How to Know If You Are Mentally Ill
Mental illness is not something that should be taken lightly. It is a very serious condition and can include serious anxiety and mood swings to several habitual changes in your life. The scariest thing about mental illness is that it comes very quietly and you are usually unaware of its presence. People usually think that mental illness is very rare and an uncommon thing but this is not true. Many people around us are suffering from this kind of illnesses but they are unaware and unwilling to accept it because accepting that you have mental disorder isn’t an easy thing.
Instructions
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Working on your mental illness is not that tough as compared to knowing the presence of any sort of mental disorder in you. How to know you are mentally ill is not easy but there are several common symptoms that are associated with mental disorder. If you have any such symptom in you, it means that you are mentally ill and you need to work in it before it gets worse.
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A change in sleeping and eating habits is something that indicates that you are not perfectly mentally healthy. It means that there is something that is bothering you a lot and you need to figure that out or you will become a victim of insomnia pretty soon.
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Prolonged sadness is another symptom of mental illness and you need to treat it as soon as possible. No one likes to remain sad for a longer period of time and prolonged sadness can make your life very miserable.
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Excessive worrying or anxiety is another symptom of mental illness and if you are worrying over very small issues and you are having anxiety on a regular basis, you need to seek help. See a psychiatrist if symptoms get worse and you don’t have to be worried about this because anxiety is very much treatable with simple medication and diet.
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Social withdrawal means that staying away from the society. This can turn out be a nightmare and social withdrawal can transformed into bigger mental illness. So treat it while it’s still on a smaller scale.
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Changes in relationships with family and friends can affect your life to a great extent and you need to handle these changes exceptionally well. If not, you can get into depression and as a result of that; your whole life will be affected in one way or another.
