How to Forgive for Your Own Mental Health

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• How to Forgive for Your Own Mental Health
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Stand Up for Mental Health
• Latest Mental Health News

How to Forgive for Your Own Mental Health

Relationships are difficult, and people get hurt. When we hang onto hurt, our mental health and wellbeing suffer. We can lose sleep, joy, the ability to move forward, and more.

Practicing forgiveness, while difficult, allows us to recover from hurt and maintain our wellbeing. Below are three ways to forgive.

1. Separate yourself from the other person. How someone treats you has more to do with their own story and who they are as a person than it does with you.
2. Separate yourself from what was said or done. You can't control what someone says or does, but you can control your reactions. Consider/think about what happened, and if you think the person was off base, let it go.
3. Write it down, and pick it apart. When your emotions are a jumbled mess inside (how to deal with confusing emotions), it's time to untangle. List the transgressions and what they mean to you. Then, step back and take a good look. The ones that won't have many long-term consequences can be forgiven. The bigger ones, now that they're out in front of you, can be addressed.

Forgiveness is a state of mind that is more about you than it is the other person.
Forgiveness is about you taking charge of your mental health and wellbeing by letting go.

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• Healing Aspects of PTSD with Forgiveness
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• PTSD Recovery and Forgiveness
• The Blame Game and Forgiveness
• Forgiveness...What's it For?

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: How do you forgive someone, especially when it’s really hard to do? We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page and on the HealthyPlace Google+ page.

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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:

1. Can Childhood Bullying Cause Mental Illness?
2. 3 Main Types of Anxiety-Related Procrastination
3. After Leaving Your Abusive Relationship: Emotions to Expect

If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.

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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.

• Embracing Resistance in Eating Disorder Recovery
• Start Thriving in the Face of Chaos
• Is A.A. the Only Way to Recover from Alcoholism?
• EMDR Therapy as PTSD Treatment: A Closer Look
• Stigmatizing Words: Excoriation Is More Than a Habit
• H.O.W. Virtues of Recovery from Alcohol Addiction
• Guilt: A Distressing Effect of Anxiety
• How to Experience Peace in Uncertainty
• Living with DID: Why I Can’t Just Get Over It
• How to Stop Negative Self-Talk and Silence Your Inner Critic
• Focus on What You Can Do with Bipolar, Not What You Can’t
• Schizoaffective Disorder, Schizophrenia And Violence
• Parents with Mental Illness: Expect Transitions This Summer
• Family-Based Therapy for Eating Disorders — 5 Critical Parts

Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.

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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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Latest Mental Health News

These stories and more are featured on our mental health news page:

• Children With Attention Problems In Early Childhood Were 40 Percent Less Likely To Graduate From High School
• Males More Likely To Suffer Psychologically When Dissatisfied With Their Body Image
• Concussion Leaves Mark In Brain's White Matter 6 Months After Injury
• Poor Physical Performance May Be An Early Sign Of Late-Age Dementia
• New Study Finds No Evidence Of Weekend Increase In Mental Health Patient Suicide
• Children Make Poor Dietary Choices Shortly After Advertisements Of Unhealthy Foods And Beverages
• Poor Sleep Health Could Contribute To Inflammatory Disease
• Suicide Rate Is 22% Higher Among People With Epilepsy Than The General Population

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