WEEK 22 BLOG POST
April 4 - April 8,2022 This week's topic is about toxic households. Toxic households can be really damaging to mental health. Living in a toxic household can do more than ruin your mental health; it can damage your friendship,relationships with people you care about. Taking the emotions you feel out on people that are just trying to help can not only hurt you but hurt them as well. You might not want people coming over to your house because you are worried about what they will think,say. Living in a dysfunctional household can cause emotionally violent behaviors. You might start to have self esteem issues, feeling helpless the other people in your family that suffer. According to https://www.rtor.org/2019/10/07/ways-a-toxic-environment-can-be-detrimental-to-your-mental-health/ Being happy and healthy can be very difficult when in a topic environment for so long. Whatever the cause, toxicity is hard to cope with. Knowing you are in a toxic environment is different then not recognizing the toxic environment. Not knowing you are can make it harder to remove yourself and later down the line understand it and have all that trauma come back. If you are wondering what a toxic environment looks like. A toxic environment is any place or ant behavior that causes harm to your health,happiness, and your overall well being. If you are around people that make you feel small and insecure about yourself that can be a sign of toxic people. If you ever feel a weight every time you walk into a certain place it can be a sign of an unhealthy toxic environment. Realizing you are in a toxic environment is the first step to dealing with the problem. The next step is learning why these environments are so detrimental to your physical mental health. If you think you are in a toxic place try and get out or fix it, say something, don't hide from it.
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WEEK 21 BLOG POST
March 28 - April 1,2022 This week's topic is ways to help you cope with stress and anxiety. If you are dealing with bad anxiety that can cause you a lot of stress. Especially if your anxiety is causing you not to be able to do your normal everyday tasks you need to find ways to help yourself. First try and take a break from your phone and social media. Social media is a huge cause of depression and anxiety and a lot of other mental illnesses. If you are still having a hard time and not able to calm down, go for a walk, or a run, yoga can also be very beneficial and help you relax. Another thing that can help is always getting a book about anxiety and stress. Why a book might be helpful is because learning about what is causing you stress and anxiety and easy ways to quickly help you through it. A book can do many things reading the book might just help you relax and keep you calm and take your mind off of what stresses you out. Doing things that you enjoy can also help you and take your mind away from this tough time. Cooking can also be very beneficial. Not only can you eat the food you can maybe make food for others and seeing the happiness it brings them can spark joy in you as well. Not being happy for some time is okay and having a rough patch is also okay. But letting that rough patch interfere with your everyday life activities can get concerning for the people around you. If the people you surround yourself with are stressing you out, be open and honest with them and tell them what they are doing is aggravating you and you don’t want to have this tension between each other it's not healthy for anyone of you. Stress and anxiety can take over your life and put you in a position with yourself you aren’t happy with and it can really damage the relationship you have with yourself and others around you. If you are doing everything you possibly can do for yourself and it's not helping you and isn’t working for you, change it, go see someone that specializes in your needs and that can give you professional help and that can always be an option for you to talk to. It’s okay to ask for help when you need it. WEEK 20 BOG POST
March 14 - March 18,2022 This week's topic is why you should talk to people about mental health. Talking with other people about mental health can help you and the other person. When talking about what it is like to deal with mental health it might be good to have someone who understands what you are going through because they might have been through the same thing. According too https://www.banyanmentalhealth.com/2018/08/01/why-talking-about-mental-health-is-so-important/ the topic of mental illness has been difficult to openly discuss over the years and many people view mental health with a negative stigma. Since mental health has become more talked about in the past couple years, it's more important that we try even harder to move mental health topics to the forefront of conversation topics. The importance of talking about mental health cannot be overstressed. As a part of their mental health programs they work with patients that are still too often afraid to talk about their mental health disorders outside of treatment. How to remove the stigma? One is by talking about mental illness on a more of a regular basis, we as people can all be more open about how people feel about mental health. Tips for talking about mental health from https://www.banyanmentalhealth.com/2018/08/01/why-talking-about-mental-health-is-so-important/ 1. Talk to someone who doesn’t mow you such as a therapist or psychologist if you don't feel comfortable talking to a loved one. 2. Start by journaling and then transition to talking by yourself alone then maybe move onto a real person or video it. Another thing is even if you feel like you can’t talk to someone or they might judge you, after talking to someone you might feel a great sense of relief after talking to someone and all that stress could leave and you could feel a lot better knowing you aren’t holding in all of your problems anymore someone wanted to listen to you. Come back for next week. WEEK 19 BLOG POST
