How To Cope When Mental Illness Shuts Down Our Minds

thank you❤

Telling me to go to bed?
How about "take this abd go sut un rhe fish bowl"
My life experience: learned helplessness
Human Being HERE. Deserving of humanity and choices just likw everyone else. Ive been labeled. Words have impsct beyond their letters.

Our minds our instruments
I learnt to be it’s master
NOT
It’s slave.. but then my life really got dark from betrayal from an ex best friend, mutha in law, ex in laws, ‘family & friends’
‘partner’ that plunged me into the darkest depression to date.. disappointment from toxic people you thought you could trust is what I believe really takes it toll on US🖤 ruins our mental health..

It still bothers me how accurate this is.

Does the therapist friend take mental damage or trauma from consulting the friend? I’m scared to that I’ll ruin my friends mentality and well being of them constantly worrying about me and do they get mental burden from me as well?

I was trying to find help, only to see at least 2 and 1/2 minutes (when I stopped watching because it was too triggering) of dark images and suggestions of self harm (I was NOT thinking of how to kill myself, thank you so much!! 😠). I was expecting HELP, not a regurgitation of how bad I feel. Not helpful. Scary.

I have no idea what to say

I am now an adult everything start collapsing I work harder and to Lorne to be better but people don't respect me , is struggling to connect with people but they are reckless and stupid , and I try to start a conversation but I get bullied make fun of me ; i'm just gonna stop now, The reason I because im introvert


Age:20

IF you can sleep. ugh

Perfect! Thank you very much.

We love ur animations ......perfectly suits the concept

An extraordinarinally accurate portrayal of suffering mental illness. My anxiety coupled with bipolar has caused tremendous upheaval and problems in my life but I'm still trying to march forward. Love to everybody out there going through similar issues.

This is incredible. Beautifly and acuratly made and written. Thank u. Bless u all

I have feelings of hopeless, negative voices in my mind, i keep seeing my ADHD as a burden and im glad this video is helping to explain these feelings

This video gave me a little bit of hope. Big thank you to all the people behind this, I really needed it...

The capacity of knowing more people at once?

Its always upon me 😢

So hard being alive,

This is a very powerful and descriptive annimation on mental illness.

Taking that calming fill known as a benzodiazepine example Xanax Klonopin Ativan that’s why my brain no longer freaking work and why I have mental illness now trying to make it through the withdrawal two years I have wanted to die every day I can’t get on any anti-depressants because it messed up my nervous system stay away from stupid doctors

Wish I could sleep without Valium and that even stopped working. I'm daily thinking of ways to end myself.

It's just so sad when I have to study to the exams that are coming soon which will decide what university I'll go to
And I'm up to 4 am trying to do my best but then comes that mental breakdown and I can't do anything about I keep crying and watching all that time that I don't really have slipping away and the worst part is no one will know .

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
Philippians 4:8

I know I am late to this party, so forgive the zombie nature of this comment.

First, whoa, fair warning when you were going to talk about, even in passing ... that. Especially when you know people personally that have done it.

Second, yes, I understand what was meant here, but it seems the focus was more on depressive symptoms. That's fair. However, other conditions or traits may not quite work the same. For example, I read a comment here about their mother with dementia. Yes, that is really rough and saddening to see. But, in times like this, a person may not have any sense they might be ill or something is or went wrong.

At an extreme end, you have complex personality disorders that may be near impossible to treat. Not only because they may not know they are ill or different, but they also may not care to change or get better.

And third, there may be one small problem, perhaps two, when advice was given at the end. To answer both points ...

One, some people may not have any friend, and particularly a close, trusted friend to turn to. Especially to bounce the idea of, "Does this seem right to you?" Also, mental illness can be quite taxing to others, and so one consequence is that you drive everyone away from you. So, it can make recovery that much worse, especially if you have to hospitalized or put into some sort of day program. Who will pick you up to take you home? If you have any place to go home to?

