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Mental Health And Recovery

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If you have a chronic disease like heart attack or diabetes, you will have to live life with it. You will learn to adjust after each attack and would know the signs that there is an acute attack budding. The same is true with recovery from a mental illness. You cannot expect that during treatment, you will be a renewed man. Symptoms would still be apparent and you would experience things that are sometimes hopeless and debilitating but still you have to adjust through them. And with each adjustment, you would feel that you are starting to move forward, leaving your mental illness behind.



Mental health recovery is all about improvement from a bad case to something better. It is a continuous process and definitely not a linear one. You would move from square one to square two but you should always be ready to move one step back. You would learn newer ways to control the symptoms of your mental illness and would have insights on how to cope with them. There would be a lot of disappointments and errors the results from these errors are oftentimes rewarding.

Mental health recovery is a lifelong process as much as mental illness took years to develop sometimes even decades. A person could struggle through years of being controlled solely by a mental disorder and will have to face a lifelong effort to get out of it. You may achieve a life beyond the chains of your previous mental illness symptoms but you would still have to bout with intermittent attacks of symptoms.

One crucial factor to all kinds of illnesses is early intervention. Someone who presents symptoms of schizophrenia during earlier stages have a better chance of easier recovery with early intervention than someone who has aggravated case. Likewise, any signs of relapse that are recognized and treated early could define the barrier between going through the same disorder again or completely shutting all doors towards total recovery.

However guys, recovery from a mental disorder is just one of the many parts of the process. A person suffering from mental illness should also work to restore his mental health or sense of well-being.

Many individuals who have histories of mental illness often resort to a life that is withdrawn from the public due to social stigma and discrimination associated with the mental disorder. This leads to impaired sense of self-worth thus invaliding the whole idea of recovery.

For most people, the hardest stage of the recovery process is not the beginning but the end. In this stage, a person has to reclaim everything that he has lost during the entire period he had the mental illness plus every lost opportunity that he would have taken prior to the onset of symptoms.

Sadly, reclaiming these bits of life is far harder than all the aspects of recovery combined. Going back to "what could have been" takes a very long time as well as mending the damages caused by the mental illness due to very limited opportunities opened to people who have suffered a mental disorder.

But this shouldn't be. You may not be able to go back to your previous job or do the things that you used to do but you could redirect your life to something different but equally rewarding. This has happened before to other people, it will happen to you.

Perry Belcher here now saying till next time. Thanks for reading.

http://www.perrybelcherhealth.com
Mental Health And Recovery
In 1999 my postural problems had been increasing slowly. Computer project deadlines crept up on me faster than I expected. Managers in the computer industry regularly underestimate the effort required. Why is that? Some sort of internal time clock malfunction? Not sure but it was happening again and with the impending separation from my girl friend things were deteriorating. I thought I had a decent solution to it all. I would simply increase my weekly running mileage an extra 5 miles, throw in a few hills, and it would be easy going. In the past a bit more exercise seemed to work well.

One day I ran halfway up beautiful Mount Soledad in La Jolla, Ca, circled the top and started back down. It was always fun running down except that morning was a little different. The job and pending end of my relationship had been building stiffness into my hips, low back, and hamstrings and I had been sitting to much. Too busy to slow down and stretch like I knew I should. On the way down I stepped off an ordinary curb in an ordinary way and planted my foot … Ouch! Now there were sharp pains shooting down my left leg. I stopped, evaluated my leg a little and thought, “Not a problem, I can stretch this out when I get home. I have felt this kind of sciatic pain before.", so I walked a few blocks back home, stretched a little bit and went to work which meant 6-8 hour in a chair. All day long I had a low level dull ache in my left hip. “Not too bad" I thought, “I’ll stretch more over the next few days and it will be fine." But by the end of the week my hip muscles were still tight and there was some nerve pains that were distracting.

I decided to rest it well and really stretch it all out. I knew all the muscles, the Piriformis, Gemelis, Gluteus Minimus, Hamstrings … they were all involved and I would just spend the extra time to stretch them just like the doctors had shown me. I would put the extra time into the stretching that I was not allowing because of my busy software schedule and everything would be fine right? Not quite right. The next few years would be different. I would not exercise regularly and I had low back pain during my long days of sitting in an office chair.

I was in my mid thirties and things were getting stiffer. For many years I had a minimalist stretching routine, a regular exercise schedule, and I was spending long hours in a chair. It did not seem like a “really" big deal; the big Ouch!, but that pain was sitting on top of a mountain of muscular tension that I was mostly unaware of. For years I was not doing any regular deep stretches. I was only doing quick stretches that I thought athletes should do. I did the stretches I knew well enough to do quickly before I had to hurry off to work or to dinner or anywhere else. I did not have a pattern of long slow stretches. Just like most non professional athletes I had been slowly increasing my muscular tightness in the legs, hips, and back and slowly decreasing the strength in the core abdominals muscles. I simply did not know about the tiny spasms that occur for everyone in deep stabilizing muscles. I was getting tighter and tighter in certain muscles and weak and weaker in others which is a recipe for disaster.

For a full year following the big “Ouch!" I stopped running, increased my stretching routine, visited chiropractors, got MRI scans, got foot supporting orthotics for my shoes, adjusted my chair posture, tried some acupuncture, and took plenty of Ibuprofen. Things got better but were never right. I had a chronic postural issue.

