MENTAL WELLNESS

MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES

Understanding Your Mind’s Landscape
Mental health challenges are experiences that affect your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and overall well-being. They can range from temporary stress or grief to long-term conditions like anxiety, depression, or neurodivergence. Recognizing patterns, triggers, and support strategies helps you navigate these challenges and build resilience.

STRESS

How chronic or acute stress affects the mind and body, leading to burnout, brain fog, or a survival-focused state.

  • Burnout → Early signs, physical vs. emotional exhaustion, recovery strategies

  • Brain Fog → Impacts on focus, memory, and clarity

  • Survival Mode → Nervous system adaptations to ongoing stress

ANXIETY

Persistent worry or fear that can affect daily functioning.

  • Overthinking → Repetitive thoughts that escalate stress

  • Overwhelm/Overstimulation → Feeling mentally or emotionally overloaded

DEPRESSION

Extended low mood or loss of interest in activities, with potential physical and cognitive effects.

  • Grief → Processing loss

  • Death → Thoughts and feelings surrounding mortality

TRAUMA + PTSD

The lasting impact of past events on mental and physical health.

  • CPTSD/PTSD → Definitions and distinctions

  • Fight / Flight / Freeze → How the body responds to perceived threat

ADHD + EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION

Challenges with focus, planning, and regulating attention or behavior.

  • Overwhelm/Overstimulation → How sensory and cognitive load affect executive function

AUTISM

Neurodivergent patterns affecting social communication, sensory processing, and routine.

  • Overwhelm/Overstimulation → Common triggers and coping strategies

FOOD + BODY IMAGE

Intersections between nutrition, self-perception, and emotional well-being

MANIA

Periods of elevated energy, mood, and activity levels

CHRONIC ILLNESS + DISABILITY

Mental health considerations when managing ongoing medical conditions

GUILT + SHAME + IDENTITY

How internalized beliefs and experiences shape self-perception and emotional health

Linked Concepts:
→ Nervous System + Stress → Trauma + The Nervous System → Self-Regulation Techniques → Gut-Brain Connection