Tips for Maintaining Mental Health in The Digital Era

World Mental Health Day is celebrated every year on October 10, exactly a month ago. This warning aims to increase public awareness and concern for the importance of mental health. Now we live in the digital era, where mental health problems are not only related to the real world, but also the virtual world. Everything must receive equal attention. However, for this article, I am only focusing on mental health in cyberspace.

Often we see information on social media or internet that is not balanced between positive and negative things. Of course, it would be useful to get positive information about new knowledge, new experiences, productive activities, something creative, and entertaining. On the other hand, your mind will get anxious, bored, stressed, wasting time, and gives rise to jealously if you see negative information, such as hoax, criminal news, hate speech, and flexing content. Therefore, for this reason, we must be wise in using social media. If you feel it is not useful, it is better to stop first.

Here tips for maintaing mental health in the digital era:

1. Strive for quality sleep. The ideal sleep for an adult is 5-8 hours a day. Don't be less or more. Before going to bed, make sure the lights are dim, the bed is comfortable, the air circulation is good & smells good, no mosquitos, gadgets are turned off, & you can set the alarm. Quality sleep is important, so that the body is healthy, fit, relax, & happy to welcome the next day. A good mood means good mental health 

2. Impose time restrictions, if necessary a day without social media excepts for work needs, learn new knowledge, important means of communication, & looking for more luck. Don't let our minds be filled with toxic content. This is often called social media detox

3. Limit interactions, respect the privacy of yourself & the others on social media. However, positive interactions in the real world are more important 

4. Reduce curiocity about people's lives because it can make us stressed & less grateful. It's better to find out our weaknesses and immedeately improve yourself

5. Adopt healthy lifestyle and be disciplined in prioriting activities. Play social media & internet only for things that are useful. Even if you are tired, you have to rest because you also have to maintain eye health

6. If you bored due to using gadget, try healing either alone, with family, or friends with the same hobby

7. Avoid excessively flexing posts. This only make us more arrogant, other people become jealous, curse, & may have bad intentions.  Also avoid making comments that provoke debate and anger in other people. Of course that's not good for mental health 

8. Avoid posting something that makes you bullied. Also avoid insulting other people's post. If you don't like it, just skip it

9. Stop following toxic, disrespectful, untrusted, and useless accounts

10. Increase worship or you can also do breathing exercises and meditation

11. Hang out with positive people and often remain them the wrong things 

12. If you steel feel anxious, and stressed due to the use of digital technology, contact a psychologist in the field.

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