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Mental Health Tips
Whether or not someone has been diagnosed with a mental illness, attending to one’s mental health is important. Here are seven tips on how you can do this.
- Take responsibility. You are responsible for your own life and everything in it, including your own happiness. Do not blame your parent, your childhood, society, others or life events.
- Be flexible in your thinking. Beware of absolutist, "all or nothing", 'black and white", rigid thinking.
- Confront rather than avoid difficulties and frustration. Treat problems as challenges, as useful in helping you to build up tolerance and experience. Expect change and challenges and for life to be unfair at times.
- Look after your own needs. Be assertive in identifying and meeting your own needs, whether it be for food, exercise, relaxation, pleasure, work, laughter, or love. We all need to have good self-care skills.
- Express yourself. Express positive feelings of love, joy and excitement, but also negative feelings of anger, sadness and disappointment. Always be willing to "talk about things," try not to "bottle things up" or avoid issues.
- Strive for balance. Feel in control of your life by making active choices and decisions about how you spend your time. Fill your life with a balance of work and play, time alone and with people, and physical and mental activity.
- Develop and maintain relationships. Value and nurture friendships. Develop a network of social support and solidifying relationships, as they act as an insulator against stress. Accept others for who they are.
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