Depressed and Suicidal? Do the Silent Prayer
Hey, welcome to this post.
Firstly, you are going to be alright. Your feelings and situations are going to get lighter soon, and I empathize!
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Entrepreneurs’ Immediate Anxiety Cheat Sheet
Entrepreneurs Immediate Anxiety Cheat Sheet – “I am feeling deeply overwhelmed, a headache is knocking, and I am getting flushes of anxiety. I know I should do the following below but I try to reason that I have important things to get done…”
(Find JPEG image of this cheat sheet at the bottom of the post) Read more
[My] 7 Top Articles Helpful to Entrepreneurs in Admitting and Dealing With Anxiety and Depression
[My] 7 Top Articles Helpful to Entrepreneurs in Admitting and Dealing With Anxiety and Depression – From all levels of start-up to big success in entrepreneurship, there exists a dark cloud often not talked about. It is anxiety and depression.
At worst, I’ve read stories of very successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs committing suicide.
Entrepreneurship can be gruesome. Read more
Get this book for free. ‘The Entrepreneur’s Emotional Toolbox’ by David Chislett
My good friend (and unofficial mentor), David Chislett, has penned a very helpful book.
A few years ago when he was in South Africa to visit his family, we met up. And he gave me some great advice I still carry today. The advice was, if you have actively been executing ideas for years, YOU NEED A BREAK AT SOME POINT. Or you will break and burn.
The title of the book is ‘The Entrepreneur’s Emotional Toolbox.’
And guess WHAT? He is availing it as a free download. Click here to go and download it.
“Whether you are a seasoned entrepreneur, or just thinking about going out on your own, this small book is jam packed with tips and tricks and useful strategies to keep you sane and healthy while making a success of your business idea.
This is not a business advice handbook or pocket MBA. It is designed to help anyone who works for themselves or owns their own business, deal with the very real emotional and psychological challenges that come with being a self-starter in a business world dominated by huge corporates.”
Where to Get Help for Anxiety, Depression and Suicide
Where to Get Help for Anxiety – Since publishing ‘The Anxious Entrepreneur’, I’ve been making interesting contacts with people.
I am not a professional anxiety, depression and suicide expert.
If you believe you suffer from anxiety, depression and are having suicidal thoughts, I humbly request that you get help from a trained professional. These are serious conditions you need to attend urgently.
So below follows places to find such help:
SOUTH AFRICA
The organisations below have support groups and/or programmes in various parts of the country. Find out if they do not have support closer to your area.
South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG)
- Help line: (011) 262-6396 (8am – 8pm, seven days a week)
- Suicide crisis line: 0800 567 567 or SMS 31393 (8am – 8pm, seven days a week)
- Website:sadac.org
LifeLine Southern Africa
This is a 24 hour emotional crisis intervention service. It’s free and confidential.
- National counselling line: 0861-322-322
Counsellors help callers with challenges such as trauma and suicide. - Website: www.lifeline.co.za
INTERNATIONALLY
In each country, there are organisations and support groups that assist people experiencing these conditions. Search and approach them for help. And the prominent ones are mostly free.
If you are in a crisis, I suggest you contact a depression, suicide or emergency helpline in your country.
In any case, here are some online resources you can use (some are free, some are free for the first session and others charge throughout):
7 Cups
Free, anonymous and confidential online text chat with trained listeners, online therapists & counsellors.
Website https://www.7cups.com
Counselo
Assists with depression, sadness and burned out.
Website www.counselo.com
Therapy Tribe
Helps people find great mental health resources like therapists, support groups, wellness tools, as well as an overall sense of community.
Offers a combination of a professional therapist directory as well as self-help wellness resources – all free of charge to the community in need.
Website www.therapytribe.com
Better Help
Convenient, affordable, private online counselling – anytime and anywhere.
Website www.betterhelp.com
The Other Source of Depression
I have always been entrepreneurial. On two separate occasions as a kid I had vegetable gardens. On each, my grandmother, and later her daughter (my mother), gave away almost all my produce and thus succeeded in liquidating my intended businesses. I guess my mother got it from her mother – my grandmother gave it to her daughter.
Among the other things I aspired to be was Jean Claude Van Damme. I didn’t want to be Chuck Norris because he had bushy chest hair. I am 30 today, with medium chest hair. It is even turning white.
How my story should be is: he grew up poor, went to university; he then ventured into business, struggled for a bit of time and then became very successful. “He Read more
You Might Be Preparing to Get Overly Anxious When You Are in Old Age
[Sir] Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones is 73, has a 6 months old son – Deveraux – apparently conceived on tour, with a 29 year old girlfriend. He is still making music and doing other creative stuff.
Yeah, The Rolling Stones make hundreds of millions touring.
One thing I do not want to be is old and broke or poor. It saddens me when I see old people without any or much financial muscle to buy stuff – either alcohol, clothes, food, helping out their children and/or grandchildren. Their strength and mind renders them unfavourable to job – although not all. Read more
Tiisetso Maloma interview on Baby Got Booked Podcast – How to Stop Anxiety from Holding You Back
Hello.
I got interviewed on the Baby Got Booked Podcast, hosted by Canadian entrepreneur and PR expert – Geeta Nadkarni.
I had much fun talking about themes for reducing anxiety in one’s entrepreneurship hustle, and my book – The Anxious Entrepreneur. Geeta is just awesome.
Click here to download the podcast.
N.B. It was before the book came out.
14 Stoicism Quotes that Help Heal Anxiety
This post inspired my compilation book, ‘Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism: Gain Joy, Resilience, Productivity, and Defuse Anxiety.’ It’s on Amazon. Order here if in South Africa – or visit your nearest bookstore.
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This is an extract from my latest and fourth book, The Anxious Entrepreneur. This piece of content is related to 14 Stoicism Quotes that Help Heal Anxiety.
Entrepreneurship is a nerve wracking business. Entrepreneurs are always anxious about multiple things. They have goals and therefore expectations, but it is known that things cannot go according to one’s wishes, plans, desires, needs or desperation all the time.
Stoicism Quotes that Help Heal Anxiety
Expectations are rarely met and subconsciously, when they aren’t, we are shaken. It is an opportune window for anxiety or even depression to set in, depending on the severity or extent of the misfortune. Read more
10 Quotes to Help You Deal with Worry and Anxiety
This is an extract from my latest and fourth book, The Anxious Entrepreneur. Here are 10 Quotes to Help You Deal with Worry and Anxiety or Quotes For Anxiety.
Quotes For Anxiety
The following are some of my favourite quotes which, I believe, more or less speak to that anxiety defeats creativity and also that creativity can defeat anxiety.
“Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace” -Randy Armstrong.
To have peace today, you have to do the things that have meaning to you and help you to fulfil a part of you.
If your passion is to sing, but you work at a call centre, sing in the morning or after work – everyday or any number of days in the week.
I have learned Read more
Book – The Anxious Entrepreneur: Anxiety Defeats Creativity – Creativity Defeats Anxiety, By Tiisetso Maloma
Find this book on Amazon, my webstore (if you’re in South Africa), Takelot.com, or in South African bookstores (Bargain Books, Exclusive Books, Protea, etc.)
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It was at about 3:35 pm. I felt I was about to faint or have a panic attack. The day was not going well. Over and above, I was overly tired. Read more
The Man who Fed his Child with the Face of the Mother, A Metaphor for Creativity
No, it wasn’t The Joker. Read more