Loading ...Staying Well with Mental Illness
When you have a mental illness, you may not realize how important your overall health is to your recovery. Having poor overall health can get in the way and make recovery harder. Finding ways to take care of your health can aid your recovery and help you feel better overall. Here are some things you can do.
Slow down and take one thing at a time. If you feel like you have too much to do, make a list and work on it one task at a time.
Know your limits. Let others know, them too. If you’re overwhelmed at home or work, or with friends, learn how to say “no.” It may be hard at first, so practice saying “no” with the people you trust most.
Depression and relationships
Remember that depression is a real illness that should be taken seriously. Don’t belittle the person by saying things such as “Snap out of it,” “Get over it” or “Everyone feels down now and then.” Try your best to understand the illness.
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Dealing with the effects of stress and grief
We live in a world where stress and grief reside side by side. Millions of people throughout the earth deal with pollution, traffic, crime, jobs that are not satisfying, abuse of one sort or another and loss of loved ones or dreams. Millions at one time or another deal with the effects of stress, anxiety, grief and depression.
America’s Prisons
The state of Texas incarcerates more people than Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands combined. Currently, there are approximately 2.4 million persons incarcerated in the U.S. and our nation spends $212 billion a year on law enforcement, courts and prisons combined.
Between 1965 and 2000 the number of prisoners in the U.S. increased over 600 %; in Texas the increase in incarcerations was twice that. Still, Texans have a crime rate that is 24% higher than the national average.
Coping with Suicide Loss
Even though it may seem difficult, maintaining contact with other people is especially important during the stress-filled months after a loved one’s suicide. When you feel ready, begin to go on with your life. Children experience many of the feelings of adult grief, and are particularly vulnerable to feeling abandoned and guilty. Reassure them that the death was not their fault. Listen to their questions, and try to offer honest, straightforward, age-appropriate answers.
Mental Disorders in America
Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate Mental-Illness for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 58 million people.
Where did the weekend go?
The mind is a very unpredictable and interesting thing. It could help you have a good time, enjoy your life one minute and it would take all that away the next minute.
Clinical Depression really sucks
Clinical depression can make people miserable and life almost unbearable, leaving you with little or no desire to do even the most mundane things in life. It is as if you were just going thru the motions of life, with no purpose whatsoever and unable to see the proverbial “light at the end of the tunnel”. In some cases, it leads to suicide.
My friend the “Mind”
Have you ever felt this weird sensation in your mind? It seems as if you were going crazy. As if there is a “big loud, yet sad party going on in your mind, but nobody invited you to it and you are not the organizer.
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