The Pro's and the Con's of Having a Mental Illness
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Hello! My name is Kristen, I am 22 years old, from Sacramento CA, and I am graduating in the Spring with my BA in Psychology. I created this channel for three reasons that are very close to my heart. One, to help others be able to tell their stories and be advocates for mental health. Two, to give recovery tips and tricks to help others find the help they need. And three, to spread awareness for mental health issues to fight the stigma surrounding it. The more we talk about mental illness the more normalized it will be in our society and the more people will not be ashamed to get help!
☆ DISCLAIMER ☆ I am not a professional. If you are seeking professional advice please go see your primary care doctor or therapist. The information in this post is based on personal experiences, personal knowledge, or research I have done on the subject. These videos are not an alternative to therapy and are not meant to be used for self diagnosis. If this is an emergency please call 911, call your local crisis line suicideprevent... or go to your nearest hospital.
Through my illness, I've learned how strong I can be! 6 months self harm free today!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! Someone get the confetti!!! Yay! Stay Strong and keep on doing what your doing!
OMG I AM SO HAPPY AND PROUD OF U!!!!!! KEEP IT UP💕💕💖💕👏🏽❣
well done!
Ilona Losey 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 there u go!
Am I the only person who feels like the shower is the worst place for me to be? That's where I get horrible thoughts and I usually end up feeling worse. I take very quick showers
+Olivia Wall everyone is different! i feel that way sometimes aswell but sometimes showers are quiet and relaxing and sometimes showers make me down as hell!!
I'm transgender, so taking showers make me seriously uncomfortable with my body. It hurts so much, so I agree.
oh im sorry! im not transgender but i have serious body image issues and sometimes thats what brings me down most of the time.
It gives me too much time to think to myself
Mental Rainbow I know how you feel I'm in the same situation as you😃
My room is my favorite place. Everyone says that, but it's completely different. Ppl say they love their room bc they can lay around and play on their phone by themselves. I love my room bc I'm alone. Free from the world, and just with my thoughts. It's not that I want to lay around, I just like the feeling of not being bothered by the world, and getting the can be to be silent and not get yelled at for it. I love that feeling.
showers are sooo painful when you cut yourself or have open wounds..
Yuka Yuzu extremely painful
yup
Yep I can relate
I think there is a serious relationship going on between the lamp and your camera :D
We are trying to keep their personal life and professional life separate. 😉
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+Szopidło Me too. Lampera can be the ship name. Someone make a FanFiction!
+Ilona Losey my new otp! I want fan fictions sent to me ASAP!!
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Kristin should be very proud of herself, Mental Health Week has got a lot of people talking and has done good things for the cause.
Agreed
I was very curious about what the pros would be- because, like you said, mental illness sucks. But that is true- my friend list is small, but they are the ones who care about me and who I can trust. And I liked what you said: My name is Grace, not obsessive compulsive disorder.
exactly.my name is ash not that girl with depression or who self harms
I was recently told by my therapist that I have anxiety. My family has known for years, and I realized quite some time ago too, but it's still so weird. I wanted to go to a therapist because I knew that something wasn't right. I've only seen her a couple times and I've already started to improve just a tiny bit! I have two incredible friends that also have anxiety, and it feels wonderful to understand what they are going through. I'm hoping that I will be able to overcome my anxiety, so I'll just keep trying!
SAME !!! I am TERRIFIED of driving because I am afraid of getting into a car crash .
I only recently discovered your channel, and I want to say you've already begun to help me tremendously. Thank you for opening up, thank you for making these videos, thank you for caring about us - it truly means so much. I don't have many friends in my life right now, and you're helping me feel a lot less alone.
Thank you for posting this! But I'd also like to add another pro... at least for me it is... when you have MI you are in this darkness and must often look for light and beauty. You start to see things soooo differently... and that often results in creativity... Van Gogh had bipolar disorder....Robin Williams had depression... and many other great artists, musicians, authors, poets, and comedians had some mental illness... 🖤🖤🖤
I found through my illness that my perception of life and things that usually hold no significance is much different and deeper than others.
