Learning To Trust Yourself When You Live With Mental Illness

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Learning To Trust Yourself When You Live With Mental Illness

Mental illness wreaks havoc with thoughts, emotions, and behavior. In doing so, mental illness makes it hard for people to trust what's going on inside of them.
In many types of mental illness and personality disorders, thoughts race relentlessly, often with self-doubt and harsh self-criticism (Mental Illness Can Overstimulate Your Brain). Feelings join the tumultuous ride, and commonly they're out of proportion to thoughts and events, either too intense or almost nothing. Are our racing thoughts believable? What about our feelings? Can we trust them enough to act on them? Can we trust our own judgement and intuition? (Bipolar Disorder - Can You Trust What You Feel?) These unrelenting thoughts and feelings can be exhausting.

Learning to trust yourself—your thoughts and your feelings and the correctness of your behaviors—is an important step in becoming mentally healthy and experiencing wellbeing.

• Learn to pause, to notice thoughts and feelings without judgement.
• Just be. Don't follow the racing thoughts and wild emotions. Wait to act.
• Consider what you'd like to do or think or feel, and do it with confidence.
• When doubts creep in, pause again, and then replace those doubts with truths.

Learning to trust yourself when you live with mental illness is a process. It's a process that moves ever forward and systematically quells self-doubt.

Related Articles Dealing with Trusting Yourself with Mental Illness

• With Anxiety, Are Your Thoughts Trustworthy?
• Trusting Yourself After an Abusive Relationship
• How to Live with Abuse: Connect with Your Intuition
• Trust Issues — Learn to Trust Your Doctor
• Anxiety and Self Doubt

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: Today’s Question: How do you handle self-doubt when it keeps you from trusting yourself?  We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.

Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:

1. Tips on Coping with Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder
2. Depression and Motivation
3. How to Deal With Mental Health Stigma

If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.

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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.

• Set Goals that Work for You to Improve Your Self-Esteem
• Implement Extreme Self-Care for Depression
• When Corporations Promote Mental Health Stigma
• Let Your New Year’s Goals Lead You to Happiness
• Revisit Painful Memories to Improve Sobriety
• 11 Ways to Maximize Productivity and Gain Confidence
• The Best of ‘Breaking Bipolar’ 2015
• A Mentally Healthy Perspective Can Influence Your Mental Illness
• Be Less Anxious and Overwhelmed: Celebrate Accomplishments
• How To React When Someone With BED Loses Weight
• Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder in the Workplace
• PTSD Recovery: Coping With Trauma Anniversaries
• Bipolar Disorder and Honoring Commitments to Yourself
• Are You A People Pleaser? Learn To Put Yourself First

Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.

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