you would never say to someone with a
broken bone – just ignore their pain
that’ll just pass one day you would
never say about someone who has cancer
that they’re just faking it it’s just
all for attention you would never say to
someone in a wheelchair just stand up
it’s all in your head you would
obviously never say that and any of
these kinds of people because they
didn’t ask for it in their life it’s not
like they chose to put in their life
should be the same for any other
sickness or disability no one asks to
put this into their life so they can’t
just snap out of it unfortunately many
people with mental illness companies
hold at least once in their life just
snap out of it trust me if I could snap
out of my anxiety and my depression I
would have done it long before anybody
had to tell me my illness isn’t
physically visible to you you can’t look
at me and tell that I’ve been diagnosed
with anxiety and depression I mean you
can’t really tell anyone who’s mentally
sick and that’s why it’s kind of doubted
in our society because you just can’t
see it the only people who can feel it
are the people who have it they can feel
the battle inside them I try not to
blame myself for my anxiety and
depression I mean as I said before I
didn’t put it in my life I didn’t ask
for it it’s just a result of the neurons
in my brain working kind of abnormally
many people have it because of a
childhood trauma or just it runs through
genetics he runs to my family a family
member of mine has also been diagnosed
with anxiety and depression she also had
postpartum depression after having her
children she was fine for a little bit
but almost 10 years after having her
last child she admitted herself into a
mental hospital for suicidal thoughts
she made to be on correct decision to go
get help I hope when I say mental
hospital you don’t picture this because
in movies and stuff it looks more like a
jail like a torture chamber where
patients look more like prisoners even
when I was looking up pictures for my
slides I could barely find a picture of
what a mental hospital actually looks
like and it doesn’t look much different
then
and any other Hospital it’s light and
bright and a lot of patients really do
you get better my family member she
would send her it’s coloring pages she
would call us and tell us how much
better she was doing now that she had
full-on access to a therapist it’s been
almost a year and a half since she’s
been released from the hospital and
she’s doing better she owns her own
business for a while she is doing great
and a new job and she’s a family that
loves and cares for her she is one of
the greatest people I know she’s strong
and I look up to her every single day my
relative was lucky to get the treatment
that she got in our society our society
is very judgmental when it comes to
mentally sick Society tends to ostracize
those who say that they’re sick by
calling them just crazy or overreacting
so that makes people who are sick tend
to want to hide themselves I’ve always
stayed quiet and so was everyone else’s
my family but I don’t want to be quiet
about my illness anymore I shouldn’t be
afraid to tell Who I am
so as I said before I’ve got anxiety and
depression I was diagnosed with anxiety
when I was in third grade I would kind
of just cry like all the time for no
reason or at least no reason that seemed
rational so I spend a lot of hours in
the guidance counselor and then I
finally went to therapy and it’s been
great I love therapy I mean who doesn’t
want to sit in a room for an hour to
someone who has to listen to you talk
it’s helped me so much I mean therapy
hasn’t really gotten rid of my
depression in exactly but more taught me
how to beat it how to cope with it for
example in my late middle school years
and my early years as a freshman in high
school I have a lot of depression I was
kind of just not really sad but more
felt nothing felt worthless and I kept
going to therapy therapy and my
therapist taught me you can deal with it
your mental illness is just an
old-fashioned supervillain and your
superhero you can beat it to the ground
so that’s how therapy have helped me
unfortunately society hasn’t just Ignat
I
therapy but it’s also stigmatized mental
illness it’s so common to hear people
say wow I’m so CD because that thing
just like isn’t lined up properly or wow
like that’s so retarded people shouldn’t
be saying these if you’ve never had
anxiety you don’t know what it feels
like the house the entire world crashing
around you for basically nothing if
you’ve never had depression you don’t
know what it feels like to feel
worthless so don’t make a joke about it
in a world for 1 in 5 adults have a
mental illness don’t say how depressed
you are because your favorite TV show
ends in and don’t say you’re going to
kill yourself and make tapes because
your Starbucks barista didn’t get your
order correctly it’s not appropriate to
take these anymore
Ted is all about ideas we’re share
sharing any idea I want to share with
you all today is be nicer to people I
mean it seems like such a basic message
but you never know what’s going out on
in someone else’s head so just be nicer
and make sure if you know someone with a
mental illness that they know you’re not
judging them because of their mental
illness when I wrote this talk I thought
how much should I share about myself
should I just say I’ve got anxiety
should I just say I’ve got depression
it’s all been really personal my entire
life but then I realized that’s why I
wrote it I shouldn’t have to hide Who I
am anymore
it’s hard enough working with this
mental illness itself so I should be
comfortable in my own skin and so should
anyone else thank you
