Managing Mental Health and Stress
The video of the call can be found here. (Audio failed to capture participant voices, will be resolved for next meeting)
Today the Perimeter had their eleventh call. There were 9 of us in attendance. The topic of the discussion was managing mental health and stress, led by Ryan Martinez. In this post you'll find key points from the discussion and a video recording from the conference call.
Managing mental health and stress
1st question - how do you feel sharing mental health with those around you?
Ryan and Carlos both deal with it in their relationships - opening up to SO’s
Carlos is more comfortable with opening up to friends
Austin feels comfortable sharing with SO, but not so much w/ family
Armani/Austin don’t always want to involve parents - too close
Easier to open up to strangers sometimes
GF’s want the guy to open up - how they approach it can affect our response
2nd question - how has mental health been approached by your family
Do we want our approach to be different than that of our parents?
Mental health is more easily approachable as a topic now - our generation has had more exposure than our parents
At the same time it's hard to feel like you’re talking down to your parents
Armani - Lead the conversation with your own experience, and make it something that appeals to them without telling them to do something
3rd Question - What do you do to manage your mental stress
Guy - questions why, good diet/good sleep, exercise
Carlos likes to acknowledge all his stressors so he can formulate game plan
Austin likes to force himself to socialize
Hartman - historically people struggled more with external problems (war, poverty, famine), modern people face more internal problems (rejecting universal truths and morals)
Armani - Story of the Chinese emperor - deal with what’s inside to be able to handle the outside problems
Guy - sat down and wrote about how everything is going in his life
4th Q - do you feel like caring about mental health is weak or emasculating?
Overwhelming response was no, not weak
Hartman - being emasculated can cause mental strife - gives you emotions to share
5th Question - Is it important to talk about mental health
6th Q - is mental health an appropriate convo
Austin - it is relevant because it stimulates discourse
7th Q - Is it important to manage mental help or easier to push it away/ignore
Mike - certain things/anxieties you have to address in order to be able to perform
Address problem at hand, handle the mental health after/rest and recover
Call to action:
Setting up Tribal Gathering at Onion Valley