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Mark Ehlert
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 25 มี.ค. 2018
Myself, being a suicide survivor, surviving a traumatic brain injury that took my vision; as well as being someone with complex post traumatic stress disorder, and a history of mental illness, this is me sharing myself. Me sharing my journeys and experiences over the years; my struggles, and how throughout the right treatment plan, with the right medications and therapy, I was able to bring awareness to my mental illness so I can be able to manage and treat them. This is me sharing my history, so anyone else struggling can know that they’re not the only one, and that if I can do this, and be happy and prosperous and manage things, anyone can. I’m sharing my resources and my tools, that have helped me manage my newly acquired loss of vision with my mental illness as well as sharing my history and passion, and love for music and the arts.
Yo ho ho! Loving the new kit
Just picked up my new toy! And this is me feeling it out and warming it up. Playing one of my favorite rhythms
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Allowing criticism to be constructive
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This is me tackling the idea of using criticism to be constructive and beneficial. It's easy for me in the past years to take criticism very personally and more like an insult. But that's when I learned there's always room for improvement for my craft, and people are giving me suggestions to help improve my craft, and not insult me. I was able to separate myself from it 
Online shopping with this blind man
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This is me sharing how as a blind man, I'm able to pick out my clothes I want to buy online. How adaptive technology with my screen reader as well as third-party applications that use artificial intelligence to describe photographs to me. And if all else fails, I can just share those photographs with friends and family to get the desired description th-cam.com/play/PLdk91ibwXv8ghxz4KYByqekrhA1S...
How to combat insomnia
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Insomnia and sleep deprivation can be horrible. Something I've experienced a large portion of my life. So this is me sharing tips and tricks that have helped me and can hopefully help others manage their sleep
Processing your trauma so you can be at peace with your day
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When you don't process and work through your emotions and feelings, it's easy for them to interfere with your day and hard to be productive. That's why it's good for us to process and work through our emotions so we can be at peace with ourselves. Myself with posttraumatic stress, it's easy for my Trauma to come up and interfere with my day, but I've learned to process and work through it and h...
Don't let your imagination be your enemy
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Any of my people with trauma, I know how hard it is; I also find myself trying to imagine my life without my trauma. But when I have that fantasy, I start to realize it is a fantasy and how much it makes me feel worse about my current situation. This is me tackling into the pros and cons of using our imagination in a healthy way 
Kick out the jams
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This is for all my 90s kids! A little presidents of the United States of America, kick out the jams. Also did a little more fine-tuning on my electric drum set; enjoying my new sound 
Don't have regrets like me, listen to that voice of reason
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Being a suicide survivor, this is my advice and what I would personally want to say to someone who is considering suicide or thinking about it 
Breakdown
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 This is me jamming along, playing a cover of breakdown by Tantric 
A day in the life of this blind man
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After losing my vision, I've had friends and family ask me about my day and what it's like. So this is me giving you a day in the life of the blind man; going through my daily routine and how I manage things 
Be forgiving for your own peace of mind 
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This is me talking about reframing our negative thought patterns, and using more logic based thinking rather than motion based. We know emotions can get us in trouble. They can also be detrimental to our own mental health. So this is me dissecting logic based thinking for some motion based thinking and talking about how to reframe our negative thoughts and feelings 
Being comfortable with your trauma
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We are better than our trauma. We can't let it control us. After my brain injury 20 years ago that took my vision, with complex post traumatic stress, this is me being comfortable with myself and my changes in my lifestyle 
A little dispatch medley
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Two dispatch songs, I find myself humming the chorus to all the time. This is me slicing him together and doing a jam
Ringo doesn't have anything on my sideburns
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Ringo doesn't have anything on my sideburns
Growing; moving on from wanting something different
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Growing; moving on from wanting something different
Story time. The blind man in the drive-through
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Story time. The blind man in the drive-through
The healthier your body the healthier your mind
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The healthier your body the healthier your mind
After my vision loss, one of the things I miss most
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After my vision loss, one of the things I miss most
Mark i would really like to listen during one of the weekly mental health discussion sessions i cant find a link in your channel or those videos, i also cant message you directly about it.
@@ThaCodFathers so I'm sorry if you're having issues finding any links to attend any meetings. But I am no longer hosting those meetings for people to join. I had to leave that job in September. So I'm personally no longer hosting, but I can refer you and link you up with some people who are doing meetings still. i'm just posting some self help talk videos here on my TH-cam. So I can share with you some of the links of videos I've posted about topics and discussions. But i'm not hosting any more meetings. And if you ever do want to message me, you could always find me on Facebook
You look like a fuckin rockstar by the way. Reminds me a lot of mitch hedberg. I found out about you tonight. You exude so much positive energy i cant help but feel great! ROCK ON!
