Classical, conditioning is, a, way of learning where a stimulus that triggers a biological response is paired with a new stimulus that then results in the same, reaction The most famous work in classical conditioning was done by Ivan Pavlov in the 1890s During this time, Pavlov did a lot of research around the digestive processes of dogs One day during his research Pavlov noticed that the dogs began to salivate in the presence of the technician who normally fed them. He wondered if the technician was a trigger that stimulated a response associated with food To find out. He constructed an experiment that would allow him to measure a dog’s, output of saliva. First, he served the dog food. Then he served food while playing the sounds of a metronome and repeated the process a few times. Finally, he removed the food and only played the metronome. The dogs began to salivate in response to the metronome alone, Pavlov concluded that if a new stimulus was present when the dog was given food, then that stimulus became associated with food and caused salivation on its own. When he published his findings, Pavlov called the food, an unconditioned stimulus, because its effects on the dog were not learned. Instead, they triggered an unconditioned response that happened naturally and completely out of the dog’s control. The metronome is at first a neutral stimulus through the process of repetitive pairing with food. The dog learns to connect the two. This means that the neutral stimulus becomes the conditioned stimulus and the response to that is a conditioned response. He also reported that 1 learning occurred most rapidly when the interval between the sound and the appearance of the food was short 2. The saliva produced by the sound differed in composition from that produced by the food, which means that the conditioned response was not a replica of the unconditioned response. 3. While there are several forms of conditioning such as forward and backward conditioning, classical conditioning cannot create new behavior or be used for training, but instead triggers involuntary biological responses. 4. We can almost entirely undo the conditioning This happens through extinction when we repeatedly present the conditioned stimulus in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus. So what occurs inside the brain When a dog sees the food, the signals from the eyes and nose stimulate the brain which activates the salivation glands to secrete saliva to aid the dog with digestion When a dog hears a sound, the ears send a signal to The brain which takes note but has no reason to activate anything When the two different neurological processes are being activated simultaneously. New synaptic connections occur between the auditory stimulus and the behavioral response Over time. These synapses are strengthened so that it only takes the sound to activate the pathway leading to salivation. You can try this popular classroom exercise. Take a friend sit down and relax for two minutes. Then allow your partner to check and record your pulse rate. Your partner will then tap a pencil on the desk five times Right after stand up and hop on one leg for 30 seconds and then check your pulse again Repeat the procedure four times having the partner record, all data After relaxing. For the fifth time, your partner will tap the pencil five times as usual. Now, instead of getting up for your exercise, only check your pulse. If the conditioning is successful, your pulse rate will rise even without engaging in exercise. What do you think does classical conditioning always work? If so, are commercials a form of mental manipulation, and should we limit advertising in public spaces Sprouts videos are published under the Creative Commons license. That means our videos are free and anyone can download edit and play them for personal use and public schools. Governments and nonprofit organizations can also use them for training online courses or designing new curriculums To help us stay independent and support our work. You can join our patrons and contribute just by visiting. Www patreon com sprouts, Even one dollar, can make a difference. If you have deep insights into academic topics and want to help us explain complicated ideas in simple language, please contact us at www, sprouts schools com, you
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– All right here we are,
“Stress Busters” the series, the name of the series
iStress Busters,” all the different ways
that stress can affect us. We’re on Lesson Number Four of this series and tin his particular lesson, we’re going to be talking
about stress from failure, stress from failure. Well, in our series thus far on stress, we’ve talked about the
problem of stress in general and also the problem of stress that is caused by worry, nd the particular problems that stress causes in our work lives. I’ve talked to some
people and it seems to me that they think that, you know, just listening to these lessons is what’s going to lessen
the stress in their lives. You know, they have this
equation in their mind, okay, I’m going to binge-watch “Stress Busters” online, and after I’ve listened to
these lessons, I’ll be fine. You know, the stress of my
life is going to go down.
Well, hopefully,, the lessons that I’m sharing with you may be soothing, and perhaps you might feel reassured that someone understands you, someone understands that
you may be going through these problems of stress. However, here’s the big however, nothing changes stress in the stress level until there is a real change in your life. There’s no change in your stress level until there’s a change in your life. For example, if you’ve
begun living, you know, one day at a time, you know, trusting God to provide
for you one day at a time, or if you’ve begun just
not going past your limits, understanding that you have limits, and not going past your limits, well, if you don’t do those things, you’ll still have the, it’s not just understanding
the principle of the thing.
You’ve got to do the thing. You’ve got to make a real change, and unless you balance your workload and your attitude toward your work, you’re not going to
achieve the peace of mind that we’ve been talking about, and I always say, you know what, what’s the point of
succeeding in your career if you burn out? What’s the point? What’s the point of all
the work that you do and all the effort that you make if your body and your mind
are so deteriorated by stress that you don’t even have the strength to enjoy what you’ve accomplished? So the point I’m making here at the outset is these lessons don’t help
unless you respond to them unless you take the material
and you take the advice and you take the things that are taught and practically, you know, insert them into your lives and use them. All right, so this time
we look at the stress that is created by failure
and what we can do about it. Well, here’s the first thing
I want to say about that. Our society rewards success
and punishes failure.
Our society rewards success
and punishes failure. There’s a great pressure,
you know, to make it, to get it together, to
excel at something or other. To excel is popular, it’s in, it’s lovely. Just to be ordinary, not so much. No prizes for being just ordinary. We love winners, and we
ignore everybody else in our society, in our
western society anyways. From Little League to college to careers, the message is always the same. Making it is what life is all about. So you go to the best schools because you want to go to the best schools to get the best advantage
so that you can make it, ’cause making it is,
you know, the goal. Success is the goal. So as a result, you know, we grow up with a deep-seated need to succeed.
Now I’m not, you know, I’m
not promoting failure here. I’m just saying that in our society, we have a great need to
succeed, and we punish failure, we punish failure. It’s not always a
conscious, but it is visible in the highs and the lows that we feel as we chase success in whatever field we happen to be in. So not surprisingly, therefore, there’s a great stress associated with the pursuit of success. If we and it’s a double-edged sword, if we succeed, we’re stressed
to keep that success, and if we fail, we’re stressed because of the consequences
of our failure, and the continued desire to succeed.
Now, different types of stress are associated with failure, two types of stress associated
that I want to talk about. The first is the stress
caused by the failure itself. I mean, it is stressful to fail because failure brings all
kinds of negative consequences. You know, a loss of health for example. If you have an accident, you know, you lose your health,
you lose your wealth, the loss of your reputation. You know, you’re a young
person, you do foolish things, you film yourself doing foolish
or immoral things online, and it’s just one night,
it’s one crazy night, but that image and that
film and that video iareout there forever, even future employers
are taking a look at that before they consider you for a job.
