Mental Health Awareness Month 2019: 5 Facts for Your Life

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Mental Health Awareness Month 2019: 5 Facts for Your Life

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s 31 days dedicated to improving our wellbeing and quality of life. With heightened awareness, you can take purposeful steps to achieve it and love your life even with its ups and downs.

Key aspects of mental health awareness:

1. Mental health isn’t the opposite of mental illness. You don’t have to wait for the symptoms and effects of a mental illness or personality disorder to disappear before you can build mental health. Determine what mental health is for you, and begin to take steps toward.
2. Mental health isn’t one-size-fits-all. Each one of us has a personal and unique definition of mental health. Think of mental health as your own vision for a life well lived despite challenges.
3. Mental health is an ongoing process. Approach it as a journey rather than a destination.
4. Mental health has many facets. It’s more than what’s in our mind. It’s what we do throughout the day, every day. It’s how we treat ourselves and how we treat others. It’s facing indignities with grace and determination to work through them (and again the next time and the next).

Finally, mental health is loving yourself for all that you are rather than hating yourself for all that you think you aren’t.

Related Articles Dealing with Mental Health Awareness

• What is Emotional Health? And How to Improve It?
• Understanding Anxiety for Mental Health Awareness Month
• Mental Health Awareness Month: Recognize the Green Ribbon
• Importance of Mental Health Awareness Month (and Other Initiatives)
• Adapting to Living with a Psychological Disorder

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: How has an awareness of your mental health helped you? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, experiences, and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.

From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

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

• A Mental Health Day Off, Guilt-Free
• What Can We Learn from 'Queer Eye' About LGBTQ Self-Care?
• Exposure Therapy Reduces the Severity of Phobias and Anxiety
• Changing the Neural Pathways that Cause Suicidal Ideation
• What I Wish My Friends Knew About My Anxiety
• Drinking Dreams in Recovery from Alcoholism
• Complex PTSD and Misdiagnosis: It Happens More Than You Know
• Reduce Anxiety Over Boundary Issues with These 4 Methods
• Coping with Changes When You Have Depression
• Therapy for Low Self-Esteem: How It Works
• Don't Take Feeling Secure in Your Home for Granted
• Can You Fully Recover from an Eating Disorder?
• How Travel Impacts Mental Health

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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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

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

1. Friends and Mental Health: Let Your Tribe Help You Out
2. Bipolar Disorder: When Isolation Begins to Harm Your Life
3. Feminism and My Mental Health with Schizoaffective Disorder

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

"For every wound, there is a scar. And every scar tells a story. A story that says: I survived."

Read more bipolar quotes.

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