BITESIZE | How To Reconnect With Joy & Improve Your Mental Health | Dr Camilla Nord #645
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Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite Size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 543 of the podcast with Dr. Camilla Nord, a neuroscientist. an author of The Balanced Brain, The Science of Mental Health. In this clip, she explains why pleasure is so fundamental to mental well-being and how small, consistent actions could help improve our mental health.
Regularly doing things that you love makes you more resilient to stress. And at the same time, chronic work stress makes it harder for you to experience pleasure in those day-to-day things. So again, this kind of bi-directional relationship, you know, in terms of pleasure then, if you're someone who is not experiencing pleasure from things that you used to, like, is there a practical take-home that people can say, oh, well, I used to find this enjoyable? I don't anymore, what can I actually do about it? So I suppose the most practical thing for someone diagnosed with depression is to kind of take that signal as being very important and significant, something that they maybe should seek treatment for, psychological treatment, pharmacological treatment, you know, whatever works for them.
But I think a second kind of corollary of that that applies to everyone, irrespective of their diagnosis, is to maybe prioritize pleasure a little bit more than we do. Especially I think people have this kind of this inclination that everything fun is bad for you. And some fun things are bad for you. But actually when it comes to your mental health, there is a kind of inherent benefit of
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