broken bone – just ignore their pain
that’ll just pass one day you would
never say about someone who has cancer
that they’re just faking it it’s just
all for attention you would never say to
someone in a wheelchair just stand up
it’s all in your head you would
obviously never say that and any of
these kinds of people because they
didn’t ask for it in their life it’s not
like they chose to put in their life
should be the same for any other
sickness or disability no one asks to
put this into their life so they can’t
just snap out of it unfortunately many
people with mental illness companies
hold at least once in their life just
snap out of it trust me if I could snap
out of my anxiety and my depression I
would have done it long before anybody
had to tell me my illness isn’t
physically visible to you you can’t look
at me and tell that I’ve been diagnosed
with anxiety and depression I mean you
can’t really tell anyone who’s mentally
sick and that’s why it’s kind of doubted
in our society because you just can’t
see it the only people who can feel it
are the people who have it they can feel
the battle inside them I try not to
blame myself for my anxiety and
depression I mean as I said before I
didn’t put it in my life I didn’t ask
for it it’s just a result of the neurons
in my brain working kind of abnormally
many people have it because of a
childhood trauma or just it runs through
genetics he runs to my family a family
member of mine has also been diagnosed
with anxiety and depression she also had
postpartum depression after having her
children she was fine for a little bit
but almost 10 years after having her
last child she admitted herself into a
mental hospital for suicidal thoughts
she made to be on correct decision to go
get help I hope when I say mental
hospital you don’t picture this because
in movies and stuff it looks more like a
jail like a torture chamber where
patients look more like prisoners even
when I was looking up pictures for my
slides I could barely find a picture of
what a mental hospital actually looks
like and it doesn’t look much different
then
and any other Hospital it’s light and
bright and a lot of patients really do
you get better my family member she
would send her it’s coloring pages she
would call us and tell us how much
better she was doing now that she had
full-on access to a therapist it’s been
almost a year and a half since she’s
been released from the hospital and
she’s doing better she owns her own
business for a while she is doing great
and a new job and she’s a family that
loves and cares for her she is one of
the greatest people I know she’s strong
and I look up to her every single day my
relative was lucky to get the treatment
that she got in our society our society
is very judgmental when it comes to
mentally sick Society tends to ostracize
those who say that they’re sick by
calling them just crazy or overreacting
so that makes people who are sick tend
to want to hide themselves I’ve always
stayed quiet and so was everyone else’s
my family but I don’t want to be quiet
about my illness anymore I shouldn’t be
afraid to tell Who I am
so as I said before I’ve got anxiety and
depression I was diagnosed with anxiety
when I was in third grade I would kind
of just cry like all the time for no
reason or at least no reason that seemed
rational so I spend a lot of hours in
the guidance counselor and then I
finally went to therapy and it’s been
great I love therapy I mean who doesn’t
want to sit in a room for an hour to
someone who has to listen to you talk
it’s helped me so much I mean therapy
hasn’t really gotten rid of my
depression in exactly but more taught me
how to beat it how to cope with it for
example in my late middle school years
and my early years as a freshman in high
school I have a lot of depression I was
kind of just not really sad but more
felt nothing felt worthless and I kept
going to therapy therapy and my
therapist taught me you can deal with it
your mental illness is just an
old-fashioned supervillain and your
superhero you can beat it to the ground
so that’s how therapy have helped me
unfortunately society hasn’t just Ignat
I
therapy but it’s also stigmatized mental
illness it’s so common to hear people
say wow I’m so CD because that thing
just like isn’t lined up properly or wow
like that’s so retarded people shouldn’t
be saying these if you’ve never had
anxiety you don’t know what it feels
like the house the entire world crashing
around you for basically nothing if
you’ve never had depression you don’t
know what it feels like to feel
worthless so don’t make a joke about it
in a world for 1 in 5 adults have a
mental illness don’t say how depressed
you are because your favorite TV show
ends in and don’t say you’re going to
kill yourself and make tapes because
your Starbucks barista didn’t get your
order correctly it’s not appropriate to
take these anymore
Ted is all about ideas we’re share
sharing any idea I want to share with
you all today is be nicer to people I
mean it seems like such a basic message
but you never know what’s going out on
in someone else’s head so just be nicer
and make sure if you know someone with a
mental illness that they know you’re not
judging them because of their mental
illness when I wrote this talk I thought
how much should I share about myself
should I just say I’ve got anxiety
should I just say I’ve got depression
it’s all been really personal my entire
life but then I realized that’s why I
wrote it I shouldn’t have to hide Who I
am anymore
it’s hard enough working with this
mental illness itself so I should be
comfortable in my own skin and so should
anyone else thank you
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