Mindful Thoughts with Deloris June: Recent Episodes
Deloris June
Deloris June is a simple girl who's suffered from depression, anxiety, and ADD for the last 10 years. With creating Mindful thoughts, it's her mission in life to help more people understand and learn everything we can about all things mental health. It's so important now of days to not just be mindful about the things we say to other's but also with the thoughts we have about other people throughout our days. Because you can never truly know what they fight with daily on their own and in their own minds. So, Welcome my Mindful Seeker to Mindful thoughts podcast!
Today's Confession is I refuse to be harden by the world. I feel like with each new year, talking about mental health has become a little bit more easier but I refuse to let the world make me feel bad about sharing my story or my struggle with others. So, today I'm chatting with you about how I've been feeling and how I'm going to continue to be 100% myself no matter what the world tells me and so should you!
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Let's learn about how understanding psychosis more can help not just us but the loves in our lives that might be struggling with this disorder as well. So, today we are learning - What psychosis is?- Warning/early signs to look out for.- Symptoms of this disorder- Causes of this disorder- What triggers it?- How it can be treated& lastly how to help yourself or someone you love who's struggling.
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Let's talk about what the impact of Comparison does to your mental health. Without you even realizing it subconsciously you might be comparing yourself to those your following on social media everyday. And it's important to be aware of who your following and what your consuming on the daily especially when it starts to make you feel worse about your own life, where your at in life compared to others or makes your start to envying those your following. So, today we are going to discuss it all.
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How comparison can make you feel.
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How to break the habits of comparison.
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How to help a friend or yourself who's socially comparing,
and lastly what you need to do to get help if you can't seem to kick the habit.
Last weeks podcast episode to check out:https://open.spotify.com/episode/44gjwnl75Fi0ADfpPsfFQX?si=7f310dc12fc24e17
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Let's talk about why taking a step back from social media is important for your mental health. We all know how addicting social media can be, but what we might not realize is how it's affected our mental health in the long run. So, today I'm sharing with you my experience with taking a step back and how it overall improved my mental health and how I encourage you to do the same for your mental health. I'm also sharing the benefits of taking a break, signs to notice in yourself or others for when you should take a break and some helpful tips.
(Weekly Vlog) Social media break - My seven day reset - https://youtu.be/EHmUBIthXzo?si=3i6w4GAJKHld1Rs5
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Today we are taking a deeper look into what Autism is, I think it's important to get informed on mental health disorders we might not know anything about. So, let's learn together more about Autism.
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Today I'm going to be teaching you how manifesting your life around your mental health is possible. The newest trend of 2024 is manifesting the life of your dreams and for those of us struggling with a mental health illness this task could seem impossible because it's hard to imagine a different life from the one you have now. But I'm here to tell you that you can make your dreams and goals come true with following these few simple steps.
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Welcome to your Self-love Guide: To being your own Valentine! Valentine's day is more then just spending it with the ones you love, it's also about figuring out how to be your own Valentine and reconnecting with yourself. Because sometimes love and relationships are complicated but guess what they don't have to be. So, come along with me as I share with you my self-love tips and remind you that the most important relationship you have is the one with yourself!
Happy Valentine's day to you!
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After being gone for longer then I thought I would have been, I'm finally coming back to podcasting. I have big plans for 2024 and that means getting back into the one thing that I loved to do which is sharing my podcast with you all. Today I explain where I've been and what to look forward to in the future. Thank you to everyone who still listened while I was gone. I'm excited to be back and looking forward to see where the future takes us.
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Where I get my music – https://share.epidemicsound.com/hm3py4
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This wasn't an easy decision but at the end of the day I know it's the right one because as I explain in this episode. I've been struggling lately with my own mental health and knew that something needed to be done. As someone who is learning as much as I can about mental health to be able to help others during their journeys surrounding mental health, I quickly realized that I wasn't paying full attention to my own. And within the last two weeks I've just felt drained and off (just not like myself) and haven't had the motivation to get anything done. So, with this stepping back I plan on really focus on me and I'm hoping to be able to reconnect and recenter myself and come back as stronger version of myself than I am today. I love being able to create this content for you and love being able to support you in any way that's possible. I still have very big plans for this podcast and know that once I'm able to really get myself in the right head space, I'll be able to create even better content then before. Thank you to all of you who have been listening, supporting, and loving this podcast up to this point. This is also a sign to anyone else who might be feeling the same way I have been, maybe it's time for you to take a step back and revaluate your life and see what's needed to be done for you to come back as a stronger version of yourself as well.
I'll be talking to you again really soon. Again thank you and sending you all my love!
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This week on Mindful thoughts, I'm joined by my favorite Youtuber Kayla Nelson. You could say Kayla does it all because she's all around the ultimate content creator. But as busy as she can be and how all together she might seem, she also struggles with her own mental health and today she openly talks about everything she does for herself to help with her own anxiety along with,
- Her story behind mental health
- Gen X and Baby Boomers generation & how they dealt with mental health
- How the new generations are learning & talking about it more
- Seeking help from the doctors
- People's pictures of what people struggling with their mental health should look like (the face of mental health)
- Still struggling while doing every mental health strategies
- The stigma behind not talking about therapy or taking medicine
- Wanting the quick fix instead of realizing it's a life long process
- Everyone could benefit from therapy
- Checking in with your happy friends
- And letting the ones you love know that your there for them
OMG I absolutely loved this conversation with Kayla and I know you will too. We discuss so many different things that I know your going to be able to have so many take aways. Kayla's one of my favorite content creators and I know she's going to quickly be one of yours.
Get to know Kayla :
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/KaylaNelsonx
Podcast:
Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/girl-on-the-internet/id1625514144
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/56Rg3wSo7dFzdzQxI2JbRj?si=82207b640e5e4028
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sincerely.kayla/
Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@kaylaobviously?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
So, go over and show Kayla some love and give her a follow.
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Struggling with your mental health can become easier once your able to identify what triggers your response to the things surrounding your everyday. Most of the time we are unaware of the things that are triggering us, it's only when we take a deeper dive into why, who, and what makes us feel certain ways that we are we able to start identifying each trigger and learning how to use coping mechanisms to help us with those exact triggers. Have you ever watched something on tv or the news and had a reaction like being scared, angered, overwhelmed, or sad by what your viewing. Or have you ever felt a certain way after scrolling through social media? At first you might not even realize that what your consuming is triggering you until you confront those feelings and identify why they came up or why your having a reaction to them.
So in today's episode we go over:
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What a trigger is
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How triggers form
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Understanding the different triggers we can have
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Ways to help someone who gets trigger
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Purpose of trigger warnings
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And Coping strategies for those who get triggered.
