2) Community Questions and Answers - The Basis of Mental Health Awareness and Support
As previously introduced, the Questions and Answers Pages at 7 Cups offer a wide range of quality based answers to common mental health questions
Questions and Answers are available for 38 main categories, ranging from General Mental Health, Disabilities, Managing Emotions, Loneliness, Grief, Recovery, Student Life, Work Stress, and many more!
Through this directory of available knowledge, awareness, and support, 7 Cups is equipped with answers to the common questions and concerns people have. Most of these Questions and Answers are featured in search engine results due to the value of the content they contain.
The main community Questions and Answers Page offers a recent questions section as well as a section containing the most answered questions.
All 7 Cups users are invited to search for or ask new questions through the main page. Community users can also participate in this area by submitting their answers, which are reviewed by a team for quality and other important requirements.
Through this discussion, we will discuss the basic requirements needed to research as well as write quality answers for the Question and Answer Pages. Additionally, we will optimize the drafted answers in light of certain guidelines.
(i) Basic Research and Writing Requirements: When writing answers to community questions, keep in mind these tips:
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You need to write a minimum of 150 characters and 100 words.
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If research is needed to guide your answer, consider only learning about the topic and avoid direct copy/pasting researched tips, advice, or information.
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Consider verifying the information or facts through at least 2 reliable sources.
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When researching possible answers or things the person can benefit from, consider their circumstances and if the tip is do-able and generally applicable.
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Avoid plagiarism.
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Use professional and appropriate language.
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If comfortable, you can add a personal anecdote to help add meaning to your answer. However, avoid turning the answer to just your account or an entire focus on your experience.
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Be empathetic, and consider using active listening skills to help not only answer their question but their feelings - this adds connection and meaning to your answer, as well as identifies understanding, which can lead to trust.
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Answers should be related to the question and must contain tips or approaches to help deal with the question/situation instead of vague responses, even if positive.
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7 Cups is based on avoiding direct advice, this is because we do not know the complete scenario or situation a person may be facing. Keeping that in mind, avoid giving answers that provide one possible “solution” - a good tip is to consider encompassing all possible outcomes or more than one thing the person can try.
(ii) Ensuring Optimized Answers: Although the above requirements and tips help deliver a great answer, further optimization of drafted answers can help ensure their quality.
At 7 Cups, the Content Team uses researched and identified important keywords to guide their research and the writing process to result in optimized content as answers to community questions. In this regard, the basic tips/requirements involved are:
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Ensure answers have at least 8 to 10 sentences.
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Ensure the usage/incorporation of the maximum number or all of the provided keywords that can relate to the topic.
What are Keywords?
Generally, keywords can be thought of as terms or phrases that describe a piece of content. Related keywords are supporting keywords that can help further describe or expand on that initial content. For example, for the keyword “anxiety”, related keywords can be “anxiety symptoms” or “anxiety treatments”.
Keywords help with search engine marketing and hence are an important part of SEO strategies. A simple strategy to find keywords is to look for Google Related Searches. These related searches are searches that relate to your term. For instance, a Google Related Search for “anxiety symptoms” is “what is anxiety” - using this insight, you can consider including this phrase alongside a brief category of your content outline to help strengthen the optimization of your content.
For other free tools to help with keyword research, you can visit this external link.
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Review this Sample Optimized Answer:
Question: How do paper bags help with panic attacks?
Provided Keywords: asthma attack, heart attacks, asthma, problems, brown paper bag, medical conditions, hyperventilation syndrome, mouth, respiratory alkalosis, common causes, chest pain, benefit, stress, medications
Approved, Optimized Answer:
While panic attacks might mimic the symptoms of heart attacks, they can be caused by several other problems and medical conditions. These include feeling stressed or facing medical conditions such as asthma attacks, hyperventilation syndrome, or even respiratory alkalosis. Although the common causes may differ, common symptoms include chest pain. Deep breathing through the mouth or by using a brown paper bag has its benefits, as it aids in the restoration of the loss of carbon dioxide in the blood during the panic attack.
Notes: The question was general, requiring general research-based knowledge on the process of using paper bags for panic attacks. As the keywords were essentially covered, note that this answer does not have 8-10 sentences, but further supporting information or even a personal anecdote can be added.
The following activity will help you put your attained knowledge to practice. Please write an optimized answer to the following community question, in light of the provided keywords. In addition, you are required to reply to at least one other student’s answer by identifying at least 3 strengths (things done correctly as per discussed guidelines) as well as at least 1 tip for improving the answer.
Note: You are welcome to click the question link and submit your written answer for community publication once done as this is an existing question!
Please do not forget to personally save your activity answers as well as your reply to another user’s answer (recommended on Google Doc or other means) as you will be asked to share this for your Weekly Progress Report.
Question: What to do when you feel you are not good enough for someone?
Provided Keywords: parents, partner, self-esteem, social media, self-worth, good news, best way, first step, human beings, children, therapy, self-love, family members, better person, good time, good luck, inner critic, self-doubt, negative self-talk, real reason, whole life, amazing person, self-confidence, voice, right thing, healthy relationship, great things, information, communication, end of the day
Bonus: Want to put your knowledge to test? Consider joining the Question and Answer (Q&A) Approval Team here and earn cheers for helping approve community answer submissions. You will be using the above knowledge as well as reminders on what makes a good answer. For more information, click here
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@SoulfullyAButterfly
Question: What to do when you feel you are not good enough for someone?
