Ways To Get Mentally Tough

Ways to Get Mentally Tough

1. When you face a setback, think of it as a defining moment that will lead to a future accomplishment.

2. When you encounter adversity, remember, the best don’t just face adversity; they embrace it, knowing it’s not a dead end but a detour to something greater and better.

3. When you face negative people, know that the key to life is to stay positive in the face of negativity, not in the absence of it. After all, everyone will have to overcome negativity to define themselves and create their success.

4. When you face the naysayer’s, remember the people who believed in you and spoke positive words to you.

5. When you face critics, remember to tune them out and focus only on being the best you can be.

6. When you wake up in the morning, take a morning walk of gratitude and prayer. It will create a fertile mind ready for success.

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PTSD

This is something I see get thrown around a lot and is rarely used correctly.

Summarized DSM-V Criteria

A. Definition of trauma;

The person has experience, witnessed, or been confronted with an event or events that involve actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of oneself or others.

the persons response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror.

B. Re-experiencing; traumatic experience is persistently re-experienced at least one way:

recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the events, including images, thoughts, or perceptions

recurrent distressing dreams of the event

acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations and dissociative flashback episodes

intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.

physiologic reactivity upon exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an expect of the traumatic event.

C. Avoidance/Numbing; persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responsiveness indicated by at least three of:

efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations associated with the trauma.

efforts to avoid activities, places, or people that arouse recollections

inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma.

markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities

feeling of detachment or estrangement from others.

restricted range of affect (ex; unable to have loving feelings) sense of a foreshortened future (ex; does not expect to have a career, marriage, children, or a normal life span.)

D. Hyper-Arousal; persistent symptoms of increased arousal (not present before the trauma) as indicated by at least two of the following;

difficulty falling or staying asleep

irritability or outbursts of anger

difficulty concentrating

hyper-vigilance

exaggerated startle response.

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