Think of this phrase as a kind of positive fuel to help you get up and get through hard days.<\/p>\n
I also tell the people I work with that no person is an island. We need others for connection and support<\/a>. If we don\u2019t have a strong network, we need to encourage ourselves to build one. Years ago, I was working with a veteran with PTSD, and he told me his goal was to get married.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cGreat,\u201d I replied, \u201cDo you have a girlfriend?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n It turned out that he didn\u2019t have a girlfriend, know any suitable partners, and rarely left his apartment. We set some steps to reach his goal: leave his apartment at least several times a week, take a community college class, attend small social gatherings where he could potentially meet appropriate partners, and ask a woman out for a coffee or to a movie. We talked about how it was impossible to meet his goal without choosing to take small steps.<\/p>\n When we are feeling depressed, anxious, and super stressed, we often have a tough time clearly seeing our skills, assets, strengths, and capabilities. This is also indispensable to our confidence-building. If you don\u2019t know your strengths or are unable to see them, you can work with a therapist or a friend to identify and develop your strengths<\/a>. As I tell my patients, \u201cYou have strengths, or you wouldn\u2019t be in my office.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Think of this phrase as a kind of positive fuel to help you get up and get through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-545205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}