Lifestyle Diseases and Their Mental Health Impact

[Hazel]

Conditions like diabetes, hypertension, or obesity, often tied to lifestyle, can affect mental health, creating stress or feelings of helplessness. Managing these diseases while maintaining mental well-being is tough. How do you balance treatment, lifestyle changes, and mental health? Have you faced stigma or emotional challenges tied to a lifestyle disease?

 

[Shree]

Lifestyle diseases like diabetes or heart conditions often bring mental health struggles, stress, anxiety, even depression. I’ve seen how managing these illnesses daily can feel overwhelming. Support, self-care, and therapy can ease the burden and improve both mental and physical well-being.

 

[Master-one]

Many people think that diabetes and heart disease are the only kind of diseases that have a huge impact on life. However, these diseases are not the only kind of health conditions that could affect life in a negative way. Addictions can also have a huge impact on mental health of many people.