Acceptance and Mental Health

No one wants to fall mentally ill. Yet, paradoxically, our insistence on always maintaining perfect mental health may make us more susceptible to becoming unwell.

FURTHER READING

“One of the great contributing factors to mental illness is the idea that we should at all costs and and all times be well. We suffer far more than we should because of how long it can take many of us until we allow ourselves to fall properly and usefully ill.

For many years we may be able skilfully to evade our symptoms, pulling off an an accomplished impression of what counts – in our unobservant societies – as a healthy human. We may gain all the accoutrements of so-called success – love, a career, family, prestige – without anyone bothering to note the sickness behind our eyes. We may take care to fill our days with activity so that we can be guaranteed to have no time to address any of the sores that blister inside. We can rely on the extraordinary prestige of being busy to avoid the truly hard work of doing nothing – other than sit with our minds and their complicated sorrows. When pressures build, we may develop a raft of opaque physical ailments that baffle and excite the medical profession or we can acquire a paranoid world-view that identifies all our enemies with political and economic ideologies – rather than with anything psychological closer to home…”

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[punishedvenomsnake]

This has been the hardest lesson for me. Acceptance of what my life is, acceptance of my own suffering and accept of what is rather than I would desperately like to be the case. I think I'm getting better from a mental health perspective, but it's tough as I have to fight all of these battles alone.

Cheers, School of Life, for the video.

[GrowthMindsetChannel]

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” ~ John Green 💪🏻🚀

[TheDhammaHub]

There is a reason why groups like alcoholics anonymous have acceptance as one of the first steps: it is necessary to move on

[MindsettoMastery]

Negative emotions are unavoidable. If you feel bad, that doesn't necessarily mean there's anything wrong with you. Don't try to run away from it, because whatever you resist will persist. Give yourself permission to accept, then let go. 💫

[masa]

If anyone from The School of Life is reading this, thank you, for being able to make such expressive and personal videos, I don't comment much, or subscribe to channels often, but your subscription on my internet space makes my life better, thank you

[elbobosan]

My therapist talks about Kintsugi all the time… I struggle with the patience and perspective to see that I am the bowl. I rage over it being so broken and the effort needed to repair it. I resent the bowl and the idea of making the tragedy into something beautiful. And then I remember I am the bowl, and I feel that way about myself, and it’s better to be repaired beautifully than cast away. I’m working on it.

[TEAforMIND]

Let it be
Let it hurt
Let it bleed
Let it heal
And let it go
Acceptance helps lower our mental illness by letting go of the past - what we can't control, and not being fear of the future - what we can't know.
Acceptance can set us free and bring us peace.

Wish everyone reading this a day full of freedom and inner peace ❤

[wancheng]

Heard something like this from a Buddhist talk by Ajahn Brahm, “Depression is not the problem. Not wanting to be depressed is the problem.”

[ShortHax]

My FBI agent really knows me well. He made YouTube recommend this video barely 20 minutes after it was uploaded

[macktheripper]

Took me 2 years to “deal with” the sudden death of my father. I found that writing about how I felt daily, running and eating healthy helped massively. Wishing you all a great day. Peace ✌️

[amelieflorelle]

May we all find some peace and serenity amongst everything happening in the world and within ourselves ❤️

[jsguitargeek]

This remarkable channel is doing more good for the world than many entire country's governments

[bboyneon]

I love the new voices. But, it's been a while since Alan spoke and I miss his comforting voice.

[garbhanmyles]

I’ve struggled dramatically throughout my life, but now st 42 I do feel much more st ease with it all (after numerous suicide attempts and drug addictions all sorts of heavy stuff). Things can be chaotic but there’s less resistance to it, and that lack of resistance makes even the worst of times to be much more bearable. 10 years ago I was blaming the world for my poor state of affairs but today I blame nobody. If you’re young and struggling, know that you can indeed work towards much better days. It will likely not be easy, but it is do-able. Best of luck to anyone who reads this.

[motivatedmind]

“Accept that we are both profoundly unwell” - this hit home❤️ I enjoyed this video so much!

[fortune_roses]

As they say "It's okay not to be okay" because that's what makes us human

[saltpepper]

Man I really needed to hear this.😭feeling very anxious, scared and hopeless

[ladyzeeist]

Am I the only person who misses Allen. Content remains the best but I miss that soothing voice of his

[thebeginning]

I'm dealing with
A lot of OCD because of this crisis more than ever but i just know there's something good in the bad and shine the brightest in our darkest moments. If there's a devil there's a God.

[TheyHurry]

I swear The School of Life can read my thoughts, they always come out with the perfect video for what I'm going through