Improve your mental health: Part 2

Improve your mental health | How to boost your mental wellbeing

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3. Keep in touch with family and friends

Regular social contact can make all the difference to someone suffering with mental health problems.

Keeping up your close relationships has a big impact on how we feel on a daily basis. Simply making a phone call, sending an email or a text keeps up the connection.

And if you know someone who is depressed, then a quick call can really help.

4. Reduce stress

This can be easier than it sounds, but continued stress can have a long-term effect on your mental and physical health.

Start by trying to make your home as stress-free as possible: clear up mess, make sure there's enough light and that you have somewhere you can go to relax.
- Follow our expert advice on how to reduce stress

5. Give yourself a challenge

Trying a new activity or setting a goal helps to focus your thoughts and actions and also gives you something to aim for.

Your challenge has to be something realistic, like learn how to play an instrument simply, or get fit enough to walk up the stairs at work without feeling exhausted.

Don't make the challenge totally unachievable - like running a marathon. The idea of it is to have fun and broaden what you normally do.