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We are very much in the early stages
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of trying to understand this thing that we call
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mental health.
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No matter what your race, culture, or class,
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mental health problems are universal health problems.
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I'm struggling with my OCD.
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I can get up and get dressed
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with the best of 'em,
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but inside, I feel completely broken.
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Everybody thinks you get sick
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and then you get cured.
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It's just not like that.
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I don't think any person
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is one family member away
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from somebody who isn't suffering from depression,
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anxiety, trauma.
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Now, the good news is
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it's never too late to heal.
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This is where broken people can come
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and be broken.
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We have a huge opportunity.
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All you need is to be in the right place.
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Everybody has a burden that they carry.
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Everybody has a story.
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A lot of people all over the world
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are in some kind of mental, psychological, emotional pain
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that they may not have acknowledged,
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particularly because this year has certainly shown us
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with a big mirror in front of our humanity.
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-Mm-hmm. -Who we are.
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And so whatever was an issue for you
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before COVID-19
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became, uh, magnified.
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So I think for a lot of people,
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isolation and loneliness has become a major issue.
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I think it certainly has put a mirror
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in front of grief,
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because grief isn't just losing someone.
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Grief is...
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the loss of anything that matters.
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And so kids were grieving
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not being able to have their high school graduation
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that you've been thinking about.
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-Being with their friends. -Being with their friends
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and not being able to have life as you know it.
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And so this year has shaped who we are
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as a culture in ways that I think
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a lot of people still have not dealt with.
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Well, some people at the beginning of it
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were saying it's been a leveler.
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I couldn't disagree more.
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-It's not a leveler. -Because the people
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that were already suffering are now suffering even more.
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That's right.
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I guess the one that we can agree on globally
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is that everyone has experienced
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a different version of the same thing.
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Correct, and so this idea
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of what COVID-19 has done to people...
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Mm-hmm.
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...is gonna show up in ways
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never even imagined
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if you were already just trying to hold on and cope
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before it even happened, you know?
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This year has surely proven that 99.9%,
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if not 100% of us,
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have now officially all experienced...
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-Some form of trauma. -...some form of trauma.
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-Yeah. -Or some form of grief
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-or some form of loss. -Yeah.
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I heard someone say,
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"Pain that is not transformed gets transmitted."
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And it's basically projection, right?
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People who are... people who are hurt,
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understandably hurt, from...
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from their upbringing, their environment,
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what's happened to them, what they've been exposed to,
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what they've seen-- whatever it is,
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that if you don't transform it, if you don't process it,
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then it ends up coming out in all sorts of different ways
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that you can't control, and you never know when.
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It's unresolved, and it is, it's eating us away inside,
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but you don't really realize it.
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And look, this is-- I'm one of the first people
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to recognize that, firstly, I had a fear
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of when I first went to therapy,
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a fear of losing--
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When did you start therapy?
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Um... four years ago now.
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-Four years is kinda recent. -Yeah, but four years
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of therapy for an individual that never thought
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that they would ever need or do therapy,
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is--that's a long-- that's a long time.
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I wasn't in an environment
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where I was encouraged to talk about it either.
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That was sort of, like, squashed.
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Okay, so what made you think you needed it?
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Um... the past.
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To heal myself from the past.
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For many, many years,
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I didn't even think about it.
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I wasn't, like, holding on to it.
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I was unaware of it.
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I always wanted to be normal.
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As opposed to Prince Harry,
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just being Harry.
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It was a puzzling life...
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...but unfortunately, when I think about my mum,
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the first thing that comes to mind
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is always the same one over and over again.
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Strapped in the car,
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seatbelt across,
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with my brother in the car as well,
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and my mother driving, being chased
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by three, four, five mopeds with paparazzi on.
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And then she was almost unable to drive
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because of the tears.
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There was no protection.
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One of the feelings that comes up with me always
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is the helplessness.
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Being too young.
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Being a guy, but too young
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to be able to help a woman.
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In this case, your mother.
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And that happened every single day.
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-That's enough. -Okay.
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Thank you.
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Can we have a nice picture, please?
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Every single day until the day she died.
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We are continuing to follow developments
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out of Paris where Princess Diana
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has been seriously injured in a car accident.
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Her companion Dodi Al Fayed apparently killed,
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-and also there has been... -Photographers
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tracking the princess, apparently,
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according to some reports, were on a motorcycle,
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and that somehow may have contributed to the crash.
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We are hearing...
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When my mum was taken away from me
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at the age of 12, just before my 13th birthday,
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I didn't want the life.
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Sharing the grief of my mother's death
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with the world.
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For me, the thing I remember the most
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was the sound of the horses' hooves
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-going along the pavement. -Mm-hmm.
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Along the mall, the red brick road.
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By this point, I was-- both of us were in shock.
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It was like I was outside of my body
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and just walking along, doing what was expected of me.
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Showing...
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1/10 of the emotion that everybody else was showing.
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Charles... Charles.
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I thought, "This is my mum. You never even met her."
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And as you were speaking--
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I'm gonna try not to make my eyes water here--
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but as you were speaking, I was thinking,
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"Those of us who admired and loved your mother from afar
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probably did more processing of her passing that you did."
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Without question.
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I was so angry with what happened to her
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and the fact that there was no--there was no justice.
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At all.
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Nothing came from that.
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The same people that chased her into the tunnel
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photographed her dying on the backseat of that car.
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In my moment of anger, I would just like to--
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to raid all the grocery stores,
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raid all those horrible magazines
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and just make a big bonfire.
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I didn't want to think about her,
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because if I think about her,
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then it's gonna bring up the fact
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that I can't bring her back,
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and it's just gonna make me sad.
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What's the point in thinking about something sad?
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What's the point in thinking about
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someone you've lost and you're never gonna get back again?
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And I just decided not to talk about it.
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Yeah. Was anybody talking about it around you?
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No one was talking about it.
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We've got it very carefully planned, though, see?
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After that period
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of whatever how many years it was
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of just, like, head in the sand, fingers in the ears,
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just crack on.
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Like, if people said-- I've said this before--
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If people said, "How are you?" I'd be like, "Fine."
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Never happy, never sad. Just fine.
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Fine was the easy answer.
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But I was just all over the place mentally.
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Every time I put a suit and tie on,
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and having to, you know, do the role
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and, you know, sort of like, "All right,
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let's--game face, look in the mirror.
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Right, let's go." Before I'd even left the house,
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I was pouring with sweat, and my heart rate was...
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I was in the fight or flight mode.
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Panic attacks, severe anxiety.
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And so 28 to probably 32
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was a nightmare time in my life.
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I'm freaking out every single time I jump in the car
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and every single time I see a camera.
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-Well, first, I-- -What did it feel like?
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I would just start sweating.
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I would feel as though my body temperature
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was 2 or 3 degrees warmer than everybody else in the room.
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I would convince myself that my face was bright red,
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and therefore, everybody could see how I was feeling,
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but no one would know why, so it was embarrassing.
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You get in your head about it,
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and then you're just like, "Everybody's looking at me."
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One bead of sweat feels like the whole face is pouring down.
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Just sweating,
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and then just all in my head going,
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"This is so embarrassing.
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What are they thinking of me?
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They have no idea.
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I can't tell them."
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Everywhere I go, every single time I meet someone,
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it's almost like I'm being drained of this energy,
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picking up on other people's emotion.
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Finally, I'd bump into somebody
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who was sweating more than me,
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and I would stop, be able to speak to them,
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and then everything would calm down,
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and then I could move on again.
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I was willing to drink. I was willing to take drugs.
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I was willing to try and do the things
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that made me feel less like I was feeling.
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But I slowly became aware
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that, okay, I wasn't drinking Monday to Friday,
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but I would probably drink a week's worth
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in one day on a Friday or a Saturday night.
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And I would find myself drinking
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not because I was enjoying it,
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but because I was trying to mask something.
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Did you know at the time you were doing that,
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that you were trying to mask something?
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-No. -No, you didn't.
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Completely unaware of it,
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which was my...
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my brain telling me that I'm in a fight.
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I never knew that.
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Why would I know that?
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The happiest times in my life was the ten years in the army.
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Without question.
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Because I got to wear the same uniform
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as everybody else.
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I had to do all the same training as everybody else.
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I started from the bottom like everybody else.
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There was no special treatment
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because of who I was.
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Oh-ho-ho, there it is.
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That was where I felt my most normal,
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and actually, you know, within my younger years,
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the most comfortable I felt was out in Afghanistan,
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away from the media.
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I was gonna have to deal with my past,
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because there was anger there.
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Towards my late 20s,
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I was starting to ask questions of,
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"Should I really be here?"
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And that was when I suddenly started going,
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"You can't keep hiding from this."
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Family members have said, "Just play the game
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and your life will be easier."
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But I've got a hell of a lot of my mum in me.
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I feel as though I'm...
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I'm... outside of the system,
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but I'm still stuck there.
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The only way to free yourself and break out
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is to tell the truth.
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I've been a chef all my life.
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Growing up, everybody knew I was gonna be a chef.
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How you guys doing? I'm Chef Rashad.
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I'm the founder of Black Food Collective.
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I started Black Food Collective back in 2017.
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Our first event was Afro Tech.
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Can we have all hands on deck, please,
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to go over there and help them unload their truck?
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-How's the conference today? -Good.
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'Cause you don't want people lining up right here.
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One thing that's missing in the food industry
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is Black-owned food businesses.
