Maintaining your Mental Health in the Era of Cut Throat Competition

CA Anurag Sharma | Last updated: 07 October 2021

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In today's highly competitive world, we often prioritise success and earning over our emotional well-being, leading to loneliness and depression when faced with setbacks. Our thinking, rather than our circumstances, often complicates life and leads to neglecting essential aspects like mental health. It's vital to remember that our mental health is as important as financial success and that spending quality time with ourselves and loved ones is crucial for inner peace.

We are all living in an era of cut throat competition. If you are a student then you must be busy in competing in your exam, if you are a professional then you must be busy in growing and earning more.

We want everything faster than our peers. Nobody has time to listen to each other and slowly and slowly we are becoming machines where emotions have taken a back stage.

What happens when we fail in an exam, or our client leaves us, or we lose our loved ones or we have a break up or divorce in a relationship? We fall flat. We look for shoulders around us to cry but in this blind rush of competition we find that we had left those shoulders we need to cry far behind, The loneliness engulfs our mind and we go through severe depression.

Actually we take necessary things for granted and always run for things which give us temporary happiness. We ourselves make life complicated and then curse our situations.

Mental Health in Cut-Throat Competition: Stay Well

The problem lies in our thinking and not in our situations.

We are hearing so many cases of suicide and heart attacks. The reason is our mental health which we don't focus on or we don't feel necessary.

Imagine we start a routine of meditating daily for 30 minutes in the morning. Suddenly one morning we have to complete some assignments. We will give our time of meditation to that assignment because we think meditation is not that important but our work is.

Now, imagine the situation where we promised our time to our loved ones and suddenly a client calls us and asks for our time. Our preference will shift to that client because money is more important than spending time with loved ones. And soon a time will come when we will have money but not the loved ones and we will curse our situation but won't realize that it was us who preferred money.

Our mental health is as important as our success or money. A human is an emotional machine. Spending quality time with ourselves or with our loved ones is as important as spending time building our careers.

We are not in peace with ourselves too. We are in constant conflict inside where we are fighting with our emotions. Our society has not given preference to our mental health. Its ok to open up to people about your mental health; it's ok to get help from psychologist. Our mind is a part of our body and it can get unwell too.

Just focus on yourself too as much as you focus on your dreams and ambitions. Don't take life for granted. It can be taken away from you any moment.

FAQ :

In a competitive environment, people tend to prioritise success, earning, and tasks they deem more important, like work assignments or client calls, over activities like meditation or spending time with loved ones, thus neglecting their mental health.

Neglecting mental health can lead to feelings of loneliness, severe depression, and a lack of emotional support when facing failures or difficult life events like breakups or loss.

The problem primarily lies in our thinking and the priorities we set, rather than in the situations themselves. We often complicate our lives by chasing temporary happiness and taking essential aspects for granted.

Mental health is as important as success or money. Humans are emotional beings, and spending quality time with oneself and loved ones is as vital as career development for overall well-being.

Yes, it is perfectly okay to open up to people about your mental health and to seek help from a psychologist, as the mind is a part of the body that can become unwell.