Physical fatigue may also improve sleep, which is essential to give you the energy to cope with day-to-day activities. Learning relaxation , such as meditation or breathing exercises, might also help and can be practised when you feel your stress levels rising. In some cases, a nervous breakdown may indicate a more serious mental health issue, such as an anxiety disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD , in which case medicines and therapy may be required to aid recovery.
For more information and ideas to help cope with stress and aid recovery, learn about wellbeing or visit the following websites:. Learn more here about the development and quality assurance of healthdirect content. Having a psychiatrist you are comfortable talking to is important to your mental health and recovery. Recovery is often described as a journey of personal discovery which includes new learning on how to live well.
Mental health recovery is a unique experience to each person, and is possible for everyone. Here we share some information we think you might find useful to your own recovery journey. Read more on Mind Australia website. Read more on Queensland Health website. Anxiety disorders affect how teenagers think, feel and behave. If your child has an anxiety disorder, your child needs professional help. Read more on raisingchildren. I let friends and family take care of me for the first time.
Exhausted, I spent my day doing calming, mindful activities like colouring, writing in my journal and going for walks. Slowly those walks turned to gentle jogs when my energy increased. I needed to repair the damage with self-soothing. Perhaps it was this that spurred me to be bold, and on December 20th I booked a one-way flight to Melbourne, where I had a close friend and cousins.
I just knew I needed to seek physical space far from the environment of my breakdown; the home I had been living in with my then partner. The home where I had been desperately trying for, and then lost two babies. The home that had been the scene of pummelling panic attacks after my partner arrived back drunk, high, verbally and emotionally abusive. Once, that home had held so much promise.
It was now slowly suffocating me. Someone clearly in an incredibly vulnerable place, deciding to dust off her backpack and head across the world on her own. But in that moment I felt a sense of calm.
I had nothing keeping me here anymore. I was all I had left. Armed with a letter from the Psychiatrist explaining why I had stashes of medication on me, I made my way to Heathrow. For forty minutes I avoided nervous glances on the Picadilly Line as my overstuffed backpack threatened to flatten neighbouring passengers. By 6pm on 31 December, I was checked in. The departure date was a deliberate decision. To wake up on the other side of the world in To slide the shutters on , minus the ceremonial celebration.
Was I nervous about travelling solo soon after receiving daily visits from healthcare teams and round-the-clock help from loved ones? Of course I was. I was also arriving to the comfort of a close friend who was out in Melbourne.
After a year of trying for a baby with military precision, I had deliberately not planned the hell out of this trip. After years of recurring anxiety, I learnt that releasing control could make me see life can be lived fully, without micromanaging every minute. Things like mindfulness exercises to help me hone in on the beautiful surroundings. Or writing three things I was proud of achieving that day in my journal to give me a boost when I was feeling vulnerable.
Most importantly, I learnt to show myself compassion every day. And build up confidence I did. From the odd stroll around the Melbourne suburbs while my cousin was working, to a full beach day basking in the fierce Aussie sunshine.
By the end of the month, I was ready for the next part of my adventure. Truly going it alone in a new country. All those experiences can make your mental well-being on the brittle side, making it even more challenging to overcome your nervous breakdown.
You can, perhaps, begin to see a pattern of impactful and challenging life events that require much time, attention and a ton of energy.
All potentially make your recovery that more complicated. Please note, however, none of them will prevent you from getting better! Police and ambulance personnel are continually exposed to traumatic events. It can be a relatively minor incident that they no longer have the spare capacity for to process. Maybe stress at work was the cause of your breakdown in the first place. The quality of support at work can significantly impact the speed of your recovery either positively or negatively.
Not getting appropriate support at and from work can delay your recovery. If you find yourself constantly stressed at work, you may even have to consider getting another job — if at all possible. However, I can imagine that the very thought of changing jobs right now makes you shudder for a number of reasons.
Read what Doris Lessing discovered when trying it out for herself. Please, hop over to my article on the signs of an abusive relationship or take a look at my abusive relationship test. This list is by no means complete, there may well be other factors that have contributed to your breakdown. For example, a natural disaster, a war, a shooting or another personal crisis. All of the above takes time to heal.
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