People Are Sharing The Things They Quit Doing That Immediately Improved Their Mental Health

I deliberation everyone tin hold that 2025 hasn't been *amazing* for anyone's intelligence health.

1. "I stopped reasoning enactment problems were existent problems."

2. "I discontinue pursuing the quality truthful closely. It made maine truthful anxious to cognize each the unspeakable things going connected each azygous day."

—u/antiitie

"During the archetypal reign, my coworker constricted his quality depletion to Tuesdays and Saturdays. I thought that was an fantabulous mode to enactment alert of what's going on, but without spiraling."

—u/Charleston2Seattle

3. "The 'two cakes' doctrine is simply a lifesaver for artists. To those unfamiliar, it's based connected a comic successful which 1 quality brings successful a cake, looks astatine a barroom idiosyncratic other made, and says, 'Aw, their barroom is truthful overmuch amended than mine!' But past a 2nd idiosyncratic comes implicit and excitedly says, 'Holy shit! Two cakes!'"

—u/Amazing_Excuse_3860

4. "I stopped staying up late, and I stopped sleeping successful connected the weekends. Regulating my slumber docket and slumber hygiene has been truly adjuvant for me. I effort to spell to furniture and aftermath up astir the aforesaid clip each time — weekdays, weekends, holidays, etc."

6. "I haven't been isolating arsenic much. I unrecorded alone, truthful it inactive happens, but I'm nary longer emerging from my flat aft 3 days sounding similar Tom Waits due to the fact that I hadn't spoken retired large for the full time. I'm a enactment successful progress, but I'm feeling overmuch better."

7. "I stopped counting calories. It makes maine truthful obsessed with food. I genuinely consciousness truthful unwell erstwhile I bash this, truthful I vowed to ne'er bash it again!"

—u/Bopobabe

8. "Every azygous night, I would fume weed, person a snack (usually turned into a binge), and ticker thing mindless. I genuinely thought this was self-care arsenic it made maine consciousness amended successful the moment. It’s been a twelvemonth since I stopped, and I genuinely can’t ideate going backmost to that. I person truthful overmuch much energy, intelligence clarity, and my wide happiness has accrued drastically."

10. "I forced myself to halt my caput erstwhile I commencement reasoning of thing negative. Negative reasoning creates neural pathways, which makes it easier for your caput to proceed doing it. So breaking that antagonistic rhythm is truthful critical."

11. "I stopped tolerating affectional and verbal maltreatment from my spouse. The value lifted disconnected my thorax has been tremendous."

—u/jhft_comments

12. "Quitting Instagram helped maine truthful much. Doom scrolling is truly mentally taxing."

—u/daynetrain12

"I deleted my Facebook and Instagram 7 years ago, and I was shocked astatine however hard it was astatine first, but aft astir a month, I was sooooo overmuch happier. I had nary hint however overmuch it was draining my happiness. It was 1 of the champion decisions of my life. Living successful the existent satellite is truthful overmuch cooler than 90% of the bullshit societal media pretends the existent satellite is."

—u/dunkan799

13. "I stopped trying to lick everyone else's problems for them."

—u/Dense-Reveal-3647

14. "I've tried my champion to halt being toxic connected the internet. For a while, I got caught up successful a batch of governmental connection boards, idiotically reasoning I could alteration someone's mind. Once I realized that wasn't going to hap and that I was conscionable contributing to the play online, I did my champion to go much of a contributor and little of a divisive poster. I inactive drawback myself backsliding erstwhile successful a while, but I effort to admit it and minimize it."

15. "No much checking what my ex is up to connected socials."

-u/Batbrigade

16. "Quitting gaming helped me. I emotion gaming and person truthful galore astonishing friends I've made implicit the years, but it was a beingness suck that I excused arsenic my 'escape' from my depression. Now, I person long, busy, fulfilling days. I americium bushed astatine the extremity of the time and spell to bed. I utilized to flip and crook until the prima came up each night. This wasn't immoderate overnight process, but it each started there."

17. "I stopped picking up my telephone archetypal happening successful the morning."

—u/reldana210

18. "Going no-contact with definite household members turned my Hell into my Heaven. I can't power them, oregon the accent they create, but no-contact ended their play successful my life."

19. "Deleting dating apps and decentering men has been the champion happening ever. Life is amended erstwhile you formal for you and not for however a antheral mightiness comprehend you."

—u/abrey30

20. "Responding to radical who exhaust me, specifically, a adjacent person of mine. I forgot to connection her backmost for similar 3 weeks and realized that I felt little stressed and exhausted, which astir apt seems chaotic since it's conscionable texts. I present respond to messages erstwhile I really privation to and not immediately. It's opened my eyes to the presumption of my relationships with others and has fixed maine the accidental to measurement distant from immoderate of them."

—u/True_Panic_3369

21. And lastly, "I discontinue spending excessively overmuch clip worrying astir what different radical volition deliberation astir my decisions."

What are immoderate things that helped you amended your intelligence health? Tell maine successful the comments!

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.