A GROWTH Mindset vs. a FIXED Mindset With Mental Health

This is so true. Part of depression and anxiety is thinking you are stuck in it, and somehow it's all your own fault. Seeing it as a growth opportunity changes the perspective to a hopeful one. Thanks for these videos 🌹🙏💝

I really wish you would (if you haven't already) do a video about elderly depression. Those of us in our elderly years have lives that are winding down due to degeneration of physical abilities, sometimes diminishing mental capabilities, and lower amounts of emotional energy. Some of us suffer from depression, loneliness, multiple illnesses, and sometimes poverty. When we're old and tired, what can we learn that will help us in the last years of our lives as they continue to narrow and wind down?

PSA- A growth mindset does NOT say that you're not allowed to deal with emotions. If you feel sad, you don't have to REPLACE it with an 'Oh, what can I learn from this?' mindset. Rather, you have to accept that you're feeling sad, move on, deal with it, and THEN ask yourself if you can learn anything from the situation that happened. And a BIG percentage of times, you can't learn anything from it, you can just move on. TL;DR- Don't make your growth mindset a coping mechanism, deal with your emotions fully.

Ironically, this creates both a positive and negative feedback loop. those with a fixed mindset will believe they are incapable of adopting the growth mindset, while those who have a growth mindset will have an easier time embracing the fact that growth with the right mindset is possible. It's taken me so long to break this negative feedback loop.

I had a fixed mindset and my life was a nightmare! Now I have a growth mindset and things flow perfectly (well almost perfect as perfection doesn't exists)! :)

you're doing so well in spreading mental health awareness, as a psychology major and as a human being, I look upto you <3

I've experienced anxiety and depression since I was 13 and I've always blamed and hated myself for it because its felt like there is something wrong with me. Recently I put together that I may have gotten some form of ptsd as a toddler after an incident happened and I was injured. In a study I read with a similar case study, a little boy ended up a little developmentally behind than his peers on the emotional front. I guess it dawned on me how little control we have on how our environment and experiences shaped our brains - now it's our present self who has to live with the effects of all the accumulated stuff...and though it is hard every day i am choosing to stay patient with myself and learn the art of self forgiveness, love and care. It's taken me a long time to even get to where I am today.

I used to have a growht mindset before i started university... when i was in my second semester of my first year uni i got a burn out and i suffer from really bad anxiety. This led me to have a fixed mindset. Your video inspired me to not be so negative all the time and be kind to myself. Thank you so much for your content <3 I will work my way towards a growth mindset again :D

Thank you so much for referring to artists and painters as not just having "talent". My husband is a painter who dedicates 12 hours per day at times to draw and perfect his fine art. The problem is, most people become incredibly jealous that they cannot succeed in the same regard because they won't put that same amount of time in. It is so difficult for people to understand how much time and discipline that takes.

A person with a growth mindset believe he/she can learn at accomplish almost anything, however, This video ignores the struggles of having a growth mindset. If a person has a growth mindset and a life situation where the person is totally stuck (financially or through responsibilities), it can be very frustrating, the inner potential can feel trapped and life can feel limmited as the person do everything he/she can to progress in life while the actual progress is almost non exsistent.

Done so much growth in the last thirteen years, anxiety still very high. Thanks growth!

As someone who's currently working towards my master's in counseling and struggling with some mental health issues myself, these videos have been really helpful.

I think there's a certain amount of perfectionism in a fixed mindset.

YOU are indispensable! Thank you for making these succinct, clear and powerful pieces. Thank you for giving back!!! I'm forever grateful. My therapist moved on to "greener pa$ture$", and I still haven't found a replacement. But sucks what's out there even with insurance. So I come to youtube, read a lot of books, listen to podcasts and be proactive in my healing and growth. This wouldnt be possible without contributors like you

I think I have a growth mindset now, although there were many periods before, where I did have a fixed mindset. I think we all naturally have a a growth mindset but sometimes life and circumstances can lead us to a fixed mindset, even to a point sometimes where we may not even be aware of it. If we are able to recover learn from it and help others to get through in some way, is best possible thing we can do.

Man, I have heard this a million times, and have found it to be true. However, it is really hard to remind yourself of it each day.

Seeing imperfections in me as “opportunities” just makes me feel worse and seeing them in such a rosy, happy way feels wrong. Like it’s diminishing my feelings

I’m going back to therapy next Tuesday. In the last year I lost my job, my girlfriend left me, and my Father died. My anxiety has become worse than ever before. My Agoraphobia is out of control. I’m 23 and I’m so sick of living at home with my Mother, while almost everyone else I know is making something of themselves while I sit here rotting away.

So appreciating your generosity and altruism in making this available. Thank you - your work is helping me enormously with my PhD write-up stuck-ness!

This channel seems to read my mind. About a week ago a local shopkeeper was listening to Dweck's audio book and we got to talking about self help. I ordered the book a couple of days ago, can't wait to read it!