{"id":572,"date":"2017-08-15T13:27:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2017-08-15T13:27:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T23:27:11","slug":"a-flip-side-to-fake-it-till-you-make-it-berkeley-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/a-flip-side-to-fake-it-till-you-make-it-berkeley-study\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flip Side to &#8220;Fake it till you make it&#8221; &#8212; Berkeley Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-secret=\"i612iwLwWS\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2017\/08\/10\/emotionalacceptance\/\">Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2017\/08\/10\/emotionalacceptance\/embed\/#?secret=i612iwLwWS\" data-secret=\"i612iwLwWS\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse&#8221; &#8212; Berkeley News\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I happened upon this and thought it was pretty timely. One of the difficult aspects of depression is trying to maintain a positive mental attitude and a lot of times there a view of sort of &#8216;faking it&#8217; until you get better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered what kinds of negative implications this may have and one of my views has been that as I started to understand my depression more I stopped trying to put on a smile and accepted my darker emotions and tried to focus on processing through them rather than burying them away. I stopped telling folks &#8220;I&#8217;m good&#8221; when I knew I was having a hard go of things.<\/p>\n<p>The idea really isn&#8217;t new, the concept that bottling up your emotions usually only leads to more explosive outbursts later. My father had a temper, and growing up I always worked to keep mine under wraps. Often wonder if that was a disservice to myself. We all manifest emotional stress differently and I think in my case it was a downward spiral into depression which caused me to hurt those close to me.<\/p>\n<p>The important take away I had from the article was the idea that I need to make sure I am finding safe, constructive outlets for the stress and negative emotions I feel. Some of my choices, admittedly, are a bit less safe than others but for myself I&#8217;ve always found a degree of danger and adrenaline has seemed to be the only way around my depressive episodes. Be it racing cars, hunting or just shooting at a gun range. Whatever your particular outlet try to make sure it&#8217;s a something positive and work your way through the down times. You don&#8217;t have to necessarily smile, but you do have to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse I happened upon this and thought it was pretty timely. One of the difficult aspects of depression is trying to maintain a positive mental attitude and a lot of times there a view of sort of &#8216;faking it&#8217; until you get better. I&#8217;ve often wondered &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/a-flip-side-to-fake-it-till-you-make-it-berkeley-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Flip Side to &#8220;Fake it till you make it&#8221; &#8212; Berkeley Study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[83,4,15],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice","category-depression","tag-article","tag-depression","tag-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-9e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}