Ways to promote mental well-being:
- Paying attention to physical health, ensuring adequate nutrition, maintaining regular exercise, getting sufficient rest, and eliminating unhealthy habits.
- Maintaining a positive life perspective with concrete goals and aspirations.
- Learning to accept both your own and others’ strengths and weaknesses, avoiding excessive criticism or jealousy.
- Building strong interpersonal relationships, as well as mutual support, understanding, and listening among friends.
- Communicating with family members to enhance mutual understanding.
- Adapting to life’s challenges, cultivating interests, and preventing life from becoming dull.
- Understanding the sources of stress first, and then seek solutions If life is filled with stress.
When you notice issues with your own or your family’s mental well-being, seek assistance from social workers, counselors, clinical psychologists, or psychiatrists.
Source: https://www.mhahk.org.hk/index.php/health/