These days many people are suffering due to mental illness caused by depression, anxiety, and stress. Being an educator/academician what possible ways you would like to suggest to such a person.
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Thanks for your important and interesting question, which is quite broad. These links touch on some facets of your question:
http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/road-resilience.aspx
https://jamesclear.com/mental-toughness
https://lifehacker.com/how-and-why-to-develop-your-mental-toughness-1619305771
What could be the best viable suggestions for becoming mentally tough to live in this world?
Following is merely my personal opinion - as a human being tries to be an open system i.e. a system that build relationship with others (relational being). Because building relationship with others through connection, interaction, socialization, support system etc. enable us to unload our mental workload as well as receiving refreshed ideas how to cope with the current mental workload. We can be mentally overloaded If we don't connect with others.
The person should be given resources where they can get help via counseling or medical treatment if necessary if it is a severe psychiatric issue. A complete evaluation (assessment) of the person's strengths and support system should be made by the counselor/social worker because it is important that the patient's basic needs are first met before they can help themselves and solve more difficult problems with the aid of their support system. Colleges or universities may have a clinician on staff. The student may be referred to that person. If the patient is religious certainly he/she could talk to spiritual counselors.
Succinctly, "...don't swaet the small stuff..." In other words, focus on high priority events and considerations which require immediate daily attention. Compose a weekly schedule and follow it while incorporating new events and efforts as tasks are completed. Be sure to save it for future review! As time passes, one will notice more free time, less stress, and more smiles!
I agree with my colleagues:
- Mental health counseling is needed when one suffers from symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress that affect one's academic, occupational, and social functioning, etc.
- Social network is a protective factor for the mental/emotional issues.
- Learning how to manage one's stress and emotions will help one stay healthy.
A teacher can also help his/her students develop grit and resilience: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1081394.pdf
The cycle of life staring from birth and ending with death is certainly a tough journey. Preserving one's self composure and avoiding stress have become almost everyone's ideal goal. Surprisingly, we are surrounded by the people who are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered nowadays ; however, we should not spare them our love and sympathy. True love is a situation whereby the happiness of others is essential to our own. Love results in the serenity of mind which in turn produces a wonderful awareness fostering creative selflessness. This condition would indubitably harmonize our lives with both other people and nature. All in all, by having equal concerns for each other, we can create a unified world where we are able to live in rhythmical bliss with others without any stress or depression.
The develop strong personality after getting strong personal development program,counselling and psychology examination. The training can be developed for future.
Such persons should be helped to develop personal conviction that they have inner strengths to overcome every challenge through counselling and guidance sessions.
There is also the great need to shun overworking oneself.
Eating properly, having a recreation and exercising works miracle to building resilient minds.
Having solid relationships from family, friends and workmates is essential as it aids in developing self confidence and affiliations because one feels loved, respected and needed. This drains away the worthless thoughts that often culminate to depression.
Do your duties as per morals but devote yourself to the Almighty and be satisfied by what you get.
Always look the people below you
Follow the path of "Bhakti" but do your "karma," with full devotion to Almighty.
SATISFACTION is the stage when no anxiety can even touch you.
1. Focus on those who have less than us , to help them and be grateful and happy.
2. Accept the bad from life. Bow and don't resist; we will just hurt ourselves more.
3.Think that we are responsible for anything that happens to us.
4. Fight the bad with the good.
5. Don' t run after material. We will always end up sad and unsatisfied because they will never fill our soul.
6. Work hard and give as much as we can because death is not an end but the starting point of a wonderful eternity and beautiful rewards.
Create time to reflect upon your progress toward developing mental strength. At the end of each day, ask yourself what you've learned about your thoughts, emotions and behavior. Consider what you hope to improve upon or accomplish tomorrow.
Dogs can think in different ways, so it may use different techniques when fell danger.
Sometimes thay win, sometimes they lose.
But cats are having only one technique. It climb on the nearby trees when it feel danger.
I consider CAT THINKING is the best.
Everybody may follow a fixed ethical guideline throughout his/ her life, in spite of all changing environments.
If you are FIXED in your ethical values and principles, you will fell some sort of POWER inside you. You will definitely of a person of tough character.
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Counselling could be one of the best ways to get relief from stress and anxiety..
Do BELIEVE in your INNER POWER to avoid the external opposite forces .....