And thank you, I will always keep rocking. Don't know if you've seen any of my music videos, but that's what I do and what I love. And awesome! I flipping love Mitch Hedberg. He was one of my favorites. I have a few videos up of me doing impersonations of him. But thank you. I'm very glad you did find my channel and I'm able to help spread some of my positivity
Sounds great!
What's really bothering me is dealing with my own critisism about myself and everything i do. No one can hurt my feelings as much as myself. I restart to play the guitar after a 15 years break so basically restarting from zero. And i used to draw for 3 years before, never been good enough to me so i quit and i regret it everyday and yet i can't find the strenght to go back at it. I really don't like the sensation of realising how much skills i lost because i've worked so hard to gain them. This is an awful sensation. Anyway hopefully i will draw again soon. I also wanted to tell you Mark that you are a wonderful person. I've discovered you via SBSK video where you tell your Life story and all you've been through. You trully are inspiring man, thank you for being who you are and trying to help people. You make the world a better place. Greetings from France.
@@user-wk7ve9bh4s well thank you so much. I'm glad you could make it here from SBSK. And even cooler that you're in France and I'm reaching you. But yeah, I totally feel you. I also have a lot of my own harsh self criticism that I take way too seriously. But after just knowing myself for so long I try to ignore that criticism and no i'm a perfectionist just being harsh on myself. i'm very glad you did pick up the guitar again. And shitty if you gave up a drawing, but I'm glad you want to bring it back. You seem like a strong willed person and I think if it's something you want you will be able to start doing it. Just remember, it's cool that you're aware your criticism is harsh on yourself, don't let your criticism stop you from doing things. Cause It can just give you another reason to criticize yourself. But good luck in your future with Music and with drawing.
@@markehlert979 Thank you for the repply Mark. You are so right, letting my criticism to stop me is indeed another reason to criticise myself. It's fuel to it. Criticism directed toward ourselves feeds on itself. The only way to stop it from growing is to stop feeding it. Easier said than done but this is the only way. Even if it is was hard to take the decision then buy and even go to the store to pick up the guitar again i'm glad i did it because it helps me to let go for a moment. And i kinda made peace with not being very good at it. It's okay as long as i have fun at it. Hopefully i will pick up the pencils again, weirdly they seem way heavier to pick up than a guitar. Thank you again for your kindness Mark. My name is Edward by the way. I precise it because i know your name so it's normal for you to know mine. Makes it fair to me. And yeah it's pretty cool to know that internet can connect people from all over the world. I wish you and the people you love the best and a wonderful Christmas if you celebrate it. And of course a happy new year in advance ! Have a wonderful day man. It made me happy to have this little conversation with you. Merci encore. ( i've no idea if you know some French so it means : thank you again )
@@user-wk7ve9bh4s and thank you Edward. Merry Christmas to yourself as well. Because yes, I do celebrate. I do consider myself Catholic. and thanks also for telling me your name. Cause that can make our conversation more personal. And you're welcome. I'm also very grateful for this conversation and to get to know you. But yes, the self criticism can be very perpetual. It's easy to fall in that negative thinking Loop and beat ourselves up farther and farther. but it's most important when we become aware and start to recognize us doing it so we can stop ourselves and just remind ourselves it's our own criticism and not to take it too seriously. That's when we try to notate some of the good things about it and what we're doing. very cool, thank you for sharing. Because no, can't say that I do know too much French. But when I was 17 I did take a trip to Paris France where I stayed for a little over a week. That's where I got my first tattoo. And before leaving I did study a French dictionary for a while just to remember a few Phrases to be able to get by. But I was pretty shocked when getting to Europe how fluent everyone spoke English
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Sweet kit!!! sounds amazing Mark- I can tell you are very pleased with it- looking forward to future jam videos. Merry Merry to You! :-)
@@denisegrant5150 and thank you much! I'm glad you can tell how much I'm enjoying it. And as we speak, I'm checking notifications before I put my phone on silent to do some more recording today :-) and thank you! Merry Christmas and happy holidays
Got that Roland! Nice! Merry Christmas dude!!!
@@ksteak27 hell yeah I did and loving it! And thank you, merry Christmas to you also
Sounds awesome!
