Why We Need to Rethink Mental Health with Eric Maisel
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Eric Maisel, PhD, is the author of more than 40 books, including Why Smart People Hurt, Making Your Creating Mark, The Future of Mental Health, The VanGogh Blues, Mastering Creative Anxiety, and Creativity for Life. Dr. Maisel is at the forefront of the movement to rethink mental health. He writes the Rethinking Psychology blog for Psychology Today.
Eric and Dr. Maisel discuss his books Overcoming Your Difficult Family: 8 Skills for Thriving in Any Family Situation and The Future of Mental Health
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Eric Maisel and I Discuss Why We Need to Rethink Mental Health and …
- His books, Overcoming Your Difficult Family: 8 Skills for Thriving in Any Family Situation and The Future of Mental Health
- Defining the skills needed to understand and deal with family dynamics
- Learning the best anxiety management tool for you, such as deep breathing or visualization
- The powerful device of visualizing the “calmness switch” within you
- Understanding that there is one of many possibilities to deal with challenges
- His book, Mastering Creative Anxiety
- Depression
- The importance of identifying what’s important to us and living our life purposefully
- Stigmatization of mental health and how it promotes pharmaceutical
- Understanding there is more help to treat depression than just medication and psychiatry
- His models of personality: Original Personality, Formed Personality, Available Personality
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| 0:00.0 | In case you're just recently joining us or however long you've been a listener of the show, |
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| 0:17.5 | enjoy this episode with Dr. Eric Micell. In this modern world with so much that we have, |
| 0:24.0 | people are nevertheless not feeling like they have enough because they're not living their |
| 0:28.4 | life purposes. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the |
| 0:42.3 | importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, |
| 0:48.7 | ring true, and yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward |
| 0:54.9 | negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 1:01.7 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, |
| 1:07.2 | our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
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| 2:05.1 | or wherever you get your favorite podcast. Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is |
| 2:12.3 | Eric Maisel, PhD. Eric is the author of more than 40 books, and his titles include |
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