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Chapter 1: How is navigating mental health compared to a nine-inning game?
Navigating a mental illness or a mental health challenge is a nine inning game to give you a baseball reference because I love baseball. So it's a long, long time frame. Let's just say that you may desperately want to be in the bottom of the eighth inning when in reality you're at the top of the third and you have a long way to go. Continuing with the baseball analogy, stick with me.
But do everything you can to hold on to that long view, that long-term vision. When you're in it, when you're in it, a year or two or maybe even three feels like forever, a lifetime, like it's never, ever gonna end. Even a week, even a month can feel like you've been in this state forever. But on the other side, looking back, it doesn't seem so all-encompassing.
So understand that this is just a season of your life, not your whole life. And this is just a part of you that you're dealing with, not your whole identity.
Chapter 2: What strategies can help maintain a long-term vision during mental health struggles?
These are important reminders to have when we're in the midst of a deep depression or going through anxiety or just going through a hard time in life. And so the action item for number two, which is be patient, is just start a small wins log. At the end of each day, Write down one thing you navigated successfully, no matter how minor it seems. For example, I made a healthy lunch.
That is a huge win. I brushed my teeth. I took a shower. I got outside today. I called a friend. I reached out. Those are huge wins, especially when you're in the midst of a deep bout of depression. And so you have to log those things so your brain can actually recognize the wins you've had, even when you're in the midst of
a depression or grief or a tough time in your life or whatever season you might be in. And that's really important. So reach out, number one, be patient, number two. Let's go to number three is make a promise to yourself that you will keep showing up. Make a promise to yourself that you will keep showing up.
And when that feels really uncertain, make a promise to yourself that you'll share those feelings with someone who can support you in that moment. That's why number one, the action item was find that safe friend, that safe family member, that one safe person that you can share saying, I'm going through it right now and I'm trying to hold on.
Make that promise to yourself that you will keep showing up. So the action item for that one is to create a safety contract with yourself. Write down, when I feel like giving up, I promise to call a name or a crisis hotline before making any decisions.
You are making plans because sometimes in the midst of these bouts of mental health challenges, our brain will confuse us and trick us into thinking all these things that aren't true. And so if we have plans written down, small wind logs, safety people, safety contracts, then we know what to do when things happen.
We've made this proactive plan before we hit the crisis so that we know what to do so that the worst possible result doesn't happen. And so we're creating that safety contract with ourselves. Very important. Now, when we go through all nine of these lessons, your goal is to pick just one and attack that one thing
And then if you wanna go to a second lesson or a third lesson, great, as you build and build incrementally from there, making those habits too small to fail. But think of all nine of these after you get through this whole episode, which one resonated with you most deeply? Pick that lesson, hone in on that lesson, and then do that action item.
And then you continually do that for all nine over a long period of time. And so that was number three.
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