5 lifestyle management tips to reduce the effects of mental health disorders
Lifestyle management tips.
The following are lifestyle management tips to reduce the effects of mental health disorders. Changing a few things in your life might just be what you need. Below are five recommendations by ER24 to lessen the effects of mental disorders:
1.
Create structure
No matter how awful you feel, it’s important to keep to regular appointments, routines, engagements and sleep/wake times.
2.
Limit stressors
Take time off work or restructure your work schedule into tasks that are more easily completed, require less concentration and can be accomplished in shorter periods of time.
3.
Practice mindfulness
Mindfulness is a focus on living in the present. It is calmly accepting your feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations. Meditation can help you to be more mindful and when you are mindful, you’re taking responsibility for what you do, why you’re doing it and recognising that you have choices.
4.
Exercise
This is as essential for mental health as it is for physical health. In general, the average person needs regular daily cardiovascular, weight-bearing exercise.
5.
Eat right and avoid substance abuse
It’s important to eat a balanced diet and to avoid drinking alcohol or taking drugs. Often someone with mental health problems will try to self-medicate with alcohol, but this just makes depression and anxiety worse.
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