What do you do to maintain or improve your mental health?

I maintain and improve my mental health by practicing daily mindful and holistic practices. It has become a lifestyle that allows me to perform and function from a place of serenity and kindness toward myself and others. I am a trauma-sensitive yoga instructor and volunteer to teach yoga to veterans in my community.

This lifestyle helped me immensely during my military career, allowing me to respond rather than react. Some of my favorite mindful practices are yoga, meditation, journaling, reading, and any outdoor activity.
I'll encourage and invite anyone struggling to find peace within to try to add mindfulness practices to their day-to-day. You are not alone, and you are meant to be here.

I try to keep a positive mindset with each transition I go through especially through the moving process. These examples include working out, using Headspace, learning new hobbies, and volunteering my time in every community I live in. All of these activities and more have helped me maintain my mental health so I can be a better spouse and individual.

I try to keep a positive mindset with each transition I go through especially through the moving process. These examples include working out, using Headspace, learning new hobbies, and volunteering my time in every community I live in. All of these activities and more have helped me maintain my mental health so I can be a better spouse and individual.

I rest in a comfotable chair an listen to smoe smooth jazz (cable ch. 1843)

I go to the park and take walks along the nature trial. I feel that it improves my mood and resets all of the frustration I am having. I think fresh air and being away from crowded places allows your mind to rest and be at ease.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with reevaluating thoughts.

I also study Kabbalah which teaches tools like pausing, finding the blessing, asking what I’m supposed to learn, and trusting that the process is for the best.

I’ve also discovered many case studies of people who remember past lives in verified ways. If someone kills themself, they face similar situations the next time around except the situations are twice as hard. And I remember all the people I’d hurt by doing so. And just embrace the process.

And fully feel and notice my emotions so they pass.

And live as holistically healthy as possible.

Exercising is the absolute best thing to improve my mental health! I notice that I begin to feel depressed after going without it for too long. It doesn't even have to be too intense to significantly improve how I'm feeling. I have to keep moving!

I have been therapy for awhile and have had my ups and downs In the past three years I've gone from trying to bye a house and the seller backing out 7 days from closing to losing my job to living in a motel for 14 months to being completely homeless for the first time in my life. I'm 59 years old and I've worked all my life up until covid hit and my live changed so drastically that I didn't know what to do. I prayed alot. I've learned that the best way to approach life is on a day to bases .I look at thing as, can I change what is happening, if not then I don't worry about it because I can't change it . Now if I can then I look at it a try to do the dest I can do at that time. One of my therapist had told me if can't change it then don't try and don't worry about it, it just will frustrate you and upset you, try to change the things you can and it will make you better. I just won't people to know that there is help and not to listen to those people who say it in your head because it is in our heads and that is why we seek help. Thank you to all those out there helping use who need it

Theres nothing that can be done, A local hospital closed there warm water therapy pool and filled it in for more billable treatment room. With the horrendous pain in all of my body extremety joint plus the Cervical and entire spine, I have only fentanyl and oxycodone to keep my alive now. There are two large, and largely empty clinics not too far away that could install a pool with 90F water and water exercise equipment that would fill up with veterans with a multitude of maladies that could be greatly helped with the warm water wokrout. Without it, my pain is through the roof and with my history of being abused as a kid, then in the Navy and finallly as a paramedic who saw too much horrible things. To answer the question, I fared very well during thye 14 years of warm water therapy. Now I have no help and everything is closing in on me. I'm holding it off as best as I can, but the PTSD is probably stalking me,

I write in my books. I have notebooks that I carry with me at all time and whenever I feel like something other good or not so good is going on at that very moment. I take out one of my notebooks and put it down on paper. This has truly helped me in so many way. My hope is that whoever reads this comment or any of the comments that they can use it and hopefully it will help them as well!! Gob bless you all!!!!!!