MENTAL HEALTH

MENTAL HEALTH

Each one of us, regardless of age, race, gender, income, religion or race, are vulnerable to mental illness. Hence, it is important to understand your mind and talk about it with someone you trust. Mental health issues can affect your daily life, career, relationships, and even your physical health. In this page, you can find numerous helpful & informative articles and stories on various issues like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, suicidal tendencies, phobias, and other psychological problems. Our goal is to promote mental health awareness and help you experience behavioral & emotional well being.

Here are some valuable resources on the most common types of mental health issues that will help you overcome psychological challenges, find peace within and feel better about life.
 
How Mindfulness Can Improve Your Overall Mental Health

Mindfulness has the capacity to make your life ten times better and healthier, but not a lot of people take it seriously and dismiss it.

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder 

People who suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder find it difficult to control their worry. They worry about things that seem perfectly fine to everyone else. Oftentimes, these people have had traumatic experiences that made them fearful.

 
A diagnosis is made when you are unable to control your worry on more days than you are able to control it, for more than six months. Symptoms are very similar to those of an anxiety attack.

Tips To Prevent An Anxiety Attack

1. Drink Less Coffee

Coffee increases your heart rate and makes you more alert. Amazing stuff. But drinking too much of it will make you twitchy, jumpy, and agitated. Your increased or irregular heart rate can easily be misinterpreted as something else, like a heart attack.
 
Since coffee puts you on edge, you are an easy target to step into the vicious circle of an anxiety attack. Not only coffee, but other sources of caffeine can trigger this. So if you drink a lot of tea, try drinking herbal teas – instead of black, green, or white teas – to prevent an anxiety attack.

2. Stop Lying

This applies to a select number of people, who lie in order to make their lives easier but actually give themselves more hardship. Remembering all the lies is stressful enough because any conversation that involves the subject of a lie becomes a minefield. And some people even encounter a situation where multiple people, who have been told different lies, enter the same conversation.

There are some rare occasions where telling the truth will only cause harm. You wouldn’t tell the parents of an ugly baby that their baby is ugly. But in most situations it is better to just tell the truth and deal with the consequences, it will make your life easier in the long run. Stop lying where it is not required if you want to prevent an anxiety attack.

3. Go Outside

Sometimes you need to feel the wind on your face, the sun in your hair, or the other way around! Other times, getting your socks wet in the rain and drying in a warm house is just what you need. We can create great little homes that have everything that we need, but sometimes we need to get away from that home.

The open spaces that you can only find outside help people deal with anxiety problems. 

Especially if you have a tendency towards claustrophobia.

4. Stop Reading Negative News

We are loss-aversive, which means that we don’t want to lose the things we have. That’s why fear is such a powerful motivator in marketing.

“Flash sale! Today only!”

You don’t want to miss out. Fear is so very powerful. The news is often negative, simply because it sells better. Therefore, fear is everywhere in the news media. Violence, abuse, and misfortune grab our attention more than hearing how everything is okay. If everything was okay, you wouldn’t need to know about it. It’s okay.

If you understand that the news is keeping you scared so they can sell more advertisements, you can stop consuming it so much to prevent an anxiety attack. The world is going to live another day. So will you.

5. Do Something Daily That Relaxes You

It is no secret that relaxation is awesome. Not the kind of relaxation that is mind-numbing, that isn’t relaxation, that is shutting off. Actively relaxing can recharge you to deal with the stresses that come with life. Meditation, walking, reading, painting, or yoga are active forms of relaxation. You have to think about what you are going to do next. Your imagination is activated.
 
Watching television is passive. I’m not the type of person that pretends to only do yoga and meditate. I’m a big movie buff! But by watching movies to relax, you don’t give your mind the opportunity to wander. And that’s the kind of relaxation that prepares you to deal with stressful situations. Here are some hobbies that can help you relax and prevent anxiety attacks better than watching tv.

Meditation
Photography
Walking
Reading
Crafting
Yoga
Painting
Gardening
Cooking
Playing an instrument

6. Stop Procrastinating

One of the most important tips on how to stop an anxiety attack. Some people become anxious because a deadline is approaching and there isn’t enough time to do the task anymore. Let’s not kid ourselves… We’ve all procrastinated too much in our lives. Often there is more than one task that has been put off. We keep postponing what needs to be done and the tasks become a massive hurdle.