Mental Health

Mental health means striking a balance in all aspects of your life: social, physical, spiritual, economic and mental. Reaching a balance is a learning process. At times, you may tip the balance too much in one direction and have to find your footing again. Your personal balance will be unique, and your challenge will be to stay mentally healthy by keeping that balance.
How to maintain balance:

• Build Confidence : Identify your abilities and weaknesses together, accept them build on them and do the best with what you have.
• Eat right, Keep fit :A balanced diet, exercise and rest can help you to reduce stress and enjoy life.
• Make Time for Family and Friends: These relationships need to be nurtured; if taken for granted they will not be there to share life’s joys and sorrows.
• Give and Accept Support : Friends and family relationships thrive when they are “put to the test”.
• Create a Meaningful Budget : Financial problems cause stress. Over-spending on our “wants” instead of our “needs” is often the culprit.
• Volunteer: Being involved in community gives a sense of purpose and satisfaction that paid work cannot.
• Manage Stress : We all have stressors in our lives but learning how to deal with them when they threaten to overwhelm us will maintain our mental health.
• Find Strength in Numbers : Sharing a problem with others who have had similar experiences may help you find a solution and will make you feel less isolated.
• Identify and Deal with Moods : We all need to find safe and constructive ways to express our feelings of anger, sadness, joy and fear.
• Learn to Be at Peace with Yourself:  Get to know who you are, what makes you really happy, and learn to balance what you can and cannot change about yourself.

You will know that you are emotionally well when:

• You can talk with someone about your emotional concerns
• You can say “no” when you need to without feeling guilty
• You are happy much of the time
• You have people in your life that care about you, and can call when you need them
• You are able to relax and share your feelings with others
• You feel good about who you are

Phone LifeLine on 0861 322 322 or contact our local office (011) 421-0384 -  our  counsellors are there to listen, talk to you,  and understand your concerns whilst assisting you in understanding who you are.