You know, you lose your reputation, or if you commit a crime. I mean, we never talk
about that, but you know, you write a bad check,, or you
write a lot of bad checks or steal something
or you cheat or whatever, and you’re convicted
for that, and some, you have to go to prison, or you’re guilty of some
immortality of some kind, some public immoral failure, and you lose your
reputation because of it. That’s a failing. The loss of self-esteem, how many have this self-hatred that they have to deal with all the time? A loss of relationships,
children who lose their parents? You know, how difficult is it for children when they have to be told, well, your mom’s going to live over here and your dad’s going to
live over there, you know, and you’re going to spend
a weekend over here, and then you’re going to
spend a weekend over there, and now you have a new mom
or a new dad or whatever, and they have different rules,
they have different families.
Very difficult on children and of course, very difficult on adults, the stress of failing at a relationship. So whatever the failure, there’s usually a pain
or loss of some kind, and the pain and the loss create natural stress in the person. You know, people are
so afraid of admitting that they may be failing at marriage that they keep it a secret because they know that there are a lot of negative consequences that come with a failure at marriage. So therefore they say
nothing, make it worse, and the marriage fails, and then all the negative
consequences that come with it, and the stress that comes from the failure of that relationship. So there’s stress caused
by failure of, you know, so many different kinds. Then there’s stress caused
by the fear of failure, not by the failure itself, but the apprehension that we may fail, that perhaps we might not succeed. We worry about failing, we worry about not making
it, not being good enough, not living up to someone
else’s expectations, whatever.
You know, the student,
we know the story, right, of the student who knows
the material front and back, who’s aced every test so far, but they worry sick
until the results are in, they’re so afraid of failure. So whether we fail or
we’re afraid of failing, the experience causes stress, and this stress can immobilize us and keep us from either
enjoying our success or keep us from trying anything that involves any degree of risk. Because if there’s any risk involved, that means that I might fail, and I don’t want to
suffer the consequences, I don’t want to suffer
the stress and the pain that comes with failure, so
I’m not even going to try. So how do we deal with
this type of failure, this stress from failure? Well, two main ideas
that I want to talk about that help Christians, remember, my perspective is
always talking about Christians who have to deal with stress, and so two main ideas
that’ll help Christians deal with the stress
that accompanies failure and the fear of failure that I
would like to share with you, and the first idea is this.
Understand that failure is normal. Failure is normal. Ah, what a relief to know
that failure is normal. The problem with the success-oriented evolutionary mindset
that exists in this world is that failure is seen
as some form of aberration instead of being the norm. You know, the basic concept
of the Christian religion taught in every first chapter
of the Bible is that failure, once begun by Adam’s sin, is inevitable. We live in a technological
bubble here in the West and in a kind of social
time warp in North America. Look at history. It’s been one war and one disaster and one pandemic after another, never stopping, always increasing, a testimony of God’s
pronouncement in the garden that the earth was cursed and society would be
in labor until the end. What’s there not to understand
when God is telling, you know, the earth is cursed, will be in labor, you know,
until the end of time, until the, you know, eventually
the earth and the heavens, you know, will be destroyed? Technically, we are advanced,
and because of this, we have the illusion that the world is a better place, but in reality, the earth
continues to deteriorate, and man is as evil selfish, and cruel as he ever was.
But because of this illusion, you know, this technological illusion that we have, all shiny and bright and new, we can go faster, we can go better, you know, look what we
can do with our phones and with our, you know,
we’re sending rockets to Mars and all that business,
because of this illusion, and also because of a godless philosophy that for a century has
made our society believe that we are simply evolving to
higher and higher life forms, we see failure as something
that needs to be eliminated.
We see failure as just being unnatural. It’s impeding the general
progress of humanity. We just have to get rid of failure, because it is seen as something unnatural. Those who fail are
considered less than human, less than what is naturally, you know, what naturally ought to be. This idea here, it creates stress, and it creates stress because
it goes against reality and it goes against
what’s essentially true. The truth of the matter is that
there is an inner principle in all people that induces them to fail. I mean, failure is normal,
success is tasurprise. This is why we honor success. This is why we get excited over success, because failure is the norm. That principle that I’m talking about within all human beings is called sin. The Bible tells us that
because of sin, man fails. He fails to do what he should, and he fails to avoid
doing what he shouldn’t do. In Romans chapter three
verse 23, Paul summarizes it. He says “For all have sinned,” and what is sin? A fail, failing to keep
God’s laws, that’s the fail.
“For all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God.” What is the glory of God? Well, perfection, complete
success, that’s the glory. Paul said all have
sinned and all fall short of the glory of God. So when we understand
that failure is normal, it helps relieve the stress
from failure in several ways. First of all, it allows us to be just a little more
charitable with ourselves and others who fail, because we all share this characteristic. Criticism of self and
others for their failings is the single greatest
generator of stress. I mean, there’s an entire, you know, psychological method of therapy that is based on developing
positive self-talk to silence the critic, you know, that is within all of us.
This idea here gives direction and motivation to our actions. We help out because we can relate, and perhaps we’ll be the ones
who will need help one day. We do that when we understand
that failure is normal, and it also sends us
searching for an answer to failure outside of ourselves, outside of our achievements and willpower, and
our success philosophies. Because if all fail, then no
one ras the answer. How many books come out to describe how we really can get success? And yet the books keep
coming out all the time. It’s like diet books. You know, they keep, every year there’s hundreds and hundreds of diet books come out. You’d think that eventually
one would come out and it would be the answer.
It’s the same thing
with the success books. You’d think after hundreds of
years of people writing books about how to succeed, we’d figure it out, and yet there’s a new book
coming out every month. Like Paul in Romans
chapter seven verse 25, who recognized the overwhelming
failure of his own life, regardless of his superior
efforts at success, here is Paul the Apostle who cries out, “Who can save me from this body of sin?” When he says “body of
sin,” what is he saying? Failure, who can save me
from this failure of my life? When failure brings us to this point, we finally learn the ultimate
answer to our failings given by God in Romans
chapter eight verse one where he says, “There is now therefore “no condemnation for those
who are in Christ Jesus.” I add the, like a parent
theoretical statement, just to clarify this.
“There is now therefore no condemnation,” brackets, “for failure for
those who are in Christ Jesus.” What does God condemn us for? Well, he condemns us for our failure, our failure to obey his commands, our failures to be
perfect as he is perfect. And so the ultimate answer
to failure is not success, but rather faith in Jesus Christ, and with that faith comes
peace that dispels the stress that accompanies the impossible race for perfect achievement at work, perfect achievement at raising children.
You know, what do we parents say, how many times have I heard parents say raising children is the most
gguilt-producingactivity that one can do? Why, because raising children
shows you how weak you are. It reveals to you, you know, how easily you can make mistakes. It demonstrates how little you know. We feel guilty because why? We want to be perfect parents because we want our
children to be perfect. We don’t want them to fail. When we understand this, it
gives us an understanding of the world and ourselves
ainwhatever we try to do. Another idea about failure
that we need to know, aside from the fact that
failure is normal, is this.
