Daily Routine To Fight Off Depression

 (upbeat music) – [Narrator] Hey Psych2goers, welcome back to another video. Thank you so much for all the love and support that you’ve given us. Our mission is to make mental health and psychology more accessible to everyone. Today, we’ve invited Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family therapist shares her insights on depression and some tips on how to cope with it. Her channel is therapy in a nutshell, you can check it out in the link in the description below. With that said, let’s get started. History of depression in my family and myself, just like physical health, you have to maintain it by taking care of your body with exercise eating the right food, and going to the doctor when you’re injured or ill. With mental health, you also have to take daily action to be healthy. And when things are stressful, I have to take extra care to manage my mental health. So for example, when I was in grad school or when I was pregnant or postpartum, and right now when we as a global community are fighting a pandemic, we all have to take a little extra care of our mental health. What I’m going to talk about today is more about maintaining mental health than it is about getting out of the deepest pit of depression. When you’re deep in a depressive episode, it can be really hard to see any light. It feels like you’re at the bottom of a pit and can’t imagine what it feels like to be out of it. At that place, often, all you can do is tiny steps and hopefully get some help to get out of there. So don’t allow yourself to get overwhelmed by my routine. Just choose one little thing to start with and then take the next step when you can. Number one is the morning routine. So the first thing I do every day is get on my knees and pray. I express gratitude for the day of my life and for the opportunity I have to do good in the world. And that connection with God for me helps me feel loved and purposeful throughout my day. If you’re not religious you could do some meditation or a breathing exercise here. I try not to look at my phone first thing in the morning because I wanna start my day intentionally, the way I want it to be. If I open social media I’m letting others choose what I take in and that could be positive, negative, stressful, uplifting, or critical. And so I just choose to start my day with some quiet time. I do a little reading and then I write out my goals and priorities for the day. And right now with all the news, that’s frightening. I choose to listen to the news around lunchtime, once a day so that I don’t get constantly stressed out and have time to process it during my waking hours. And speaking of waking hours let’s talk about sleep for a minute. I have three kids, five and under. So I usually wake up before them to get some quiet time to set my intention for the day. My natural wake-up time is around 5:00 a.m. I don’t usually set an alarm, but to wake up I often go to bed between 9.00 to 10:00 p.m. I’m not fighting my natural biorhythms. I just listen to my body. And this is the schedule that works best for me. Many people, might have different sleep needs or different schedules. Sleep is super important to managing depression. There’s a massive correlation between sleep problems and depression. Lack of sleep can cause depression and getting good sleep can let your brain heal from depression. So I value my sleep. I have old friends who nicknamed me 905 because I often go to bed at that time. And I miss out on some fun for sure, but it’s what keeps me healthy. So it’s worth it for me. For each person, your sleep needs are different but getting enough sleep can make a big difference. One study found that 87% of people with depression who resolved their insomnia significantly decreased their depression symptoms. Number two, get dressed and showered. So after waking up refreshed and taking quiet time to pray, study, and set my intentions for the day, I make sure to get showered and dressed. I found that this can be hard when you’re depressed, but being clean and dressed helps me feel more energetic and gets rid of my excuses. I mean, if I have yesterday’s makeup all over my face and I’m wearing PJs, it makes it hard for me to want to go out and see friends or be social or get things done. So just get dressed for the day. Then I take my multivitamins. And if I remember I take my omega-3 supplements, and nutrition is an important part of my routine as well. I try to eat a lot of plants and not too much sugar or processed foods, but I’m not going to go into that too much right now. Number three, exercise. The other essential part of my mental health maintenance is exercise. There’s so much research that proves that exercise is great for mental health. It helps clear brain fog, and it helps reduce stress chemicals in your brain. I feel like when I exercise, it just works through a backlog of pent-up emotions and I can feel my body relax. I think it also helps me deal with anger and frustration. And I just like it. I know a lot of people exercise in the morning, but for me back when I worked full-time, I used to always go climbing or for a hike or run after work. That’s when I needed it the most. And it was hard for me to get motivated in the morning but by afternoon, I was looking forward to it. Now that I’m a full-time mom, I have to be more creative in how I get my exercise in. I often just work out in the yard, gardening, digging in the dirt, and running around the yard with my wheelbarrow, or I’ll do some yoga on TV or go for a walk with my kids or pull them behind my bike. Now that we’re stuck in our homes with the coronavirus pandemic, I’m doing more inside workouts. I like the seven-minute workouts on my phone or The Fitness Marshall on YouTube. Number four is nature time. This takes me back to another aspect of my mental health routine that is important