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Lifestyle choices that affect your mental health

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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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    • 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

      Reply

    • 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?

      Reply

  3. 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

    Reply

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