Here is the summary of the post in a Haiku (not really one since it is not focused on nature):
I was so depressed
I decided to get help
I learned to love me
So how do you two readers feel about the importance of mental health? I think it is very important when you are trying to be healthy overall. Meanwhile we have a new challenge for 3 months Jonathan and I will be going from Fatlanta to Hotlanta in time for the summer months. The M.A.F.I.A. challenge did not go so well we never stuck to it but now it is a different game. I will win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9 comments:
If you are not mentally ready for change, then it is not going to happen. So I believe it has to be the 1st thing to change.
You have to share, that's what your blog is all about!
I feel that physical health ties in very closely with mental and emotional health. Your hormones and the flow of oxygen and nutrients to your brain affects how you feel emotionally. Also when you feel depressed your ability to be active and energized and to stick with commitments is greatly impacted. The two really go hand in hand. When I went to an acupuncturist for symptoms of depression back in 2005 this is what they greatly stressed to me. First comes nutrition and activity and then follows any other treatment you might require. That's when I started taking care of my body better and I have found when I stick to my routine the depression stays at bay. When I feel depressed its almost always cause I've been eating crap and sitting around too much. Anyways yea take care of yourself in all areas body mind soul.
Depression and mental health. Diseases. Disorders. Oh my. Between the physical body, social stress and chance, there is much suffering. Just don't inflict it on yourself. Most of us still have the ability to control how we treat ourselves and how we spend our time, as well has who we spend it with. The hardest part is to know the correct action(have the correct goal) and DO IT. Expectations become closer to realities. An undaunted life warrior you must become. Without strong mental health, there is no health. Change ruins the weak. -Shit Jonathan says-
I never think much about the mental part but it is really important, you have to be in a good mindset to be ready to succeed at anything, including weight loss.
I'd be interested to read your full post - its your blog, post what you want!
http://youtu.be/qX9FSZJu448
You should post what you want...it's what's important to you. Plus, your friends will know better how to support and love you :-)
I believe that Mental Health is the cornerstone to everyone's overall health. I've seen these problems up-close and personal my entire life and in a wide array of incarnations. They're still affecting me and the people I love and it's hard not knowing how to change those patterns in them and me. All of the self-inflicted pain we create stems from not knowing how to handle those problems. Addiction to drugs, alcohol, attention, other people, food - they are all symptoms, in varying degrees, of something in a person's psyche that is off kilter. It happens to everyone at different times, and to different extents. I think it is pretty shameful that Mental Health and it's therapies are still so stigmatized today. It would save us, personally and societally, so much money if people were taught to recognize and seek out help in productive ways when they're hurting. I still call myself a Recovering Catholic, (I'm sure you know what I mean Del), because we're taught to talk to someone in our head, or behind a curtain who in reality has no actual words of wisdom or advice other than to pray it out. We need to be talking to each other, to search out people who understand our obstacles, who can give encouragement if not advice.
Some people are born empathetic and soak up everything of the people around them, some people are clueless to the world outside themselves. I think the key is learning when to personally embody either of those traits: Sometimes you need to bend someone's ear, sometimes you need to block out the noise and focus. Also, remembering that other people are in different stages of that journey is important when you come up against someone who isn't being helpful. Talk it out, Write it out, even if it never sees the light of the interwebs, whatever works, do it, and if this long comment isn't encouragement to do so, then let me just say, "You're good enough. You're smart enough. And Doggone it, people like you!"
Also, that Arthur Boorman story is effing powerful! Gets me every friggin time!
Good luck. Nice post. You might enjoy this Cartoon
Thanks for all the comments guys I posted my long entry about Mental Health and Physical Health in case you want to read it someday.
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