Practicing Self-Care Is Hard But Vital For Mental Health
HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter
Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:
- Practicing Self-Care Is Hard But Vital For Mental Health
- What Is Self-Care For Mental Health?
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
- Stand Up for Mental Health
- Latest Mental Health New
Practicing Self-Care Is Hard But Vital For Mental Health
It's a wicked conundrum: practicing self-care is vital to mental health, but when you're facing mental health struggles, practicing self-care often feels impossible. Mental health challenges can make people isolate (read about isolation and mental illness). They can make it difficult to get out of bed, let alone accomplish anything. Mental health struggles also zap self-esteem. All of this can make self-care tough. While it's sometimes difficult to care for yourself, it's practicing self-care that helps you become mentally healthy again.
What Is Self-Care For Mental Health?
"Self-care" is a broad term. When life itself is overwhelming, thinking of ways to care for yourself doesn't usually come easily. Breaking down the concept can make the task less daunting. Self-care for mental health can be conceptualized in many ways, including these areas: physical needs, personal needs, and interpersonal needs.
Physical needs are things like nutrition, hydration, hygiene, and movement. Personal needs involve feeling worthy. How do you feel worthy? Reflect on your accomplishments no matter how small you think they are, consider your strengths, do something positive. To meet interpersonal needs, connect with someone, pay someone a compliment, or even just smile at someone. Do at least one thing from each category every day to begin, then add more. Soon, you'll feel the benefits of the positive relationship between self-care and mental health.
Related Articles Dealing with Mental Health and Self-Care
- Why Self-Care is Important for Your Physical and Mental Health
- You Can Practice Self-Care on a Budget
- Good Self-Care Helps Anxiety at Work
- Treating Anxiety, "Self-Care?" Why Bother. Mental Health Recovery
- 8 Self-Care Tips for Parents of Children with Mental Illness
Your Thoughts
Today's Question: What helps you deal with your own unique mental health challenges that are caused or made worse by seasonal changes? We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page and on the HealthyPlace Google+ page.
Share our Stories
At the top and bottom of all our stories, you'll find social share buttons for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and other social sites. If you find a particular story, video, psychological test or other HealthyPlace feature helpful, there's a good chance others in need will too. Please share.
We also get many inquiries about our linking policy. If you have a website or blog, you can link to any page on the HealthyPlace website without asking us beforehand.
Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:
- PTSD Symptoms: How Trauma Affects the Brain
- Marriage and Mental Illness: For Better or Worse?
- Things Verbal Abusers Say and Do
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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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.
- Five Character Strengths of People Living with Anxiety and Trusting And Expressing Your Opinions With Anxiety (Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog)
- Improve Your Mental Health by Contributing (Mental Health For The Digital Generation Blog)
- Tips on Bipolar Disorder and Planning (Breaking Bipolar Blog)
- Reframing the Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis (More Than Borderline Blog)
- Is Mental Illness Relapse a Part of Recovery? (Getting Through Tough Times Blog)
- Domestic Violence and Why People Stay (Recovering From Mental Illness Blog)
- Using Mindfulness in PTSD Recovery (Trauma! A PTSD Blog)
- A DBT Skill To Feel Motivated and Confident and Do Things You’re Not Comfortable With To Build Self-Esteem (Building Self-Esteem Blog)
- Don’t Let Sleep Deprivation Keep You from Bliss (Living A Blissful Life Blog)
- Peer Support Can Help Break Mental Health Stigma (Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog)
- What Is a Binge Eating Disorder Support System? (Binge Eating Recovery Blog)
- Why Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is Often Misdiagnosed (Dissociative Living Blog)
- Early Sobriety Will Trigger Anxiety (Treating Anxiety Blog)
- Parents With Mental Illness: Trade ‘Normal’ for Happy (Mental Illness in the Family Blog)
- Mental Health Relapse and Family During the Holidays (Relationships and Mental Illness Blog)
- How to Find Courage and Confidence Without Alcohol (Debunking Addiction Blog)
- Antipsychiatry, Stigma And Schizoaffective Disorder (Creative Schizophrenia Blog)
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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Stand Up for Mental Health
Thousands Have Joined the Stand Up for Mental Health Campaign
But we still need you. Let others know there's no shame in having depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trichotillomania, OCD, ADHD, schizophrenia or any other mental illness.
Join the Stand Up for Mental Health campaign. Put a button on your website or blog (buttons for family members, parents, mental health professionals and organizations too). We also have covers for Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
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Latest Mental Health News
These stories and more are featured on our mental health news page:
- Mom's Favorite Child More Likely To Be Depressed
- Resilience-Based Interventions Could Curb Depression In LGBT Youths
- Medicine Used To Treat ADHD May Also Help Patients With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Mindfulness Training Helps Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
- Being Moody May Help Us Adapt To Change
- Right Side Of Brain Compensates For Speech Loss After Stroke, Study Finds
- Study: Strength Of Brain Connectivity Varies With Fitness Level In Older Adults
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APA Reference
(2015, November 9). Practicing Self-Care Is Hard But Vital For Mental Health, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, December 18 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/practicing-self-care-is-hard-but-vital-for-mental-health