Failure is a good teacher. Failure is a good teacher. Now, failure is not pleasant, but man’s approach to
failure is not some quest to eliminate it, but
rather to learn from it. You know, a quick look
at history will show us that those who saw failure as a teacher didn’t succeed in eliminating
failure from their lives, but they did achieve great
things despite failure. You know, Abraham Lincoln, for example, failed at many attempts
to gain political office before he became the President
of the United States. Thomas Edison did 2,000 failed experiments before he found the correct elements for his first incandescent bulb. 2,000 failed experiments. Winston Churchill said, and I quote, “Success is going from failure to failure “without loss of enthusiasm.” I like that. “Success is going from failure to failure “without loss of enthusiasm.” Here’s a man who understood
that failure was the norm. In the Bible, we have countless
examples of men and women who failed in their lives,
failed in their relationships, but they were used by God in great ways despite their failings.
If we choose to, we can learn many things from the failures in our own lives. For example, we can learn
about God through failure. There is an endless amount of information we can learn about God, and failure is a great teacher because when we fail, we usually can see the distance between ourselves and God. Isn’t that unusual? It’s when we fail, morally, spiritually, when we fail at these things, we recognize God is over
there and I’m over here, and there is such a chasm between us, and my failing has revealed
how wide that chasm is between myself and God. You know, when we justify or hide or deny, we lose the opportunity
for God to teach us the difference between ourselves and him, and when we begin to see the differences between ourselves and him, we grow in humility, and
that humility gives us peace, it gives us joy, it gives us comfort.
You know David, the psalmist, the king, David rejoiced in his newfound knowledge of God’s gracious and forgiving spirit, but he only was able to do
this after he acknowledged his failure with Bathsheba. We know the story. He seduced this woman,
this other man’s wife, and then of course she became pregnant, and after the pregnancy, he conspired to have the man
killed and lied about it. You know, it was just one
bad thing after another until the prophet came to reveal and expose David’s sin, and David confessed it and repented. Then he wrote about hisexperiencec, and listened to to what hesaid aboutt this experience of failure and what
resulted from his failure. He says, “How blessed is he “whose transgression is
forgiven, whose sin is covered! “How blessed is the man to whom the Lord “does not impute iniquity, “and in whose spirit there is no deceit!” He’s saying how blessed, he doesn’t say how
blessed is the rich man, the man whose stomach is full, the man who’s got 15 kids. He didn’t say that. He says, “How blessed is he, “the one whose transgression is forgiven.” He’s talking about himself here of course, and he’s saying what a blessing
to have my failure forgiven, to have my failure covered over.
“How blessed is the man to whom the Lord “does not impute iniquity “and in whose spirit is no deceit,” meaning I’m not lying about my failure. I’m owning up to it. He goes on to say, “When I
kept silent about my sin, “my body wasted away “through my groaning all day long. “For day and night, your
hand was heavy upon me. “My vitality was drained away “as with the fever heat of the summer.” Do you see the stress
he’s talking about here? His failure, and in
his case, his moral failure, created tremendous
stress as he hid from it, ae denied it, aandhe
tried to push it away. He goes on to say, “I
acknowledged my sin,” the turnaround, “I acknowledged my sin,” change the word sin to failure, “I acknowledge my failure to you, “and my iniquity I did not hide.
“I said, ‘I will confess my
transgression to the Lord.’ “And you forgave the
guilt of my sin. Selah. “Therefore, let everyone who is godly, “pray to you in a time
when you may be found. “Surely in a flood of great
waters, they will reach him. “You are my hiding place. “You preserve me from trouble. “You surround me with
songs of deliverance.” Now, does this sound like
a man who is overstressed because of failing? He says, “I will instruct
you and teach you “in the way which you should go. “I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
“Do not be as the horse or as the mule “which have no understanding, “whose trappings include bit and bridle “to hold them in check. “Otherwise they will not come near to you. “Many are the sorrows of the wicked, “but he who trusts in the Lord, “lovingkindness shall surround him. “Be glad in the Lord and
rejoice, you righteous ones, “and shout for joy all
who are upright in heart.” This is the sinner who’s talking here. This is the guy who failed,
and failed miserably, who is saying all these
pleasant and joyful things, a man who was weighed down
by the stress of his failure, who finally cried out
to God for forgiveness and acknowledge his failings. And then, so I say, we can learn about God and how good he is and what he gives us and what he provides for us, and then secondly, we can
learn about ourselves.
Failure teaches us about us. Failure is the way that God draws a kind of a chalk line if you wish around our physical abilities, our spiritual maturity, or our emotional strength. Here you are, you’re this
strong and no stronger. You’re this capable, but
no more capable than that. Without failure, we rarely can get an objective view of ourselves. Then thirdly, through failure, we can learn what is truly important. A failure brings loss, and
loss helps us to reevaluate what is truly valuable to us in our lives. You know, I knew a Christian
man who suffered a heart attack and realized that you know, his truck and his guns and his buddies, ’cause he was a good old boy, all of this business, these things were not going to be missed as much as his little children
were going to be missed if he died from a heart attack. He learned that his family
was what was important to him. Even though he’d been
preached at for 30 years, the threat of losing them
finally brought the lesson home. Failure, even if it’s the
failure of our health, acts like a pair of glasses
that bring into perspective what counts what is important, and what we reed in this life.
Failure is a great teacher in this regard. A lot of the stress
caused by failure is due not only to the loss that we encounter, but also the fact that we failed to learn the lessons of failure, and we continue to produce the
stressful things in our lives caused by ignorance of God
and ignorance of ourselves and ignorance of our life. We don’t let failure teach us anything, and so we continue to repeat
the mistakes that cause failure and we gain the accompanying
stress that comes with it. So what have I said, you know, so far? We’ve kind of gone in a lot
of different directions, so what have I said so far? Well, first of all, I’ve
said that stress is caused by failure itself, or the fear of failure. Secondly, we live in a world
that is unkind to failure, and so we’re stressed even more at the mere thought of failure.
Never mind failing, just
the fear of failing causes stress in us. Now, dealing with the stress
caused by failure is possible. We have to understand
that failure is normal. You’re going to mess up so
you better get used to it. Don’t be afraid of trying, because, because of, you might fail. As forgiven people, we have
a right to start over again. Try to learn from failure so that you can avoid repeating mistakes, and also enrich your life. So let’s apply the lesson to Christians and have a spiritual exercise here as we kind of end up with this lesson on stress from failure. So here’s a little
exercise that you can do along with me here, okay? First of all, I want you to think about your worst failure. You know it, you know it. Your worst failure, whether
it’s a financial thing, a family thing, a crime,
or a spiritual thing.
