4 Ways I Help My Mental Health Every Morning
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4 Practical Ways I Help My Mental Health Every Morning

Although I’ve lived with mental illness my whole life, I am not a medical professional. If you need help finding a mental health care provider, call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit BetterHelp to talk to a certified therapist online at an affordable price. This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full disclaimer.

My mental illnesses work like clockwork. I am always woken up in a panic, and it takes about 30 minutes to 1 hour to get out of bed.

I struggle with really bad depression symptoms until about 11 in the morning. Then they come back and attack me again from about 8:00 pm to when I go to bed. That’s about the time when the panic arises when I’m trying to fall asleep for the night.

But knowing this helps me know that it’ll get better. I know my body has a schedule, and it likes to stick to it. Yes, some days are harder than others, but I know I’ll be okay. I know I can survive.

Even though I’m in tune with my body’s schedule, I still like to take care of my mental health. Here are 4 ways I focus on self-care each and every morning.

10 Things to Buy at Dollar Tree to Help Your Anxiety
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10 Things to Buy at Dollar Tree to Help Your Anxiety

Although I’ve lived with mental illness my whole life, I am not a medical professional. If you need help finding a mental health care provider, call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit BetterHelp to talk to a certified therapist online at an affordable price. This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full disclaimer.

I discovered my love for Dollar Tree about 7 months ago. And now I go probably at least twice a month.

If ya don’t know, everything at Dollar Tree is just one dollar. They sell pretty much everything you could think of, so you can buy a lot and not spend a lot at all. This also means that you can try to help remedy your anxiety for very cheap.

Here are 10 things you can buy at Dollar Tree to help your anxiety:

The Absolute Best Pandora Stations for Calming Anxiety
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The Absolute Best Pandora Stations for Calming Anxiety

Although I’ve lived with mental illness my whole life, I am not a medical professional. If you need help finding a mental health care provider, call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit BetterHelp to talk to a certified therapist online at an affordable price. This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full disclaimer.

I am super incredibly hyper-aware of everything when I have anxiety. The smallest noise sounds like an explosive going off within my eardrums. This leads to anger, a sense of no control, and, eventually, panic attacks. Which is never a good thing.

I’m always trying to find new ways to help my anxiety. Usually, music is the first thing I turn to. When my anxiety is acting up, I’ll blast my Pandora stations, or better yet, I’ll put earbuds in to completely drown out what’s going on around me.

Even though different things help calm different people down, it always seems like listening to music is near the top of everyone’s list.

Here are my favorite Pandora radio stations that help calm my anxiety.

Top 10 Musicians Who Sing About Mental Health
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Top 10 Musicians Who Sing About Mental Health

Although I’ve lived with mental illness my whole life, I am not a medical professional. If you need help finding a mental health care provider, call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit BetterHelp to talk to a certified therapist online at an affordable price. This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full disclaimer.

If you don’t know me, music is a huge passion of mine. I’m always listening to it, dancing to it, or making up my own. Music is my therapy.

I’ve talked quite a bit about music and particular songs that help my different mental illnesses on my blog. I wrote out my depression playlist, as well as my anxiety playlist. I’ve even written about 15 songs to listen to if you’re in a relationship with someone who has troubles with their mental health.

Today, I’ll be giving you my top 10 musicians who create music about mental health. I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I have turned to these musicians in my life.

Being a vegan when you have anxiety can be hard. Sometimes, the anxieties that come with a vegan lifestyle just won't go away.
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Why Being a Vegan Gives Me More Anxiety

Although I’ve lived with mental illness my whole life, I am not a medical professional. If you need help finding a mental health care provider, call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit BetterHelp to talk to a certified therapist online at an affordable price. This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full disclaimer.

Being a vegan is so much easier than it was when I started my journey when I was just 11 years old. I only knew one other vegetarian in middle school, and now I get to see things labeled “vegan” on packages at the grocery store. It’s beautiful how much more accepted it is now.

However, I am still constantly judged for my decisions. 

And even though I haven’t eaten meat for over half my life, the anxieties that come with this lifestyle just won’t go away.

Early Signs of Childhood Anxiety
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Early Signs of Childhood Anxiety

Although I’ve lived with mental illness my whole life, I am not a medical professional. If you need help finding a mental health care provider, call 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or visit BetterHelp to talk to a certified therapist online at an affordable price. This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full disclaimer.

I felt like no one could understand my tears. I couldn’t justify my fears, and I felt like I was a big burden. But I was just a kid.

Before I began to understand what I was going through, I had no idea what anxiety was. Everyone just thought I was a big cry baby. Everyone thought that I had anger problems. No one knew how to handle me, and all that did was make situations worse.

My anxiety kept growing more and more, and by the time I hit middle school, I felt like a prisoner in my own body.

I’m 22 now, and I’ve experienced nearly every type of anxiety disorder in the books. Let’s not even mention my struggles with depression and self-harm.

But I decided to get rid of all my shame, and I’m marking this year as the year for change. Self-improvement. Self-acceptance. Self-love.

In order to heal, I had to dissect every part of myself to fully understand who I was and who I came to be. And I discovered a lot about childhood anxiety.