Provided Keywords: parents, partner, self-esteem, social media, self-worth, good news, best way, first step, human beings, children, therapy, self-love, family members, better person, good time, good luck, inner critic, self-doubt, negative self-talk, real reason, whole life, amazing person, self-confidence, voice, right thing, healthy relationship, great things, information, communication, end of the day
My Response: In my belief, the root cause of why we tend to think that we aren't good enough for someone, is because of our own criticism directed towards none others but ourselves, as we know we tend to be our biggest inner critic that makes us in a state where whatever we do, we aren't good enough for it, leading to a constant state of self doubt or we are always so hyperfixated to be better or the best for everyone else but at the end of the day, who's there for us?
The first step in breaking free from this constant loop of self sabotage is to identify the pattern of our negative self talk, as proven, words are like spells, whatever you talk to yourself you are basically affirming it to yourself, which later on manifests into your life, so if you are constantly complaining that your whole life is a mess, then obviously it's going to be like that because your subconscious is treating every information you speak out in existence to be true and hence it reflects on your daily life.
But here's the good news, you can literally make your own insecurities work in your favour and how? Yes, by practicing self love, now the real reason why self love doesn't work on some people is because people tend to attach the worth of self love to external achievements, but self love is completely not all that, self love is accepting yourself as you are without any conditions, irrespective of whether you fulfill your desires or goals or not♡
And a notable mention, therapy is the biggest ROI (return on investment) into yourself as you are basically investing in your wellbeing, it makes u become a better person not just for yourself but also in a way where you can show up for your loved ones better as well.
By practicing self love, you are not only building a healthy relationship with the most important person in this world which is YOU but also it skyrockets your self confidence and self esteem like no other. In my belief, therapy is not just reserved for people with mental health issues but also everyone should get therapy to do their inner shadow work (working on inner built up trauma, negative patterns and faulty conditioning throughout the years) which is the root cause of all the self sabotage, inner critic, self doubt and negative self talk.
And as per not being enough for someone, what I really believe is, not everyone is meant for you neither are we meant for everyone. Our parents, partner, social media and many other factors play an important role in shaping our own personal experiences and people have their own judgements and beliefs accordingly. So not being able to be supposedly "good enough" doesn't mean that we lack something in ourselves, so it was never personal in the first place.
Yes, with that being said, it's obviously important to ensure effective communication with your loved ones for being able to show up for them when they need us, but at the end of the day we're all human beings and what really matters is ourselves and how we show up for the most important love of our life which is us<3
@rashiiiiiii06
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Engaging piece of reading with empathic touch and explanation.
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You might consider making it bit consise. It'll make your post more reliable.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Nothing will knock you down quicker than offering the best of yourself to someone and it still not being good enough.” — M.W Poetry.
It's the fear that we're not good enough. Rejection doesn't always mean you're not good enough. You gave your hundred percent and in some arenas, you're good wasn't enough for someone, which is OKAY. Afterall, we all are human beings. Sometimes other's extreme expectations from you could lead to self doubt in your capabilities or negative self-talk. It could be either your parents, partners or social media critics, which is OKAY. You shouldn't depreciate your self-worth, self-confidence and self esteem based on one's opinion.
Strive to become better person for yourself first. This the best way to begin with self-improvement and self-love. Build up an honest communication circle that fosters healthy relationship.
@MsBhavnaSingh
Strenghts:
1. Self-love promotion
2. Pointing out that just because someone thinks you are not worthy that's not true.
3. Empathetic.
Tip:
1. Give a recommendation to the reader of a book, exercise or an activity that can make him to feel better.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Sometimes we feel that we are not good for someone but why do we think that?
1. It’s my own perception.
If you are doing things right and even that someone tells you so and you’re still thinking that you are not good enough for that person then you need to start working on changing your mindset because you are being hard with yourself, you are not believing in yourself and that’s not beneficial for you.
Fortunately, that perception can be changed but it requires your willingness to do it!
2. That someone told me something that made me think about it.
Maybe that someone told you something as an observation or a simple commentary but you took it too personal and even as an attack? If that’s the case then you might be bringing forth your own insecurities and you need to work on it otherwise you will have the same problem all the time.
3. That someone seems not to care about me.
If someone does not care nor value you as a person then it’s time for you to move on. You need to know that you are a valuable person and nobody can’t tell you otherwise. Also, you need to think about your own well-being and happiness, so if someone does not appreciate you as a person then that person does not deserve you. Therefore, you need to move on and carry on with your life.
It’s important to know that our well-being is on our own hands and in most cases, we have everything necessary to change our bad habits but sometimes we just need guidance which can be found in books, spirituality, therapy or any other method that can be right for you!
You can read books on Buddhism like: Buddha's teachings, I know his teachings will make you feel better :)
So don’t give up, grow as individual every single day and be happy!
@themightyhealer
Nice answer. Informative and encouraging.
We all experience some form of self-doubt, we are human beings after all. Even when the people are close to us: our parents, partners, children, and family members, we still sometimes criticize ourselves. The right thing, and the first step, in approaching this issue is to communicate with the person. Voice what has been going on in your mind, let your inner critic talk. That way, we can establish a foundation for the person we are worried about not being good enough to have a healthy relationship with them. Then the next step is to practice self-love. Accept your thoughts, but also analyze the real reason(s) behind the thoughts. Sometimes it may not be as obvious as it seems. At the end of the day, understand that you are worthy of being loved, especially by yourself.