Apathy from wordly affairs,full devotion to Guru,Almighty and duty.To increase your tolerance but be able to raise vioce against wrong things
Mental health depends strongly on our learning ability to become the master of our moods; as a physical exercise, this learning process can start by influencing your heart beat by conscious breathing techniques.
Stay positive , no matter what. Work hard to avoid negative thoughts creep into you
La méditation est le meilleur traitement
Le mal être est le responsable numéro un des maladies mentales
From personal experience, it's not a bad idea to expect the worst at all times. Bad things must come. And when they happen, face them headlong (with the mindset to conquer) since they're expected. That's a simple way how most locals developed tough skin against earth's inevitable hiccups.
Becoming mentally tough to live in this world starts with first appreciating that you are vulnerable just like any other person. With this realization you can develop skills to keep you mentally healthy as you desire. First developing positive attitude is very key and being in control of your emotions/ developing emotional intelligence and having faith in God Almighty. Committing your ways to Him and appreciating that without Him you can do nothing. So commit your ways to Him and He will direct your paths. When you find that even with all this you are not ding very well, "Do not beat yourself so hard. Remember you are but a human being subject to error!"
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Mr Rezaei Ahvanooei.
Behavioral activation in linguistic-cognitive, emotional-motivational, and instrumental repertoires of the person.
You are asking a general question for an answer that, to be effective, needs a personal answer, different for each person.
In my opinion the filtering of stress agents norepinefrine and serotonin which happens dose-dependently in the pulmonary capillaries is an important mechanism.
When you have a less functioning MAO-A gene(on X-chromosome), of bypass of this filter via a Patent Foramen Ovale (see Maria Lopez, Boston 2012, Heart-Brain-signalling) you're probably more prone to burn-out, anxiety and depression.
Hence antidepressants acting on serotonin or norepinefrine receptors, or closure of the PFO (e.g. with NobleStitch) could be very healing.
Unfortunately this is not actually researched but it should be!
Good luck!
Wijnand van den Berg, MD
Dear all,
You guess why are so many researchers answering this question?
Because every one of them believe that they know the answer partly or whole and wish to contribute.
In fact, mental toughness is an illusion. Any body who is having IQ less than 44 and more than 150 are mentally tough. We all who fall in between these range are mentally vulnerable.
And it's ok to be mentally vulnerable.
Mental vulnerability can dealt primarily with acceptance of oneself, self love, forgiveness, and willingness to change self and evolve with new set of psychosocial skills. New set of psychosocial skills would be needed depending on trauma, childhood experience, avilable psychosocial support.
Dear all,
You guess why are so many researchers answering this question?
Because every one of them believe that they know the answer partly or whole and wish to contribute.
In fact, mental toughness is an illusion. Any body who is having IQ less than 44 and more than 150 are mentally tough. We all who fall in between these range are mentally vulnerable.
And it's ok to be mentally vulnerable.
Mental vulnerability can dealt primarily with acceptance of oneself, self love, forgiveness, and willingness to change self and evolve with new set of psychosocial skills. New set of psychosocial skills would be needed depending on trauma, childhood experience, avilable psychosocial support.
Karen, I don't think everyone should be on medication, the question as I read it was about :
These days many people are suffering due to mental illness caused by depression, anxiety, and stress. Being an educator/academician what possible ways you would like to suggest to such a person.
Cognitive therapy is surely effective in anxiety-related disorders and stress-management.
I want to make sure every therapist takes notice of the physiological elements that play a role, thoughts and convictions arise from emotion and experience.
Note: the MAO-filter in the lungs does NOT do dopamine, only serotonin and norepinefrine
The PFO is a really strong factor in vulnerability in my opinion, a 'neglected Western disease modifying factor''. There really is need of research to close it e.g. in people who have therapy resistent major depression/suicidal ideations.
As human beings, we all possess the fight or flight instinct. Therefore we are all susceptible levels of anxiety and fear. Anyone who pretends otherwise is self delusional. How the chemicals involved in the fight or flight response impact upon an individual depends on a variety of things. Genetic makeup, environmental factors and life course events. No one person reacts the same to a stressor as another. No one factor can be singled out as the element that invariably causes a stress response. Therefore there is no steadfast rule, only guidelines to help us understand how a persons psychological stress resistance operates.
The best way to become mentally resilient to stress is to develop effective coping mechanisms and stress reduction techniques such as Mindfulness, Meditation, Stress Management techniques.
