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A Story about Multiple Sclerosis and Mental Health · Latinx Therapy

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hi everybody
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we return to another break the stigma segment
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and these segments
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we speak with a guest who shares their story
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and how they manage their mental health
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I'm Mariana Lehandre
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trauma therapist and founder of Latinx Therapy
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Today we're gonna speak about multiple sclerosis
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and although this is not a mental health condition
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it is an illness
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a disease that impacts
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mental health for those that are diagnosed
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our guest for today is Cristal Bedoya
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on the personal
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she is a first generation Mexican American
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whose parents immigrated to the United States
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from rural communities in Durango and Sacatecas
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Mexico for her
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discussing mental health and her family was difficult
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after her multiple sclerosis diagnosis
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and eventual diagnosis of clinical depression
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at the age of 13
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her parents found it very difficult to understand
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all of these changes
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they never talked about depression
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anxiety or dealing with stress
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so it all came as a shock and struggle to her
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as the eldest daughter in her family
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she has been the administrator of the group
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and was considered to be the most sensitive
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she firmly believes that it was the stress
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anxiety of having to show up pretty quickly
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as a Mexican kid living in a border town
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and her multiple sclerosis diagnosis
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that made navigating through these challenges difficult
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and impactful to the point of trauma
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on the professional
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Crystal is a freelance journalist
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and a multiple sclerosis content creator
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from warm and sunny Arizona
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despite her early Ms diagnosis at the age of 11
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which she will talk about in this segment
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she loves to travel and explore new countries
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she loves to track down cute coffee shops with
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the best matcha
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go to concerts
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spend time with loved ones
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through her social media content
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she shares relatable content
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for people with chronic illnesses and helps
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educate others about living with multiple sclerosis
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as a first generation Latina
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let's welcome Kristal
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and Hola Hola
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so great to finally be here
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I'm so excited
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me too we've been prepping for this for a little bit
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back and forth via email
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and I think maybe I didn't do the definition justice
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right there's so much more
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so maybe we can go ahead and start therapy style
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if you can share with us
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for folks that maybe haven't heard of this
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what is multiple sclerosis
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so first of all
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multiple sclerosis is a chronic illness
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or an autoimmune disease that affects
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the central nervous system
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essentially
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the central nervous system
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attacks itself and basically causes
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the depletion of the protective coverings of the nerves
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which is called mylin
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and when that happens
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that basically throws nerves out in the loop right
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they get so confused
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and that's what causes unpredictable symptoms
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such as numbness tingling
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cognitive issues fatigue
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vision problems
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and at times paralysis
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which unfortunately
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I have experienced every single one of them
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and there are so many more that I could
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go on and on and on
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but yeah this disease is very unpredictable
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and it's at times
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been very unkind and cruel
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but I've Learned a lot from it
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and I continue to learn from it every single day
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yeah and thank you for your vulnerability and
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and sharing about it very publicly as well
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Crystal, how
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has your diagnosis impacted your mental health
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and if you can share
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when you were diagnosed with Ms as well
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of course so
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I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
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at the age of 11
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so in my head at that time I
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all I kept thinking about was puberty right
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having to go through all of those struggles
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through those changes
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I just it was a lot
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I realized that something was wrong
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when I was going home from school with my little sister
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I started experiencing numbness
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and tingling on the entire right side of my body
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and I couldn't move my arm or my leg
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so I started dragging my leg
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and I kept telling my sister like hey
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there's something wrong
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I don't know what this is right
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so the best way that I could describe it is
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you know like
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when your limbs fall asleep and then like
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you just shake it off and like
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they naturally come back and like
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the sensation comes back
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well that was not the case for me and it
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it kept going on and off
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and it was until I told my parents like hey
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there's something wrong with me
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they took me to the hospital
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I got a misdiagnosis
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couple months later
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I finally got my official Ms diagnosis
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but regardless of that
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it was still a lot
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you know like
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it was still something that we had never heard about
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no one in my family has a mess and I mean
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my parents didn't know much about it in the first place
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this was all very new to them they
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they were just as confused as I was
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and we had to deal with a lot of
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a lot of challenges in the way
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and by challenges I mean like language barriers
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cultural differences
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and just the simple fact that I was a child still
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and honestly
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it it was a lot to deal with
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a lot to wrap around
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and unfortunately
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two years later
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I ended up suffering the worst
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Ms relapse that I've experienced ever in my life
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I became paralyzed from the neck down
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and I was hospitalized for three months in Phoenix
