How can I improve my mental well-being?

Mental well-being – Being sad or having a low mood is completely normal for a human being. But when it starts to impact your day-to-day life negatively, then the mind is giving you a signal. It is giving you a signal to ask, reach out and seek help. A mental health psychologist can help clients with analyzing and coping with symptoms of different mental disorders.

Finding the Correct Mental Health Professional for Your Need

It is important for a person seeking professional help to find the right therapist. The best psychologist for you can build a good rapport with their client. This will make you go for a follow-up session with them.

A mental health psychologist can truly help you lead a more fulfilled life. They can only do this if you have clear goals of therapy in your mind. Developing goals is a team effort between you and your therapist. Your therapist can help you consider which type of therapy could best suit your needs.

A good mental health professional will have years of experience with clients. They will protect your privacy at all costs and keep your personal information confidential. They will follow ethical means of treatment with a licence. And they will have the expertise for the kind of treatments or methods they use. These methods will be effective in treating your kind of problem or issue.

They listen to your difficulties, help you investigate your emotions, and work on cognitive behaviour therapy techniques. They shed light on the importance of leading a purposeful and valuable life by charting a treatment plan for their clients.

Ways to Work on Your Mental Health

A psychologist will help improve your mental health in the following ways.

• Communication– By honest and open communication, you can talk with your counsellor and use different therapy techniques suited to your needs. By communicating with a mental health professional, you can also gain a third-person perspective on your issues. By doing this, you can approach the way you manage your emotions differently.
• Mindfulness– A mental health professional will provide steps for emotional, mental and even spiritual well-being. Through mindfulness-based therapy, psychologists can help address and solve dysfunctional thought patterns.
• Setting Goals– It is very important to set goals for therapy sessions. Setting objectives for your treatment plan can help the psychologist treat your mental health issue. At the same time, it can help you to be accountable to yourself and work on your limitations. This will lead to personality development and holistic, emotional, and mental growth.
• Building Sustainable Relationships– Through marriage counselling, psychologists can help you give importance to interpersonal communication. They can help you identify your support systems and tackle loneliness and isolation in the process.

Working on Well-Being and Thriving

By attending to mental issues of any kind, the best psychologist will always give priority to your mental health improvement. They help you manage unpleasant emotions and encourage mindfulness. This will thus help you not to survive but thrive.

They are open and welcoming of your flaws and give room for growth and improvement. Through positive reinforcement, they remind you of your strengths. Through non-judgemental listening, they help you acknowledge your flaws.

Healthy, inward-looking, self-reflective, and open conversations, clients can get fresh perspectives about themselves. In this way, they can find new ways to confront their difficulties and uncertainties.

These experts provide a consoling and non-toxic environment, even on an online platform. In this way, they help in building self-confidence and adaptability, improve communication, and improve their capabilities to realize their true potential.

Being an Emotionally Healthy Person

Emotionally healthy people can have better control over their feelings and ideas. They also experience stress, grief, anger, and sadness. But they are better equipped with the tools to manage their emotions better. Emotionally healthy people can, in turn, help other people when they can manage their negative thoughts and emotions.

Medication

In particular cases (not all), medication may be required to cure a mental health issue. In many such cases, only a psychiatrist can prescribe you such medicines. They will let you know and make you aware of its benefits, possible side effects, and duration of consumption.

Psychiatric medication includes all medicines and drugs which can be prescribed to treat different types of mental health problems. They help to lessen the symptoms of mental health problems. They also help to prevent the return of mental health problems and their symptoms. In this way, you can make an informed decision about improving your mental health.

About Author

Dr Dipti Yadav is a psychologist and therapist at the Wellbeing Help (Gurugram, Haryana, India). She has experience of more than 20 years of working in the mental health field. She has worked with adults, children, and families who have faced trauma, autism, a variety of mental health disorders, as well as legal and socioeconomic difficulties.