Hey everybody, happy Thursday
and if you are a hartosexual and you found
yourself on my channel welcome! I'm so happy to have you here.
I want to tell you a short synopsis of how my channel works
so that you all can act in our kinion community.
We decided on the Kinion name for our community because kin means family
and we're all a family working together
and the "inion" part of it is because I talk about, all the time where I get
tons of questions and tons of comments and I'm just one person.
I don't have any minions working for me.
Even though that would be amazing.
So, we're the Kinion community and welcome.
We're happy to have each and every one of you.
So how my channel works, I put out three videos a week.
I put out a Monday video, a Thursday video,
Saturday video. Monday's a mental health topic
you'll notice it's like much more clean and edited
and not so vloggy style like this.
Thursday's, today's tada is an FAQ video or something mental health related
happening in the media and you can let me know below this video
if there's something that's happening in the media
that you want me to talk about.
And I get your FAQ questions in two places.
Below my Monday video, for the first 24 hours after I release a video
I'm in the comments and I'm answering as much as I can
and you can ask your questions there because that's how I collect them
or secondly, I'm on my website katimorton.com
under Kati's videos is the tab, it drops down and Q&A for videos
and even if I can't get through all of your questions and comments
you're now part of a wonderful and amazing community helping each other
towards a healthy mind and a healthy body
that's our motto and so a lot of people you'll notice are chatting with you
and letting you know their experiences because together we can grow
and we can all improve and that's what's really great right?
It's a cool place to be so welcome I hope you enjoy.
Now today's question isn't really a question
so much as a comment from my old video
I don't know about a year ago. The six signs of depression
and it's gotten so many thumbs up like two hundred and fifty or three hundred
or something and tons of comments and the question is
"Hey Kati, what do I do if I feel so depressed but I'm afraid to tell anyone
because I worry they wont take me seriously."
We all worry about that and it is a valid concern
and I would encourage each of you who have had an experiance of
expressing the seriousness of your depression and whatever
response you get can you let us know below, good or bad
because I want everybody to kind of see what variations they may get
when they start talking about it.
Especially for a teenager we have to tell our parents,
our school councillor.
However, not everyone is going to understand what we are going through
but it is up to you and your support people,
your friends your family whoever you can get on your side to make sure you get
the support you deserve. I know it can be hard.
I know it can be trying but it's worth the fight and the push.
I did a video a long time ago,
not a long time a go a couple months ago with Emma Wicks. I'll link it here.
She talks about trying to get help, because she's in the UK
and having to persist and push and scream pretty much to get the help
that she needs but it was so worth the fight
and I will link it here just so you can hear her story
because it's so great to know that it ends up working out.
I know it's hard to speak up at the beginning
we're really vulnerable and we can feel really scared
and think that no one's going to take us seriously
but people will, if you work, like I talked about before
practising what you want to say and how you want to say it
maybe start writing it out, jotting down some of the points
you want to make and practicing saying it in a mirror
so you feel comfortable with the words you're using
and what you're saying people will take you seriously.
It may not be the first person we tell but I promise
if you persist and keep pushing to get what you deserve you will get the treatment
that you need. Okay? Please share you're experiences and know that you're
worth the fight don't sit back and think that one is going to take me seriously
and suffer in silence.
The sooner we speak up and the sooner we get help the better.
Have a wonderful day and I'll see you Saturday bye!
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