Ask HN: How do you work on your mental health?

In the spirit of the season (you know, new year, new goals, temporary motivation that might last 10-20 days), I’d like to ask what all of you are doing or would like to do to improve your mental health. Are there any particular things you’ve noticed work for you that have made a meaningful difference? Any new ideas that you’ve read about that you’d like to try? Personally, I’m experimenting with the idea of automated personal/positive affirmations based on something I read in the book “Indistractable”: > For example, short text messages providing words of encouragement are effective at helping smokers quit. A metastudy of interventions form ten countries found that “the evidence provides unequivocal support for the efficacy of text messaging interventions to reduce smoking behavior.
Story Published at: January 2, 2023 at 02:33PM