Mental health: Challenge yourself!

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Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
It’s important to remember that a person’s mental health can change over time, depending on many factors. When the demands placed on a person exceed their resources and coping abilities, their mental health could be impacted.
Although the terms are often used interchangeably, poor mental health and mental illness are not the same. A person can experience poor mental health and not be diagnosed with a mental illness. Likewise, a person diagnosed with a mental illness can experience periods of physical, mental, and social well-being. (source)﻿
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In this playlist, we will take a closer look to the topic of mental health. It will not help you with a daignose for mental illness or replace a therapy. The main focus of this content is based on mental well-being and how to take care of yourself. Check out all four activities to get more information, challenge yourself and discuss about it with others! 
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Look at the individual activities in the playlist. Click on participate to start the activity. Read through the activity and engage with the tasks and learning experiences. You will find all the websites and documents mentioned under 'materials' in the activity.
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Mental health: Learn more

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15 minutes

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Mental health: are you challenged?

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20 minutes

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Content

We all know that to keep a car going, we have to fill it with petrol, check the oil and water regularly and give the tires some air. To see a bank balance grow, we need to make steady deposits. But how often do we take the time to reflect on whether we are giving ourselves what we need to flourish and live well?
Especially in challenging times like now with a pandemic, ecological disasters and a war in Europe, taking care of your mental health can be difficult. Also, it can be so easy for us to take our mental health for granted; to prioritise other things; to put it off until next week. There are some things everyone can do. The following are some tips to get you started:
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Mental health: Are you challenged? Get this badge

The owner of this badge
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got to know strategies for a better well being 
reflected on these strategies 
chose one strategy which wasn't implemented in daily life before to use it for improving their mental health 
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This badge is part of the "Mental health: Challenge yourself" playlist which belongs to the "Challenge accepted - Europe" project from IJAB and GOEUROPE!/EJBM. This badge is confirmed by international youth workers.
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Tasks

Task no.1

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Looking at the 9 + 1 tips for your mental well being: which ones are you doing already? Was it easy for your to implement them in your life? Why are you doing these specific things?
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Leave your answer in the text field or upload a picture from doing these things.

Task no.2

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Choose one strategy of the nine or think about one yourself which you would like to implement in your life to improve your mental health. Which one do you choose? How often will you do it? Make a plan! 
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Write this plan in the text field and explain why you chose this strategy. 

Mental health: Talk to somebody!

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1 hour

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Mental health: Discussion

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Activities: 4

Started: 43

Completed playlist: 0

Time to complete: 1 hour 35 minutes

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Challenge accepted - Europe

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