@@rebeccapeters816 thank you dear. Love it, big upgrade from my older kit
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Much love! So talented! Have a good Christmas my guy
@@ENMEC and thank you much. Merry Christmas to you as well
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This is good advice Mark. Good stuff
This is good advice Mark. Good stuff
Nice message Mark! 👍✌️
Criticism versus a helpful critique!
@@rebeccapeters816 yeah, funny. Because when I was uploading this video adding it to my playlists, my intent versus impact playlist came up, and I thought that could be a great way to approach this video.
Good video and message!
Awesome Mark, very interesting!
Thats super cool! And the shirt rocks
Good video
@@tyreesetjjoyner1995 and thank you much
I'm always available for fashion consultations 😊
@@rebeccapeters816 and I know it! Thanks Bestie
This is great advice. I hope your insomnia gets better, this knowledge is valuable, your mindfullness is very moving. I’m going to follow these steps. Thank you so much Mark. I always think so much before bed too, especially about humanity as well, and my trauma. there are so many atrocities going on in the world right now. It is good to be aware but yes before bed probably not too beneficial. But we are stronger together.
And thank you much. My insomnia has gotten a lot better over the years. That's why I was happy to share these tips. I really hope it can help you as well as others with trauma. Because yeah, it is very normal for our trauma to keep us up at night and for us to be thinking about things. Especially reflecting about the world and humanity. But thank you very much. I'm glad my mindfulness can inspire. I really wish you the best in your recovery. And yes, we will always be staying strong together and helping share things
Mark, thank you for such great advice and practical tips on combatting insomnia. Everyone has experienced this at some point- in some cases mild, others suffer relentlessly from this. But no matter where you fall on this spectrum, the advice and tips that you gave can be very helpful and effective. I especially enjoyed your version of counting sheep- naming several animals using the letters of the alphabet- genius! As an animal lover myself, this will be one hack that I will enjoy utilizing if needed. More important than the advice or tips is the way you deliver this information. You are so authentic, and genuinely care about reaching out to people to help them make their lives better- you speak from a place of experience and compassion, and that is so evident in each video you make. We appreciate that about you Mark- you have a huge heart and are driven to help people by utilizing this platform. Keep being your authentic self, and keep sharing. We look forward to every new video. Happy Thanksgiving Mark- I'm especially thankful for people like you who give of themselves to make the world a better place. p.s. thank you for the warning about taking magnesium if you are on other medications- I take magnesium about an hour before bedtime to help relax my body, but I am aware that I have to take it at least 3-4 hours away from when I take certain medications. I would say that 4 hours from either before or after you take a medication is a good rule of thumb. I had run into a problem with a medication that I have to take every morning- I was taking a multivitamin with magnesium soon after I took my medication, and it was blocking the absorption of my medication. So it's a good idea to check the list of ingredients in your multivite as well, as most contain minerals like magnesium that will block the absorption of many medications.
@@denisegrant5150 and thank you so much Denise for your words! I am very glad that you can tell this is something I'm very genuine and passionate about. because I really understand the struggles, I want people to be able to have relief and understanding. and I'm so glad you liked my alphabet mind game with listing animals! I really hope it can help you. and I'm so glad if you're on medication you also know about the magnesium interaction. Sucks if you had to find out the hard way, but I'm glad you were able to make that adjustment. And that's really cool, I didn't know about the four hour time window. this is very good to know and keep in mind. And smart, because I do also take daily vitamins I better also check to make sure my daily multivitamin in the a.m. doesn't have too much magnesium that will interfere with my morning meds. But thank you so much! I will have an amazing Thanksgiving and I hope you do as well. Very grateful for yourself and my followers. and remember to always save room for pie
Hello Mark! Thank you very much for the necessary knowledge. I drank magnesium incorrectly
Someone told me to drink warm milk with honey, it's supposed to help . My living situation is problemaic right now. My routine and schedule is thrown off because of it. So my insomnia is really bad. Praying to be able to move myself and my family next year.
@@SP-fk9vp yeah, milk has a low dose of magnesium which can help, it also coach the stomach for comfort. We drink it warm cause it's body temperature and metabolizes faster. And yes, our living environment can have a lot to do with our energy and our mental state. I really hope things get better for your living environment soon
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I rearrange furniture in my head if I can't sleep lol
@@rebeccapeters816 nice. Yeah, that is another good one I've never heard of. I can try that out sometime myself
U are a legend man.
Hello Mark! Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I'm waiting for new videos.
