Healing from Mental Illness: Two Things You Need

Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:

• Healing from Mental Illness: Two Things You Need
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Video: Bipolar Medication Side Effects: Weight Gain
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• Mental Health Quote

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Facebook Live: How to Cope with Depression 5 Minutes at a Time

“If only I could get a little relief from my depression.” Host and therapist, Emily Roberts, will share ways you can cope with depression in 5 minutes or less. Plus we’re looking for your depression self-care tips for when it gets really bad.

Join us Wednesday, April 25, at 8p ET/ 7 CT. If you have a question for Emily on this or any other mental health topic, you can ask it live or email it to us at least 4 hours prior to the live show. We look forward to seeing you..

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Healing from Mental Illness: Two Things You Need

Is healing from mental illness even possible? Any mental illness can make life difficult because of the way it interferes in people’s thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships.

It can sometimes seem as though nothing will ever get better. It’s normal to feel that way. The truth, though, is that as difficult as mental illness can be, it is not who you are. Therefore, you can heal.

Some mental illnesses, like some anxiety- and mood disorders, can be overcome, whereas others, such as dissociative- or psychotic disorders, have no permanent cure. Either way you can live well. Two important healing factors are:

• Hope
• Action

Hope is key to mental health recovery and is a crucial part of healing from mental illness. It’s an attitude and a core belief. When you have hope, you live with the mind-set that things can, and will, improve. Hope is what keeps us going when everything else tries to make us give up.

Action is just as important as hope. Action is the commitment to make hope a reality.

Hope is the part of you that whispers, “Things will get better.” Action is the part of you that shouts, “I will do something today to make things better.” We need both. Hope and action work together and allow us to heal from mental illness.

Related Articles Dealing with Healing, Hope, and Action

• Mental Health Recovery and Hope — That Four-Letter Word
• Holding Onto Hope in Bipolar Treatment
• How To Turn Anxiety into Action
• 10 Things To Do for Depression
• Action Plan for Mental Health Patients

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: What are important components in your own healing from mental illness or other challenges? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, experiences, and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page and on the HealthyPlace Google+ page.

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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.

• Bipolar Disorder and Cigarette Smoking: Why We Do It
• How to Stay Positive When You Are Depressed
• Letting Go of Borderline Cycles of Drama in Recovery
• Should Alters Share Responsibility in the DID System?
• How to Make Time for Self-Care Today
• Why I Chose Mental Health Activism Over Political Involvement
• 4 Self-Care Guidelines for Depression Management
• Try New Anxiety Management Strategies to Beat Old Anxiety
• How to Face Down Your Triggers in Eating Disorder Recovery
• A Day in the Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder
• False Assumptions About Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• 10 Ways Mental Health Recovery Develops Great Entrepreneurs
• Hidden Costs of Raising a Child with Special Needs
• What Is Rumination in Depression and How Do You Deal with It?
• Benefits of Social Media for Mental Health Support
• Is Coercive Control the Same as Verbal Abuse?
• Dealing with Fatigue at Work When You Have Depression
• ADHD and Writing: Challenges and Strategies
• Borderline Personality Trigger: Canceled Plans

Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.

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From HealthyPlace YouTube Channel

I'm Hannah. I Have Bipolar 2

How to Accept Your Bipolar Diagnosis

Accepting your bipolar diagnosis isn’t an all-or-nothing-process. It comes in steps. (Watch Hannah)

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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:

1. Sibling Abuse as a Result of Childhood Mental Illness
2. Health Insurance Anxiety–Minding the Gap
3. Lower Anxiety by Focusing Your Thoughts–Not Focusing on Them

If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.

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Mental Health Quote

"I will breathe. I will think of solutions, I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay. Because I don't quit."

Read more anxiety quote.

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