Make a Friend to Boost Your Health and Wellness
By Brandi Goodman
National Make a Friend Day arrives in February, and for good reason. Friends are much more necessary than just having someone to hang out with from time to time. A friend can be a lifelong companion that helps to boost your health and wellness in a number of ways.
Reducing the Risk of Health Problems
People who find themselves without a friend to help them steer clear of unhealthy habits are more likely to develop health problems. If you have a friend who encourages you to do and be better you are more likely to have your risk for certain ailments reduced. Depression is at the top of this list.
Enhancing Your Happiness
Though it's not always the case, people with friends tend to feel happier. That is, along as they're making time to talk to them regularly and spending time together. Socializing with others is a great way to improve happiness and mood and feel better overall. You're not sitting alone at home with your thoughts of isolation and depression if you're out with a friend.
Helps You Open Up
Opening up to a friend about your fears, dreams, desires, and more can help you to feel better overall. Bottling things up inside only makes them burst out later. You may become angry, sad, or have another severe emotion due to the bottled up feelings. Sharing with others lets you get things off your chest so you can experience improved mental health.
Relieving Stress
Feelings of stress can put a huge damper on your mental health. Spending time with a friend can help you to get some stress relief. Watching a movie, attending a concert, or even just playing a game at one of your homes can help you to relieve stress significantly and release some of the tension you've been feeling.
Living Longer
It has been found that people with a strong social circle tend to live longer overall. You have more to live for in life and are not alone, ensuring a boost in longevity. Because friends help boost your health as well, this could be one of the reasons why you're likely to continue living when others without anyone are not.
Make a friend on National Make a Friend Day or anytime you can throughout the year by volunteering, joining a new class or club, partaking in an activity, or even heading online. Just as dating sites exist so do options for meeting new friends in your area. A friend made today can be a friend for life that helps you boost your health and wellness.
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