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DIY Anxiety Management
DIY Self Inventories & Making a Mental Health Toolbox
HALT: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
What are you trying to accomplish — people still get hungry, angry, lonely and tired. Suppose you feel down if you are in a bad mood, HALT. Your mindset shapes you. Rich or poor, famous or unknown, we all have good days and bad. The acronym HALT helps you do a self-inventory to check in with yourself.
Researchers have found this mental health tool to be a profound method of managing your sanity and staying productive.
Mood management is the function of the capacity of your mind to regulate and act accordingly throughout different chemical transitions that take place several times per day in your body.
This tactic of HALT is used in addiction counselling to help oneself identify if something is out of sort and avoid the feeling that pushes you to do things like self-medicate. Alternatively, becoming an abusive person with external aggression.
