Lifestyle choices that affect your mental health

Mental health and wellbeing should never be ignored. So much is riding on your mental health! If you have children, they’re depending on you to stay well for them. And even if you don’t have children, your friends and family want you to stay healthy and well. But most importantly, for your own sake, you need to look after your mental health. Below I will outline some of the issues I’ve seen that definitely affect your mental health in a negative way.

There are some things you do which put your mental health at risk. Read about them here and do take care.

By the way, in my recent experience with a friend, I have come to the conclusion that ignoring mental health problems don’t make them go away. I have been reading a lot about mental and have found that Amazon has cheap paper- back and Ebooks on the issue. You can sign up for the FREE thirty day Amazon Prime Membership which gives you next day delivery on millions of items.

Drugs, alcohol and mental health

I’m not one for drinking alcohol but I do know many people who manage to take alcohol and can still maintain a decent living with their work, family life, relationships etc. These are people without mental health conditions. Mixing alcohol and/or drugs with a mental health condition is only asking for trouble! These already distort reality and can only push you closer to the edge if you have a pre-existing mental health condition. There are also dangerous contraindications if alcohol is mixed with drugs prescribed for mental health conditions. If you have a mental health condition and have to take medication, you will see it clearly written on the accompanying leaflet DO NOT TAKE ALCOHOL.

Refusing to take your medication

There is help in the form of trained specialists available to help with dealing with the condition.

These are people who have had years of training and experience and their advice should be

valued above your own or other untrained individuals’. Convincing yourself that you do not have a

mental health condition and therefore do not need to take your medication is nothing less than

foolhardy. If you find out that have cancer, would you go around ignoring it and just hope that it

goes away? No, you wouldn’t. Well, mental health illness, whatever the type, is just another illness

and needs to be addressed by the way of medical attention.

Mental health and money

Just like everyone else, if you have a mental health condition, you have to take steps to ensure that your finances are not put at risk. You will have to maintain your standard of living, keep up with savings and live a frugal lifestyle. This will ensure that you do not have additional stressors to make your situation worse. Here is a post about taking care of your personal finances. I am sure you will find it useful and will also find useful tips to make even more money in a short amount of time. These are steps that I have taken and I can tell you that they work. You may also sign up to receive our newsletter with more tips and ideas for a better life.

Relying on self-help

As was said, there are professionals who are qualified to deal with mental health conditions so I

would deal with them in the first instance. Of course, there are some conditions, that can be treated

with herbal remedies or even over the counter medication. Once you have a serious mental health

condition, you cannot rely on your own impaired judgment to decide, how, when and how often to

treat it. You must rely on the professionals for help.

So if you know of someone who is in need of mental health help, share this post but do try to

convince them that they need help. You can click on the Facebook icon below this post. Too many children and others suffer when mental health conditions are not treated as they should be.

And for you, look after your mental health. Avoid too much of a stressful life, but be the best that

you can be. This also means leaving for later or tomorrow, things that can be done at a later time.

After all, nothing will happen to the dinner dishes if they stay in the sink until the morning.

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Have a great one.

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Comments

Purvi says

July 11, 2016 at 9:57 am

Quite helpful…most of us include these basics…

- Joleisa says
  
  July 11, 2016 at 6:38 pm
  
  Lots of people do, but there’s a large number of people who fail to admit that they do have mental health issues. It is those people that I am trying to reach out to!
  Thanks for popping by and for your feedback
  
Ayeina says

July 11, 2016 at 10:01 am

Mental health is often seemed as a taboo topic. Hopefully people reading this would take one step forward in awareness!

- Joleisa says
  
  July 11, 2016 at 6:36 pm
  
  That’s so true. Even when I was to click publish after writing the post, I had to pray that I would not be offending anyone I know!
  Thanks so much for stopping by. Do you write about these issues too?
  
redroadrecovery says

July 19, 2017 at 5:35 am

Hi Joleisa

There are many things that has effect on our life. Mostly drugs have worst effect. I am a doctor by profession and I have many patients who are addicted to drugs and alcohol . I always suggest rehab center to them. But I really don’t understand how people can play with their life.

Well, Hope for the good 🙂 🙂

redroadrecovery

Lindansarmama says

December 12, 2017 at 2:25 am

Hi, not always but often there are malnutrision with minerals and vitamins when you are not ok, eg to much copper and to little zinc affect the mental healht, even up to psychotic. There are coming more and more studies that’s look into this.

- Joleisa says
  
  December 12, 2017 at 10:45 am
  
  I think I understand what you are trying to say. The point is though, if we do have mental health problems, we should be careful with what we do so that things don’t become worse.
  
Ashley says

December 13, 2017 at 5:31 pm

Great article! I think its so very important for people that suffer with mental health conditions to take care of themselves, especially financially. I can see how this would put them at further risk. Thanks for sharing!

Shelby Borton says

December 13, 2017 at 5:41 pm

This is a great article! Most people just write off mental health problems as someone seeking attention, but they are serious issues that should be dealt with and keeping certain things out of your life definitely helps improve mental health as well as keeping those with mental health problems in a better state of mind.

- Joleisa says
  
  December 13, 2017 at 6:13 pm
  
  Totally agreed with Shelby. I see too many people with mental health issues dabbling with other things and making their conditions worse. Help me to spread the message wont you?
  
OlordePrimavera says

December 14, 2017 at 9:51 am

Thank you for the info.

If the soul is not healed the body can not live:)

Angela Maria says

December 14, 2017 at 1:31 pm

I don’t know if this is the counts but there was a time in my life where shopping was my escape. I am an emotional shopper. Whenever I feel upset I hit the mall and I will spend on things I don’t need. It’s that feeling of buying something, anything – even if it’s buying with someone else’s money – that makes me feel good. I’ve gotten a lot better, but I totally agree with not letting one’s finance become affected because of your mental health.

Lisa Wingerter @ https://meandmymomfriends.com says

March 8, 2018 at 2:17 pm

These are so true. The hardest one for me is money. We are on one income (by choice) but things get tight and it gets stressful and can really mess with my mental health. I try to always be conscious of spending responsibly so that it never gets to be too much for me mentally.