Innovative Psychiatry
The dictionary definition of resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. It’s knowing how to cope and maintain an even keel in spite of setbacks, barriers, or limited resources. It has to do with emotional strength. We offer these articles about resilience to dispel stigma, and to show how you can gain resilience. In addition, to show how resilience has set itself as a key factor for determining that someone is doing well, and possibly even achieving remission from depression.
In this day and time, when IV ketamine has been helping so many achieve remission, it has become commonplace to judge outlook and frame of mind by the level of resilience. For some, even inklings of resilience indicate symptoms are dissipating.
The early twinkling of bits of resilience gives hope to someone suffering from depression that they may be improving.
Resilience is a quality, a factor, a tool, and a hope-instigator.
It’s also the ability to adapt to adversity …and to manage strong feelings and impulses.
When you’re depressed, a disappointment or hurt can set you back for weeks or months. You find you can’t recover because the pain of it just goes on and on mercilessly.
This is where IV ketamine treatment can transform your outlook. Resilience and initiative can return. Hope can take the place of despair. And resilience can introduce remission.
With the help of IV ketamine treatment, you can learn to change the way you see crises. Rather than viewing difficulties as insurmountable problems, you can learn to see them as challenges to be resolved. You can look at your past experiences and learn from them then apply what you’ve learned as new challenges arise.
As you make steps in this direction, your self confidence can grow. Your belief in your ability to handle what comes into your life can become stronger.
We hope you’ll read these articles about resilience and see ways to grow it, develop it, strengthen it, and maintain it. We also want to show how IV ketamine can kick start that process when a disorder has drained away your your ability to cope at all.
How is it that some people seem to maintain a bright outlook in their daily life, including in times of difficulty? Is it naiveté or something else? Others say that their “realistic” outlook has served them well and they rely on it, but their realistic perspective can typically be dangerously pessimistic. And what’s so bad […]
Chronic Illness Creates Physical Stress Janie has a chronic illness that causes her to be admitted to the hospital — often the ICU — relatively frequently. Her condition becomes urgent, throwing her electrolyte balance, her pH balance, and her other systems into disarray. Each time she’s admitted, she suffers dreadfully with overwhelming nausea, vomiting…. and […]
Find out how to get it fast. Feel like giving up lately? Not just giving up what you’re doing, but giving up on life…? You’re not alone, you know. Still, just because you feel something a lot of other people feel, you don’t have to act on it. This is why you need resilience. Resilience […]
We often think of depression as being caused by loss. Things like death, or loss of an important relationship, loss of job or status… Sometimes there is a period when everything is going well, then suddenly things begin to go equally badly. You can experience a sort of whiplash that occurs that brings on depression […]
Most of us realize that the abuse of young children is cruel and heartbreaking, and can scar their emotions. This is especially true of girls. But there’s more to it…. Childhood abuse alters girls’ development of the connections between neurons in the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, the parietal cortex, and insular cortex …all important parts of your […]
Ask yourself…”Do you prefer good times…or interesting times…?” We’ve talked about how to recover after a crisis or trauma so you can get back up. Let’s take another step. Let’s talk about making use of your experiences so you can — and will — move forward. First and foremost, like letting go of the memories […]
Resilience – The power to bounce back emotionally after a major disappointment or event. Here we are. COVID cases have dropped dramatically…right along with COVID deaths. We’re slowly transitioning from the pandemic to what we hope will be post-pandemic. Slowly over time. It won’t be a one day change, but an advancing progressive adjustment to […]
Do you have a COVID baby? If so, you’ve had compounded stress. Most moms are familiar with the exhaustion (and the overwhelm!) that often takes over when your newborn comes home from the hospital. It isn’t as though you were sleeping great before you went into labor. Then contractions started and progressed to active serious labor. […]
Across the country, extreme winter storms have descended upon us. Even in the Gulf states, short sleeve weather is suddenly shifting to snow. Temperatures are dropping from 70 degrees to 17 degrees. And the gray skies that bring snow, also contribute to Seasonal Affective Disorder. Gray on the outside can turn some people gray on […]
Resilience is doing well when you shouldn’t be doing well. — Dr. Sood, executive director of the Global Center for Resiliency and Well-being. We’ve passed the 1-year mark of this pandemic, and it’s time to draw from our personal stores of personal strength to maintain our pace through the rest of the pandemic triumphantly. And […]