Your Mental Health is in the
GREEN ZONE.
Your mental health seems to be MOSTLY WELL.
You can handle a range of emotions, including experiencing more than 1 emotion at a time.
Your emotions - pleasant and unpleasant - pass in a reasonable amount of time.
You experience creativity and present moment focus.
You are able to problem solve and handle daily stressors.
You engage in wellness activities with little internal resistance.
Your daily habits, relationships, and interactions happen with ease.
You are satisfied with your work/school experience.
You take care of yourself, have healthy boundaries, practice self care, and haven’t experienced mental health challenges in the past, or if you have, you have healed and recovered from them.
You may see low scores in all or 3 of the Indicator Sections.
You may relate to some of these images.
That said, everyone experiences each Zone in their own way.
What you can do for your Mental Health…
In the Green Zone, simply keep doing what you are doing!
Recommendation #1
Make time to appreciate your mental wellness or share this space with others. Pay attention to the behaviors, actions and choices you’ve made that contributed to your well-being. Validation of these moments helps our brain seek more wellness.
Recommendation #2
Take healthy risks to try something new or explore a personal growth goal. When you are in a grounded Green Zone space, you are able to tolerate uncertainty and discomfort with more emotional regulation and ease.
Recommendation #3
Identify and track the behaviors, routines, and actions you have been using. For instance, you could make a list in your phone, write a log in your journal, or post visual cues such as "post its" and stickers around your home, office, or car.
It's often better to have a list of supportive practices and not need to reference them versus needing those reminders and not having them!
Recommendation #4
If feasible, consider taking a half or full day off work/school or clear some time over your weekend to celebrate your mental wellness.
Mental Health Connect GREEN ZONE Resources and Services
As your Mental Health Ally, we offer a variety of services and resources to support you on your journey to maximize your mental wellness.
We offer concrete tools and action plans that answer key questions like What can I do? and Where can I find help?
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Mindfulness practices are varied and have been shown to positively impact holistic wellness. Exercises can often be done anywhere and anytime, cost nothing, and require no tools. These skills empower you to respond to and care for your unique needs.
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To support and enhance your experience of physical, emotional, social/behavioral, and cognitive well-being, our Wellness Coaching consists of supporting your mental health priorities. Our Mental Health Counselors can build your mindfulness skills, help you address obstacles and keep you accountable to your wellness plan.
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Become a certified Mental Health First Aider! Increase your mental health literacy, and learn effective ways to support yourself and others during a mental health challenge. As a first aider, you can give vital mental health support to your friends, families, and loved ones as needed.
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We invite you to take a moment to practice wellness and connect with MHC in a brief meditation.
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Professional mental health guidance can help keep you on track. This may be offered as brief Solution-Focused or ongoing long-term therapy to address the results of the indicators within your Self-Check-In. Counselors will review the Physical, Emotional, Social/Behavioral, and Cognitive Indicators with you and co-design a plan to help you reach your goals. Mental Health Connect offers mental health counseling for folks across socio-cultural, gender, sexuality, and neurodiverse identities. We are queer affirming and committed to eradicating anti-blackness and all other forms of racism.
Mental Health Crisis Response Quick Links
If you are experiencing adverse physical health conditions, such as chest pain, vomiting uncontrollably, persistent headaches, call your primary care provider, go to the nearest urgent care/emergency room or call 911 immediately.
If you are experiencing thoughts of death or dying, call 988 for a crisis response well check, text "Help" to 741741, call Trevor Project's crisis-line 866-488-7386, or go to the nearest emergency room.
If you are struggling with alcohol and other drugs, call SAMHSA's National Helpline 800-662-4357.
Let’s Work. Together.
Interested in learning more about ways we can support your mental health?
We're ready to partner with you. Send us a note.
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Call or text (831) 274-3274.