I have been struggling with self harm for three years but for two years I was in and out of it and rarely did it. But my older brother passed away in a car accident on June 19th, 2015. It fucking destroyed me... I attempted suicide twice and have cut so deep, so many time's my arms and thighs are just scarred to shit and I'm slowly becoming okay with showing my scars. I have an amazing boyfriend of almost two months now who makes me feel absolutely amazing and helps my confidence and helps me with anxiety and social anxiety and depression. And your video's have helped greatly ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Goot to hear! I've been struggling with self-harm too, but I'm getting better :)
Remember that you are not alone :D
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I'm so happy that this channel is around and that I found it, I've been suffering with major depression for years now, and last year when I lost my brother, it got even worse. It got to a point where I thought life wasn't worth living anymore and I attempted suicide, I went to a facility for seven days and got a lot of help, when I came home I needed to find help at home, and then I stumbled upon your channel. These videos have help me figure out that I'm never alone, and that from the suffering I have been through I can help others, now I'm working on becoming an advocate for mental health myself, and I hope to be like you and help people that suffer from the same things. Thank you.
This is so great. :) I can relate to nearly all of your points. My video just focuses on how my mental illnesses led to advocacy, but I know there are so many other pros and cons. I love that you brought these up!
I wish I could do your makeup some day because it's what helps me with my mental problems. It gives me something to look forward to and do everyday. It sounds really stupid to many people but we all have to find something that helps us! I hope you're doing well. Thank you for speaking out about problems so many people feel they can't talk about and are completely alone dealing with.
I have used my anxiety to get out of gym. It's something that can be bad and good.
I think that what you're doing is very brave and very comforting. Thanks for being that strong because it is like you are showing a brand new way to talk about mental illness and allow others, like me, to fell less ashamed of their condition. Again, thanks a lot, I wish you the best. Take care. Emi
Kristen your hair is flawless
I didn't know other people felt the same way as me about the shower being my only safe place! It's the place I can go to finally be alone and have my space that I get deprived of otherwise
I totally agree!!!!
This is my time to start recovery and I am. I have a green string around my hand and I am wearing a green ribbon. Thank you Like Kristen for making these videos I am very great full. This is a huge challenge for me that's for sure. #IAmStigmaFree
I totally understand the whole driving thing, I'm nearly old enough to get lessons but I'm too scared to do it as I know that I'm so useless at everything and I'm scared of hurting someone or crashing the car just because I'm me and I always do everything wrong
Yeah I feel really guilty cause it's hard for me to do things "normal" people do. Like, I want to go out with my friends but all the the sudden I'm terrified to say a word to them.
I was dignosed with anxiety and depression after a few years my grandma passed from colon cancer. I knew I had these illnesses when I started puberty but our family was strick in faith and women just dealt with it. After I was diagnosed and was put on medications I started to feel ok but the symptoms were still there and highly bothersome. After changing doctors and getting put on the right meds and counseling, I'm starting to feel a little bit normal. I still have a lot to go through but I know I can do it. Also my cat Fiesta helps a lot during my bad days.
You're amazing Kristen, I can't imagine you not being here, thanks for being so honest and supportive and like you say, you wouldn't be here without your struggles and so please keep going, you're wonderful =) and Thank You!
Your eyes are beautiful ♥ Awsome video!
I have lost mates and I really agree with you . like a good thing is I can concentrate on school rather than friends I struggle with some of the same things my friends struggle with and I feel I fit in your awsome and so Is the whole mental health community
The positive about my mental illness is my understanding for people with mental illness - also I think I gained a ton of empathy for people in general and also it made me the way I am. Well that is not actually positive for me - but the way I think in some ways was defined from my illness, and these are things like politics or "religious/spritual/philisophical" views ... I'm happy about my view about that and maybe without my mental illness I would have a different view on that.