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I'm Chef Rashad. I'm the one
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that's putting all this stuff together.
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Food can bring people from every walk of life...
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-Yep. -To one table.
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Thank you. I appreciate you.
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They used to always say,
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"You're either gonna be a chef
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or a... or a preacher."
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Our whole mission is to create and grow these businesses
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by showing them that they can actually create wealth
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within their community and their family
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to sustain them for a lifetime.
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Whenever I get in front of people when I'm talking,
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people are like, "Oh, my God, that was so powerful,
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what you said"...
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and I say that's not me.
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That is not Rashad.
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I was taught how to wear a mask very, very well,
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so, you know, I can get up and get dressed
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with the best of 'em and put a smile on and...
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Ah! Positive.
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But inside, feel completely broken.
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Little things in my childhood
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really affected me in a major way.
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When I was very, very young,
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the police raided our house,
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and my dad went to jail.
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I remember going to visit him in jail.
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Growing up, I seen a lot of stuff.
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I have friends that are addicted to drugs.
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I have friends that are walking around talking to themselves.
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I have...
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all these people,
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these--these Black men that I know
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that are older and younger that are dealing with...
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...or not dealing with anything.
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So I look at them...
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...and when I look at them,
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I see me.
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The general population
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holds a lot of stigma
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for people who struggle with
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mental health issues.
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And the irony is that
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I don't think any person is one family member away
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from somebody who isn't suffering from depression,
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anxiety, substance abuse and dependence, trauma.
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You take those four things,
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you probably are gonna reach 80% of the population.
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People would not think twice
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about saying that their child had cancer
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and that they're gonna go get treatment,
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but they're embarrassed to say, "My child has depression,
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and I have to take him for treatment."
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So I think we have a long way to go in our society.
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I was made to feel insecure
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about me being vocal, me being honest about that.
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"Be quiet. Don't say that. No, calm down.
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Oh, no, you talk too much."
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After dealing with depression and anxiety,
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I've lost all my passion for cooking.
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It's completely gone.
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In 2018, I won "Chopped"
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Chef Rashad Armstead, you are the Chopped Champion.
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Take a moment to savor the victory
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before you take 10,000 bucks to the bank.
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Thank you.
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Like, I haven't even watched my "Chopped" episode.
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I remember how much pain I was in
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while I was doin' that show.
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Within a year,
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my whole entire life has changed completely.
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I got a divorce.
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Closed down two restaurants.
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No car. Credit is jacked.
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Speaking from a Black man's perspective,
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you try to do so many of the right things
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that you're told that you're supposed to do
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and you're supposed to be and you're supposed to act
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and you're supposed to live,
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not knowing that there's a undercurrent.
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The rent a car place said that I fit a description
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of a male that was using a fake credit card.
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I was detained for a few minutes because I was Black.
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This guy is parked illegally.
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-Parked for two seconds. -Put it on Facebook.
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I don't have to put it on Facebook.
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This is for my protection
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because for you to call the police--
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for you to call the police on a person
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because they're parked for two seconds...
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-Yeah, 'cause it takes one... -Is sick,
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-especially because-- -To make a swarm!
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A swarm!
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And it makes you want to give up sometimes.
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It makes you want to fight even harder.
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But it still is like one of those things
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where you gotta find hope in this--
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in this darkness.
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In the Black community,
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we've been taught for years
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to go to church, take it to God,
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and everything is gonna be okay.
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Therapy is a taboo situation
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when it comes to the Black community.
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We don't do that.
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So I had to push it all down.
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Now I'm dealing with depression and anxiety.
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Sometimes I'm suicidal.
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The heaviest feeling in my life.
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It felt like weights were on me,
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because I'm literally walking around here
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trying to hold on.
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I'm like this, "Okay, okay, just keep going.
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Keep going, keep going, keep going."
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Childhood memories come up,
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and the fear just cripples me.
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But I have to keep on going now
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because if I don't keep on going,
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what the heck am I gonna do?
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I feel like one of those hamsters running in a wheel.
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Like, I'm just going, going, going,
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but I'm not going anywhere.
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Going to therapy.
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I didn't know it was gonna be this nerve-wracking.
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Ah, a thousand, billion things
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are going through my head right now, just...
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...especially 'cause it was so hard
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for me to get out of bed this morning.
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It was one of those days where it was just
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a challenge for me to wake up and...
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put one foot in front of the other.
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'Cause everything was calling, just telling me,
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"Just reschedule. Just do this, just do that.
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You should do this and just stay in bed,
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and you deserve to rest,"
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and all those kind of good things.
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But I had to push past all that.
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I've learned that when you speak certain things,
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you give life to it,
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things that sometimes I try to not talk about
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and try not to share.
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You know, in therapy, you're gonna have to share that
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if you really wanna get it right.
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So it's uncomfortable for me.
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Yeah, it was, uh, it was definitely
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intense, but it was, um...
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just some of the things I was--
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some of the situations that I was telling her,
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she was just like...
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"Wow, those are all really, really big red flags."
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Oh, it just brought up so many different emotions.
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Man.
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It's to that point to where
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if I don't be honest about where I am,
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if I don't feel everything that I'm going through right now,
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if I try to lie about it or try to mask it,
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it's gonna be a dangerous situation.
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The mask has to come off.
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That's the only way I'm gonna be free from this,
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if I rip this mask off.
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Your brain's health
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is just as important as the rest of your body.
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To be able to train it like a muscle--
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I know the brain's not a muscle,
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but to be able to train it, just as much as we focus
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on our physical health...
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-Right. -...so should we be focused
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on our mental health.
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The two are not separate. We know this.
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They are intrinsically linked.
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But across society, across the world,
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with stigma and everything else that's attached to it,
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mental health kind of gets left behind.
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But it's also the invisible injury.
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And the things that we can't see
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and the things that we don't understand scare us.
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Um, and...
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and it's hard to be able to talk about something
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that perhaps a lot of people don't feel.
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- That's it, that's it.
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Now pick--jab.
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There you go, there you go. Stay down!
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Chin down, chin down.
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I am six months out to the Olympics.
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I'm ranked number three in the world now,
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and everybody's looking at me,
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not only just to go to Tokyo, but to get gold.
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To watch her in the ring,
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she can go a whole fight,
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just throw one punch and win it.
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And it's like I feel like that's a masterpiece.
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Virginia!
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Ish, ish.
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When I was little I was like,
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"I don't have a disease." I was like, "I'm not sick."
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Put your hands up.
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Ish!
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In middle school,
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I became anorexic.
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It started with just going on a diet,
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and then it became more, um, intense.
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And I liked my results...
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...to the point where I've lost so much weight,
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the doctors and my parents were worried
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I might get to the point where I could kill myself
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'cause I'm so-- or starve myself, pretty much.
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So they sent me to inpatient treatment.
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The doctors there discovered
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really, what's causing the anorexia
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is that she has this disea-- a disease called OCD.
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When I'm here in Colorado Springs
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and I have this room to myself,
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sometimes this room can almost be like a prison.
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It's like, "Oh, my OCD now can take over.
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There's nobody else."
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And I can get stuck cleaning till 5:00 in the morning.
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I need my boxing shoes for training,
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but I can't wear them unless they're clean.
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I wash my shoes a lot because, in my mind,
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the bottom of it is so contaminated.
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So I hate the feeling of putting dirty shoes on.
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Aw, damn it.
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So...
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the shoe accidentally touched my arm,
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so now I gotta go wash my hands.
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So this is what I mean by a vicious cycle.
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When I clean something, in the process, I get dirty,
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and then I go clean myself.
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Okay. Get my soap.
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So I thought it would take ten minutes,
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but again, I always tell myself and this stuff happens,
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and it changes everything.
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Ah. A lot of times, like,
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the soap has to fall on my hand in a certain way,
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or...
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or it's not getting clean like I want it to.
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I feel like I've used two different kinds of soaps
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to get clean.
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Again, I don't know why, but my brain tells me that.
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Well, that's where the shoe touched me.
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It touched me on the wrist,
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so I'm trying to make it fall on my wrist like this
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where--how it touched me.
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Ah...
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So...
532
00:24:34,808 --> 00:24:37,477
The thing with OCD is it's like a trap.
533
00:24:37,561 --> 00:24:39,605
"Stop." I keep telling myself. It's like I can't, I can't.
534
00:24:39,688 --> 00:24:42,733
It's like I'm trapped in a cycle of cleaning,
535
00:24:42,816 --> 00:24:44,693
and even though I wanna get out, I wanna stop...
536
00:24:44,776 --> 00:24:46,778
Ahh. Almost had it.
537
00:24:46,862 --> 00:24:48,614
My mind's like, "Nope, one more time.
538
00:24:48,697 --> 00:24:50,199
Nope, one more time.
539
00:24:51,325 --> 00:24:54,286
With me, if I don't wash my hands the proper way,
540
00:24:54,369 --> 00:24:57,289
this very uncomfortable feeling in your body
541
00:24:57,372 --> 00:24:59,499
where your mind gets foggy,
542
00:24:59,583 --> 00:25:01,502
your muscles tense up.
543
00:25:02,753 --> 00:25:05,506
You just--you can't think properly,
544
00:25:05,589 --> 00:25:06,715
and it won't stop.
545
00:25:09,593 --> 00:25:12,095
I spent most of my life hiding it,
546
00:25:12,179 --> 00:25:16,683
and that made me feel more insecure.
547
00:25:17,434 --> 00:25:18,644
I didn't like myself.
