Imagine you’re going through a very hard time in your life. You thought your life was perfect and on track but suddenly, something tragic happens. This is what happens to Amy Morin in her Ted Talk about “The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong”. When she was 23, she had an amazing life with a husband and a good job. However, her mother dies. This was already hard for her but years later, her husband dies too. After she fell in love again, her father-in-law also passed away. This devastated her and she was thinking about why she has to be unlucky, why her loved ones are all leaving. This is where she says how to get through something difficult, you can’t just go around it and avoid it, you need to go through it. To be mentally strong, you should also break your unhealthy habits. Having self-pity is one way that is bad for your mental health. You keep thinking about your bad luck instead of finding a solution to it. Another is having unhealthy beliefs of others. By thinking other people have control over you, you’re giving away your power. The third harmful belief is having unhealthy beliefs in the world. You think that the world owes you something because you work very hard but it doesn’t always mean that. Breaking your unhealthy habits may be hard but being strong and healthy mentally is the key to being successful, recovering from pain, and many other things.
