Suicide Prevention: Self-Care Tips for Young Adults

Description

Suicide Prevention: Self-Care Tips for Young Adults provides seventeen self-care tips for young adults. The 17 tips include:

• Be kind to yourself, first and foremost
• Suicidal thoughts need not be acted on. Be reassured that there are solutions and ways to cope
• Cherish yourself: pamper yourself and find comfort
• Sit with your emotions, and allow yourself to feel and accept them
• Talk to yourself like your best friend would
• Find your people, they will support you
• Get outside yourself
• Take a walk, donate, say thank you to someone who has helped you, compliment someone (or yourself)
• Do a DIY self-care kit of things that make you feel better
• Find a safe place
• Say yes to therapy
• Star that project you’ve been planning for a while
• Plan a lunch with someone
• Recharge: make time to stop, stand, and stretch for 2 minutes
• Five yourself permission to say no or take a mental health day
• When in doubt, reach out Dial 988
• Fight the thoughts: learn to cope and challenge them

This resource is part of the Suicide Prevention series of Early Intervention resources developed by Miami University’s Center for School-Based Mental Health Programs (CSBMHP) and the Ohio MentalHealth Network for School Success (OMHNSS) as part of the Early Intervention Initiative (funded by the Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services, grant # G03746, https://mha.ohio.gov/)