My path to mental balance

Mental health journal, mental health reblogs, quotes, dealing with depression and anxiety

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.

Gilda Radner (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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Our Anxiety Articles

1.   Social Anxiety – More Than Shyness

2.  22 Quotes From People Who Have Anxiety – Can You Relate?

3.  Anxiety: What Can Help?

4.  Childhood Separation Anxiety: A Predictor of Future Mental Illness?

5.  Got Anxiety? It Could Be Linked To Anemia!

6.  Monkeys Show that Anxiety Could be Inherited

7.  Anxiety. Is it a motivator?

8.  Anxiety Does NOT Control YOU!

9.  A(Anxiety)DHD

10.  Do I Have an Anxiety Disorder?

11.  Teens, Social Anxiety, and High School

12.  Fear or Anxiety?

13.  Personal Examples Of Social Anxiety

14.  New Anxiety Drug on the Market?

15.  Anxiety: A General Understanding

16.  Attached to Negativity: Relationship Anxiety

17.  Living With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

18.  Here’s How It Feels to Have an Anxiety Disorder

19.  Emotional Freedom, an Anxiety Cure

20.  The Cycle of Anxiety

21.  Is it Shyness or Social Anxiety?

22.  Secret Lives of the Anxiety-Ridden Students: You Are Not Alone.

23.  Separation Anxiety: The Importance of Attachments

24.  Your Anxiety Field Guide

25.  Nomophobia or Separation Anxiety?

26.  Fear Factor: Anxiety, A Guide

27.  Let’s Talk About Social Anxiety

28.  I am not my illness: the stigma surrounding teens with anxiety

29.  Stress versus Anxiety: Living with Anxiety

30.  A Lie Detector Measures the Limbic System – The Anxiety Felt by the Subject…

31.  Anxiety and losing touch with reality

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Reblog to save a life

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Saving this

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For anyone who needs it

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Bless everyone who reblogged this for it to get to me

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you’re not a waste of time

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You are not your intrusive thoughts

They’re kinda like weeds. Yeah, they’re in the garden, but you sure as heck didn’t plant them

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Tips for Making Life Work

1. Focus on doing one thing at a time. Tackling multiple activities may seem more efficient, but giving one task your complete attention is actually more productive in the end. It also cuts down on your levels of stress.

2. Slow down and enjoy the journey. Whatever you’re doing is important right now. Don’t wish that it was over – and try and make it fun.

3. Stop being such a perfectionist. If you’re a pilot or a surgeon then standards have their place … but for the rest of life “don’t be so hard on yourself”. Don’t stress out over details and impressing everyone.

4. Learn to delegate to others: take the pressure off yourself. Perhaps other people won’t do the job as well. But that’s how people grow – so why not give them that chance – and spend your own time doing things that you’d prefer to do.

5. Don’t always be waiting for the other shoe to drop. Lots of people spend their lives terrified of what might happen – and most of the time things work out to be just fine. Thus, they’re worrying for nothing when they could be having fun!

6. Focus on what you have, not what you wish you had. All of us have things we can be grateful for. Not everything is awful –and life’s not always bad. And if you change your focus to what you’re thankful for, you’ll find you feel much happier, and worry a lot less.

7. If things go wrong, just shrug your shoulders and smile. Remind yourself that life goes on - so don’t wreak your life wishing things were different or regretting what you’ve done. Also, things might work out next time. Tomorrow’s a new day.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

It’s never too late to start over. If you weren’t happy with yesterday try something different today. Don’t stay stuck.

Alex Elle (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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If you’re feeling anxious

Here are some things you can do that might help you feel better! 

Grounding - for when you’re feeling detached or unreal

Top 21 Anxiety Grounding Techniques

Grounding Exercises 

Sensory and Cognitive Awareness Techniques

28 Popular and Effective Grounding Techniques

Coping with Flashbacks and Distress

Mindfulness - for helping you relax and control your reactions

16 Simple Mindfulness Exercises

6 Mindfulness Exercises you can try Today 

Mindfulness Exercises 

Being Mindful

4 Quick Mindfulness Techniques

Breathing - for help during panic attacks

3 Deep Breathing Exercises to Reduce Anxiety

Practice your Breathing Skills

A Breathing Exercise That Calms Panic Attacks

3 Effective Anxiety Breathing Exercises

Slow Breathing to Decrease Anxiety and Panic

Anxiety can be scary and difficult to deal with, especially if you don’t have resources, but you’re not alone. 

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6 Steps To Letting Go of Grudges and Resentment

NEW // 6 Steps To Letting Go of Grudges and Resentment by @juliewinsel

Note: Resentment and holding grudges are much different than the effects of abuse and trauma, or symptoms associated with PTSD. If you want help from triggers and events associated with abuse or are experiencing symptoms associated with PTSD, please seek professional guidance. Logic and emotion are at constant odds in a human brain. We know what the right, reasonable thing is and most of the time…

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Things to do when you want to give up

1. Take some time out to recuperate. You can’t keep going if you’re running on empty.

2. Take a step back to try and gain perspective – as sometimes we can’t see the woods for the trees.

3. Attempt to take stock of the current situation. Evaluate what you really want and need.

4. Try to re-evaluate your current strategy. What things are working and what things should you change?

5. Don’t be afraid to change direction if you need to. Sometimes that is the best thing – and it opens up new options.

6. Push through the dip - as we all lose momentum. But if you keep on going, you will get there in the end.

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6 Truths About Finding Your Passion

1. You need to experiment with lots of things.

2. It takes time to discover your true passion in life.

3. What interests you now might not turn into a passion.

4. However, you’ll find that you return to what you’re passionate about.

5. It will take over your thinking when you’re silent or daydreaming.

6. Investing in your passion will give meaning to your life.

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The most important exercise you’ll do all day.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

You just have to say to yourself “I’m not willing to accept anything less for myself than what I deserve. I am smart. I am beautiful. I am a good woman, and I deserve to be happy.

Amari Soul (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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Be OK where you are even if you know you want to change.

Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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Recognizing Your Values and Priorities to Live Your Life Worth Living

Some common values and priorities are listed below.  It’s important to recognize which are important to you in order to figure out what makes your life worth living.  Recognizing them can help with motivation and willingness.  It’s important to think of your values and priorities when in Wise Mind.

1. Attend to relationships - repair old relationships, reach out for new relationships, work on current relationships, and ending destructive relationships

2. Be part of a group - feel a sense of belonging, have relationships with others, spend time with friends and family

3. Be powerful and able to influence others - be a leader, be respected, be seen as successful and compete successfully, be popular and accepted

4. Achieve things in life - achieve goals, be productive, work toward goals, be ambitious

5. Live a life of pleasure and satisfaction

6. Keep life full of exciting events, relationships, and things

7. Behave respectfully - be humble, follow customs, treat others well

8. Be self-directed - be independent

9. Be a spiritual person 

10. Be secure - live in a safe environment, be physically healthy, have a steady income

11. Recognize the universal good of all things - be fair and treat people equally, be open-minded, care for the environment

12. Contribute to the larger community - help those in need, be loyal to friends, be committed to a cause or a group

13. Work at self-development 

14. Have integrity - be honest, responsible, courageous, and accepting of self and others