Mental Health Training

One aspect of achieving success in life that many people never think about or discuss is the idea of social intelligence.

In his book, Mastery, Robert Greene defines social intelligence as “the ability to see people in the most realistic light possible”.

In other words, social intelligence is all about reading other people and figuring out the reasons why they behave the way they do. Think of it as your ability to think from another person’s perspective.

When you have a “run-in” with someone whether it is a heated argument or just a subtle confrontation, do you find yourself getting wrapped up in your own emotions and assuming a position of defensiveness?

Or do you separate yourself from the emotion of the situation and put yourself in the other person’s shoes trying to see the world as they see it?

Most people opt for option #1 not because they want to, but because they are unaware that there is a better, more rewarding option.

As you develop your social intelligence, you will find that you naturally become more persuasive and appealing to people of all kinds of personality types.

Instead of trying to force your ideas and opinions on someone who’s a view of the world doesn’t match yours, you alter your approach to appeal to their nature. It doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice your own beliefs and adopt theirs, it just means that you choose to suppress your opinion because you know it is a useless battle to enter.

For example, if someone is ranting and raving about a political or cultural issue, and you don’t agree at all, you let them sound off and hold your opinion to yourself. You can let them blow off some steam and just reply with something like, “I can see why that would be frustrating.”

Again, you don’t have to agree with them and compromise your own beliefs, but you also are not required to share your opinion.

Something very powerful happens when you choose this approach. You get to study and examine how this person thinks, what makes them tick, what makes them get emotional. You can use all of these triggers as ammo when you are dealing with them in the future.

Knowing this information, you can customize your approach when you deal with them in the future. If you need a favour or if you have to do a project with this person, you will be in a much stronger position to persuade them and speak/behave in ways that will win them over.

So the next time you come across someone who rubs you the wrong way or has a difficult personality, use it as an opportunity to enhance your social intelligence and you will gain more personal power than you had before.

This power will only continue to grow the more you use it!

You might listen to people talking about panic attacks and anxiety attacks like they’re the same thing. 

However, this is when things start to get confusing because panic attacks are listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), whereas an anxiety attack isn’t.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) (American) or the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) (WHO / European) for health, research and diagnoses purposes. 

Using either one will hinge upon their geographical area and in some cases, personal preference. 

Think of it as the A to Z book for the brain that pinpoints information on mental illness, for diagnoses purposes in mental health.

An anxiety attack and panic attack is a good analogy like the diagnostic books previously mentioned above because both are different but still have similarities between them.

Both activate the fight or flight response. Causing an overwhelming rush of physical symptoms with racing heartbeats, and trouble breathing. Indicative of a panic attack in most cases.

An anxiety attack often comes in reaction to a stressor. There can be a specific trigger, such as an exam, workplace issues, a health issue, or a relationship Problem.

For example, you are walking down a dark alley and hear footsteps. You start to feel fearful, apprehensive at the start, and your body begins to respond to a potential threat from the sound.

In your mind, you begin to imagine the worst possible outcome from sexual assault to an alien invasion, and the worry becomes overwhelming and real, which can feel like an attack.

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If you have difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking up very early in the morning, you may have insomnia. It is not enough to close your eyes, and count sheep and hope you will eventually enter the world of snooze.

Most people have occasional sleeplessness, irrespective of their age. You will experience it due to changes in your sleep schedules (e.g. during travel) or stressful circumstances, to name a few. 

However, when it starts happening frequently and becomes long-term, it can cause problems in your daily schedule. You may feel sleepy putting you and others at increased risk of injury if you drive a vehicle or operate machinery.

According to the Harvard Medical School, you have an increased risk for many chronic health problems, including obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. 

 You may also have trouble concentrating and experience problems with your memory. When you are not getting enough sleep due to insomnia, little stressors can feel like a mammoth amount of pressure, blowing everything out of all proportion and interrupting your thoughts and decision making.

At this point, your coping skills deteriorate fast, and you may become confused, irritable and then angry. Eventually, your relationships with your family, friends, or co-workers will suffer as well.

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Stress relief begins by knowing specific coping strategies that you can apply to your life every day. We can never eliminate all our stress, but we can learn ways to decrease it and deal with it. This can help to prevent stress-related illnesses, and ensure you live a healthier life.

Everyone has the potential to be jealous. Some people will experience small bouts of it while it will become an obsession with others.

Slight incidents are usually no reason to worry, and you can probably pass them off.

However, if you are overly jealous of someone, it means you don’t trust them. When you start to become obsessive, you may want to look into ways to reduce it.

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Depression is the most common illness among those who die from suicide, with approximately 60% suffering from this condition.

Research shows that mental illness is the most critical risk factor for suicide; more than 90% of people who commit suicide, psychiatric illness, most often a mood disorder or an addictive disorder.

Unfortunately, suicide is one of the most deadly complications of depression in all age groups and therefore, plays a role in more than one-half of all suicide attempts.

However, most suicide prevention strategies concern the elderly because they are at greater risk of suicide. 

Even though depression is often diagnosed in women, the peak suicide rate is repeatedly found in men older than 75 years of age.

The suicide rate is four times higher for males than females. In the United States, male deaths make up almost 80% of all suicide deaths.

Also, men always tend to use more lethal methods, resulting in more terminal and completed suicide reports.

This was due to the statistical data, not always reflecting the correct number of suicides, as some families chose not to report the cause of death or instead transcribed the death as ‘accidental.’

