We all know that eating right is important to our over all physical health but what about our mental health? Just how does what we eat affect our mental health? Basically one does happen to have something to do with the other.
One of the hardest things to do for someone with a mental illness is to live with strife in the home. If you don’t already know in my home I have not only the kids but my mother and her brother as well. Anytime you have that many adults in one home together you will…
Discovering any good through challenging experiences can be difficult. We don’t always identify the good parts of what we are going through. Sometimes the lessons we learn from the hard times are only seen once we are through them. I thought I would share a few things I have learned from having a mental illness.
Just like with any other part of my life I have goals for my mental health. Goals that aren’t always easy to achieve but I set them none the less. They are more overall goals rather than year resolutions or anything of that nature.
Mental Illness can affect all aspects of your life, especially relationships. Depending on the mental illness that you have, it’s difficult to be with someone. Family relationships can suffer. I know that, for me, my depression deepened after several miscarriages. Add in the fact that my marriage was not doing well and you have the…
When you have a mental illness, one of the first things you learn is that you have pleasant days and unpleasant days. Some months those unpleasant days outweigh the good. Other months they don’t. It took me a long time to come to terms with my bad days. Most of it was from the stigma…