Think of, as far as you’re
concerned, your worst failure. Okay, number two, ask God to forgive you. Just ask him to forgive you. Lord Jesus, I did this thing,
you know I did this thing. I need you to forgive me. Please forgive me. I want to tell you something. If God forgives you, then
you can forgive yourself. See, a lot of people,
just can’t forgive themselves, and they don’t know why they
can’t forgive themselves. Well, it’s because you
can’t forgive yourselves unless God forgives you first. If he forgives you, then
you can forgive you. If he doesn’t forgive you,
or if he hasn’t forgiven you, no wonder you can’t forgive yourself. You’re still carrying that burden around. Now remember, I’m talking
to Christians here. If you’re not a Christian, well obviously, the way
to receive forgiveness, as Peter says in Acts
chapter two verse 38, you need to repent of
your sins and be baptized and as you go into the waters of baptism, the blood of Christ washes
away all of your sins. But I’m talking to Christians now, and if you’re a Christian and you’ve still got to
a sin that’s on your mind and your heart, then ask God to forgive
you and know that he has.
1 John chapter one verses
seven to nine talks about that. If we acknowledge our sin to God he is faithful to forgive us, and the blood of Christ
washes away all of our sins. Remember, if God forgives you, then you can forgive yourself. Then one last little exercise. Tonight I want you to
write down two things that you’ve learned from that
failure that you talked about. You know, I said to you, think
about your worst failure, then ask God to forgive
you for that failure. I also want you to write down two things. What did you learn from that failure, either in the past or just as
we’ve talked about it tonight, and then finally, move on with your life?
Move on with your life. So many Christians, you know, make the mistake of
always looking bbackward There’s nothing back there. The only thing that’s
back there is failure. Know that the cross of
Christ takes care of failure. Failure in the past,
failure in the present, failure in the future, the cross of Christ takes care of all of that. Paul tells us, he
forgets what lies behind, and what does he do? He keeps his eyes forward. I’ll tell you right now, the stress that comes from failure, most of the time it comes
because we inflict it upon ourselves by looking back at the things we’ve done, at
the things we’ve failed at, at the things that we
didn’t quite measure up and whatever, you know.
Don’t do that. Stop doing that. Stop looking back. Tell yourself, to stop looking back. Look forward, only look forward to the hope that we have in Christ Jesus. Doing that will eliminate the stress that comes from failure. You know, no
stress accompanies the contemplation of heaven. I never feel stressfulen I think about heaven, when I think about the end
when I think about how it’ll be when I’m with Christ with a glorified body and no sin and no death.
You know, that doesn’t
cause me stress, and I encourage people not to look back. That’ll just stress you out ’cause you’re just going
to see your failings. Look forward to what God has promised and what od has prepared for us. Okay, so that’s our lesson
tonight or today about failure, stress, and failure. Remember, we’ve got different resources. We’ve got the study sheet
that you can download and work with as we go through it, and in this particular lesson, we also have the bonus material
for a lesson, for this lesson. We have small group discussion
sheets that you can download. If you happen to be ain all group and you want to have an
extra exercise to do, then I encourage you to
download that material and work with that. Well, that’s our lesson for tonight. We’re going to continue
with Lesson Number Five in this series, and I hope
to see you for that one.
Take care, God bless
you, and we’ll see you soon.
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(bright music) – [Amanda] What does it
mean to be mentally tough? Think of it this way. You work out and exercise to gain physical strength, and the discipline and time you invest in your physical health help you to feel better overall. This same idea can be
applied to mental toughness. When you have a tougher mentality, you’ll mentally and emotionally
feel better overall. You can cope better with stressful and overwhelming seasons in your life. You’re more capable of
handling fear and doubt because you have the mental fortitude to deal with them. Want to learn how to
become mentally tougher? We’re gonna let you in
on some secrets to do so. Number one, get an emotional trashcan. Are you where you want to be in life? Do you feel stuck in
negative thought patterns? Negative thoughts are often what bar you from where you want to be.
Negative thoughts can fill
you with dread and anxiety, and wind up emotionally harming you. Mental strength is hard to develop when you have a negative mindset. One solution to this would be to get an emotional trashcan. The point of having this trashcan is so that you can throw away your doubts, worries, and fears to gain better respite and mental clarity. You could try journaling, find a creative
outlet for your emotions, or reach out to a therapist. Trashing those bad thoughts and healthily dealing with them gives you a chance to process them, and get to a resolution.
With a clearer and more positive mindset, it will be easier for you to focus on what you want and where you want to be. Number two, acknowledge and
use the power of choice. Do you sometimes feel pressured to make the right choice? Are you worried about disappointing others or letting other people down if you make the wrong choice? Let me let you in on a secret, there is no such thing as the right choice. Honest choices and in tune with what you
want or need at that moment are considered to be the
right choice for you.
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uncertain or unclear, make a list of your present goals. Figure out what you’re
willing to let go of, especially if you know
that it doesn’t serve you. And what you’re grateful for and what you truly want to focus on. Number three, do the
difficult things first. Life gets messy and sticky, and sometimes we can find ourselves in some pretty bad situations.
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accountability for yourself, it’s easier to move forward and not make those same
mistakes a second time. Number six, practice gratitude, even when you’re going
through a difficult season. Does it feel hard to be grateful, especially when you’re going through a difficult season in life? Sometimes it can be easier to focus on the negative
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negative thought patterns.
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your goals and dreams so you can go forth and achieve them. And number seven, let go of
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process of achieving a solution? Learning to let go of things that are out of your control will make you feel less stressed and help you have a clear mind. How do you feel about these secrets that we’ve just shared? It’s not a secret anymore.
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I’m going to Women in Secularism 3 this weekend,
and I feel like this is a good time to get into something relevant: my experiences as
a woman in the secular community. Particularly, my experiences as a woman whose
gender is often considered debatable. When Dave Silverman went to this year’s Conservative
Political Action Conference, the secular community raised a lot of questions about some of the
statements he made: Why, exactly, would the president of American Atheists suggest that
abortion is the one human right that there’s a secular argument against? But during the much-needed uproar over this,
Silverman’s other statements were largely ignored.
Yes, he implied that opposing reproductive
rights can be a valid difference of opinion within the atheist movement. And that’s not okay. But he also gave the impression that, unlike
abortion, the issue of gay marriage was a settled and “clean-cut” question for atheists. Silverman later defended this on Twitter,
saying: “How many anti-gay atheists do you know? I can’t name any off the top of my head. I know a few anti-choice atheists.” He continued: “School prayer, Death with Dignity,
LGBT equality is 100% religious. That was my contrast.” There weren’t quite so many secular voices
pushing back against the idea that opposition to LGBT equality is “100% religious”. Chris Stedman, a Humanist chaplain at Harvard,
was one of the few to respond to this, saying: “I’ve heard from atheists who say that I’m
too “effeminate,” that my being gay makes atheists seem “like freaks,” or that my “obvious
homosexuality” makes me an ineffectual voice for atheists.” It would be easy to think that support for
the LGBT community is nearly universal among atheists.