I relate to all of these things and I understand how you feel! today's topic made me realise that there are a few ways of having a mental illness xx
*positive
Anxiety for me has been diagnosed for extremely high, i can't see people my age normally (there's one girl who I can't even look at because my mind now views her as some demon idk) I can never find things to lift my mood, I'm in a constant stage of sadness, sometimes it's wanting to just overdose in class or extreme anxiety where I have to constantly scan the room and if someone glances at me I'll be on the very verge of running away (I've hallucinated a lot with people looking at me and it sucks). And I've gotten close to being addicted to overdosing myself with things that will make me sick to deal with mental pain, and more. It sucks cause nothing in life makes me happy anymore and I just wanna leave my home and go live in my own apartment alone, that's all I want, or to leave school and just be taught at home so I have the time I need to help my anxiety. Thankfully I am lucky enough to receive help (even though my dad isn't as supportive as he should be) my mum has been there for me, she's a bit weird but I love her and she understands me more then anyone, so I'm also thankful for that. Hopefully I receive medication to help me but as of now, your videos are extremely helpful and I love how soft and soothing your voice is. Keep up the good work Kristen ☺️
I have social anxiety and one time my friend told me to "man up" when I couldn't go up and talk to someone and she didn't understand why I got offended when she said it
You are amazing!!! Thanks for everything
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Love your lipstick!!
i have a mental illness and disability, depresstion and anxiety sucks, i have them to. like i dont care at all, but i care to much.
Your eyes are pretty.
I dunno. The shower is the last place I want to be when I'm feeling depressed. I just choose to sleep. In any case, if there is any pro to my decline of an already poor mental health, it would probably be the fact that I finally did something about it and sought help. Eight months later, I've made a complete (almost) recovery.
i feel very bad for the working poor who dont have mentall illness and are stuck for the rest of their lives being taken advantage of by the middle class and the rich and who many become homelesss from being fucked over by the middle class and the rich its terrible its a nightmare god bless the working poor
Can you do a video I how to help someone with a serious eating disorder. I really need it. My friend is slowly starving herself and apparently it's to the point of physical pain. I don't want her to die. Please help with this. Thank you for helping me almost fully recover by the wat
I can relate so much to everything you've said!
I'm so glad you're surrounded by supportive people:)! and your attitude is absolutely great:)!
Thank you so much for sharing:D!
years ago i gave up section 8 and now im on a much better apartment program that pays higher rent then section 8 the program im in also helps me get free money from social services for security money for my apartment every time i move also the staff in my program find us apartments adn they have people that move out furniture for a much cheaper price then a moving company i use to be a slave years ago i hated it my girlfriend was a slave for a bank when she lived home then she had to go and live on her own she could not afford to live being a slave at a bank so she went to state psych hospital and now she lives in the resident program many people with mentall illness had to give up being a slave for the sick in the head whtie middle class american savges and they live a much better life now living off the tax payers
What's your opinion on self diagnosing?
+AmazingSarahIsNotOnFire I have mixed options on self diagnosing because on one hand you would no if something is wrong better than anyone in most cases but on the other if you diagnose yourself with something you dont have completely that could not be helping you. Its just like if you have a virus you should go get diagnosed so you can start the right treatment that works for you.
many working poor are very angry people they know they are being taken advantage of and being fucked over and they cant do nothing about it they are also extermely stressed out
I just found out about mental health week and I plan on making a video for every prompt now. Is it too late to make a #IAmStigmaFree video as well?
Yes!! Dont forget to use the #MHStigmaFree so I can find it.
i have a question do i make a video of pros and cons or of how it affects my life?
Affects your life is the topic :)
+LikeKristen thank you your amazing and your videos help so ive been making some to
i love my freedom from american slavery i feel so much beter living off the tax payers this is wonderful oh yeah
She kinda lives in a bubble
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+Adrianna
"You are amazing!!!"
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