Practice Patience Where You Are

HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter

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

• Practice Patience Where You Are
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Stand Up for Mental Health
• Latest Mental Health News

Practice Patience Where You Are

Practice patience where you are, right now to feel better mentally and physically. It seems as though impatience has become society's dominant character trait. We want things, and we want them now. Regarding mental health, we want treatments such as therapy or medication to work immediately. We want problems to be solved instantly. (Being a Mental Health Patient Requires Patience)

Impatience, though, makes existing mental health problems worse, and it can cause some of its own. It increases stress, which negatively affects physical and emotional wellbeing. Practice patience where you are to enhance your wellbeing.

Being patient isn't always easy. These tips can help:

• When you have to wait for someone or something, use the time to breathe slowly and deeply. It calms both body and mind and slows impatient thoughts.
• Connect to the present moment. What are you doing right now? What do your senses notice? This enhances patience by keeping your focus on what matters now.
• Know your values. What do you want your life to be like? How do you want to be? A sense of purpose makes you more willing to be patient as you work toward the big picture.

You can practice patience, and improve your wellbeing, right where you are, starting now.

Related Articles to Patience

• Please Give Me Patience
• "Just" Depression. "Merely" Anxious? Patience is a Virtue
• In Recovering from Mental Illness, Patience is a Virtue

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: What helps you remain calm and practice patience when your emotions are anything but calm and patient? 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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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:

1. The Signs of Verbal Abuse
2. 5 Mental Health Recovery Apps You Should Try
3. Accepting Weight Gain in Bipolar Disorder

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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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

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

• A Mental Health Advocate’s Self-Stigma
• Maintain Your Social Network for Health and Happiness
• Recovery From Borderline Personality Disorder Is Possible
• 5 Mental Health Recovery Apps You Should Try
• Sobriety: Watching Your Friends Relapse
• Grief and Dissociative Identity Disorder: Death and Loss
• Can You Distract Yourself from Fear?
• Be Thankful, Not Sorry: Everything Is Not Your Fault
• Safe Injection Sites: What Are They?
• Bipolar Disorder Causing a Loss of Control
• Schizoaffective, Schizophrenic Voices Can Say Good Things
• Moms with Mental Illness: Is Summer Making Your Kids Crazy?
• Bad Brain Days And Depression Intensity
• Overcome Stigma of Mental Illness with Support
• Can Love Save You From an Eating Disorder?

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

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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Stand Up for Mental Health

Thousands Have Joined the Stand Up for Mental Health Campaign

But we still need you. Let others know there's no shame in having depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trichotillomania, OCD, ADHD, schizophrenia or any other mental illness.

Join the Stand Up for Mental Health campaign. Put a button on your website or blog (buttons for family members, parents, mental health professionals and organizations too). We also have covers for Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

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Latest Mental Health News

These stories and more are featured on our mental health news page:

• Pre-Dementia Memory Loss Improved With Acupuncture
• Good Attitudes About Aging Help Seniors Handle Stress
• High School Students With Mental Health Issues More Likely To Drink, Smoke And Use Marijuana
• Watching Cartoons Could Help Children Overcome Anxiety Of Dental Treatment
• Reading Books Could Increase Lifespan
• Autism Risk In Younger Children Increases If They Have Older Sibling With Disorder
• Volunteering In Middle Age And Senior Years Linked To Enhanced Mental Health
• Sedentary Behaviour Associated With Diabetic Retinopath

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