What reason would they have to dislike us,
when they’re free of any religious dogma marking us as an abomination? And polling data would seem to confirm this. A 2012 Gallup poll found that 88% of those
with “no religious identity” supported the legality of same-sex marriage. A 2014 poll by the Public Religion Research
The Institute similarly found that 73% of the “religiously unaffiliated” were in favor of
legalizing gay marriage. The internet-based Secular Census, consisting
of a self-selected convenience sample of secular Americans who volunteered to respond, found
even higher rates of support: 97.3% of those who participated said that gay couples should
be allowed to marry. It does look pretty open-and-shut: support
for marriage equality is apparently the norm among non-religious people, and most of that
demographic has indeed settled on this as their answer.
There’s just one little problem. “Marriage equality” and “LGBT equality” are
not synonyms. Believe it or not, equality for LGBT people
does not begin and end with marriage. And a person’s support for marriage equality
tells us nothing about their views on employment nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people,
housing nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people, LGBT inclusion in the armed forces,
the competence of LGBT people as parents, the parental rights of LGBT people, the reproductive
rights of LGBT people, the adoption rights of LGBT people, so-called “reparative therapy”
for LGBT people, hate crime laws protecting LGBT people, anti-bullying policies protecting
LGBT students, public accommodations protections for transgender people, the right of trans
people to have their identity documents updated without undergoing invasive surgeries, the
coverage of transition-related procedures under healthcare plans, the right of trans
students to present and be recognized as their gender in schools, the right of trans people
to be free from police harassment and profiling, the right of trans people to be treated as
their gender in homeless and domestic violence shelters, the right of trans people to be
housed according to their gender in prisons, the right of trans people to receive appropriate
medical treatment in prisons, or gender norms and gender variance in general.
While there are plenty of polls focusing on
marriage equality and the opinions of different demographics on that issue, far less attention
is given to these other areas. And that’s a pretty serious gap because many
of these issues are of far more immediate importance to us than marriage. Certainly, marriage does matter – my partner
and I are getting married this summer. But living in this society as a trans woman
is something I have to deal with every day. One thing I’ve often had to deal with is the
opinions of other atheists on just about every aspect of my existence. Chris Stedman is far from the only one who’s
faced hostility from atheists for what they perceive as a deviation from gender norms. Long before I came out before I transitioned
– before I ever talked about trans issues at all – just about the only thing I covered
was atheism, and atheists comprised most of my audience.
But even back then, plenty of people were
already under the impression that I was trans. Here’s what some atheists had to say about
my earlier work: “Stop lying to yourself and admit you’re a man.” “Why are you dressed like a girl?” “Denying your gender is called being delusional.” “You’re a transexual? Now you make atheists look bad.” “Zinnia Jones creeps me out too. … Flamers creep me out. A lot. I could never take a guy seriously if he wore
makeup and had a girly voice, etc.” “I honestly think he makes an ugly woman.” “This guy is brilliant and always very well-spoken, but I can never use him as a reference for helping me make a point.” “This chick has the golden voice of Ted Williams.” “Why can’t say out loud that someone looks
like a freak if he/she does?” “all he needs is boobs now and I’d hit it…
not” You can see that these atheists have very positive attitudes toward the LGBT
community – assuming the T stands for Thunderf00t.
Really, what is going on here? From what I’ve been told, atheists should
have no reason to treat us this way. And yet, here they are. So, does this mean that their transphobia
is due to some failure to let go of religious views on trans people? Is it just a Judeo-Christian cultural value
that they’ve absorbed, and haven’t yet overcome? I don’t think so. When you look at what these atheists are
saying, their claims have nothing to do with religion. If you’re wondering how they can be transphobic
despite being atheists, you’re asking precisely the wrong question. They aren’t transphobic despite their
atheism. They’re transphobic because of their atheism. And I don’t mean that their atheism has made
them merely indifferent. No – it’s actively made their transphobia
worse.
As unlikely as that might sound, it’s pretty
obvious from the way they structure their arguments. It’s not an appeal to faith – far from it. They appeal to the values of science, observation,
and reality because they feel that these values support their transphobia. In many cases, they compare being
trans to believing in God. They’re not speaking the language of religion,
they’re speaking the language of secularism. Here’s a really good example of this – from
my YouTube comments, naturally: “The odd thing about having a transgender identity is that
your mind does not match your biology. If you think you’re a dolphin but you’re not,
your belief does not match reality and you’re delusional. If you think you’re a man and you have XY
chromosomes, testes, and a penis, then your identity matches reality. How can you have disdain for the religious
having no proof of the Divine and yet defend those with no evidence that their gender doesn’t
match their genitals?” And another one: “I understand that people
can perceive gender and sex to be different.
But like an anorexic’s self-image vs. her
actual body, one is merely in the mind with no empirical evidence to back it up. When your belief crosses the line where you
are willing to mutilate yourself because of it, it’s usually called a disease.” And then there’s this person: “THERE ARE TWO
SEXES; MALE AND FEMALE. SOMEONE WHO THINKS THEY ARE THE OPPOSITE SEX
IS CALLED MENTALLY ILL.” Notice how this is closely related to the
tendency to conflate religious belief with “delusion” or “mental illness”. That itself is a problem – do these people
not realize that atheists can have mental illnesses too, and that this isn’t anything
like being religious? It’s not like I can just pick up a Dawkins
book and decide to deconvert from having depression and anxiety.
This alone shows that these people don’t have
a very good grasp of what mental illness even is. So it’s not surprising that they’re prepared
to dismiss just about anything that they label a “mental illness” – in this case, being trans. But when they go on and on about this, it
comes off as more of an expression of a stigmatizing attitude, not an articulation of some uncomfortable
truth. They’re not rocking the boat here. They’re not being edgy, they’re not upsetting
the status quo.
Instead, the sheer redundancy of such a declaration
exposes their total unfamiliarity with the medical consensus. Since 1980, three editions of the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders have included some kind of diagnosis related
to being trans, under names like transsexualism, gender identity disorder, or gender dysphoria. “What the hell is the diagnostic manual of
whatever?”, my bewildered atheist YouTube commenters might ask. Oh, it’s just a little book by the American
Psychiatric Association. It’s generally considered authoritative by
doctors, researchers, insurance companies, and other delusional folks like that. So, let’s say you’ve been diagnosed with gender
dysphoria. What happens now that you’ve been diagnosed
with this “mental illness”, as my friends in the comments put it? Well, I already know what happens, because
I’ve been diagnosed with this! Spoiler alert: I transitioned.
And this wasn’t some original idea of mine
that I had to convince anyone to go along with. There are millions of trans people around
the world – it’s so common that there’s an established treatment protocol for us. It’s called the Standards of Care, published
by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Here’s what it has to say about our condition:
“Some people experience gender dysphoria at such a level that the distress meets the criteria
for a formal diagnosis that might be classified as a mental disorder.
