18. Tips for identifying and managing mental spiraling

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This episode focuses on identifying and managing mental spiraling. It discusses the various reasons why people may spiral, including excessive stress, major life changes, personal relationship challenges, financial pressures, health issues, and struggles with mental health disorders. Lay shares personal experiences of struggling with expression and feeling like they are not moving forward. They offer insights into their thought process and discuss how certain signs, such as limited communication or constant fatigue, can indicate a downward spiral. Finally, the episode provides strategies for managing a downward spiral, such as accepting the situation, taking care of physical health, seeking professional help, and grounding oneself.

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Highlights

• Identifying a Downward Spiral: One of the key steps to managing a mental spiral is to recognize when it's happening. This includes identifying signs such as difficulty in giving or receiving information, increased irritability and low mood, sleep problems, constant fatigue, and a lack of interest in activities you once enjoyed.
• Common Causes of Spiraling: Understanding why spiraling occurs can provide some insight into how to address it. People may spiral due to various issues including excessive stress, major life changes, challenges in personal relationships, financial pressures, health issues, struggles with mental health disorders, feelings of being overwhelmed, or lack of support from others.
• Personal Experiences: The speaker shares their personal experiences of feeling stagnant, struggling with expression, and feeling like they are not moving forward. They discuss how they felt frustrated despite having time and ideas, and their difficulties in expressing their thoughts and moving forward with their plans.
• Managing a Downward Spiral: The speaker provides strategies for managing a downward spiral. These include acceptance of the situation and being patient with oneself, taking care of physical health, seeking professional help when necessary, and developing a flow or routine to ground oneself. The speaker emphasizes the importance of not pretending to be okay when you're not and ensuring that you're taking care of your physical health.

Video Chapters

Why I want to talk about this- 00:00

How can you tell -10:34

Managing a downward spiral- 15:03

Card pull- 20:40

What I’m grateful for - 24:50

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