1. Know that it's OK to not be OK right now.
Give yourself permission to feel like crap, don't feel guilty about it. No one expects you to be on top of the world every single moment.
—Claire Victoria Cheney, Facebook
2. Know that you can't change a situation by worrying.
Overthinking something you can't do anything about can't change the outcome anyway, so it's of no use.
—Nanna Seistrup, Facebook
3. Don't always listen to the voice in your head.
etsy.comJust because you had a cripplingly negative thought about yourself doesn't mean it's true.
—Sara Lila Catalano, Facebook
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5. Know that you deserve to get help.
I've struggled with feeling like my mental health issues aren't really that bad and that has very much affected how and when I seek treatment. My therapist told me that no matter how mild or how severe, my depression matters and it deserves to get treated. I got told that I deserved to get help, and that changed how I view my mental health entirely.
—Rebecca Taylor
6. Don't feel ashamed or weak for needing medication.
thedailydoodles.comIf you were diabetic, would you think yourself weak for using insulin? Of course not. If you need psychiatric medication, it is for a very real medical condition that just happens to be in your brain, not your pancreas. Don't feel ashamed or weak or guilty, just do what you need to keep yourself healthy.
7. Don't stop your medication without talking to your doctor.
Take your fucking meds. I often think that this muted version of myself is too boring and want to go off my medication. It always starts out great. I have more ideas and motivation, but after a few days to weeks it turns to racing thoughts that just can't stop and my mind starts interpreting things wrong, and I get paranoid and start hearing voices confirming my paranoid delusions. I end up in the mental hospital and have to go back on the meds anyway. So I have to remember, just take the fucking meds.
—Heather Glass
8. Track data to help you identify patterns in how you're feeling day to day.
I track myself: sleep, food, mood, activity, medications, physical complaints, and significant events. It helps me see connections between my mental state and other variables in my life, which lets me make choices that are better for my mental health or identify the impact of changes.
—Clara Marshall Sackrider, Facebook
9. Don't assume you have to fix everything yourself.
If something is wrong, admit that something is wrong, and decide that you're going to fix it. You don't have to know what to call the problem, or know the solution, but decide that you're going to work to get better.
—Amanda Turner, Facebook
When I was first experiencing severe depression as a teenager, I confided in a friend's mom, who said to me, "Work to be happy, not perfect." I'm still fighting depression to this day, but those words have stuck with me for the past ten years.
—Sammy Kawola, Facebook
11. Or don't even worry about happy right now; just focus on OK.
etsy.comMine was not to focus on being happy, but to focus on being OK. Because if you finally got to be OK, eventually you'd be happy.
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giphy.comIt's impossible to feel 100% negative when you make note of everything you're grateful for. Even if you can't think of much, the act of looking makes you feel better.
—Sarah Wolf, Facebook
13. Remember that no one is judging you as much as you are.
No one is ever thinking about you as much as you believe they are, because everyone is too busy worrying about themselves. Take care of you, and not the you that you feel you're perceived as.
—Shannon LeBlanc, Facebook
Keeping a journal during my recovery helped me just keep track of how I was doing that moment. It was a good reminder to take the process one day at a time.
—Melanie Tong, Facebook
15. You don't have to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.
—Katy Corpus, Facebook
16. Know that mental healthcare isn't one-size-fits-all.
I was once told ... 50% of success comes from good medications, but you cannot rely on meds alone. The other 50% comes from the mental effort and positive thinking you have to do everyday, whether is it is going to counseling or being an active leader of your life choices and thoughts. It made me realize I couldn't succeed by sitting in the backseat and just taking meds. I had to put in mental effort every day to gain success and be mentally healthy.
—Melissa Rex, Facebook
Know that even though people may not understand you, the ones who love you will try to help you as much as they can. Trust them and rely on them, you don't have to handle it all alone.
—Naty Rovner, Facebook
19. Learn to tell when the voice in your head belongs to your depression.
Sometimes the best thing that I can do to help myself is to separate which thoughts are mine and which belong to anxiety or depression. For example, I might get the thought: "Why bother going to the club meeting? No one wants me there anyway."
The first thing I do is attribute the thought to depression. It is not an organic thought of mine; it is depression mimicking my voice and whispering in my ear. This helps me to separate myself from any negative emotions the thought might give me.
—Sarah Adriance, Facebook
21. Write insecurities on your body in marker and then wash them away.
When I get down, I write my insecurities and my problems in washable marker on my body, take a shower, and literally wash them away.
23. Allow yourself to feel your feelings.
24. Just say "no" if you really need to.
25. “Sunshine all the time makes a desert.”
26. Think of yourself as an ant.
27. Comfort yourself the way you would comfort a friend.
29. Separate the things that are stressing you out and put them in their own compartments.
30. Get through just 10 seconds at a time.
For example, I'm a server and sometimes I screw up with every one of my tables at once and it seems like the world is ending. But then, in the heat of the moment I remind myself that this feeling, and these tables, will get up and leave and this stress will be totally over. I just have to get through it 10 seconds at a time until it does.
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31. And finally, think about taking the drug "fukamol."
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