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Extra-Therapeutic Factors
This includes other components of someone’s life or environment outside of therapy that can contribute to recovery or affect change. Some examples include faith, supportive family members, community involvement, or a job.
Relationship Factors
The relationship with your psychiatrist, therapist, or counselor can contribute to a successful recovery. The warmth, empathy, encouragement, and acceptance between your relationship is a key part of the recovery process.
Models & Techniques
Models & Techniques are the therapeutic methods, strategies, or tactics implemented by the psychiatrist, therapist, or counselor to enable you to take some action to improve yourself or your situation.
Hope & Expectancy
A person’s hope and expectation they will improve can come from their support and relationships they have which can contribute to their recovery.
What You Can Do to Maintain Your Mental Health
Maintaining your mental health and help reduce the likelihood of a downward spiral occurring. Even if you don’t have a mental illness, maintaining your mental health is an important part of having a healthy lifestyle.
Build a Healthy Self-Esteem
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Identify your skills and abilities and what strengths you have
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Identify what you have difficulty with or makes you feel frustrated
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Build confidence by working on weaker areas and reminding ourselves of the things we’re good at and proud of doing
Build Positive Support Networks
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Make time for important people in your life
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Make time for having fun and enjoying others company
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Make time for having serious conversations and to connect
Get Involved in the Community
Recognize Your Thoughts and Emotions
All these tips are great, but there is one single thing that can help promote your mental health more than anything else. That is talking about or sharing your struggles with someone you can talk to.
Talking about your experience will allow you to process what is going on and allows others to understand and support you. Learn how to share your mental illness such as explaining anxiety to someone who doesn’t have it.
Mental Health Stigma Awareness
Stigma occurs when someone views a mental health condition or mental illness negatively. They distinguish characteristics or personal traits as a judgmental way which can lead to discrimination.
Breaking the stigma of mental health is important for preventing people from feeling unwanted or shamed. There are many ways you can help end the stigma around mental health.
What is Mental Health Stigma
Negative attitudes (prejudice) and negative responses (discrimination) can make a person feel unwanted and shamed (stigmatized). This is known as the Stigma Equation: