Amen man. You have a great approach and this is the way we should be teaching folks.
I have a similar story. As a adult on my own, I just had so much perspective and ability to like deal with my depression. I also learned to just let it be and not fight it, an that usually just disempowered it and it was not as big of a deal.
Personally I feel too many folks don’t think of mental health issues like physical problems. They treat them as this special mysterious thing, but a lot of the same solutions and techniques you’d deal with for physical problems or chronic pain really pragmatically translate to mental health.
And like mental health, folks with physical issues who refuse to acknowledge them often make them worse and become defined by them. And a lot of folks are really stupid and stubborn about these things and too proud to seek help or act like acknowledging the issue would make it worse or something. Or they might just go join some online community where they can complain without every having to get the pushback of changing something or seeking treatment, and fall into the self-pity cycle.
Amen man. You have a great approach and this is the way we should be teaching folks.
I have a similar story. As a adult on my own, I just had so much perspective and ability to like deal with my depression. I also learned to just let it be and not fight it, an that usually just disempowered it and it was not as big of a deal.
Personally I feel too many folks don’t think of mental health issues like physical problems. They treat them as this special mysterious thing, but a lot of the same solutions and techniques you’d deal with for physical problems or chronic pain really pragmatically translate to mental health.
And like mental health, folks with physical issues who refuse to acknowledge them often make them worse and become defined by them. And a lot of folks are really stupid and stubborn about these things and too proud to seek help or act like acknowledging the issue would make it worse or something. Or they might just go join some online community where they can complain without every having to get the pushback of changing something or seeking treatment, and fall into the self-pity cycle.