5 Signs You Need a Mental Health Day
Taking mental health days are just as important as taking sick days.
Taking care of your mental health is one of the most important things you can do for yourself, right up there with taking care of your physical health. And yet it is frequently the part of your health that can get ignored the easiest.
How often do you push yourself to the max before it just becomes too much?
Maybe your body forces it and becomes too tired or you’re sick more frequently.
On the go and living a busy life can increase stress, anxiety, and depression. It is easy to put mental health on the back burner thinking “I’ll get around to it” or googling “therapist near me” and jotting some names down but not reaching out.
If this sounds all too familiar keep reading.
In this blog, I’m sharing with you 5 signs you need a mental health day.
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By the end of this, you’ll be wanting to take your mental health day ASAP. Keep reading to learn 5 signs you need a mental health day.
5 Signs You Need a Mental Health Day
Sign #1 You Need a Mental Health Day: Having increased Anxiety
If your stress level has been kicked up a notch, chances are your anxiety has also increased too. Take some time to do something relaxing or calming.
Sign #2 You Need a Mental Health Day: Life is Consumed by Work
Having a work-life balance isn’t easy.
If your workdays and your off days are being consumed by work, you could be on your way to experiencing work burnout.
Feeling pessimistic about work? No longer feeling inspired, creative, or appreciated?
Check out this blog post on stages of burnout.
Sign #3 You Need a Mental Health Day: Trouble Concentrating
Difficulty keeping focus may mean that you need a break, especially if it’s happening frequently.
It's okay to take some time to yourself and spend the day doing something you enjoy and that doesn't require a lot from you.
Sign #4 You Need a Mental Health Day: Difficulty Sleeping
An increase in stress and anxiety can easily get your sleep cycle off track.
Having healthy sleep is important to your mental health care. If your sleep has been off because revenge bedtime has taken over or your worries are keeping you up at night, this could be a sign that your mental health needs some TLC.
Sign #5 You Need a Mental Health Day: Others are Concerned
Close family and friends may have expressed their concern for your wellbeing. They see how hard you work and dedicate your time and energy to others than yourself.
If they have noticed changes in you recently, I encourage you to be open to listening and taking care of yourself.
At the end of the day, there doesn’t need to be a reason or a sign to take a mental health day.
Simply put. Take the day. You deserve it.
So often sick days are saved up and go unused. You earned the time and deserve a day.
It doesn’t have to be justified.
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Taking care of your mental health often gets pushed down on the priority list. Life happens and it is easy to get consumed by everything going on and makes sense why taking care of your mental health isn’t closer to the top of the list. There can also be some unintended consequences when this happens as well.
Making your mental health a priority is a must and if any of these signs resonated with you. I hope you can start taking good care of yourself.
Take the mental health day.
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I understand there are challenges with being a high-achiever and most often I find anxiety, stress, perfectionism, and unhappiness are high on the list.
Check out these additional therapy service specialties offered.
Anxiety Treatment in Wilmington, NC
Burnout Counseling in Wilmington, NC
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Online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in North Carolina
Most recently online therapy has become the norm and was starting to gain popularity before 2020.
There are a lot of benefits to using online therapy. It has been proven to be an effective way of receiving therapy and many clients still feel connected to the therapy process despite never stepping foot in their therapist’s office.
Online therapy occurs in a safe and secure video platform that allows the client and therapist to both see and hear each other.
If you have been wanting to try online therapy for anxiety treatment, click the links below and get some information about online therapy where you live.
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Written by: Laura Rippeon, LCSW, LCSW-C
Updated 3/15/23