Mental Health is Half Way to Have a Better Life
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I quit my job eight months ago and I must confess that I do not regret it. A steady job and a steady income is half the way to have a great life but the other half is also important.
On the second half there is a very important thing: Mental Health and that is what I was losing. According to Wikipedia:
Mental health is a term used to describe either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual’s ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience. Mental health is an expression of our emotions and signifies a successful adaptation to a range of demands.
Emotional well-being, ability to enjoy life and family and psychological resilience were some of the things I had lost. The question that popped up several times in my mind was: How to have a better life? The answer was something I knew for a long time: quit my job.
Working in a place where you are not respected, were you are verbally assaulted everyday, humiliated and underestimated really messes up with your mind, whether you want or not. Sometimes I just wished I had Martial arts training to punch my bosses. I know some people that have sales jobs and feel frustrated. They approach some clients that are not interested on the product and they are rudely treated but working 8 hours a day in a place where you constantly have that feeling is really complicated.
These last months I haven’t accomplish a lot online but I’m really willing to get a work I can do from home. I don’t see myself back in an office. I might have the greatest bosses in the future but I’m really scared that what happened on my previous workplace will happen again. I really don’t want the same feeling again, I don’t want to think about Martial arts DVD‘s again, ever.
I might not have a steady job, I might not have a steady income, I might be in a difficult financial situation but I am psychologically resilient and I am having a Better Life.
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Very inspiring! I think I would agree.. Though my salary is more than enough for me alone, I have to risk myself from staying healthy. I work to sustain my family. If I don’t have to look over them and forget about my responsibilities I would like to do something else and not in a work table filled with files and stockpile of folders.
I’m glad you’re happy despite your situation. If I’m in your shoe right now, I would have been very proud with myself.
Thanks!
Laura Reply:
September 4th, 2010 at 10:39
Thank you so much for your comment. I am relieve that I’m no longer in a stress and abusive environment. In fact we are all happier at home. I was getting everybody miserable with my unhappiness.
This is very true.. You don’t need all the money in the world if you feel like you are not happy and your body is not fit anymore. Thanks for the share!
Laura Reply:
September 4th, 2010 at 10:40
So true.
For some people …they can’t survive when quitting a job..to live life into fullest, once must stay positive,healthy and happy living=)job is just another options,but what you need is balance…work on a project to take your success to a new level and don’t neglect the other areas of your life.your aim is to do what excites you, and follow the path that makes you come alive and ask yourself..are you happy now..?;)