Self Awareness: Why It's important and how to get it

Self Awareness is defined as "having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Self Awareness allows you to understand other people, how they perceive you, your attitude and your responses to them in the moment."

I'm a firm believer, in people playing a role in their own treatment, one of the things that gives you an upper hand is self awareness. How does it help you ask, by understanding your strengths and weaknesses, it shows you what you need to work on and you can most effectively work on it. With self awareness, here is a quote from an article I wrote a few months ago

"Taking a look at the following questions and really thinking long and hard about what your answer is and for the questions you negatively answer or don't have an answer for, ask yourself why.


  • What are my strengths?
  • What are my long-term and also short-term goals?
  • What do I want to change?
  • What are my weakness and how can I use my strengths in order to improve on my weaknesses?
  • What are my core values?
  • How does my mental health issue coincide with my life?
  • What are my triggers and what can I do in order to strengthen them?
  • What do I do directly and also indirectly to sabotage myself?
  • Do I constructively deal with stressful situations or am I doing repetition compulsion? (Which is putting yourself in situations where you have had negative experiences in order to subconsciously gain control over the experience, in order for it to have less control over you)
It's questions like these that make you understand yourself because unless you understand you, then you shouldn't expect other people to understand you!"


 In conclusion, the harder that you look at the things that are in your life, including yourself. The better you will be able to focus on what works best for you and what doesn't. This may seem easy, but honestly the hardest thing you can do isn't answering those questions. It's implementing those things into your own life.

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