The way we've approached mental illness as a society, actually makes things worse. Let's take a look at exploring mental health work in a way that's similar to how we approach physical fitness: the mental fitness approach to recovery.
You can grab the book I wrote thanks to these skills, YOU ARE NOT A ROCK, wherever books are sold, like here on Amazon: bit.ly/youarenotarock
(It's called THE MIND WORKOUT in the UK and Australia/New Zealand, DAS MIND-WORKOUT in Deutsch, ENTRENA TU MENTE en español)
Learn more about what I do here: www.markfreeman.ca
Check out my travel mental health blog: www.themindfulfieldguide.com
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:43 Wanting to get rid of thoughts and feelings is the problem, not the solution
2:34 Difficult experiences are NOT problems. We improve mental fitness by purposefully seeking out challenges
3:34 We can't expect to have skills and capacities we have not intentionally practiced
5:12 Shift the focus to mental fitness skills you want to build and keep, instead of brain stuff you want to avoid and control.
7:45 Is the goal of your mental health work to avoid drowning, or get skilled at swimming
10:12 Start with where you want to go. That shows us the skills and capacities necessary to get there. Avoiding the present is NOT a destination
11:09 Trying to manage and control symptoms can get us trapped in a cage we believe is helping to protect us
12:02 What will heavy weights look like for the skills you want to build? How can you practice lifting thoughts and feelings
12:51 Working on mental fitness skills will be as sweaty and sore as making big physical fitness changes. It will NOT feel good (at first)
Негізгі бет Will recovery eliminate intrusive thoughts and anxiety and depression and depersonalization, etc?
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