Hey Everybody!
It's Finally Friday!
Actually it's not, It's Saturday,
and I am sorry I didn't put out a video yesterday
because I was in Mammoth,
and I honestly just got tired and then I forgot
and I apologize.
I usually don't do that.
I am usually very good at it.
I even planned on filming before I left,
to come to Mammoth,
but I just ran out of time,
because life is unpredictable, am I right?!?
but, I am still doing facebook friday
because I did not forget about you.
Last night at ten o'clock I was like "shoot!"
So, here I am
I have 3 questions as well as a journal topic
from Hannah, so thank you so much Hannah for that!
The first questions says:
"Hey Kati, can depression make you angry?,
and if so what can I do to stop being angry?
Every since I got depression I have been angry at people,
and I feel like I can't control it."
Kati: Now the funny thing about depression
and I want to do more videos about it
because there is a lot of different symptoms of it
that people don't recognize as symptoms of depression.
One of those being anger.
The main reason we find and that we hypothesize
is the reason why people with depression feel so angry
is because everything is harder.
It's harder to get out of bed.
It's harder to be motivated.
We don't find the joy in things we used to find joy in.
So, imagaine, overall how that affects our mood.
How that makes us feel over time,
and usually it makes it angry.
Or, even jealous of other people. which leads to more anger.
And to be truthful there are 2 things, as always
that we can do to help with this.
The first being to see a therapist.
The more we vent about things, the more we talk about things,
The more we gets things off our chest, try to get ourselves out,
do our homework our therapist gives us.
Like getting out, talking to friends,
forcing ourselves to get up in the morning.
All of that stuff will help boost our mood.
And the 2nd thing is
the medication, maybe diet or exercise
or things that you and your doctor can work together on
to help better your mood overall.
So those are our two options.
And I know for some of us it's hard to get help.
It's hard for us to find things that are affordable.
But I have a video I did a gazillion years ago
about finding help when funds are low.
I would check that out
because that will help you get
better ideas of what to ask
when you go in,
and how to find lower cost places.
Ok, now question number two says:
"My question is can depression make you lose weight?
My eating habits and activity levels have remained the same,
but I find that I am slowly losing weight,
and I have always had a very constant weight.
I have told my primary care doctor,
and they have ruled out medical reasons for weight loss.
Can my depression cause weight loss?"
Kati: Now I wanted to answer this also
because depression affects a lot of us.
And, technically speaking, depression does not make us lose weight.
What it does do is, it can affect our appetite.
So those of us who usually eat bigger meals,
or eat more regulary
may not have an appetite anymore.
Now, everyone's depression is different.
So those of you out there that it makes you eat more or less
it just depends on the person.
It can make us sleep more or less.
It is all about how it affects us personally.
And, so when it comes to this question:
saying that her eating habits and activity levels
have remained the same.
I maybe would get a second opinion
from another doctor.
Because depression itself does not cause weight loss.
But you might want to notice if
maybe you think you are eating the same
but you are actually eating smaller portions.
Because that is very common
for us not to have the same appetite that we used to.
Ok, question number 3:
"Hey Kati! I just wanted to thank you for all your videos
and always having the time to answer to my questions.
There is one thing I wanted to ask though:
I know you have so many people in your community and even just random viewers,
so how are you able to say that you say you care
about our well-being when you don't know us?
I know that can be read really condescendingly
but I don't mean it like that at all!
I just mean it in the sense that caring for people takes a lot out of a person.
I try to focus on all the positive in your videos
but sometimes I can't help but think that it wouldn't matter
how I'm doing or you saying you care doesn't help me.
I feel like I have such a deep connection with you,
but i know that you don't know a lot of us are here.
I think its amazing that you are able to touch more lives than you will ever know.
I'm sorry for the long ramble,
hopefully you're able to get a clear message out of that somewhere.
Kati: I wanted to talk about this
because I get a lot of questions like that.
"How can you say take care?"
"How can you say you worry about us?"
or "How can you say that you keep us posted?"
or any of that. I get these questions all the time.
the truth is no matter who you are,
whether I know your personally
and have met you or talked to you on a one on one
doesn't really matter because
I don't have to really know someone
to care about them.
I don't have to know someone personally,
to not want bad things to happen to them.
I feel like all of us can agree
that unless we are really angry and upset all the time
and feeling really down,
that we dont want bad things to happen to anybody.
We believe in the positive.
We believe in the good in people.
And because my job and what I am trained to do
and the reason that I take all this time out of my day
to put out videos is because I actually care.
I want you all to have better lives.
I want to all to feel better.
I know that we can do it
and that we can work together,
and that this can be possible.
And I think that is really when I mean when I say,
"Take care." I care about all of you.
I really do!
I want you all to do better, I want you all to feel better,
and I know that it is possible
and we can work together to make that happen.
Ok? I hope that makes sense.
Now I have a journal topic, Thanks Hannah for that!
It's kind of cool!
she says, "I just had this idea after watching
a Hindi film called 'The Lunchbox'
(Hannah) highly recommends it.
In the video a wife packs her husband's lunchbox,
but it gets delivered to the wrong man every day
and the two begin exchanging letters hidden in the lunchbox.
It got me wondering,
If you could write a letter to a perfect stranger
What advice would you give them?
What would you tell them about life?
Everyone has their own story... what's yours?"
Kati: I thought that was a really coll idea!
because sometimes when we write letters to strangers,
if it's not someone we know we can be more honest about it.
We can be more open about it.
What would we really tell them?
What would the communication be like?
So let's do that this weekend!
Have a wonderful weekend everybody,
I will see you on Monday,
and I will be on Tumblr on Tuesday
So ask your questions there using #KatiFAQ
Bye!
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