Eventually I decided to try a yoga class that I had been to years before. Luckily for me it was a class taught by Rama Birch the founder of the Yoga Alliance. The Yoga Alliance sets the standards for certified yoga teachers nationwide. Rama is a very wise yoga teacher. Her conviction and experience were amazing to me. I told her about my dilemma and she said something like, “Well, I saw you walking across the room and your spine is all locked up. You need to release your tail bone. It’s going to take time." I thought to myself, “geez, my tailbone is locked up, hmmm; I can touch my toes and even get my legs into a few pretzel poses." I had even done extra stretching the month before class so how could I be that locked up?

I started taking classes and did the extra homework that Rama suggested. For a one hour a day for several months I did this: 1, the chair forward bend (head hanging between the knees), 2, the chair cross legged forward fold for both legs (in a chair, ankle on opposite knee and fold forward), 3, kneeling lunge for both legs (knee on the ground and opposite foot out in front and bring the front leg to vertical), 4, lying stomach twist both sides (lying on your side you look like your in a chair with you head twisting the opposite way of your knees). I added a few more yoga postures and some core exercises given to me by a chiropractor that also helped relieve the small muscle spasms and tightness. Slowly over time my spine released. The pains started disappearing and a few months later there were significant changes that allowed me to jog a bit and go dancing. After awhile I was taking regular Vinyasa flow yoga classes at the gym I had joined. I was going to yoga every other day and feeling great. I was running 1 mile a day and cycling a lot.

I lived this way for a few years and I felt pretty good but was never really satisfied. I was more restricted than I wanted to be by my physical limitations. I wanted a regular aerobic exercise routine that was invigorating. I wanted to feel really healthy. Every time I tried to increase my running mileage the pains would come back and linger throughout my day. I tried to stretch good in the Vinyasa yoga classes and that helped but not enough.

Rama retired from teaching and started working on the Yoga Alliance full time so I made it my goal to find another yoga teacher. I wanted a teacher trained by Rama in the Svaroopa style because I sensed that I needed to release the deeper muscles that Rama would talk about. I eventually found Skyler Myers at yoganic studio and I started taking her restorative yoga classes. After a few months my body started changing on a deeper level. I was slowly releasing more of the bound up tension from deep within my spine, tailbone, hips, hamstrings etc. With these classes I was doing a larger variety of yoga poses and I was discovering new poses that I needed to add to my regular routine. After a year of yoga with Skyler I started running a few miles at a time again without any difficulties. I was gliding like an antelope as if I was still in my early 20s. Everything started getting easier. My stress level was dropping to the level of many years ago and the 2-3 colds I used to get per year were now either mild or not happening at all.

I was thrilled and one day I decided to share my joy of deeper yoga with the world. I borrowed a friend’s video camera and created a yoga DVD with a few friends. After struggling and learning a lot I purchased a few more cameras and other equipment. Over the next couple of years we produced several yoga DVDs spending many hours waiting for nice sunsets and just the right tides (we wanted beautiful outdoor videos). I am especially fond of the Therapeutic and Restorative yoga DVDs because of my history and the dramatic changes that came from moving deeper into my body. The DVDs are for sale online at Amazon.com and at MyYogaVideo.com Search for myyogavideo on Amazon.

While healing my body I tried many forms of yoga. My deeper healings happened by really slowing down and paying close attention. I also needed to try different things, experiment with positions, and find out what it was like to deeply relax into a pose. Without restorative yoga I doubt I would have discovered what my body needed. In regular types of yoga classes there simply was not enough relaxation. My mind did not slow down enough and release the deeper muscles. There are so many muscles in the body and these muscles store tension in layers. Some muscles like those deep in the tailbone area need to release before you can get a good release in the sciatic nerve area, the piriformis. And to do this you need to find out if they are tight. Right now do you know if the muscles in and around your tailbone are tight? It is a feeling thing that takes time, patience, and the right poses with potential for deep relaxation.

The yoga video/DVD projects were gathering steam and as they progressed it became important to me to create DVDs that would help all yogis move deeper into their practice. When I practiced yoga it was not always helpful to hear the instructor talking. I liked it when her instruction was directed at what she saw in me that helped me explore undiscovered tightness but often she was saying things that distracted me from noticing the deep subtle muscles and my breath. I needed to escape my own minds chatter and her chatter often just added to it. This type of mental chatter is almost always present on DVDs where the instructor is talking about alignment and it is there every time you play it. So we created a series of Flow Yoga DVDs where you can choose how detailed the instruction is. You can also choose the music that inspires you, that helps you go beyond the mind, or choose no music or no detailed instruction. And we tried to make them beautiful to inspire you further.

The home website for the videos clips and DVDs is MyYogaVideo.com

and the teachers are: Laura Hawes (restorative yoga, yoga therapy), Skyler Myers (restorative yoga, yoga therapy), Christina Pedersen (Vinyasa Yoga, Kripalu Yoga), Jennifer Tipton (Vinyasa Yoga), Jyl Auxter (Vinyasa Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga), Maral Hadidi (Vinyasa Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Anusara Yoga), Ishwari Gonnot (Vinyasa Yoga, Anusara Yoga). Together we have produced a series of yoga DVDs with different yoga styles and difficulty levels. We have the restorative / yoga therapy DVDs and Vinyasa Yoga DVDs that include all the other styles (rolled into or combined with the Vinyasa). Coming soon we will have Kundalini Yoga combined with energizing aerobic dance and Hatha Yoga, Office Yoga, Airplane Yoga, Urban Yoga, Pilates, Aerobics / Kick Boxing, and Nutritional and Healthy Lifestyle DVDs. I hope you check them out and enjoy.

Namaste,
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