Emotional Health

What is Emotional Health

So, what is emotional health anyway?

Think about it like if I have a physical injury. If I break a bone, I end up in the emergency room. I may need to go see a specialist, like an orthopedist to do surgery and fix that. Then there’ll be a rehab process where I’m going to physical therapy and rehabilitation, where they’re trying to get me to be able to walk correctly again. Ultimately, my goal is not just to recover and struggle with an injury or an illness. My goal is to get to health. To be able to get beyond where I was before. Maybe I end up stronger than I was before. I wanted to bring this in context with mental health as well. We talk about mental health/mental illness, but what is emotional health?

Three things that kind of stuck out for me today and I just wanted to share them real quick. Always focus on emotional health. I’ll do other videos later that can define this in more detail, but let’s kind of think about it like this. One would be, how good am I at identifying what it is that I feel? What it is that is going on with me? It’s very important that I’m paying attention to my environment. If it’s kind of a gray, drizzly day where I’m at, if my mood is kind of low, I need to look at it okay, instead of just trying to dismiss it and get rid of the mood, I mean, that’s one option. I might want to look at why is it that I feel a certain way? Is it the weather that’s causing it or do I have other emotional stressors that are going on that are causing me to struggle? Once I identify it, I want to be able to verbalize it at least to myself, internally, but maybe also to those that are close to me. It’ll be my support system, being able to talk to them and say hey, you know what? I’m struggling today. I need a little bit of support. Just that, getting the acknowledgement from someone else could help me maybe move beyond it. I may also at this point start to look at okay, what can I do to change my situation?

When we talk about emotional health, one I need to identify and acknowledge what my feelings are. Two, I would need to be able to communicate and share with others. I got to look for a support system.

The third thing is I now got to think about, and we hear this all the time in mental health treatment, would be coping skills. How am I going to manage that? Remember, coping skills don’t have to be something that’s dealing with something negative. It could also be something very positive. I might look at what are certain activities I can engage in? Maybe journaling. I just want to write down my thoughts. I could think about my goals, my future and things I want to accomplish. Maybe I engage in physical activity, certain things that will help to improve my mood and make me just feel healthier. My intention with these videos is to help you guys just with normal things that happen every day that may have been stigmatized as we don’t talk about those things. We don’t discuss mental health. We hear just get over it and so forth. I want to start to expand this. That this isn’t just about mental illness and mental health, but it’s about overall emotional health. How do I live a happy and healthy life?

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