Mental Health Types 11Ew, Crypto

Let’s Talk Mental Health

Learn more about what mental health is and different types of issues one can face by Tiara Bigelow

Mental Health

According to Manitoba Healthy Schools website, mental wellness or good mental health is feeling, thinking, and interacting in ways that help you enjoy life and deal effectively with difficult situations. It is a feeling of emotional and spiritual well-being that respects the importance of culture, equity, social justice, relationships and personal dignity. Mental Health Problems are struggles and difficulties that affect everyone from time to time. Everyone experiences mental health problems at some time, and these problems can affect their ability to handle day-to-day situations and enjoy life. Mental health issues can include many areas, from enhancing our emotional well-being, to treating and preventing mild to severe mental illness, to the prevention of suicide.

Mental Illness or Mental Health Disorder

Mental Illness or Mental Disorder refers to a diagnosed condition (e.g., Depression, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Addiction, or Schizophrenia) that may require medical treatment according to Manitoba Healthy School’s website. The exact cause of many mental illnesses is unknown, but current theories suggest that some illnesses are related to the chemistry of the brain. There are many things that may play a role in causing or triggering a mental illness. Jonathan Day, psychology teacher, said, Stress may act as “Stress that helps us get things on time a trigger for a or motivates us to move forward is a mental disorgood form of stress. Stress that deals der or may with relationships or focusing on how make it worse.we look towards others is a bad form of stress.” Ioana Lupu Pitulice, a junior, recommended “To seek help, whether it be your parents, counsellors or anyone else. Always go to someone that is beneficial or helpful to you.” Katherine Zendek, a junior, said, “I usually eat a snack or two and avoid what I need to do so that I can relieve my stress” regarding her coping mechanisms.

Taking care of Mental Health

The National Canadian Mental Health Association has ten tips for good mental health: 1) Build Confidence - Identify your abilities and weaknesses together, accept them, build on your abilities, and do the best with what you have. 2) Eat Right, Keep Fit - A balanced diet, exercise and rest can help you to reduce stress and enjoy life. 3) Make Time for Family and Friends - Important relationships need to be nurtured. If taken for granted, these people may not be there to share life’s joys and sorrows. 4) Give and Accept Support – Positive friends and healthy family relationships show their strength during difficult times. 5) Create a Meaningful Budget - Financial problems cause stress. Over-spending on our “wants” instead of our “needs” is often the culprit. 6) Volunteer - Being involved in the community gives a special sense of purpose and satisfaction. 7) Manage Stress - We all have stress in our lives but learning how to deal with it when it threatens to overwhelm us helps to maintain our mental health. 8) Find Strength in Numbers - Sharing a problem with others who have had similar experiences may help you find a solution and will make you feel less isolated. 9) Identify and Deal with Moods - We all need to find safe and constructive ways to express our feelings of anger, sadness, joy and fear. 10) Learn to Be at Peace with Yourself - Get to know who you are, what makes you really happy, and learn to balance what you can and cannot change about yourself.

ew crypto�� Cryptocurrency and NFTs have been taking over in storm, but are they worth it? by Juan Diaz �� �� ��

Cryptocurrency and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have become some of the most advertised for investments online. There is controversy over them, however, particularly on how they have a negative effect on the environment.

Bitcoin mining is the process of making new bitcoin via solving complex math equations to verify the transaction into currency, according to Bankrate’s website. The process of bitcoin mining does require a large amount of electricity on the computers used to perform the mining can cause several carbon emissions from mining alone, most of which are done on old and/or underused power plants. According to the New York League of Conservation Voters, a bitcoin mining facility in Greenridge, NY was permitted to emit 641.878 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Even without the environmental factors being considered, just like any investment, there is always a risk to it- especially since it is all digital. With crypto you have to worry about getting potentially hacked and losing your investments in data mines or not being careful with viruses. The crypto project you have invested in may also end up failing, as well as several scams being prevalent. Financial expert Dr. Christine Parlour from the University of California urges people to be “curious but cautious.” One of the big benefits to crypto is that it may gain significant value over time and possibly become a globally accepted form of currency.

Many people suspect that there may be a lot of Ponzi schemes related to cryptocurrency, and there have in fact been many schemes found in the cryptocurrency scene. Not all crypto franchises are scams, but you definitely have to be careful with what you invest in. In 2014 there was a website called Ponzi.io with the motto, “Get rich off the world’s first open Ponzi scheme!” Economist Robert McCauley from Boston University stated that “Bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme.”

Cryptocurrency has more negatives to outweigh the positives it has attached to it, including financial risks and threats to the environment and global warming.

Economics and Personal Finance teacher, Amy Ellis states that she thinks it is a very risky investment, but if you do invest in crypto you should be “diversifying your investments but only after you have an emergency savings account.” �� Economics and Personal Finance teacher Kelly Pollock has some experience with Crypto when her son invested in it. ”It’s risky because my son has it, and he lost a lot of money. People should work with a professional financial advisor if they are considering investing.” ���� Senior Carlos Lara Sanchez has already been making investments in the stock market and he said, “ I think they are a great investment. I already made investments, and I am planning on buying NFTs.”