It's not always easy, but it's worth it.
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| | | Q | | What's the best thing you've ever done for your mental health? | | | | A | | "The best thing I've done is also the hardest thing I've done — admit that I needed help, both to myself and to someone else. I felt so much shame about not being able to 'fix' myself. I thought it meant I was weak or lazy, or just broken. But getting the help I needed helped me to recognize that those beliefs were as damaging as the depression I was fighting. Letting go of the shame freed me to get the support I needed." — Sara McTigue, senior editor
"It's a tie between drinking alcohol only on special occasions, rather than regularly, and exercising on an almost daily basis. Making just one of these changes would have been a big deal, but making both of them together was life changing." — Ginger Wojcik, newsletter editor
"One thing for me was to turn my home office into a fully functioning office space, and make sure there was an easy way to break from work when the day ended. Otherwise, the desire to keep working or 'do one more thing' was always there, and I always felt behind no matter what. Having a way to have a clean stop at the end of the day helped immensely." — Joe Nye, platform engineering manager
"I started practicing self-compassion. It takes work daily, and it's challenging. My therapist once told me to speak to myself as if I were talking with a 5-year-old child. I wouldn't say negative things to a child. I'd try to encourage them. The world can be a really ugly place. It's always telling us negative things. But talking negatively to yourself just adds fuel to the fire." — Samantha Costa, editor
"I find carving out space for myself helps so much. I have a weekly ritual of drawing a bath with Epsom salts and adding in my super expensive and luxurious (to me) mango and coconut bubble bath. I lock the door, ignore the cats, and spend up to an hour just soaking and working through the week." — Veronica Zambon, senior market editor | | | | Responses have been edited for clarity.
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