Are you always tired?
Are you always tired?
Do you have difficulty concentrating on your work?
Are you Sleeping too little or too much?
This could be signs of a mental breakdown.
Mental breakdown happens when an overwhelming amount of stress affects your performance. Mental health problems will hit disturbing rates in the coming years because more people prioritize work and trivialize rest.
Here are some signs to look out for.
- Too much or too little sleep – Insomnia or too much sleep is a sign of mental breakdown. Sometimes a mental fatigue will result in so many activities in the brain that it causes insomnia while other times, it causes the brain to be exhausted resulting in too much sleep.
- Brain Fade – If you’ve been feeling disoriented. Struggle with remembering things. And have found it difficult to concentrate recently. It is a sign of a mental breakdown. Also, are you neglecting your personal hygiene? You may feel like you just don’t have the energy to do anything. But this could be a sign of depression and even worse, a mental breakdown.
- Rapid Breathing – Tightness in your chest or rapid breathing is a sign of stress, which could lead to a mental breakdown if you let it.
- Physical Pains – Physical pain is your body like Frequent head and stomach ache is showing you that something is wrong not just physically, but also mentally.
- Withdrawal – Have you been cancelling your plans with everyone? This is another bad sign. We need socialization, and when we don’t have this, it affects us mentally.
- Eating too much or too little – Are you suddenly eating too much or too little? Change in appetite can be a sign of stress too. Cortisol (the stress hormone) can make you crave foods high in fat and sugar. A solution to this is to eat whole foods.
Mental health problems are hitting a disturbing rate in the recent years because more and more people are prioritizing work and trivialize rest. But the Work Life Balance is key to wellness.
Here are some quick solutions
- Lift weights
- Reduce screen time before bed.
- Talk to people in person.
- Get sunlight
- Drink more water
- Eat whole foods
- Read a physical book before bed
- Take some time off your stressors.
