Tehran – People face pressure and disadvantage at every stage of their lives, which can threaten their mental and physical health. But humans have the ability to deal with these pressures and continue their lives.
Resilience is the need for living in today’s world. The various issues and pressures that arise from workplaces, personal lives, rapid social changes, natural disasters, and more are one of the problems that put a lot of pressure on individuals. Resilience is the right skill to overcome life’s problems, even when there are disadvantages and difficult situations. It can help people maintain themselves in this difficult situation.
Resilient behavior helps people overcome negative experiences and turn them into positive experiences.
Family medicine is also paying attention to the physical and mental health and environment, as family physicians are in direct contact with the family, responsible for preventive care, and health-conscious physicians, which means in addition to treating the disease, they also pay attention to all the factors that affect the physical and mental health and the environment, and the health of people under care.
In other words, they are well versed in all aspects of family and population health and factors that affect people’s health, such as water, air, and the environment.
They understand the emotions and behavior of those around them, and have a positive impact on themselves, their surroundings and their environment. Patients talk about their concerns and challenges by having close relationships with those they care for.
Based on personal and social responsibility, they teach the population that obstacles are part of all human lives, and therefore they should address the issues in a completely flexible way. They teach that while natural disasters, floods, earthquakes, and loss of loved ones are beyond human control, some obstacles should not be blamed on external sources.
Your family doctor will teach individuals and families to positively impact their situation and future by finding effective solutions. They teach their population problem-solving skills.
They teach self-awareness and conscious decision-making, and transfer this perception into their population.
They teach their population to always imagine themselves as survivors when they are in crisis so that they can overcome the situation.
They teach them to seek help from counselors and people around them whenever they need it.
Therefore, your family physician is a resilient individual in the global health system who can act consciously, have internal control, have problem-solving skills, have strong social connections, be responsible for actions and decisions, and teach society resilience.
The slogan for World Family Doctors Day on May 19, 2025 is to “Build spiritual resilience in a changing world.” This is why this name is given to the central role of your family physician in supporting mental health.
Finally, a poem by the great Iranian poet Hakim Omar Kaiyam Neisbari will be presented to you.
Until we make a touch with one joy,
Let us not become slaves to sadness, we will be lost in the night.
Share your breath before your break –
Because of many dawns, we collapse.
The author is a direct member of the World Medical Organization (WONCA)