Such a diagnosis is not a license for stigmatization
or the deprivation of civil and human rights. … Thus, transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming
individuals are not inherently disordered. Rather, the distress of gender dysphoria,
when present, is the concern that might be diagnosable and for which various treatment
options are available.” “Stigmatization” – how about that. Maybe it’s not such a good idea to spout off
about how we must be “delusional”? I assume that all the decent people out there
already understand this, but some of you need it spelled out.
And what about those various treatment options? Let’s take a look at section VIII: “Medical
Necessity of Hormone Therapy – Feminizing/masculinizing hormone therapy – the administration of exogenous
endocrine agents to induce feminizing or masculinizing changes – is a medically necessary intervention
for many transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming individuals with gender dysphoria.” Section XI: “Sex Reassignment Surgery
Is Effective and Medically Necessary – … While many transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming
individuals find comfort with their gender identity, role, and expression without surgery,
for many others, surgery is essential and medically necessary to alleviate their gender dysphoria. For the latter group, relief from gender dysphoria
cannot be achieved without modification of their primary and/or secondary sex characteristics
to establish greater congruence with their gender identity.
… Follow-up studies have shown an undeniable
beneficial effect of sex reassignment surgery on postoperative outcomes such as subjective
well-being, cosmesis, and sexual function.” “A medically necessary intervention”. “Effective and medically necessary”. “An undeniable beneficial effect”. And now you know how this particular “mental
illness” is treated. By the way, that’s from version 7 of the Standards
of Care. Six editions came before it,
dating back to 1979. This is not experimental – it’s an everyday
medical treatment. So I don’t know what these people expect
from me when they start yelling about how I’m “mentally ill”. I already saw a therapist about this. And then they referred me to a gynecologist. And pretty soon they’ll refer me to some surgeons. On the one hand, there’s the constellation
of medical professionals who are working with me on this little upgrade and the hundreds
more who’ve worked to develop protocols for this over several decades.
On the other hand, there’s FluffyFeralMarmot,
an esteemed YouTube commenter. Tell me again who I should be taking medical
advice from. Transphobes call us mentally ill because they
think it’s an easy way to try and shame us for who we are. The problem is that they didn’t give a moment’s
thought to what would come after that. They didn’t bother spending five minutes learning
about how this is treated, because they were too busy calling us “delusional”. We don’t need medicine to certify who we already
know we are, any more than cis people do – but if you’re going to bring science into this,
you should make sure the science says what you think it does. Again and again, I see this pattern being
repeated by atheists who think they’re equipped to debate trans issues.
They assume that science and evidence support
their position, when this most often supports the exact opposite of their position. I’ve seen atheists argue that trans women
shouldn’t be allowed in women’s restrooms, public facilities, or other spaces, because
we’re supposedly going to rape everyone. After all, nothing says “rapist” like testosterone
blockers, suppressed libido, genital atrophy, and erectile dysfunction. In reality, a majority of trans people have
been harassed just for trying to use public restrooms. Have a majority of cis people been harassed
by trans people in restrooms? I haven’t seen any studies suggesting that
this is the case. Do you know of any? 55% of trans people in homeless shelters or
domestic violence shelters have been harassed while residing there. Have 55% of cis people been harassed by trans
women in shelters? I’m not sure if there are any studies on that
either, but feel free to find them, if you can. I’ve seen atheists argue that it’s unfair
for trans women to be allowed to compete as women in professional sports, or that this
gives them a competitive advantage. The Association of Boxing Commissions,
the NCAA, USA Track & Field, the UK Football Association, and the International Olympic
Committee all allow trans people to compete as their declared gender after medically transitioning.
The International Olympic Committee
has to ensure that no one has an unfair advantage – but have they consulted that dude on Facebook
who won’t shut up about trans women’s “bone structure”? And in the midst of all this, it’s practically
a cliché for them to say “It’s 8th-grade biology!” whenever they’re enlightening us with yet
another tautology about chromosomes. I guess the American Psychiatric Association
just needs to go back to middle school, right? You’d think that these science enthusiasts
would realize that early education isn’t a core of foundational truths upon which all
later knowledge is built. It’s a rough approximation designed to be
understandable to grade schoolers, and it becomes progressively more nuanced as students
advance. Instead, they’re doing the equivalent
of citing “4th-grade science” to claim that plasma isn’t real, the sun is a myth, and
who are fluorescent bulbs trying to fool, anyway? I’m glad that the surgeon who’s
going to cut my balls off decided to stay in school after junior high.
So, why would people who engage in this transparent
nonsense claim that they have science behind them? They don’t exhibit any honest interest in
the process of science and its actual findings about reality. They only seem to have a selective interest
in the idea of something concrete that would back up their preconceived beliefs. If I didn’t know these people were atheists,
I don’t think I would have been able to tell. What else do you call it when someone knows
nothing about science and thinks they can blather on and on about it anyway? What do you call it when someone refuses to
change their beliefs when faced with evidence? What do you call it when they try to tell
us there’s some nonexistent “controversy” to be debated? What do you call it when they think their
intuition and baseless conjecture are more reliable than any research? And what do you call it when they don’t even
care that this lack of acceptance makes life so much worse for trans people? I sure wouldn’t call that a secular value. How is believing I’m a woman any different
from believing in God? Really? Here’s a question: How is believing that transitioning
is “mutilation” any different from believing that vaccines cause brain damage? How is believing that trans people have an
unfair advantage in sports any different from believing the earth is 6,000 years old? How is believing in an epidemic of transgender
rapists any different from believing in “irreducible complexity”? And how is believing that trans people are
“deluded” any different from believing that atheists are just angry at God? Sorry, but you’re not Neil deGrasse Tyson
giving a science lesson to middle America.
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ignorant sycophants how Adam and Eve rode around on a T. rex. Science observation and reality should
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Why does it seem like you
spend most of your time in bed, lying down, and not doing much lately? Are you someone who easily gets tired and doesn’t feel like doing anything? Do you label this kind of
behavior as mere laziness and nothing more? There’s a lot of overlap between laziness and burnout that can make it difficult to
differentiate between the two. Burnout is a negative state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion, caused by excessive stress
and the inability to cope with it. As of 2010, a survey reported that approximately 75% of adults
in the United States alone have experienced symptoms of burnout, with over 40% of cases being more severe. Now, more than ever, it’s
become imperative to educate and better understand
the nature of burnout. So with that said, here
are six telltale signs that what you’re experiencing right now isn’t laziness, but burnout.
