How Writing Can Improve Your Mental Health

Mental health has been critical during the pandemic

M. Angelova
New Writers Welcome

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Clip art illustrating the importance of mental health

Mental health has been a critical theme during the pandemic. This year has seen a number of people face serious mental health issues. COVID-19 has caused self and social isolation, estrangement from family and friends, and quarantine, with more people than ever experiencing feelings of helplessness, isolation, grief, anxiety, an itd depression.
Many people who are suffering from mental health issues are unsure how to deal with their symptoms and resort to unhealthy coping mechanisms to alleviate their emotional discomfort. As a result, they may develop a drug or alcohol addiction. Furthermore, if you have one mental illness that is untreated, you are more likely to develop co-occurring disorders, and you will require dual diagnosis treatment to fully heal. Along with the disease’s health consequences, COVID-19 has resulted in self and social isolation, estrangement from family and friends, and quarantine, with more people than ever experiencing feelings of helplessness, isolation, grief, anxiety, and depression.

Very often people who are suffering from mental health issues are unsure how to cope with their symptoms and resort to unhealthy coping mechanisms to alleviate their emotional discomfort. As a result, they may develop a drug or…

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M. Angelova
New Writers Welcome

Writer//A cosmic child who can't imagine life without love, literature, and old bands.