Are you looking after your mental health? ⠀ ⠀ Care of your mental health is as important as your physical health. And mental health is not the same as mental illness. Alison Pay, Managing Director of Mental Health At Work, says “Many people, particularly in the workplace, find it difficult to use the term mental health, partly because of the fear and confusion around the word, with people often using it to mean mental illness.”⠀ ⠀ Whether it's referred to as 'wellbeing' or 'emotional health', mental health is a measure of our state of mind. It can fluctuate from day to day or hour by hour and things that go on in our personal or professional lives can influence this state. ⠀ ⠀ We all have different levels of mental strength. Sometimes, the steps in this picture are enough to guide us through difficult times. Sometimes not. ⠀ ⠀ What would be considered as challenging but manageable for one person can lead to problems for another and that's when mental health becomes a mental health pro...