Tag Archives: nervous breakdown

Recovery from a Breakdown (6)

Last blog, on Recovery from a Breakdown (5), we looked at using positive sayings to keep us on track in our recovery from breakdown. Today, we’ll look at how to use these valuable tools to greatest advantage. Public libraries and bookshops abound with books full of quotations, witty sayings, and life-inspiring affirmations— there is certainly no shortage of comments on the human condition that you can use to assist you during difficult times and help keep you centered and grounded. Tips for using inspirational sayings 1. Choose sayings that resonate very strongly with your current life situation. If there are … Continue reading →

Recovering from a Breakdown (5)

Recovery from a severe mental breakdown is undoubtedly the hardest task you will ever have to do in your life. Forget pushing babies down birth canals, passing kidney stones, losing the use of your limbs, or grieving for a loved one— fighting your way back to mental health or even maintaining emotional equilibrium while suffering from a chronic mental illness is the hardest battle of all, because it is a battle with the self. And there is no more difficult, cagier, or more elusive opponent. Hence we need all the help we can get. Friends and family are the first … Continue reading →

Recovering from a Breakdown (4)

So far, we have looked at achieving small tasks as a means of taking the first steps to recovery from emotional illness. Having successfully achieved a routine of doing one or two activities each day, where do we go to from there? The Power of Lists Making a list of the tasks to be accomplished each day is a tool that the most successful business and academic leaders utilize to assist them to become high-achievers. If these people need and use lists, that tells us just how important lists are as we go about our own daily routine. The lists … Continue reading →

Recovering from a Breakdown (3)

We’ve learned so far to take small steps in our recovery, and today we’ll look at consolidating our progress and taking another small step forward. If you have been able to achieve your goal of making the bed each morning for a week, well done! If you have been unable to make the bed each day, but have managed once or twice to do so, that is great, too! You have persevered with the task, doing it when you could. Remember those words again of Sidney Smith: ”It is the greatest of mistakes to do nothing because you can only … Continue reading →

Recovering from a Breakdown (2)

Today we will continue on from our initial blog regarding taking those first small steps to recovery. In a previous article, I stressed the point about how important it is to do something, even if it is only a small task. I talked about setting yourself the goal of making the bed each day. This can seem like a monumental task to a person who is struggling to survive on a day- to-day basis, and to accomplish that task is a real achievement. Making a commitment to a task such as making the bed has many benefits: 1. There is … Continue reading →