Poor personal hygiene is not just a cause of bad physical health, it can break a person’s mental health as well. Spending about fifteen minutes daily working on personal hygiene has shown increased mood, better connectivity in relationships, and concentration. On the other hand, poor hygiene practices can cause social anxieties and other social issues to worsen as time goes on. This can create a linear growth in worsening mental health that feeds into not caring about hygiene or any forms of personal care.
People who struggle with depression for long periods of time often lose their typical habits. Even those as basic as brushing their teeth. Missing it once or twice becomes a regular practice, skipping out until that forged habit fails. Though it becomes a massive weight to restart these habits and may seem impossible, it is not a fruitless pursuit. The struggle of fixing broken habits can become very rewarding if repaired properly. This is because unsustainable hygiene practices can be far more damaging to physical and mental health.
“Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone,” stated Lisa Olivera
A good way to work on improving personal hygiene to help mental health is to get help with someone else. By working together and holding each other to a simple cleaning regiment, it will help to build these habits on automation and reduce the risk of failing. A good way to possibly do this would be to get new hygiene products together with a friend or relative and ask them to join you at set times to perform the self-care.
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Michael Davidson is staff writer and Copy Editor of The Lion's Roar. To learn more information about the writer click here.
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