Hello from Oregon:) I have a brother that struggles a lot. Sometimes I feel mad at him because his choices affect me and my family and that makes me feel so many emotions. We both have some childhood trauma. Watching this really helped me understand, what not just what I go through sometimes. But what he probably goes through a lot. Thanks so much for sharing, I think you're awesome:)
@@SP-fk9vp and thank you! You are awesome people too. So grateful you could find my channel and this can be able to help you. It took me so many goddamn years of some serious trauma therapy to figure out the way I ticked and what was happening. So I'm happy to share what I learned with people. I wish you and your brother the best
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I have to copy another comment and also say that I came from your SBSK interview years ago and have been watching your videos ever since. In fact, I commented on that interview that I deeply resonated with it because I was 17 at the time and was thinking of suicide via a gun my mother owned. My comment received lots of support and even a response from you encouraging me to send a message if I needed to talk, which I appreciated very much even if I didn’t reply to anyone out of shyness. Fast forward, I am turning 20 next year. Lots of good things happened. I started college, started my first job, and am doing things 17 year old me never thought would be possible. I started zoloft too but have been off for a while due to some life events. This year has been an emotional roller coaster and unfortunately I am once again finding myself on the bottom of the ride. It’s hard to not listen to these emotional thoughts when I have had them for so long and they are so so loud and it really seems like the rational answer after a while and that it’s truly what I want. But I’m still watching your videos, and they still resonate with me and help me ground myself, even if it’s just for a few moments. So here I am once again a few years later letting you know your impact. I love your videos and I wish I had a figure like you in my life. I was so down today after realizing how much I was struggling with school and I felt like a failure and I was overwhelmed with thoughts of suicide. I came across this video after not watching your videos in a while and it once again comforted me. So thank you again and again for taking the time to make these videos. I really wish you the best.
Thanks for sharing.... i probably needed to hear this.
@@Jaggerbush you're welcome. I'm so glad you found this and saw it today if you needed
I am a total stranger stopping by to say I love your sideburns and your hair. Your whole look is great!
@@Cali_Flowers and thank you! I'm glad that you did stop by and that you like
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Handsome
I'm not growing side burns sorry
@@rebeccapeters816 why not Bestie? I think it would be a fabulous look for you
@markehlert979 nooooooo
I'm not as strong as you are. My injury was in 2013, isolation has had very negative effects on me. I don't fit in with normies, they abandoned me once I became disabled. So I only seem to make friends with other disabled people. I struggled so much with missing my life before I was disabled. Your strength and personality is genuine Mark. I'm not nearly as strong as you are, but you are an inspiration. I am enjoying following you.
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Thanks for sharing dude. Like you I went though childhood sexual abuse as well as multiple traumas which have led to me also having PTSD and Complex PTSD. I am also a survivor of suicide attempts which have led to permanent organ damage. I want you to know your story and your resilience are so inspiring and that I'm really glad that you are still here with us.
@@SyTheMetalhead and you're welcome. Because I'm so sorry if you also had very similar experiences and went through so much. But I'm also glad you're still here with us. And thank you so much for your words and your support. I am so glad I can help inspire others like us that I've had to go through so much
@markehlert979 We also share similar tastes in music which makes you a really cool guy in my eyes. It's good to see you still playing guitar and drums, keep up the good work mate
Truuue. Thanks for sharing man.
@@Ahmed-v5q2f you're welcome. I'm glad you saw. Thanks for watching
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That's a tough one, to separate hopefulness from unrealistic fantasy. Good topic bestie
@@rebeccapeters816 thank you love. It got inspired by a conversation with a client/friend. But yeah, something I have an issue with all the time
Very helpful mark!
@@white240490 you're welcome. I'm very glad you were able to see if it was helpful
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Hi! Thank you very much for the video.
@@Евгения-п5х4ю you're welcome. I'm glad you were able to see. Thanks for watching
Awesome Mark!
Feeling the joy that pours out of this jam! Much needed and appreciated Mark ❤
@@denisegrant5150 you're welcome! I'm glad you're enjoying this jam as much as I am
Sounds Great Ehlert!
@@Lucas_Lepine and thank you, thank you very much
Thank you, Mark. I'm sure you've already saved some lives. And I will remember your words next time I start having those feelings.
@@Amy-br7ch you are so welcome. That makes me so very grateful
Thanks for the video Mark, we really appreciate it
Thank your for sharing this important message and for keeping on fighting and finding joy in life, ur a real inspiration. God bless you
@@lauradoerksen5962 and thank you. I'm so grateful to be able to be here and share this message to try to help save lives. Thank you so much for watching. And God bless