Three Ways to Manage Your Mood

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Three Ways to Manage Your Mood

Living with mental illness or other mental health challenges can make moods difficult to manage. Mood disorders, such as depression and bipolar disorder, interfere in the brain’s ability to regulate mood and emotion. Other mental health disorders, too, make moods hard to adjust (Different Moods of Anxiety and How to Tame Them).

When you experience moods you don’t want, whether they’re too high or too low or too anxious or too erratic, there are things you can do to regulate and improve your moods. Try these three ways to manage your mood.

1. Distance yourself from you mood. Moods are fleeting emotions; they’re not the core of your being. Repeat a statement like this: “This mood isn’t who I am and is only something I’m experiencing.”
2. Do something. Moods, no matter what they are, have a way of paralyzing us. Acknowledge your mood, and then act anyway. You don’t have to wait until you feel better to get going.
3. Practice mindfulness. Instead of fixating on your mood, use your senses to pull yourself out of your head, out of your funk, and into the present moment. Then, find something pleasant to focus on.

With these three ways to manage mood, your mood might not change immediately, but chances are it won’t feel as bothersome. That’s something you can build on.

Related Articles Dealing with Managing Mood

• Daily Patterns in Bipolar Moods
• Mental Health Stigma Affects Moods and Relationships
• Why Track My Mood if I’m Just Anxious?
• Mood Journal, Mood Tracker

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: When you experience a mood you don’t want, what do you do to change it? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, experience, 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.

• The Effect of PMS on Bipolar Disorder
• Video Game Addiction and How to Recover From It
• Why I Explain My PTSD by My Symptoms
• Staying Mentally Healthy for Your Child with Mental Illness
• Depression Makes Social Interaction Stressful
• Letting Go of Shame During Binge Eating Disorder Recovery
• ‘Man Up’ and Mental Health Stigma
• Risky Behaviors and Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Living with the Uncertainties of Bipolar Disorder
• Not Working Because of Schizoaffective Disorder, Schizophrenia
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): Leave Worry at the Door
• Coping with Death Anxiety by Digging Up the Root Fear
• Accomplishing SMART Goals with Bipolar Disorder
• Finding Purpose Helps You Cope with Depression
• Parent’s Guide to Identifying Eating Disorders in Your Teen
• Recognizing and Coping with Depression Spells
• Breaking Habits: Why You Should Break a Habit That’s Not Bad

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

Bipolar Disorder and Isolation

Bipolar and isolation is a tough thing for people to deal with. I consider myself to be an outgoing person, but when I am in a bipolar depressive episode, I completely isolate myself from those around me. You can imagine what my friends think when the person who is considered the social butterfly of the group suddenly disappears.

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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. Should Others Have Input In Your Mental Health Treatment?
2. Healing From Abuse: Decide What You Want
3. Growing Up Can Cause Self-Harm, but It Doesn’t Have To

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´m terrified that even if I try my hardest, I still won’t be good enough."

Read more anxiety quotes.

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