March 7- march 11,2022 This week's topic is about comparing yourself to other people. I won’t be going off of a website today. I will be going off of what I have seen or heard. When you or someone you know starts comparing themselves to other people they see online they start to lose sight of why everyone is different in the world. Everyone is made different for a reason. You might see someone that is skinnier than you, now you are thinking why can I be like that, why can’t I just be naturally skinny. Comparing yourself to others only makes you feel worse about yourself and upset with yourself. Some people when they are upset with how they look they will try to do something about it whether it is workout or eating healthier. You don’t have to be skinny to be healthy. That’s why no one is built the same, everyone is different for a reason. If you want to be healthier, start walking rease that stress you are holding in. Walking around listen to uplifting music if podcasts. If you don’t want to walk around, start just by cleaning your room, the dishes, and laundry. The best way to help yourself is to start with a clean environment. When you see people on the internet looking super tan ‘perfect curves’ it's all fake. Everything on social media is FAKE. Everyone knows everything posted on the internet is fake but it's that small % that it's not and you feel like these people are made naturally. You see famous influencers and how they live these luxurious lifestyles. Most of them are not happy; they'd want to be left alone; they don't want everyone knowing their business. Most of the people you see online photoshop the pictures they post to make them feel better and so people don’t hate what they post saying they look gross. Influencers don’t want their audience to look at them and try to be them. Newer influencers try to tell their audience to embrace themselves for who they are and don't let people walk all over you. I know comparing yourself will never stop but if you try to get in the mindset of how to fix yourself for yourself you can get by. Everyone will always want more but it’s up to you to get there, don't rely on other people to get you there only you can. Come back for next week. WEEK 18 BLOG POST
February 28 - March 4,2022 How to let people in when you have bad mental health? Reasons why you should talk with others, talking to your family or friends is important so they can help you and encourage you to talk and that can help you feel better and talking sometimes can help you figure things out in your head, you put pieces together. Talking to someone that deals with bad mental health helps because they can relate to you and be sympathetic. Talking to someone that deals with the same mental illnesses that you do can reduce stress knowing they have maybe felt the same way. Reasons people may not want to talk to others. They might be mixed about how someone will react. People might be afraid their own loved ones won’t understand or will judge them and feel uncomfortable around them. Loved ones might not react the way you thought they would but they could always be trying to understand what you are going through and how they can help you. Scared about how they will react here are some ways to help that. Try and write down a pros and cons list, record yourself and let them listen. Also if you want them to understand more maybe write them a list that has little notes to help you get through something and write down something they can say that will help you. When you don’t want to shut them out but you are. When you are struggling maybe you like to be alone and deal with problems by yourself doing that you shut people out that want to help. Other people might want to talk about it and let people talk it out with them. If you want to let them in but you don't know how and you think that you made them wait too long. The right people know that it is hard and they will understand. Some people want to be heard, they just don’t know how to be heard. All my evidence is from https://www.nami.org/Your-Journey/Individuals-with-Mental-Illness/Disclosing-to-Others WEEK 17 BLOG POST
February 14 - February 18,2022 This week's topic is how co-workers can affect your mental health. According to https://vantagepointrecovery.com/5-ways-co-workers-can-affect-mental-health/ the most common mental illnesses are depression,anxiety and bipolar disorder. Why that might be, you ask. Your mental health can suffer due to the mental health issues of others in your workplace. From what I have read from studies shown ( the society for human resource management) reports that over 40 million Americans seek mental health treatment every year. Most employees go to very far lengths to hide their mental illness. They try to hide that they are struggling because they don’t want to be treated differently. Again from https://vantagepointrecovery.com/5-ways-co-workers-can-affect-mental-health/ They say that medscape reports show why employees try to hide their mental illnesses. They hide it because it includes mental illness being held against them in some way. Most people think that struggling shows you are weak and can’t be fixed. Evidence from The New York Times who reported on such a study where some participants revealed they have received negative treatment after revealing they have some sort of mental illness to their boss. Other evidence shows some employees didn’t receive promotions because of their mental illness. Employees said they have even been bullied or treated very differently since opening up and saying something about their mental illness. People hide mental illness because they don’t want to be treated differently, they want to be treated the same. These employees opened up to you, they had the courage and were taken as less because they may struggle more than others. Be a good boss and help the ones that need it and have the courage to open up. WEEK 16 BLOG POST
