Emotional health (also called emotional well-being) is the ability to handle stress and emotional challenges.
Learning how to improve emotional health and also help with your physical, mental and overall wellness.
Clues Into Your Emotional Health
Wondering what emotional health looks like?
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Your day-to-day life holds important insight into your emotional health.
Emotional dysregulationis when you experience strong emotions that dont align with the actual impact of an event.
Some emotional dysregulation is normal, especially for children and young people.
Signs of Regulated Emotional Health
If youre emotionally healthy, you could regulate your emotions.
Emotional dysregulation can look like:
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Emotional health
Emotional health is different from mental and physical health but is closely related to both.
Finding coping strategies and caring for your mental or physical illness can help.
That way, it’s possible for you to provide support for each other.
Some of the symptoms of emotional dysregulation can also be the symptoms of a mental illness, like depression.
Talking with your primary care provider or the mental health center in your community is a great starting point.
This is available around the country and able to link you to local support.
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