How Much Mental Illness Is Caused
By Social Media?
How Much Mental Illness Is Caused By Social Media?
I believe you are fully responsible for your mental state despite what type of circumstances you find yourself in life. It is your perspective, identity, thoughts, feelings, words, behavior, actions, and habits that eventually lead to your destiny. So, how much mental illness is caused by social media?
The comparison, number of likes, and followers that you desperately seek and desire to get on social media is known to influence and cause some people to suffer from emotional and mental health issues like anxiety and depression.
How much and how long you suffer however is determined by how aware you are that you are the creator of the quality of your own life and how quickly you can stop your suffering by recognizing what you are doing to your self, and proceeding to change your perspective, beliefs, and thoughts.
So, you may be wondering next how much mental illness is caused by your genes. Let’s find out the answer to this question.
How Much Is Mental illness Genetic?
Your genes cannot cause you to have any mental illness even if there is a past family history of its existence. Genes do not express themselves unless they are exposed to the right environment.
If your thoughts, beliefs, and identity are focused on mental well-being then every cell, tissue, and organ in your body will follow your command and express wellness.
Let’s find out how to achieve mental wellness next.
How To Achieve Mental Wellness
You must form the habits that help you boost your mental/emotional well-being every single day to remain healthy, function well, live a meaningful, impactful life, and fulfill your purpose and soul’s calling that you came on the earth to fulfill.
Start implementing the habits mentioned below to boost your mental wellness.
Consume Positivity
Make it a point to intentionally consume positive messages every day by owning inspiring home décor and merchandise, listening to songs with good lyrics, reading books with empowering messages, listening to podcasts, watching videos, and movies that inspire you.
They will help you grow, get inspired, and put you in the right mind frame to serve your purpose in a bigger and better way.
Consuming negativity on social media and news will make it harder for you to live a soul aligned life, have a positive attitude, stay inspired, and aligned with your soul and higher self.
Associate With Supportive People
Spend time with like-minded people who support, cheer, inspire and help you grow as a person. Reduce or try not to spend time around people who constantly judge you or force you and demand that you indulge in bad habits and addictions.
Being around people with negative energy can affect your mental state and make it harder for you to have a positive attitude and outlook on life.
Improve Your Posture
Improving your posture and having your shoulders back can have a positive impact on your confidence, self-esteem, body, physical and mental health. It will lead to happy hormones being released into your body instead of stress hormones which get released when you are slouched over.
Spend Time Out In Nature
Nature is known to have many healing powers. Spending time out in nature will boost and improve your emotional/mental well-being, help you sleep better, and make you feel good, relaxed, and happier.
It is easier to feel gratitude in nature when you are amongst the vast existing creations made by your creator, experience mindfulness, feel abundant, harmonious, and connected to your creator.
Acknowledge Your Emotions
Learn to recognize and acknowledge your emotions that come up. Know that they come up so that you can work on them. Get to know your triggers and work on healing your emotional wounds and traumas. Ask yourself and figure out why you’re getting triggered.
What were your preceding thoughts? what is your perspective? what are your beliefs? what’s your identity? that’s leading to those feelings, actions, words, behavior, and habits that are perhaps misaligned with your higher self and are not serving you anymore.
Look After Your Body
Look after your body because it is a temple for your soul at the moment. Your soul cannot fulfill its purpose if your body is not healthy. Exercise and move your body every day, eat food that is healthy and nourishing, and get enough rest and sleep every day.
Socialize And Connect
Socialize and connect with others frequently. We are social creatures and need the human to human connections. Isolation is not healthy for you and can lead to many mental health issues.
Think Before You Act
Take the time to always think before you speak or act. Especially when something happens and you get triggered. Take a moment to pause because that’s where your freedom is and then respond.
Do not give your power away and react to what is happening in your circumstances and how others around you are behaving.
Spend Time In The Quiet
Make sure to spend some time in the quiet praying, meditating, and connecting to your creator every single day.
When you are connected to your creator you get to know and realize that you are an individualized expression of your creator, how powerful you are, and have access to your creator’s strength, power, and intelligence.
Practice Mindfulness
Stay present in each moment that you are alive and experience now which is a gift from your creator.
Notice the amazing shapes of the clouds, and colors of the sunrise and sunset, stop, admire, and smell the flowers, and be present when you spend some time with your children instead of being distracted by your phone.
Practice Self-Love
Schedule some time to practice self-love every day so that you can be healthy enough to serve others. You are enough, matter, deserve some unconditional self-love, and live your best authentic best life.
Start A Morning Routine
Start a morning routine where you practice gratitude, raise your vibration, and align yourself with your soul first thing in the morning.
Forgive yourself for all the decisions that you have made in the past that did not serve you, and others who have done wrong to you, send someone blessings and make it a point to reach out and serve someone, and recite powerful positive affirmations.
In conclusion, the comparison, number of likes, and followers that you get on social media is known to influence and cause some people to suffer from mental health issues like anxiety and depression.
How much and how long you suffer however is determined by how aware you are that you are the creator of your life and how quickly you can stop your own suffering by changing your perspective, beliefs, and thoughts.
Your genes cannot cause you to have any mental illness even if there is a past family history of its existence. Genes do not express themselves unless they are exposed to the right environment.
If your thoughts, beliefs, and identity are focused on mental well-being then every cell, tissue, and organ in your body will follow your command and express wellness.
You can start boost your mental wellness by consuming positivity, associating with supportive people, improving your posture, spending time out in nature, acknowledging your emotions, looking after your body, socializing, thinking before acting, spending time in the quiet, practicing mindfulness and self-love, and having a morning routine.
I hope you will improve your mental wellness by implementing all or some of these habits in to your schedule daily.
Next, What does emotional healing mean? read for further helpful tips and insights.