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Why Does Your Brain Always Expect the Worst?
#MentalHealth #BeBetter

Why Does Your Brain Always Expect the Worst?
Your brain constantly predicts the future based on past pain, but you can retrain it and turn catastrophic thinking into hope.

At my keynote for the 2025 Acadia Ethics Conference, a number of clinical therapists in attendance surprised me by embracing AI's potential to bridge mental health gaps and even flag anxiety-producing items in their offices from a single photo.
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What I really need to do is get back up to my full antidepressant dose to lift me out of the depression, and find better coping strategies for the irritability / rage episodes that come with the increased dose.
#mentalhealth #depression

This was fascinating — I think it came via @… . Everything I know about sociopathy is pop psych/culture, so this interview was just utterly fresh to me.
#MentalHealth #MentalIllness

"While I am responsible for changing what I can, I have to let go of the rest if I want peace of mind. Just for today I will love myself enough to give up a struggle over something that is out of my hands." - Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 129
#serenity #boundaries #mentalhealth

Just had one of those moments where the dataset I've been given is not what they told me it was.
I said "Fuck it I'm going home.". Only to realize I was already home.
So, now I'm going for a walk.
#mentalhealth

“What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? You get what you f**kin’ deserve!”
— Joker (2019)
#Joker #Joker2019 #MentalHealth

1/ I’ve been very lucky with my job. I get paid full time but I couldn’t say when I last did a full working week - it must be years ago. My boss has been very understanding since I escaped my abusive marriage over four years ago, and has also supported me as I battle through the courts to get more time with my kids. My up and down #mentalhealth impacts upon how productive I am, and the cour…

You know you’ve made it when you live within walking distance of a #parkrun.
#Running #fitness #mentalhealth

Feeling a bit down after reducing my antidepressant dose. Maybe I need to bump it back up a little. Managing my brain is a full time job 😣
#mentalhealth #depression #bipolar

when it comes to #psychology and #mentalhealth I've read a decent number of #books on the topic.
I think the best I've read are:
- David D. Burns' Feeling Good (CBT generally including anxiety, depression)
- Sue Johnson's Hold Me Tight (romantic/marital relationships)
- Peter Kramer's Against Depression (on why depression is not a creative gift or sign of moral incompetence, biological underpinnings)
Peter Rutter's Sex in the Forbidden Zone has also been instrumental in forming my understanding of the unhealthy ways romantic interest manifests.
Anne Wilson Schaef's Co-Dependence: Misunderstood--Mistreated is the best I've read explaining how "being good" can oftentimes actually be bad.
The latter two are both more things I extract from the books rather than the books themselves and both are couched in ways that make them not ideally suited to the topic...but still the best I've found.
In addition one might include Joel Fuhrman's Eat for Life (I'm reading it now, I originally read Eat to Live) for nutritional health (which affects psychological) and David Allen's Getting Things Done (still one of the most influential books I've read on productivity).
My #question is, are there books you've read that you'd considered "must reads" on psychological / mental health? Not just mental illness, but mental health?