Helpful Tips for ActivistsHow to avoid a nervous breakdown
Because of longer working hours and less pay. peace activists can become run down and overly-exhausted. What's important is to learn how to avoid having a nervous breakdown.
To avoid a nervous breakdown, we first learn what it is
1. What is a nervous breakdown?
A nervous breakdown is when the person's body becomes extremely over-exhausted. It is when a person goes two or three days straight with no sleep and little food, and often the individual was already going many weeks straight without proper food and sleep prior to that time. At the same time, the person has some personal problems he or she was dwelling on too much. When a person goes many days straight without sleep, the body becomes so extremely over-exhausted that the person's eyes cannot see properly, his ears are overly tired and he may not hear well, and similar.A mental illness is basically a combination of two things; a serious physical ailment the person is ignoring and not treating, combined with a serious personal problem the individual is dwelling upon too much. The mental illness can be resolved by breaking it down into its two components and dealing with them separately. The person should address the physical ailment and stop ignoring it. And, the person should stop dwelling on the personal problem so much. He should rest up, forgive and forget for problems of the past. The person should forget about fears and worries, at least so he or she can rest up and sleep well.
An example would be of someone with a broken leg. This is a real physical ailment. If the person ignores it and doesn't see a doctor to get it treated, and doesn't take pain medication, it usually gets worse. If the person also has some personal problem he is constantly worrying about too much, he is wise to calm down and forget about it. A mental problem can be easily forgotten about because it is mental. A person chooses what to think about. He can choose to forget about something and it disappears. A physical ailment, however, should not be ignored because it is not mental, it is physical. A person can forget about mental problems, but a physical problem needs to be addressed. Ignoring a physical problem usually will make it worse.
A person might go many days straight without sleep, pushing himself while ignoring the physical needs of his body, focusing too much on competition and not enough on cooperation. If at the same time he dwells on personal problems too much, he could be nearing a nervous breakdown. A hospital stay can be avoided if he calms down and addresses the situation.
By sticking with kindness, honesty and love for all people, by remaining calm, happy, and having the cooperative spirit of compassion, and by remembering that all people are equal under the law, a person can avoid ever entering an expensive overnight psyche facility or having any serious mental problems, ever. The Guidelines for Basic Moral Education explains this well.
2. Avoiding a nervous breakdown
To avoid a nervous breakdown, a person should relax and get the proper rest he or she needs. If its hard to sleep, there is medication that can help. Lithium carbonate is a natural salt that does wonders in helping bring good nutrients to the body and returning good sleep and appetite. Lithium is described as an anti-psychotic drug because the pharma companies don't like using the simpler, more accurate term extreme over-exhaustion (they like to make the condition sound really complicated). Lithium carbonate is found naturally in drinking in water, although for decades it has been filtered out. Many people under a lot of pressure take oxycontin for a few weeks to soothe the body and calm the spirit. Some people do fine with no medication, just by eating good foods. Any of these methods can help a person avoid having a nervous breakdown and avoid entering an expensive overnight facility that costs several thousand dollars a night.
Note; Many of the mood drugs advertised by the big pharma companies have bad side effects, so a person should first research them properly before taking any of them. Lithium carbonate is a natural salt found in water. Oxycontin comes from the poppy plant.A person in an extremely over-exhausted state should avoid getting on the Internet so much, at least for a while. A person can relax better by avoiding violent TV programs, ignore superstition, and instead focusing on goodness and love. Rest up and eat well again. A very helpful book titled No Contest by Alfie Kohn explains how people always do better when they cooperate with each other, rather than competing against each other.
3. Understanding cooperation
All nervous breakdowns involve the person being too competitive and over-exhausted. People who read the book on cooperation and follow it have a much lower rate of nervous breakdown or entering an overnight mental health facility.It is unwise for an activist to push himself so much that he cannot do his normal work well anymore. It is important to rest and eat enough good food to be able to do good work. :)
Various psychiatric terms are usually given if a person rests up in an overnight facility, but these may not be accurate representations of what the person was going through. They are temporary, and they are downgraded as the person recovers, which is why its best to ignore psychiatric diagnoses as they tend to cause confusion more than resolve anything. They are considered private under the Privacy Act. .
If a person did have a nervous breakdown in the past, this is no big deal. A person can easily put it behind him and recover from any problems of the past by making sure he gets good rest and proper food again, and by not ignoring serious physical conditions. And, by ignoring superstition and by not dwelling on personal problems so much. It's important to forgive and forget. Problems of the past are best forgotten about.
