Mental Health

Ladies and Gentlemen, well we are getting into the swing of things today and we are discussing mental. I have decided to lead the class and put out a little bit of what I considered my mental health or status to be. Now considering the positive and negative attitudes one may have on their outlook of life I would have to say that I feel overall pretty positive. My classes this semester are working out well, and I am trying quite a few new things in the classroom. The biggest change is that I am trying to incorporate computers more into the curriculum of my classes. Having the students take notes on their computers instead of a notebook and although at times they are a little off tasks chatting with each other or looking at the newest snowmachine on the market they generally are getting the assignments completed and keeping up with class. This allows me to maintain a pretty positive outlook on my classes. In terms of my college classes that I am taking am feeling a little stressed out, I am doubling my class load and taking on more graduate level courses. As the workload increases I wonder if I am going to be able to keep up with it because of all the extracurriculars I am taking on such as basketball, afterschool. I sadly have not been able to incorporate as much Choir time as I would like to have because by the end of te day I generally am pretty beat. On the topic of music, I still have not been able to get the music club started afterschool like I wanted nor have I been able to get the Chess/game club going. Perhaps after the State tests and our afterschool program is done I will be able to begin these clubs. As for defense mechanisms that I use I would probably say I deal mainly in the park of using rationalization as my technique. I find it very easy to provide an "excuse" or an explaination for my actions much to the discontent of my peers. This doesn't necessarily mean that I am making up excuses, it is just that I generally have a reason for doing what I do, and sadly at times they can be a little self-centered. It gives me something to reflect on the next time I visit the Church .