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How to Improve Your Mental Health – Depression, Anxiety, Stress
Do you sense your mental health is declining? Are you not feeling as cheery or motivated as you once were? Here are four valuable tips to help you improve your mental health to be the best it can be. We’re in this together!
Want more tips on how to have a better mental health? Here are a few more tips: https://youtu.be/3QIfkeA6HBY
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hey psyched goers welcome back to our channel it's your outpour of love and support that drives this channel's mission to spread awareness about mental health and psychology you help us make psychology and mental health more accessible to everyone so thanks for that now let's begin the video do you sense your mental health is declining are you not feeling as cheery or motivated as you once were well guess what you've come to the right place we at site2go are about to give you four valuable tips to help you improve your mental health to be the best it can be we're in this together number one make yourself a priority are you often too busy or too tired to relax and do something you actually enjoy you may be studying or working too hard or perhaps you don't stop and take notice of what your body needs have you had a calm moment to simply breathe and wind down did you eat too little today did you get enough water you didn't did you you sneaky little psych2goer you may not care about yourself enough to get a good eight glasses a day but we hear it's like to go we care about you neglecting self-care is detrimental to our mental health research has shown that what we eat affects not only our mood but how we think as well and if you don't eat enough odds are you aren't going to feel great exercise and enough sleep are also vital to our health so if you're watching this late at night on your phone hear these tips and then call it a night your mental health will thank you tomorrow i promise number two create positive thoughts are you aware of your thoughts you may say of course i know what i'm thinking but less often do we actually stop to consider what it is we're thinking what we're saying to ourselves and if it's something we'd say to others think about it are your thoughts more often positive or negative according to a new 2020 study from psychologists at queen's university published in the journal nature communications the average human has around 6 200 thoughts per day in another study published in the national science foundation it was found that of the thousands of thoughts each individual has per day eighty percent were negative and ninety-five percent were the exact same repetitive thoughts as the previous day so we repeat a lot of negative thoughts but this next study will really put things into perspective for you in another study from cornell university scientists found that 85 of what we worry about never happens not only that 79 of the subjects found that either they could handle the difficulty better than they thought or that the difficulty taught them a lesson they felt was worth it so this is my advice to you stop breathe and think about what you're thinking about is it positive is it healthy more importantly is it something you would say to a friend who was worried too and looking for comfort it's always best to treat ourselves like our best friend be there to comfort yourself with positive thoughts and when in doubt with a worry try to ask yourself is this very productive am i making this more difficult than it has to be number three say what you feel guess what there's a writer here inside your screen and she's writing to tell you it's late and she's tired but she's feeling better now and she wanted me to let you know she's keying you into a little psychology secret expressing how you feel makes you feel better a brain imaging study by psychologists at ucla revealed that verbalizing our feelings makes our sadness anger and pain less intense when we see a photograph of a fearful or angry face we have increased activity in a region of our brain called the amygdala this serves as a warning of danger in our brain in the study researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study subjects brain activity researchers had 30 subjects view photos of individuals making different emotional expressions below each photo were the words angry or fearful subjects then had to choose which word to assign to each face some subjects were instead given two names below the photo harry and sally and had to assign gender appropriate names to the photos researchers found a decreased response in the amygdala when the words angry and fearful were expressed by assigning them they did not see the reduction in the amygdala response when using the words harry and sally meaning if you put your feelings into words you feel better while the amygdala was less active when subjects labeled a feeling the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex was more active and it makes sense why this region of the brain has been associated with thinking in words about emotional experiences so if you want to better your mental health try talking to a friend or psychologist about your feelings or write them in a journal just the act of writing in words about how you feel can have positive and powerful effects number four be compassionate to others a little compassion can go a long way wouldn't you want someone to show you a little love and kindness and i bet when you treat someone with kindness or do someone a favor you often feel a little bit better too don't you well there's research to support this according to research from psychologists ed diener and martin seligman altruism can lead to improved mental and physical health as well as speed up recovery from disease and brain imaging research from naomi eisenberger at ucla has found that providing support for others may have unique positive effects on key brain areas involved in stress and reward responses so if research shows that a little compassion and support can predict decreased stress response in the brain and improve mental health what are you waiting for odds are you've been considering helping out others in some way now's your chance reach out to a family member or old friend who could use some support donate to a charity or volunteer with an organization you care about i'm sure they'd love to support as much as you after all what a better way to lift yourself up than to lift someone else's spirits up in the process so will you use these tips did you find them helpful are you going to drink more water i'm watching you psych2goers will you express your feelings into words down in the comment section below we are here to listen because we care about you and want to hear you out after all your mental health may just thank you if you find it hard to manage your life and suspect you might be suffering from an undiagnosed mental illness we encourage you to seek professional help if you found this video helpful don't forget to click the like button and share this video with someone whose mental health could use it subscribe to psyc2go and hit the notification bell icon for more content like this and as always thanks so much for watching see you soon
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It's impossible to improve your mental health with only a 7 minute video, it's a complex topic
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It was truly helpful to hear such clear and actionable advice on dealing with depression, anxiety, and stress. I hope more people can access this kind of information about mental health. Sincerely grateful for this video.
