Defying Mental Illness

Author: Chuck

  • Want to Remain Successful – Keep Learning

    We remain successful by continual learning.  Most people are by nature curious.  However with the passage of time most of us get set in our ways.  We avoid learning new tasks or concepts when faced with them rather than investing the time to master them. The 70’s generation have been through the most rapid changes…

  • Handling Criticism

    How we handle criticism affects our mental health.  When we automatically get into a defensive mode, we don’t take any lessons from the encounter. Gradually we establish a victim mentality Always playing catch up with addressing criticism affected my mental health when I first came out of my first mental ward admission I was put on…

  • Well-being -The new face of mental health awareness

    Well-being appears to be the new face of mental health awareness. I was challenged with mental health problems for almost two decades.  What I experienced and attitudes of the times has shifted over time.  Coming out of mental hospital admission in the 1990’s, the employers’ focus was to make one permanently unfit to work.  Fortunately,…

  • Be Ever Happy – Avoid these pitfalls

    Being happy is a process rather than an event.  I went through a period of depression and much worse –psychosis over a period of time. Being self-absorbed was a hallmark of that period in my life. Here are a few tips on what to avoid to keep happy. 1 Never let criticism or fear hold you back Do…

  • Protect your Mental Health – Set boundaries

    Where we don’t have control over overwhelming demands on our attention, our mental health can be affected. I have realised that setting boundaries was a necessary first step to final recovery from long-term mental illness. There were no boundaries to the things that attracted my attention during my long-term mental illness.  I  would start something…

  • How safe are our habits?

    Safety blunders come out of the habits we develop over time.  We cannot afford to ignore safety even with our habits.  And our health habits do not fall short in this either. I recently read of a top person in the Health and Safety sector, with several years of experience, defying  a safe system recently.…