Emotional Hygiene Response
A body is useless and cannot function without a mind; correct? Although the mind and body both need to co-exist in order to operate, the mind is the captain to our vessel. If that is the case, then why do we value the vessel over the captain? During Guy Winch’s TED Talk on “Emotional Hygiene”, he expresses his interest on the topic of “how much more we value the body over the mind”. Emotional hygiene is the practice of taking care of one’s psychological wellbeing. I began to ponder upon this topic myself and perhaps I have found an answer. I believe that because we cannot see “psychological injuries” we tend to prioritize physical injuries which are clearly visible to us. Many people tend to favourite what they can
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I agree with Winch’s opinion because although we cannot see psychological injuries, we feel them none the less; they should be as valued in society as physical injuries. On October 10th of 2012, a young girl by the name Amanda Todd committed suicide as a result of extreme cyberbullying. This 15-year-old girl decided to end her life because to her it was less painful than to continue living. The betrayal of her peers and the psychological damage she experienced affected her so greatly, s her into a spinning tunnel of darkness from which she could not escape. What if, it didn’t have to end in her suicide? If we can teach children from a young age on how to cope with …show more content…
It is easier for the human brain to dwell on negative thoughts rather than focusing on positive ones. Winch said during his speech that “studies tell us even a 2-minute distraction is sufficient to break the urge to ruminate”. A 2-minute distraction may break the urge to ruminate but how long will it last? During the march of this year I found out that me and my mom would be selling our house and moving this past summer. The reason behind this is due to her ex-boyfriend acting unusual; clearly something wrong with his mental state. He stalked my mother wherever she went, read her personal texts and emails, told her she couldn’t leave the house even after they had broken up; he refused to leave the house until the move. He even changed the insurance policy without her knowing so that if she died, all the money would go to his son and I would be left in this country without money or family. There were constant fights in my household and I tried to distract myself as much as I could. I would listen to my favourite rock bands like My Chemical Romance to drown out the yelling with the wall of guitars. I played the video games which I enjoyed most, watched interesting quantum psychics documentaries and got together with my friends. No matter what I tried, my effort was futile because this constant negative feeling in the pit of my stomach wouldn’t disappear. Although I wasn’t constantly thinking about all the
Moreover, cyberbullying has longer effects through a child’s life, leading the victims to turn into victim-bullies (Donegan 1). Victim bullies take their own frustrations on bullying others as an escape to help them cope with their pain caused by cyberbullying. In addition, it’s been reported that bullies commit at least one crime as an adult whereas victim-bullies commit a 23 percent higher than of the bullies (Donegan 4). Konnikova doesn’t mention that bullies also need help as much as the victims, but not all bullies are born that way. In fact, most of them have been bullied before or they have psychological problems (Donegan 5). Indeed, people should take this statistics as a wakeup call to help cyberbullies to cope with their frustrations to lower the numbers of victims, to create a better childhood, and a healthier adolescence for a better
Author, Marge Piercy, introduces us to a young adolescent girl without a care in the world until puberty begins. The cruelty of her friends emerges and ultimately she takes her own life to achieve perfection in “Barbie Dolls” (648). At the time when all children are adjusting to their ever changing bodies, the insults and cruelties of their peers begin and children who were once friends for many years, become strangers over night caught in a world of bullying. A child who is bullied can develop severe depression which can lead to suicide; and although schools have been educated in recognizing the signs of bullying, there is an epidemic that has yet to be fully addressed within our schools or society.
I do not think that the mind and body are the same thing. Both from arguments relating to my own beliefs, and with supporting arguments I hope to have thoroughly explained why I feel this way. I just don?t see how something as unique as the mind, with so much nonphysical substance to it, can be a part of the brain, an object which is so definitively physical. Although I feel the two are separate, this does not mean that I think they have no connections at all. The mind and brain are, without a doubt, a team. They interact together and run the body, however, they just are not the same thing.
Mental health is equally as important as physical health, so damaging one to fix the other is still creating problems.