Let me know your take aways from this episode, over on Spotify or YouTube.
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In today's confession I talk about how for sometime I wanted/waiting to receive praise from other because I thought I needed to know that I was doing a good job at whatever project I was working on and when I didn't I would take it personally like it meant that what I was doing wasn't good enough and that I wasn't good enough. I had to learn to be proud of myself for the work I'm doing while knowing that even if I only get one listen or one like or one comment that someone wrote about what I was doing. I didn't have to apply more meaning to it about how I able worth to myself. It takes a lot of practice but is worth it at the end of each day. And wanted to share my feelings around this subject with you.
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Do you have audacity to talk about your mental health openly? Well in today’s interview with Jacy we talk about it all and don’t leave anything uncovered. When I tell you we talk about it all, we seriously cover all aspects of mental health and I’m so excited to share it with you.
In today’s episode Jacy share’s
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Her story with mental health
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How therapy and medicine has helped her throughher mental health journey.
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Abusive relationships and how to navigate them.
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Setting boundaries: like learning to say NO.
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Trying out different things to see what worksfor you.
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Taking care of yourself just like you do forothers.
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Losing friendships because you’ve “changed”
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Feeling your emotions
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Child work (Inner child work) and how that canbe helpful
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Learning more about your brain
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And knowing that working on your mental healthis a journey
This conversation was absolutely amazing, and I know your going to learn something you didn’t know and there are so many take aways that you might even come back to listen to it a few more times, so have a notebook ready. Also, I know you’re going to love Jacy and her story as much as I did.
Get to know Jacy:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacylawler/& https://www.instagram.com/havetheaudacitycommunity/
Her podcast:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kzPcoGSObCGYE0lUNwvRH?si=19e9a470ad724e56
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/have-the-audacity/id1654097388
Her website: https://www.jacylawler.com/
So, remember to go over and show her so much love and if you want to learn more about what she does to help you have the audacity to live your life to the fullest go connect with her and find out. Go follow her on Instagram and listen to her podcast.
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Have you ever experienced an event that was threatening or horrifying and now you are having trouble coping/sleep or are easily scared by certain noises?? Then you might be suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). You can experiences this disorder after having an experiences that's very traumatizing in your life. Like combat exposure, childhood abuse, sexual violence, physical assault, being threated with a weapon, and being in an accident.
So, today we take a deep dive into this disorder and discuss:
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What post traumatic stress is?
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How soon symptoms can show up.
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The four group types of symptoms you could fall into.
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What it's like for people after surviving the traumatic event.
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How to cope and getting support if your struggling with PTSD
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And lastly how to how support if someone you love is dealing with PTSD.
Hope that after listening to this episode it can help you learn more about this disorder, how to see the signs in someone or yourself and how to seek the help that's needed.
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Did you know that by taking care of your mental wellness, you'll be able to better take care of your mental health. For many people they think that these two are the same thing, but there's very different. They do go hand in hand but more generally, well-being is just feeling good about yourself and your life. Mental health is made us of our emotional, psychological and social well-being.
So, today we discuss:
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The meaning behind mental wellness
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How it can benefit your mental health
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The meaning behind having Grit
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How to create a well balanced life
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And 7 self care tips for improving your mental health
I'm hoping that after this episode you'll be able to create a well balanced life that your in love with while also helping balance out your mental health as well. It's important to take care of yourself for your mental health and working on your mental wellness can be the start.
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Life can sometimes be a roller coaster on its own but what about when you add in being diagnosed with Bipolar and borderline personality disorder while my girl Jasmine never let that hold her back from living her life to the fullest. She turned it around and became the bipolar badass she is today and shares her journey with everyone every day on her stories, posts, reels, and podcast.
So, in today’s episode Jasmines shares with us:
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Her story behind getting diagnosed.
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Navigating the highs and lows
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Having open communication while in arelationship
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Going to therapy and taking medication
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Planning rest days when things become too much.
This conversation was amazing, and I learned so much about what it’s like living with these two and many more disorders from her. I know you’ll love Jasmine and her story as much as I do.
Get to know Jasmine:
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/the_bipolar_badass/
Her Podcast:
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6O04gA1zXGc1G4dahBitx8?si=3cc807b496784073
Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bipolar-badass/id1578989835
So, remember to go over and show her so much love and if you want to learn more about Bipolar/Borderline personality go follow Jasmine on Instagram and go listen to her podcast.
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In today's confession, I share with you how I've been struggling to realize that even after having two rough week's in a row that good days are coming and I just have to keep my head up. It's hard to stay positive well going through hard times and it's even harder to picture better days when your in the thick of it. But I promise you that good days are coming even when you don't think they are because that's how I felt in the beginning of my depression, that I wished that I would just feel better and you know what? Over time with practicing the coping mechanism that work for me, I actually started to feel better and could go longer amounts of time without feeling sad or anxious. So, today I just wanted to share with you what I've been going through and want to show you that even on my bad days I'm still showing up for my goals and dreams because nothings going to hold me back from living the life I've always dreamed of.
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Have you ever noticed how much time you spend on social media everyday or how it makes you feel after putting down your phone?? Then let's discuss that because most of us spend hours upon hours endlessly scrolling without even realizing the affect it's having on our own mental health.
So, today let's
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Learn about how first it makes us feel
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Learn what we might be seeking from the platform we are using
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How to recognize when it's affecting us
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Finally how to take a step back from it all and reevaluate are usage of that platform for our own mental health.
Where I get my music –https://share.epidemicsound.com/hm3py4
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Growing in your 20’s is hard on its own but what if you then throw in anxiety and ADHD, while my guest/new friend Kristian Ellis openly speaks about how she navigated through her mid 20’s feeling so different from others and not really knowing why. She felt like she had so many questions around why she felt like she did many different things different from the people surrounding her, from how she studied in college, to working a job while attending college, and having a hard time sitting still while at work. That’s when she finally went back to see a therapist that help her come to the realization that she was struggling with ADHD which then made her look back on her life and start to realize how really different she was from others and everything in her life start my make sense. In this conversation with Kristian, we take an into a deep dive into what her life’s been like living with ADHD and how she’s never let it hold her back for living her life to the fullest. I’m so excited for you guys to hear this episode and thank you again to my new friend Kristian for letting me share her story with the world!
Get to know Kristian
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thenbdlife/
Her podcast
Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nbd-podcast/id1576800818
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GaFcI6UZY1gaWLp03SHpk?si=188472d9eef74636
So, remember to go over and show her so much love and if you want to learn more about ADHD go over and listen to her podcast which is all things ADHD.
