Mental health
Mental health includes emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, act, make choices, and relate to others. Mental health is more than the absence of a mental illness—it’s essential to your overall health and quality of life. Self-care can play a role in maintaining your mental health and help support your treatment and recovery if you have a mental illness.
Self-Care
- Get regular exercise
- Eat health, regular meals and stay hydrated.
- Make sleep a priority
- Try a relaxing activity
- Set goals and priorities
- Focus on positivity
- Value yourself
- Surround yourself with good people
- Give yourself time
- Quiet your mind
- Set realistic goals
- Avoid drugs and alcohol
- Get the help you need
Seek Help:
- When you have difficulty sleeping
- Unhealthy appetite changes
- Struggling to get out of the bed
- Loss of interest in things you enjoy
- Inability to perform usual daily functions and responsibilities
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/caring-for-your-mental-health
https://uhs.umich.edu/tenthings
