Why do anxiety, depression, overthinking, emotional numbness, and other mental health symptoms keep returning? Sometimes managing or fixing symptoms doesn’t explain what keeps creating them.
Good piece. The part that stands out to me is that people often try to manage what is visible first, because that is what hurts first. However, the symptom is not always the whole story. Sometimes the real work begins when we stop asking only how to make it disappear and start asking what keeps creating the same inner experience.
I appreciate you taking the time to read it Alexander. I like the way you picked up on the noticeable part being what might hurt first. That feels like a big reason people naturally go straight into fixing mode, but there’s usually more going on than the first thing we notice. Thanks again for reading!
My pleasure, Josh. That fixing mode makes sense. People want relief first. However, relief without understanding the pattern usually only buys some extra time.
Ciao Josh, very interesting article (a bit long 😂). You explore widely the mental health care from the manifestation of a problem, mistakes, assumptions, easy fix not applicable for everyone and the real point. In the end I might say that I found myself a bit in all of it, and at the same time I missed here one thing which is essential. Therapy, in someway you mentioned that "self help" or "self awareness", maybe I just misread, but therapy for me was the real change. What you say about understanding what brings those feeling and memory on the surface, for me was therapy helping me. Anyway a really nice piece, thanks for sharing. Ciao!
Thanks for reading Gianluca. I appreciate that 🙏🏽 And I agree, therapy can be a huge part of that process. Sometimes understanding ourselves properly needs another person, the right space, and the right questions to help bring things to light, especially when it’s hard to reach those things on our own. I’m glad therapy helped you in that way and I wish you all the best.
Good piece. The part that stands out to me is that people often try to manage what is visible first, because that is what hurts first. However, the symptom is not always the whole story. Sometimes the real work begins when we stop asking only how to make it disappear and start asking what keeps creating the same inner experience.
I appreciate you taking the time to read it Alexander. I like the way you picked up on the noticeable part being what might hurt first. That feels like a big reason people naturally go straight into fixing mode, but there’s usually more going on than the first thing we notice. Thanks again for reading!
My pleasure, Josh. That fixing mode makes sense. People want relief first. However, relief without understanding the pattern usually only buys some extra time.
Ciao Josh, very interesting article (a bit long 😂). You explore widely the mental health care from the manifestation of a problem, mistakes, assumptions, easy fix not applicable for everyone and the real point. In the end I might say that I found myself a bit in all of it, and at the same time I missed here one thing which is essential. Therapy, in someway you mentioned that "self help" or "self awareness", maybe I just misread, but therapy for me was the real change. What you say about understanding what brings those feeling and memory on the surface, for me was therapy helping me. Anyway a really nice piece, thanks for sharing. Ciao!
Thanks for reading Gianluca. I appreciate that 🙏🏽 And I agree, therapy can be a huge part of that process. Sometimes understanding ourselves properly needs another person, the right space, and the right questions to help bring things to light, especially when it’s hard to reach those things on our own. I’m glad therapy helped you in that way and I wish you all the best.