Divorce, job loss, or recovering from a debilitating accident are just a few of the life-changing events that may have led you to GotTrouble.org. Events like these disrupt our mental health, sense of safety, and stability and can lead to feelings of anxiety, panic, and depression.
As we seek help for our legal and financial challenges, we must also support our emotional wellbeing so as not to steer ourselves into an even darker place.
Mental And Emotional Health Advice
People often think that emotional and mental health is the same, but major differences exist.
Mental Health
Mental health is a broad clinical term that describes different neurological-based conditions, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia, which are usually treated by medication and psychotherapy.
Emotional Health (Self-Compassion)
Our emotional health depends more on our willingness and courage to learn why we feel the way we do when facing life’s challenges. It calls upon us to recognize and honestly face our feelings from a truthful and self-compassionate perspective. In doing so, we learn how to sustain and nurture our emotional health, empowering us to transform life-changing challenges into life-affirming insights.
Psychological Advice
In our mental health advice section, we look at different forms of psychotherapy and their short-term and long-term benefits.
Receiving a certain type of psychotherapy depends on a patient’s individual emotional and psychological needs. One important goal of psychotherapy is to help patients manage their stress and anxiety levels before they can escalate into episodes of depressive or compulsive behaviors.
The articles here cover how people can recognize when life’s challenges trigger old emotional wounds that can surface and cause us to experience confusion, pain, and emotional turmoil.
During such times, without seeking professional help, a person can become vulnerable, feel broken, and slip into self-destructive behavior such as drug and alcohol abuse.
Facing Life-Changing Challenges
Change is a natural and necessary part of life. Far too often, we turn away from life-changing challenges, fearing what they may bring into our lives.
The articles in our mental health section include conventional practices such as psychotherapy and holistic approaches such as meditation, yoga, and other practical ways of restoring our emotional balance and perspective.
Finally, we offer articles that teach new ways to experience the world from a deeper and more expansive perspective. A perspective that respects and appreciates the value of self-knowledge and the life-changing experiences that catalyze our growth.
We also offer articles on people who have chosen alternative life paths, such as becoming home-based workers, freelancers, and those who have chosen brave and unconventional ways to live their lives.
We must recognize that we are a resilient species built to overcome life’s challenges. As long as there have been hardships, there have been people helping one another to recover from those hardships, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, but always with courage and compassion.
Job Burnout
When we are facing trouble at work and the risk of job loss and financial decline, the impact can be pervasive and all-consuming and has a way of putting a mental hold on us. This can result in us feeling paralyzed by fear of ensuing doom.
Stress can make us hyper-focused and anxious, especially when facing financial hardship. Our brain begins to churn away at it until our mental energy is depleted. We can feel trapped in an endless cycle of fear, hopelessness, and despair.
In this section, you’ll learn to recognize how escalating stress leads to anxiety, panic, burnout, and eventually severe states of depression. You will also find ways to reduce stress and anxiety and how to access helpful, professional services that can help you work through the emotional issues that are preventing you from taking constructive problem-solving measures.
Often, a skilled and experienced therapist can help you get to the root of the issue and teach you skills that support and restore your emotional health and wellness.
Addiction – Treatment – Recovery
Addiction almost always emerges from emotional trouble and is primarily born from a desire not to feel our feelings. Most people abusing drugs and alcohol have feelings of anxiety or fear, and the ability to calm these emotions comes only from using certain substances. So, becoming free of addiction often means learning to process the range of emotions life brings our way every day.
Most addiction, treatment, and recovery programs agree that the first step toward a new life is admitting we have a problem. In these mental health advice articles, you’ll learn about programs that help people stop using things like opiates, cocaine, and alcohol so that recovery can happen and a new person can emerge. You will also learn about children of alcoholic parents.
Psychiatric Advice – Disorders And Drug Therapy
Mental illness and disorders refer to various mental health pathologies affecting our moods, behaviors, and thinking. Examples of mental health disorders include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and eating disorders.
Types of Mental Health Therapy
- marriage and family counseling
- positive psychology
- psychiatric drug therapy
- psychotherapy
- transpersonal psychology
- dance and movement therapy
- pet therapy
- grief counseling
Lots of people have mental health worries from time to time. But a mental health worry develops into a mental illness when symptoms become more frequent and affect your ability to function at work or socially.
Learn from our mental health advice blogs about common forms of mental illness and explore local mental healthcare options for individual and group therapy
Mind-Body-Heart – Emotional Well Being
Medical research shows a profound connection between our minds, bodies, and hearts. We learn that prolonged periods of stress harm our minds, weaken our immune systems, and damage our arteries.
Unhealthy lifestyle habits linked to depression, like drinking, smoking, staying sedentary, or eating an unhealthy diet, increase our risk for heart disease, stroke, and dementia.
The interconnectedness of the mind, body, and heart means that taking action to protect our heart also helps protect our brain and vice versa. Knowing this makes committing to a balanced life, not only during times of trouble but always, one of the most important things we will ever do.
Start or continue your journey here by learning mental health advice about different forms of spiritual advice and esoteric teachings, such as yoga, reiki, and different forms of meditation, including contemplative meditation.
Pathways
Have you ever fantasized about walking away from it all and starting over? What does it mean to live off the grid? In our pathways section, life transformation section, you can explore pathways to leaving traditional society altogether.
Learn about unconventional paths and ways of living. These may include living on the road or in the wilderness or being a digital nomad experiencing different cultures and countries. Sometimes the road less taken is the one that holds the most potential for us.
Mental Health Helpful Services
In this final set of mental health advice articles, locate a range of wellbeing helpful services to support your emotional health on your journey forward.
Find state and local resources for alcohol-drug addiction, therapy, and counseling, as well as meditation, yoga, reiki, physical fitness, and motivation classes.
