Mental Health
Mental Health is so much more than just “stress management” or “coping”. It’s an exploration of our thoughts, emotions, and their connection to our sense of self and our motivations.
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Mental Health
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All Stressed Out!
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What is Stress?
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Distress
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Burn Out
Burn Out happens when we are experiencing stress in too many areas of our like at once.
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Preventing Burn Out
The best way to heal from burn out is PREVENTING it from happening!
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Our Nervous System
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Fight/Flight/Freeze
Our Stress Response is a critical part of how we negotiate the world around us. Understanding why and how our Fight/Flight/Freeze activates, helps us better hold and regulate our emotions.
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Fight/Flight/Freeze: The Body
How do our bodies communicate to us that they are in a state of hyperarousal? There are many cues that can help us recognize when we are overstimulated or feeling unsafe.
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Fight/Flight/Freeze: The Mind
When our minds enter hyperarousal, our stress response, a number of different things can happen. If we notice
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Fight/Flight/Freeze: The Emotions
When we’re in hyperarousal, our emotions may not respond the way they normally do. Let’s look at the emotional signs that we may be in FFF.
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Emotional Regulation
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Emotional Dysregulation
This is a fancy way of saying, “when my emotions gets out of control”. It happens to all of us. It’s important to know what activates our emotions.
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Self Regulation
Self Regulation is one way that we can turn the volume down on our emotions. With this strategy, we rely on our own internal resources and strategies to handle our emotions.
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Co-Regulation
Co-Regulation is one way that we can lower the volume on our emotions. We do this with the help of trusted others.
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Body Scan
This is one way we can self-regulate using our breath and our body.
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Meet your instructors
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Meet your instructors ✳
Michelle
Kristin
Michelle Stobaugh is a Los Angeles-based Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in children and youth.
Kristin Calabria is a SoCal-based Marriage and Family Therapist who works with children, youth, and the active duty community.
Mental Health FAQs
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Mental Health is an important part of our overall health and wellbeing. When most people think of Mental Health, they think of the negative aspects of it, like a diagnosis. Most people think of things like trauma, depression, anxiety. Not no! Those are absolutely part of mental health. Mental health also include things like fulfillment, joy, resilience, purpose,
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There are many ways to look at this question. It’s important to understand the history behind mental health diagnoses and how diagnoses have been weaponized against communities pushed to the margins of society. What we consider “diagnoses” are often very normal reactions to intense situations. For example, if someone was in a horrible car accident, it might actually be more “abnormal” if they weren’t experiencing being on edge or nightmares. Some diagnoses are more serious (read impairing) than others. So, it is important to take a diagnosis seriously. AND it also is important to not look at a diagnosis as a weakness. A diagnosis is a snapshot of what is going on right now. A diagnosis is descriptive as opposed to prescriptive.
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Getting support from a trained professional is incredibly important if you feel like things are not getting better. Now is a great time to start looking for additional support, especially if you often feel overwhelmed, hopeless, helpless, distressed, or even if you’re simply looking for better strategies to deal with the issues that are coming up for you.
Remember, the relationship you have with your therapist or counselor is often the thing that makes therapy effective. It’s okay to look around until you find the right fit for you.
If you or someone you know is struggling with their mental health, know that there are a ton of immediate resources you can explore.
Crisis Hotline: 988
Mental Health Warmline: Text HOME to 741741