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Safety first! I didn't know these were illegal till people told me on Twitter so we called
the police and asked if I needed to give them to the police and they were like "Nope, just
keep it in your house and we wont arrest you" So, keep it safe.
Hey you! So, right now on YouTube there are a lot of videos being made about depression
and they are all very depression and quite rightfully so. I myself am guilty of making
said depressing depression videos, but if we are all so overwhelmingly depressed then
maybe what we need right now is a lighter approach to the subject. So, what i'd like
to do right now is talk about depression. What it is? What it's like living with it
and how you deal with it and try not to be as heavy as the subject actually is. Lets just talk.
So, what is depression? Well my understanding is that everyone experiences it a little differently,
but for me it's nothingness. It's emptiness. It's not feeling love or joy, it's losing
interest in the things you wanna do and when you do feel things they're mostly just melancholy
and sadness and apathy and it's just kind of rubbish. This non-depressing video is off to a good start.
I think depression typically comes in waves. Episodes of apathy, or sadness, or just nothingness.
And these can last minutes or hours or days or even weeks and months and for me as a naturally
lazy person it's very hard to tell when i'm even having an episode sometimes. It is a
great get out of jail free card though.
Hey Tom, do you wanna come to the gym and work out? Aww I can't i'm just got a mental illness.
It's a shame.
Now depression isn't just feeling sad though although that is or can be a big part of it
depending on the individual, but sometimes it can be not being able to feel such complex
emotions as being sad. But either way if you think you might be depressed the only thing
I can recommend is to go see a doctor or a professional because I really wouldn't recommend
diagnosing yourself because that's well that's what doctors are for.
One of the options they might recommend is medication such as anti-depressants like the
ones I have right here. What these are here to do are get the happy chemicals in your
brain to do the right things at the right times like mine have a tendency to not do.
There are a lot of different types of medications out there though. You can try different dosages
and at different types of the day. So, you might have to try a few options before you
find the ones that are right for you.
Also depending on the person and the medication they can all come with their own varied side
effects, which can range from finding it difficult to fall asleep at night to finding it difficult
to wake up in the morning or an increased appetite or a decreased appetite or sometimes
you have a manic episode at 3am on a Sunday morning where you wake up and write a 2000
word essay on why there should have been more female lead characters in Grand Theft Auto 5
But maybe that one is just a little specific to me.
For example the medication that i'm on right now is helping to control my mood a little
bit so i'm not so erratic and unpredictable and angry all the time and also I sleep a
lot better now, but on the downside I have random panic attacks sometimes. And also I
just last a lot longer in bed now. So, ladies. ;)
Therapy is also very important and likely something a doctor would recommend and much
like finding the right medication finding the right therapist for you might take a few
tries to get right. There is a lot of different types of therapist. There's psychiatrists,
there's therapists, there's psychotherapists, which are like therapists, but they have a gun.
Depending on who you are as a person you might suit a sympathetic therapist or a very tough
love therapist or a very bantery therapist. It's just about finding the right one for you and keeping at it.
Finally a doctor, a therapist or even myself ignoring the obvious hypocrisy will strongly
recommend living right. Eating healthy, drinking lots of water, cleaning yourself and your
environment, exercising or at least going outside sometimes, socialising and sleeping
the right amount will do wonders for you and help create a nice flat plain in which you
can start building a healthier better state of mind. It's kind of just like the best first step.
Now i'd like to end this video by giving you some tips or just some realities about living
with depression and one of those would be to embrace episodes. Every now and then you
are just gonna have an episode where you feel really low or you don't want to socialise
and when that happens that's fine and you don't have to try and force yourself to break
out of the bubble because sometimes that can sometimes do more worse than good. So just
go take a bath or go back home and play some video games and chill out because
Hey! You take care of yourself.
It's also really important you have a support network. Friends of family that understand
you and the struggles you are going through and be there when you need them and if you
don't have any of those friends then maybe you need some better friends and if you have
a friend with depression then yeah, just be there for them when they need you and don't
project onto them and get upset when they won't be happy in your presence or get frustrated
when you can't fix them because that's not your job. Just be a friend. Just be there.
Watch a movie with them. Eat a pizza. I love pizza. Maybe too much. Yeah, I definitely
love pizza too much. It's unhealthy. I'm dying.
Now i'll be fully honest with you depression can be a temporary issue or sometimes it can
be permanent fixture, but either way it's not all that bad because even if it doesn't
get better you will get better you'll get better at handling it and you will just keep
on going. I mean look at me I got the pretty bad brain stupids, but here I am doing a job
that I love and friends that care about me and i'm still going and if you even consider
suicide then please check out the links in the description. Please don't kill yourself.
If you really wanna kill yourself at least put on a mask and die nobly in the pursuit
of fighting crime. Please don't do that. That was a terrible idea. Please God ignore me.
I'M A ROLE MODEL. Of stomach rolls that is. I model these all day. But yeah, that was
a video about depression and I hope it wasn't too depressing or problematic, but either
way thank you for watching and stay well.
TomSka Out!