{"id":2438,"date":"2011-10-07T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2011\/04\/recovery-incs-tool-box.html"},"modified":"2011-06-24T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T18:50:12","slug":"recovery-incs-tool-box-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2011\/10\/recovery-incs-tool-box-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Recovery Inc.’s Tool Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in an earlier post, my great aunt GiGi, who was one of my mental health heroes, owed her life to Recovery Inc. and she would occasionally share with me nuggets of its wisdom, like the following tools, quoted or adapted from Dr. Abraham Low’s writing:<\/p>\n

\"tool<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Treat mental health as a business and not as a game<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Humor is our best friend, temper is our worst enemy<\/div>\n
\u2022 If you can’t change an event you can change your attitude towards it<\/div>\n
\u2022 Be self-led, not symptom-led<\/div>\n
\u2022 Symptoms are distressing but not dangerous<\/div>\n
\u2022 Temper is the intellectual blindness to the other side of the story<\/div>\n
\u2022 Comfort is a want, not a need<\/div>\n
\u2022 There is no right or wrong in the trivialities of every day<\/div>\n
\u2022 Calm begets calm, temper begets temper<\/div>\n
\u2022 Don’t take our own dear selves too seriously<\/div>\n
\u2022 Feelings should be expressed and temper suppressed<\/div>\n
\u2022 Helplessness is not hopelessness<\/div>\n
\u2022 Some people have a passion for self-distrust<\/div>\n
\u2022 Temper maintains and intensifies symptoms<\/div>\n
\u2022 Do things in part acts<\/div>\n
\u2022 Endorse for the effort, not only for the performance<\/div>\n
\u2022 Have the courage to make a mistake<\/div>\n
\u2022 Feelings are not facts<\/div>\n
\u2022 Do the things you fear and hate to do<\/div>\n
\u2022 Fear is a belief — beliefs can be changed<\/div>\n
\u2022 Every measure of self-control leads to a measure of self-respect and ultimately self-confidence<\/div>\n
\u2022 Decide, plan, and act<\/div>\n
\u2022 A firm decision steadies us<\/div>\n
\u2022 Anticipation is often worse than realization<\/div>\n
\u2022 Replace an insecure thought with a secure thought<\/div>\n
\u2022 Bear the discomfort in order to gain comfort<\/div>\n
\u2022 Hurt feelings are just beliefs not shared<\/div>\n
\u2022 Lower your standards and your performance will rise<\/div>\n
\u2022 Things happen by chance and not by choice<\/div>\n
\u2022 People do things that annoy us, not to annoy us<\/p>\n
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, my great aunt GiGi, who was one of my mental health heroes, owed her life to Recovery Inc. and she would occasionally share with me nuggets of its wisdom, like the following tools, quoted or adapted from Dr. Abraham Low’s writing: \u2022 Treat mental health as a business…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"yoast_head":"\nRecovery Inc.'s Tool Box - Beyond Blue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2011\/10\/recovery-incs-tool-box-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recovery Inc.'s Tool Box - 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