People who feel negatively about themselves are regularly eroding their ability to enjoy life and thrive. How do you speak to yourself? Do you believe that you are a person who is capable of doing a good thing? Do you do good things? Do you tear yourself down? Do you tell yourself that you aren’t good enough? Do you feel unworthy of good things? Do you feel unworthy of love, kindness, and compassion? What is your internal narrative about yourself like? It could also be more serious, like treating mental illness or substance abuse.ĭo you have a good relationship with yourself? That may be something that needs to change, like ending a relationship or trying to get a better job. The answer lies in why you’re just surviving and not thriving. This is an extremely broad question that doesn’t have a single answer, as much as we’d love to be able to give you one. That’s something everyone deserves to have. To thrive is to be in the driver’s seat of your life, heading toward whatever it means for you to be happy, healthy, and in control of your life. That may be finding some way to make one’s money go further or start trying to get a better job. That may be making the very difficult decision to step out of a toxic, unhealthy relationship into the unknown, wherever that may lead. That may be seeking appropriate help to deal with stress, mental illness, or trauma to end the cycle of substance abuse. Thriving is to take control of your life instead of being controlled by life. Depression saps their energy, diminishes their ability to enjoy life, and prevents them from mentally and emotionally thriving. Still, because of their depression, survival is a struggle and they may constantly feel tired of life. That depressed person may have a great family, job, and an otherwise good life. Still, many depressed people have to get up and go to work because others are relying on them, and they have bills to pay. The depressed may struggle with caring or having the energy to worry about things like brushing their teeth, bathing, or cleaning up. Some days it’s so hard to even do the bare necessities of life, like getting out of bed or eating. A person with depression may struggle every day to get through the day. Mental health is often a major component of surviving or thriving. People today and throughout history live this kind of life in some form, whether buried in school loan debt today, working for company scrip 100 years ago in a mine, or subsistence farming to put some food on the table. It could also be the person buried in debt, working two or three jobs to make ends meet and keep a roof over their head, still on assistance programs because they don’t make enough money. You regularly hear naive people who don’t understand say things like, “Well, if it’s that bad, why don’t they just leave? They could go stay with a friend or family!” But what if they don’t have a friend or family? What if their abuser has isolated and alienated them, a common tactic of abusers to control the abused? What if their choice is the streets or being in danger? What if they have kids they are trying to protect? It may be someone trapped in an abusive relationship who stays in the relationship, constantly struggling with the fear of leaving and the fear of staying.
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