{"id":4458,"date":"2023-10-08T05:31:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T09:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/my-mental-health-routines-and-tools-includes-extensive-resources\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T05:31:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T09:31:38","slug":"my-mental-health-routines-and-tools-includes-extensive-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/my-mental-health-routines-and-tools-includes-extensive-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mental Health Routines and Tools (Includes Extensive Resources)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This upcoming Tuesday, October 10th, is World Mental Health Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Highlighting mental health is important to me for deeply personal reasons. Treatment-resistant depression, bipolar disorder, and addiction run in my family. I\u2019ve lost multiple friends to suicide and almost committed suicide in college. Opioids and alcohol have claimed the lives of family members and some of my closest childhood friends.<\/p>\n

But despair need not lead to deaths of despair.<\/p>\n

This blog post compiles resources that have helped me and millions of readers. They include books, documentaries, podcast episodes, videos, and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Below are the three resources that have received the most positive feedback. Each is intended to be highly practical and tactical:<\/p>\n

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  1. Blog post: Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Podcast episode: My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Blog post: \u201cProductivity\u201d Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If pressed for time, the below short video describes some of my daily practices for warding off and managing depression:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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