- Hey guys, what's up?
It's Liza Koshy and today I'm gonna tell you
a little story about my anxiety.
So I turned 20, I had been moved out to LA.
I was doing different stuff out here and having fun,
just being myself until anxiety hit me like a brick.
(laughs) Mine specifically is social anxiety
which is ironic for the job
that I have as a social influencer.
Talking to a camera was something
that always made me feel comfortable.
Talking to a camera right now is much better
than me talking to a person because I'm
a socially anxious person so dealing
with my anxiety was hard and I'm still dealing with it,
but it's not something that can't be dealt with.
I have a friend who opened up to me about his OCD
and it was something that was very tough
for him to open up about because he had never opened up
to anybody about it before.
And I completely related to that because I had been holding
in my feelings about my anxiety for an entire year.
It just started this free-flow of conversation
between both of us about my anxiety, about his OCD,
about these two things that we didn't know about each other.
We thought we knew each other so well,
but it wasn't until we opened up about our mental health
that we really, really connected even more.
Now we actually have a code name
whenever I'm feeling anxious or
whenever he's having his thoughts,
It's called Tiffany, it's just like,
"Hey Tiffany's here, she's freakin' here man."
It feels good to be able to label something
and put it away in your brain rather
than let it become your entire brain in itself.
Everybody has some sort of mental health to take care of.
It is a part of your health.
It's something that you live with
and that's something that you learn to deal with
by opening up to people about it.
It allowed me to understand myself more as a person,
allowed me to accept that it's a part of me
rather than pushing it off and saying,
"No, this isn't me, this isn't me."
It's a part of me and it's something
that I'll always live with and deal with,
but it doesn't define me.
(upbeat music)