Mentally Important Facts

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Money & Mental Health

Would you rather spend the necessary money to help heal and improve the mind’s health or not spend the necessary money and let the mind continue to destruct or deteriorate without the necessary help?

Priorities! It’s all about prioritizing your life by the most important things that deserve more than enough of your focus, attention and your time.

A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical helath. – Kate Middleton

When it comes down to change, psychology plays a huge and important role. If anyone wants change in any way from either themselves or others, they must come to acceptance and respect the process. And part of that process is that the person in need of change within themselves, must be the one it comes from.

No one can demand or force anyone to change, you can only inspire it! Because you are only responsible for your own being! And the person in need of change is only responsible for herself/himself. You can inspire all you want but don’t go beyond that; hold yourself back from trying to force or demand change in any way. If you want better change from someone, all you can do is inspire them, the rest has to come from them! Nobody is a robot nor a puppet.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it. ~ Grace Lee Boggs

When it comes to negativity, it’s easy to be negative, but positivity; that takes work, and a lot more to succeed in being positive. And though its way easier to be negative yet also react in negative ways; but it is possible to break this cycle and practice new habits, and create a healthier lifestyle for yourself.

It may not be easy, but I’m telling you it’s gonna worthwhile of your time!

So many people that I’ve encountered and communicated with in some way throughout my life so far where I’ve noticed they acted with more pessimism than optimism. Being negative and hopeless in some way, not believing things can get better or someone won’t do what they need to do to better themselves and make changes in their lives accordingly.

But people don’t realize nor think about what people are going through. They don’t think logical like: “ if you were going through something, and it impacted you and you needed some space and for others to give you time alone and a break from mentally beating them up for not doing a good enough job or trying hard enough, wouldn’t you want others to do that for you? So if you want that, wouldn’t it make sense to do the same for others?”

It’s about choosing and acting accordingly to how you want others to treat you. You want others to treat you with kindness and care, express and give that treatment and they’ll be kind to you in return. Even at times when things gets heated, and leads to anger and uncontrollable emotions, it’s not easy but worthwhile to do your best to not make the situation worse. If someone is angry at you, don’t respond with anger in return. No matter how strongly you feel towards expressing yourself with anger, don’t make that bad choice. Instead try to calm your emotions by practicing/following what our health/gym teacher taught us to practice:

Simply state to the rest of the group in the situation that you need time to analyze and process everything and will return when you are ready. That way you don’t make any regrets later. You are then able to take the time after you walk away to think everything through to make logical and wise decisions on how you would resolve the problem.

I find that so many people lack this kind of practice.

When you come to moments along the process of anything where you find yourself having doubts or any negative emotions towards your progress, look and see how far you’ve come. Think about how you were when you started and up to today. Now imagine who and where you’d be in your life if you continued? Imagine that!

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it. ~ Augusto Baol

Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on Mental Health Week

“This week is Mental Health Week, an occasion for all Canadians to have a candid discussion about mental health and wellness and help put an end to the stigma around mental illness once and for all.”

“In Canada and around the world, many suffer in silence with an illness that is invisible to others. One in five Canadians will struggle with mental illness at some point in their lives. Too often, they hesitate to seek the help and support they need out of fear of discrimination or shame.”

“We all have a responsibility to raise our awareness about mental health. We must actively encourage honest and open conversations – in our homes, our workplaces, and our communities – about what mental health is and what we can do to increase our collective well-being. We must listen to our loved-ones, our colleagues, our friends, look out for signs and offer them support and advice in times of need. It can be a challenge for all of us to cope with the fast pace of life, daily stresses, and obligations. We all need to stand strong together.”

“This week, we also thank those who have publicly shared their personal struggles with mental health – including my own mother, Margaret. They are true examples of courage, bravery, and resilience. Their stories help us all become more understanding, more compassionate, and more empathetic.”

• Sense of identity
• Sense of who they are
• How they fit in
• How they can feel valued as part of a extraordinary culture and identity

The Duff

Step 11: Where you realise who you are, accept it and then turn it up to 11.

Your a weirdo, own it. Be the best weirdo you can be. And you have spent the last month worrying so much about what other people think about you. How about tonight, you just worry about what you think about you.

Now I want you to get cleaned up, I want you to go to that dance and rock that homecoming like my Bianca Piper. Passion, plus action.

