Answer by Eggybread
Exercising and eating healthy :)
Answer by RightNowIAmConfused
Believe it or not, studies show that therapy is longer lasting and produces better results than medication. Of course, a combination of the two seems to work best.
Other than that, assign cognitive homework to yourself and work out your views and problems. Exercise. Interact with others.
Answer by Casey!
I take medication for anxiety, see a counselor, and exercise.
Maybe exploring your faith could help in some ways.
Answer by Kyra
I've recently come off two of my mental health medications and am only on one. Im getting better at managing my personality disorder, depression and anxiety and am making progress with my recovery all the time.
I think an important thing is to get to know yourself properly and your symptoms. When I notice things getting bad I can take steps to help prevent them spiral out of control. I try to fill my time with things that make me happy, something that everyone needs to do even if they don't have a clinical mental health problem. Having good support from workers has helped me to improve my mental health and helps keep me in a good frame of mind. I'm starting a different therapy next week which I hope will help me learn to manage things I find difficult too. I need to put more exercise into my daily life, but I do make sure I don't have days where I just sit around as physical activity boosts mood.
There's a lot in the news at the moment about benefits and people with health problems working. In my experience of working supporting people with mental health problems and also being a service user myself, I've seen way too many people who have a frame of mind that mental illness equals opting out of any employment, for good or that it brings entitlement to that. Just like with physical illness, there are many people with mental illness who are too ill to work but many can. It doesn't have to be paid work, good voluntary work has the same effect mentally as paid work. Work can also be part time, or on a casual contract etc. If a person only put focus on what they can't do and doesn't try things they can do, its hard to move forward.
Even if a job isn't a person's ideal job, it is likely to ease boredom, help self-worth, help the individual to feel part of something and to make friends. Social support groups are a good way to improve well-being and they've helped me. Looking at my adult life so far though, friendships I've built through meeting people through work or education generally have been much more positive than meeting people in mental health services because you're more likely to only have your illness-a negative thing, in common. In employment or education settings you'll probably not to choose to get close to someone unless you have shared interests, personalities that compliment each other etc.
Answer by Rebecca Morgan
Eat healthy natural foods (no fast food or junk food or processed food), meditate, exercise, practice mindfulness..... I have Bipolar 1 and have always worked.
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