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I have been feeling down lately. I haven’t wanted to get out of bed or do anything at all. I don’t feel like myself, and I’m struggling to understand who I am. I don’t even know what I enjoy anymore. I feel very selfish and increasingly depressed, and I experience a lot of anxiety. All I want is to get better.
I want to explore new places and discover what I love. I want to be my true self around others. It feels like there’s just so much going on right now. I sleep for a long time but still wake up feeling tired. My skin has been breaking out badly, and despite my efforts to take care of it, it feels overwhelming.
My mom has been facing a lot of problems, and I find myself being disrespectful toward her because my mental health and depression feel burdensome. I just want to wake up one day and feel okay, unaffected by negativity. I want to feel confident about myself around my family and figure out what I truly want and need in life.😥
I really need this
I’ve been not feeling myself lately, my thoughts are all over the place. Schoolworks piling up just because i don’t know if it’s worth to do them. Problems also piling up and it makes things more harder for me to think straight and positive. I always say I’m fine and that everything happens for a reasons but in fact i am not fine and if there’s really a reason, i wanna know why. I always say what i feel about to myfriends but they won’t understand even my boyfriend. These thoughts of mine affected them so greatly that i often thought i am now so inferior and easily to underestimate. I can’t feel at peace anymore and it was hard sleeping at night too. But then i searched what to do to make my mental health better, i saw this video. I am so grateful i listened to this, it makes me feel a little bit better right now. Thank you ❤
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i feel scared bcs i feel like some things i did will get to me soon and i feel like it will be the end of my life im scared but i hope i didnt go that far in what i did which i dont even wanna say here but its bad for me but i think it will be fine
My anxiety has gotten so bad that I don't even sleep anymore until my brains tired from overthinking. Everything feels wrong I'm not doing anything right and I feel like a massive failure.
I’m going through a really tough time rn I cut off all my toxic friendships but now I don’t have anyone to talk to 🙁 I have to get better soon or bad things are gonna happen and I can’t go back to the ward.
I don't know but i always always find it hard to tell something. Like, even simply saying, "im struggling currently -". I just can't. I don't know why. My head's quite messy at some point specially if I'm already depressed. All I do is sleep most of the time.
Its also the fact that I also live with a sick person; someone who needs care too. And most of the time after school, I just couldn't find a comfort. Something that will make me feel rested.
such practical advice, really appreciate it
I feel like i'm just getting worse. I wake up having bad thoughts and crying, i have little motivation to do the things i need to and even less to take care of myself. I'm just so stressed, so tired, so confused.
I like the video a lot! But I was a little off put by the speed change in you're voice and my own lack of understanding the medical terms, but that's on me. You have a great voice! 😊
Me watching this Video while on a break from my training after 3h straight hating my self so much and thinking about the biceps training of about 1h i still need to do while i sleep now for over a year so poor that i wake up all 20-60min even with sleeping pills. Feeling my heart that just begs for mercy and my mind answering "Look, we eighter get in shape till Women start talking to us cause we are to shy to do it or you stop beating. Eighter way, i win 🤷🏻♂️". I sometimes feel like my body takes air in, transforms it in to fat and stores it. Eating healthy, training, eating nothing… doesent matter my weight seems to know only one way, beam my fat ass up scotty
I am gonna get better. Thank you for your support, as always. Xoxo
Maybe if I will help someone who requires not physical and stressful work then it will feel better
Watching this on my senior year and my finals starting tmr and I’m fs not passing😔
It's crazy cuz while u r speaking I was overthinking
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I have schizophrenia and ADHD and depression. And hyper sexuality. I hate how I thought about sex everyday all day long. It’s not a choice for me anymore. I feel like I lost who really was what am I other than sex. Life is way more than just sex.
Heyy! I've always been a kid who was never good at or should i say didn't know how to express her feelings and because of that i've always ignored what i felt and now when i am in my teens idk why i am always quite and sad not productive at all it's just so hard to complete even one task everything just feels so hard and complicated tbh
Thank You for the vidio,I hope this comment helps me get rid of the sadness after my mother died
school makes me feel so worked up and busy all the time. I go to a boarding so I don’t get to see my family a lot. There’s always a tight feeling in my chest when I go to school or am in a public place.
Good ways for improving your mental health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvyGYCuCp0A&ab_channel=HealthcareChannel
what if i don't have friends?
I've been watching your channel since last summer and i wanted to thank you for everything. This year i js started high school and its been crazy including having a broken arm and dealing with stress but your videos help me. 💙
I am feeling something I feel every other year. And it’s been much worse now that I’m a senior in high school. I feel like everything is going to change so much and I’m so worried. So anxious and so scary. I’m Turing 18 soon, and I wish I could go back to 16. So much worry and so much of everything. My heart starts to pound. I hate it. But I know there is a bright side to everything. So I’m going to hang on and do what I have too. Whether I like it or not
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Positive thoughts is not helpful when your parents have been shouting at you every day
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From some past days my friend and I wee having issues of trustiong each other me mainly and I am unable to trust her and. Having confusion about it even if if I talked about it ok
Thank You Pyh2go
i feel hopeesss, betray ,i overtrust
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I'm struggling with my own mental health feeling anxious depressed and lost
I wish my mental health was bad because I haven’t gotten a break in a long time. I’m only in one online class and have no job. I’ve barely done anything in 6 months.
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