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"An individual who's developing must feel badly in different periods of time, must be tormented by sadness, depression, anxiety, inner and external conflicts. Without these experiences there's no development, there's no growth of self-awareness."(K. Dabrowski).
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This humane and more authentic view of mental health -- not as an absence of symptoms but the capacity for development that includes so-called negative and "pathological" experiences -- was articulated by Kazimierz Dabrowski in his theory of #PositiveDisintegration.
It's #WorldMentalHealthDay
While good, it means countless well-meant posts/platitudes encouraging people to reach out, open up, practice self care, etc.
Such things *can* help with mental health, sure. But you know what would really improve mental health all round?
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While good, it means countless well-meant posts/platitudes encouraging people to reach out, open up, practice self care, etc.
Such things *can* help with mental health, sure. But you know what would really improve mental health all round?
Money
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Whether it's #WorldMentalHealth or any of the other many related occasions, one common theme is that the messaging pretty much always focuses on the 'stuff that doesn't actually cost anything to anyone with any power'. And that's... not great, really.
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Telling people to 'reach out to someone' is good advice. Although the onus is on the person struggling with mental health to actually do the work or pay the phone bill.
"I'm here to talk" is also nice. But talk isn't exactly pricey, as the old saying goes (sort of)
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"I'm here to talk" is also nice. But talk isn't exactly pricey, as the old saying goes (sort of)
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On #WorldMentalHealth, I will now give you my incredibly wise and useful tips towards having moderately decent mental health. I'm an expert - at having mental health issues - which might seem like I have no idea what I'm talking about, but these things have helped me (a bit)
1) Boring as it sounds, get enough sleep. You feel absolutely EVERYTHING more when you are sleep deprived. Plus, sleep is great for stopping everything hurting for a while. Unless you have weirdarse dreams. But even then.
2) Try to find something meaningful to do, even if it isn't work. One of the things that has helped me a lot is the fact I HAD to go to work, but also that my job wasn't shit. If your job is shit, do volunteering or something that helps you feel that what you do matters.
