Mental Health Awareness: Step One in Battling Depression: Change Your Environment (⏱ 5 min read)
Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with mental illness. As an organization, we support the national movement to raise awareness about mental health. Together, we can realize our shared vision of a nation where anyone affected by mental illness can get the appropriate support and quality of care to live healthy, fulfilling lives - a nation where no one feels alone in their struggle. Depression can be very difficult and impossible to overcome at times. But many people undervalue the powerful healing effect that very simple, seemingly unrelated changes to our lives can have on depression. We have heard thousands and thousands of times the foundation elements about general health, things like sleep, eating well (food and drink), and exercise. Nowadays, we are so used to hearing these recommendations being tirelessly advised to us that we often become numb to these suggestions and often make the mistake of not putting enough thought into what it might mean to utili
