Stress Management: What are Your Lists Like?

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• Stress Management: What are Your Lists Like?
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Video: How to Help Someone with Bipolar Disorder
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• Mental Health Quote

Stress Management: What are Your Lists Like?

Stress impacts our mental health. We have busy schedules and face difficulties. Living with mental illness, or caring for someone with mental illness, presents its own stressors plus exacerbates the stress of ordinary life (Take our online stress test).

How you manage this stress and chaos is important. A common stress management tool is list making, but how you do it can either help or harm your mental health. Mental health tips for list-making:

• Make them. Lists allow us to remember what, exactly, lies ahead. Getting information out of your head and onto paper (or computer or phone) helps you plan and remember.
• Prioritize. Lists help you stay on target and focus on what’s most important.
• Make two important types of lists: To-do lists and to-be lists.

To-do lists keep you on top of deadlines and other tasks. This organization removes a great deal of unnecessary stress from your life.

To-be lists are perhaps the most important type of list for stress management. These allow you to decide how you want to be in your life, what values you want to work for.

Knowing who you are, how you want to be, and what you need to do to get there can empower you to withstand stress and enhance your mental health.

Related Articles Dealing with Stress and Mental Health

• The Connection Between Stress and Mental Illness
• Relaxation Techniques for Relief of Anxiety and Stress
• Self-Care — Make It #1 on Your ‘To-Do’ List

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: Do you use lists to manage stress? If so, what types of lists do you use? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, knowledge, and experience 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.

• Sharing My Life with Bipolar Disorder on Social Media
• Can Exercise Have a Place in Eating Disorder Recovery?
• Rethink Yoga: Reduce Anxiety with the Bee’s Breath Technique
• My Life Before and After Starting Antipsychotic Medication
• Mental Illness in Youth: How It Can Start, Clues It Is There
• Could You Use the FMLA to Help Your Mental Illness Recovery?
• How It Feels When Your Abuser Is a Nice Guy
• That Stupid Marshmallow Study, ADHD and Self-Control
• Taking Care of Ourselves When Facing Mental Health Stigma
• Finding the Right Level of Self-Care with PTSD
• A Year of Shock Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder
• Adoption Affected My Mental Health, Ultimately Benefiting It
• Bipolar Disorder Functioning: If I Stop, I Won’t Start Again
• My Husband’s Biggest Difficulty with My Mental Illness
• Two Years After My Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Diagnosis
• Superwoman Syndrome and Superman Complex Make Anxiety Soar
• Overwhelmed? Battle Anxiety in Three Steps
• Emotional Maturity May Frighten Us in Addiction Recovery
• Can I Be Traumatized Again If I Have PTSD?
• Empathy for Yourself and Others in Eating Disorder Recovery

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 Help Someone with Bipolar Disorder

Learning how to help someone with bipolar disorder is just as hard as learning how to ask for help as someone diagnosed with bipolar disorder. (Watch Hannah)

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I’m Veronica. This is My Life with Depression

Depressed and Locked in a Psychiatric Hospital

Major depression is a horrible thing and can lead you to do things that are unimaginable. At the time, I was 20 years old. One day, before meeting up with friends, I took an overdose of medication and alcohol. I didn't really want to kill myself, but I didn't care if I lived or died.

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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. What to Consider Before a Bipolar Pregnancy: Your Health
2. 3 Common Triggers for Panic Attacks
3. Stages of Grief and Recovery After a Sudden Death

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

"Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I" is replaced by "We", Illness become wellness."

Read more mental health quotes.

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