Healthy & supportive relationships a key to good mental health

If you regard happiness as coming from outside, you will waste a lot of time chasing it, because all the evidence suggest that happiness comes from within yourself. The same lies true with all other aspects of your life physical, mental, social and emotional life.

We all experience change in our daily routine although often positive in the long term disrupts our mental health. By focusing on change we can look at life's pressure points: the crucial times of transition from one life stage to another when we experience adversity from becoming a parent, to going to school then perhaps university, dealing with change in the workplace and, of course, change that comes towards the end of life. Healthy and supportive relationships are key to good mental health.

Top 10 to survive pressures of a relationship

01 No one is born perfect:

According to no other than Price Pritchett "Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes... and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble." Stop kicking yourself for making a mistake. Avoid using the words "should" and "shouldn't," as in "I should have known better," "I shouldn't have used certain words." Saying "should" or "shouldn't" implies you did something wrong or, at the least, that you could have done better. Move on quickly from lapses.

02 Be an optimist: