How To ACTUALLY Stay Mentally Healthy
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▼ Timestamps ▼
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00:00 – Introduction
00:41 – Bad Habits
04:23 – Think Of Energy Like A Battery
11:33 – Passion Projects
14:05 – Disbelieve Your Mind
15:47 – Comparisons
17:24 – Limits of the Methodology
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You’re likely aware of a lot of things in your life you should change, but you keep doing them anyway. Because understanding doesn’t lead to lasting change—breaking those habits requires intentional action every day. An HG Coach helps you make changes to your life with strategies tailored to you and your progress, week over week. Find your Coach: https://bit.ly/4eQXyZU
I love your videos I’m 20yrs old and you’ve helped and continue helping me out in life, whether it be for my becoming or entertainment, your videos are very much fulfilling and inspiring
Wouldn’t meditation be important to stay mentally healthy
Hay healthygamergg, can you talk about the principles of Virgo and how to use it and harness it to strive in life Thanks
Lol
7:30 I call this a Napitation. When I'm ready for a nap, I lay down in bed, set a timer for 30 mins and then meditate until I fall asleep.
I enjoy very much the story about super smash with your kids! So cutee
I like how he said he had a lot of bad habits and he only shared one bad habit and it was something totally reasonable that he turned into something that helps him grow.
10:00 next video title: Why You Cant Finish ANYTHING 😏
The trick to staying mentally healthy in an environment that is not is deluding yourself.
THANK YOU 🧡 I especially appreciate what you acknowledged towards the end. Living through more unknowns than certainties at this point in my life, really living through the burnout from PA school and navigating how to process that, failures and setbacks, and other life shit that just unfolded but was never really processed because clinical year was more challenging and I just had to go go go. Now I think I’m slowly getting back to myself again. Anyway, thanks again, Dr. K & team!
Follow your passion in the morning.. interesting honesty never came across that advice before
Dude you’re such a beauty
With interest and engagement I've been trying to enjoy games for years because I enjoyed it in childhood and prefer it as a medium for content. But what I've noticed is due to being overwhelmed I rarely get a chance to engage with it like I'd like or for long enough as I would, as a result I rarely play games. I've invested a lil bit into it; a decent computer (5080 🤷) PS5, gaming laptop, steam deck, vr(pimax), But if I'm being honest the interest isn't there to justify it. I wouldn't even say I play weekly at this point but maybe it's just a point in my life. I feel if I completely quit gaming Id have wasted a lot of money and if I return to in the future surely I'd be even less appealing. I can't tell if it's situational, a mental hang up, or aging 🥲 My thoughts go to reinforcement and neural pathways and should I even care if I naturally stop enjoying something is that normal or apathy. Clearly my use case isn't impulsive or addictive. I just prefer that format; like imagine you could either watch The Witcher show or play The Witcher 3.
I love you Dr K. Want to meet you once in my Life. Putting this out there so that the universe does it's magic.
Gosh I’m at 7 hours a day… lol
Not one mention of railfanning or working on trains? Mental health permanently drained.
The breakthrough for me. Not doing a normal job. Working from home. I dont need to hear normie nonsense and focus on what makes me happy and fullfilled.
I love living now.
Is playing dark souls mental training?
Hell yeah made it onto the new yourk times🎉🎉
Even if you are in treatment alot of the times it doesn't mean its going to work . Its all really depending on the patient and how they use the treatment .
There's way too much work to be done in and out of treatment and its a life long journey.
Somtimes people are not ready to see those parts that we cannot accept in ourselfs .
❤️ great stuff
Train yourself in skills that you are interested in and are valuable
Something that has helped me a lot recently is to stop trying to do things. It's hard to explain, like an extra control freak push one gives to every single action that is extra mp.
Relax. Whatever you are doing now and will do will get together by itself, because you are going to pick the best options presented to you and go between them. Is like being magnetically drawn instead of just Sisifus the shit out of everything.
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you use phone only 4.5 hours a day?!?! how?! what you do all day? as gen Z is very baffling
This is not a complaint to him directly, just my own little rant but I'm tired of looking for more ways to improve my mental health and realizing there's literally none anymore :_ I do everything he mentioned in the video and I'm still depressed. I know he mentioned in the end that he has other parts of life well covered like good relationship etc. and things he said are only an add up to the "good foundation" with other more necessary things, but I'm just so tired of hearing this. It's not possible for me to improve my "foundation" and I maxed out everything else already I'm just in despair that there's nothing else I can do and with every similar content I find that says stuff I already did I feel even more in despair :((
I’m very confused. You say you have kids yet you’re able to take a 20 min nap??? Who’s watching the kids?? Clearly not a video for people who actually have kids 🥲
Dr K, can you do a video on solution of how to stop anxious attachment, maladaptive daydreaming, limerence which causes panic attack when you think of your face artists then end up panic thinking you're can't be with them, far away, etc? Thank you
the best thing I’ve done for my mental wellbeing has definitely been disbelieving my mind.
For me, the thing that works best is to identify my minds tendency for catastophizing, shameful thoughts, and self hate as outside energy. The moment you accept those impulses and dig in, you essentially board a boat down a river of emotions that aren’t productive. Also, they are seldom grounded in reality.
I think this is sortve the secret to breaking out of the patterns that rob you of your potential. Eventually your subconscious will shift away from offering up those ideas that are such a large problem for those of us who struggle with them.