Mental Health 2022

In commemoration of WMHD, we’re holding a campaign to increase public knowledge about mindfulness and wellbeing and, of course, be able to apply it in daily life by practicing it to improve people's mental health levels. In making this happen, we work closely with several external partners on our series of campaigns.

In the series, we hold webinars, talk shows, and workshops combined into one series of events. In this series, SCOPH collaborated with the Indonesian Ministry of Health, UNICEF, Mengenal.diri as a speaker for talk shows and with The Golden Space Indonesia as a Mindfulness Meditation instructor. We also held an online consultation with HIMPSI and produced new peer counselors who UNICEF trained, HIMPSI, and Pijar Psikologi and immediately launched to conduct counseling to the public.

We hope that through this series of campaigns, people will become more sensitive to mental health issues, be more

Hanny Cynthia Elisa

CIMSA 2022/2023

Why are You Tired When You did Nothing And Keep Tired When You had Already Slept?

Fatih Husnaa Ersandra from MMSA UMY

Maybe we will not be surprised when we eventually feel extremely tired after doing so many things in our life. For example, when you have to physically work 24/7 in your office or intensely exercise without taking a rest. But do you know that unwittingly you can feel tired too even when you did nothing?

There is a study that explains this phenomenon, based on study by Current Biology on August 11th 2022, when our cognitive intensely works until it takes several hours, it causes some products that potentially poisonous pile up in our prefrontal cortex brain. This, in turn shifts will control over your decisions so then you move and choose on low-cost actions that require no effort or waiting for cognitive exhaustion to set in. Basically, our brain is not a machine that can work continuously because every need to recycle potentially toxic substances comes from the brain or in specific it’s neural activity.

So, are there any solutions or tips to do to prevent our brain from thinking and working too hard that can also affect our body fatigue too? The good news is: yes! Adequate rest and sleep are the best ways. Some researchers also advise people to avoid making important decisions when they’re tired. But in spite of that, did you know there’s a condition where the body still feels so tired and not getting better even though you have already rested and slept enough?

It is called Lethargic. Not only are they tired, someone who is lethargic will usually find it difficult to do many activities in a day because they often feel sleepy, unmotivated, and hard to concentrate. We commonly feel tired after doing so many things and busy with our activity, so we basically use heavy fatigue or lethargy as a sign or a symptom of some diseases. But different from feeling tired after activity, lethargic won’t disappear even though the sufferer has slept and rested enough.

Other symptoms caused by lethargic are moody, easily bored, lose focus and alert, and body lacks energy. Lethargic needs to be watched out more if it doesn’t go away in 2 weeks and is accompanied by other more serious symptoms such as chest pain, severe headache, hard to sleep and breath, weaknesses of paralysis of limbs, seizure, and fever.

Several diseases or medical conditions that can cause lethargy are iron deficiency anemia, malnutrition, thyroid disorders, psychological disorders (such as depression, burnout, anxiety, and stress), side effects of drugs (such as antihistamines and chemotherapy). Lethargic can also be caused by dehydration or poisoning, such as carbon monoxide poisoning. Besides that, your lifestyle could also contribute to feeling tired and affect lethargic. Those lifestyle reasons are poor diet, alcohol consumption, and caffeine consumption.

There are solutions and ways to prevent us from being lethargic. It actually depends on our lifestyle and personal circumstances. Eat healthy foods, drink water much, don’t sleep too late, regularly exercise, don’t give much pressure to yourself a.k.a. no more mental burnout, positive thinking, and doing many good things in life that could put us in the best condition. But if it feels too heavy to remove and it doesn’t heal in a very long time, you have to rapidly go find a doctor and seek help. As lethargic can be caused by so many things and to determine the cause of your lethargic, the doctor may perform a physical examination and supporting examinations. The examples of those examinations are such as blood tests, urine tests, and radiological examinations like CT scan or MRI of the brain.