Just • Life Talk +Tips 🫶🏽💕 — Mental Health 🧠🩺 • Let’s Talk About It ❕
- Oct 4, 2023
- 2 min read
In honor of Mental Health Awareness month and how we as people struggle with mental health issues especially, the African American community I decided to bring the subject to our "life talk and tips" segment...It's been a while so this is definitely the perfect subject to bring to the table.
What is Mental Health?: Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act, and helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.
🌸 What factors contribute to Mental Health?
- Biology 🧬 such as genes or brain 🧠 chemistry 🧪.
- Different life experiences such as trauma, abuse, etc.
- Family history of mental health problems. Mental health issues can definitely be genetically passed down that's why it's important to know your families medical history and background.
- Habits + Lifestyle such as unhealthy foods, not enough sleep, lack of exercise and poor stress management.
- Substance use can trigger mental health issues such as use of drugs or alcohol 🥃.
- Other facts could be your living environment, especially if it's not the best living environment. Your finances, especially if you're not where you want to be financially, and/or you're struggling. Your health, your social life, and education are other factors as well.
*** Just a heads up I'm not a doctor 👩🏽⚕️ nor am I in the medical field. I cannot diagnose you and just because you experience any of these issues/factors doesn't mean you'll develop issues with mental health. Please seek a doctor or a therapist at any time if you need medical help.
🌸 Things that can contribute to your well-being in a positive way —
• Appreciating life everyday.
• Getting enough sleep and better sleeping habits.
• Cutting out any unhealthy habits.
• Getting some type of exercise and exercising regularly; maintaining good physical health.
• Maintaing a positive attitude, showing gratitude and saying positive affirmations daily or reading affirmations every morning (hence why I post them daily).
• Building a strong community of support (if you need support from your spiritual community don't hesitate to reach out...I will do the best I can).
• Having healthy relationships around you especially with family and friends.
• Having a job or career that you like/love/enjoy. It should feel rewarding to you.
• Feeling confident and resilient daily. Just overall having a sense of purpose and meaning.
*** This isn't to say that everyday will be peaches 🍑 and cream but this can help ensure you're on the right track to have more good days than bad.
Click below 👇🏽 and hear Lil Wayne talk about it:
After reading this post,
I hope everyone has received some type of insight. Thank you so much for your support and walking with me through my journey and for allowing me to assist you with guiding you through yours!
xoxoxo The Spiritual Unicorn 🦄
I hope this continues. I am currently in therapy after realizing I was starting to have thoughts of self harming. Seek help! If you can't afford a therapist find a counselor or group therapy.