Imagine your mind is like a car. If you had to do a 100k mile "mental health check" like you would with a car, what checklist of say 12 points would you look at? How?
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oh i've thought about this so much
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classes of shackles:
- limiting beliefs & assumptions
- meatbag status (health)
- outdated habits & coping mechanisms
- immediate environment
- peer group
- financial situation
- information diet
- social reality
they're all connected, which is why they're hard to break
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1. Measure gut bacteria
2. Time spent laughing
3. Time spent in sunshine
4. Sleep quality
5. Time spent reading/learning
6. Avg surrounding air quality
7. Hydration
8. Productive travel time
9. Intake of processed food
10. Intake of art
11. # of deep breaths
12. Movement/cardio
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Let's try...
1. Do you feel comfortable being alone and doing nothing? (Alone with your own thoughts)
2. Are you surrounded by more nice or bad people? (Personal metric)
3. How often do you smile honestly?
4. How often do you cry?
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You are actively learning something.
You have experienced joy in the last month.
You have had a good laugh in the last week.
You have meaningfully connected with someone socially in the last week.
You have at least a rough draft of plans for the future.
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It may be impossible to do a mental health self-check because the checker is inherently biased. Maybe the only possible way to “check” for sure is to get objective perspective on one’s own mind.
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