The Pendulum of Truth: What Postmodernism Taught Me About Mental Health
In college, I signed up for a course on postmodern culture and philosophy—thinking I’d spend a semester reading dense texts and debating abstract ideas. What I didn’t expect was to find myself in the pages of the textbook.
Shifting perspectives: understanding your mental health through a biological lens
Your perspective on emotional well-being significantly shapes your actual emotional health.
Rethinking Mental Health: Beyond Symptoms and Illness
Mental health extends beyond medical diagnoses, emphasizing the role of trauma and its lasting impact on behavior as responses to past experiences.
Traumas lead to enduring fight, flight, or freeze reactions, highlighting these behaviors as survival strategies rather than symptoms of illness.
Viewing mental health through the lens of adaptiveness acknowledges coping mechanisms as contextually driven, shaped by individual experiences and environments.
If we want Mental health we need a bigger imagination Than Medicine Gives Us
We need a bigger imagination for mental health than the narrow one handed to us from medicine.
The three pillars of mental health change
Memory, Completion & Mindfulness are the three buckets for deep and lasting change in mental health and the thing that ties them all together is emotions.
The Hidden Link to Mental Health: Memories and Your Body's Response
When we talk about mental health, we often focus on things like taking care of ourselves and finding ways to cope with stress. But there's a deeper issue that we don't always address: our memories and how they affect us.