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Lately I've been thinking about why I get so mad at myself for taking a rest day even when I know I need it. The other day, which was during the week. I knew that I had things I needed to get done but instead I decided to take a rest day since I was mentally burned out and just wasn't motivated at all but half way through the day I got upset with myself for not getting any work done when I knew I need this rest day and that made me think how many of us feel this way? How many of us punish ourselves for taking a day to rest and recover? When really it's okay to take a rest day, we as humans will over work ourselves until we are burnt out instead of just taking the time to relax and come back when we are ready, so in today's episode I address this topic and share my feelings around it. And I'm here to tell you that it's okay to rest and come back when your ready. Don't over do it. Learn how to take care of your body and mind before overthinking and over working your body because that's going to get you no where. So, today let's learn to rest more and worry less.
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When your loved one receives this diagnoses the world can feel like it's crumbling down around you but it doesn't have to be like that. Yes, it's hard to hear and yes it's going to be life changing but really it's important to remember to be supportive and caring towards your loved one and to let them know that no matter what your going to be there for them for whatever they're going to need. With no cure to this horrible mental health disorder it can be soul crushing to know that there's absolutely nothing you can do to help your loved one over come this diagnoses but you know what you can do. Be there for them even on the days when it's hard, even at those times when your loved ones memories start to go, it's important for them to feel safe and to feel loved up until those final days. I've personally been there when my great grandma was diagnosed with this disorder and yes it was heart breaking to see it overtake her life but you know what. She lived a happy life all the way up until the end and she knew that she was loved by every single person in her family. So, today I share with you 10 things people wish they'd known earlier on when their loved one got the diagnoses and I'm hoping this can help you as well. I send all the love and care to the families that might be going through the thick of it and just wanted to say never give up on your loved ones and even when you need to remind them of who you are, don't get upset or frustrated. Choose to understand and stand by there sides until the end. Also sending all my love, care, and prays to the Willis family as they navigate through this difficult time. Stay strong and I'm keeping your in my prays!
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Heather Nicole is an amazing woman who’s over come so much pain in her past and instead of letting that overtake her, turned it in a way to learn and grow into the amazing mom she’s become today. Today, me and her share our stories behind the pain we’ve over come to becoming the unstoppable women we’ve become today. In today’s episode, I have the honor of interviewing Heather on her past trauma’s along side me opening up about my past trauma’s and our experiences with over coming the pain and turning them into lesson to become the best versions of ourselves every day. Heather also shares what it’s like being a mother to an amazing teenager who she encourages to be open with her on what she’s going through and educates her on what she should be looking out for in other’s to help protect her as much as possible from experiencing the pain she’s gone through herself. Heather’s a total badass and I can’t wait for you to give this episode a listen.
Enjoy!
Connect with Heather on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theheather_nicole/
Heather’s podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/2YWMun0nse2IN5lyjip8SD?si=bd1ac76122a14068
Heather’s also has a free eBook, planners, and is a Self-love, healing and mindset coach that helps other people overcome the pain they have suffered in the past and helps them become the best version of themselves that they might see in themselves. Remember to go over there, give her a follow, and show her some love.
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My confession is that I'm still scared of all the judgement from this world. Over the last two months I've started to become a more confident version of myself but that doesn't mean that I'm not scared anymore about what others are going to say about the things I talk about or the things I post. Last year, those comments would have destroyed me but coming into this new year I knew that no matter what the judgement from others were going to come up, no matter how hard I tried to not hurt anyone's feelings someone would still get hurt. Also by realizing that there's always going to be someone who doesn't agree with me or doesn't like what I'm posting and knowing that, that's okay. We weren't put on this earth to make everyone else happy, to be friends with every person we meet, and there will always be that one person who's hating on everything we create no matter how hard we try to make them happy, it's not going to work and guess what that's okay. I'm still learning as I go but just want to be open and honest with you on how I was feeling and hope this can help someone else who might be feeling the same way. This confession is to remind you to never give up on your passions and to keep pushing forward because some will like you and others wont and that's just fine.
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Do you have control over your environment? If not, then it could be affecting your mental health without you even realizing it. Your environment contains the places you go and the people you surround yourself with everyday. Everyday you are the one who is deciding every single decision you make and you are in control of who or what you allow to be in own inner circle of life. Everything around us is our environment and has helped played a role in who we have become today. If your surrounded by love, compassion, and encouragement to reach for your dreams then your going to feel good about yourself and your going to work at what you love to do everyday but what if your surrounded by negatively, hurt, pain, and none of your friends or family member believe in you then your going to start becoming a negative person and your going to start to believe that all those dreams you have are stupid and there never going to happen. Your environment is so important for your mental health because it can play a major role in how you feel about yourself, how your taking care of yourself, and how you view the world around you. In todays episode I share why this plays a big role in your life and for your mental health also I share personal stories that I've been through that has helped me realize that I needed to focus on me and my mental health more then focusing on what other's needed from me and about how unhappy I had becoming in my day-to-day life.
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Have you ever gone through a situation that you just didn't know how to deal with and it's just so life-changing that you are dealing with trying to figure out how to just get through every single day. Are you suddenly feeling these new emotions that you've never felt before. Feelings of depression or sadness and anxiousness because you're not sure what the next day, or the next week, or even the next month is going to look like. You might be wondering what's going on and you might not even realize that what you experiencing is situational depression. Now dealing with depression and anxiety can be scary for everyone, but especially if you’ve never experienced it before. To these people, the feelings can be daunting and they might feel like they’re losing control. But I'm here to tell you that you're going to be okay and there's a way to get through this all. So, today we are going to discuss this topic in full and I'll share with you some tips to help you get through it.
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The most power thing you can do is share your story because this allows you to connect with others on a whole other level that you wouldn't have even imagine. Now you don't have to share everything, only the things you feel comfortable sharing because truly it's all about you. I've learned just in the month of January how important it has been for me to share my story with the world and how many amazing people it's connected me to with just doing so. Today, I share with you how I feel about sharing my story and encourage you to do the same. Because I'm telling you that just being you and sharing your experience with mental health, just might be the thing someone else needs to here and in return might help them/encourage them to share their story as well. There's no better feeling then connecting with people who truly understand you and want to reach out to let you know how much it means to them to know that they aren't alone in this world and how much they can connect with the words your putting out there in the world. Yes, it's going to be scary but I'm telling you it's so worth it. You never truly know who your inspiring! Where I get my music –https://share.epidemicsound.com/hm3py4Come follow me –Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dkuhn93/Also reminder to subscribe to keep up on all the latest episodes
Can people really be suffering from multiple personalities or is it all just made up? First let me tell you that this disorder is real and there are people out there who are suffering from it. I can’t even imagine what it must feel like to feel like you have multiple personalities trying to live within one brain and one body. To waking up and not remember the day before, to feeling like you’re having an out of body experience watching someone else control your mind and body, or not being able to control when that other personally is going to take over. Out of all the different mental health illnesses I’ve researched this one to me seems to be the scariest one, not just for the person who’s suffering from it but also for their loved ones who have to help/understand what’s going on. Learning more about this disorder really blew my mind and I can’t wait to share my findings with you. So, if your interested in learning more about multiple personalities then this episode is for you.
