, drug abuse and suicide.
Speaking at the launch of the booklet in Harare recently, Ndinewe Foundation director, Ms Tanatswa Chikaura, said:
“Mental health affects young people in a big way and we need to fight it now, to curtail its impact, before it becomes a new pandemic,” she said.
Occupational therapist, Mr Brighton Mufakadziya, said the book illustrates and simplifies some difficult terms in the mental health space.
He said there are several techniques people can use to “ground the mind to avoid panic attacks, while various breathing techniques can help a person to cool down by slowing down the heart pace.”
He added:
“The mind matures at 25, yet the body often matures around the age of 14, often triggering a vicious cycle of body abuse and harm if exposed to drugs and cheap thrills.”
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