{"id":258868,"date":"2020-07-30T13:11:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=258868"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:27:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T20:27:36","slug":"how-to-improve-your-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/30\/how-to-improve-your-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Improve Your Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Practical thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Via negativa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='500' height='281' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/xneuKcwe?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1674852142'><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/30\/mental-hygiene-2\/\">MENTAL HYGIENE.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More effective to REMOVE toxic people, thoughts and substances\/media\/technology\/social-media\/news than to &#8220;add&#8221; &#8216;healthy&#8217; things and people to your life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, best to quit sugar. Sugar can either directly or indirectly lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2769828\/\">Type 3 Diabetes (Alzheimer&#8217;s disease<\/a>, which is a metabolic disease of the mind). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2769828\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2338\" height=\"1598\" data-attachment-id=\"258905\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/30\/how-to-improve-your-mental-health\/screen-shot-2020-07-30-at-4-16-01-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-4.16.01-PM.jpg?fit=2338%2C1598&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2338,1598\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-4.16.01-PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-4.16.01-PM.jpg?fit=2338%2C1598&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-4.16.01-PM.jpg?fit=2338%2C1598&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-4.16.01-PM.jpg?resize=2338%2C1598&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-258905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-4.16.01-PM.jpg?w=2338&amp;ssl=1 2338w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-4.16.01-PM.jpg?resize=768%2C525&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-4.16.01-PM.jpg?resize=1536%2C1050&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-4.16.01-PM.jpg?resize=2048%2C1400&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-4.16.01-PM.jpg?resize=655%2C448&amp;ssl=1 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2769828\/\">Type 3 Diabetes on PUBMED<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, cut <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/27\/anti-toxic-people\/\">toxic<\/a> people from your life. I cut my dad out of my life cold-turkey, and my mental health has been a quadrillion times better ever since. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practical thoughts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ERIC-KIM-freestyle-poem-rap-00009-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258931,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258868\/revisions\/258931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}