Maddison, you used to make me so upset. But now I just feel bad for you. Yeah, I’m somebody’s DUFF. Guess what, so are you. So is everybody. There’s always gonna be somebody prettier, more talented, or richer than you. But it shouldn’t affect how you see yourself. You label everybody to try to keep them down but your missing out on all this great stuff around you. You have Wesley and you treat him like he’s stupid. He isn’t. People don’t like him because he’s with you, they will because he’s an amazing guy. Look, I like myself. I wouldn’t wanna be anybody else. I realise now none of this matters to me. But it does to you. It’s your dream. And I totally support that. Just don’t tear me down for not giving a shit about your labels because in the end they’re meaningless.

In the end, it’s not about popularity or getting the guy. It’s about understanding that no matter what label is thrown your way, only you can define yourself.

“You need to realize you’re only as awesome as you think you are.” – Robbie Amell

Movies like “The DUFF” are great movies to look up to, be inspired with and much else that can truly and honestly impact our lives in ways we may never expect it to!

Tweets

• Everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they go right.
• If someone attempts suicide and survives, their called an attention seeker. If it works, they’re missed and loved by everyone.

“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.”

• Stop looking back on үour mistakes. What’s done is done. Learn from them and move on.
• One of my assignments for one of my classes this fall is to speak on an organization important to me! @SickNotWeak is the one I’m choosing!
• I was SOOOO excited when I saw that listed as an assignment! I want to educate others on Mental Health and how important it is.
• A good relationship is with someone who knows all your insecurities and imperfections but still loves you for who you are.
• #365daysofselfcare Taking an off day and working on my blog, reading, and just relaxing before I go back to school this week.
• Everybody has gone through something that has changed them in a way that they could never go back to the person they once were.
• Positive self-talk boosts self-image & self-esteem, leading to positive self-talk. Take control of your self-talk & start a positive cycle.
• When you lose something, don’t think of it as a loss; accept it as the gift that gets you on the path you were meant to travel on.

A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is instead of what you think it should be, and then making the best of it.

• You either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Pick a side.
• Find someone who knows you’re sad just by the change of tone in your voice, and be with someone who loves the feature that you hate the most

every 40 seconds someone in the world dies from suicide.

• be kind to everyone around you. you never know what they’re going through.
• Just because you don’t know what someone is going through doesn’t mean you can tell them to “just get over it”
• Be kind to yourself. Loving yourself and valuing your own feelings is important.

Mental illness is serious and not all of society takes it seriously enough to where they just choose to shame the mental health community and to refuse to see things differently. And they call us selfish… they won’t even bother to hear or listen to our side of the story. So there’s my proof to how they appear to these situations as more selfish for not thinking about us.

Think about it like this: you want others to hear, listen and treat you properly in all situations, wouldn’t you think it would be fair to do the same for them too? If you want others to be kind, don’t you think you should be kind to others? And even though at times others choose to respond to situations with anger and that makes you want to get angry; well that doesn’t mean you should.

You may want to but that doesn’t mean you should. Hold it back, remember, if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all.

Life is serious and harder than you may think it actually is. But not all things actually are as bad as we make it or believe they are. Mental illness may be so hard and yet almost impossible to survive but it doesn’t have to be a threat or a bad thing. You can benefit from your experiences with mental illness. Coming from myself who has more than plenty of experience to back up my statement. If you want to know some of my proof, if you see me, walk up to me politely and ask me: I’m not one bit ashamed or embarrassed to talk about my mental health nor the whole subject at all!

Happiness is something that we all have too easily given away to the point where many moments of our life we find ourselves asking the question to ourself: “when do I get to be happy?”.

Well the clear answer to the problem that we have caused is that we put the key to our happiness in the pockets of others except for our own and on top of that, we let others impact our mood enough because we either “accept the love we think we deserve” or give up because it gets too hard to fight for the treatment we truly deserve! There are other options/reasons why we let our happiness be impacted negatively by others. And it’s also because we aren’t protecting our happiness.

We need to stop being so scared, fearful and worrisome and focus on the things that we want to achieve, earn and receive in the outcome. If we want something, we gotta try and go all the way. Give it everything we’ve got because it takes everything. It also takes the fact that everything we want is on the other side of fear.

I’m saying this because I did it and that’s way more proof enough that it’s the truth and wisdom that anyone can follow who wants to start making any kind of changes in their lives.