8 habits that harm your mental health

8 habits that harm your mental health


The psychologist explains how everyday behavior alters people’s physical and mental well-being

There is no rule or right path that indicates how each person should live life. These habits are built as each individual grows and, often, based on the environment and the people with whom he lives. However, many of these attitudes can be harmful and affect mental health without the person realizing it, developing disorders such as anxiety, depression and stress.

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In this sense, the psychologist, psychoanalyst and professor of psychoanalysis Ronaldo Coelho indicates which habits you should eliminate from your life to maintain mental health. I wait!

1. Toxic positivity

It’s the idea that positive thoughts should be above all others emotions considered “negative”. This practice of excess can generate behaviors that repress these emotions and, consequently, can affect mental health.

2. Recipes for happiness

There is no ready-made recipe for happiness. Stop comparing yourself to others and looking within yourself for what makes you happiest is the way to find happiness, which can be very different from person to person.

3. punishment for mistakes

Conditioning yourself to punish yourself when something goes wrong is a mistake. Learning from mistakes and understanding why this happened is what raises awareness not to make mistakes again. But punishing yourself is not a solution.

4. Unconditional love

It is a mistake to think that someone does something without receiving anything in return. One right and healthy way relating to the other means arriving halfway, and thus letting the other do the rest of this journey. Therefore, one person lets the other occupy her space.

Psychoanalysis helps to understand the origin of each patient's pain

5. Not consulting a psychoanalyst

Only psychoanalysis and an open dialogue with the patient will be able to individually understand the past and the pain of the patients and then help them dig within themselves and understand the possible path to definitively cure mental health.

6. Tireless pursuit of happiness

Get rid of the excitement present in the psychic apparatus, it helps to understand that this same psychic apparatus is not aimed at producing a pleasant state. You must find it within each of you.

7. absence of suffering

For Freud, the conception of suffering can be understood as the antagonism of two forces that generate conflicts. Understanding this helps shift the focus of tension that can cause pain.

8. Overload

We are error-prone and limited human beings. A overload that we unconsciously impose on ourselves can lead to mental burnout and lead to guilt for not being able to accomplish what we set out to do.

By Mayra Barreto Cinel

Source: Terra

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