Keeping yourself well

Healthy eating is a crucial part of maintaining your physical health. While everyone needs different kinds and amounts of food to stay healthy, there are guidelines on what most people should generally be having.

Keeping yourself moving is a big help to both your physical and mental health. While exercise can seem like a daunting or gruelling task, it doesn't have to be.

Most people assume "exercise" is spending several hours a week at the gym. However, there are plenty of exercises you can do at home, or simple steps you can take to work more moving into your day. Even something as small as going on a walk every day can make a big difference.

If you're prescribed any medication, it's important to get into a routine of taking it at the required times and at the correct dosages. To help with this kind of routine, you might want to:

• set a reminder or alarm on a device
• take your medication at a specific time or at the same time as another activity, such as before your morning shower, after dinner, or immediately before bed

Most adults require 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night. However, another often-overlooked factor in sleep is schedule and consistency. If your sleeping schedule fluctuates by more than an hour or two every night, it can lead to you feeling tired, even if you have had your regular amount of sleep. Having no consistent sleep pattern can make this issue even worse.

For example, if you normally go to bed at 10pm and wake up at 6am, but one day you go to bed at 1am and wake up at 9am, you may find yourself feeling sluggish, even though you got the same amount of sleep.

Isolation can be a serious detriment to your mental health, while social overexposure can lead to you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed, so it's important to maintain a healthy balance between socialising and alone time.

If you can, try to organise dedicated time with friends and/or family to spend time with them in a way that's suitable for everyone involved.

Maintaining a good balance between your work and home life can be difficult, especially while under difficult or stressful circumstances that require you to work longer hours, reduce your personal time, or move job position or place of work.

Wherever possible, try to keep your work and home lives separate, with separate spaces for work and leisure if you can. Having a clear distinction between "work time and workspace" and "personal time and personal space" can help you keep a healthier balance.

Overworking can lead to something called burnout, where high levels of physical and emotional exhaustion begin to affect your health. You can read more about burnout on the Mental Health UK website.