February 7 - February 11,2022 This week's topic is how teachers can help or affect your mental health. Teachers can have a negative and positive effect on your mental health. Teachers have hundreds of students to deal with and teaching is a very hard job. A student goes into a new school year with new teachers scared of how the first day will go not knowing what they will expect. Teachers go into a new school year having new students not knowing if the students will like/respect them. A first impression is always hard. You feel like you have to be on top of your first impression because the first impression sticks. Teachers usually have a good way of introducing themselves. Students don’t always have the best way to introduce themselves because they think since they might have been a bad student in the past the reputation they have built for themselves will make it so all the teachers have the same opinions. Having to carry that worry that all teachers talk and they won’t like you from the start is a very hard thing to carry, especially since you are already so nervous for your new year. Teachers and students are not equal but have the same qualities. A teacher may have had a bad rumor passed around about them and now all these students look at them differently, the students will talk, make assumptions and add more to the rumor because of what they think. New teachers give new students new chances and new reputation. Having a teacher that understands you and can help you with your work even if they know that you have a bad reputation is a good teacher. If you have a tea hider that knows your reputation and won’t help you and uses your bad reputation against you is a bad teacher. Everyone deserves a chance. WEEK 15 BLOG POST
January 31- February 4,2022 This week's topic is how a school setting can affect your mental health. School is needed 100% how else would we learn and absorb the information we need to move on in life with. School doesn’t just teach us, it is where most people make friends, find teachers they enjoy, have that social time. For some people school is suffocating them. School is supposed to be fun but also a serious place. School can give one person so much stress and anxiety then it leads to depression because they have too much school work to finish on top of that they have a home life to worry about, friends to worry about, maybe even a sports life to worry about. For me school is hard. I have learning disabilities and I try to deal with them the best I can but I won’t be perfect everyday. Some teachers won’t read your IEP so they will have no clue what you need and how to help you succeed so you need to advocate for yourself and if you know what is in your IEP speak up and tell them to read it and that they have to follow it. I have learned throughout the years nothing will happen if you don’t stick up for yourself and what you need. Ever since I started school I have been put into small group classes that were supposed to help me because it’s a smaller group of people and I would get modified work. I was also put into a class called strategies lab. Since middle school I have also gone to a different room. Middle school was nothing but awful for me because I felt dumb and stupid for not learning how other did and that I would never be as smart as them. Your mental health can be so broken just from thinking you aren’t good enough at school. Then you will start to not do work and just expect that you are a failure. You will always have teachers that don’t believe in you and you just have to forget them. There are teachers that care so much about the students they have and won’t give up on you and help you succeed. You will have awful days that will make you want to give up and not try but you will find your way back. WEEK 14 BLOG POST January 24 - January 28,2022 This week's topic is how social media affects your self image. I am starting with this topic because social media is so toxic for people that are struggling with eating disorders, body dysmorphia, depression, etc. Most everyone has some sort of social media. Every person deals with mental health differently, we all are not the same. As toxic as social media is, it will never go away. Dealing with self image issues comes with seeing other people being different from you. The world has this picture of how society should look/feel like and if you don’t fit that picture that somehow means something is wrong with you. That should not be the case at all but it always has and it won’t change. People say they want it to change but they start something and don’t finish it because they lose interest or just simply forget about it and think it won’t do anything anyway. Why nothing has changed is because we all just give up and get tired of people hating other people. When someone makes fun of your looks, outfits, body weight it’s because they are struggling with the way they look. People like that refuse to admit that they feel bad about themselves so they reflect that pain and irritation on to people that look happy and are doing good with their life. Everyone craves nice comments and compliments, nice gestures but nobody will start it. People want the good attention that will make them feel good about themselves for just a second. Start the change, take it one day at a time one nice gesture,compliment. WEEK 13 BLOG POST
January 17- January 21,2022 I’m starting this week off with changing my inquiry. I have had a lot of time to think about me changing my inquiry. One of the reasons I am changing my inquiry is because law enforcement and criminal justice I have lost interest in not that I don’t want to maybe pressure this in the future but for right now I want to focus on something bigger that will be more inspiring and have more of a fun thing to read. My new inquiry will be talking about mental health. In a notebook I have written 24 topics so far. For every week one blog post will have one topic. The blog post will have information from other websites that will tell you why you might be feeling the way you are. Ever since Covid 19 started, mental health hasn’t been talked about more. People have been okay with letting other people know they are struggling as well. You are not alone, everyone struggles at some point. Saying you don’t struggle or you refuse to admit that you are not doing okay is lying to yourself and the people that are around you that care about you. |
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