Title: Crisis Plan and Working Through Hard Times | Mental Health Recovery
Headings: Crisis Plan and Working Through Hard Times
Crisis Plan and Working Through Hard Times
Crisis Plan
Crisis Plan Forms:
Help for a Hard Time

Content: By helping others, you are helping yourself. Activism will give your self-esteem another boost. Take Good Care of Yourself
Another way you can build your self-esteem is to take very good care of yourself. You may take very good care of others and put your own personal care last. Or your life may be so busy that you don’t take the time to do the things you need to do to stay healthy. You may feel so badly about yourself that you don’t bother to take good care of yourself. Some of the things you can do to take good care of yourself include: eating three meals a day that are focused on healthy foods — fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as whole grain foods and rich sources of protein like chicken and fish
avoiding foods that contain large amounts of sugar, caffeine and food additives — if you can’t pronounce the ingredients, you may want to avoid it
spending time outside and exercising every day
spending some time each day doing something you really enjoy
spending time each day with people who make you feel good about yourself and avoiding people who treat you badly. having regular check-ups with the health care providers of your choice
Change Negative Thoughts about Yourself to Positive Ones
Work on changing negative thoughts about yourself to positive ones. If you are like me, you may have gotten into the habit of giving yourself lots of negative self-talk.