(upbeat music) Number one, you feel
disconnected from everything. Are you going through
the motions of every day as if on autopilot? Is there a persistent feeling of being detached from yourself? If you’re suffering from burnout, one of the things you
might be experiencing, but don’t quite realize or
understand is depersonalization. People experiencing depersonalization, most commonly those
struggling with trauma, report feeling a strange
sort of emotional numbness or emptiness as if they were watching life from outside of themselves. They don’t feel like themselves anymore. They don’t feel engaged by anything. And they constantly struggle
with the overwhelming sense of helplessness and inability
to take back control of their lives. Number two, you used to be motivated. Laziness is a character trait. And character traits tend
to remain stable over time. A lazy person doesn’t ever
feel like exerting effort or applying themselves to things. But if you used to be self-motivated and high achieving, often excelling in certain areas, and have only recently become exhausted, apathetic, and unmotivated, then it’s more likely that
you’re suffering from burnout and not laziness as
most people would think.
Number three, you used to be passionate. A clear difference between
someone who’s burnt out and someone lazy is that the former used to have things they
were passionate about, but may now be struggling to find interest or enjoyment in anymore. Whether it’s a talent, a sport, or just your academic, or professional performance in general, burnout can make it hard for you to do the things you once
loved or felt passionate about. You might even come to hate or resent it because of how much
you overworked yourself and pushed yourself to
the brink because of it. Ouch. Number four, you’ve become
moody and irritable. Do you suddenly find yourself
snappy and easily irritated? Do you often feel emotionally
out of control nowadays and don’t know why? Moodiness and irritability are common, but often overlooked signs of burnout. So if you start to have trouble
controlling your emotions, especially when it never
used to be a problem for you, this might be the reason why.
Lazy people on the other hand
are a stark contrast to this, because they’re often
very relaxed, laid back, placid, and unaffected by things. Number five, you’ve
neglected your self-care. One of the most distressing warning signs that someone may be emotionally
and physically burnt out is if you start neglecting yourself and socially withdraw from others. There are concerning
changes in your eating and/or sleeping patterns. You stop making an effort to
groom yourself or look good, and you tend to spend most of your time by yourself doing nothing because you’re so easily exhausted by even the simplest of tasks. The difference between
being burnt out and laziness is starkly in the fact that
you weren’t always this way.
And number six, these
changes happened gradually. Finally, but perhaps most importantly, something you should know about burnout is that it develops in stages. So all of the points mentioned before; losing interest and motivation, especially in things we used to love, feeling detached from yourself and disconnected from
everything around you, socially withdrawing, and
neglecting your self-care, won’t just happen overnight. Studies show that there are five major stages of burnout, each with increasing degrees of severity. The honeymoon phase is the onset of stress, chronic stress, burnout, and habitual burnout. Many people begin to experience symptoms as early as the second phase, when there is still a
moderate amount of stress, but optimism, interest,
motivation, and performance, may already start declining. And by the time you reach
the fifth and final stage, burnout has already become
so embedded in your life that the persistent mental
and physical fatigue becomes more intense and harder to treat; making you more vulnerable to developing depression and anxiety. Spotting the signs of burnout early makes it all the
easier for you to get help and recover from it. That’s why it’s so
important to raise awareness about burnout instead of simply
dismissing it as laziness like most people tend to do.
So if you or anyone
you know maybe suffering from mental or emotional burnout, please don’t hesitate to reach out to a mental health care professional today and talk to them about it. If you find this video helpful, be sure to hit the like button, feel free to leave a comment
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Today, we will be sharing with you five interesting ways that music can affect anxiety and depression, based on an article from issue 3 at the Site to Go magazine when someone is diagnosed with a mental illness. There are many forms of treatment they can choose from.
They may take medication or go to counseling or therapy.
Some may also find that music helps them.
Research has shown that music can have a strong effect on us.
It can alleviate anxiety and depression, increase spatial awareness, and enhance mood.
Interestingly, the genre of music can be important as well.
Researchers from the University of Utah Pain Research Center have found that listening to music helped to reduce pain in those who were highly anxious.
A hundred and forty-three participants listened to music while receiving electric shocks.
It seems, therefore, that music is good in helping with pain by activating sensory pathways to compete with the pain pathways.
Another study looking at anxiety and music was conducted by David Elia and his colleagues. They wanted to determine what characteristics of music helped lower anxiety.
The study had 84 people participants and it was found that harmonious sounds were the most relaxing.
They even led to a decrease in cortisol.
However, it was also found that listening to fast-paced music increased anxiety, so it would seem that the tempo and type of music are very important.
Another way music can affect anxiety is through the process of writing.
It writing down and shoe sports can help alleviate the anxiety around them.
It might also be easier to talk about feelings through lyrics and songs than in other ways.
Also reading lyrics.
That means a lot to you can help.
You feel better if you analyze, why those lyrics mean a lot to you, so we’ve seen how music can affect anxiety, but does it also have an effect on depression? Listening to music can change your mood, so it’s, probably not surprising. It can influence people with depression, Jun, Cellini states that music helps you to express emotions and can help encourage you to let go of suppressed ones.
Positive upbeat, music can help lift your mood while slow and sad music might increase your depression.
Also listening to music associated with bad memories may make your symptoms worse.
This depends on the individual, of course.
Sometimes listening to sad lyrics can help an individual feel better, as they may feel less alone.
Like with anxiety writing, music can also affect depression.
Writing down your feelings can be very helpful in fighting depression.
So writing poems or lyrics about your feelings can help reduce depressive symptoms.
Writing out the feelings can be a form of release and has been known to prevent suicide and self-harm.
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Why does it seem like you
spend most of your time in bed, lying down, and not doing much lately? Are you someone who easily gets tired and doesn’t feel like doing anything? Do you label this kind of
behavior as mere laziness and nothing more? There’s a lot of overlap between laziness and burnout that can make it difficult to
differentiate between the two. Burnout is a negative state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion, caused by excessive stress
and inability to cope with it. As of 2010, a survey reported that approximately 75% of adults
in the United States alone have experienced symptoms of burnout, with over 40% of cases being more severe. Now, more than ever, it’s
become imperative to educate and better understand
the nature of burnout. So with that said, here
are six telltale signs that what you’re experiencing right now isn’t laziness, but burnout. (upbeat music) Number one, you feel
disconnected from everything. Are you going through
the motions of every day as if on autopilot? Is there a persistent feeling of being detached from your self? If you’re suffering from burnout, one of the things you
might be experiencing, but don’t quite realize or
understand is depersonalization.
People experiencing depersonalization, most commonly those
struggling with trauma, report feeling a strange
sort of emotional numbness or emptiness as if they were watching life from outside of themselves. They don’t feel like themselves anymore. They don’t feel engaged by anything. And they constantly struggle
with the overwhelming sense of helplessness and inability
to take back control of their lives. Number two, you used to be motivated. Laziness is a character trait. And character traits tend
to remain stable over time. A lazy person doesn’t ever
feel like exerting effort or applying themselves to things. But if you used to be self-motivated and high achieving, often excelling in certain areas, and have only recently become exhausted, apathetic, and unmotivated, then it’s more likely that
you’re suffering from burnout and not laziness as
most people would think.