4. Cultural respect
What also helps a person avoid having a nervous breakdown and avoid serious confusion, is when the person gets closer to people of his own culture. Each culture has different ways people express themselves. They often have different forms of humor and little ways of resolving problems which someone of a different culture may not understand. If someone is going many days straight with no sleep and little food, and is becoming confused, if he says something perfectly normal to someone from a different culture, that person may not understand it. He may look at the exhausted person like a crazy person, not because the exhausted person said anything crazy, but because the person doesn't understand the other person's differing cultural mannerisms or expressions. This can add unneeded confusion and misunderstanding into a situation that doesn't need it.For example, let us say an overly exhausted person says in a conversation to someone from a different culture "five plus five is ten" but the person from a different culture misunderstands the word "five" and thinks the exhausted person said "nine" (in some cultures a five sounds like a nine, especially if the person saying it is extremely over-exhausted). Well, the person from a different culture might think the exhausted person is crazy, having said "nine plus nine is ten".
There are even more cultural differences involving humor, cultural mannerisms, and ways of expressing ones self which differ greatly from culture to culture. No culture is better or worse than another culture. It's just that a person from a certain culture will understand people of the same or similar cultures much more easily, and he will be less likely to be misunderstood or accused of being "a crazy person".
All cultures are equal under the law. Cultures are, however, different from each other, and those cultural differences must be respected. In America, people of all cultures must be treated equally under the law and this is mandated by federal law Title 18, U.S.C., Section 242; Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law (within that law the term race means culture). After the allies won World War II, America required most other governments around the world to implement similar laws to treat all people equally under the law as well, regardless of race, culture, sex and other differences. Many people are from two cultures, and they have a beautiful affinity and closeness with both cultures.
5. Receiving benefits for mental illness
Some people who suffer a nervous breakdown receive monthly disability benefits of $800 per month, free health care, free college, and more. This is the same thing everyone receives in democratic socialist countries without having a nervous breakdown. Because of this, the question sometimes arises about how fast a person can recover from a mental illness (extreme over-exhaustion).What often physically occurs when a person experiences a mental illness is they develop a breathing condition where the heart and lungs are no longer properly synchronized as they previously had been. This is a physical condition, not a mental one. It can result in irregular heart palpitations lasting up to 20 minutes several times per day. This can include fast breathing, shortness of breath, slowed breathing, and similar. Because America's medical system is far behind, for example, socialist Sweden's medical system, American TV may mistakenly say a mental illness is hard to treat In fact, it is the physical damage to the heart and lungs that can be hard to treat, not any mental problem. Mental problems can be forgotten about, physical problems must be treated.
A heart-lung mis-synchronization is evident in many people who suffered prolonged extreme over-exhaustion (mental illness) and even in people who have not. It appears to be a permanent condition that does require a person receiving SSI disability benefits. Heart-lung mis-synchronization is little understood, often misdiagnosed, and often permanent. A heart-lung mis-synchronization is not a mental problem, it's a physical one. If a person forgets about it, it's not going to go away like a mental problem does. It's physical. When someone receives permanent disability for a so-called mental illness, after the person rests up for several weeks, or perhaps a few months, the mental illness is gone but the heart-lung mis-synchronization remains. It is this physical condition of the heart-lung mis-synchronization they receive disability payments for.
6. Avoiding a nervous breakdown - King David of Israel explains how
One of the most famous people who wrote lengthily about harassment that was pushing him towards a nervous breakdown, was King David, the first king of Israel, and this was written in the Book of Psalms. One doesn't have to be JudeoChristian or Jewish to understand the immense value of King David's non-superstitious writings in the Book of Psalms of the Holy Bible. He is harassed and falsely accused, he hides out in caves with little food, he goes with no sleep for many days straight being chased by Saul. The whole time David remains faithful to honesty, goodness and love; the love that is within all people.David wonders if he should distrust certain people, lest they be working for Saul. King David's account in Psalms are apparently written in the form of song lyrics set to music. David's Psalms are an immensely beautiful piece of historical literature that documents how one person struggles with the same things we all struggle with sometimes; harassment, defamation, false accusations of being crazy, and similar. When King David speaks of the children of Zion, he does not mean this racially. He is referring to everyone who follows the Ten Commandments and love for all people. When King David speaks of the house of Jacob, again this is not racial, this is everyone who was joining up and following the Ten Commandments and Moses' laws. Moses wrote one of the very first laws allowing people to sue if they suffer damages. This law was enacted 3,500 years ago, while certain nations still do not allow people to sue. In some nations today, the average person can be beaten by police, harassed, and have property taken from him while being forbidden from filing a lawsuit to recover for damages suffered.
King David's love for God, innocence and goodness, and his love for all people protect him and pull him through it all beautifully. He avoids having a nervous breakdown, or if he did, he recovers from it perfectly. King David's Psalms are not only among the earliest accounts of how to avoid and recover from a nervous breakdown, but they are also among the first song lyrics ever published (circa 1,000 BC).