548
00:25:19,937 --> 00:25:21,063
'Cause I hid it for so long
549
00:25:21,146 --> 00:25:22,231
'cause I thought people would judge me,
550
00:25:22,314 --> 00:25:23,982
and then, you know, think I'm a freak.
551
00:25:25,734 --> 00:25:28,779
Coming out with it has helped me understand it more.
552
00:25:28,862 --> 00:25:30,697
When I tell people, they're like, "Why do you that?"
553
00:25:30,781 --> 00:25:32,658
and it makes me think, "Huh. Why do I do that?"
554
00:25:32,741 --> 00:25:34,701
And so I have to think why I do it,
555
00:25:34,785 --> 00:25:37,996
and then when I see why I do it, I'm like, "Oh. Okay."
556
00:25:38,914 --> 00:25:40,165
You see that?
557
00:25:40,249 --> 00:25:43,126
You see what you're doing? You see what you're doin'?
558
00:25:43,210 --> 00:25:46,213
I don't like my wraps touching the ground.
559
00:25:46,296 --> 00:25:47,506
All my teammates, you know, they don't care.
560
00:25:47,589 --> 00:25:49,550
They're like, pshh, wrapping their hands.
561
00:25:49,633 --> 00:25:50,634
It's all touching the ground,
562
00:25:50,717 --> 00:25:52,928
where I'm like, "Ah, no, ah, no."
563
00:25:53,011 --> 00:25:54,763
So when Derwin takes my wraps off,
564
00:25:54,847 --> 00:25:56,640
we make sure it doesn't touch the ground.
565
00:25:56,723 --> 00:25:58,350
He's learned, finally.
566
00:25:58,433 --> 00:25:59,768
He puts 'em on his shoulder.
567
00:25:59,852 --> 00:26:02,062
Took him a while to learn, but now he knows.
568
00:26:03,272 --> 00:26:05,190
The ground is like lava,
569
00:26:05,274 --> 00:26:06,316
contamination lava.
570
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,570
That's what I say.
571
00:26:10,153 --> 00:26:11,572
And the thing with my OCD,
572
00:26:11,655 --> 00:26:13,991
a lot of people with contamination fear
573
00:26:14,074 --> 00:26:15,784
can be about--
574
00:26:15,868 --> 00:26:17,786
their fear is about getting sick and dying.
575
00:26:17,870 --> 00:26:19,204
That's not my fear, necessarily.
576
00:26:19,288 --> 00:26:20,205
I wasn't worried about, "Oh, my God,
577
00:26:20,289 --> 00:26:21,206
her blood's in my mouth.
578
00:26:21,290 --> 00:26:22,207
I'm gonna have a disease,
579
00:26:22,291 --> 00:26:23,333
I'm gonna get sick and die."
580
00:26:23,417 --> 00:26:24,710
That's not what I was worried about.
581
00:26:24,793 --> 00:26:28,338
My fear's more just the dirty, disgusting feeling
582
00:26:28,422 --> 00:26:31,175
makes me feel like a disgusting, dirty person.
583
00:26:33,719 --> 00:26:35,929
OCD is recurring thoughts
584
00:26:36,013 --> 00:26:39,057
that cause distress, anxiety, or fear...
585
00:26:40,559 --> 00:26:41,977
...and repetitive behaviors
586
00:26:42,060 --> 00:26:44,479
that are intended to reduce that distress.
587
00:26:46,356 --> 00:26:48,650
There are many types of OCD.
588
00:26:48,734 --> 00:26:51,904
People are most familiar with ordering and symmetry
589
00:26:51,987 --> 00:26:54,907
or a need to get things just right.
590
00:26:54,990 --> 00:26:57,075
With contamination OCD,
591
00:26:57,159 --> 00:26:59,244
the fear is of disgust.
592
00:27:04,333 --> 00:27:07,377
This feeling of disgust is so unpleasant,
593
00:27:07,461 --> 00:27:10,172
it's intolerable, it will last forever,
594
00:27:10,255 --> 00:27:12,257
and the rituals are intended
595
00:27:12,341 --> 00:27:15,427
to get rid of that uncomfortable feeling.
596
00:27:20,224 --> 00:27:21,975
I've always been able
597
00:27:22,059 --> 00:27:25,812
to not let my OCD creep into my boxing.
598
00:27:26,730 --> 00:27:29,358
But this past February was totally different.
599
00:27:30,609 --> 00:27:33,403
I went three days, maybe two hours of sleep.
600
00:27:33,487 --> 00:27:34,988
I'd be in the gym,
601
00:27:35,072 --> 00:27:36,823
and something's gonna touch my skin,
602
00:27:36,907 --> 00:27:37,991
and I would go and wash it,
603
00:27:38,075 --> 00:27:40,953
but was washing that one little spot
604
00:27:41,036 --> 00:27:43,664
that touched the ground for two seconds.
605
00:27:43,747 --> 00:27:45,999
I washed one little spot for maybe 30 minutes.
606
00:27:46,083 --> 00:27:48,377
And then I would go and do laundry,
607
00:27:48,460 --> 00:27:49,920
but the laundry wouldn't be right,
608
00:27:50,003 --> 00:27:52,339
so I'd have to redo the laundry a couple of times.
609
00:27:52,422 --> 00:27:54,258
That's how it escalated.
610
00:27:54,341 --> 00:27:56,385
The whole process of getting in the shower
611
00:27:56,468 --> 00:27:58,595
got worse and worse and worse.
612
00:27:58,679 --> 00:28:00,138
It took a whole hour now.
613
00:28:00,848 --> 00:28:02,891
I used to only use one sponge for one shower.
614
00:28:02,975 --> 00:28:05,602
Now I started using, like, ten sponges for one shower.
615
00:28:05,686 --> 00:28:07,354
Five bars of soap for one shower.
616
00:28:07,437 --> 00:28:10,190
I'd go through the big containers of shower gel.
617
00:28:10,274 --> 00:28:11,733
I'd go through two of those in one shower.
618
00:28:11,817 --> 00:28:13,819
I wasn't eating, too, because I didn't have time
619
00:28:13,902 --> 00:28:15,279
to go down to the caf and eat.
620
00:28:15,362 --> 00:28:17,447
I needed to take a shower before the next practice.
621
00:28:18,574 --> 00:28:20,033
I was searching for that feeling so hard,
622
00:28:20,117 --> 00:28:21,702
like, in the process of doing it,
623
00:28:21,785 --> 00:28:24,454
my muscles tightened, and I'm like...
624
00:28:24,538 --> 00:28:25,706
breathing so hard it was--
625
00:28:25,789 --> 00:28:27,124
it was almost kind of like a workout.
626
00:28:27,207 --> 00:28:29,585
It was like I was working out 24/7, no stop,
627
00:28:29,668 --> 00:28:31,587
with one hour sleep.
628
00:28:32,713 --> 00:28:33,839
When you're not sleeping for three days,
629
00:28:33,922 --> 00:28:36,383
you get delusional, you can't think straight,
630
00:28:36,466 --> 00:28:40,137
and that third night, I just got stuck in that.
631
00:28:41,763 --> 00:28:42,764
I'm just continuously doing it,
632
00:28:42,848 --> 00:28:44,141
and it's not changing.
633
00:28:44,224 --> 00:28:45,809
Like, the feeling of getting clean is not changing,
634
00:28:45,893 --> 00:28:48,604
and I became very frustrated with myself.
635
00:28:48,687 --> 00:28:50,898
I was like, "Just stop!" You know, yelling at myself.
636
00:28:50,981 --> 00:28:53,233
Crying. Like, I was like, "Oh, my God, why can't I stop?"
637
00:28:53,317 --> 00:28:55,944
And, um... I was, like, pacing back and forth,
638
00:28:56,028 --> 00:28:57,696
just very erratic.
639
00:28:57,779 --> 00:29:01,033
I don't know what to do. I'm just stuck in this trap.
640
00:29:01,116 --> 00:29:02,409
Now you're not gonna be able to box.
641
00:29:02,492 --> 00:29:04,203
Now you're not gonna be able to socialize.
642
00:29:04,286 --> 00:29:06,914
Like, I was like, "Now you're not gonna be able to live
643
00:29:06,997 --> 00:29:09,291
because if you get up and try to live,
644
00:29:09,374 --> 00:29:11,335
you're gonna get stuck in that trap and not get out of it."
645
00:29:12,544 --> 00:29:14,922
I became so exhausted at this point,
646
00:29:15,005 --> 00:29:16,798
like, bawling hysterically.
647
00:29:16,882 --> 00:29:19,551
I just kind of, like, fell on the floor
648
00:29:19,635 --> 00:29:21,637
and that's when I was like,
649
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,264
"I need some serious help, and I better do it now
650
00:29:24,348 --> 00:29:27,184
before it's too late."
651
00:29:33,148 --> 00:29:34,983
What other words have you heard
652
00:29:35,067 --> 00:29:39,196
when it comes to stigma around mental health?
653
00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:40,405
-Crazy? -Crazy.
654
00:29:40,489 --> 00:29:42,115
-Lost it. -Lost it.
655
00:29:42,199 --> 00:29:43,742
-Can't keep it together. -Mental.
656
00:29:43,825 --> 00:29:46,036
-Yeah. Nervous breakdown. -Yeah.
657
00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:50,624
That stigma of...
658
00:29:50,707 --> 00:29:53,752
being labeled "the other"
659
00:29:53,836 --> 00:29:55,504
is the ultimate, I think,
660
00:29:55,587 --> 00:29:56,630
when it comes to mental health.
