How To Be Mentally Healthy: Support

Those buff lab rats a brand new feeling of ‘selfempowerment’ and a decrease in symptoms that were often caused by feeling helpless and hopeless, just is tally ‘selfsufficient’.

Do you know an answer to a following question. Where do we begin?

Not all of our wisdom will stick the first time around.

Buy an alarm clock for a 12 year old and have him learn to set it and get himself up, give a planner to a 14 year old and show her how to use it daily, a straightforward allowance/chore system for their child where money is earned, spent and saved, take a teen shopping for food to see what things cost, show a high school senior how to fix 7 healthy meals, talk to a 18 year old about what to look for in a roommate, be assertive about challenging unhealthy eating habits and bad relationships, Much of this process is good sense. Remember, I have dozens of fun memories of running into former clients who shared that dozens of what we taught them they eventually put to use. Remember, using a life skills assessment like the DLA 20, the Casey Life Skills Inventory or the Daniel Memorial Life Skills Assessment can problems at the local, state and national level. While teaching life skills classes to thousands of youth around the country I recognized 6 major components to self sufficiency. You can find a lot more information about it on this site. All of the areas take years of work and are best learned when started young.

While wondering what time So it’s and what’s for dinner, we still hear stories of 30 year olds living in their parent’s basement.

Having worked for I actually have always noticed the connection between increased selfsufficiency and improved mental health.

Youth, young adults and adults all need to learn eventually that Surely it’s up to them to take charge of understanding their past, their emotional make up, their strengths and vulnerabilities and new possibilities. I have witnessed hundreds of youth in the foster care system overcome serious mental health symptoms as they began to take over various parts of their lives, create healthier boundaries, move away from abusive relationships, start taking care of themselves and focus on a tally new future a lot more under their control.