Mentally sound

Mental health is a condition of mental wellness that helps people to manage life’s stressors, realise their potential, learn and work effectively, and give back to their communities. It is a crucial element of health and well-being that supports both our individual and group capacity to decide, form connections, and influence the world we live in. A core human right is access to mental health. Additionally, it is essential for socioeconomic, communal, and personal development.

The absence of mental diseases is only one aspect of mental wellness. It has variable degrees of difficulty and suffering, is experienced differently by each individual, and may have very different social and therapeutic implications.

Factors that affect mental health
Numerous individual, social, and structural factors may interact throughout our lives to support or undermine our mental health and cause a change in where we fall on the mental health continuum.

People may be more susceptible to mental health issues due to personal psychological and biological characteristics like emotional intelligence, substance use, and heredity.

People are more likely to develop mental health issues when they are exposed to adverse social, economic, geopolitical, and environmental conditions, such as poverty, violence, inequality, and environmental squalor.

Anyone who has recently relocated to Australia for academic purposes may find it difficult to adjust to university life. While adjusting to a new environment, place, and culture can be difficult. Your college years could be some of the best of your life, and they’ll undoubtedly fly by. To help you make the most of your first year, we provide our best advice.

Get active
A degree is not the only goal of attending college. Take advantage of the groups and events that your university offers, accept the new world you have entered, and try to enjoy being on campus in a new culture. By doing this, you’ll make sure that your memories of Australia go beyond the confines of lecture halls.

Set objectives and make a schedule.
It’s all up to you; there won’t be any teachers pursuing you for homework or making sure you show up to class. Although freedom is liberating, it also requires you to be accountable for completing your work. Enter all of your due dates and extracurricular activities using your calendar. Create modest goals for assignments to avoid having to stay up all night the day before they are due.

Ask for assistance when you need it.
There is help available if you need it, even though you are expected to take charge of your education. If you are having difficulties with the coursework, speak with your instructors and tutors.

Speak with your lecturer or tutor in advance if you anticipate missing a class or don’t think you’ll be able to complete an assignment by the due date.

Give yourself some time to relax
Most degrees take at least three years to complete, and if you don’t take breaks to refresh, it will seem even longer. Whether it’s a regular night out with friends or engaging in hobbies unrelated to school, make time in your calendar to unwind and enjoy life as a student.

Domestic violence is any form of abuse or violence that takes place in a marriage or other intimate relationship. Domestic violence, which can occur in relationships or between ex-spouses or partners, is frequently used as a synonym for intimate partner violence, which is committed by one of the people in an intimate relationship against the other. In its broadest definition, domestic violence also includes acts of aggression directed toward young people, elderly people, or parents. It can take on a variety of shapes, such as sexual, physical, verbal, emotional, economic, or religious abuse. It can take many different forms, from subtly manipulative behavior to marital rape and other severe physical assaults like choking.

There are many reasons why victims don’t report domestic and family violence including:

• fear of more violence
  feelings of shame
  thinking that they will not be believed
  fear of being left homeless or with no financial security
  being isolated from children, family and friends
  loss of residence visa if on spouse visa
  For more information about domestic and family violence

If you are in immediate danger, call 000 for Police and Ambulance help if you are in immediate danger.

1800RESPECT
1800 737 732

This is a 24-hour national sexual assault, family and domestic violence counselling line for any Australian who has experienced, or is at risk of, family and domestic violence and/or sexual assault.

Individuals can also access local support services and search the internet using Daisy, a free app developed by 1800RESPECT that protects user privacy.

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