661
00:29:56,713 --> 00:29:58,757
Look at how many years
662
00:29:58,841 --> 00:30:01,260
people have tried to hide this in their own families
663
00:30:01,343 --> 00:30:03,428
and not wanting anybody to know.
664
00:30:03,512 --> 00:30:05,305
And if your parents don't want to talk about it
665
00:30:05,389 --> 00:30:06,974
and your friends can't remind you about it,
666
00:30:07,057 --> 00:30:09,351
then there's no reason why you should go, "Hang on a second.
667
00:30:09,434 --> 00:30:11,520
I may be the product of my upbringing."
668
00:30:11,603 --> 00:30:15,941
Yeah, and everybody who has kept a secret,
669
00:30:16,024 --> 00:30:17,526
lived in shame,
670
00:30:17,609 --> 00:30:19,236
let that, um--
671
00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:24,116
let the silence, uh, create the stigma for you
672
00:30:24,199 --> 00:30:28,036
and broke the shame barrier for yourself.
673
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,290
You recognize that when you share the story,
674
00:30:31,373 --> 00:30:34,918
it allows other people to not just see you differently,
675
00:30:35,002 --> 00:30:36,753
but you see yourself differently
676
00:30:36,837 --> 00:30:38,672
and you end up helping so many other people.
677
00:30:38,755 --> 00:30:41,008
So I love those aha moments
678
00:30:41,091 --> 00:30:43,927
and being able to share stories
679
00:30:44,011 --> 00:30:46,638
that allow people to see themselves
680
00:30:46,722 --> 00:30:47,973
in somebody else.
681
00:30:48,056 --> 00:30:51,685
And every time I see someone like Lady Gaga
682
00:30:51,768 --> 00:30:53,729
coming out and speaking about it,
683
00:30:53,812 --> 00:30:55,397
I know that's a great thing
684
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,151
because it allows people to say, "Oh, you? Even you?
685
00:30:59,234 --> 00:31:02,029
With all that you have and are exposed to?"
686
00:31:02,112 --> 00:31:03,530
So that's the goal here,
687
00:31:03,614 --> 00:31:06,533
is to get people to call it out.
688
00:31:06,617 --> 00:31:10,454
Please welcome the incomparable
689
00:31:10,537 --> 00:31:13,081
Lady Gaga.
690
00:31:18,212 --> 00:31:20,672
When I saw Oprah
691
00:31:20,756 --> 00:31:22,716
and we had that talk...
692
00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:25,177
Mental health is a crisis.
693
00:31:25,260 --> 00:31:27,971
And so medication has helped you.
694
00:31:28,055 --> 00:31:29,848
Medication's helped me tremendously.
695
00:31:29,932 --> 00:31:33,936
...and after she came back into the room with me...
696
00:31:34,019 --> 00:31:36,438
You were so vulnerable. You were so truthful.
697
00:31:36,522 --> 00:31:37,898
You were so real.
698
00:31:37,981 --> 00:31:41,026
...and we were both crying and hugging,
699
00:31:41,109 --> 00:31:43,362
I felt like I was in the company
700
00:31:43,445 --> 00:31:46,156
of someone who was safe.
701
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,202
I went through a really crazy time in my head
702
00:31:50,285 --> 00:31:52,204
that I still work on,
703
00:31:52,287 --> 00:31:55,791
and I'm trying to make sure
704
00:31:55,874 --> 00:31:58,126
that I give back with that experience
705
00:31:58,210 --> 00:32:00,170
instead of just...
706
00:32:00,254 --> 00:32:03,131
I don't know, locking it away and faking it.
707
00:32:03,215 --> 00:32:05,217
Can't read my, can't read my
708
00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:08,929
No, he can't read my poker face
709
00:32:09,012 --> 00:32:11,515
She's got me like nobody
710
00:32:17,688 --> 00:32:20,190
My mental health I thought was a problem
711
00:32:20,274 --> 00:32:21,483
when I was very young.
712
00:32:21,567 --> 00:32:23,819
I used to cut myself when I was really young.
713
00:32:25,362 --> 00:32:28,782
I had my own experiences
714
00:32:28,866 --> 00:32:31,034
with abuse,
715
00:32:31,118 --> 00:32:35,080
and it's really hard for me to articulate
716
00:32:35,163 --> 00:32:36,790
in a way where I feel like
717
00:32:36,874 --> 00:32:38,584
it's safe for young people to listen
718
00:32:38,667 --> 00:32:40,127
or even older people to listen
719
00:32:40,210 --> 00:32:42,379
about why anyone would cut.
720
00:32:42,462 --> 00:32:44,381
Um, I do believe
721
00:32:44,464 --> 00:32:47,968
that those urges for me came from a place of,
722
00:32:48,051 --> 00:32:51,096
I need to show the hurt inside.
723
00:32:51,180 --> 00:32:52,723
Listen
724
00:32:54,808 --> 00:32:59,104
I've got the sickest ambition
725
00:32:59,188 --> 00:33:01,148
Whoo!
726
00:33:02,191 --> 00:33:05,652
I was 19 years old,
727
00:33:05,736 --> 00:33:09,114
and I was working in the business,
728
00:33:09,198 --> 00:33:14,328
and a producer said to me...
729
00:33:14,411 --> 00:33:15,996
"Take your clothes off."
730
00:33:17,623 --> 00:33:18,999
And I said, "No."
731
00:33:20,918 --> 00:33:24,296
And I left, and...
732
00:33:25,672 --> 00:33:28,884
...they told me they were gonna burn all my music.
733
00:33:31,595 --> 00:33:33,222
And they didn't stop...
734
00:33:37,726 --> 00:33:39,144
They didn't stop asking me,
735
00:33:39,228 --> 00:33:41,480
and then I just froze, and I just...
736
00:33:45,776 --> 00:33:48,820
I don't--I don't even remember.
737
00:33:54,660 --> 00:33:58,497
And I will not say his name.
738
00:33:58,580 --> 00:34:00,415
I understand this Me Too movement.
739
00:34:00,499 --> 00:34:02,084
I understand that some people
740
00:34:02,167 --> 00:34:04,670
feel really comfortable with this,
741
00:34:04,753 --> 00:34:06,338
and I do not.
742
00:34:08,130 --> 00:34:11,009
I do not ever wanna face that person again.
743
00:34:13,929 --> 00:34:18,308
This system is so abusive and so dangerous.
744
00:34:18,391 --> 00:34:20,686
Years later, I went to the hospital.
745
00:34:20,768 --> 00:34:22,855
They brought a psychiatrist in.
746
00:34:22,938 --> 00:34:25,482
I said, "Bring me a real doctor."
747
00:34:27,275 --> 00:34:28,735
I said, "Why is there a psych here?
748
00:34:28,819 --> 00:34:30,904
I can't feel my body."
749
00:34:30,987 --> 00:34:33,782
First, I felt full-on pain.
750
00:34:33,866 --> 00:34:35,993
Then I went numb.
751
00:34:37,369 --> 00:34:41,581
And then I was sick for weeks and weeks
752
00:34:41,665 --> 00:34:43,292
and weeks and weeks after,
753
00:34:43,375 --> 00:34:47,670
and I realized that it was this same pain that I felt
754
00:34:47,754 --> 00:34:49,464
when the person who raped me
755
00:34:49,547 --> 00:34:52,842
dropped me off pregnant on the corner,
756
00:34:52,926 --> 00:34:55,637
my parent's house,
757
00:34:55,721 --> 00:35:00,267
'cause I was vomiting and sick
758
00:35:00,350 --> 00:35:01,685
'cause I'd been being abused.
759
00:35:01,768 --> 00:35:04,271
I was locked away in a studio for months.
760
00:35:14,156 --> 00:35:18,243
I wanna be able to tell everybody that's watching
761
00:35:18,327 --> 00:35:22,206
that I dry my tears now and I move on.
762
00:35:22,289 --> 00:35:23,248
Like, I--you see?
763
00:35:23,332 --> 00:35:24,666
Like...
764
00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:26,293
I open my eyes. I was taught to do this.
765
00:35:26,376 --> 00:35:28,504
You roll your shoulders back.
766
00:35:28,587 --> 00:35:32,007
You open your eyes. It helps you regulate.
767
00:35:32,090 --> 00:35:33,300
You know, I know where I am.
768
00:35:33,383 --> 00:35:35,969
I'm in the basement of my office.
769
00:35:37,554 --> 00:35:39,389
And...
770
00:35:39,473 --> 00:35:41,808
you can come back from things like that.
771
00:35:41,892 --> 00:35:43,685
But when it--
772
00:35:43,769 --> 00:35:46,855
when it hits you really hard,
773
00:35:46,939 --> 00:35:48,649
it can--it can--
774
00:35:48,732 --> 00:35:49,858
it can change you.
775
00:35:49,942 --> 00:35:53,529
I had a-- I had a total psychotic break.
776
00:35:53,612 --> 00:35:56,740
And for a couple years,
777
00:35:56,823 --> 00:35:59,826
I was not the same girl.
778
00:36:04,706 --> 00:36:08,043
The way that I feel when I feel pain
779
00:36:08,126 --> 00:36:10,879
is how I felt after I was raped.
780
00:36:10,963 --> 00:36:13,715
I've had so many MRIs and scans
781
00:36:13,799 --> 00:36:16,093
where they can't-- they don't find nothing,
782
00:36:16,176 --> 00:36:18,679
but...
