For the past 4 years or so, I've been really digging deep into self-improvement, reading self help books, psychology books, watching videos and stuff. I feel like I can start writing about it, as a career, to share my insights.
I will mainly write about my own path to self-actualization and my own path to getting out of depression or mental health illnesses.
I've been diagnosed with anxiety disorder and am on the schizophrenia spectrum. But I've been doing a lot of reflecting and thinking and wondered how I might be able to change and improve my own condition and also helping others with the same problems by sharing what I have done.
Mainly, I think it all comes down with having a purpose in life. You have to find your purpose in life to be able to survive and have a meaningful life.
In the book "Man's search for a meaning", Victor Frankl states that under the Nazi regime, there was as difference between the survivors and the victims in the concentration camps. Those who survived had a purpose in their lives; they saw a light at the end of the tunnel and had a sense of hope towards it and didn't give up on the way towards achieving it. He says that having a purpose is the single most important thing which makes our lives feel fulfilled.
In a way, that is true. For years I didn't know what my purpose was. I feel like I was just doing what was told by others and not really thinking about it or doing anything on my own. Lately, after trying out a few different jobs and hobbies, I really feel like my purpose in life is to create art. It also started when I started to create art in art therapies sessions in London. It was very mind blowing to see that something that you drew could hold so many meanings and interpretations.
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