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There are two ways to look at mental health, and I think a lot of people don't realize they're stuck in the first one. Most people believe that you either have depression or you don't. That if you're diagnosed with depression or anxiety, it's like a permanent trait you have – and all you can do is learn to cope with it.
I don't think of depression or anxiety that way. I think of it on a scale: when your symptoms are severe, it significantly interferes with your life, when your symptoms are mild or when your symptoms go away, it no longer interferes with your life. Depressive and anxiety disorders can actually be resolved when we eliminate them. Thinking this way gives us the power to change our own lives.

And often, when we're truly motivated to improve our lives, we try to make huge changes. And while you can give yourself the willpower to make these changes for a little while, willpower usually doesn't work as a long-term strategy. Then, the bigger the changes you want to make, the more exhausting and overwhelming they become, deterring you from pursuing them, making it harder and harder to make them instead of easier. So while you can muster the willpower to do them for a while, the more likely outcome is that you'll get burned out, quit, and be more discouraged than when you started.

So making these huge changes rarely works – sometimes it does, but it just can't be your only strategy. I love giving people tons of options to improve their mental health, but I know it can be overwhelming. In this video, let's talk about tiny but powerful strategies that actually reward you for implementing them: they make your life easier instead of harder. And then you feel better, you have more energy, and it becomes easier to do because it's habitual, and with that extra energy you can add another one, and instead of feeling more and more more tired, you feel more and more energetic. and resilient. So in this video, you'll discover small changes that take a few minutes a day to create atomic habits that support mental health.

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Therapy in Brief and information provided by Emma McAdam is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only and is not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health problems. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the opinions expressed on this site or any related content should not be considered medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your doctor before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health.
In therapy, I use a combination of acceptance and commitment therapy, systems theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treat mental illness and other challenges we all face. faced in life. The ideas in my videos are frequently adapted from several sources. Many of these come from acceptance and commitment therapy, particularly the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection stem from the work of Stephen Porges (polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (somatic experiencing), Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger Institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose the direction of our lives.
And deeper than all of this, the gospel of Jesus Christ guides my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe

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