to me. Outside time. I need nature. I need to see the sky and soak in some sun. I’m fortunate to live in a beautiful place. And I take advantage of that by getting outside. There is some research showing that sunshine nature and being outside change our physiology. It slows our heart rate and decreases the stress chemicals and stuff. But regardless of the research, I can just feel the difference for me. If you can’t get outside, open your windows, and sit on your porch. Or if you can’t do any of that then you can spend some time looking at beautiful landscape photography or a nature film. Your brain can bring to mind the feelings of nature just by imagining it. Number five is my evening routine. My evening routine looks like getting my kids to bed and then taking some quiet time for myself. I usually take a hot bath and read a book or an archeology journal. I’m kinda nerdy, but that’s what I like. Even though I have very few hours to work on my passion project, these videos, I don’t usually work in the evenings, because it would just stress me out a little and I need the downtime to stay healthy. So then before bed, I write in my journal, I often take the time to write about my wins and accomplishments of the day so that I can remember them because it’s my natural habit to dwell on my mistakes and shortcomings. So I write about my wins and then I pray a prayer of gratitude and talk with my heavenly father about my day. Again, gratitude practice is an essential habit of mental health, and it’s been shown to be an effective treatment for depression. So you can pray about it like me, express gratitude as a family, which we do at dinner time, or write about it, whatever works for you. And then I go to bed. I try not to spend too much time looking at screens before bed, but if I do, I choose some calming documentary or a mudlarking channel like Nikola Whites. If you don’t know what mudlarking is, it’s just finding historical bits of treasures on themes in London. Anyway, I find it relaxing. I encourage people not to be on TV because it’s just not super great for your brain. But if you do choose a short and calming show. Lastly, other self-care. For me, that includes scheduling and some time for my hobby. I have tons of hobbies, but because I’m so busy with kids I don’t have time to do most of them I make sure to carve out about two hours a week to do at least one of them. Right now that’s metal detecting which is something fun and relaxing for me. I put it on the calendar so that I make sure it happens. I also take the Sabbath off, no work, no housework. I don’t check my work email. I let my brain completely focus on other things. Mostly my family, which is also exhausting, but it’s a day that is different from the others. And I make sure to have social time as well. Having social interactions is essential for mental health. Our brains are inherently social. We are social creatures. So right now this is going to be an extra challenge with the Coronavirus. I’m taking the time to call up old friends. I have some groups I’m hanging out with on Zoom and when we’re not on lockdown I meet up with friends to let the kids play or to go out to lunch or whatever. So there you have it. My daily routine to maintain mental health. I have a careful morning routine. I make sure to get enough sleep. I get dressed every day. I exercise and get some outside time, I carve out time to relax each evening, practice gratitude, and acknowledge my successes of the day. And once a week, I make sure to get out and do something just for me, stress, anxiety, and social isolation can all contribute to depression but you can prevent depression during stressful times like the pandemic and social distancing by using daily habits that promote mental health. Depression is treatable and there are some simple things you can do every day to prevent depression and stay mentally healthy. I hope you can find some things from this list that help you figure out a way to maintain your mental health. Today, this week, and during the crazy pandemic that we’re going through. And remember, you’re braver than you know and stronger than you think. Thanks for watching and take care. 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9 Uncomfortable Signs You’re Healing Emotionally

 Narrator, Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back to another video Healing is not easy. There’s a lot of stigma regarding going to therapy and doing any independent inner self-work. It’s still seen as something that either weak or crazy people do, and that’s – just not true, It might not be 100 easy, but healing is a journey that leads to deep fulfillment that nothing outside of you could shake or take away. This process is very humbling, but with high risk comes high reward. During this journey, you will start to feel the growing pains of change and self-integration Keep moving forward. This discomfort is helping you move into a beautiful life in which you have a deeper sense of inner peace. Here are nine uncomfortable signs that you are healing Number one. You allow yourself to feel your emotions When you’re still stuck in survival mode. You are mostly focused on logic and what you see because emotions are painful for you to feel and process It’s hard for you to take the time and make room for your emotions to just be acknowledged and validated because it reminds you of the hurt that You would’ve liked to keep buried When you heal. You start acknowledging your negative and positive emotions because you realize that extreme focus on one is detrimental to your whole being and that you are a whole person. It’s uncomfortable at first, but as you are no longer suppressing or denying them, you see the value of your emotions and feelings and of just letting yourself sit with them and allowing them to pass Number Two. You’re getting better at expressing and maintaining