What Are the Tenets of Mental Wellness?

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Disclaimer: All of the information on this channel is for educational purposes and not intended to be specific/personal medical advice from me to you. Watching the videos or getting answers to comments/question, does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have your own doctor, perhaps these videos can help prepare you for your discussion with your doctor.

[shashankgwl]

Difficult situations stress you but they don't destroy you, that little statement has therapeutic effect 😊

[edainari]

I love this woman.
1. She advocates that meds are not a long term or true solution. (There is no guilt or shame for needing meds, especially just to get your healing journey started, or take the edge off for long enough that you can actually heal. But she doesn't allow the "bandaid" to be seen as the be-all-end-all solution.)
2. She makes mental health quantifiable, AND in 4 simple steps, which alone helps people like me have HOPE. HOPE because suddenly it feels doable, achievable.
Sleep, diet, exercise and mental fortitude.
3. She then breaks down mental fortitude.

She just helped me SO much

[RosettaRedfeather]

What I have noticed is that a lot of people fast track mental illness by lying about anything; about everything, for some and they think it’s not important but it messes with your head and you know why! As a child I was precocious and made up wild stories but I realized it was hurting me - it was a response to pain at home…
Every truth is important and the mind needs to have only one story about what is real!

[BigIndianBindi-jycz]

and in order to achieve these, you have to "Feel loved and supported". If you are emotionally neglected by others and "DON'T FEEL" like anyone loves or supports you, then your brain won't let you form healthful habits. Instead, the brain will adhere itself to coping mechanisms/addictions to compensate the lack of belonging.

[AyoAladeyelu]

Oh, I forgot. Why didn't I think of these things before??? Whew! Life saver Dr. Marks

[Underneath.It.All.]

I spent 8 years on psychiatric medications 💊, in the beginning I got better but then they kept adding one after another. I got physically and mentally unstable. I decided to come off all my meds and it was super hard for months! Then I got 💯 % better. I also have done counseling, AA, and ACA which was the main components that healed my inner self. The medication did not change me, my dedication to inner work did!! The medication blocked me spiritually and emotionally! Lesson learned!! I was misdiagnosed multiple times because of my severe drama, sadness’s, and anxiety. Trauma can cause someone to be misdiagnosed. ❤❤❤❤
Please be careful!!! 😮

[XKXXKXX]

I'm struggling with Disassociation or I'd say Depersonalization. I am really aware of myself I somtimes think I'm going insane but I believe that I need more stimulation yet I mentally and physically I get stucked or paralized and it's placed somewhere I can't reach, I have to try really hard not to let myself down. I am trying therapy once again just so I can try again but after so many years of having to be hospitalized for been psychotic....

I don't know who I am, what I am. It's like I'm rational yet sometimes I go into a state of absence, it's like sitting down and you are aware of what you're looking at or what you're doing, next moment I'm gone, as if I didn't exist, as if the time went by and I wasn't there. Feels like or I can explaing it by imagining yourself actually not existing and then existing after a certain time. It's like that time or existence went away I wasn't there. The realization of how long it may have been and the feeling of that makes me feel so I wouldn't know how to explain it but it's a strong feeling of awareness. I am very intuitive and HSP (highly sensitive person) can affect alot, music is the only thing that helps me, I need music yet I can also be without it but feels like very dark my chest is in constant state of like the feeling when you're startled. I have so many Deja vùs through the year like a lot, and this has been something I've had all my life. All of this has happened all my life. I feel like I'm constantly fighting, I believe I need help but I know that not everyone will listen to me the way it should be, because my situation is very complex, feelings, emotions, situations can always change in perspective. I cry about every day since I was like around 13. I can laugh and cry at the same time it feels sickening. I feel like I've been loosing myself yet I never had a persona, I have never understood myself or existence in general. I've had so many issues with schizoaffective, depression, anxiety. Have been used and abused since I was 4-5 or since I have memory. I truly believe God is real, and that's the only thing that helps me the knowledge of Evil and Holy. My spiritual gift have been passed doqn by my mother and grandmother and above. I know I'm lost yet I try so hard to be like known rational form as it should be in many cases. I simply want to be free I feel like I'm not okay I'm never okay.
🖤The Blood Of Jesus Christ Has Power🖤

[animalsandiphones]

Sadly when you are deep in depression people don’t like hearing that but I definitely believe those do help me at least . The problem is when depressed eating anything is the goal . So sometimes it might need meds at first to help get to the part where you can eat a balanced diet and have a normal sleeping schedule and exercise.

[marshalucas]

I totally agree with this message -
Things extract me, however they don’t get a chance to destroy me!❤

[genericrobin]

I believe what you say but my mind and body feels destruction is imminent. I don’t know how to handle it. Perhaps i know but can’t summon the fortitude to overcome. I’m watching myself come apart.

[davidjardenil]

Dr. Tracey Marks you have helped a lot of people and thank you very much for that.

Please give us what you mean by mental fortitude. What are the parameters of mental fortitude and how do people go over it ?

[MamaCancer]

I desire to have better mental wellness but my thing is I do not want to be prescribed anything 🤷🏾‍♀️ I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder 1 & I just do not want meds. I’ve been focusing on finding a good holistic routine.

[DAYSWOC]

Sunce the beginning of the yesr i been having none stop anxiety and depression. At one moment am happy and then sad again and this happens throughout the day. So been trying my best to sleep/walking daily. Am just sad and anxious really don't know why. 😢😢😢

[blouburkette]

I love how it took me a decade to get help and try meds again only for the tide to now turn and now we have to find "natural" ways of curing our mental illnesses and meds are bad again. I just need to build my mental fortitude and sleep perfectly every night, eat a perfect diet (good luck with endometriosis, IBS, and IC. Cant anything acidic, can't have most veggies because they dont digest correctly and cause horrific pain.) Oh and then i need to just get up and start doing a full work out. No need for any other help!! Oh and work a full time job, have a relationship, have a social life and still have time to do hobbies.

And I dont even have kids.

Y'all doctors need to make up your mind. So are meds ok? Or are they really, really bad and we need to do everything to avoid them? Which is it???? Really would like a solid answer written down and permanently followed by the entire profession. Sick of the jerking around.

Blocking this channel.

[giggles]

I would add having meaningful relationships with others. Humans are social beings. We're even born into social units called families. To varying degrees, we need to be around one another.

[Catlily]

30 years of working on psychiatric issues. I make progress but reach a certain point and feel stuck. Then I find out that I am autistic as well. Plus I have a chronic physical illness. So I am feeling defeated right now. It is not a permanent feeling though.

[r.liebgott]

I suck at all four and I’m 54. Not likely that I will achieve that mental wellness any time soon.

[terrycaldwell]

Huey Lewis song "I want a new drug"😅seams like that's all Doctors and people want, is what is the new pill 💊 🤔 is that will help me.

[peterkavanagh]

Add trees cbt there is dwarhs life cycle aand that can inky be ubdeestoid by othee lides species especiallly rhe plabts some animals and many cares of trees spwcues . This thoughts allow humanity to calm the foods thin by that sight rrauma placed in im lucky to have got this far and an opeetunity to ha e happiness not consrant but withing lifes .

[bw]

only look for prescriptions when you've hacked through life for 37 years and have "developed the copes" before meds.