Awareness months and self-care platitudes only go so far. We also need these changes.
, talking about mental health struggles publicly. She hopes other representations – like realistic commercials that depict what it’s actually like to live with a mental health condition – will become more common, too.
People should see themselves in all types of media, Patel says, noting that some mental health commercials, for example, should have a picture of a mum running around with her kids rather than staring sadly out a window.Cook adds that additional media-related issues revolve around unrealistic images: “Can we just stop airbrushing models? They’re not going to stop, I get it, but all of that impacts mental health.
Consumers can support companies that have pledged to stop airbrushing models and can also evaluate their own social media feeds to promote increased exposure to real bodies. can help rewire your brain to see your body for what it is – normal – and decrease the pressure to conform to something unhealthy.The pandemic has revealed the plight of the, especially mothers, face on a daily basis. Part of the solution to relieving parents’ mental health struggles, Cook says, is a minimum of one year of maternity leave along with increased childcare options. She proposes placing them in or close to businesses where parents work.
“Parents need the bond and it’s important for children to feel connected. And when the day care is close to where an individual works, they can on a break go and say hi, have access to their child, [check on] a runny nose… have lunch together,” she says. This would eliminate the issue of parents being “forced to go back to work before they’re ready” or thrusting a child into a day care environment too early.
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