Use Valentine’s Day to Help Discover Your Self-Worth
HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter
Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:
- Use Valentine’s Day to Help Discover Your Self-Worth
- Self-Love and Self-Worth on Valentine's Day
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
- Stand Up for Mental Health
- Latest Mental Health News
Use Valentine’s Day to Help Discover Your Self-Worth
Are you going to be alone this Valentine's Day? Those without significant others may look down upon themselves for being alone on this "Hallmark Holiday," which can lead to feelings of depression and loneliness. And while many may blame the holiday for bringing these emotions forward, maybe we can use Valentine's Day for something positive; to look at our own negative thoughts and feelings about ourselves.
Self-Love and Self-Worth on Valentine's Day
Instead of focusing on the negative aspects of Valentine's Day, embrace your own self-worth and discover your own self-love. Work on improving your confidence by spending time on your personal passions and accomplishing goals you had set on the back burner (untouched New Year's resolutions, perhaps). If you do not want to spend the day alone, plan an evening with loved ones and surround yourself with people who genuinely care for you. When you are surrounded by positive people, that energy can be contagious.
Plan a day or the weekend around your interests, needs and passions. By fully focusing your energy on you, you will learn more about yourself and appreciate the person you have become. Whether you struggle with depression, bipolar disorder, or another mental health condition, it is crucial to spend time everyday embracing the life you live and recognizing your self-worth.
Articles Related to Self-Love, Self-Worth and Confidence
- Relationships and Self-Love
- How to Handle Self-Esteem Setbacks
- How Negative Thinking Kills Your Self-Confidence
Your Thoughts
Today's Question: What have you done that helped improve your self-esteem and self-worth? 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.
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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:
- Symptoms of Workaholic: A Life Out of Balance
- “High-Functioning” Bipolar Disorder
- Mental Illness Means Physical Pain Too
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.
- Helping the Troubled Teenager (Mental Health Treatment Circle Blog)
- Depression and Resilience and Living Life, Even When Depressed (Coping with Depression Blog)
- I’m Not Afraid; I Have Anxiety and Is Your Food Making You Anxious? (Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog)
- Healthy Self-Esteem When You Have Bipolar (Breaking Bipolar Blog)
- Reclaiming “Borderline” to Reduce Stigma (More Than Borderline Blog)
- When Psychiatric Patients Need Medical Treatment and Good Self-Care is Vital to Mental Health Recovery (Recovering From Mental Illness Blog)
- How Do You Define PTSD? (Trauma! A PTSD Blog)
- Communicating Effectively to Improve Your Self-Esteem and Help Your Child Develop Strong Self-Esteem (Building Self-Esteem Blog)
- The Stigma of Admitting I Am Affected By Mental Illness (Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog)
- PTSD Rates in Veterans High, But Not in All Groups (Understanding Combat PTSD)
- Hungry: When I Went On Starvation Diets (Binge Eating Recovery Blog)
- The Effects of Verbal Abuse and How They Hurt Me (Verbal Abuse and Relationships Blog)
- Flashbacks and the Fear of Falling Back into Self-Injury (Speaking Out About Self-Injury Blog)
- Is Your Depression Caused By Your Diet? (Your Mental Health Blog)
- How to Create An Emergency Anxiety Toolkit (Treating Anxiety Blog)
- Side Effects of My Child’s Psychiatric Medications (Life with Bob)
- Losing Time With Dissociative Identity Disorder (Dissociative Living Blog)
- Recovering From Your Eating Disorder When You Want to Quit (Surviving ED Blog)
- Is There A Quick Fix for Mental Illness? (Getting Through Tough Times Blog)
- Dealing with Depression While Being Genderqueer (The Life: LGBT Mental Health Blog)
- 3 Personal Safety Tips for Newcomers to Recovery Meetings and New Research in Food Addiction (Debunking Addiction Blog)
- Schizoaffective Disorder and Weight Gain and Homeless With Schizophrenia (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:
- Can Attention Deficit Drugs 'Normalize' a Child's Brain?
- Smartphones Don't Make Us Dumb
- Unemployment 'A Cause Of 45,000 Suicides Each Year'
- A Very Low Birth Weight 'May Increase Risk Of Later-Life Psychiatric Problems'
- Staff Turnover And Complaints In Mental Health Trusts Could Be Suicide Warning Signs
- Stress Levels Are Down, But Money Worries Continue To Trouble Americans
- Several Mental Disorders Share Changes In Certain Brain Regions
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APA Reference
Aline, J.
(2015, February 11). Use Valentine’s Day to Help Discover Your Self-Worth, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, November 5 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/use-valentine-s-day-to-help-discover-your-self-worth
