Feelings

Our feelings are a result of what we think. You cannot have a feeling without a thought. Not physiological feelings, like hunger or pain, but psychological feelings. Your feelings or emotions result from what you are thinking. Yes this process can be so fast that it seems to be automatic or even that feelings occur before the thought.
Think about it this way, can you be afraid if you do not know you are in danger? Can you be sad about something before you know it happened? Can you be angry before you are aware of what someone did? Point is you cannot have an emotion unless you have a thought about something...
Examples:
Someone pointing a gun at you but you do not know he is there...you cannot feel afraid until you know he is pointing a gun at you.
Someone is killed in a car accident..you can only feel sad after you are told about the accident. You are not sad when it happens.
Someone robs your home or breaks into your car, you find out and then you get upset not while they are violating you.

So with that said...if you have a thought and then a feeling....if we can manage what we think then we can manage our feelings.
So if you think in unhealthy or negative ways ...guess what???
I bet you figured this out...you will have negative and unhealthy feelings!

Treatment Advocacy Center

One of the biggest problems for some with a few specific types of mental illness is that one of the profound symptoms includes the inability to recognize the illness. These individuals truly believe they are healthy.

There are also other situations and factors that may cause an individual to not be able to recognize that he or she is inflicted with a mental health problem. A few common disorders include Schizophrenia, Bipolar, and Anosognosia. Please visit the link below and read these interesting facts about these disorders. Also this info will help understand what is going on and that these symptoms are real and affect many people.

The Treatment Advocacy Center provides assistance and information regarding these types of situations and what family or other persons who care can do.

www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org

Decision Making?

How good are you at making good decisions for yourself? What motivates you? what makes you choose to do what you do?

Do you want to please others? Do you worry about what others think? Trying to impress others?

Who are you making happy and healthy with your decisions about health, finances, activities, career choices, education, relationships?

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Exercise daily

One of the best things you can do to stay healthy in both mind and body is to get some exercise every day.

Few people make exercise a lifestyle and habit. It's a good habit.

Find what you enjoy because if you do not like what you are doing you will not continue..duh??

There are many activities that can get the blood flowing, muscles and joints moving...
Also do not forget the mental exercise ...a little positive thinking first thing in the morning will start your day off on a good POSITIVE note...the results are amazing!

If you are ill...

When you are ill it is much harder to manage your emotions. It is important to make adjustments in order to care for yourself and minimize your stress as best as possible.

Allow yourself time to feel ill and be aware of your emotions. It is natural to be more irritable because you do not feel well. However, this is an opportunity to figure out and practice what works best for you when you are ill. Also if you make extra efforts to care for your psychological health during your medical challenge you will facilitate the healing process.

Ideas might include: alone time, do something you have no time to do when you are busy with your regular routine, like organize files or drawers, read a book, listen to music, meditate, plan holidays or your next vacation. Make yourself as comfortable as possible and utilize your support system. Allow other to take care of you and your responsibilities. It is OK. then show your appreciation.

You can be ill and miserable or you can be ill and be not so miserable ...that is up to you but the later will help you get better sooner.

Bottom line take good care of you...you deserve it !

Relationships

If two people love one another and both want to be in a relationship then they can. Can they always work through their differences on their own. Not always. There are lots of good books but it also can be very helpful to speak with an objective person to help sort out the factors which cause conflict.

Learning skills to resolve conflict is critical for any relationship. All relationships have challenges and conflict.

Personality, needs, expectations, and approaches to daily routines or unusual events are all aspects to be considered and understood.

Understanding is key and each person must make reasonable effort to understand and compromise in order for any relationship to be healthy.

Getting along with others

If you have trouble getting along with others or if you feel agitated most of the time maybe you could benefit from talking with someone to help you understand why you are feeling this way.

Sometimes individuals have imbalances in their brain chemistry which can cause negative thinking. The negative thoughts cause unpleasant feelings and then those feelings can result in unsafe, inappropriate and problematic behaviors.

Please care for your psychological health as you do your physical health!

Confusion about psychology

Part of the confusion about psychology and psychological well being is that it is quite challenging to tease apart what thoughts or behaviors are a result from genetic and physiological make up and which are a part of a learned process, or both, which is usually the case.

It is not certain that this can always be determined. Surely an unhealthy mind or way of thinking is not as simple as a broken arm.

You cannot look at someone or open up their brain and see anger for example. The chemicals in the brain that affect the way a person thinks are very complex and much a mystery still to the most well studied neuro psych doctors.

Though neuroscience has come a long way in recent years, the brain is so very complex that we have only just begun to unravel the wonders of what goes on inside to cause many brain functions, especially in regard to emotions.

The boundaries for where learned behavior starts and ends or where chemicals are predominantly running the show is multifaceted. These two overly simplified components of what makes people think, feel, and behave as they do are ever integrated and evolving.

For those who think they always know why people do what they do...
and those who always can tell others how they should think, feel, and behave...
please ... consider reading more about this topic that you already know so much about!

Stress

Stress can be defined as any negative or unhealthy reaction or response to circumstances, events, thoughts, or people.

The wikipedia definition is,,,

Stress is a biological term which refers to the consequences of the failure of a human or animal to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats to the organism, whether actual or imagined.^[1] It includes a state of alarm and adrenaline production, short-term resistance as a coping mechanism, and exhaustion. Common stress symptoms include irritability, muscular tension, inability to concentrate and a variety of physical reactions, such as headaches and elevated heart rate.^[2]

Stress includes a comprehensive array of symptoms, the most problematic is that people are beginning to accept stress as a ok part of life....NO individuals must minimize stress and learn to be healthier in the way they react or respond to everything!