Number three, you used to be passionate. A clear difference between
someone who’s burnt out and someone lazy is that the former used to have things they
were passionate about, but may now be struggling to find interest or enjoyment in anymore. Whether it’s a talent, a sport, or just your academic, or professional performance in general, burnout can make it hard for you to do the things you once
loved or felt passionate about. You might even come to hate or resent it because of how much
you overworked yourself and pushed yourself to
the brink because of it. Ouch. Number four, you’ve become
moody and irritable. Do you suddenly find yourself
snappy and easily irritated? Do you often feel emotionally
out of control nowadays and don’t know why? Moodiness and irritability are common, but often overlooked signs of burnout. So if you start to have trouble
controlling your emotions, especially when it never
used to be a problem for you, this might be the reason why. Lazy people on the other hand
are a stark contrast to this, because they’re often
very relaxed, laid back, placid, and unaffected by things.
Number five, you’ve
neglected your self-care. One of the most distressing warning signs that someone may be emotionally
and physically burnt out is if you start neglecting yourself and socially withdraw from others. There are concerning
changes in your eating and/or sleeping patterns. You stop making an effort to
groom yourself or look good, and you tend to spend most of your time by yourself doing nothing because you’re so easily exhausted by even the simplest of tasks.
The difference between
being burnt out and laziness is starkly in the fact that
you weren’t always this way. And number six, these
changes happened gradually. Finally, but perhaps most importantly, something you should know about burnout is that it develops in stages. So all of the points mentioned before; losing interest and motivation, especially in things we used to love, feeling detached from yourself and disconnected from
everything around you, socially withdrawing, and
neglecting your self-care, won’t just happen overnight.
Studies show that there are five major stages of burnout, each with increasing degrees of severity. The honeymoon phase is the onset of stress, chronic stress, burnout, and habitual burnout. Many people begin to experience symptoms as early as the second phase,when there is still a
moderate amount of stress, but optimism, interest,
motivation, and performance, may already start declining. And by the time you reach
the fifth and final stage, burnout has already become
so embedded in your life that the persistent mental
and physical fatigue becomes more intense and harder to treat; making you more vulnerable to developing depression and anxiety.
Spotting the signs of burnout early makes it all the
easier for you to get help and recover from it. That’s why it’s so
important to raise awareness about burnout instead of simply
dismissing it as laziness like most people tend to do. So if you or anyone
you know may be suffering from mental or emotional burnout, please don’t hesitate to reach out to a mental health care professional today and talk to them about it. If you find this video helpful, be sure to hit the like button, feel free to leave a comment
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(light upbeat music) – [Narrator] Hey, Psych2Goers. Welcome back to another video. To start, we would like to thank you for all the support you’ve given us. Psych2Go’s mission is to make psychology and mental health more
accessible to everyone. Now, back to the video. Have you ever put someone down for their appearance or intellect? Emotional abuse is one of the more common forms of abuse that uses behavioral or emotional tactics to gain a sense of control or to maintain the upper
hand in a relationship.
It may be subtle and hard to recognize since it often gets swept under the rug as just a part of normal disagreements. Before we begin, we would like to mention that this video is for
educational purposes only and is not intended to offend or trigger any of our audiences. This video is created so that anyone who sees themselves
in these behaviors can use this information to improve their relationships and lives. With that said, here are seven signs you might be emotionally abusive. Number one, you jokingly insult people. Have you ever made a joke to hurt the person you’re making fun of? While family and friends may enjoy playful banter with each other, teasing and playful put-downs can end up crossing the line into emotional abuse when the jokes become aggressive and used intentionally to send a negative and hurtful message across.
This especially applies when you continue teasing the person or brush it off as only a joke, even though they’ve told you to stop and that your comments
have become hurtful. Number two, you dismiss others’ feelings. Have you ever purposefully ignored or dismissed how someone felt because you thought they deserved it? Everyday life can sometimes be so hectic, that you lose sight of what’s happening in other people’s lives. After all, you can’t know how your loved ones are
feeling all the time. But not recognizing someone’s feelings may become emotionally abusive when you tell them their
feelings are wrong, or that they have no right to be so upset. This psychological invalidation of brushing someone’s feelings off as irrelevant or dramatic can lead to feelings of rejection, alienation, and depression. Number three, you like
to embarrass others. Do you bring up someone’s
embarrassing moments to make them feel guilty or ashamed? Have you ever humiliated
someone out of anger or because you feel threatened? It’s one thing to laugh
about the past moments in a fun and loving way, but this may quickly
become emotional abuse when you go out of your
way to humiliate them as a way of punishment or a reminder that you are the one in control of your relationship.
Humiliating someone in front of people or when they’ve asked for you to stop can be incredibly damaging to their mental and emotional well-being. Number four, you like to push buttons. Did you know that constantly
doing and saying things to get others to react is also a form of emotional abuse? Doing unpredictable things to keep the other person on their toes can be a form of emotional abuse. Instead of being spontaneous to do things you both enjoy, you may use this unpredictable tactic to say or do things to purposefully anger and upset them, especially in front of other people. This may include broadcasting a secret they told you in confidence, or making social media posts you know will trigger them. Number five, you tell people their version of reality is wrong. Have you ever dismissed
someone’s experience as imagined? Gaslighting is a psychological term for negating someone else’s reality and it involves intentionally using someone’s words, feelings,
or actions against them. The goal is to completely
discredit anything the other person has to say so that the abuser can maintain control over the narrative. This may include telling
them they are crazy, accusing them of lying or making decisions for
them without their input.
Number six, you use your emotions to get people to do what you want. Have you intentionally
made someone feel guilty just to get your way? Expressing your emotions can be great for your mental health. Appropriate self-expression facilitates open communication and prevents many resentments. However, unleashing your
emotions becomes destructive when you use it to
manipulate another person. This may include impulsive
shouting or screaming, using threats or ultimatums, blaming them for fights you started, or using information they’ve told you in confidence against them to maintain control and power. Number seven, you use silence as a weapon. Are you the type who deals with conflict by shutting down and running in the other direction? Have you ever used the
silent treatment on others to get what you want? Emotional withholding, a form of emotional abuse that involves using affection,
validation, love, and praise, against someone is a
form of emotional abuse that includes what you might know as the silent treatment. Although it’s normal for any relationship to go through periods of silence, it may become abusive
when you start to use it as a way to punish,
control, or manipulate.
Withholding affection or positive emotion through silent treatment is a toxic way to gain the upper hand in any relationship. This also includes talking to everyone about the issue, except the other person involved or wanting the other person to feel bad or guilty. Do you relate to any of
the signs mentioned here? If so, what do you plan to do next? Tell us in the comments below. If you find this video insightful, please like and share it with others who may benefit from it.
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