Short messages on Mental health, stress and anxiety issues from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
When you become aware of your hurtful thinking pattern and its negative effects on you, you can actively and consciously decide to change it.
Decide to become aware of the specific thought pattern that is distressing you. Stop and notice your thoughts. You may notice a particularly persistent thought loop.
Harmful thoughts can easily become habits that stick in your mind. The good news is: you can decide to ease this mental suffering and find more peace of mind.
You have light and peace inside of you. If you let it out, you can change the world around you.
Most negative emotions are completely useless. Resentment, bitterness, hate, and jealousy have never improved the quality of life for a single human being.
90% of people who survive suicide attempts don’t end up killing themselves later. This shows the temporary nature and fleeting influence of many suicidal crises.
Suicidal urges are sometimes caused by immediate stressors, such as a break-up or job loss, that go away with the passage of time.
Ken Baldwin jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge in 1985 as a suicide attempt. He said later: “I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable – except for having just jumped”.
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R Swindoll
Let go of the comparisons that keep you feeling inferior.