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Try Using Storytelling

Do you remember facts easily? How about a well-crafted story?

If you are like the majority of people, you will take good stories over dry facts any day.

Some people revel with facts alone. There is nothing wrong with this. But, our brains have been created to tell and hear stories.

Therefore, storytelling has to be an easier way to better memory. When we hear a good story, we will likely tell our family and friends that story.

They will also be more tempted to pass the information on in the form of a story.

Of course, there is the possibility that as the story moves from one person to the next, the meaning may alter along the way.

There are going to be differences in how each person tells the story. They will also embellish the story that makes it deviate from the original.

You may remember the game called Telephone (or Chinese Whispers) when you were young. There would be a row of people, and the first person would whisper a short story to the person next to him or her.

This would follow on down the row of people. By the time you get to the last person and ask him or her what the story is, it will be completely different from the original.

This can be problematic if the information contained within the story is factual. If not relayed as a story, the pure facts won’t change as much, but they won’t be as easily remembered either.

While storytelling can be a great way to help remember, not everyone is good at telling stories.

If someone is a poor storyteller, they will either get the story wrong, and they won’t present it in an engaging manner, or both. In this case, it is better for the person to keep strictly to the facts and avoid trying to tell stories.

Storytelling is a skill that can be practised. Some people are natural at it, and that gives them a big advantage. Because of these natural storytellers, others may feel intimidated and may believe it is impossible to learn the skill.

That is not the case. It does take some time before you will be good at it, and you may not be as good as others, but you will eventually get much better at it. This means that you can be instrumental in improving your own memory as well as that of others.

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Our modern world recognises being as busy as being important. It seems the more running around you do, the more urgent tasks you have, the more respected you are.

Think about it - have you ever talked about how busy you were when someone asked you how you were?

Probably.

We all do it.

But being busy doesn’t mean we are being effective at making the changes we want in our lives. It may mean the opposite - that we are wasting time on tasks that aren’t that important.

That leaves us drained of energy and wondering what it’s all for.

The Pareto Principle, maybe better known as the 80/20 principle, is a way to use your time effectively, so you get more done and are working on the right activities.

In a nutshell, the principle says that approximately 20% of your effort yields 80% of your results. Similarly, the reverse is also true.

There are tasks that take 80% effort, yet only yield 20% of your results. The goal is to determine which tasks are which.

The easiest and fastest way to achieve your outcomes and reach your potential is to streamline your action items. Some tasks that don’t make the cut (don’t yield 80%) can be ignored as unimportant, while others may still need doing, but not necessarily by you.

Those 20% yield tasks that still need to be completed can be outsourced, so you are free to complete the creative tasks you are best at.

Here’s how to see if an item is a 20% or an 80% job:

·       Keep a list of outcomes handy so you can review it throughout each day.

·       Write down each task that you need to complete for the day.

·       Now, go through each item and compare it to your outcomes. Does it align?

From past experience, how much effort did the thing take? And what was the benefit? Is it worth it?

·       If it is, but you don’t need to do it, hand it off to someone else.

·       If it’s not, mark a line through it and move on to the next item on the list.

·       Use a simple tracking system to measure the results vs the effort on each task or technique you use.

This will help you determine if something is 20% or 80% undertaking later.

The point of this exercise is to keep firmly in your mind that not all activities yield the same benefits.

And that it’s not necessary to implement every idea that you come across. Choose only those that align with your goals and will offer the most reward.

Let’s face it, you’re not going to like everyone.

Sometimes the feeling is mutual. We meet someone who just rubs us wrong. You’re instant rivals, right down to the barely suppressed sneer and curled lip.

Other times it’s not quite so dramatic. You might be making every effort to build a relationship, but they’re just not having it.

Or there’s some previous history standing in the way of a relationship with someone.

Whatever the case, there comes a time to let dislike go. Holding onto animosity, even something so subtle as not wanting to be around a certain individual at work only winds up hurting you in the end. In fact, you might be missing out on some hidden benefits by accepting someone you don’t like.

Intrigued?

Read on to discover the why of it, and better yet, the how.

The benefits of accepting those you dislike are many:

·       Reduces stress caused by the tension within the relationship

·       Cuts down anxiety regarding what the other person will say or do

·       Frees you from destructive thought patterns regarding this individual

·       Allows you to enjoy your relationships fully without worrying about how someone will or won’t react

In order to get started, you only need to follow these three steps.

Address Any Fears

Frequently, when we dislike someone, it’s because they’re triggering us somehow. By looking deeper into the emotions being raised, and addressing them, you’ll be able to let go of a lot of the negativity you’re feeling toward them.

This is especially true of fears, which have a way of looking like a lot of other things, such as dislike.

Let Go of the Anger

Much like fears, anger has a way of keeping up a pretence of hearty dislike. This is what happens when you let things fester, especially over something you’ve been holding onto for a while.

Pro tip?

Try forgiveness. Lay the past to rest between you and try accepting this individual now, at the moment.

Look for the Good in the Relationship

If you’re caught up in dislike, you might not have noticed there has been a positive impact on your relationship.

Look for the things you’ve learned from the individual. Even harsh lessons have a way of guiding us onto new paths, benefitting us in the long run.

Sometimes we do ourselves a great disservice by hanging onto an immediate feeling of dislike for someone.

As humans who grow and change, if we allow for it, relationships with those we don’t like can improve.

Even if the connection never becomes stronger, accepting that the person is just the way they are will bring more peace into your life.