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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Aug 25, 2014 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Anxiety, depression, mania, and bi-polar disorder run in my family. Every time someone famous commits suicide or is outed for having an eating disorder I really wish we'd take the time to talk about mental illness and help stop the stigma around them. It's okay to seek help. You aren't any less strong for doing it.
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I've actually experienced how it is to be sane in an insane place. While I were studying at an upper secondary school here in Norway, two teachers felt something was "off" when they met me for the first time. Months later, they wanted to have me checked "to be safe" and reasons for this were nothing else than me being "a bit too energetic". One thing led to another and I was written up as a mental patient in the nearest mental hospital for children and young adults. I stayed there for almost two months (which is the max time you can legally be there), and they didn't find any particular mental disorder but still settled with paranoid schizofrenia. Never once while I was there did I say anything about hallucinations (which I know is the most common effect of being schizofrenic) and I behaved like I normally would anywhere.
For 6 months I used an anti-psychotic drug called abillify and it REALLY messed up my life. They said I was sick in my head and soon I actually felt sick. I was hit with a mild depression which I fought off myself. But it still pains me as I was medically sane and still had to take drugs meant for those who are actually sick.
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As someone with the wonderful (yeah, sarcasm) combination of PTSD, Social Anxiety Disorder, GAD, and depression, I am both amazed and frustrated by the progress in treatment of mental illness. Amazed that medication and out-patient care has improved as much as it has (at least in Sweden, where I live) and extremely frustrated about the complete lack of understanding when it comes to interactions with mentally ill people. Just because I don't look sick doesn't mean I am ready for river rafting.
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It's World Mental Health Day on 10th October - let's spread awareness and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health. I have suffered with depression and have been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and it's horrible feeling like you can't open up about it to your friends and family. People don't judge if you say you have a physical illness, so why should this not be the same for mental illness?
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thank you so much for educating people about mental disorders.. mental disorders is often is misunderstood and labeled "weird" so I'm grateful you are helping people to understand.. this means a lot to me because I suffer from panic disorder, social phobia, gad, and agoraphobia. It's good to know there are good influential people out there trying to do the right thing.
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9:09 This is a very crucial point about our cultural outlook on psychological disorders. A lot of people don't come forward to seek the treatment they need to get better because they fear the apprehension society has against people with such problems. Meaning people don't feel safe coming forward about it in the public eye, especially in today's world where people fear who'll be the next mass shooter in the nation. It's why I felt extremely afraid to be open and honest with my campus therapist, due to fear of being diagnosed with something, and being locked up in a looney been like they showed and being forgotten about.
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@charleighlarocca1402
9 years ago
does anyone else choose to procrastinate doing their school work by watching crash course and convincing themselves that it's okay because its educational
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