Category Archives: Mental Health

Circumstance

Context, Life Advice, Mental Health, Thoughts On Life

From Latin words Circum meaning around and Stare meaning stand.  Around where you stand. That which is in your vicinity.

Circumstance is the word of my life right now, because my circumstances are changing, and as they do change I ponder the juxtapositions.

Circumstances are interesting because at some point you accept them and stop changing them, and at other points you stop accepting them and start changing them.  And the only difference between the two approaches is what is within you, within the mind, within the person. The circumstances haven’t changed: With the same circumstances one person can accept it and not change, and another can reject it and change it.

It is easy to say that circumstances define the person in the sense that circumstances constrain and mold the person, but from this experience I have learned: No, circumstances define the person because the person chooses the circumstances they’re in.

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How to Be Healthy — In the Order of What’s Most Likely to Kill You

Life Education, Mental Health

How to be healthy in America: in order of what’s most likely to kill you if you don’t have it

  1. Sleep
  2. Water
  3. Food
  4. Exercise
  5. Emotional Health: friends/family/etc. Have Social Skills
  6. Intelligence/Challenges
  7. Financial Health
  8. Ability to do All of the above well
  9. Have purpose
  10. Help others

This is the same list of steps one takes to Get Out of Depression (more detailed explanations of each one in the linked article)

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Tradeoff Decisions – Depression

Depression

A lot of depression often arises from the never ending stream of tradeoff decisions that comes with life. Some people are depressed by the fact that you cannot have everything you want, they are depressed by their limitations.  Others accept the fact that they have limitations but are depressed at the option they are giving up when they make a decision to spend their limited time on one activity (like a movie) and miss out on another (like bowling).

Unfortunately, there exist contradictions within reality which you cannot overcome, and all you can do is come to terms with them.  To come to terms with them:

Overcome Perfectionism to let go the Denial of reality (let go the denial of not being to have all you want) according to the Life Education Curriculum.  Then, now that you accept an imperfect reality, which is the only true reality we share, use the lessons in Self Improvement Part 2: Planning to maximize what you want given your constraints.  As for overcoming the feelings of regret, refocus your attention on the present reality that you are living rather than the imaginary world you are deluding yourself with and appreciate the reality that you have and what you have in that reality.

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