Coping Skills for Mental Health and Wellbeing

Tanya J. Peterson

HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter

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Coping Skills for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Stand Up for Mental Health

Coping Skills for Mental Health and Wellbeing

Coping skills are strategies that help people deal with mental health challenges in order to achieve positive mental health and wellbeing. Coping skills take many forms. People can use their own personal coping skills to take charge of their thoughts, feelings, and actions, and when they do, they find that they experience mental health and even begin to thrive.

Coping skills don't necessarily remove stress or eradicate challenges like mental illness, but they go a long way toward helping people function well despite challenges.

Coping skills can include such things as:

Noticing tension and taking deep breaths to reduce it
Catching negative thoughts and replacing them with healthy ones
Setting and maintaining appropriate and healthy boundaries between you and others
Relaxing with aromatherapy
Destressing with soothing activities like coloring, reading, etc.
Eating healthy
Sleeping the right amount
Finding things that make you grateful
Creating little moments of joy in each day

Coping skills are choices, and they're habits. To achieve mental health and wellbeing, it can be helpful to build a toolbox of strategies and use them regularly. The more you use your coping skills, the better they'll work for you in overcoming difficulties and achieving mental health and wellbeing.

Stand Up for Mental Health

Thousands Have Joined the Stand Up for Mental Health Campaign

But we still need you. Let others know there's no shame in having depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trichotillomania, OCD, ADHD, schizophrenia or any other mental illness.

Join the Stand Up for Mental Health campaign. Put a button on your website or blog (buttons for family members, parents, mental health professionals and organizations too). We also have covers for Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

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APA Reference
Peterson, T. (2015, December 23). Coping Skills for Mental Health and Wellbeing, HealthyPlace. Retrieved on 2020, September 18 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/coping-skills-for-mental-health-and-wellbeing

Last Updated: October 10, 2017

Medically reviewed by Harry Croft, MD