Which is more important?

Question

Obviously BOTH are important and they each affect one another...
But if you were dealing with both physical and mental health issues which is more important to deal with first? Why?

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Mental illness usually affects physical health as a side effect. So mental health is more important to me.

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Mental health. Mental health makes it very difficult for people to even want to improve or change their physical health. If you want to just die and be done with life, how can you focus or take care of other aspects of your health? To work on something, you have to be mentally ready and willing so I'd say mental health comes first.

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Well I would rate how important something is on the persons happiness, personally. I suppose with physical illness only, it's still possible to happy and have a positive state of mind, whereas many mental illnesses directly affect that and make it far more difficult to achieve.

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I want to preface this by saying I am 100% pro mental health. I think mental health services should be more readily available and without stigma. But according to Maslow's Hierarchy of needs:

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Equal. They go hand in hand. Without one, the other will fail

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Mental health for me mostly bc I've struggled with depression and anxiety pretty much my whole life.

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Mental,  there's always different ways and lifestyle choices you can make to improve your physical health.  I feel like with mental,  the problems will never go away,  you will just continue to bury the issues with medication

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Mental health. It is very common for poor mental health to have an effect on physical health.

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I can't deal with my physical illnesses until my mental illnesses are under control

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It's hard to have a healthy body if you don't have a healthy mind. 💟

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