Well Karen, the short story is nice, but they're all physical and chemical changes that make the changes they go through. In the bloodstream the catecholamines like norepi, serotonin and dopamine are more hormones, in the nervous system they are neurotransmitters.
How people respond to stress depends on a circle of processes, 'starting' with the microbiome that orders the bowels to produce serotonine, filtering in the liver by COMT(roughly in the population fast, intermediate and slow), then the -dose-dependant filter in the lungs (can be bypassed via shunting, mainly by PFO), therafter they go 'systemic' to bowels, other organs and the mastcells around the pineapple gland. Note: they don't cross the bloodbrainbarrier). In the brain the same enzymes are active: COMT mainly does dopamine-metabolism in the forebrain on its own, MAO is abundant throughout CNS. I admitt its complex, but at certain points in the cycle there are more clear differences between individuals.
So when you encounter stressfull events your body responds individually, esp. in the clearance of stress-hormones, hence differs in how much impact they have. Thoughts and coping are results of that, and by psychological therapy you can treat that, though I do not like the basic message often given that people have 'false believes' and have to 'think differently'.
Great Karen,
Psychological perception of a stress and processing that experience to conclusion or opinion invariably depends on couple of factors. One of the biological factors is undoubtedly IQ.
It is present understanding of IQ , as you rightly referred to, which influences the reasoning process, formation of opinion, cognition, problem solving ability , executory functions, learning, de learning, and relearning etc. are indeed functions of IQ.
A few years before, psychiatrist used to think MR cannot suffer from depression, but since understanding of many facets of UQ has been explored, many researchers have published original research work of affective disorders of MR. But the evidence they obtained was not all pervading. So the concept of less vulnerability of MR to affective disorders is still not ruled out.
There is literature mentioning genius less vulnerable to stress. This research is a comparison study.
Your point of expression has a undeniable merit. I agree and appreciate it.
What was left, was mention of relative IQ.
Point of person's perception influence resilience is well taken .
But perception is a soft skill. Relearned. Any learning process invariably requires IQ, and many other factors, was my point.
Many of esteemed researchers have already mentioned about those factors, so I hesitated to repeat them.
All psychotherapist do consider all such factored while offering psychological services.
Now I ask a question. Can we change sufferers perception?
If difficult, why ?
Can we offer sufferers relief or mental toughness without influencing his or her perception?
YES ! Mersha Linhan would spring to announce! DBT is an evidence based psychological intervention and worth reading and practising.
Practice of DBT has highlighted meagre need of changing cognition or perception while treating a stressed out person.
However, this is psychology not maths or physics, it is dynamic.
So may I conclude with the remark that mental toughness is a dynamic process or mental phenomenon which can be worked upon judiciously to one's own benefit.
As per Swami Dandapani, simplifying lifestyles and prioritizing our activities and re-allocating our finite energy to it can do wonders.
The development of resilience is a key to survival, although easier said than done. Self preservation by utilising a 'strengths-based' approach as opposed to reading about deficit models can lift the sprirts for some people. We also get into the habit of 'overthinking' and trying to please other people - We need to have contact with others for support (networks), but at times of vulnerability we may not make the choice which is best for us at that time. I also agree with all of the above answers offered, there is no panacea and no easy answer to your question; unfortunately!
Spiritual wellbeing is being hopeful of a better tomorrow; and it is major asset for ones mentality.
I would suggest to try to talk with some friend or partner or professional and to struggle to have such possibility and such capability.
Internal and external pressures should not be able to block your road to higher spiritual awareness and consciousness; personal growth towards humanistic spirituality occurs by taking the many road blocks. Patience, reflection and a step-by-step method is required; do not rush. One step into the right direction counts more than speedy errors.
just you think i can do everything but never think only i can do
Attempt to apply the 4Cs. Challenge, Confidence, Commitment and Control.
Treat obstacles as challenges rather than barriers; believe in your ability; stick at tasks; and have faith that you can act in meaningful ways and positively influence outcomes.
Physical toughness is first requirement and then reading good inspiring books, doing things by hand and believing in truth and oneself if practiced, it will lead to mental toughness.
Always be true to your word. Be prepared to accept that mistake is part of our life. Try to mingle with different social groups.
learning your own skillset and furthering your capacity, thus leading to increased confidence and self-assuredness
Practice physical activity as much as possible, in special aerobic ones.
The word your looking for is resilience, there is a fair amount of research on the topic. Good social support, ensuring basic/physical needs are met, exercise, interests outside of work and a sense of humour are a very good start.
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