Overwhelmed by Mental Chaos? Simplify

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• Overwhelmed by Mental Chaos? Simplify
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Video: How to End Isolation from Bipolar Depression
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• Mental Health Quote

Overwhelmed by Mental Chaos? Simplify

Life can be overwhelming. Throw in mental illness, other mental health struggles, relationship issues, or high stress levels, and life inside your head plus life around you can seem like chaos. Trying to deal with racing thoughts, roiling emotions, or rowdy daily life tasks can make people feel like they’re spinning out of control.

You can stop this vicious cycle, calm the chaos, and find peace. A key approach to quieting the chaos in your mind as well as the chaos around you is to simplify. Clean out anything that isn’t serving you or is causing stress and agitation. Both in your mind and in the space around you, determine what you can let go of. Ask yourself some reflection questions such as:

• How am I talking to myself, and how can I replace negative self-talk?
• What clutter can I clear out of my favorite space?
• What mental clutter can I clean out?
• Can I create a daily ritual for sitting in quiet meditation? How would I like that to be?

Quieting chaos is a process. Inner peace and calm won’t develop instantly, but you will cultivate them as you make little changes to your inner and outer worlds every day. As you simplify, you will reduce the sense of being overwhelmed.

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• Overwhelmed by Stress and Anxiety? How to Deal with It
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• How to Stop Triggering Your Addiction: Feeling Overwhelmed
• Feeling Overwhelmed
• Overwhelmed? Battle Anxiety in Three Steps

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: How do you deal with mental clutter and chaos? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, experience, and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page and on the HealthyPlace Google+ page.

From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

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

• The Importance of Having Friends Who Live with Bipolar
• Don't Feel Good Enough? Remember These Three Things
• Getting Binge Eating Disorder Treatment at Home
• Easily Offended? Reduce Anger With These Three Thoughts
• Anxiety Can Help You; Here’s How
• Stigma Against Schizophrenia Prevented Me from Being Honest
• Intrusive Thoughts, OCD, and Anxiety
• How Our Expectations About Self-Harm Recovery Sabotage Us
• How to Defeat Your Trauma Triggers to Create Happiness
• My Mental Illness Is a Huge Part of My Identity
• Competition and Comparison in Eating Disorder Treatment
• How to Keep Healthy Self-Esteem After Rejection

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

I'm Hannah. I Have Bipolar 2

How to End Isolation from Bipolar Depression

When you live with bipolar depression, isolation can become a major challenge in your life. I know because this past year I was isolated from friends and family. The longer the isolation continued, the more anxious I became about being around other people. (Watch Hannah and subscribe to the HealthyPlace YouTube channel for more great mental health videos.)

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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. Increase Your Uncertainty Tolerance and Decrease Anxiety
2. My Life After an Eating Disorder
3. Normal Mental Health: How Does Chasing It Create Stigma?

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

"You smile, but you wanna cry. You talk, but you wanna be quiet. You pretend like you're happy, but you aren't."

Read more depression quotes.

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