783
00:36:18,762 --> 00:36:21,056
your body remembers.
784
00:36:22,933 --> 00:36:25,519
I couldn't feel anything.
785
00:36:28,772 --> 00:36:30,774
I disassociated.
786
00:36:32,651 --> 00:36:34,903
It's like your brain goes offline.
787
00:36:36,363 --> 00:36:38,657
And you don't know why no one else is panicking,
788
00:36:38,740 --> 00:36:40,075
but you are in an ult--
789
00:36:40,158 --> 00:36:43,161
like, an ultra-state of paranoia.
790
00:36:45,956 --> 00:36:48,250
It's a really very real thing
791
00:36:48,333 --> 00:36:51,461
to feel like there's a black cloud
792
00:36:51,545 --> 00:36:54,423
that is following you wherever you go,
793
00:36:54,506 --> 00:36:57,509
telling you that you're worthless and should die.
794
00:36:57,593 --> 00:36:59,678
And I used to scream
795
00:36:59,761 --> 00:37:02,389
and throw myself against the wall.
796
00:37:03,098 --> 00:37:05,017
And you know why it's not good to cut?
797
00:37:05,100 --> 00:37:06,101
You know why it's not good
798
00:37:06,185 --> 00:37:07,311
to throw yourself against the wall?
799
00:37:07,394 --> 00:37:09,229
You know why it's not good to self-harm?
800
00:37:09,313 --> 00:37:11,481
'Cause it makes you feel worse.
801
00:37:11,565 --> 00:37:13,692
You think you're gonna feel better
802
00:37:13,775 --> 00:37:15,110
'cause you're showing somebody,
803
00:37:15,194 --> 00:37:16,737
"Hey, look. I'm in pain."
804
00:37:16,820 --> 00:37:18,113
It doesn't help.
805
00:37:18,197 --> 00:37:20,199
I always tell people,
806
00:37:20,282 --> 00:37:23,702
"Tell somebody. Don't show somebody."
807
00:37:23,785 --> 00:37:26,538
And the reason that I believe
808
00:37:26,622 --> 00:37:29,374
I have cut since very recently
809
00:37:29,458 --> 00:37:33,629
is because the process of healing and my mental health
810
00:37:33,712 --> 00:37:38,300
has been a slow--
811
00:37:38,383 --> 00:37:40,135
a slow rise.
812
00:37:40,219 --> 00:37:42,763
And...
813
00:37:42,846 --> 00:37:47,518
even if I have six brilliant months,
814
00:37:47,601 --> 00:37:50,521
all it takes is...
815
00:37:50,604 --> 00:37:52,814
getting triggered once
816
00:37:52,898 --> 00:37:56,944
to... feel bad.
817
00:37:57,027 --> 00:37:58,195
And when I say feel bad,
818
00:37:58,278 --> 00:38:00,697
I mean wanna cut,
819
00:38:00,781 --> 00:38:02,241
think about dying,
820
00:38:02,324 --> 00:38:04,910
wondering if I'm ever gonna do it.
821
00:38:06,703 --> 00:38:08,789
I learned all the ways
822
00:38:08,872 --> 00:38:10,666
to pull myself out of it.
823
00:38:13,460 --> 00:38:15,212
It all started to slowly change.
824
00:38:15,295 --> 00:38:17,339
It took 2 1/2 years.
825
00:38:17,422 --> 00:38:19,424
What are you doing in that time?
826
00:38:19,508 --> 00:38:21,385
I won an Oscar.
827
00:38:22,553 --> 00:38:24,096
Nobody knew.
828
00:38:24,179 --> 00:38:26,139
Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson,
829
00:38:26,223 --> 00:38:28,851
Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt.
830
00:38:30,477 --> 00:38:33,021
Thank you so much.
831
00:38:33,105 --> 00:38:35,274
Thank you so much to the Academy
832
00:38:35,357 --> 00:38:37,067
for this wonderful honor.
833
00:38:37,150 --> 00:38:39,987
Everybody that's at home right now that's suffering,
834
00:38:40,070 --> 00:38:42,406
I would like first to say that it is so important
835
00:38:42,489 --> 00:38:44,449
that you surround yourself with at least one person
836
00:38:44,533 --> 00:38:45,659
that validates you,
837
00:38:45,742 --> 00:38:46,827
and when I say "validates you,"
838
00:38:46,910 --> 00:38:49,079
that means somebody that believes you,
839
00:38:49,162 --> 00:38:50,581
that cares about you, and tells you
840
00:38:50,664 --> 00:38:52,666
that your pain matters
841
00:38:52,749 --> 00:38:54,168
and that it's real.
842
00:38:55,627 --> 00:38:56,837
Then I would say
843
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,090
there is a way to regulate yourself.
844
00:39:01,675 --> 00:39:03,093
-Hi. -Hey.
845
00:39:03,177 --> 00:39:04,553
How are you?
846
00:39:04,636 --> 00:39:05,721
Hi. How are you?
847
00:39:05,804 --> 00:39:07,639
How are you feeling?
848
00:39:07,723 --> 00:39:09,183
If I focus,
849
00:39:09,266 --> 00:39:11,810
and I go, "Okay, I'm gonna wake up.
850
00:39:11,894 --> 00:39:15,314
I'm gonna do some therapy or grounding or gratitude
851
00:39:15,397 --> 00:39:17,566
and I'm gonna move my body and I'm gonna eat
852
00:39:17,649 --> 00:39:20,152
and I'm gonna do the things I know are healthy for me.
853
00:39:20,235 --> 00:39:22,029
I'm gonna play piano. I'm gonna sing a little bit.
854
00:39:22,112 --> 00:39:23,405
I'm gonna brush my teeth.
855
00:39:23,488 --> 00:39:25,115
I'm gonna make sure that I take a shower."
856
00:39:25,199 --> 00:39:27,201
Mindfully, everything.
857
00:39:27,284 --> 00:39:29,745
If I do enough of these skills in a row,
858
00:39:29,828 --> 00:39:31,455
if I just keep going and I go,
859
00:39:31,538 --> 00:39:34,374
"Stefani, be brave. You gotta be braver.
860
00:39:34,458 --> 00:39:37,211
It's brave to breathe. It's braver to keep going."
861
00:39:37,294 --> 00:39:39,046
And then I go and before I know it,
862
00:39:39,129 --> 00:39:42,216
I'm standing in my backyard and I--and I go,
863
00:39:42,299 --> 00:39:45,636
"Okay. Okay, I'm back."
864
00:39:46,345 --> 00:39:50,265
I believe in eating throughout the day.
865
00:39:50,349 --> 00:39:53,352
I think it's really important, uh, for your brain.
866
00:39:53,435 --> 00:39:56,063
So I would-- I would consider this,
867
00:39:56,146 --> 00:39:58,232
um, a skill.
868
00:40:00,984 --> 00:40:02,319
Nutrition.
869
00:40:03,654 --> 00:40:06,615
Nutrition as I'm pouring more hot sauce on my broccoli.
870
00:40:07,783 --> 00:40:09,368
Is it still nutrition
871
00:40:09,451 --> 00:40:12,871
if your broccoli looks like this?
872
00:40:14,706 --> 00:40:17,084
I put hot sauce on everything.
873
00:40:17,167 --> 00:40:18,418
It's not normal.
874
00:40:19,586 --> 00:40:22,548
What's so interesting is the line that I walk.
875
00:40:22,631 --> 00:40:24,842
It's actually feeling like
876
00:40:24,925 --> 00:40:27,302
I wanna cut myself and feeling like I don't
877
00:40:27,386 --> 00:40:29,638
are actually real close together.
878
00:40:31,598 --> 00:40:33,725
Everybody thinks it's gotta be a straight line,
879
00:40:33,809 --> 00:40:37,437
that it's, like, just like, you know, every other virus,
880
00:40:37,521 --> 00:40:39,815
that you get sick and then you get cured, you know?
881
00:40:39,898 --> 00:40:42,651
It's not like that. It's just not like that.
882
00:40:42,734 --> 00:40:45,279
And actually, I think that traps people.
883
00:40:45,362 --> 00:40:48,782
It traps people because they get so frustrated.
884
00:40:48,866 --> 00:40:49,867
I did.
885
00:40:49,950 --> 00:40:50,868
You get frustrated with yourself.
886
00:40:50,951 --> 00:40:52,578
"Why am I not getting better?
887
00:40:52,661 --> 00:40:54,580
What's wrong with me?"
888
00:40:54,663 --> 00:40:58,417
And you know what? There's nothing wrong with you.
889
00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:01,837
But there is something that's not firing right.
890
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,173
And that's something you gotta pay attention to,
891
00:41:04,256 --> 00:41:06,550
and also, it's not easy.
892
00:41:12,556 --> 00:41:15,809
This year has been an interesting year.
893
00:41:15,893 --> 00:41:18,228
Went through a divorce, went through losing my business,
894
00:41:18,312 --> 00:41:19,771
went through COVID.
895
00:41:21,523 --> 00:41:24,234
To go from sleeping on my aunt's couch
896
00:41:24,318 --> 00:41:26,987
and literally having to be homeless,
897
00:41:27,070 --> 00:41:28,655
you know, broke, no money,
898
00:41:28,739 --> 00:41:30,741
to--to working my way back
899
00:41:30,824 --> 00:41:33,368
into now I got my own place now
900
00:41:33,452 --> 00:41:35,287
and I'm able to take care of myself again,
901
00:41:35,370 --> 00:41:37,331
it made me really, really grateful.
