Waywyn
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Recently started a little blog. Hope you enjoy the read!
https://lifebuff.blog/started-worry-less/
https://lifebuff.blog/started-worry-less/
Recently started a little blog. Hope you enjoy the read!
https://lifebuff.blog/started-worry-less/
Thanks for sharing !Recently started a little blog. Hope you enjoy the read!
https://lifebuff.blog/started-worry-less/
Hi Alex,
I read your story and thank you for sharing it. Life isn´t always the sunny side unfortunately, but I hope you are doing better and all best to you both.
Alexander
I enjoyed the read and like your attitude. Unfortunately, when you have a mental illness it isn't really possible to adopt it but in clearer times it's something to strive for.
I'm very happy for you Alex, this is pretty much how I handle stuff these days, or at least try my very best to.
Stress is the absolute worst, and people are terrible at recognizing and handling it.
Learning how to deal with it should be part of every child's education.
Enjoy those years you just added to your life!
_T.j.
There is no happiness without sadness, they go hand in hand.
Accept that there will be tough times and that they, per definition, must lead to happier times (and vice versa).
It's certainly possible, it just means you have to work at it harder than 'normal' people
and be very, very aware of any signs of regression. Work at it everyday until it no longer feels fake, uncomfortable or awkward and instead it's your new default.
Stopping using your condition as an excuse, and instead seeing it as a challenge is one of the first, and most critical steps I took in finally getting better.
(coming from someone with multiple diagnosed disorders, and even was at some point admitted to a mental ward).
I said absolutely nothing about using any condition as an excuse. But telling someone that they shouldn't worry when they're bipolar or have an anxiety disorder or schizophrenia and worry is chemically built into the condition is like telling the lightning to stop striking things.
I said absolutely nothing about using any condition as an excuse. But telling someone that they shouldn't worry when they're bipolar or have an anxiety disorder or schizophrenia and worry is chemically built into the condition is like telling the lightning to stop striking things.
telling someone that they shouldn't worry when they're bipolar or have an anxiety disorder or schizophrenia and worry is chemically built into the condition is like telling the lightning to stop striking things.
Scientists and people in general like to give things names, put labels on them and sort them on their designated shelves. However this tends to mold the way people perceive things. In or society, the idea is that a disorder is an on/off switch that is flipped in one or the other direction, depending on how lucky you get. Which is wrong. What I'm trying to say is: it's not like, oh, my bipolar switch is set to "on", I'm doomed for eternity, there no point in even attempting to do anything in life.
People with mental illness of course need to worry less. Or smile more. And be more free. Like anyone else. The mental illness doesn't change anything about that. It's just way harder to do.
Or, to put it differently: just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean that they're not after you, right?
I totally get your point, but in my opinion I have two choices: Being the victim or taking away something positive and being aware that not everything is adaptable to every condition!
Imagine that article being shared of a composer who "wrote that song which touched everyone's heart!"
Def people be like: Nope! All I heard was John Cage 4'33 for the gazillionth time!
Now it is on them if they start feeling insulted by it (not saying you did, but just as a general, more extreme form) or being just happy with the composer?
I am currently working on a course which will include also stuff like fitness, standing desk solutions or exercises on how to take a mindful walk etc ... thousands of wheelchair users obviously can't adopt this!
Now, what would the world look like if everyone would include everyone's condition?
"With this course everyone can learn to drive safely, except people who are blind, paralysed, suffer from __________ (put in here 3478638764 possible disabilities
Again, it makes total sense what you say, but in the end I always have two choices: Fully accept my flaws, disabilities and adapt e.g. articles like the one I wrote and make the best out of it ... or not!
To be honest: there is nothing really new from the point of knowledge in these course. My wife, who is very interested in these things and had done lots of seminars (dont know if you know Christian Bischoff for example) had told me evry insight of this a lot of times, but did I listen ....