Boys cry too
Show your feelings
An important part of living a healthy, happy life is that we don’t try to bottle up our feelings. If we do, all these buried emotions build up and tend to get released in one go which can result in burnout, breakdown or mental illness.
Don’t be scared of showing your feelings – crying doesn’t make us a lesser person. It’s not easy and may make us feel embarrassed afterwards but some things really are worth crying about.
It can take real courage to do this so, paradoxically, it’s the bloke in tears who’s got guts while it’s the strong, silent John Wayne type who’s more often the coward.
As long as we’re not violent, it’s usually better to let our feelings show.
Positive thinking
How we feel about ourselves influences how we feel about almost every aspect of our lives. If we always look on the negative side of things then we end up pretty depressed and this depression can stop us doing stuff, like a night out with mates, which could make us feel better.
It’s a vicious circle in which you think negatively, feel crap and this makes you think even more negatively than you did in the first place.
So it’s important to be aware of what’s going on in our head and try to look at things positively.
