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Three secrets about mental health nobody tells you

I have found after working in the mental health and coaching fields for over ten years that most people don’t know these three secrets and it is my opinion at least one of them could save your life. Can you guess which one?

Did you know just like with physical pain emotional pain feels the worst right before the scab comes off. Then wound starts the process of looking more like a scar than a cut. A similar process in emotional pain, scars are left but we have healed.

Did you know that if you don’t let go of your stress and learn how to manage it in a healthy way you will manifest your stress in some kind of illness. Our immune system can’t take huge dumps of the stress chemicals forever eventually it buckles under and isn’t as efficient at fighting off sickness. It can even look like a mental health problem like depression i.e. adrenal fatigue has similar symptoms to depression. Adrenal fatigue can happen when you are under stress over a period of time.

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Did you know that we have to deal with about 10,000,000 bits of information a second we whittle it down to about 2,000 rather quickly. We are not able to process every bit so we are selective. This is how our preconceived ideas about the world get formed. If we can not process everything then we get use to seeing the world in a particular way and that becomes are filter. This is how people learn to have a negative or a positive outlook on life.


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