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What happens when your depression gets so bad that you start to question everything you love to do? This happened to me on Monday, my depression came tumbling in hard and started to make me believe that it wasn't worth my time to continue creating podcast episodes/YouTube vlogs since no ones listening/watching them any ways. Now in reality that's not how I truly feel and I know that people are indeed listening/watching my content but in that brief moment I let my depression get the best of me. And I let it make me feel worthless and feel like this thought was the truth. But after talking it all out with my fiancé Ken, he asked me the two most important question that I will never forgot especially on those days when my depression tells me I should just give up and I wanted to share them with you because I thought that if I feel this way sometimes there's other people who have felt this way as well and these two questions might as be the ones that can help them realize that they should never give up on those dreams/goals they have on their hearts because when you have a dream in your heart it's there for a reason. Enjoy!
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Being consistent on its own can be hard, right? But what happens when your mental health illness gets in the way of you being consistent with your goals and dreams. Do you simply choose to give up? I hope the answer for you is NO! So, then what do you do when you don’t have the motivation to keep going on those hard days, well today I share a little bit of my story behind trying to stay consistent while dealing with my own depression. How I felt like I needed to show up when I didn’t want to and how I felt like I would be letting people down if I didn’t get myself moving. But how taking sometime off to take care of myself was so much better then pushing myself to the edge of no return. How many of us have tired to keep going even when we don’t feel like it and how many of us have lost the passion we had for those goals and dreams because you’ve pushed ourselves to show up when we shouldn’t have? Here’s another question to ask yourself, have you ever felt burned out because instead of listening to what your body needs, you instead keep pushing until you can’t push no more. One of the biggest strengths so far this year has been so listening to my body when it’s telling me to slow down and take a rest even when I didn’t want too. Because I now know that if I would have pushed myself to record the original episode I want to record instead of taking the time off, it wouldn’t have come out the way I wanted it to and the message behind it wouldn’t have been as strong. So, I want you to remember that being consistent in life is going to look different for everyone.
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Did you know that there are many different types of myth surrounding mental wellness and that can have an affect on how people with mental health illness are look at? The truth is that people make up myths about many different things in life, when they truly don’t understand it, and instead of finding the time or making the time to understand what those people might be going through. They throw labels on them or make up myths about them without even realizing the actual damage they could be causing. So, my confession today is about busting the myths surrounding mental health, I share with you three myths that really hit home for me and know that these three are ones you might associate with too. Love these confession episodes because I’m not just sharing my options, I’m sharing how things surround my mental health illness affect me and hoping that they will help you along the way.
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Everyone makes a new year’s resolution, right? Well maybe? But for me I’ve found it extremely unproductive to make new year’s resolutions that I will never stick to or making ones that aren’t good for my mental health. So, I want to share with you today something that I’ve changed in the last few years that have seemed to help me reach for my goals and dreams more productively then trying to stick with new year’s resolutions that make me feel like crap when I don’t accomplish them. Hoping some of these tips and tricks can help you out if you feel like your stuck in that resolution rut and help you figure out what’s going to work for you in this new year. So, at the end of the episode, let me know what you use to help you reach for your dream and goals every new year?
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With out even realizing it social media and the news maybe be playing a huge role in how you see people struggling with a mental health illness. You might be playing into the stigma that people with a mental health illness are lazy, need to just be grateful, are dramatic, or are simply just faking that something is truly wrong with them to begin with. This is how mental health stigmas were born, when we are constantly told by society that having a mental health illness is a bad thing, that seeking help and going to a therapist making you crazy then even the people who are struggling with those illness start to believe them. We need to start treating people who are suffering with love and care, we need to check in on them to see how they are doing, and we need to let them know that’s it okay to be themselves and that seeking help isn’t a weakness or that they won’t be judge for doing what’s best for them. It’s okay not to be okay. In today’s day an age talk about mental health is getting better but we still need to keep working on it every day, so many people are still scared too just be themselves and it’s sad. So, in today’s episode we discuss what a mental health stigma is, how it affects the people who are suffering and what we need to do to help the ones who are in pain every day of their life’s. I just want you to know that most people struggling with a mental health illness say that the hard part about it isn’t having a mental health illness, the hardest part is dealing with the way people treat and place judgement upon them without getting to know them first.
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Now people on the internet can be ruthless, they can judge you for every little thing you do but if you believe it or not, they’re not going to be your toughest critic. Do you know who is? If you guessed that it, was you then you were right. You alone are going to be your toughest critic even when you don’t realize that you’re doing it. Think about all the thoughts you have during your day, now think about how many of those thoughts are ones where you’re tearing yourself down. Most the time we are making comments to ourselves about our bodies, hair, clothes, and decision we’ve made during the day but for someone who’s struggling with a mental health illness. We tend to tear ourselves apart at every turn. From the thoughts we have, to how we react to a situation or conversation, and to how much our mental health illness controls our days or life. So, today I share with you three tips to help you overcome self-doubt and judgement, to help you treat yourself with some love and compassion. Being hard on ourselves isn’t going to make things better there just going to make things worse. So, give this episode a listen and give yourself some grace because we all are meant to be kind to ourselves. Self-care is key.
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Growing up as a child into an adult can be hard enough but when you add difficulties with paying attention, staying on task, talking too much, being forgetful or being distracted easily by unrelated thoughts thing can get a little bit harder in your life. If any of these things have become an issue in your life, you might be struggling with ADD (attention deficit) or ADHD (hyperactivity disorder). With this disorder daily life can be a little rough until you know how to manage them. In today’s episode, we are going to discuss all things surrounding this disorder from, what it can be like for children who might be struggling with it, into adulthood and what you can do to help you during your day-to-day life. It’s always important to understand and learn more about what you’re dealing with and remember to always be open with your doctor about what you’re going through before things get bad. So, let’s get talking.
