My shelter pets have always helped my soul. I rescue them and they rescue me.
If you're lonely and depressed it's because you're not getting your relational needs met. All brokenness is solved in relationship and nurture, feeling accepted, loved, like others care. The disconnection is what's causing it. All mental health issues stem from lack of connection most of the time. If you're depressed and reading this, know that I'm there too. And I wish I could help. Because I feel your pain.
The point is to make that little voice who cares about you LOUDER and LOUDER, until it becomes the prominent voice in your life. I destroyed my depression thanks to this mindset, by total perseverance
A few years ago, I was unemployed, and people sent me sermons, bible verses, quotes, etc. There was one person that didn't do any of those things. She talked to her boss, got me an interview and a job. The reality is that no one wants to help you. Very few people will move a finger to help you.
Mansaarnault guided me through a healing process I didn’t even know I needed. It’s incredible how much lighter I feel after releasing trauma
Just the tone of his voice calms me down immediately, than I start focusing on the meaning of his words...He is a true gift 🙏
Its social support. Social support is everything. Non-judgmental, active listening, validating support. Your nervous system which feels burdened will feel a sense of relief. If its not that "bad" yet, then perhaps going outside and looking at a tree is enough. We must cultivate a culture of active support that lacks judgement. But alas, a portion of humans can, most can't.
"still seeing it through the eyes of that child . . . " He so calmly, simply and gently says it and there it is as it's always been.
This video is so refreshing. I’ve been trying to distract myself after my breakup it’s still so fresh. We were together for seven years, and he ended things out of nowhere. I can’t stop thinking about him. I still feel like he’s the only one for me
I suffered depression most of my life and self medicated with alcohol and drugs. Thank goodness I quit the alcohol and drugs but the depression continued. Finally the solution was a lot of 12 step meetings and working the 12 steps and making friends in the fellowship. Isolating and loneliness and negative thoughts really contributed to the depression. I had to break out of the isolation and negative thoughts. Now I have a lot of friends and keep working on being positive. I also do agree that library books and YouTube are good things to feed your brain with positive energy
There's a part of you inside you that cares about you. ❤ Best thing I ever heard from any psych doc ever
i really wanted to hear this but every day feels like an eternity without my husband by my side. The ache in my heart refuses to subside, and I'm consumed by memories of our life together. I long for his return and the chance to rebuild our love.
That "which part of you is saying that", that's frighteningly powerful
Gabor Mate is a world treasure. So happy you were able to meet and speak with him.
Small steps in the healing direction are better than no steps at all 🙏
The child part hit me hard. It's exactly right (in my case). I still feel like that trauma damaged and misunderstood child and I'm 48 years old. The trauma was never dealt with and that child is still me (or in me), and he's still trying to deal with the trauma and make sense of it all. I wish I could have been there for him, if that makes any sense.
Basically, it's finding "meaning" or "purpose" in your life once again. Feeling needed by someone that you can help with whatever you have is a positive feeling. Helping those who are suffering is a good step towards recovery.
im so hurt right now. tired too. it's so so so so hard finding good people in this world to be friends with that have morals, don't have bad or selfish intentions, and just aren't nasty. im starting to get seriously cynical. im spiraling into hating humans. every single day it's a fight to put aside my loneliness or try to talk to people with seriously almost sinister minds. im not even religious, but I prayed to God to keep people like this away from me. I don't want to be alone, but it's a serious mind f to be around and talk to these people
None of what he said made me feel any less depressed or lonely. Sick of looking back in the past and hearing about the ‘wounded child’. The world is a mess right NOW and it’s a depressing place to live.
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