What Should I Do to Keep My Mental Health Well?

by Pathlie Lee Business consultant

Your emotional, social, and psychological wellbeing matters. Living your full potential starts with minding your mental health. When your mind is firing in all cylinders, you can knock off any goals on your to-do list and keep growing. Admittedly, the average American now leads a more stressful life than their grandparents did with all that’s happening and needs to be done in the modern era. But anxiety, depression, and all-out bipolar disorder don't have to be your lifestyle.

Whether you are just curious or are committed to maintaining your mental wellbeing after a successful mental health rehab program, here are 11 ways to improve your mental health today.   

1.    Take it one at a time

A huge reason modern living can feel too tough to handle is because of the multiple responsibilities you have to handle at any given time—and still, try to maintain a life-work balance.

The most itching and mentally taxing of it is the overwhelm; the feeling that you have to achieve everything in a short time—sometimes because it feels necessary, say at delivering at the workplace, developing new skills through a course, and also growing a personal relationship.

If it feels daunting, take it slow.

Jot down what’s most important to you going forward. Then, if you must handle several areas simultaneously, focus on just 1-2 improvements per area of your life and start there.

You can then take on more or less as you push forward and see how you are handling it.

Remember, start small to grow big and mentally healthy with time.

2.    Develop a healthy routine

One way to help you feel in control, not overwhelmed by all you have to do is to create a routine that works for you.

That won't make you boring. Rather, you'll become more in charge of your time and intentional about what you do.

Create the routine around your most important daily tasks. For example, include the precise time you need to sleep, wake up, leave for work, have lunch, and make calls to loved ones.

Importantly, set aside a flexible hour every day to do nothing but imagine, think and recollect.  

3.    Watch your drinking

Get this:

Alcoholism and mental illness almost always go together. One can trigger the other, a condition referred to as co-occurring mental disorder.

Feel free to get help from a specialist mental health rehab. Look for a mental rehab that offers a detailed dual diagnosis treatment program near you.

The best mental rehabilitation centers are private, take an evidence-based treatment approach, and have professional mental health rehab staff.

4.    Prefer to meet face-to-face or call

Treasure genuine connections and bonding with others.

A Brigham Young University study found loneliness can lead to emotional turmoil and even reduce your lifespan by up to a startling 15 years.

If you have fewer meaningful relationships than you’d like, put a bit more into making friends and staying in touch with your family members.

And instead of socializing on social media sites, prefer to bond by meeting up with people such as through exercising together, catch up over lunch at a café, and engaging in team or team-building activities.

Volunteer your time and do something for others to feel awesome. And poke some healthy fun while at it.  

5.    Get enough sleep

Sleep is so important to a person’s mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing that it can be impossible to get anything done after lacking sleep for three days straight.

Feel like your thinking, creativity, and imagination is lacking its spark? Need to be in a great mood and a have clean brain but don’t have eight hours to snooze off?

Find out your best hours to sleep according to your biology and sleep seven hours as regularly as possible.  

6.    Stretch that body regularly

Keep active. Physical exercise triggers the body to release feel-good hormones that increase feelings of relaxation.

Just 30 minutes of walking, 15 minutes or jogging, or 5 minutes of dancing to a favorite tune reduces anxiety, according to studies.

In a week, catch up on a total of 150 minutes of cardio, biking or walking. Or take 75 minutes total for running or lifting weights. Breathe and move more intentionally

7.    Eat to live

A healthy body supports a healthy mind.

Avoiding junk will not only help you maintain a healthy weight, but it’ll also help you maintain a great mood for your overall wellbeing.

Together with good sleep, eating fresh fruits and vegetables helps your body to clean any waste and toxins from your brain.

Also, getting a healthy balance of fats helps the brain get its basic building blocks to expand and repair itself.

So, eat a balanced diet in every meal.

These seven mental health tips will help you lead a more robust and fulfilling life when you start practicing them today.     

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Created on Nov 18th 2019 09:29. Viewed 169 times.

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