I have always said that the brain is an organ that can get sick. Just like a heart attack or heart disease, the brain is just another organ that can get sick. Sickness effects everyone in different ways. This gentleman did an amazing job explaining his struggles. I hope more people can hear his message. Thanks Darren for this episode.
"Compassion fatigued" is such an eloquent, nice way to put it... And I'm glad he has understanding and even forgiveness over that part of his life. What a journey he's been through.
I love that this man can speak so openly about the struggles he's been through with mental health, and I encourage more to do the same. It not only helps others who may be being going through or know someone going through the same things, but it's also cathartic in and of it's self to open up to such a vunerable level to someone else.
hey darren, this was enlightening. the thing kevin mentioned about his family dealing with compassion fatigue is very real and it resonated with me. i currently have a family member who is going through a similar mental health crisis and they seem to have almost regressed in the way that they seem almost incapable of understanding that they have a problem. i myself have chronic suicidal ideation. i attempted to act on these thoughts once but i am fairly confident that i won't do it again because i know my issues don't exist in isolation and it would make my mom a bit sad if i kicked the bucket during her lifetime (i also have a lot of self doubt and the thought of failing at it a second time is too embarrassing for me to handle lmao) what i mean by that is that i am very close to this person. and you would think that having gone through a similar situation myself i would be more empathetic towards them. and for the first year or so i was often physically throwing up from worry and i was always on edge waiting for a call letting me know that they were gone. but it's been so long. and i can't care that much any longer. i am still here for this person but sometimes in these situations you have to give them their options for help and then disengage to a certain extent. we don't talk about this enough because it feels ugly. it feels like you're writing your loved one off as a lost cause. but none of our problems exist in a vacuum. also i would like to say that you're an excellent listener. your body language and non verbal cues make you look very open and i can see why so many people feel comfortable sharing vulnerable parts of themselves with you.
Really solid insights into your own experiences with compassion fatigue, Thank-Q for sharing legend :) I completely agree that it is something that is not really addressed enough yet very common. Be well Thank-Q for the kind feedback ❤️
@Kevin, the bit you talk about in your youth where you feel like your brain broke and didn't seem to have a firm answer as to why then when eating healthy enough throughout your later childhood, and other than your declining mental health, other things were going relatively OK up untill then. My thoughts would be that it was hormonal, possibly due to prior ill health, nutrition related at a very young age not allowing your brain to develop what it needs to cope with that sudden onrush of hormones in the teenage years, or it can just be a trigger for mental health issues underlaying in some people around that time (that we don't currently know the full causes of yet, but may very well be, in some instances, infant nutrition related setting our brains up for failer when the flood gates open, so to speak).
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I have always said that the brain is an organ that can get sick. Just like a heart attack or heart disease, the brain is just another organ that can get sick. Sickness effects everyone in different ways. This gentleman did an amazing job explaining his struggles. I hope more people can hear his message. Thanks Darren for this episode.
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"Compassion fatigued" is such an eloquent, nice way to put it...
And I'm glad he has understanding and even forgiveness over that part of his life. What a journey he's been through.
I love that this man can speak so openly about the struggles he's been through with mental health, and I encourage more to do the same. It not only helps others who may be being going through or know someone going through the same things, but it's also cathartic in and of it's self to open up to such a vunerable level to someone else.
Great interview, extraordinary....real truth and no BS. Thankyou Kevin ! Cheers Darren ya Legend ! Great work. 👍👍
Thank-Q Adam!
This is such a great interview, please keep it up darren, in my opinion I love these types of podCARst ♥♥
I can't stop thinking about the fact a random seal felt like "Naaah, you won't. Not under my watch, dear sir."
Genuinely incredible
hey darren, this was enlightening. the thing kevin mentioned about his family dealing with compassion fatigue is very real and it resonated with me. i currently have a family member who is going through a similar mental health crisis and they seem to have almost regressed in the way that they seem almost incapable of understanding that they have a problem. i myself have chronic suicidal ideation. i attempted to act on these thoughts once but i am fairly confident that i won't do it again because i know my issues don't exist in isolation and it would make my mom a bit sad if i kicked the bucket during her lifetime (i also have a lot of self doubt and the thought of failing at it a second time is too embarrassing for me to handle lmao)
what i mean by that is that i am very close to this person. and you would think that having gone through a similar situation myself i would be more empathetic towards them. and for the first year or so i was often physically throwing up from worry and i was always on edge waiting for a call letting me know that they were gone. but it's been so long. and i can't care that much any longer. i am still here for this person but sometimes in these situations you have to give them their options for help and then disengage to a certain extent.
we don't talk about this enough because it feels ugly. it feels like you're writing your loved one off as a lost cause. but none of our problems exist in a vacuum.
also i would like to say that you're an excellent listener. your body language and non verbal cues make you look very open and i can see why so many people feel comfortable sharing vulnerable parts of themselves with you.
Really solid insights into your own experiences with compassion fatigue, Thank-Q for sharing legend :) I completely agree that it is something that is not really addressed enough yet very common. Be well Thank-Q for the kind feedback ❤️
@Kevin, the bit you talk about in your youth where you feel like your brain broke and didn't seem to have a firm answer as to why then when eating healthy enough throughout your later childhood, and other than your declining mental health, other things were going relatively OK up untill then. My thoughts would be that it was hormonal, possibly due to prior ill health, nutrition related at a very young age not allowing your brain to develop what it needs to cope with that sudden onrush of hormones in the teenage years, or it can just be a trigger for mental health issues underlaying in some people around that time (that we don't currently know the full causes of yet, but may very well be, in some instances, infant nutrition related setting our brains up for failer when the flood gates open, so to speak).