563 - How to Support Yourself While Supporting Others
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we look at how to best support yourself while supporting the people who need you the most.
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"In the United States, almost half of adults (46.4 percent) will experience a mental illness during their lifetime. 5 percent of adults (18 or older) experience a mental illness in any one year, equivalent to 43.8 million people."
We talk a lot about managing our own mental health, but it's very likely that someone who is close to you is going to struggle with their own mental health at some point and rely on you for support.
Do not become a sacrificial lamb
- Dropping everything that matters to you for the other person
- Going above and beyond regularly
- Neglecting your own mental health and life
The best way to support someone else is to maintain your own mental health
How to take care of yourself:
- Make time to focus on your own physical health to keep your resilience up
Eat healthy
Get out and move
Get enough sleep
- Avoid unhealthy coping like drinking or substance use
- Focus on your own established Mental Health routines. This may not be the best time to start something new, but you can at least stick to what you know works
- Avoid Feeling Guilty - Quote from National Alliance on Mental Illness “When you allow yourself to notice your feelings without judging them as good or bad, you dial down the stress and feel more in control. When you feel less stressed, you’re better able to thoughtfully choose how to act.”
- Gather Help from Others – reach out to other loved ones, trusted friends, support groups, mental health professionals
Resources
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-health-nerd/201911/when-the-one-you-love-is-depressed
https://www.nami.org/Find-Support/Family-Members-and-Caregivers/Taking-Care-of-Yourself
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In this is tiny leaps, we talk about how to take care of yourself while supporting someone else's mental health. |
| 0:07.5 | Get excited because this is tiny leaps. Big changes where I share simple strategies you can use to get more out of your life. |
| 0:35.7 | My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode we're talking about an important topic that I don't |
| 0:41.4 | think gets enough coverage when we are discussing |
| 0:46.1 | mental health. There are many of us out there, in fact really everyone who is in a |
| 0:52.0 | position where they need to at some point or another support someone else when they are struggling with their own mental health. |
| 1:01.0 | Whether that mental health gets to the point of an actual crisis |
| 1:05.6 | or if it's just sort of a more routine down day. |
| 1:10.3 | There are plenty of times when you need to support someone else's mental health journey and their relationship to their mental health. |
| 1:16.4 | And in those moments, I think it's very easy for us to forget about ourselves and forget about our needs because we want to support that person because we love that person we want to give them whatever it is they need and in this episode I want to talk about how best to do that, how best to support the other person |
| 1:36.8 | while also taking care of yourself. So hopefully this is helpful to some of you out there. |
| 1:42.2 | Now before we jump into it it I do just want to let |
| 1:44.8 | you know that if you've been struggling with being more consistent if you've been |
| 1:49.3 | setting goals and you keep abandoning them then I've got something that might help. |
| 1:54.4 | There is nothing more frustrating than taking the time to identify your goal, |
| 1:58.8 | only to wake up 30 days later, having abandoned that goal with nothing to show for it and I've gone through this |
| 2:04.6 | exact process that's why I created my new course the consistency code because I've |
| 2:10.2 | come to realize that there's one main reason why people don't achieve the |
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| 2:18.4 | what that reason is and what you can do about it. Throughout the course we are going to discuss why we all struggle with |
| 2:25.2 | consistency, the two key processes that lead to habit formation, why starting small might be the |
| 2:31.2 | key to success, why smart goals may not work for you |
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