902
00:41:37,956 --> 00:41:39,791
I had to get back out here to Oakland
903
00:41:39,875 --> 00:41:41,793
because I had to get back to work.
904
00:41:41,877 --> 00:41:44,963
We're recruiting for about 750 people a week.
905
00:41:46,256 --> 00:41:48,175
Therapy has been kind of, like, difficult
906
00:41:48,258 --> 00:41:50,093
'cause at one point, I couldn't afford it.
907
00:41:50,177 --> 00:41:52,304
So I had to find different ways
908
00:41:52,387 --> 00:41:55,182
to still continue to heal,
909
00:41:55,265 --> 00:41:58,101
and helping in the Black Food Collective,
910
00:41:58,185 --> 00:41:59,645
helping these businesses,
911
00:41:59,728 --> 00:42:03,065
that was a really, really big part
912
00:42:03,148 --> 00:42:04,900
of my healing process.
913
00:42:06,151 --> 00:42:08,987
And unpacking all those boxes,
914
00:42:09,071 --> 00:42:12,241
that was a whole emotional roller coaster right there.
915
00:42:12,324 --> 00:42:16,578
I had to unpack a lot of stuff that I didn't wanna deal with.
916
00:42:16,662 --> 00:42:20,958
I went back home during the first part of quarantine.
917
00:42:21,041 --> 00:42:22,918
I didn't know how to communicate with my family
918
00:42:23,001 --> 00:42:24,211
and tell them, like,
919
00:42:24,294 --> 00:42:28,173
exactly how bad the depression and anxiety was
920
00:42:28,257 --> 00:42:30,551
because sometimes I can't find the words
921
00:42:30,634 --> 00:42:32,010
to--to say it.
922
00:42:32,094 --> 00:42:33,554
Like, I wanna say it,
923
00:42:33,637 --> 00:42:36,139
but I can't find the right words to--
924
00:42:36,223 --> 00:42:39,309
to where they can receive what I'm saying.
925
00:42:39,393 --> 00:42:41,478
But they did kind of
926
00:42:41,562 --> 00:42:44,815
force themselves into--into my bubble,
927
00:42:44,898 --> 00:42:46,733
which I'm glad they did that because sometimes,
928
00:42:46,817 --> 00:42:50,070
I can get so caught up in my own little world
929
00:42:50,153 --> 00:42:52,865
that I don't see outside of it.
930
00:43:00,330 --> 00:43:01,790
You wanna heat your oil up now?
931
00:43:01,874 --> 00:43:03,208
Wish you had some fried chicken grease.
932
00:43:03,292 --> 00:43:04,543
That how you're really supposed to do it.
933
00:43:04,626 --> 00:43:05,544
No.
934
00:43:05,627 --> 00:43:06,670
You ain't never had that before?
935
00:43:06,753 --> 00:43:07,963
See?
936
00:43:08,046 --> 00:43:10,090
-I don't know about that. -Slacking, slacking.
937
00:43:10,174 --> 00:43:12,009
-Really? -What'd you say?
938
00:43:12,092 --> 00:43:14,261
He just gotta teach me how to barbecue
939
00:43:14,344 --> 00:43:15,929
without getting smoke on me.
940
00:43:17,848 --> 00:43:19,141
Growing up,
941
00:43:19,224 --> 00:43:22,060
my mom and my dad were the only saving grace.
942
00:43:23,395 --> 00:43:25,105
My mom is the only one out of all her sisters
943
00:43:25,189 --> 00:43:26,648
that's still married.
944
00:43:26,732 --> 00:43:30,485
She went through some stuff that would've broke most people.
945
00:43:30,569 --> 00:43:31,778
Look at that.
946
00:43:31,862 --> 00:43:34,406
Yes, yes, yes.
947
00:43:34,489 --> 00:43:37,284
Rashad was sensitive and outgoing.
948
00:43:37,367 --> 00:43:39,286
He was always the leader.
949
00:43:39,369 --> 00:43:42,414
Even as a little kid, he was always leading the pack.
950
00:43:42,497 --> 00:43:45,667
Sometime, he gets a little quiet.
951
00:43:45,751 --> 00:43:47,794
Don't say too much.
952
00:43:47,878 --> 00:43:49,755
When he was little, younger coming up,
953
00:43:49,838 --> 00:43:51,590
I seen a little as a teenager,
954
00:43:51,673 --> 00:43:56,678
but it really, really came out after he got married.
955
00:43:56,762 --> 00:44:00,140
That's when I noticed that everything kicked in.
956
00:44:00,224 --> 00:44:01,725
And it was really bad.
957
00:44:01,808 --> 00:44:04,686
It was a dark time. It was a real dark time.
958
00:44:04,770 --> 00:44:07,439
No matter what he tried to put on or portray,
959
00:44:07,523 --> 00:44:09,233
because I know my son.
960
00:44:10,567 --> 00:44:13,612
He was suffering. He was suffering bad.
961
00:44:13,695 --> 00:44:17,658
It was like life had just went crazy.
962
00:44:17,741 --> 00:44:20,744
And it was so crazy to where it got me
963
00:44:20,827 --> 00:44:24,915
to where... I was, like, stuck.
964
00:44:24,998 --> 00:44:27,042
The anxiety would be there
965
00:44:27,125 --> 00:44:29,711
times ten every day,
966
00:44:29,795 --> 00:44:31,129
but I couldn't--
967
00:44:31,213 --> 00:44:33,757
I couldn't even just sit and let the attack happen.
968
00:44:33,841 --> 00:44:35,968
I had to keep on going while the attack was happening.
969
00:44:36,051 --> 00:44:38,762
I had to keep on going while the depression was happening.
970
00:44:38,846 --> 00:44:42,015
And sometimes, you just don't have the words
971
00:44:42,099 --> 00:44:45,269
or can find the correct words how to communicate correctly.
972
00:44:45,352 --> 00:44:46,645
Yes.
973
00:44:46,728 --> 00:44:49,982
When it was really in those bad, bad, bad moments,
974
00:44:50,065 --> 00:44:52,192
it was almost like I was in prison...
975
00:44:58,782 --> 00:45:00,409
...and I couldn't get out of it.
976
00:45:06,123 --> 00:45:08,458
And I felt that. I felt that.
977
00:45:08,542 --> 00:45:10,002
-Yeah, we felt that. -I felt that.
978
00:45:10,085 --> 00:45:11,628
We knew it.
979
00:45:12,379 --> 00:45:15,757
And I could see, you know, it was getting a little rough.
980
00:45:16,508 --> 00:45:17,968
When he first started going through it,
981
00:45:18,051 --> 00:45:20,220
I wasn't there a lot.
982
00:45:20,304 --> 00:45:22,139
I--I would talk to him.
983
00:45:23,348 --> 00:45:25,809
But I didn't talk to him that much
984
00:45:25,893 --> 00:45:27,853
'cause I was trying to give him the space to let him know
985
00:45:27,936 --> 00:45:28,896
that we're okay and you need to--
986
00:45:28,979 --> 00:45:30,522
you know, you're a man.
987
00:45:30,606 --> 00:45:31,899
You have to do what you have to do,
988
00:45:31,982 --> 00:45:34,193
so we gotta kinda back up.
989
00:45:34,276 --> 00:45:37,404
But I don't ever want y'all to feel like y'all are...
990
00:45:38,447 --> 00:45:41,241
Any move that y'all made
991
00:45:41,325 --> 00:45:43,785
was--was wrong, or y'all feel guilty about any of it
992
00:45:43,869 --> 00:45:44,870
'cause it...
993
00:45:46,496 --> 00:45:47,706
...it wasn't that.
994
00:45:47,789 --> 00:45:48,999
It wasn't y'all.
995
00:45:49,082 --> 00:45:51,293
It was everything else, everybody else around
996
00:45:51,376 --> 00:45:53,378
that was just coming in
997
00:45:53,462 --> 00:45:56,131
to just mess up everything.
998
00:45:57,090 --> 00:45:59,301
Getting caught into certain situations
999
00:45:59,384 --> 00:46:04,097
and not really recognizing you guys back in the days,
1000
00:46:04,181 --> 00:46:08,644
you know, not really realizing that a lot of that stuff...
1001
00:46:08,727 --> 00:46:12,022
it was--it made a big impact on you guys.
1002
00:46:12,105 --> 00:46:14,399
-Very big. -I know it did.
1003
00:46:15,817 --> 00:46:18,153
But, you know, we here for you now.
1004
00:46:19,321 --> 00:46:22,074
So, you know, I love you.
1005
00:46:22,157 --> 00:46:25,577
Whatever you go through, I'm here for you.
1006
00:46:30,123 --> 00:46:32,084
Families are an essential part of recovery
1007
00:46:32,167 --> 00:46:34,127
for most people,
1008
00:46:34,211 --> 00:46:36,213
and a loving family
1009
00:46:36,296 --> 00:46:39,758
who can learn and problem solve
1010
00:46:39,842 --> 00:46:42,636
is an indispensable resource.
1011
00:46:44,304 --> 00:46:47,140
But if you have a family that's open to learning
1012
00:46:47,224 --> 00:46:50,686
and open to not shaming you for a vulnerability,
1013
00:46:50,769 --> 00:46:54,022
but working alongside of you,
1014
00:46:54,106 --> 00:46:57,109
the outcomes you can get are quite remarkable.
