Struggling? Should You Seek a Mental Health Diagnosis?

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

• Struggling? Should You Seek a Mental Health Diagnosis?
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Video: Helpful Tips for Dealing with Bipolar Depression
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• Mental Health Quote

Struggling? Should You Seek a Mental Health Diagnosis?

When is it time to seek a mental health diagnosis? Too many times, people live for weeks, months, years, even decades, in pain. The pain can be mental, emotional or physical, and it can impact thoughts, feelings, actions, relationships, and the ability to live a full, quality life. Would seeking professional mental health help and being evaluated for a mental health diagnosis do any good?

Thinking straight when you’re struggling with mental health can be extremely difficult. Considering these questions could help you determine if seeing a doctor or therapist might help you:

• Do you feel overwhelmed with daily life more often than not?
• Is it hard to focus and concentrate?
• Do your thoughts race, or conversely, do you have a hard time forming and holding thoughts?
• Have things taken a turn for the worse recently and you can’t seem to get back on track?
• Have you had new changes?
• Is self-care difficult?
• Do you experience more struggle than joy?

Multiple “yes” answers indicate that you may benefit from a mental health evaluation from a doctor or therapist. You might receive a mental health diagnosis that will help you determine the right mental health treatment, or you might not be diagnosed with anything but still could gain much from treatment.

Rather than thinking in terms of getting a mental health diagnosis, consider professional help a way to regain your mental health, wellbeing, and quality life.

Related Articles Dealing with Seeking Mental Health Help

• Where to Get Mental Health Help
• The Importance of Seeking Help for Depression
• When Should You See a Doctor for Anxiety?
• What Made You Seek Help for Your Mental Illness?
• Mental Health Stigma of Seeking Help for Your Mental Illness
• Mental Health Assessment and Screening Tools
• Types of Behavioral and Mental Health Services You May Need

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: What prompted you to get mental health treatment? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, experience, 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.

• Living with Bipolar Disorder: You Are Not Alone
• Getting Through Arguments in Your Relationship
• Dealing with a Restrictive Diet in Eating Disorder Recovery
• Use This Meditation to Relax During Anxious Thoughts
• Talk About Mental Health More to Learn How to Survive Stigma
• Schizoaffective Disorder and Marriage: Tips to Stay Together
• 6 Ways Pets Help with Depression
• Even Light Exercise Can Lower Anxiety
• Everyone Can Tell I Have Bipolar Disorder?
• How to Decrease Social Media Anxiety
• #MeToo Educates, and Creates Action and Societal Change
• Confessions of a Single, Black Woman with Mental Illness

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

Helpful Tips for Dealing with Bipolar Depression

Bipolar depression can be challenging to deal with. Recently, I have bipolar 2 and recently went through a depressive episode. I learned a couple new helpful tips for dealing with bipolar depression that I want to share with you. Deleting social media, keeping a clean and positive environment really helped me during this past depressive episode. Also, another major tip is keeping healthy snacks around the house. Eating unhealthy foods when depressed negatively affects our mental health. (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. I Binged. Now What Do I Do?
2. What Borderline Personality Disorder Feels Like Inside
3. I Hear Voices with My DID But I'm Not Always Honest About It

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

"Having a mental disorder isn’t easy, and it’s even harder when people assume you can just “get over it”."

Read more mental health stigma quotes.

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