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[Music] tell me something what do you see [Music] in my eyes I see The Pursuit of Happyness [Music] [Music] hi I'm Millie and I'm 18 hi okay I'm 21 I'm University [Music] what do you know about depression and anxiety quite a lot through both suffering myself and helping other people with have you dealt with anyone with depression or have you had it yourself so I went through a period of depression after my next-door neighbor killed herself after going through exactly the same thing herself so yeah definitely enough experience and how did you deal with I managed to find the friendship and going out and doing things I enjoyed and volunteering actually really helped me a lot and I've continued doing that just to maintain the level of coping with my problems it was like eyes in a dark like a black hole that's the only way I can describe it I didn't want to listen to anyone I didn't want to speak to anyone I just wanted to sit in my bed and when I went out I everything was muffled so I wouldn't take in what was going on I just didn't really care so okay um tell us an experience you've had either with yourself or in your family with regards to depression talk about two to three years old as students I left living which was much worse you are already once anyone's friend to continue to to go I was down even just cute and you just said that inquire within because on now so knows about halfway vertex boys possibility thought would be about race and I hope that you might see what is new well I hope you told me he doesn't want to get ready to talk about anything that he goes through suppose what happens with them civilization so helping their largest r2 under heat composite to 30 below you can now see his friend to go to the park I'm here today to talk about my experience with anxiety it's something that I suffered a few years back and I was a wreck infused in time in my life it's something that I didn't know I was going through at the time and I remember feeling very isolated very alone and it was just a very challenging experience as a whole I felt very uncomfortable in in public places so even something as little as going to the shop to the to the supermarket to do to do shopping was was quite a big chore for me and I just thought well it's something that I have to overcome myself as time went on it was becoming more and more difficult to deal with a very good friend of mine came to visit me I hadn't seen him for a few years and we just sat down and we had the most genuine conversation about about things I felt very comfortable talking to him about everything that I was experiencing and it was the first conversation I had about it I remember and I could just feel that you know I felt a lot better after the conversation I never I've never felt this amazing about about life about how to deal with things and stuff and I've come out the other side feeling very confident in that I can deal with situations and problems a lot better and all it took was a small conversation with a friend hi I'm Adam 23 years old pharmacy students I previously suffer from depression wanting our noticed is emotional guy you're facing this to mood people do not understand that why you're sensitive in a sensory business and son one thing I noticed is that if you deem this in a sense and your thoughts and feelings is and you just go by what society considers then you will face more challenges and you will start to become a lesser version of yourself it is very important to speak up about how you feel and how you think at times and I think one of the major challenges that people face date is that they don't really know where to go once equal and reality is that help is available everywhere it's just the fact that people do not think or do not feel that they are in the position to get help so it's very important to speak up and and get help from people especially we have places such as Kingston University's Fairfield Health Centre where you can go and ask for help you can also your personal tutor for all your friends will be there all the time but sometimes you cannot share certain experience or certain feelings with your friends even even the people that you feel in the horses so it's I believe it can be life-changing and I think it really broadened my horizons and changed the way I feel and think about myself as well as my surroundings and and with Logan and this is my story um for me personally my story is I never really got into acceptance of understanding the fact that I was going through depression in my life going through such suits should appeared in my life when I was young because I think often around 11 years old or 12 years old I was going to a primary school in Zimbabwe and I remember being a very playful kid and I was very positive when I was young but then again growing up in that certain environment people always judge me and mostly people in our family that was told my dad every single day that this kid is gonna fail like he's not gonna be anything in life and my dad was always stressed around that time I went through a whole like time where I started getting like breakdowns every single day at school thinking about all these thoughts and judgments I was getting from people I started losing friends my social life became very weak so after going through this whole journey that I went through obviously the my dad or should I say my parents started getting overwhelmed in the whole comments from the family and for me I started getting panic attacks every single time I developed this thing or palpitations which I was a bit concerned about when I was young and my parents of his aesthetic getting stressed if I'm going to live or die because it was something that I complained about every single day so I went through to the cardiologist I went through therapy when I was I went with my mom every single Saturday of the week he was a he was a cause for like six weeks but to talk to someone about my thoughts how I felt and how it can be able to overcome them and from then onwards I said it was just interesting to find my old self coming back again and like I said it being more positive by everything I'm now very open to people like when anything when there's something something wrong with me I don't just keep it in because I noticed so when I was young I never really use the top someone about my feelings and how I thought how I felt so you are holding in feelings was the worst mistake that I would ever do when I was young hi my name is Matthew I'm 22 years old I'm studying pharmacy as well and basically throughout the years I came to England and when I was 18 and I was studying and yeah like really got to me it's kind of stressful throughout the uni life and everything to accommodate and to adapt it's a new country so yeah I do feel a bit down lonely and stressed most of the times and back in the days in second year I kind of failed a few exams so I was seriously doubting myself if I'm suitable to study and carry on and luckily I got some help from my friends who helped me out in the summer and whenever I'm depressed I can talk to someone and they help me out and I started to build confidence I find myself in a very good position now you know I'm in fourth year and I'm happy so far and yeah I'll work hard for it thank you just this stinks and they will tell you that one in four of us has a mental health problem that's rubbish everybody has mental health it's just where we are and we all need support when different times and just if you need help talk talking is the main thing sometimes in life things might not be as easy as it may seem it could be family issues personal issues financial issues anything really they could affect your mental health yes it's tough to talk about it yes it's tough to open up about your personal matters but all that does is build negative energy to yourself and affect you long-term we all have been through something but it's up to us to be able to unite together and change the stigma around mental health we all have a story to tell share yours [Music]

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Length: 11min 47sec (707 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 06 2019