Mental Health Minute
What is mental health?
Your mental health includes your social, emotional, and psychological well-being. What does this mean exactly? Your social well-being involves developing and nurturing relationships. These relationships can be with your family, your friends, your teammates, or your coworkers. Developing and maintaining healthy relationships makes you feel loved, valued, connected, appreciated, brings you enjoyment, and also provides a sense of belonging. Try a new sport, volunteer at your local foodbank, share your musical talent at a nursing home, join a new club, or start a new hobby to make new friends at any age and give your social well-being a boost!
Emotional well-being is your ability to develop positive emotions, moods, thoughts, and feelings, handle stress, and adapt to difficult situations. By developing your emotional well-being, you are able to better respond to stressful events rather than just react to them. When something difficult comes up, try to take a few deep breaths, ground yourself (focus on the floor under your feet), and take a few minutes to collect yourself. Remember that acronym T.H.I.N.K.? Is what I am saying True? Is it Helpful? Is it Inspiring, Necessary, and Kind? Pausing to T.H.I.N.K. before you respond to a stressful situation can give you the time you need to respond thoughtfully and rationally. You can also try journaling to express, explore, and manage your emotions which can then help you decide how to respond to stressful situations.
Your psychological well-being refers to how you function with respect to your feelings. This can include happiness and positive emotions, having a positive attitude about yourself, how you manage your everyday life, having positive relationships, personal growth and self-improvement, working on goals (sense of purpose), and a sense of independence. Psychological well-being is about feeling good and functioning well. To take care of your psychological well-being, you can practice good habits like eating healthy, exercising, getting good sleep, and drinking enough fluids. You can also use relaxing activities like breathing exercises, meditation, and journaling to help manage stress and emotions. Focusing on gratitude, positive thoughts, setting goals, making priorities, maintaining healthy relationships, and staying connected with friends and family all will help keep your psychological well-being in tip top shape.
Be kind to yourself. Your mental health is a priority, and remember, it’s ok to ask for help. There are a lot of people, like teachers, counselors, friends, family, and doctors, who can help you find the resources you need. For more information on caring for your mental health, please visit https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/caring-for-your-mental-health.
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