Mental wealth: managing your mental health budget

This metaphor means seeing your mental health as a wallet: money comes in, money comes out. How much money is in there is how many adverse events you can go through while sustaining your mental health.

We usually only worry about our mental health during distressing events, and don't take into consideration the many daily events that empty our mental health wallet, often without us realizing it.

• The ways people are using social media has more of an impact on their mental health than just the frequency and duration of their use.
• Microaggressions and discrimination.
• Urban life: urbanites are 21% more likely to have anxiety disorders and 39% more likely to have mood disorders.
• Financial worries have been linked to mental health issues among university students, and about half of people in problem debt.
• Lack of sleep, a poor diet and alcohol consumption.