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What makes you sad? What makes you anxious? What makes you angry? What brings you happiness? If someone was to ask you these questions, would you be able to answer them all or would you find it hard to really come up with the actual reason for these emotions coming up in your daily life. Sometimes we feel emotions coming up when we weren’t feeling them in the first place, but why does this happen. Have you ever stopped in that moment and thought to yourself, what’s making me sad, angry, anxious, or even happy in this moment right here. Today, we are going to talk about how important it is to listen to your emotions and how we can learn to really tune into why the emotions might be coming up and what that emotion is really trying to tell us. During these holiday seasons it’s important to take care of your mental health and tuning into the emotions that might be coming up for you. For some this season is filled with love and happiness but for others this time brings up sadness and loneliness do to losing loved ones or being isolated during these colder months. So, let’s really dive into what emotions are and how they can help us realize what’s happening in our lives. Give yourself permission to feel those emotions because listening to your emotions can be your greatest skill.
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After dealing with my anxiety hitting me hard for two weeks in a row. I realized how much of my life is ruled by my anxiety and how it makes me feel. Then it made me think back on all the conversations, events, family gatherings, and dreams I never had because of my anxiety. There's been so many things in my life that I feared doing because it made me anxious. Places I didn't go, conversations I never had, and kept working at a job that made me miserable all because my anxiety was holding me. I've been working on this for the last few years and being able to sharing it with you is another way for me to be open and honest about what I've been going through and been feeling. Do you struggle with anxiety? Has it stop you from living the life you've want to live? Share with me your stories and let me know how it's affected your life.
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Are you feeling a little down in the dumps lately? Is this fall/winter cold and darkness making you feel like you can’t get out of bed or that you have no motivation whatsoever? You’re not alone. You might be suffering from a type of depression that occurs during certain seasons called (SAD) seasonal affective disorder. This disorder plays a big part in your mood shifting and you feeling more down than you usually would. So, let’s dive into this week’s episode together and learn how you can improve your mood and feel better during these colder months when the sun just seems like it isn’t our friends.
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Do you know how to attract the right people for your mental health? Have you ever felt like the people you hang out with or your environment you work in just was making your mental health worse and every morning you dread the day ahead of you? Learning how to focus more on attracting the right people in your life or learning when to leave an unhealthy environment is the moment you realize that you need to put yourself first and focus on meeting the right people who are going to help you better your life. Most the time the person you become in life has a lot to do with the people or environment you’re surrounding yourself in and sometimes we don’t realize that those people/environment might be the one thing that’s holding us back from becoming the best version of yourself. So, in today’s episode I share with you three tips that have helped me put myself first and have helped me work towards attracting the right people that deserve to be apart of my life.
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For many people thinking about food/eating isn’t even a thought in their minds but for others it’s all they think about. They have anxiety about eating or the consequences of eating certain foods. Most of the time they start focusing on their weight, body shape, and food which can lead to dangerous eating behaviors. Eating disorders are serious conditions related to persistent eating behaviors that negatively impact your health, your emotions, and your ability to function in important areas of life. The most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. So, in today’s episode we are going to learn together about what an eating disorder looks like and what you should do to help yourself or someone you love that might be dealing with it themselves. Always remember that your never alone in your fight with mental health and reaching out to your doctor for helping and being open about what you’re going through is going to help you live a healthier life and a safer one.
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Do you ever feel like you agree to do too many things, but you’re not sure how to say no? Maybe it’s because you don’t want people to think that you’re being rude or unkind. You aren’t alone. Many people have fallen into a pattern of people pleasing. The good news is that setting healthy boundaries can save you from stress and give you a sense of control and freedom over how you live and spend your time. In today’s episode we are going to talk about why setting boundaries are important for your mental health, how to set boundaries, and what can happen when you don’t set the right boundaries for the people who are in your life. Have you set healthy boundaries for the people in your life? If so, please share your tips for setting boundaries to help other find the right ones to work for them.
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When suffering from a mental health illness it can be hard to really be present with the ones you love and care about. Being present is so important to not just your friends and family but for you. Because if you constantly let your mental health illness like depression get in the way then your never going to be fully present in those moments of pure happiness. So choose today to be present in the moments you haven't been fully present in. Laugh with your family and friends, play with your kids, and be totally focused on what matters to you most. Choose to be present!
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Have you ever wondered what a person with OCD deals with every day? A person with OCD has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessives) and/or behavior (compulsions) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over. People with this disorder has a need to do things in an orderly and symmetrical order, like cleaning and washing things, checking to make sure you did something that you’ve already done, following a strict routine, and counting in certain patterns. During this episode we are going to dive headfirst into all things surrounding this topic and when it might be time for you go to the doctor to get a diagnosis if you think you or a loved one might be dealing with this disorder.
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Have you ever wondered what the most important steps to follow if you want to feel good from morning to night? I’ve spent some time thinking this over and have realized that for everyone these steps might be different but also there might be somethings that I do during my day that could also help you out as well. So, today I want to share you some tips and tricks I have for having a better day at any time, from waking up in a bad mood, to someone upsetting you during your day, and how to have an amazing night even when things don’t go as you thought they were supposed to be planned. Hope these tips and tricks can help you out on the bad days.
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Have you ever had feelings of nervousness, restlessness, increased heat rate, or trembling. You might be dealing with symptoms of anxiety and not even know it. Many people deal with occasional anxiety and that’s just a normal part of life but for others it’s a persistent worry and fear about their everyday situations. These feelings of anxiety and panic interfere with their daily activities, are difficult to control, are out of proportion to the actual danger and can last a long time. They might start avoiding places or situations to prevent from dealing with those types of feelings. So, if you would like to learn more about this mental health disorder then come along with me and give this episode a listen.
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What does it mean to feel enough? It means you’re just trying to be yourself. You are enough means that you don’t have to strive to become more worthy, more valid, more acceptable, or more loved. You already are all those things. These are things you might want to be more of. It means showing up for yourself even when you don’t want to. It means trying new things and pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. It means trusting the process and having faith in yourself and your abilities. So, in todays episode we are discussing how you are just enough the way you are and never have to change anything about yourself for other people. Being you in just enough.
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Appreciating the positives in life can be hard when you’re in the thick of depression, but these are the moments that we might not realize can help us out on our worst days. Sometimes we forget to fully enjoy those happy moments, or we simply forget that there are good days to come. We are allowed to have joy, love, and happiness despite the sadness we are feeling daily. So, make it a priority today to go out and looking for all the positive things that are going on in your life or try to reach out to the ones you love to share with them the positive things in their life’s. You never know what other people are going through just like they don’t know what your going through, so remember to always be nice to others and try to go out of your way to change someone’s else day.