1015
00:46:59,486 --> 00:47:00,529
It's not, "What's wrong?"
1016
00:47:00,612 --> 00:47:01,989
That's not the right question.
1017
00:47:02,072 --> 00:47:04,616
It is, "What's happened
1018
00:47:04,700 --> 00:47:08,537
to cause that person to have that kind of
1019
00:47:08,620 --> 00:47:10,873
persistent or consistent behavior?"
1020
00:47:10,956 --> 00:47:13,959
So that--that strap line, whatever you wanna call it...
1021
00:47:14,042 --> 00:47:16,086
-Yeah. -...is now embedded in my brain.
1022
00:47:16,170 --> 00:47:17,921
-What happened to you? -Whenever something happens.
1023
00:47:18,005 --> 00:47:20,215
Whenever--even when I'm on the receiving end
1024
00:47:20,299 --> 00:47:23,093
of just hatred and vitriol,
1025
00:47:23,177 --> 00:47:25,679
I remem-- I remember that because...
1026
00:47:25,762 --> 00:47:27,014
-What happened to you? -What happened to you?
1027
00:47:27,097 --> 00:47:28,348
What happened to them?
1028
00:47:28,432 --> 00:47:31,560
Because "what happened to you" is not accusatory.
1029
00:47:31,643 --> 00:47:34,771
It's a, "Tell me. What--what happened?"
1030
00:47:34,855 --> 00:47:37,691
Instead of, "What's wrong with you?"
1031
00:47:37,774 --> 00:47:41,111
And I find that it applies to everybody.
1032
00:47:43,572 --> 00:47:46,783
The only thing that still to this day makes me cry
1033
00:47:46,867 --> 00:47:48,452
six decades into life
1034
00:47:48,535 --> 00:47:53,207
is the recognition when I first moved to Milwaukee
1035
00:47:53,290 --> 00:47:56,502
from Attala County, Mississippi,
1036
00:47:56,585 --> 00:48:00,631
and had never been away from my grandmother before.
1037
00:48:00,714 --> 00:48:03,300
And suddenly,
1038
00:48:03,383 --> 00:48:05,969
I'm just put in a car
1039
00:48:06,053 --> 00:48:09,097
and sent to Milwaukee and told that you--
1040
00:48:09,181 --> 00:48:10,891
you won't see your grandmother again.
1041
00:48:10,974 --> 00:48:13,477
And now you're gonna be living with your mother--
1042
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,104
my mother whom I didn't even know, really.
1043
00:48:16,188 --> 00:48:18,690
And--'cause my mother was a part of that great migration
1044
00:48:18,774 --> 00:48:20,526
that had gone up north and left the--
1045
00:48:20,609 --> 00:48:22,569
left their children with the grandmothers.
1046
00:48:24,821 --> 00:48:28,283
My mother was a boarder in this middle class,
1047
00:48:28,367 --> 00:48:29,493
very light-skinned,
1048
00:48:29,576 --> 00:48:32,037
could pass for a white woman's house.
1049
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,540
The first moment I walked in,
1050
00:48:34,623 --> 00:48:36,667
instantly, I knew
1051
00:48:36,750 --> 00:48:38,794
that she did not like me because the color of my skin.
1052
00:48:38,877 --> 00:48:41,922
And that very first night,
1053
00:48:42,005 --> 00:48:44,758
she wouldn't let me come in the house.
1054
00:48:44,842 --> 00:48:47,636
And there was a little porch foyer
1055
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:49,888
that was exposed to the street,
1056
00:48:49,972 --> 00:48:52,724
and I had to sleep out there on a sofa.
1057
00:48:52,808 --> 00:48:55,477
And my mother...
1058
00:48:55,561 --> 00:48:57,354
who had another child--
1059
00:48:57,437 --> 00:49:00,065
it was the first time I met my half sister--
1060
00:49:00,148 --> 00:49:03,151
um, did not stand up for me, did not say,
1061
00:49:03,235 --> 00:49:05,904
"No, my child has to come in the house."
1062
00:49:05,988 --> 00:49:09,491
And in that instant that my mother said,
1063
00:49:09,575 --> 00:49:13,537
"Okay then, that's just where you're gonna sleep out here,"
1064
00:49:13,620 --> 00:49:16,665
I knew I was alone.
1065
00:49:16,748 --> 00:49:18,208
Today on The Oprah Winfrey Show,
1066
00:49:18,292 --> 00:49:20,711
we're gonna be reuniting people with their favorite teacher,
1067
00:49:20,794 --> 00:49:22,379
some who have not seen each other
1068
00:49:22,462 --> 00:49:24,381
for ten, 20, and even 30 years.
1069
00:49:24,464 --> 00:49:27,467
But first, I'd like to tell you about my favorite teacher.
1070
00:49:27,551 --> 00:49:29,219
You want me to start weeping?
1071
00:49:29,303 --> 00:49:31,054
It's my teachers that saved me.
1072
00:49:31,138 --> 00:49:33,682
Mary Duncan.
1073
00:49:33,765 --> 00:49:36,476
Mrs. Duncan!
1074
00:49:38,937 --> 00:49:40,272
Oh!
1075
00:49:42,065 --> 00:49:43,358
Oh!
1076
00:49:44,318 --> 00:49:46,236
Oh!
1077
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,532
Well, if I had had a class full of students like Oprah,
1078
00:49:50,616 --> 00:49:53,118
I would've been floating on air.
1079
00:49:53,202 --> 00:49:56,413
For so many years in my life,
1080
00:49:56,496 --> 00:49:59,166
that's the only place I ever really felt loved.
1081
00:50:02,127 --> 00:50:04,463
And it's the reason why, for so many years,
1082
00:50:04,546 --> 00:50:07,132
I wanted to be a teacher,
1083
00:50:07,216 --> 00:50:10,093
to be able to give to other kids
1084
00:50:10,177 --> 00:50:11,720
what my teachers had given to me.
1085
00:50:11,803 --> 00:50:13,722
The reason why I love Mrs. Duncan so much
1086
00:50:13,805 --> 00:50:15,849
is because she brought out the best in me.
1087
00:50:15,933 --> 00:50:18,936
It was the year that I sort of knew that I could be somebody.
1088
00:50:19,019 --> 00:50:21,730
I--she just made me feel important,
1089
00:50:21,813 --> 00:50:22,981
and I think all children
1090
00:50:23,065 --> 00:50:25,609
need to feel a sense of self-worth,
1091
00:50:25,692 --> 00:50:28,403
and I always, because of you,
1092
00:50:28,487 --> 00:50:30,155
felt like I could take on the world.
1093
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:35,077
Because connection to anybody that cares about you
1094
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,454
makes a world of difference.
1095
00:50:37,538 --> 00:50:39,373
For me, it was my teachers.
1096
00:50:39,456 --> 00:50:42,668
And that's why I know school is so important.
1097
00:50:42,751 --> 00:50:44,837
Education can't save you,
1098
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,297
but it can relieve you,
1099
00:50:47,381 --> 00:50:51,385
and so for me, it was a big relief
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00:50:51,468 --> 00:50:55,806
and in creating, um...
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00:50:55,889 --> 00:50:59,935
value and worthiness where I felt none at home.
1102
00:51:00,018 --> 00:51:02,312
I felt none.
1103
00:51:02,396 --> 00:51:03,564
None.
1104
00:51:05,649 --> 00:51:08,277
I brought you all here today to tell you
1105
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,112
that you will be a part
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00:51:10,195 --> 00:51:12,281
of the very first class of the Oprah Winfrey--
1107
00:51:16,326 --> 00:51:18,662
In 2007,
1108
00:51:18,745 --> 00:51:21,290
I opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy
1109
00:51:21,373 --> 00:51:23,166
in South Africa
1110
00:51:23,250 --> 00:51:28,088
for girls who had the will but not the means.
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00:51:30,465 --> 00:51:32,301
The first two classes of the school,
1112
00:51:32,384 --> 00:51:33,927
they were handpicked by me.
1113
00:51:34,011 --> 00:51:37,890
I went to villages and townships
1114
00:51:37,973 --> 00:51:42,436
choosing girls who had the fire inside them
1115
00:51:42,519 --> 00:51:44,688
to want to do better in their lives.
1116
00:51:44,771 --> 00:51:47,149
Ladies and gentlemen, the daughters
1117
00:51:47,232 --> 00:51:50,861
of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.
1118
00:51:50,944 --> 00:51:53,697
But on the very first week of school,
1119
00:51:53,780 --> 00:51:56,742
I was noticing strange behaviors
1120
00:51:56,825 --> 00:51:58,827
from some of the girls.
1121
00:51:58,911 --> 00:52:00,829
It was like, "What's wrong with these girls?
1122
00:52:00,913 --> 00:52:03,290
They can't concentrate. They can't focus."
1123
00:52:03,373 --> 00:52:06,877
So I call Dr. Bruce Perry,
1124
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:08,504
and he said to me,
1125
00:52:08,587 --> 00:52:12,716
"Your kids have trauma.
1126
00:52:12,799 --> 00:52:16,428
They have been accustomed to such chaos
1127
00:52:16,512 --> 00:52:18,472
that the brain can't handle
1128
00:52:18,555 --> 00:52:23,060
to be in a space of calm and nurturing and support."
1129
00:52:24,436 --> 00:52:26,813
I didn't understand depression at the time.
