Tips for Believing in Yourself When Mental Illness Stops You

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• Tips for Believing in Yourself When Mental Illness Stops You
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Video: 3 Goals for People with Bipolar for 2019
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• Mental Health Quote

Tips for Believing in Yourself When Mental Illness Stops You

Believing in yourself is an important part of mental health. It’s an attitude and core belief that helps you create a quality life despite challenges. So often, though, mental illness and personality disorders distort the opinions we hold about ourselves.

It can feel as though we are our mental illness; therefore, we risk believing that we’re worthless. We feel like we’re inherently damaged, we think we’re valueless, and by extension, we behave as though we’re insignificant to ourselves and everyone around us. This belief system is real, but it isn’t reality.

Believing in yourself has nothing to do with whether you live with mental illness. Because mental disorders are something we experience rather than who we are at our core, you can develop self-confidence, self-esteem, no matter what you are facing. Here are some tips for believing in yourself when mental illness stops you:

• Catch yourself being self-critical, and re-state your thoughts to make them self-affirming
• Keep a dedicated notebook to record positive things you notice about yourself, big and small
• Accept mistakes and imperfections as part of the human experience rather than berating yourself for them
• Write meaningful positive affirmations to improve your self-esteem and read them multiple times daily

Repeat these steps with patience. You’ve been hard on yourself for a long time. Coming to believe in yourself is a process that takes time.

Related Articles Dealing with Believing In Yourself

• The Mental Illness and Self-Confidence Connection
• 5 Self-Confidence Tips That Provide Powerful Results
• What is Self-Confidence?
• Why Anxiety Makes You Feel Stupid and Like a Failure
• How To Boost Your Self-Esteem When You Have Depression
• How To Feel More Confident When You’re Intimidated
• Don’t Let Toxic Thinking Patterns Rule Your Life

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: Do you have a go-to self-confidence booster that you use when you’re feeling down on yourself? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, experiences, and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page and on the HealthyPlace Google+ page.

From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

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

• How My Bipolar Breakdown Helped Me Prepare for the Future
• Why Do Some People Grow Out of ADHD?
• You Can Use Creativity to Reduce Anxiety
• Getting Out of Bed with Seasonal Depression
• Make Your New Year's Goals Stick
• Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder Takes Time
• Help Your Child Understand Mental Illness Stigma
• How to End Mental Illness Stigma on College Campuses
• Building Physical Confidence During Tough Times
• You Never Know Where Mental Illness Recovery Will Lead You
• Ways to Stay Sober on New Year's Eve
• Anxiety Have You Second-Guessing Yourself? Be Self-Assured
• Depression and Setting Goals for the New Year
• The Long, Gradual Process of Building Self-Esteem
• New Year's Resolutions for Mental Health
• The Connection Between Self-Harm and Self-Esteem

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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From HealthyPlace YouTube Channel

I'm Hannah. I Have Bipolar 2

3 Goals for People with Bipolar for 2019

In this video, I share 3 goals for people with bipolar disorder this coming new year – 2019. (Watch Hannah and subscribe to the HealthyPlace YouTube channel for more great mental health videos.)

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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. Bipolar Disorder and the Importance of Being Independent
2. When to Worry About Temper Tantrums
3. The Myth that Mental Strength Alleviates Mental Illness

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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Mental Health Quote

"It's up to you, today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body. but healthy for your mind."

Read more mental health quotes.

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