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Have you felt extreme sadness, anxiety, and fatigue well pregnant or experience these symptoms after having your baby. Don’t worry there’s nothing wrong with you, your just experiencing perinatal depression. Perinatal depression is depression that occurs during or after pregnancy. The symptoms can range from mild to serve. In rare cases, the symptoms are severe enough that the health of the mother and baby may be at risk. So, let’s dive into today’s episode and learn together all the thing we need to know about perinatal depression.
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Where you taught as a child to share your feelings and openly talk about how you were feeling but now that your an adult it's not okay to share your feelings and when you do people say they feel uncomfortable. What if your someone who is dealing with a mental health illness, do you find it hard to openly talk about what your going through without being judged and feel like people just don't want to understand what your going through then this episodes for you. It's crazy the things your taught to as a child and how much things change once you become an adult. I don't think we should ever have to hide our true feelings, our struggles, or who we truly are. That's part of the reason I started this podcast, is to help people realize that it's okay to be who are you and share your struggles no matter what other's are going to think of you. Instagram - @dkuhn93
When you think of sadness and hopelessness you might associate those feelings with depression. Just like how you would associate seeing, hearing, smelling, or believe that thing is there when they aren’t with schizophrenia. But did you know that you can also experience these things when you’re suffering from Psychotic depression. When dealing with psychosis you can have moments of hallucinations and delusions as well. This disorder is a subtype of major depression that occurs when a severe depressive illness includes some form of psychosis. Did you also know that roughly one out of every four people admitted to the hospital for depression also are dealing with some type of psychosis? Today, I would love for us to dive headfirst into this disorder and learn together more about what it is and how people who have it been living their lives every day.
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I know you’ve heard of being physical exhausted, but did you know that you can be mentally and emotionally exhausted as well. Just like when you over work your body, you can also over work your brain to the point that it gets exhausted. When you’re constantly over thinking this can cause your brain to start to feel over worked. Which then can start to make you very emotional. Which can make you feel many different emotions like sadness, loneliness, depression, anxiety, and etc. Now did you know that if you sit in those emotions for to long then not only are you mentally exhausted but now your can be emotionally exhausted as well. In this episode I share with you how I've experienced this myself and how it can feel being in the thick of things. But never give up, and if your having this issues for a long time please reach out for help. Also please leave a review and let know me how this episode helped you or if you've ever experienced this yourself.
People will always fake being okay when on the inside they are dying. Remember to be kind to others because everyone has a bad day, and sometimes, they don't mean to be rude to you or hurt your feelings. Confession #2 I share with you why it's easier to fake like everything's okay rather than openly talking or sharing how you truly feel. Sometimes, it's hard for other people to truly understand what's it's like to walk in your shoes. So, it's easy for those who struggle to not openly talk about it mostly because you don't want to answer all the uncomfortable questions that they might get asked.
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I think one of the bravest thing you can do is openly share about your mental health illness when I know that #1 it can be so scary to do and #2 you might be scared at how people are going to react to what you have to say. So, I’m so grateful that for my first podcast interview, I got to interview an amazing woman like Abby. Abby’s a wife, beachbody coach, and food relationship coach who shares her stories about struggling with mental health and helps other build a healthier relationship with food, exercise, and themselves. In today’s episode she opens up with me about her struggles with anxiety, depression, and eating disorder. She talks about finding her passion in coaching and working with others also how she’s grown over the years and found coping mechanisms that has helped her since first dealing with her first anxiety attack. Being able to connect with someone else who knows what your going through can be empowering. So, thank you again to Abby and enjoy!
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Living with schizophrenia can be hard because many with this mental health disorder can experience combinations of hallucinations, delusions, extremely disordered thinking, and behavior that impairs daily functioning and that can be disabling for them. Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may seem like they have lost tough with reality, which can be distressing for them and for their family and friends. People with this disorder are just like everyone and shouldn’t be seen any other way. So, today we are going to learn more about this illness and how it affects the person who has it.
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How often do we find ourselves stuck in the past and finding it hard to move on? We keep battling those unseen nightmares that just seem to never go away, how often do you feel like you’re carrying around a huge burden that suddenly makes you feel stuck in the same place that just starts to feel impossible to get out of. We need to stop losing ourselves in the past and learn how to move forward without holding on to that past pain. We often have a hard time letting go of the past when we feel uncomfortable with how it ended or when our feels were hurt but don’t want to show your pain. Believe me when I say that everyone at some point in their life’s have been hurt by something that happen or by something someone said to them. If we don’t learn how to let, go of the past then it will start to consume us and it will start to become harder everyday to release it and become free. If we can’t change the past, why do we continue to live it? YouTube - https://youtu.be/_sxwBiKeTIsInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/dkuhn93/
Have you ever have an intense fear of abandonment or instability and have difficulty tolerating being alone? You might be suffering from a mental health illness known as borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder is a mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships. If you have borderline personality disorder, don’t get discouraged. Many people with this disorder get better over time with treatment and can learn to live satisfying lives. So, come along with me as we learn everything, we need to know about borderline personality disorder.
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Welcome to confessions of depression, I want to share with you a little bit of the behind the scenes of what it’s like to having depression. All the thoughts and feelings that come up even when life throws things at you that makes you change your daily life. Right now, I’ve been dealing with shoulder pain, that has changed my daily life from how I sleep, to what I can do, and to the changes I’ve had to make at work. So, this is like a depression diary to just be able to share with you what it’s like dealing with depression. Today’s confession is all about how I’ve been feeling since I injured my shoulder and how I kind message from a childhood friend has helped me realize to always see the positive even in the ugly.
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When dealing with a mental health illness sometimes self-care can be a challenge because we find it hard to be motivated to do so and we find it even harder to reconnect with ourselves. But it shouldn’t be this way, we should be able to find ways to reconnect with ourselves and in the beautiful irony is that self-care is the very thing that would begin to heal our mental health. Most people in general struggling when it comes to implementing self-care. In our day and age of all the phone scrolling we do and the constant need for that stimulation, self-care can get pushed back on our to-do lists. Dealing with a mental health illness at times can be hard, difficult, self-hurting, and downright confusing. So, today I want to share with you six self-care tips to help you reconnect back with yourself.
