By Kairo Aahron
Introduction
According to Bharat Bhise, it’s easy to lose track of your mental health in your busy and overworked life. However, it’s important to take care of your mental health to maintain quality relationships and deal with your own feelings in a healthy manner. Let’s check out a few easy-to-follow tips to boost mental health.
Tips & Tricks
- Make face-to-face social connections – Phone calls, texts, video chats, and all digital interactions have their place, especially when there’s a pandemic. However, they can never replace the incredible mood-boosting and stress-busting effects of face-to-face interactions with other people. Surprise yourself. Go to the park, the mall, house party of a friend, and make more social connections with old friends and new faces.
- Talk – When you’re going through a tough time in life, it may feel like the world is crashing down on you. You feel empty, and alone, and let your concerns, worries, and trauma hollow you out from the inside. Women fare better in this aspect since they are more likely to talk about those things with their friends and family.
However, men tend to bury themselves inside their shells and deal with all that stress themselves. Instead, talking to a friend or family member who cares about you can put your nerves at ease and relieve your stress. Even if they can’t offer any help, you’ll feel better just talking to someone about those issues.
- Workout – Workout is not just important for your body, but your brain as well. A good workout can help you shed calories and build muscle. However, it can also help improve your mental health by reducing depression, anxiety, and negative emotions. Research also suggests that working out helps reduce social withdrawal and increase self-esteem, things that can eventually boost your mental health.
- Make leisure a priority – Life is difficult and modern work culture requires you to put in more hours just to sustain yourself through the week. Moreover, there are chores to do, bills to pay, and relationships that need your attention. So, it’s understandable that leisure isn’t on most people’s agenda.
However, make it a priority to take some time off, relax and think about the positive aspects of your life and the good things that happened to you that day. This helps you keep a positive outlook and improves your emotional and mental health.
- Don’t skip sleep – Research shows that you can survive for about 21 days without food. On the other hand, it’s difficult to even survive for more than 10 days without sleep. The results of sleep deprivation are apparent from the first day. Apart from adverse physiological effects, you become more irritable, and stressed, and start losing emotional attention. When your brain doesn’t get enough rest, it progressively worsens your mental health.
Conclusion
Bharat Bhise suggests that you follow the above-mentioned tips and seek out professional help if necessary. You may feel like it’s out of your comfort zone. However, when you don’t shy away from difficult changes, you may also invite adventure, excitement, and happiness into your life.
