Culture shapes our identity, beliefs, and values, providing a framework through which we perceive the world. When it comes to mental health, culture plays a significant role in shaping our understanding, experiences, and treatment-seeking behaviors.
It’s important to intentionally choose the types of people and characteristics you want in your life, and those you don’t. Understanding what you want in a relationship is not only critical for starting new relationships but also for managing existing ones.
First, it’s important to realize that your body is not trying to drive you crazy, it is merely trying to protect you by alerting you to what it believes to be a potential danger to you. So, here are four things you can do to help yourself overcome intrusive thoughts and memories.
Intrusive thoughts are often related to memories of painful past events or unwelcome projections of things you’d never choose to think about, if you had your way. Either way, the one thing that they are definitely related to is anxiety, and quite possibly past trauma.