Thread by @Theholisticpsyc

Our mental heath care system is broken.

We are telling people there is no hope, they are broken, and not giving them the full story.

How we can start healing ourselves:

Create mitochondrial health: nutritional psychiatry recognizes the need to prioritize nutrition for mitochondrial function. Eat food your ancestors ate. Mitochornial dysfunction is a key feature in bipolar, anxiety, and depression.

Get sunlight: vitamin D is a hormone that carts as an neuroprotective agent. It reduces inflammation and balances serotonin levels. Our body needs it to function, and low levels create mental health symptoms.

Build Emotionally healthy family units: prioritize learning emotional regulation, relationship repair, and boundaries. Secure attachment is one of the greatest predictors of longevity we have. Free education is available everywhere— use it to your advantage.

Research epigenetics: contrary to what we’ve been told, our genes respond to our environment. They are not fixed. Our lifestyle choices, our habits, and our patterns impact genetic expression. None of us are doomed.

Balance your blood sugar: if you have issues regulating your emotions or feel anxious and irritable often, up your protein intake. Protein is the building block of the body and helps our nervous system to stabilize.

Embrace neuroplasticity: through practice, repetition, and consistency our brain can create new neural pathways. None of us are stuck. We have a lifelong ability to re-wire our brain.

Say NO: trying to manage everyone else’s emotional state create disease in our body. This is extremely common for women who’ve been conditioned to be people pleasers. Avoid relationships with people who guilt you for meeting your own needs.

Practice self compassion: start to speak kindly to yourself. See your behaviors as adaptations. Cheer yourself on as you take responsibility to learn and do better. Generational patterns are broken through compassion, not shame.

Prioritize your healthy relationships, limit exposure to toxic ones: our relationships actually create our mental and physical health. Invest time with people who allow you to feel safe, seen, and heard. Toxic relationships cause inflammation.

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