The Self Help Diet A couple years ago I got obsessed with my diet and kept a log of everything I ate. I was obsessed with healing depression and anxiety through food. During this 4 month period I read a lot of books about diet and health. It seemed like everyone and their grandmother wrote a book about a diet and came up with a name for it. The South Beach Diet, The Atkins diet, The Primal Diet, The BulletProof Diet, The Wild Diet, The Mindful Diet, Gluten-Free Diet, Raw Vegan...
How to, psychology/ mindset / 26.07.2019
Why Are We Our Own Worst Enemies?
Humans As humans we're all 99% alike- each of us have two chromosomes, we all experience consciousness, and all of us suffer to some degree. I'm using the buddhist term for the term suffering, so even the tiniest bit of discomfort can be a form of suffering if it causes psychological discomfort. Currently I'm sitting on a Greyhound bus going to Brooklyn to visit my friend from college for the weekend. I'm sitting in the window seat and I really have to pee. Update 10:30AM- Just peed. Feeling much better. Because we have physical...
psychology/ mindset, Self-publishing / 09.07.2019
3 Simple Mindset Shifts to Stop the Spiral of Depression and Pessimistic Thoughts
Dealing with depression as a kid and teenager is confusing. All throughout elementary school and during high school I thought I was going crazy. In reality, I was dealing with crippling OCD and depression. Outside of Adderall for kids in the school system who deal with low energy, low mood, and brain fog, there's wasn't much talk about mental health in my school. [caption id="attachment_31" align="alignnone" width="450"] Here you go kids![/caption] Thankfully, as I've gotten older I've discovered tons of different areas of research in the mental health field. And although depression...
Group I’ve been going to zen meditation group for the last 2 years about an hour away from my hometown. I found this group after I left college and moved back to my parent’s with a simple Google search (the power of the internet). Each year the group does a week long silent retreat in June. This year it was Friday, June 7th to Friday, June 14th. We practice a mix of Zen and Vipassana (insight meditation), so it’s an open, gentle mindfulness practice from the Zen tradition, along with...
Rumination I'm not a mental health expert and I don't pretend to be. I write these mental health articles from my personal experiences and maybe you'll get something from them. "The unexamined life is not worth living"- Socrates Time travel is still impossible. But, if you're like me, then you spend too much of your time living in the past. Rumination plays a huge part in depression and anxiety. But I don't hear it being talked about much. I think this is because humans all ruminate to some extent. And depressive rumination is...