And second, at least in the US, it can be rough to get adequate mental care. First, it is usually expensive, particularly if you have no health insurance. Some might say mental health can be had for the famous and the wealthy, but not for your regular "Joe". That is one barrier. The other barrier is the psychologist or psychiatrist themselves. It is the old adage, "It's hard to find good help these days." Some therapists verge on malpractice, particularly with odd forms of therapy, like "scream therapy". Or that this person's therapeutic model does not work for what you have (and worse, if the therapist bites off more than they can chew with you rather than refer you out). Or if, in the treatment, the therapist does not listen, does not seem to care, or outright bullies or discourages you. Then ... having spent time and money on this, to then start the search and treatment all over again with someone else ... and find that therapist is not so good, either.

Just sone points to mention.

Everything hurts.

I wish it was this easy for me; I’m sure it is for others. Sometimes it isn’t our thoughts, sometimes we are helplessly ill; maybe for a moment, maybe for a lifetime.

I feel like giving up

Best video ever I saw about this topic

It's demons 100%

Thus is the greatest tragedy of mental illness. That the sufferer is not even aware of what is occurring.

Been having a breakdown after school every day for 3 days straight now, accidentally had one in public today, will be interesting to see if/how they'll make fun of me for it, luckily currently getting some kind of mental health help but its taking a really long time

Don’t be afraid of the moment the illness appears. It comes and goes. The less fear you feel the faster goes away, and the more it takes to appear again. It’ll take you some time but you can master it. Do what the video suggest and take it slowly for a while. Try to remind yourself that there’re reasons behind it and that it didn’t just happen to you because you’re unlucky. Then you’ll learn how to prevent it. The number one reason is self doubt, self beating and general negativity. Take advantage of it. Ask yourself this Am I happy? No. Do I deserve it ?No. Am I going to quit ? No. At the same time pick up things to improve yourself and do as much as you can everyday. Trust me it doesn’t matter if it’s just 5 minutes. It’s a major blow to the illness trust me. Favourably pick up something that exercise your mind like coding or chess for example. You’re taking control of your mind that way even if it’s for 5 minutes. You keep doing that and you will see for yourself that the illness stay the same but you’re getting stronger. At the end you’ll become able to overcome the incidents fast and have quality in your life.
Trust me.

Take care of your mentally ill, and when they aren't ill, they will take care of you

At this point I don't even know if there's anything out there inside my headspace. I feel abnormally numb, empty, silent and lightweight from inside. My this state is a consequence of depression, dpdr, social isolation and trauma as far as I know. I don't know where did I even lost myself, I gradually faded as a person in these 2 years. I sometimes think now that I'm gone how am I even alive? I eat, sleep, talk, walk ,write and appear all normal from outside but I know that I'm not actually...there. it's like my personality, identity and my sense of self are all gone and I can't make my brain muscle work at my own will like I could before. I don't even feel like there's anything inside my head anymore. It's scary and weird. I don't know till when is this gonna last but I'm hopeless for my future as I'm only 16.

I wanna someone to tell me , how do you live your life !?
Studying everyday , working ..etc etc ..
It's horrible .

All I can say is that this one video means the world to me right now. Thank you OP and thank you to every other one of you here too. Honestly, thank you.

School of life is the bomb great stuff

If u can stay focus on this bullshit just quit the damage

Angel egg ova but you can't draw animations n digitize the style

Need help badly don't know what to do

I'd rather have cancer than bad mental health

This is the best voice.

I just wanna feel normal, feel happy

Perfect for my insanity

No offense but I’m trying to calm myself down bc I’m having a mental breakdown. Please just get yo the point.

M Illness is mainly caused by near and dearones

If the current world is to ever work for everyone, profits can't be the only thing people are to be interested in

There is no discussing with anyone how miserable it is to exist in a world where nothing good ever happens and the people you most love only want to cause you pain all the time.

Thank you for posting this. I have been struggling with my mental health lately and this video is so accurate