BK’s Corner

26/01/2022

What is anxiety?
Intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Fast heart rate, rapid breathing, sweating and feeling tired may occur.

Symptoms of anxiety.
-Panic, fear, and uneasiness
-Feelings of panic, doom, or danger
-Sleep problems
-Not being able to stay calm and still
-Cold, sweaty, numb, or tingling hands or feet
-Shortness of breath
-Breathing faster and more quickly than normal (hyperventilation)
-Heart palpitations
-Dry mouth
-Nausea
-Tense muscles
-Dizziness
-Thinking about a problem over and over again and unable to stop (rumination)
-Inability to concentrate
-Intensely or obsessively avoiding feared objects or places

25/06/2021

When you let go, you create space for something new to happen. It's like having a closet of junk, things you no longer use or need. Do you even know what's in there? It's essential to stop and take stock of what you really need emotionally, psychologically, physically, spiritually.

06/02/2021

Don't let define you
In as much as God created you, you're alive
You're loved

18/11/2020

TYPES OF DEPRESSION

1. ATYPICAL DEPRESSION

Atypical depression is characterized by heaviness in the limbs, irritability, relationship issues, oversleeping and overeating.

01/11/2020

7 Truths People Living with Depression can Relate to:

1) There is nothing worse than feeling depressed when by all accounts things in your life are going well and you should be

happy.

2) You start thinking more and more negatively and while you often know what you are doing, you just can't stop.

3) You know what it's like to sleep for a full 8 (or more) hours and yet still feel like you could sleep for days.

4) There are days when all the money, chocolate, or love in the world couldn't make you get out of bed.

5) You know what it feels like to walk around with a smile on your face while on the inside you are barely holding it together.

5) There is nothing more isolating than opening up to someone about how you are feeling and hearing things like "it is just a phase", "you are just having a bad day" and the best of them all... "have you tried exercising":

7) You know what it's like to feel completely hollow and numb even when doing the things you love most.

27/10/2020

The Ten Characteristics of Perfectly Hidden Depression

1) You're perfectionistic and have a constant, critical, and shaming inner voice.

2) You demonstrate a heightened or excessive sense of responsibility.

3) You detach from painful emotions by staying in your head and actively shutting them off.

4) You worry and need to control yourself and your

environment.

5. You intensely focus on tasks and use your accomplishment to feel valuable.

6) You focus on the well-being of others, but don't allow them into your inner world.

7) You discount or dismiss hurt or sorrow and struggle with self-compassion.

8) You may have an accompanying mental health issues, such as an eating disorder, an anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or addiction.

9) You believe strongly in "counting your blessings” as the foundation of well-being.

10) You may enjoy success with a professional structure but struggle with emotional intimacy in relationships.

27/10/2020

Depression can be worked on

23/10/2020

22/10/2020

DEPRESSION- a mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency and dejection, typically also with feelings of inadequacy and guilt, often accompanied by lack of energy and disturbance of appetite and sleep.
ANXIETY- is an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like increased blood pressure. People with anxiety disorders usually have recurring intrusive thoughts or concerns. They may avoid certain situations out of worry

22/10/2020

Those, "su***de is never the answer" "you didn't have to do that" "you could've talked to me" captions/comments that people write when they lose someone to su***de.🤦🏽
YES, SU***DE IS NEVER THE ANSWER but you people need to understand that people who commit su***de are not cowards. they were in pain. the act of su***de in their mind is the only way to end the pain. they do not think of the devastation they would be leaving behind. they make a decision and follow through because their pain is greater than their will to live and In their mind, the world would be better off without them🤷🏽
we're always so quick to write, "How could you do this?" "How could you leave us so soon?" "you always looked happy what went wrong?"
all these questions cause such agony.

you either just didn’t truly see what was going on or your loved one was just not able to be reached. you don't have to blame yourself for not being able to see the warning signs, you don't have to blame them for taking their life. you don't have to place the blame on anyone!❌
Understand that those we have lost by su***de did not do this to hurt you and they were not stupid for doing it. They did it to stop their own pain😭a pain they thought would never end, and they shouldn’t be judged! we never know demons they faced, the battles they were fighting mentally or how many years it was going on.

we all just need to pay attention to those close to us. one of the reasons why the young people don't open up about how they feel is because you, the people who are close to them never take them seriously. especially here in Zambia. someone will come to you and tell you how they feel and you'll tell them, "Just cheer up naiwe, you'll be fine" or "just be happy naiwe it's life"🙄

please DO NOT tell people how they should or how they should not feel

instead, let them know that you care about them and that they are not alone, don't be judgemental. Don’t criticise or blame them for feeling the way they feel. encourage th