Into The Light with Crazy Cait - Episode 6: Mental Health, Part 2 | Getting Real About Your Mental Health

As a follow up to the previous episode in which I talked about some of my own struggles, we continue in this episode on the topic of mental health. 

Here we are in the year 2021, and the issues surrounding mental health, especially the wide ranging types of mental health problems, the causes, and viable treatments, (other than pharmaceutical), remain to a certain extent, taboo. One of the biggest misconceptions is not recognizing that your mental health is directly related to your physical health. Problems related to mental health are an invisible imbalance, an unseen struggle, and people don't connect that not feeling right mentally may actually be a result of a physical imbalance or injury.

Only when we are able to bring these issues to the fore and discuss them openly, will we start to normalize them and the healing can begin more broadly. 

Notes to help you Tap Into Your Inner Healer:

• Mental health is a huge spider web of topics that can be overwhelming, but that is not a reason to avoid bringing it up.  
• Mental Heath is connected to brain health which is directly related to physical health.
• Physical health must be aligned with our emotional state and our surrounding environment.
• The way we think affects our energy and our actions, and when we change our thoughts we can change our lives.
• When talking about mental health, we have to address depression, which can be brought on by any number of things and there's still a stigma around talking about it.
• 4 keys to opening up about mental health and depression:

1. 1. It's ok to not be ok.
   2. Be honest about your mental health.
   3. Reaching out for help is a sign of strength.
   4. Depression is real, don't let anyone tell you different.
   
   

• Mental Health remains taboo because of the lack of knowledge, lack of open communication, and our collective inability to be able to speak about it openly.
• This taboo leads people with mental health issues and depression to live in shame, afraid to to pen up, to ask for heap, which compounds the problem.
• As a society, we are overmedicating ourselves, only treating symptoms and covering up what's really happening and not getting to the root of the problem.
• Common causes of mental health issues: brain trauma, malnutrition, lack of movement, excessive screen time.
• Our brain is only 2% of our body mass, but utilizes 20% of the oxygen we breathe.

Feed Your Wellness Challenge:

Are you getting enough sleep? Inadequate sleep is extremely detrimental to brain health. During sleep, your brain is working on cleansing and eliminating cellular debris and toxins that build up during the day. It's literally like taking out the trash. It also works to consolidate our learning and memory that we had during the day and helps prepare us for the next day.

Friends, focus on getting more (and better) sleep. Drop me a line on Instagram with questions and let me know how it's going.

Episode Links:

In Light Hyperbarics

Tom Waddle 

Hyperbaric Medicine International

TreatNow.org

CTE