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Repost from @heartsatthehelm, along with her original, informative caption about shame. “Posted @withrepost • @heartsatthehelm Disclaimer: anxious I won’t be able to explain this one clearly - doing it anyways. 3 types of shame: adaptive, non-adaptive, and core shame. 1)Adaptive shame - there are sad situations in our history (and more sadly, in our present) in which some individuals are at risk if they do not hide things about themselves from absolutely everyone around them. That’s true adaptive shame, trying to preserve safety and life. For most of us, we’re fortunate to be able to be open with at least some of the people around us, although we may choose to hide parts of ourselves from certain people. 2)Non-adaptive shame - we can feel shame for all sorts of things that do not actually put us at risk for harm or alienation, or things that we are not responsible for/can’t do a thing about. We can feel shame for our appearance, something someone else did to us, making a mistake, acting out of line with a value. In these cases, hiding will either reinforce that there’s something wrong with us when there isn’t, or the shame will just stick around forever and continue to consume us. If I have shame about the appearance of my legs and hide them under pants all summer long, I’m actually perpetuating the shame (likely intensifying it). Survivors of sexual assault often only begin to feel less shame when they are able to share with others and feel cared for and supported. Again, however it’s nuanced. I might have shame about a white lie I told, and I can hide the fact I lied and eventually the shame might pass (or it won’t and I’ll have to tell the truth). 3)Core shame is a whole different animal (a mean and nasty one). I once had someone tell me that they feel like “shame in human form” - that’s core shame, a sense of being fundamentally flawed. All I’ll say about core shame for now is this - it can be healed” #mentalhealthmonth2019 #sharethejourney2019 #emotionalhealth #emotions #feelings #shame

Image repost from @heartsatthehelm. On the theme of feelings, their functions and our choices to understand them better to help them work for us. . My thoughts: How much do we think of anxiety as having a function? It’s been very helpful for me over my life to learn how to pay attention to my anxiety and make choices about how it motivates me. Sometimes the avoidance my anxiety motivates has been healthy and kept me safe. I rely very heavily on trusting my ability to pay attention to that feeling and discern when what’s happening makes it wise feeling to act upon. One outcome of this is knowing who and what to trust and my close, mutually supportive relationships reflect this accuracy. Other times, the avoidance might give me brief comfort from anything from an awkward conversation to a risk of failure in trying something I’m not already good at. However, in avoidance I might have missed out on learning new skills which would make the thing less fearful eventually or missed out on opportunities for wonderful experiences of which failure is just a small, less meaningful, but necessary part of learning and growing. In my experience, this relationship between avoiding the things that make me anxious working to actually maintain my anxiety and limit my experiences is something very true to me. Something I’ve been learning to notice in myself since my teens, and I feel very grateful to have made much progress and continue to learn. I’m much less often motivated against the fearful things these days and more motivated towards things I want, and I plan to keep developing this. #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmonth2019 #anxiety #feelings #emotions

Postman Pat hands you a package with the mail. Do you need to open the box to find out what’s inside? Or do you already know? See link in bio for full post exploring the label, ‘depression’. #mentalhealthmonth2019 #sharethejourney2019 #mentalhealth #depression #diagnosis #criticalthinking

I’ll be re-posting my favourite images by Dr. Stacey Schell from @heartsatthehelm for Mental Health Month, 2019. I really appreciate her Instagram content as her posts present informative concepts about emotional health in very easy to digest formats. Reducing very complex phenomena to simple, thought-provoking ideas is something I’m still learning to do. I really admire how she does this, and I find the down-to-earth, practical content refreshing in contrast to the social media culture of the idealistic, one-sided motivational. Many of the concepts come from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). A style of therapy that has given me many useful tools for meeting my emotional needs better. I’ll be exploring my experience with DBT later in the month. In the meantime, why not google DBT, have a look at Dr. Schell’s Instagram page, and make sure to read her thoughtful, reflective captions? 😊 #mentalhealthmonth2019 #mentalhealth #DBT #emotionalhealth

This October for Australian Mental Health Month, 2019, I will be over-sharing! • For my personal guidelines on writing about my mental health see link in bio or follow this link: https://brainembryos.com/2019/10/09/mhmguidelines/ #sharethejourney2019 #mentalhealthmonth2019 #mentalhealth #depression #socialanxiety #possibilities #oversharing #wellbeing #guidelines

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