The concept of internet safety is often taught to adolescents starting as early as secondary school, however, recent research has shown that the teachings aren 't effective. Issues that stem from parents being ignorant to what their children are posting online are cyberbullying and sexting; which are common negativities that minors are subjected to in recent years. The topic of kids harassing other kids via social media has become a sensitive subject as well. Cyberbullying has become so out of control that the youth are starting to take their own lives because they cannot bare to deal with the hate. Teens like Jamey Rodemeyer who was a 14-year-old who took his own life after being bullied physically at school and harassed online about his sexuality (Hughes). These types of problems could be prevented if parents were more aware of what exactly their kids were posting on social media and limit their access to the
Many children are ridiculed and bullied via social media pages such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. They are publically shamed for various reasons some being considered not popular, promiscuous, or homosexual. They receive messages and are included in posts or tweets that target them for who they are. Others who see these posts can take part in commenting and ganging up on the individual. On ABC News most recently, teen girls have targeted others by posting “silly photos of themselves then altered to include blunt advice to each other, about things like how to dress more appropriately.” Today the person being targeted eventually commits suicide because the humiliation becomes unbearable. To shame a person to death is unacceptable, it is their right to be who they are without being judged. Society and the people within need to worry about their own
The mind is a part of the body just like the heart but more dynamic and complex in its nature...
Mental health can be seen as a continuum where illnesses are defined as patterns of behaviour that cause psychological suffering, distress and disability preventing adequate functioning with the potential of risk of harm to the self or others (Martins-Mourao, 2010, p. 92).
In my experience, I am aware of many cases in which my body affects my mind (I stub my toe & I feel pain) and many cases in which my mind affects my body (I feel an itch & I scratch it).
Each year, schools are having to update the Codes of Conduct in order to keep up with the bullying that is occurring on social media. Schools have failed to effectively monitor and take action upon what these students have been doing to others and what others do in return. This has resulted in many lost lawsuits, in which schools were held liable for not taking appropriate action on what occurs outside of campus. School districts therefore must take more responsibility over what happens to the students, on and off campus. Districts argue that such instances are outside of the school’s control, however these victims are still their students. In the case of Ryan Halligan, a teenage boy who committed suicide at the young age of 13, Albert D. Lawton
A lack of empathy is found in the growing trend of cyber-bullying. "Jumping off GW bridge sorry." That was the last status update Tyler Clementi ever posted to his Facebook page before leaping to his death off the George Washington Bridge in New York City. About a month before his suicide, Tyler, who was gay, had started his freshman year at Rutgers University and found himself housed with a roommate who was not at ease with those who were open with their homosexuality. Unbeknownst to Tyler, his roommate began to electronically spy on him and eventually recorded him kissing a man. The roommate then posted the video to YouTube and soon Tyler’s fateful and heartbreaking Facebook status would follow (Cloud). The combination of the roommates inability to empathize with Tyler’s lifestyle with the ease of communicating to a broad audience online, proved to be a deadly combination. Unfortunately, stories like Tyler’s have become more common ...
However, some injuries leave a mark or may even leave someone paralyzed; therefore, he/she may never recover from that injury. The methodology in how to approach the mental health issues, in my opinion, should be focused more on the individual’s history and how he/she is affected. Mental health is not like cancer or an STD where everyone who is diagnosed possess similar symptoms. Each individual has a unique injury inside his/her brain and the only way to cure it is to find the casual mechanism and attempt to “distract his/her’s pain” or completely remove it from existence. When I get injured I try to make something else hurt, so I pinch myself. My mind cannot focus on two pains at once, so I attempt to make the brain focus on my pinching rather than a collision or a stump. The mind has to be distracted from that casual mechanism and the only way to find out what it actually is, is by conducting interviews
Care for bodily injuries is advancing greatly to the point where people could get new limbs if they were previously lost or unusable. The same cannot be said about mental care. Research and care for mental health has been diminished greatly in the past number of years and is still being worked at so its benefits would not be received by those who need it to improve their lives. If the world treated physical illness the same way they treat mental illness, then there would be change to improve how physical health is treated. Mental health should be taken seriously by the public to help those in suffering now and in the
Furthermore, people should understand that moods matter, not just to mental health, but to physical health as well. If someone is suffering from emotional illness such as depression or anxiety, they should seek treatment, since evidence is mounting that these conditions can lead to physical illness and a shorter life. Bibliography Books: Martin, P. (1997). The 'Secon The Healing Mind.
Generations after generations teens have used the actions of bullying to hurt others they felt as a threat or to be in the “in crowd” of popularity. Traditional bullying was physical and thus confined to face-to-face contexts. However, with the development of widespread social interaction via social media websites, email, and text-messaging, teens have additional avenues of expression and, as a result, other means of bullying. Over time the bullying taking place using digital means has come to be known as cyberbullying. Cyberbullying has brought the evilness out of teen’s actions, words, and thoughts whether they were the bully or the victim. Equally important, the ending results of these actions, words and thoughts have brought death, limited yet undefined punishable consequences if pursued, and slowly progressing methods to control cyberbullying as a whole.