I thought I would write about what I have found myself doing quite often over the past several months. That being, I have been giving my mental health a self assessment.
Here is the list:
- Change in appetite – loss or binging
- Sleeping patterns – too much or not enough
- Withdrawal from social interactions [at this moment this is very limited]
- Shutting down my interests – reading, writing, or maybe even my music
- Change in physical activity
It is a short list, but, my fluctuations in my mood has been like a roller coaster. I have caught myself even thinking that maybe I need to be in a long term care home.
So dear reader, maybe you can find some sort of help from this brief post.
How about you, do you perform a mental health checkup? If you do, what is in your list? How often do you find yourself doing the checkup?
I do a quick check-in in my bullet journal every day, so I can see patterns as they develop.
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Health check every day: walking, talking, eating healthy fish, greens, nuts, beans and occasional dark chocolate. Into meditation, acupressure, cut back on doctors and their damn medications, 79+ but look and feel like I’m in my 50s.
It’s what you eat, drink, think, do and even do-do. Yes! It’s up to you to do!
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