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Your Health Checkup: YHCU: Mental Health & Olympics
Episode 34 | 1m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Mental Health took center stage at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Mental Health took center stage at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Breinigsville therapist Shonda Moralis says mental health and emotional issues can cause physical problems.
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Your Health Checkup
Your Health Checkup: YHCU: Mental Health & Olympics
Episode 34 | 1m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Mental Health took center stage at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Breinigsville therapist Shonda Moralis says mental health and emotional issues can cause physical problems.
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Mental health took center e at the 2020 Summer Olympica topic not typically talked about was pushed to the forefront as American super gymnast summoned, Byles withdrew from several eveno care for her personal well-being.
It shows that we're all hun and I think we see these athletes, these elite athls superhuman.
We forget that they are pee just like us.
Brian Youngsville, therapit Shonda Moralis says mentald emotional health issues can cause physical problems.
So whether it's headaches r stomach aches or back ache, those sort of somatic complaints you call them or something more serious, chc illnesses, inflammatory diseases will happen becaue are under stress and we'ret paying attention, Morales's says.
Subtle signs of a mental hh imbalance include loss of motivation, sleeping too mh or insomnia as well as self soothing habits such as overeating, drinking too mh alcohol and even over plang your day.
Our body will send us clue, often very subtle ones the beginning.
And if we're not paying Pattention, then they willw up in other physical ways,e says, stopping to do a sels assessment of feelings as y to keep mental health in ck and suggest seeking professional help when necessary for PBS39.
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