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take your mental health seriously · feel your feelings with Ethan Jewell

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  If you have a broken arm or a broken leg, the healing process
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  is pretty obvious. Pretty self-explanatory.
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  You have to give it rest, give it time and give it the care and
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  love that it needs. However, if you're faced with a
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  broken brain or a broken heart, suddenly that process becomes a
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  lot more confusing and typically we don't know what to do.
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  Hey, There and welcome back to feel your feelings, with me.
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  Ethan Jewel. This is a podcast all about
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  mental health, and mental health, awareness from a
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  personal standpoint. You see, I'm not a doctor, I'm
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  not a professional a psychologist or psychiatrist.
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  I'm just a normal guy who is felt a lot of big feelings and
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  wants to talk about them and share my experiences with all of
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  you. So thank you so much for tuning
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  in and let's feel some feelings. When I was younger all of my
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  hobbies, pretty much put me in inherent risk of bodily harm of.
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  I was all about mountain biking and skateboarding and climbing
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  on things and running around in creeks and exploring and picking
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  up and throwing sharp rocks and pretty much everything.
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  They could possibly put me at risk for injury and of course, I
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  got injured a lot, I would fall off my bike.
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  I would get injured in the The creek at fall off my skateboard,
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  whatever it was it was like every other week I was coming
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  home, nursing a new injury. And I remember one time I fell
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  off my bike and I broke my pinkie finger.
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  I think it was. It was my first ever broken bone
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  and I went home and I was crying and you know, pretty much
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  immediately. We started the healing process.
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  I went to the doctor. I got a little like what do you
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  call? It may be a small little cast,
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  or is it like a splint to hold it in place and I I stood and I
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  iced it and I took pain medication and I just didn't use
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  it as much as possible and I gave myself all the rest I could
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  and that was obvious. I mean I could have known to do
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  that without a doctor. Even at that young age we're all
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  taught how to deal with physical injuries from birth.
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  Almost, I mean, we are taught about how to rest these
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  injuries, how to treat them at a basic level and that's just
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  pretty much common knowledge. Ever as I grew up, I began to
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  experience a new kind of injury that I did not know how to deal
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  with. And that is mental or emotional
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  injuries. Within our society, we are
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  taught how to deal with these physical things.
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  But when it comes to emotional scars, many of us are left,
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  totally unaware in the dark and have to figure it out ourselves,
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  and that is a scary and difficult thing.
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  If you are dealing with emotional distress or mental
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  illness and you have Figure out yourself how to deal with it.
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  That is incredibly difficult in many people often looked the
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  wrong treatments. We often see people turning to
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  unhealthy coping mechanisms, instead of actually trying to
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  treat the root of the issue, the root of their mental illness,
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  and of course, we can't blame anyone for this.
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  I mean, imagine if nobody taught you how to deal with physical
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  injuries, I mean it sounds ridiculous, but you would
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  probably just keep on using the The injured limb, if you had no
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  idea, you know what is causing the pain, how to make it better,
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  how to deal with it? You may just keep on using your
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  broken finger or your hurt arm. So let's go over the very basics
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  of how to deal with mental illness and emotional distress.
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  Remember, I'm not a professional.
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  This is all from my personal experience.
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  However, from my personal experience, the best advice I
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  can give you is to treat your emotional injury, similar to how
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  you would treat your physical. So what does that mean?
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  It means that you have to give yourself a rest.
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  You have to give yourself time. I mean, if you keep on using a
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  broken armor, broken leg, it will continue to inflame and get
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  worse in the bones will never be able to heal correctly.
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  And in that same vein, if you continue to just use and use a
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  broken heart or a broken brain, it will chip down and it will
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  never be able to fully heal. So you You have to give yourself
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  a rest. You have to give yourself time
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  now with physical injuries, sometimes time.
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  And rest isn't enough. We need professional help.
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  And in that same vein, with mental illness, sometimes, time
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  and rest isn't enough. And we have to turn to family or
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  friends and talk things out or turn to a professional, go to a
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  therapist, talk things out, find the help that you need.
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  Starting a journey towards recovery is the most Difficult
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  part. Going to therapy getting the
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  help that you need. It mitting that you need help.
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  It's difficult. It can feel humiliating,
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  embarrassing. I know when I first started
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  going to therapy, it didn't feel good.
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  It did not make me feel good. I dreaded my therapy
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  appointments, but I kept going, I kept showing up for those
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  appointments and I gave myself time and I gave myself rest and
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  I managed to pull myself out of the deepest darkest, most
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  depressed, place that I've ever been.
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  To where I am now and I'm not saying I'm fully cured.
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  It hasn't been some miracle. I had to work for this, but I
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  feel confident in my abilities today to not slip back into that
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  dark place. It's not easy, I'm not happy all
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  the time. I get sad often but it's not the
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  end of the world. Like it used to be because I've
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  been equipped with knowledge that I need in therapy and the
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  understanding that I have to give myself time and rest so
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  please allow Yourself that time. Treat your mental injuries as
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  seriously as you treat your physical ones, because if they
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  go untouched, they can have even more detrimental effects than
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  our physical injuries. It's time, we start taking
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  mental health. Seriously, in the only way we
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  can do that is by starting with yourself, take your mental
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  health, seriously? If you have been struggling, if
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  you have been just Considering going to therapy or considering
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  reaching out. To people do it.
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  It was the best decision that I ever made and I promise you, if
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  you commit, to getting better, if you commit to treating your
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  emotional injuries and taking them, seriously, it will be the
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  best decision that you have ever made.
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  Remember the last serious, physical injury?
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  You got, maybe it was a broken limb.
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  Remember how debilitating that felt your mental injuries?
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  May be debilitating, you just Much and you don't even know
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  because you haven't faced them simply preaching.
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  Mental health, awareness isn't enough?
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  We have to take action and we have to treat our mental health.
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  Seriously, this is a topic that I am highly highly passionate
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  about it. Genuinely makes me angry that
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  Society does not treat mental health, as importantly, as it
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  should be treated. It is just as important as our
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  physical health, you only have one brain and you only have one
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  heart. So please I take care of both of
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  them. Thank you so much for tuning in
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  to today's episode. My name is Ethan Jewel.
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  I make music under the same name and if you need a good cry, you
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  should go listen to it. As always, feel free to reach
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  out to me, on my Instagram at Jewel, boy underscore, tell me
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  what you thought about today's episode.
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  Please drop a rating and follow to catch the next episode.
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  And as always, thank you so much for feeling your feelings.
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  I'll see you next time.