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08/02/2021

The stigma surrounding Mental health in blacks families.

Beliefs About Mental Illness
Some communities accept the idea that mental illnesses are health problems that require treatment. But in other communities, there’s a serious stigma that implies a mental health problem is a sign of weakness and should be kept hidden from others.

Beliefs about mental illness are formed through experience, cultural traditions, and formal education. Stories from friends and family also play a role.

If family members talk about a “crazy” uncle who had to get hospitalized, younger generations may grow to believe that having a mental illness means you can’t function in society.

Similarly, if someone who commits a crime is said to have a mental illness, it may perpetuate the belief that individuals with mental illness are violent. Anyone that commits a crime or displays some type of undesired “bad” behavior would be stigmatized as having a mental illness or along that spectrum, which isn’t necessarily true.

08/02/2021

I've been researching about the origins of mental health. Where does the stigma originate from and how individuals suffering from mental health issues were treated.

I understand all views on this matter, but are we ready to have open conversations about it.

Acknowledge from
Ingrid G. Farreras
Hood College

Throughout history there have been three general theories of the etiology of mental illness: supernatural, somatogenic, and psychogenic. Supernatural theories attribute mental illness to possession by evil or demonic spirits, displeasure of gods, eclipses, planetary gravitation, curses, and sin. Somatogenic theories identify disturbances in physical functioning resulting from either illness, genetic inheritance, or brain damage or imbalance. Psychogenic theories focus on traumatic or stressful experiences, maladaptive learned associations and cognitions, or distorted perceptions. Etiological theories of mental illness determine the care and treatment mentally ill individuals receive.

Many cultures have viewed mental illness as a form of religious punishment or demonic possession. In ancient Egyptian, Indian, Greek, and Roman writings, mental illness was categorized as a religious or personal problem. In the 5th century B.C., Hippocrates was a pioneer in treating mentally ill people with techniques not rooted in religion or superstition; instead, he focused on changing a mentally ill patient’s environment or occupation, or administering certain substances as medications. During the Middle Ages, the mentally ill were believed to be possessed or in need of religion. Negative attitudes towards mental illness persisted into the 18th century in the United States, leading to stigmatization of mental illness, and unhygienic (and often degrading) confinement of mentally ill individual

05/02/2021

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17/12/2020

Have you ever thought about your own thoughts or questioned your mental processes?

Do you sometimes take time to clarify your values in a moment of doubt or uncertainty?

If you answered “yes,” you are no stranger to self-reflection and introspection (terms that will be used more or less interchangeably in this article), an important psychological exercise that can help you grow, develop your mind, and extract value from your mistakes.

Read on if you’d like to learn the meaning of self-reflection and introspection, reasons why it’s important, and tools and techniques for practicing it yourself.

Introspection can be practiced both as an informal reflection process and a formal experimental approach, and the two have different definitions. Still, both processes can be undertaken by anyone with curiosity and determination (Cherry, 2016).

16/12/2020

For a long time, I ignored my issues with depression, for example, because I thought the best solution was to just man up and ignore the pain. This only made things much worse. Or, I’d tell myself it was something else because I was afraid of the stigma. When I pinpointed and admitted the actual problem, I could figure out how to work with it, which was a lot more productive than pretending it didn’t exist. You can probably think of a few of your own personal examples in each category. This is where introspection comes in. Here’s how they put it (emphasis ours):

“Fortunately there’s almost always information about what is really wrong. Our stream-of-consciousness contains a reservoir of muddled hints about our woes which need to be gathered and decoded. The art of living is to a large measure dependent on an ability to locate our thorns accurately and in good time so that we will not forever be condemned to suffer our symptoms and terrify strangers with our roars.”

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Until you close your eyes you can’t feel the pain deep inside.

How often do you sit back, relax and reflect on your life? Well, you may argue where is the time to do so, but I feel it to be nothing more than an excuse. If you can’t spare few valuable min for
self-reflection you are either too busy accumulating or don’t want to face the real you. Whatever you are doing to make your life happen, you need to understand that you need to revisit and reflect upon your life very often and question your life approach at every stage.

16/12/2020

"We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.” -Hildegard of Bingen

16/12/2020

1.You’ll realize what influencers are having an impact on you.
When you sit down quietly to observe your life, you begin to realize that you allow a lot of different things to influence you. You’re allowing that one criticising person, who you always told yourself you’d never be like, to get into your head. This realization came to me during this month and I was able to block out the negative influences that we’re bringing me down.

2. You gain insight into who you are and what you want to be. Simply sitting down and thinking will bring you insight into what makes you happy and what brings you fulfillment and purpose. If you’re not seriously taking time to be introspective you may never realize what your values, dreams, and passions truly are.

3. You’ll be able to focus on what really matters. When you’re introspective you’re able to stop worrying about things that are out of your control. No matter how many times I’ve told myself not to stress out, I still stress out. (And then I get stressed out about being stressed out…) Introspection has allowed me to take a step back and detach myself from the things that I have no control over, and instead focus on the things that I can influence.

4. You’ll gain emotional independence.
One thing I’ve always struggled with is having emotional independence. Dependability on things outside of myself to bring me happiness was one of the main reasons that kept me from being the best person I could be. Emotional health could not be mine until I sat down with my thoughts and removed myself emotionally from each thing or person I was dependent on.

5. You’ll be able to get different results.
When you’re plowing through life without stopping to sit down and think, you’re going to continue to go through life the same way every day. When you do that, you’re inevitably blocking the chance of improving your life. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” (Albert Einstein) Want different results? Try introspection.

07/12/2020

When we're young, we face a lot of pressure to do things that harm us. We pretend to be happy when there's a raging violent storm inside of our heart," Kid Cudi says. "Once it was difficult for me to find the words. Anxiety and depression ruled my life for as long as I could remember. I was scared, I was sad, I felt like a damaged human swimming in a pool of emotions."