Reasons to Make 2018 YOUR Year of Mental Health

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• Reasons to Make 2018 YOUR Year of Mental Health
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Video: Bipolar and Empathy: Its Extreme for Me
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• Mental Health Quote

Reasons to Make 2018 YOUR Year of Mental Health

Congratulations! You’ve reached another new year. Forget the New Year’s resolutions. Celebrate being here in this moment, just as you are. You’ve had mental health challenges, and you’ve weathered them with your strengths. Celebrate that, and look forward with positivity to 2018, a brand new year waiting for you to jump into.

This might sound energizing, or it might sound exhausting. Living with mental illness or any mental health challenge can make it difficult at times to look ahead with enthusiasm. To give you a boost, here are great reasons to make 2018 your year of mental health.

• You deserve it. You have inherent worth, and facing mental health challenges doesn’t diminish your value.
• You have passions. Mental illness can feel deflating and can make you focus on all of the associated struggles. Yet you do have things that bring you joy, and you can make pursuing them a priority this year.
• You have good things in your life that mental illness can’t take away from you. You can love, you can nurture yourself and others, and you can appreciate beauty within you and around you.

Living with mental illness and mental health challenges can be difficult. There are times when you don’t think you will ever feel mentally healthy. Yet you are not your illness. You are separate, a deserving human being who has countless reasons to make 2018 YOUR mentally healthy year. 

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Your Thoughts

Today's Question: If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by your mental health challenges, what helped you keep moving forward? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, knowledge and experiences on the HealthyPlace Facebook page and on the HealthyPlace Google+ page.

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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

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

• Bipolar Disorder and Romanticizing Things
• What Makes Recovery from Mental Illness Possible?
• Permission for the Day Off Work Because of Bipolar
• My Mental Health Goals For This Year
• How We Ask About a Person’s Mental Illness Matters
• Build Self Help for Verbal Abuse into New Year’s Resolutions
• Mental Health Benefits of Pets for Children with ADHD, DMDD
• Schizoaffective Disorder Recovery Helped Me Gain Confidence
• Hearing Voices in My Head on the Train
• Stress from Positive Change Requires PTSD Self-Care Too
• Resolution to Manage Dissociation in DID for the New Year
• Feeling Your Emotions Matters in Eating Disorder Recovery
• How to Prevent Anxiety with Self-Care in the New Year
• What I’ve Learned in Life Since My Suicide Attempt
• Normal Mental Health: How Does Chasing It Create Stigma?
• Movies Romanticize Abuse Against Women: What’s the Danger?
• ADHD Organization Tips: Planners, Calendars and Lists
• Why Does OCD Makes You Doubt Yourself?
• Finding Gratitude When Mental Illness Takes So Much from You
• Writing for HealthyPlace Helps My Mental Health
• Have Depression? 4 Ideas to Start off 2018
• Mindful Social Media Habits Protect Your Self-Esteem
• How to Cope with Toxic People in Your Life
• 5 Tips to Stay Sober Over the Holidays

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

Bipolar and Empathy: Its Extreme for Me

Empathetic emotions are a significant part of living with bipolar disorder. This ability to share the feelings and pain of others is both a blessing and a curse. It causes many of us with bipolar disorder to be consumed by the suffering of others and feeling hopeless when we are unable to do anything about it. In this video, I share what empathy is like for me living with bipolar 2 disorder. (Watch Hannah)

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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. Handling Criticism About Your Bipolar Disorder Treatment
2. Taking an Active Role in My Psychiatric Medication Changes
3. A Walking Meditation Will Reduce Anxiety–Now

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

"It is in my head. It’s a mental illness, but that doesn’t make it not real."

Read more eating disorders quotes.

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