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Do you feel like recently you’ve had intense shifts in your mood, energy levels, thinking patterns or behavior? How long do you feel like their lasting, is it for hours, days, weeks, or even months and you also feeling like it’s starting to interrupt your ability to carry out day-to-day tasks? You might be suffering from having or dealing with bipolar disorder also known as manic depression. Bipolar disorder (manic depression) is a chronic mood disorder that’s causes intense shifts in mood, energy levels and behavior. Manic and hypomanic episodes are the main sign of the condition, and most people with bipolar disorder also have depressive episodes. So, let’s dive deeper into this lifelong mood disorder and learn more about what it is and how it can affect the ones who are struggling with this disorder every day.
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Developing open communication about your mental health is going to be the key ingredient in your mental health recovery. Being able to communicate how you feel can help others to understand you better and we all want to be understood. However, mental distress can affect communication, so there are times when it can be much harder to find the words even for articulate people. Forming those health relationships with friends and family are going to be part of your recovery process because when you feel like your understood then you don’t ever have to feel like you’re fighting this battle alone. No one want’s to ever feel misunderstood, therefore we need to start having more open conversations about our mental health journeys, struggles, and fears. The more we share, the more comfortable others will feel, and the easier it will be to understand. If they don’t know what’s going on with you then how do, we expect them to ever understand the struggles we feel every day.
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What happens when your depression lasts two years or more and you start to feel sad or are in a dark mood most of your day? You might not realize that what you’re suffering from is persistent depression, but how do you know that this the type of depression you’re suffering from. So, let’s discuss how you could be suffering from this type of depression. When there are so many different types, it can be hard to pinpoint which one you might be suffering from. So, in today’s episode we are going to go into every detail about what persistent depression is and how it can affect someone’s life. So, let’s start learning together about this type of depression that you might be suffering from and don’t even realize it.
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Journaling can be an important tool so in this week’s journaling episode we are writing about the things we’ve achieved or the things we want to achieve. Because when your dealing with a mental health illness it might be hard to think about the future or the dreams you would love to live out. So, it’s still important for you to set goals that you want to achieve, this will help keep your mind busy on those rough days when you feel like giving up. Because the only thing standing between you and your goals is the bull crap story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. So, what have you achieved recently??
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When you think about depression the first things that you would associate it with is sadness, unhappy, feeling down, and random bursts of crying. But what you don’t know is the scariest things about depression. How you have no control over your emotions and how much it can affect your day-to-day life. How you don’t have an interest or energy to do the things that once brought you joy. How much the crippling amounts of sadness make you not even want to get out of bed in the morning. Today’s episode is all about how scary depression really is and how we can’t give up even in those hard times. After listening to this episode, I hope it can help you understand why living with a mental illness is so scary. Also, how scary it can be to watch someone you love to have to go through it and not knowing how to make it better or the want you of wanting to take all that pain away.
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Do you know what major depression is or have you ever wanted to find out more information about it then this episode is for you. In today’s episode we learn all there is about what major depression is, to the symptoms, who it affects and what you can do it get the help you need. Also share how important educating yourself can be to either help someone you love or even yourself. So, remember at the end of the episode to hit that subscribe button to be up to date on the latest episode when they come out.Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dkuhn93/
The truth is, some days it’s hard to love anything in the world if you’re struggling with mental illness, let alone yourself. That’s why learning to love yourself is so important. In today’s episode we talk about all the different things we can go through well struggling with self-love. How can you truly love others if you don’t love yourself first? Those thoughts and feelings should never keep your down, no matter what you’re going through. Remember to be gentle with yourself and take it one day at a time.
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Did you know that there is a difference between mental health and a mental health illness? Understanding the differences might help you or a loved one out in a time on need. A lot of people would tell you that these two are the same thing but in realty there two are very different. In today’s episode we discuss the difference between the two, to help you get a better understanding. I also share with you why it’s important to know why these two are so different. Then I share with you nine tips to help you stay mentally healthy.
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A 5-minute mediation - The mind benefits from stillness so today we are going to relax and let our minds relax as well. With these busy life’s we live, we are constantly always moving. So, choosing to stop and let your mind be still could be so beneficial for you. This give you that time to stop thinking about the million things that need to be done that day and gives your mind a moment to slow down and gives it a break from all those thoughts. I chose to do a non-guided mediation today to see if you would like these types of mediations over guided but if you love the guided meditation in the future, I’ll continue do those one. If you don’t have a preference, then I’ll keep flipping how I do them. Hope this mediation is very helpful for you and can help still your mind for just 5 minutes.
Being scared to talk to your family and friends about your mental health is okay, finding ways to open up to them can be hard. So, today I want to share with you five helpful tips that you can use to slowly start making those small steps to feeling more comfortable about opening up. Just remember to take things slow and at first they might not understand but the more you let them in the easier it will become for them, on the other hand for some their loved ones might never understand which is okay because there are so many different other resources you can use in your favor like talking to your doctor, a support group, or even a therapist. You are never alone in this fight!
Here's a link to a website that can help you with your journaling - https://wellandwealthy.org/journaling-prompts-for-mental-health/
Picking out a new year's resolutions can be tricky, especially when your dealing with a mental health illness. So, in this week's episode I go over five different ones you can choose from and focus on to help you get through the year. I know that 2020 and 2021 have been rough and deciding to even make a new year's resolution would be the last thing on your mind since this new year is so unknown. But if there's one thing that you can and should be focusing on this year it is your mental health. Focus on the things you can control and try to let go of the things you can't control. If there are any other ones you would like to add to this list please do share with me over on Instagram or if you would like me to check you accountable just leave me a message.
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When losing a loved one, getting news of a terminal diagnosis, or bad news. Grief is one of the first emotion you deal with, but does grief lead you to depression. In today’s episode we talk about how hard grief can be and how it can associate to depression. Right now, more than ever with what’s going on in the world losing a loved one is at a all time high, and there is a lot of sadness going around. I hope this episode can help give you a little bit of an insight into what grief is and help anyone who’s already dealing with their own mental health illnesses. Also help understand the difference between grift and depression. Sending everyone love and virtual hugs.
Click here to listen to the second episode of this podcast all about depression, if you would like to know more about what it is and how it can affect you.
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Dealing with your own mental health illness is hard enough on its own. But what if now on top of that you have feelings of not ever being good enough, unworthiness, or that you should be at a different point in your life then this episode is for you. In this episode we are discussing all three of these and the certain situations that make you feel this way. We go over the things to change or work on to help make these situations better.
