Berge’s Better Tomorrow
Let's talk about life. Your life, my life, everyone's lives, and how we can learn from each other to benefit our own mental and behavioral health. Mental health is just as important as our physical health, yet it is not treated as so. This podcast is hopeful in breaking the stigma around mental health. Not every episode is heavy-hearted (suicide awareness, various mental illnesses, etc.), nor is every episode light-hearted (advice, funny late-night thoughts, etc.), but in every episode, there is something to learn. The content comes from a variety of sources whether clinical research or someone’s very own personal experience. We all go through hard times throughout life, so I want to teach you some ways to make those times a little less hard. Every week there will be a new activity for you to try that could be useful or enjoyable to better your mental health. It can be easy to fall back into the same, destructive pattern but I encourage you to recognize you are not stuck in that way of thinking. Each day you have the opportunity to adjust your way of thinking and what may be helping you could help someone else, so it is important to speak about it. This podcast is set to challenge and expand our way of thinking by allowing us to become more self-aware of ourselves and those around us: you can’t change what you don’t acknowledge, but you can’t acknowledge what you don’t know.
Berge’s Better Tomorrow
Body dysmorphia
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
In this episode, I talk about what body dysmorphic disorder is and who can have it. ANYONE. I give some suggestions for how to work through negative self-talk and intrusive judgmental thoughts about others. People with body dysmorphic disorder often want to fix things about their physical appearance, but never feel satisfied. They often compare themselves to others, their past or future self, and can't find comfort in what they look like now. That's why it is important to change your mindset and work on seeing yourself as beautiful/handsome however you are because that will give you long-term satisfaction. I tell you how you can begin to do that in a few steps and stop letting negative self-talk win. This week's activity is to work on self-love talk. Remember that if it's hard one day and your negative thoughts are winning, that's ok just pick yourself back up the next day and keep trying. You got this!
*I apologize about the audio right after minute 4. I accidentally added on a crossfade and could not figure out how to get rid of it! It is only about a minute and a half but just a heads up.