boundaries When you’re not healed or in the process, you struggle with stating and enforcing boundaries because you’re afraid of rejection, feelings of shame and guilt from putting your interest first or saying what’s on your mind, It’s unusual to set firm boundaries when you’re not used to it, but once you start, it creates more healthy interpersonal dynamics, because you stated your opinions and emotions. You have the mental and emotional clarity and you are more capable of making your decisions Number three. You accept that you’ve, been through difficult experiences. Life is hard and unfair, and instead of suppressing all of the experiences that you have been through, you acknowledge and accept that they happened. You accept that these people’s place and things had a life-changing impact on you and probably still do Once. You have accepted that these uncomfortable events impacted you in their entirety. They start to hurt you less because you’ve accepted the truth and are in charge of the narrative of your life again Number four, you’re, less reactive and more responsive. When you’re in survival mode, Everything and everyone is a threat and is treated as such. Nothing is trusted and you, don’t have time to sit and logically think things through, because you are pure action needing to defend yourself constantly. Once you start healing your natural response of lashing out shutting down, running away, or people-pleasing is tested and slowly makes way for questioning your feelings and reactions. Regarding things, You even find yourself asking. Why do I think this way? Where does this thinking come from? You start practicing emotional self-regulation, self-analysis, and responsibility. Number five you realize that healing is not linear Healing is uncomfortable because you are unearthing and confronting things you would’ve preferred to keep suppressed. Once you get into the rhythm, you realize that part of that healing is that this distress is okay and normal, because it’s not a straight road to inner peace and healing You understand and has experienced the highs and lows of healing and know that the feeling of today will not match the feelings of tomorrow or even later, on Number six. You begin to step out of your comfort zone Here,’s the thing about healing It:’s, not something everyone will do. However, if you decide to it has far-reaching benefits beyond the acceptance and acknowledgment of the traumatic experience Once you are in the healing process, you are developing bravery around your emotions and your mind With this newfound conscious control. You are no longer scared by things that scared you before Scared of making a living situation change. You now are redecorating your bedroom and experimenting with paint colors. You never thought you would Go to a party you don’t know Before you would’ve recoiled at the thought, but now it’s a little less anxiety-inducing and you have a bit more confidence Number seven. You easily accept disappointments and take them in stride. Life is a balance of success and failure, light and dark ups and downs. When you’re not healing disappointments hit, you like a freight truck to the chest, knocking all of the motivation and passion out of you With healing you understand that bad days do happen and can’t be avoided, but are also temporary Any disappointments or unmet Expectations are accepted and taken in stride. You respond in better healthier ways that are less reactive Number. Eight you have more inner peace Healing brings about self-integration. If you’re a Harry Potter, fan it’s as if Voldemort brought back all of his Horcruxes and decided on becoming a better complete person who accepts the natural way of life on a soul level. And if you’re, not a fan. It’s like taking inventory of all of your experiences painful or not, and seeing yourself as the whole person You develop this inner peace because you deeply forgive yourself and you can readily forgive others too. By having this peace and integration, you are less likely to self-sabotage because you’re no longer a warring country within yourself with conflicting desires and emotions. You reconcile your inner differences. You no longer criticize and dismantle your character in your mind And number nine. You welcome help and support The independent survivor. Has a don’t ask for help mentality, maybe because they never got it when they needed it or because of the harsh rejection when they spoke up, They shut down to get by and decided to do it by themselves because they had no choice With healing You start to realize that as strong as you are, you can’t carry and do everything by yourself. You do need help and we all do and it’s available out there for you. You are more open to support and less afraid of having this need for assistance met. The pride and shame you might feel for asking for help are gone, because you know that it’s, okay, to let go of the heavy burden on your shoulders and have someone to lean on. Did you relate to any of these points? Do you feel that you are beginning to heal As rewarding as the first step of healing? You will run into the discomfort of your healing and this will try to make you stop to lessen or ignore the pain, but whatever you resist you prolong. If you are in the healing process, well done, I’m proud of you for doing this work and I hope you can find peace through it And if you’re not that’s, okay, because healing is a long process that takes time you’re still living and doing what you can Applaud yourselves. Did you find this video valuable, Tell us in the comments below Please like and share it with friends that might find use in this video too, and make sure to subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell for more content. 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How To Deal With Anxiety And Nervousness

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