Facebook group – I encourage you to come over and join a group where you can completely be your self and have a community of people including me that will be there to help you get through those bad or good days you’re having. It’s a place to openly talk about whatever you want without any kind of judgement. https://www.facebook.com/groups/depressionwhatsyourdeal
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Journaling is a great way to clear your mind, just like meditation can be but sometimes I feel like being able to write down all your emotions and how your feeling can help you out more then you might realize. This can be an amazing way to just get everything out at one point in your day, either right in the morning or at the end of your nights before going to sleep. It’s a great way to get through hard times, write down all your dreams and goals, well also feeling free to complete clear your mind of all the things that might be worrying you. So in todays episode we are going to journal for three minutes and please leave a comment if you thought it was helpful or not!
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There are many different causes of depression, today we are going to discuss four different ones that I thought were a little interesting. Of course, if you hear one you would like to get more insight into then please let me know and I can make a video on that certain topic. For this episode we go over Life events, Family history, personality type which is interesting, and Drugs and alcohol abuse. Also, if there are any other types of causes that you would like me to discuss and make another video about, please do reach out and let me know. Remember to head over and leave a review on what you think about this episode and if you feel like it’s been helpful. Also always remember that you can head over to Facebook and join the group to connect with others going through the same things and have a safe place to be yourself.
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Seeking help shouldn’t ever be looked upon as something that is negative or something that is wrong to do. In this week’s episode we are talking about how asking for isn’t a weakness. Why do we feel like it is because I think for so long a negative light has been shined upon it and we need to work on changing it into a positive light! Seeking help is the best option for anyone who’s suffering and for anyone who needs to have a safe place to openly talk about what they are going through. So, let’s start encouraging people to seek help rather than promoting them not too.
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You can join this group, connect with others going through all types of different journey's with mental health. This is a no judgment zone, where you can be completely yourself.
Did you know that there are nine different types of depression? That’s right nine. Most people only think there’s a few or even one but come to find out there’s way more then that. Each with their own unique symptoms. So, let’s get to learning and just maybe someone will be able to associate with one that they didn’t even realize that they would. Also if you come across one you would like to learn more about, please come over the my YouTube channel, Instagram, or Facebook group and let me know so I can record a whole episode about that one type of depression. And if your interested in seeing the slides I made for each one, head over to the YouTube channel to give it a look.
You can join this group, connect with others going through all types of different journey's with mental health. This is a no judgment zone, where you can be completely yourself.
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It’s 2021 so why can’t we openly talk about are own mental health issues. In this week’s episode we talk about why we hide are own suffering from our friends and family, and how in the long run it can hurt us more than we might realize. Talking about are mental health should be an important topic and we need to start checking up on the ones we know that are struggling. I share with you some ways we hide it from others, and how you can start identifying some symptoms your loved ones are doing to help them finally come out and openly talk to you. Struggling alone is hard enough if we could just feel more comfortable to open up. Just maybe it would make things a lot easier.
You can join this group, connect with others going through all types of different journey's with mental health. This is a no judgment zone, where you can be completely yourself.
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Meditation is a great way to reconnect with your soul. So, every fifth episode I’m going to switch between meditation episodes and journaling episodes. For the first one I decided to start with a meditation episode because meditation can be a great way to just free your mind of all the worries and reconnect with yourself. For this episode we take some time to just close our eyes and clear our heads. I just started with a short few minutes’ meditation to give you a little practice of what it’s like, in the future the more we do the longer the meditation will become. But I want to start doing these and journaling as a daily practice for anyone who’s struggling with their own mental health because it has helped me some much with reconnecting back to myself and helps clear my mind when I’m going through a tough season of life. So, I hope this can help you too. Enjoy!!
Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/depressionwhatsyourdeal You can join this group, connect with others going through all types of different journey's with mental health. This is a no judgment zone, where you can be completely yourself.
In this week’s episode we are talking about depression is different ages and how it can affect those different areas of your life. We dive deep into these three different areas of life and talk about the different experiences, emotions, and feeling that can come along with depression, The more we can learn about depression, the more we will be able to start to notice those little things that we haven't before. Also being able to teach and learn with our kids and teens so they also know what their going through as well. So hoping this episode can help you or some parents realize that we should pay attention to our kids, teens, and even ourselves so we can start to pick up on those symptoms that might help lead us in the direction on learning more about what’s going on mental and physical.
You can also find this episode on YouTube - https://youtu.be/cpK3aNBKirI
Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/depressionwhatsyourdeal You can join this group, connect with others going through all types of different journey's with mental health. This is a no judgment zone, where you can be completely yourself.
In this week’s episode we dive headfirst into why we let our depression start defining who we are. It really isn’t who we are on the outside but because we start to feel so crummy on the inside, we start to let it run our lives and control our moods. This episode is all about helping you get out that funk you might be in or just simply realize that you are so much more then your depression, and you shouldn’t let yourself get stuck in this circle of lies that we continuously tell ourselves. Also stuck in all the lies we tell our friends and family to get ourselves out of the plans we’ve already made, to only stay home and sit in our own grief. I know that dealing with depression can be hard but I’m hoping that one of these four topic’s I’ve gone through can help you realize that you have a bright and beautiful future ahead of you. You just must find the strength and braver that I’ve always had inside of you and let that guild you’re through this rough time.
You can also find this episode on YouTube - https://youtu.be/QOIvzvGtf-8
Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/depressionwhatsyourdeal You can join this group, connect with others going through all types of different journey's with mental health. This is a no judgment zone, where you can be completely yourself.
In this weeks episode I dive head first into depression itself. I decided not to just read you the definition but to give you insight of what depression is really like, and how it affects people's life's. From how it makes us feel to all the thoughts around it. Depression isn't easy to talk about but I feel like the more we can learn about it, the more we can start to understand what it really is, and how people are feeling.
If you would like to hear my story into dealing with depression feel free to listen to it here - https://anchor.fm/smallheightbiginsight/episodes/Depression--and-how-to-cope-with-it-ea1jf5
Or you can go read about it here - https://smallheightbiginsight.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/dealing-with-depression/
You can also find this episode on YouTube - https://youtu.be/8Fao5u9syqc
Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/depressionwhatsyourdeal You can join this group, connect with others going through all types of different journey's with mental health. This is a no judgment zone, where you can be completely yourself.
I wanted to do the first episode as a little bit of a get to know me and why I am so passionate about this subject. I want us to learn together, grow together, and build up a community where we support each other through the good or bad times.
Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/depressionwhatsyourdeal
You can join this group, connect with others going through all types of different journey's with mental health. This is a no judgment zone, where you can be completely yourself.
Also I added in the beginning of the episode that I am not a therapist, doctor, psychologist, or counselor. I am simply just someone who struggles with mental health and knows that it can be 100 times harder to struggle alone. So I'm passionate about creating a safe place to learn more about mental health and a place where you never have to feel alone again.
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