Mental health 2 Point 0

“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!” ― Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa Let's talk about resilience using a quote from one of my favourite movies Rocky. What makes you resilient, is going through something in a positive way. While learning from it there is proper ways in life to deal with things and there's also bad ways. Instead of using it as an excuse for lashing out at the world.  When people don't have the proper self awareness, and don't take ownership of their own lack of progress. Especially when they do absolutely nothing bes...

In today’s world we have a tendency to let things such as social media, advertising, and other outside influences affect our lives. Sometimes we let it affect us a little bit more than we realize which causes us to be constantly overstimulated.  Due to being bombarded by so many things at once, sometimes it's good to get back to our inner core. To understand who we truly are and what we stand for. Getting back to who we are doesn't have to involve giving up life's good thing. To  me it's more about understanding what's important to you, in order to effectively live a healthy well-balanced life. While not letting unnecessary external factors influence you, from who you are. Look at your life, and the things in it that are beneficial for you and the things that are not What's the best way to eliminate the negative nonessential things, that hold you back in your life These two simple things, can be very difficult to accept, understand and apply to your ...

One thing I've noticed, as a person with ADHD and even though I have a Psychology Degree. People tend to notice your illness and the things that go along with it, and disregard your actual education. Having ADHD, I think that is one of my biggest pet peeves. How people tend to only understand you on a surface level. Some days it's more annoying  than others, but really when it comes to it there's a few things that I keep in mind. Another person's ignorance and lack of understanding, comes from there inability to understand. Which is a flaw on their part, not on your When it comes to treatment and general all around well-being, when friends or family relationships become toxic. Leave those relationships where they belong, in the past.  You are only in control of your emotions, and developing a strong sense of self awareness and educating yourself. Makes you stronger and more confident in understanding mental health issues and how to make healthier choices Yo...

One major issue which people rarely consider, is how the stigma of others adds to self stigma and makes treatment that much more difficult for people. Who already have a lot on their plate to deal with, and creates more issues for them to overcome.  What can lead to this you ask? The answer isn't as simple as one may think! Wherever stigma comes from. It has the same negative impact on a person,  who wants absolutely nothing else than to feel better, and have a happy healthy life.   Which let's be honest, is unfair to them, I know first hand what self stigma feels like. Even though I have an education. The stigma I've experienced, with people finding out that I have ADHD still sometimes dominates my life. What stigma  does is cause the person who has a valid medical condition, to see it as a weakness. Instead of seeing it for what it actually is, a valid medical condition. In doing so they either stop treatment all together, or self medicate, and instead of fixin...

How many memes, documentaries and other forms of media are out there, that discredits just how serious mental health truly is? Look on Facebook and social media in general, the comments bashing mental health issues are more well received than the ones sticking up for it.  Considering the fact that most documentaries are based on either outdated information, or one sided biased information. They don’t do this in order to help, they do this for ratings! In conclusion, don't let television control your self image, when people report on mental health issues. Usually they don't show the entire picture, instead they show a one sided biased view. In order to create a confirmation bias, because they're more worried about their ratings than properly informing others. Also remember that, when you see social media comments discrediting mental health. 

I usually publish most of my posts through vocal.media, but because this post is going to be brief. I decided just to do a small post for it, regarding when you add to your problems. As we all know sometimes life sucks let's be honest, and there's nothing we can do with stop bad things from constantly happening throughout our lives. Whether it's mental health issues or some negative habit that you just cannot quit, for more than a short period of time. We need to look at, what we are repeatedly doing in order to stop ourselves from getting to where we want to be. I'm not saying that everything in your life is your fault. What we are responsible for you ask?  We're responsible for how we respond and what we do to either, make our situation better or worse. Like Aristotle said: "We are what we repeatedly do." I'm going to add an additional update to Aristotle's quote, we are also what we repeatedly think and perceive about ourselves, and ...

Tell me this, would you listen to someone that said I just watched this YouTube video on dental  surgery, you don't need to see the dentist. I can take out those wisdom teeth, because they only want your money. Hopefully you wouldn't, the same rule applies for mental health issues! Without the proper training and experience,  you can honestly potentially kill a person by not having the proper skills to treat and diagnose a person  Unsolicited advice, does more harmful than it does good, and comes from opinions and not actual facts.  In today's world, everyone is a so called expert in health care and nutrition. Really a more exact way to say that is, everyone thinks they are an expert.  I have a psychology degree and ADHD, I'm also a former 911 operator and I have a diploma in Human Services. Yet there is tons of information about myself and others that I'm not aware of. It's not that I don't have the resources to get it, it's more a fact that no one k...