1130
00:52:27,814 --> 00:52:30,901
We weren't prepared to deal with the trauma
1131
00:52:30,984 --> 00:52:34,571
or the mental illness,
1132
00:52:34,655 --> 00:52:36,657
the depression, the anxiety.
1133
00:52:41,787 --> 00:52:44,164
Every year I go back, and I teach a course called,
1134
00:52:44,248 --> 00:52:45,707
"Life 101."
1135
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,587
I was using Michael Singer's book,
1136
00:52:50,671 --> 00:52:52,047
The Untethered Soul,
1137
00:52:52,130 --> 00:52:56,093
and he talks about the thorns that we all carry,
1138
00:52:56,176 --> 00:52:58,011
things that happened in your life
1139
00:52:58,095 --> 00:53:00,681
that got covered up, that got suppressed,
1140
00:53:00,764 --> 00:53:03,058
that you didn't address,
1141
00:53:03,141 --> 00:53:05,018
that cause you to get in situations
1142
00:53:05,102 --> 00:53:07,062
that you can't figure out how that happened.
1143
00:53:07,145 --> 00:53:10,065
It's just that the thorn got rubbed.
1144
00:53:10,148 --> 00:53:11,608
So what is the thorn
1145
00:53:11,692 --> 00:53:14,278
that needs to be pulled out for you?
1146
00:53:14,361 --> 00:53:16,446
The first girl said,
1147
00:53:16,530 --> 00:53:18,866
"My thorn is anger.
1148
00:53:18,949 --> 00:53:21,451
I have so much anger."
1149
00:53:22,327 --> 00:53:24,329
This is a class of 72 girls.
1150
00:53:24,413 --> 00:53:26,582
"I have so much anger."
1151
00:53:26,665 --> 00:53:30,377
She said, "Because when I was four years old,
1152
00:53:30,460 --> 00:53:32,129
I tried to tell my grandmother
1153
00:53:32,212 --> 00:53:36,008
that my uncle was messing with me,
1154
00:53:36,091 --> 00:53:38,468
and she said, 'Girl, what are you talking about?
1155
00:53:38,552 --> 00:53:39,970
He's your uncle.'
1156
00:53:40,053 --> 00:53:41,763
She ignored me,
1157
00:53:41,847 --> 00:53:43,974
and when I was seven, my uncle raped me."
1158
00:53:45,642 --> 00:53:47,936
And she said,
1159
00:53:48,020 --> 00:53:49,146
um...
1160
00:53:52,983 --> 00:53:56,778
"Every time I go home...
1161
00:53:56,862 --> 00:54:00,782
I have to still be with that uncle.
1162
00:54:00,866 --> 00:54:05,287
And my grandmother knows.
1163
00:54:05,370 --> 00:54:07,706
And there's nothing I can do about it.
1164
00:54:07,789 --> 00:54:10,334
And I am so angry."
1165
00:54:12,127 --> 00:54:15,214
There's silence because nobody can believe
1166
00:54:15,297 --> 00:54:17,716
she's actually said it out loud.
1167
00:54:18,967 --> 00:54:20,135
I said, "Well,
1168
00:54:20,219 --> 00:54:22,888
you're not the only girl who has that story.
1169
00:54:22,971 --> 00:54:26,725
I can bet you you're not the only girl who has that story.
1170
00:54:26,808 --> 00:54:30,521
And I would like any other girl in this room...
1171
00:54:34,233 --> 00:54:36,568
...who has that story to stand up.
1172
00:54:39,112 --> 00:54:41,782
And I want you to stand up for her.
1173
00:54:41,865 --> 00:54:43,992
And in standing up for her, you stand up for yourself
1174
00:54:44,076 --> 00:54:46,203
because her grandmother did not stand up for her.
1175
00:54:46,286 --> 00:54:47,829
Who will stand for her?
1176
00:54:47,913 --> 00:54:49,540
But I only want you to stand
1177
00:54:49,623 --> 00:54:52,000
if you know what she's talking about
1178
00:54:52,084 --> 00:54:54,670
and you have a similar story."
1179
00:54:54,753 --> 00:54:57,923
In this classroom of 20--
1180
00:54:58,006 --> 00:55:01,260
of 72 girls, 24 girls stood up.
1181
00:55:05,389 --> 00:55:09,685
At 9 and 10 and 11 and 12 years old,
1182
00:55:09,768 --> 00:55:13,480
I was raped by my 19-year-old cousin.
1183
00:55:15,607 --> 00:55:18,402
I didn't know what rape was.
1184
00:55:18,485 --> 00:55:21,029
Certainly wasn't aware of the word.
1185
00:55:21,113 --> 00:55:23,156
I had no idea what sex was.
1186
00:55:23,240 --> 00:55:24,491
I had no--I had no idea--
1187
00:55:24,575 --> 00:55:26,493
I had no idea where babies came from.
1188
00:55:26,577 --> 00:55:28,620
I didn't even know what was happening to me.
1189
00:55:31,707 --> 00:55:33,125
And I kept that secret.
1190
00:55:38,797 --> 00:55:40,299
And...
1191
00:55:44,052 --> 00:55:46,054
...it's just something I accepted.
1192
00:55:49,266 --> 00:55:52,186
That a girl child ain't safe...
1193
00:55:56,523 --> 00:55:58,650
...in a world full of men.
1194
00:56:02,654 --> 00:56:05,782
You don't get through developmental trauma
1195
00:56:05,866 --> 00:56:07,492
unscathed.
1196
00:56:07,576 --> 00:56:11,455
You can get through and find your way,
1197
00:56:11,538 --> 00:56:12,873
but along the way,
1198
00:56:12,956 --> 00:56:14,416
there's definitely going to be pain
1199
00:56:14,499 --> 00:56:18,086
and there'll be scars and there'll be challenges.
1200
00:56:18,170 --> 00:56:20,005
And I think that this is a really important thing
1201
00:56:20,088 --> 00:56:22,382
for people to understand, that everybody
1202
00:56:22,466 --> 00:56:24,384
is carrying around something.
1203
00:56:24,468 --> 00:56:28,555
Everybody has a burden. We just don't know what it is.
1204
00:56:29,264 --> 00:56:30,557
And that's why it's so important
1205
00:56:30,641 --> 00:56:31,850
when you do any kind of mental health work
1206
00:56:31,934 --> 00:56:34,603
to get to know somebody's story.
1207
00:56:35,729 --> 00:56:37,356
The telling of a story,
1208
00:56:37,439 --> 00:56:39,983
the being able to say out loud,
1209
00:56:40,067 --> 00:56:42,653
"This is what happened to me,"
1210
00:56:42,736 --> 00:56:44,404
is crucial.
1211
00:56:45,614 --> 00:56:50,035
I don't tell this story for my own self-service,
1212
00:56:50,118 --> 00:56:53,038
'cause to be honest, it's hard to tell.
1213
00:56:53,121 --> 00:56:55,249
I feel a lot of shame about it.
1214
00:56:56,250 --> 00:56:58,794
How do I explain to people that I have privilege,
1215
00:56:58,877 --> 00:57:01,004
I've got money, I've got power,
1216
00:57:01,088 --> 00:57:02,631
and I'm miserable?
1217
00:57:02,714 --> 00:57:05,133
Like, what-- how do you do that?
1218
00:57:05,217 --> 00:57:06,593
What I really care about
1219
00:57:06,677 --> 00:57:08,345
is I'm not here to tell my story to you
1220
00:57:08,428 --> 00:57:10,013
because I want anybody to cry for me.
1221
00:57:10,097 --> 00:57:12,683
I'm good...
1222
00:57:12,766 --> 00:57:15,477
but open your heart up for somebody else,
1223
00:57:15,561 --> 00:57:16,854
because I'm telling you,
1224
00:57:16,937 --> 00:57:18,564
I've been through it, and people need help.
1225
00:57:20,899 --> 00:57:23,861
So that's part of my healing,
1226
00:57:23,944 --> 00:57:25,654
is being able to talk to you.
1227
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,414
I'm not afraid anymore...
1228
00:57:35,497 --> 00:57:37,916
because I'm not afraid to say,
1229
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,169
"Yeah, I do got depression.
1230
00:57:40,252 --> 00:57:42,713
Yeah, I do got anxiety.
1231
00:57:42,796 --> 00:57:44,047
And I do have those moments
1232
00:57:44,131 --> 00:57:46,967
where I don't feel like doing nothing.
1233
00:57:47,050 --> 00:57:48,844
And I do have those moments where I get angry
1234
00:57:48,927 --> 00:57:50,929
and I get sad and I get overly emotional.
1235
00:57:51,013 --> 00:57:53,348
I got all of that.
1236
00:57:53,432 --> 00:57:56,852
That's all me right there. I feel every last bit of that.
1237
00:57:56,935 --> 00:57:59,813
But guess what. I'm glad I felt that."
1238
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:04,109
I think people that acknowledge their mental health struggles,
1239
00:58:04,193 --> 00:58:06,570
they're really like superheroes.
1240
00:58:06,653 --> 00:58:09,198
If you've been through something,
1241
00:58:09,281 --> 00:58:11,116
that doesn't mean that your kids
1242
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:12,534
or that everybody else has to go through
1243
00:58:12,618 --> 00:58:13,827
the same thing that you've been through.
1244
00:58:13,911 --> 00:58:15,495
Whoa!
1245
00:58:15,579 --> 00:58:17,247
I know that it's my responsibility
1246
00:58:17,331 --> 00:58:19,833
and my duty to break that cycle.
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