Halloween coincides with National Mental Health Day.
You don’t have to try to be funny; just be observant.
Tag: health
- Theme: Self
Mental health perspective
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1–2 minutesWhen you are happy mental health advice and practice seem unnecessary as you vigorously participate in the world.
When you are struggling it becomes a profound life line.
The advice is to continue the practice. Don’t believe that happiness signals a cure, it merely sits atop a foundation of firm habits.
- Theme: Self
Poverty of information
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1–2 minutesWe live in the information era, but we are also mediated by architecture and platforms that filter, moderate and act as a go-between.
With automated systems in our cars, regulated health, and safety mandated at every instant we are buffered from experiencing direct reality.
We experience a gluttony of inputs, but a poverty of genuine feedback from reality.
- Theme: Self
You are your health
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1–2 minutesThe self that you recognize as your “true self” is when you are in optimal health.
When ill, depressed, or stressed, it is not the real you.
However, for most of our lives, we are not at an optimal state, much less peak mental and physical health.
- Theme: Self
CBT or CBD?
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1–2 minutesCognitive behavioral therapy and cannabidiol treat symptoms.
In this sense they are topical and situational, thwarting outbursts of pain and soothing the aggravated soul.
While both recognize the site of inflammation, neither resolves the source of vexation.
Both become mediating behaviors you rely on but, for a brief window of time, can offer a space for insight and awareness into your condition. - Theme: Growth
Pissy problem solver
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1–2 minutesI am always pissy until I solve a problem.
This means I am perpetually annoyed because life is nothing but problems (challenges) I seek to exterminate. A healthier approach is to cohabitate with problems; accept instead of conquer. - Theme: Self
Health is Politics
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1–2 minutesThe role of governments is to provide some level of safety and security to the citizens in trade for taxes and the collective good.
When we are too sick to think, too sick to function, our world closes to survival. To have a voice, to hold the government to the social contract, we must remain healthy.
Timothy Snyder’s "Our Malady" is a good text to read on this topic.