De-stress in an Instant: Any Time, Any Place

HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter

Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:

• De-stress in an Instant: Any Time, Any Place
• Visualizing Your Greater Purpose to De-Stress
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Video: Bipolar Depression Blah Days
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• Mental Health Quote

De-stress in an Instant: Any Time, Any Place

De-stressing is tough because stress is brutal. Stress takes a toll on mental and physical health. We can make lifestyle changes to reduce the effects of stress over time, but what about those times when we feel highly stressed (stressed out) in the moment, something immediate that we must face?

It is possible to de-stress in an instant, no matter where you are or what you're doing. It takes just one powerful trick. To de-stress in an instant, close your eyes, take a slow, deep breath, and visualize your greater purpose.

Visualizing Your Greater Purpose to De-Stress

Psychologist Viktor Frankl studied the importance of meaning and purpose while imprisoned in concentration camps during WWII. Today, research continues to show that a sense of purpose is powerful and has a positive impact on physical and mental health, including stress reduction. You can use it to de-stress in an instant, whenever you need it.

Take time to reflect on your sense of purpose. Why do you do what you do despite stress? Create a visual image to represent your purpose.

Draw on your image to de-stress in an instant. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, recall your image, and remember that you have a greater purpose. Knowing this will reduce your stress instantly any time, any place.

Articles Dealing with Purpose, Meaning, Stress, and Mental Illness

• Existential Anxiety, Stress, and Meaning-Making in Your Life
• Meaning
• Finding Meaning if You Have Bipolar Disorder — Giving Back
• Living with Bipolar Disorder and Finding Your Identity
• Personal Fulfillment — It’s Within Your Reach!

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: What do you do to de-stress? 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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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

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

• Lack of Treatment for Dual Diagnosis with Substance Abuse
• Practice Intentional Giving Throughout the Holiday Season
• How to Help Someone in Denial of Their Mental Illness
• Emotional States in Bipolar – Angry, Frustrated and Anxious
• How to Combat Mental Health Stigma with Trending Posts
• Use These Holiday Stress Management Tips
• Feeling Anxious but Knowing You Shouldn’t: Bridging the Gap
• Surviving the Holidays While Coping with Depression
• When Dissociative Identity Disorder System Parts Are Unknown

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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From HealthyPlace YouTube Channel

Bipolar Depression Blah Days

My bipolar depression story really begins in high school. In my late teens, I began to notice my emotional extremes and intense mood swings. My high school experience was great, but certain things happened that prompted my uneasy feelings about my mental health. You can learn more about that in the video.

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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. Are There Alternative Treatments for Schizophrenia?
2. Bipolar Depression and Feeling Nothing at All
3. Anxiety and Overthinking Everything

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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Mental Health Quote

"The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you're not".

Read more depression quotes.

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