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Why is there no Mental Workout?
I want to compare mental health to physical health: If my bicep muscles are weak and I have to lift heavy objects, I can workout my biceps and body to gain muscle strenght so I can finally lift the object I want to to lift. Some people are natually strong, some are not, but everyone can get stronger if they exercise.
To live contented lives and have healthy relationships, we need to have "well defined" mental muscles. We need those muscles to know our feelings and needs and respond to them positively. We have to be experts in knowing ourselves and thus others. This takes significant mental work!
We have these mental muscles developed if we had emotionally healthy parents that could take care of their own needs and of ours. But if we dont have emotionally healthy parents, we grow up with under-developed mental muscles which can haunt us for the rest of our lives, if we dont work to improve them.
In many but not all cases of poor mental health, it is simply the weak mental muscles that are responsible for a poor performance in life that results in depression/anxiety and dissatisfaction.
So for the vast majority of mental health problems (for which we're all effected to varying degrees), anti-depressants are steriods - a temporary boost. And what do years of psychotherapy, counseling or self-help do for us? Practically nothing long term, tangible or simple from which to benefit.
So probably no one has the answer, but I seem to believe the answer does exist somewhere to this very important question:
Do simple "mental" workout exercises exist to make our mental muscles stronger? If so, what they are?
It seems to be so much study has been done in the field of mental work, books have been written, theories invented, practices developed but no attempt has been made to synthesize the basic principles of mental health into an simple set of principles.
So if you go to the doc and say, you're having a problem lifting a certain heavy object, they'll start asking questions like "What happens when you try to lift?". The patient would spend sessions and sessions on sharing how difficult it is to lift the object and what not. What the response should be is: "Well, I cant lift it, simple! My mental muscles are weak, thats it. Now tell me how to make them stronger."
It seems to me that mental health professionals and authors will keep never attempt to find out or share these simple exercises with the public, because they know that once they do, the public wont depend on them for mental health. In the back of their minds, they never want people to independently get better becuase if they do, they cant pay their bills. The profession will die down.
Even if this is not true, and even if the professionals are genuinely trying their best, the question remains:
Do simple "mental" workout exercises exist to make our mental muscles stronger? If so, what they are?
If you have the answer, you are gifted and highly evolved.
To live contented lives and have healthy relationships, we need to have "well defined" mental muscles. We need those muscles to know our feelings and needs and respond to them positively. We have to be experts in knowing ourselves and thus others. This takes significant mental work!
We have these mental muscles developed if we had emotionally healthy parents that could take care of their own needs and of ours. But if we dont have emotionally healthy parents, we grow up with under-developed mental muscles which can haunt us for the rest of our lives, if we dont work to improve them.
In many but not all cases of poor mental health, it is simply the weak mental muscles that are responsible for a poor performance in life that results in depression/anxiety and dissatisfaction.
So for the vast majority of mental health problems (for which we're all effected to varying degrees), anti-depressants are steriods - a temporary boost. And what do years of psychotherapy, counseling or self-help do for us? Practically nothing long term, tangible or simple from which to benefit.
So probably no one has the answer, but I seem to believe the answer does exist somewhere to this very important question:
Do simple "mental" workout exercises exist to make our mental muscles stronger? If so, what they are?
It seems to be so much study has been done in the field of mental work, books have been written, theories invented, practices developed but no attempt has been made to synthesize the basic principles of mental health into an simple set of principles.
So if you go to the doc and say, you're having a problem lifting a certain heavy object, they'll start asking questions like "What happens when you try to lift?". The patient would spend sessions and sessions on sharing how difficult it is to lift the object and what not. What the response should be is: "Well, I cant lift it, simple! My mental muscles are weak, thats it. Now tell me how to make them stronger."
It seems to me that mental health professionals and authors will keep never attempt to find out or share these simple exercises with the public, because they know that once they do, the public wont depend on them for mental health. In the back of their minds, they never want people to independently get better becuase if they do, they cant pay their bills. The profession will die down.
Even if this is not true, and even if the professionals are genuinely trying their best, the question remains:
Do simple "mental" workout exercises exist to make our mental muscles stronger? If so, what they are?
If you have the answer, you are gifted and highly evolved.
Comments on this journal
one way of looking at thing is to look at them for what they are not...it might help you...but ask autumnbreeze first before applying this :P
Peace
hehe. Thats because physicians can lean on science and say "hey what can I do? I did my best" but mental health is in the air and not as tangible thats why people can say a lot more about it. But dont let that get to you. Ofcourse you go ahead and believe in your profession. Surely the mental ward you work in, I mean when people are really messed up, they do need that help to just survive.
Sure yes please let me know of those websites.
but it takes years and years and even then in most cases the person is more or less the same. I know a friend who has depression and ADD, has been taking meds since she was in her teens (been 10 years for that now), and she sees a psych doc every week - she still has problems with depression and stuff. It takes years and that too if you're lucky.
I had some more ideas on this, had some answers. I can turn this into a business if I want to. The key is to use technology for mental health and a website can do it in ways I havent seen any other website do it yet. But the important thing is, I would have an account on it myself too and would use it. The project would be for my own mental health first and for my wallet later. Very interstingg..... all this. I cannot share more until I find out it really would work, or if it does, I've developed and licensed it. Am I talking big or what..... !
But think about it - there is no website right now that caters to mental health. All we have is discussion boards. A lot more can be done.
You defend therapies, sure therapists are helpers, but its ultimately up to the individual who has to become independent in sorting out their issues and a lot more can be done on this "individual" front.