How does your physical health affect your mental health?
New Landscape ~ DID/MPD Support Group
New York support group for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) / Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)
How does your physical health affect your mental health?
i know that with me, in a lot of ways the two play into each other when things aren’t going well. a lot of my coping mechanisms for feeling upset are physical, so if i’m upset and sick at the same time, then it means that i’ve got a lot fewer ways of coping with those feelings.
there’s also the fact that when i’m doing better emotionally, i tend to have a lot of things i want to be doing, so if i’m sick, i get frustrated and unhappy about the fact that my body won’t let me do them. or else i’ll push myself past what i should do, just to get more time, and then i’ll wind up getting sicker from not taking the rest my body needs.
and the interplay between mental health and physical health seems a lot more disabling than either one on their own. it’s like, if i have one good day out of three with physical health, and one good day out of two with mental health, simple math says that i then wind up with one day out of six where i’m both mentally and physically doing well… so that’s frustrating and discouraging as well.