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Anxiety
Anxiety can be good because it protects us. However, too much anxiety without a specific reason is bad and it takes away from agency and gratitude. We have to understand the anxiety in order to deal with it.
Anxiety can be caused by our genes or by past experiences and traumatic events.
- It is important to look at your conscious mind: What are you thinking about?
- Consider your defenses: Do you avoid it?
- Take note of your character structure: What decisions are you making and how are they affecting you?
With that in mind you can see what the experiences of the self are.
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- Humor: Cynicism and sarcasm can often be defense mechanisms. Humor can be used to feel better but as soon as it goes against another person, it is bad.
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Function Of The Self
This is our actual engagement and our defense mechanisms in action. Our defense mechanisms can also work for us, for instance when using humor or when talking to people. However, most of the time they don't. Here are three common defense mechanisms.
- Projection
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Character Structure
Our character structure includes for instance whether we prefer to socialise or isolate or what we use humor for.
Our character structure is mostly determined by action states, how we interact with the world and what actions we take.
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Beliefs And Internal Narratives
Our beliefs and internal narratives are extremely important to our mental health and people normally are aware of them but they are often not very healthy. It is hard to change our beliefs but through enough practice they can go away. Because we crave instant gra...
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The Healthy Self
Mentally healthy people approach life with a sense of agency and gratitude. Problems don't take away their engagement and enthusiam for life.
Agency arises from empowerment, which is the ability to navigate the world around us.
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Confidence
Confidence is the ability to handle situations. It can also be dependent on states: Are you confident in a specific area or in general?
You can ask yourself the same questions from above: What is your experience of being confident?
Too much confidence...
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Andrew Huberman and Dr. Paul Conti discuss important factors to consider when trying to understand and assess your mental health.
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