How to Deal with Irritability and Mental Health Disorders

HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter

Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:

• How to Deal with Irritability and Mental Health Disorders
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Video: Taking Bipolar Medications Isn't Crazy
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• Mental Health Quote

How to Deal with Irritability and Mental Health Disorders

Irritability and mental health disorders are frequent partners (The Links Between Anxiety, Anger, and Depression). The neurological changes in the brain that contribute to mental illnesses can change emotions and thoughts, sometimes making us feel agitated, tense, and far from calm and peaceful. Then, once we experience irritability and begin to act on it, we can worsen negative thoughts and emotions and increase feelings of anger. Dealing with this irritability positively can help us better tend to mental health.

Try these tips for dealing with irritability:

• Breathe. Taking slow, deep breaths calms the mind, reduces tension and anxiety, and takes irritability down a few notches.
• Release pent-up tension. Take a brisk walk around the block, trot up and down several flights of stairs, or squeeze stress balls rhythmically.
• Take time for yourself, away from stimulation.
• Have a code word. It can be hard to calmly explain that we need some time to ourselves. Using a code word allows you to excuse yourself without having to explain, as the code word explains for you.
• Whatever you do, keep it simple. The goal is to soothe, not to increase irritability.

Irritability occurs with many mental health disorders, but you don't have to let it take over. Deal with irritability to enhance your inner peace and wellbeing.

Related Articles Dealing with Irritability

• How Not to Take Bipolar Hypomania Irritability Out on Others
• Recognition of Irritation and Anxiety

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: When you are irritable and annoyed at the world, how do you keep from snapping at everyone in your path? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, experiences, and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.

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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.

• Alcoholism Symptoms Should Not Vary By Culture
• Managing Your Child’s Mental Illness Even You’re Not With Them
• Stop Comparing Yourself to Others to Stop Stigma
• The Benefits of Dance Movement Therapy for Eating Disorders
• How to Support Someone with Bipolar Disorder
• What Are Your Addiction Recovery Tools?
• I Miss the Voices in My Head: Read the Surprising Reason Why
• How to Get Rid of Anxiety by Focusing on Yourself
• Apathy in Depression Is Challenging, Not Permanent
• Complicated Grief and Bipolar After the Loss of a Loved One

Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.

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From HealthyPlace YouTube Channel

Taking Bipolar Medications Isn't Crazy

"What?! You're taking bipolar medications. Are you crazy?" I know you've heard something like this before; where people try and make you feel bad about taking medications for bipolar disorder or any other mental health condition..

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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:

1. Keeping a Job When You Have Bipolar Disorder
2. Admitting a Child to Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment: A Parent’s Perspective
3. Using Emergency Rooms as Mental Health Wards Doesn’t Work

If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.

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Mental Health Quote

""I feel so disconnected from the world, and I feel like no one even notices me or cares about me anymore." - Jordan Hoke.

Read more depression quotes.

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