{"id":328770,"date":"2025-12-03T05:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/why-do-i-do-the-things-i-do-my-brains-not-broken\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T05:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:21:08","slug":"why-do-i-do-the-things-i-do-my-brains-not-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=328770","title":{"rendered":"Why Do I Do the Things I Do? \u2013 My Brain&#8217;s Not Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Years of living with anxiety and depression have taught me many things. Some of those things were about mental health, while other things were about myself and who I am as a person. But despite all I\u2019ve learned, I still do things that leave me asking myself one question over and over:\u00a0<em>Why did I do that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not alone in feeling this way, but I\u2019m the type of person who always wants to know the\u00a0<em>why<\/em>\u00a0of something.\u00a0<em>Why did I do that? Why did they say that? Why did I react that way?<\/em>\u00a0This question can come from all sorts of situations, and can happen on an almost daily basis. And while there are often simple answers, not every one of them will be satisfying. When it comes to our mental health, those questions can be some of the most difficult to answer.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when I was first dealing with anxiety and depression, and I would ask myself \u201cWhy?\u201d all the time. All the time! Why was I sad? Why didn\u2019t I have a reason? Why was I struggling getting out of bed? Every new thing I learned brought new questions about mental illness, or about myself. And I desperately wanted answers.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes with our mental health, answers can be hard to come by. We want clear explanations, something obvious to point to, for why we feel the way we do. But mental illness often doesn\u2019t give us the response we\u2019re looking for \u2013 if it gives us a response at all. So we have to find other ways to reach our goals.<\/p>\n<p>One of the ways I get around asking the impossible\u00a0<em>Why?<\/em>\u00a0questions is to ask myself something more practical. These questions feel similar but they start with a different word: <strong>what<\/strong>. What am I feeling? What is happening within my body, in the world around me? What factors might be impacting how I\u2019m feeling right now? What can I do in this moment to help support myself? It was a massive shift in my way of thinking that I didn\u2019t know I needed. Rather than put the focus on something I couldn\u2019t change, I tried to move it to something I could. I can\u2019t control everything that happens to me, but I do control how I react. And while I don\u2019t remember that in\u00a0<em>every<\/em>\u00a0situation, it\u2019s helped me plenty of times.<\/p>\n<p>So this is what I\u2019d like to leave you with today. You might not always know why you\u2019re acting the way you are, and that can be frustrating. But understanding that you\u00a0<em>are<\/em>\u00a0doing it, that there\u2019s a reason behind it, is also important. You can\u2019t solve a problem you don\u2019t know exists, right? Many mental health challenges grow or persist because we\u2019re not able to see the problem for what it is. Asking \u201cwhat\u2019s wrong?\u201d instead of \u201cwhy am I doing this?\u201d might sound like a small change in word choice, but it\u2019s helped me shift my mindset on my own mental health. And over time, those small changes can amount to big ones \u2013 not only for our mental health, but for our whole self.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12886\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mybrainsnotbroken.com\/2025\/11\/25\/why-do-i-do-the-things-i-do\/ben-franklin\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mybrainsnotbroken.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ben-franklin.png\" data-orig-size=\"1200,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ben Franklin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mybrainsnotbroken.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ben-franklin.png?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mybrainsnotbroken.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ben-franklin.png?w=636\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/mybrainsnotbroken.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ben-franklin.png?w=1024\" alt=\"An image of flowers and a pond with text over top that reads: There are things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. 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But despite all I\u2019ve learned, I still do things that leave me asking myself one question over and over:\u00a0Why did I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100620,12148,98079,96877,98631,97703,112203],"tags":[20493,4175],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-328770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","category-depression","category-general","category-mental-health","category-mental-health-awareness","category-mental-illness","category-mental-wellness","tag-brains","tag-broken"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Do I Do the Things I Do? \u2013 My Brain&#039;s Not Broken - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=328770\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Do I Do the Things I Do? \u2013 My Brain&#039;s Not Broken - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Years of living with anxiety and depression have taught me many things. 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