10 Signs That Someone Is Struggling With Their Mental Health!

Perhaps you have also found yourself in a difficult situation in life, one where you’ve asked yourself how your mental health is. In fact, this question is not always easy to answer, because everyone's personal mental health is subject to minor and major fluctuations from time to time. In order to correctly assess yourself and your mental health, it’s always advisable to observe yourself and assess whether certain moods and feelings are only temporary or signs of a seriously affected psyche. How you can do this is presented in this article. 

1. You get overwhelmed (more easily than usual) by everyday things.

When you suddenly feel overwhelmed by previously effortless tasks, it can be a warning signal from your body and psyche of too much stress. Experts also advise mindfulness when hobbies and leisure activities that have otherwise always been fun and relaxation suddenly offer you significantly less pleasure or even no pleasure at all. Writing in a diary as well as relaxation exercises can be helpful for those affected.

2. You can no longer enjoy (small habitual) recreational rituals.

Often it is supposedly trivial occupations and little things that give you particular pleasure and provide inner balance and contentment. This can be, for example, reading a book, a little gardening or even a short walk. If such otherwise beloved and cherished things suddenly seem meaningless and boring, this feeling can signal that your mental health is deteriorating. Stress and too many obligations are often the cause in such cases as well.

3. You're not sleeping restfully, enough, or at different times.

Experts consider prolonged changes in sleep patterns to be a relatively reliable sign of deteriorating mental health. Anyone who has otherwise always gone to bed at a certain time and consistently been able to fall asleep and stay asleep through the night, but is suddenly no longer able to do so, may be struggling with greater problems. Experts usually recommend practicing set routines before bedtime if possible for sleep problems like this. For example, you could read a little before falling asleep instead of watching TV.

4. You don't feel like meeting up with friends.

If you find yourself developing a general aversion to all kinds of social contact and no longer feel any desire to meet friends, acquaintances or family members, this could also be a sign of deteriorating mental health. Each of us has a relatively constant level of social contact regardless of whether our personality is more introverted or extroverted. So if you find that you're out of touch with other people, you should monitor this as closely as possible. In many cases, it is interaction with different people that helps to improve or completely dispel bad moods.

5. You feel intense anxiety.

Those who repeatedly wake up anxious in the morning and are hindered by this anxiety in other activities during the day often face a deterioration of their mental health. It is true that anxiety is part of the basic genetic makeup of all humans, a crucial signal warning us of dangers and risks. However, prolonged anxiety states without concrete causes can often also have psychological causes, for example an illness-related anxiety disorder. If you observe such a change in yourself, especially in connection with faster breathing, tension in the body and recurring nausea, there may be a deviation from your psychologically normal state of health.

6. You sleep well (and sufficiently), but still feel constantly drained.

If you feel constantly drained and exhausted despite eating a good, healthy, regular diet and also getting enough sleep, this may also be a sign of mental exhaustion. Mental exhaustion is often a reaction of the soul to persistent stress, which is especially noticeable physically and often feels insurmountable. Home remedies and aids that have been tried and tested include autogenic training, yoga, sports and relaxation exercises. If these approaches do not bring relief, the support of specialists and therapists is a helpful solution.

7. You have trouble concentrating.

Sudden problems with concentration are, according to many psychologists, equally common signs of continuously deteriorating mental health. Anyone who repeatedly notices that they can no longer follow what should be an interesting book and only stare at seemingly meaningless printed pages may also be suffering from too much stress. If there is not already a medical diagnosis, such lack of focus and concentration may well indicate deeper psychological causes.

8. You feel increasingly overwhelmed.

If you have the impression that too many things are happening in your environment all at once, that they are overwhelming you, this could also be a first sign of a negative change in your mental health. If, on the other hand, such moments of overload only occur occasionally, there is no reason to worry. Especially in times with a lot of private and professional stress, this reaction is quite normal. In any case, it is important that you predominantly feel a sense of calm, as this is a sign that you are in harmony.

9. You no longer feel (sufficiently) balanced.

It is not by chance that the phrase "having both feet on the ground" comes from generally means being mentally grounded, secure and confident. If you feel grounded, you can cope with difficult challenges without despairing. If such grounding is missing, one can quickly feel stressed and disturbed by trivialities. In therapeutic remedies for such disturbances, activities that connect the body with the world are recommended above all. These include hiking or walking in nature.

10. You feel a slackening of your self-control.

When we feel well balanced and largely satisfied, our inner and mostly unconscious impulse control provides stability. However, if you notice that your self-control pauses more often than it used to, and that you act more strongly, impulsively, and spontaneously, this may also indicate deteriorating mental health. At the same time, declining self-control often manifests itself quite differently depending on your personality. Frugal people suddenly spend a lot of money, relaxed and calm contemporaries tend to quarrel more quickly, or diet-conscious athletes suddenly eat heaps of sweets. We hope that we have been able to help a little with our small tips and advice. Nowadays, a whole range of suitable counseling and therapy services are available for emotional stress and exceptional situations in almost every city and municipality, so that no one has to feel completely alone with their problems. That's it for today.