How Mentally Strong Are You? The Answer Might Surprise You
It is 5 pm, you just got off work and there are still a million things you have to do before your sweet reencounter with your secret lover — the pillow.The bed is undone, the dishes are giving you the stinky eye (pun intended), that pile of clothes on the chair is starting to look more and more like the Pisa tower and there are probably one or two personal phone calls that you have been putting off for some time now.If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck in the chorus of a bad sad song, or if the road you’re stepping on is starting to feel a lot like a mouse wheel, you, my dear friend, are definitely not alone.Life can get hard sometimes, words become too much to speak, everyday actions seem to have no meaning, and slowly but surely you seem like you’re starting to fade away into the background.And yet, somehow there is something inside of you that doesn’t allow you to completely give up on the possibility of a future change and a better and brighter tomorrow. The dreams you are fighting for are still alive even though they haven’t been the star of the show in quite some time.Resilience is the “positive adaptation or ability to maintain or regain mental health despite experiencing adversity” (Herrman, Stewart, Diaz-Granados, Berger, Jackson, & Yuen, 2011)In other words no matter how hard things get you still find the strength to pick up the sword and fight yet another day.Being resilient doesn’t mean that you don’t have days in which all you want is to give it all up and go live in the mountains. No, it means that no matter how lost you get along the way, you always find a way to get back on track.
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