Weekly Prompt #41: How do you perceive your own resilience and ability to cope with challenges?
Hello all,
I hope you are all being easy on yourself this week.
A few weeks ago we discussed: How does your depression affect your ability to care about and take care of others? Thank you to all who participated and shared their thoughts and questions for discussion. They were thought-provoking questions and thoughts. I hope you all did too. If you didn't share yours, please share them here and I look forward to reading and discussing them with you
This week's prompt: How do you perceive your resilience and ability to cope with challenges?
To perceive your resilience and ability to cope with challenges, you can reflect on your past experiences, identify your strengths, ways to embrace a positive mindset etc. Let's get started and share your thoughts with us. I look forward to hearing all your thoughts and ideas.
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It depends on the challenge. I am fairly high functioning with everyday life duties. But even minor social challenges can overload my tolerance. My past involved mostly interpersonal traumas. I’m starting to understand that I may not have moved past them as much as I thought. It feels like adding to the pile and I easily tip over. It helps me feel better when I pursue some goal that means a lot to me.
@ASilentObserver Challenges have become constant and maybe an indispensable part of my life because I feel there is always something to deal with. Watching myself grow everyday I have come to realise that it doesn't matter how reoccurring these challenges might be, there is always something about me that believes I can walk through it as a winner and this keeps me going no matter the setbacks along the way. It also gives me new perspectives which helps me cope well in every situation.