Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from illness, change or misfortune which is something that someone suffers with mental health obviously encounters every day.
I never really thought about resilience until recently when someone told me that they admired my resilience. It was something that I just brushed off until I had a moment to really consider it. It actually made me feel so much better about my situation that people didn’t think I was weak or stupid. Having so many set backs and fall down with my anxiety sometimes overrides the ability I have to pick myself up and carry on no matter how bad I feel. I have had anxiety for years now and I’m still here and doing it. I’m trying to do all the things I used to be able to do even though this isn’t always possible because of my anxiety. For example, I really struggle with my anxiety within school but I’m still managing to go in every day. I don’t always feel like it but I think that if I stopped, I would never be able to get back because I would only remember the bad things not the good.
Resilience is essential when trying to deal with and recover from mental illness. As with everything, you will have set backs, minor and major. However, to defy your difficulties, you must push on even after a string of knock downs. If you let every little thing gets to you, you would never recover or get anywhere because you need the strength of overcoming small things to drive you on to conquer much bigger things.
Everyone can be resilient: it isn’t a personality thing and it’s not something that is unique. I think it does come easier to some people than other but it doesn’t mean other people can’t do it. Some people naturally have more willpower than others but that doesn’t mean they can’t be resilient. It wasn’t something every thought I could be but when you are in that situation, it really is our only option. You don’t always realise that you’re dealing with so many things because you just see it as going about your daily life. But when you sit down and think about it, you’ve come back from so many problems and taken on so may fears, even just small ones and you don’t see it because they are such small things.
It isn’t just important in cases of mental health issues, but in everyday life. If you just gave up with everything when something went wrong, you would get nowhere. Whatever you do, you will have set backs so it’s not just concerned with big things. The most successful people will have had the most set backs because they have had to work so hard and overcome so much to get to where they are today. Don’t think that just because it isn’t an easy thing to get to, that you won’t get to it because I can assure you that other people have done it before you.
I can do it, I am resilient and I am strong. I don’t always recognise the power that I have to bounce back after problems that I have but it does show me that if I can deal with the small things, maybe I will be able to deal with my anxiety and hopefully make it a much smaller part of my life than it currently is.
I never really thought about resilience until recently when someone told me that they admired my resilience. It was something that I just brushed off until I had a moment to really consider it. It actually made me feel so much better about my situation that people didn’t think I was weak or stupid. Having so many set backs and fall down with my anxiety sometimes overrides the ability I have to pick myself up and carry on no matter how bad I feel. I have had anxiety for years now and I’m still here and doing it. I’m trying to do all the things I used to be able to do even though this isn’t always possible because of my anxiety. For example, I really struggle with my anxiety within school but I’m still managing to go in every day. I don’t always feel like it but I think that if I stopped, I would never be able to get back because I would only remember the bad things not the good.
Resilience is essential when trying to deal with and recover from mental illness. As with everything, you will have set backs, minor and major. However, to defy your difficulties, you must push on even after a string of knock downs. If you let every little thing gets to you, you would never recover or get anywhere because you need the strength of overcoming small things to drive you on to conquer much bigger things.
Everyone can be resilient: it isn’t a personality thing and it’s not something that is unique. I think it does come easier to some people than other but it doesn’t mean other people can’t do it. Some people naturally have more willpower than others but that doesn’t mean they can’t be resilient. It wasn’t something every thought I could be but when you are in that situation, it really is our only option. You don’t always realise that you’re dealing with so many things because you just see it as going about your daily life. But when you sit down and think about it, you’ve come back from so many problems and taken on so may fears, even just small ones and you don’t see it because they are such small things.
It isn’t just important in cases of mental health issues, but in everyday life. If you just gave up with everything when something went wrong, you would get nowhere. Whatever you do, you will have set backs so it’s not just concerned with big things. The most successful people will have had the most set backs because they have had to work so hard and overcome so much to get to where they are today. Don’t think that just because it isn’t an easy thing to get to, that you won’t get to it because I can assure you that other people have done it before you.
I can do it, I am resilient and I am strong. I don’t always recognise the power that I have to bounce back after problems that I have but it does show me that if I can deal with the small things, maybe I will be able to deal with my anxiety and hopefully make it a much smaller part of my life than it currently is.