Would You Want Tomorrow to Be Like Today?

Realize when the things you love no longer sing to your soul and ask yourself, would I want tomorrow to be like today.

hi and welcome to the journey never ends today we're going to talk about how do you

know if you're okay how do you know if you need help i know this sounds silly but

many times it's hard to know what normal is am i too happy am i too sad

Am I really just experiencing what people experience?

I wouldn't know because I don't know what other people experience.

When I talked to my doctor,

he gave me a very practical way of knowing how my day went and knowing if I'm doing okay.

Essentially, it's just asking myself at the end of the day, would I want

tomorrow to be like today?

Very simple question.

Would I want tomorrow to be like today?

And the interesting thing is that they've done a very wide survey.

So they understand a baseline.

What they have documented from their survey is that women my age typically have

five days a month

When they say, no, I don't want tomorrow to be like today.

So that was very eyeopening to me.

And it kind of gave me a ruler to be able to understand if I really do need help or

if my ranges of emotion are just ranges of emotion that need to occur.

and that occur to other people.

We need a reference.

We need to compare our experience to someone else's experience or to the

collective's experience in order to really comprehend what we're going through.

Because we can only understand what's going on in between our heads.

Instead of asking yourself, am I depressed?

Ask yourself, would I want tomorrow to be like today?

I thought this was a very powerful question, and I try to do this every single day.

Another concept that helps me understand where I am emotionally is when I listen to

the music I enjoy and I don't dance,

I know there's a problem.

When I listen to the music that I love and I don't hum or sing along,

I know that that day is probably not great.

So this is just to share with you guys some tools to really gauge where your mood is,

because a lot of times I don't know that I'm depressed until I come out of the

depression and see the light of life.

I personally don't know when I'm manic until I'm not manic anymore.

And that is why it's been so destructive for me.

I'm working on it and I'm just happy to share some tools that can help you

understand your own state of mind that can help you get help if that's what you need.

There is no shame in getting help.

Getting help is a strength and it can change your life because remember,

untreated and unaddressed mental illness,

it will ruin your life.

Your brain controls everything about your life.

You need it to be healthy for yourself and for other people.

So be practical about understanding where your mood is.

Ask yourself, would you want tomorrow to be like today?

Realize when you stop dancing and stop singing to the music you love.

These are all indicators that you might need help.

That's all I wanted to talk about today.

Really appreciate you guys being here.

Hope y'all have a stable and happy day.

Much love.