Practical Self-Care Tips for Mental Illness

Thanks for your suggestions, as well as the most important self care that many of us with major depressive disorder, anxiety, etc., may find hard to do that many cannot understand or fathom. The self care of our own bodies. Finding the energy when there is none for cleansing ourselves. I hate to admit it's one that gets left behind when I'm so depressed it's hard to eat right or even drink enough water. These are my worst times, and I've been in one now for weeks. It's so much harder when you live alone and have no family or friends that support you or believe when you tell them just how much you just need a friend to be with you at times. If for anything just to sit with you and talk. About anything or nothing. I have a dog that's my very best friend and without her I don't know where I'd be. She makes sure I'm up and makes sure that she keeps me on my toes when she can. I'm also going to give the Pomodoro Technique a try. Divorcing and being forced into moving to a much smaller place has left me living amongst clutter that I've not opened or put away since I've been here 5 years this month. It's been a HUGE drain on me emotionally and physically. I dread seeing it. I've gotten nowhere with it. I've had friends promise to help me time and time again. It's been FIVE years and I'm still not comfortable here and that's horrible in so many ways because I won't invite new friends over because I'm embarrassed. I've never lived this way. It's not filth, but it's mass confusion for me and it's visible to others. It's been the thing that's eating me alive. I'm starting this technique Monday morning and I certainly hope it helps me make a dent. If I van see progress I believe I can finish. But I have lots to go through. Memories. Bad and good. Those are tough. But I'm giving it my all. Thanks so much for this article and information.

Thanks for a great article. You're absolutely right about sometimes not being able to do the popular self-care tips that abound in the media. I really like your tips.

Self-care presents primary approach to improving and to strengthen mental and physical wellness. When it comes to people with mental disorders, the need for self-care becomes even more pressing and indispensable. Therefore, it is advisable that psychiatric patients undertake and apply some psychophysical activities when treating their illness that would facilitate their psychiatric treatment. In this regard, your advice on overcoming the successes of psychic disorders and difficulties is a great and useful help, too. So we are dealing with a proactive and inventive approach to our mental disorder and that means actively counteracting the symptoms and complaints of the relevant psychiatric entity. The starting point in this sense should be the maintenance of personal hygiene, the maintenance of the environment in which we live and work, through communication, cooperation and interaction with persons in our natural environment. In addition, people with mental disabilities should have time off for rest, recreation and outdoor activities alone or with friends or relatives, fulfilling such boring hours and boring days. it goes without saying that all these psychomental activities should also be subject to the psychopharmacotherapeutic regimen under the supervision of the relevant clinical psychiatrist.