mental health
Mental health and psychology are essential in life extension and leading a healthy and happy life.
Relieving Stress: The Whys and Hows Explained
Modern-day living, particularly in the urban and semi-urban areas of the world, is fast and frenetic. As people strive to become more productive in their professional lives, they fail to take care of themselves and invariably, the result, sooner or later, is stress.
By The Breatharian Blogger5 years ago in Longevity
Why the Mental Health Act of 1983 has to be abandoned.
There is no substitute for round the clock assistance. If a person is so wounded that they would genuinely consider taking their own life then they need the utmost love and respect. Hospitals are holding pens that have been taken over by the cult of psychotherapy that comes at people with it’s bluster and babble. There is no substitute for sitting down at a table with one of your loved ones and having a really honest chat. All the talk of management and treatment that goes on in hospitals 🏥 is really about viewing mental problems as something to be contained. I write this as a woman in hospital. I have witnessed the most diabolical treatment of patients and as for giving the police the power to detain people with wounds then that makes our society callous, uncaring and unfeeling. The mad are not criminals and do not need handling. It is the constant nannying by staff in these places that makes the mad feel so bewildered. When you are treated like trouble to be sorted out it creates an attitude of resignment that creates low self esteem and can turn inwards to the most base narcissism and self obsession. After all my experience in those kind of places it has worn out any sparkle I might have once had out of sheer terrifying mindlessness. Organisations like this are a sad inditement of society. The NHS has put its faith in the ethos that if you just keep going with something that’s wrong sooner or later it will sort itself out. The fact that they would put their faith in any ethos at all instead of recognising their duty of care is unbearably horrifying. I think the staff clamp down on any sign of life until you are a sanitised shade of a person. They want you to do it your way because they consider the mad to be naughty little boys and girls who have misbehaved. The police intercepting the suicidal is completely wrong. Suicidal people do not need to be talked down they need action. Better access to community groups, more support with counselling and promise to improve their financial situation. If someone is still determined to die you should let them because it’s a person’s personhood that is at stake. Sending the police to talk is like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. They shouldn’t be sent out to shake someone down. It’s the wrong use of police time. The staff in hospitals have an us versus them mentality which compounds the hardened attitude of some mentally ill patients. Forcibly stopping someone from taking their own life is completely evil because it makes a desperate act unrighteous. That’s why there needs to be more love and comprehension of people’s inner states. To send out tough police officers to vulnerable people is to do an act of terror. To have them tracking down the desperate and have them defending themselves is an act of intimidation. The police do it with the best of intentions (well, most of them) but it depends how many eggs you want to break for how many omelettes you want. To bring people into hospital in cuffs is a cheap act of degradation. I hope that none of them suffer that way. It is my fondest wish that one day the police act in a kind and considerate manner. To be hauled in and subjected to the tender mercy of the wolves who work on mental health wards is a poisoned chalice.
By Honor McNeill 5 years ago in Longevity
A lesson of my broke brain
How do you decompress? At the end of the day how do you let go of all the shit and relax? How do you pay attention to the world around you but not become overwhelmed by the amount of sensory information bombarding your body? It’s constant. The input of data from talking, listening, watching, doing, breathing, and thinking and everything else we do every second of every 24 hours in a day. This brain injury of mine taught me so much about the amount of information our brains process every single moment of every day.
By Tashina Gabrielle Ramirez5 years ago in Longevity
How Spending Time in Nature Can be Good for You
In their attempts to find the perfect work-family life balance, many people in the modern world have forgotten what it feels like to spend time in the lap of Mother Nature. Either surrounded by walls or exposed to the incessant honking of cars on the bustling roads, their lives are stressful and utterly devoid of the peace and quiet that the mind needs from time to time to contemplate, introspect, and reflect.
By The Breatharian Blogger5 years ago in Longevity
You are Enough
To whoever it may concern, I am writing this because I have known some people who struggle with mental health and want this message to reach the right people, whoever it is meant to reach. I am writing this because I am constantly thinking of you and I hope that the right person is reading this right now. This is especially for you.
By Sunny Dolen5 years ago in Longevity
Why You Should Ditch Your Phone Before Bed. Top Story - September 2020.
Our phones have become a part of our daily routine. We can’t imagine going anywhere without them. Most people today get into bed to try and fall asleep while using their phones even once they’re in bed. Listening to some calming music or watching your favorite show may seem like a good way to fall asleep, but a growing body of research highlights that this could be problematic.
By The Breatharian Blogger5 years ago in Longevity
Effective Ways to Improve Your Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is how you feel about yourself and your capabilities. It can be low, high, or somewhere in the middle. It is common for everyone to have doubts about themselves at some point, but if you are struggling with low self-esteem, it may leave you feeling unmotivated and insecure. If you are dealing with low self-esteem, there are some things you can do to help turn things around. From being nice to yourself to doing something good for your body like taking a red superfood powder, learn about some of the top tips for improving self-esteem here.
By Sasha McGregor5 years ago in Longevity
First Mental Health Month During Covid-19
October is Mental Health Month, and in many ways, this has never been as important as it is in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has had huge impacts on people’s mental health in Australia and around the world. It is now essential that we find ways of helping each other through these difficult times.
By Jonathon Deakins5 years ago in Longevity
Achieving Mental Liberation
Recently I was introduced to an idea that has caused a paradigm shift in my approach to mindfulness. The archway leading to some sort of awakening or transcendence was missing its keystone - unbeknownst to me. I was chasing my own tail, feeling brief moments of success only to find that I had duped myself yet again.
By Dan Pittman5 years ago in Longevity
Black Minds Matter. Top Story - September 2020.
Growing up the black community I knew that seeking help for mental health was seen as weird and taboo. Telling someone you are in therapy was like openly admitting to being that psycho killer from all the horror movies. There are a wide variety of mental health issues that stretch a wide spectrum of intensity that affect most of the population. Why does my community think it affects all these people, but not us? We want to be strong. We want to be the perfect embodiment of strength. We want to be built so strong that no one from the outside world could ever break us down. Having a mental health issue is seen as a weakness. It is the crack in the foundation that threatens to tear the whole structure down. Just like eye color and freckles this is something that is passed down from parent to child year after year. It is one of those generational curses that people are always talking about. One that needs to be broken now across the board. One that is causing more harm by having so many people not receive the help they need from fear of they will be perceived.
By Natalie Shell5 years ago in Longevity