The non-superstitious wisdom of King David is simple; when a person sticks with the good morals and obeys the law, when he maintains simple goodness, kindness, honesty, and love for all people, he can always avoid having a nervous breakdown.
The Bible says God is love, and God dwells in us.
7. What we also notice about King David's wisdom
Another thing we see when we read the good King David' Psalms, is that he never blames bad conduct on an illness or on some herb or root. David never says anything like "I did wrong because I accidentally ate a bad herb or plant root." Instead, David takes responsibility for when he does wrong. He admits he turned away from wisdom and love. David never says anything like "Saul was very wrong and bad, but it's okay Saul must have just eaten a strange plant with a chemical that gave him a mental illness, so it's okay". None of King david's teachings say anyone can blame their bad behavior on an illness, on some plant root, or a chemical imbalance, an herb or anything like that. None of it. David attributes a person engaging in good conduct and goodness to that person earnestly desiring goodness and learning from wisdom, by listening to people with more experience and wisdom. By obeying the Ten Commandments, by having love for all people, by obeying the law.King David never promoted racism by saying anything like "a person is born good" or someone is "born a bad person" ever. King David's wisdom teaches us that all people are good deep own inside, and all people are born with love and kindness, just that some people go astray and choose to ignore wisdom, goodness, and love. Some people choose to push away from the Ten Commandments, and those people will cause problems for themselves. In the Book of Psalms, David admits that he himself went astray a few times and disobeyed the Ten Commandments, and he is sorry for this. He accepts responsibility when he made mistakes.
As Christ grew up, he most assuredly studied the law as set forth by Moses, and most certainly the beautiful wisdom of King David in Psalms and King Solomon's Proverbs.
Christ taught the law as well as this important wisdom. When reading the Holy Bible, we must remember it is not a fortune telling book, it is a blessed historical book of wisdom and love. None of the teachings of King David, Moses, Christ and King Solomon teach any superstition or fortune telling. The only "looking into the future" being taught is the common sense wisdom that says if someone is doing bad harmful things, he is going to harm his own situation more than anyone else. The Book of Revelation appears to have been written to describe events going on back then, around 68 AD when JudeoChristians and Jews tried to overthrow the pagan Roman empire. During those times, a person would face the death penalty if he ever wrote Nero Caesar's name in a document saying Nero should be overthrown. So, the author of Revelation used the old Hebrew number writing style to convert Nero Caesar's name to a number, which happened to be "666".
The non-superstitious wisdom of King David, Moses, Christ and King Solomon have been put into a document entitled the Guidelines for Basic Moral Education and a manual entitled the Basic Moral Education manual.
For people who mistakenly believe a mental illness (extreme over-exhaustion) has anything to do with breaking the law, this is a misnomer. No illness can ever make a person commit a crime or break the law, nor can an illness affect someone's morals. An illness cannot give a person good morals, or bad morals. Morals are developed over time. To suggest otherwise is incorrect grammar. All children are born with love and kindness, and a desire for good morals, just that certain ways of properly expressing our good morals need to be developed.Statistics show a person suffering from extreme over-exhaustion (mental illness) is less likely to break the law than the average person is. This is because he is too tired and disoriented to do anything. Plus, an illness doesn't affect a person's morals. The person needs to rest up and recover, and this has nothing to do with breaking the law. There are some psychology books and news programs shown in America that incorrectly claim a chemical imbalance or brain disorder can cause a person to break the law, but this is completely false. Such books and newscasts are coming from a profit-run field that seems to promote more confusion than it solves, and they should be ignored completely. A long as a person follows basic moral education, he or she will have no problem. No illness can make a person break the law. It is perhaps a crazy person who believes that an illness can.
Note; Over the Internet, it is illegal to say someone has a mental illness of any psychiatric diagnosis. A person can say what he himself has and may speak about his own condition, but not anyone elses. This is because the person saying it might be wrong, or the diagnosis may be outdated. Most servers have filters up that block or delete emails talking about someone else's psychiatric diagnoses.
It is unwise to ever harass someone with mental illness terms, or mock on anyone with such terms. There are strict laws against doing this. Judges greatly dislike that form of harassment because it can interfere with court cases and intimidate witnesses. So, for anyone who was harassing someone with a mental illness term, you are wise to never do that again, and perhaps start doing fundraising work helping children with autism or something. And, if you ever go to court for something, you are wise to tell the judge of your work helping children with autism, or whatever charity it is.
See the non-superstitious teachings of Moses, King David, Christ and King Solomon in the Basic Moral Education manual. This is what most of the bigger rock stars are following
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