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and that's where I basically
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had to relearn how to do everything again
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I had to learn how to walk
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I had to learn how to go to the bathroom on my own
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I had to learn how to brush my teeth
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how to speak
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because it impacted my speech
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I couldn't see out of one eye
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so that was something that I was seeing
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multiple therapists
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receiving different medications or treatments
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and I just think about it now
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like how did I do it right
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what was going on through my head
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and honestly
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I've blocked out a lot of that
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because it was just very traumatic
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but I just remember being very sad
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and I had a lot of questions
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and I kept asking
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like why me how
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how would something like this happen to a child and why
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why did this happen
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and what did I do to deserve it right
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so I struggled a lot with that
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and while I was at that hospital
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I was diagnosed with clinical depression and I mean
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it's been many years since that happened
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and I still
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I still live with depression and anxiety now
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and it's just something that
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it definitely impacted me
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like negatively
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but also kind of in a way
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it helped me realize that I'm capable of doing so much
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and I am able to do so much
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but it's definitely been a learning process
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and it's something that I
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I still struggle with from day to day
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but then again
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like who becomes a pro
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right at dealing with a chronic illness
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I know I haven't
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completely uh
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it sounds like your life changed
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from one day to the next
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would you say that at that time
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you had a good supportive system medically
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that help your parents understand this as well
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I will say in terms of my medical team
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taking care of me
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and their goal
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was to
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I wouldn't say
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bring me back to normal
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but just help um
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improve my situation
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so I started treatment right
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and we were doing all of these other procedures and
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just trying to get me back to square one
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but in terms of
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communicating with my parents
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and having to explain to them
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even till this day
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it's so unfortunate that there's no
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not that many doctors that speak Spanish
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or that there's
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not a lot of interpreters or translators that
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are there to assist people that don't speak English
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and honestly
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even for me
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when I go to the doctor's appointments
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I still come
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come back or call my parents and tell them like hey
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this is what happened
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I want them to be in the loop always
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as well as my other loved ones and my friends
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because I want them
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to be aware of what's going on
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but also in terms of
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me dealing with a lot of medical gaslighting
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throughout my life
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that I just feel like
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I need to tell someone so that I don't
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I don't feel like I'm making it up in my head
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I would want that to change
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in terms of like the healthcare system
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there has to be more resources
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for Latin next people bipoc
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people like that
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might not be able to communicate with the doctors
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but even then
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these are very complex terms
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complex terminology that
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your average person doesn't really
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hear about or talk about and I mean
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that's why I decided to share my story
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on social media because
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if there's even just one person that watches
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let's say reels about having to wear a fully catheter
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and dealing with a neurogenic bladder
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and they're like
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I'm so relieved
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someone gets it
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then it's worth being vulnerable
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and it's worth putting myself out there
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absolutely yes
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that vulnerability
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I'm sure isn't easy
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as a Latina
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and you are the eldest in your family
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so that there's layers and layers upon that
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as you are sharing with us
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and so when we spoke privately off offline
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you mentioned
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that there's also a lot of toxic positivity
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what can you share in regards to to that
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as it relates to your mental health and your diagnosis
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yeah so I feel like for us
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we always want to look at the better side of things
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right but I feel like
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there has to be a point where it's okay to accept that
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some days you're gonna be sad
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some days you're gonna be happy
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some days you're gonna be struggling
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and I feel like that's something that
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I've always tried to explain to my parents
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and I feel like
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just based on their background
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so Suscos Tombres
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they always wanna see
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and this isn't just them
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I'm sure a lot of people can relate to this
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too but like
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they always wanna think okay
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but you're gonna be better right
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but you're gonna feel better or
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no stays three stay
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don't be sad
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Dennis get inside
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come on when us causes come on no
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not get stuck on that sad feeling
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and honestly
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I don't like seeing it that way
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I think that with self reflection and with time
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now that I'm officially 30
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I've realized that it's okay
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to accept all of those feelings and like
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be sad and realize okay
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today's been a bad day
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but there's gonna be another day tomorrow
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I feel like I
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I struggled a lot with that
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because I would always try to like
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prove to my parents or prove to society as a whole like
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I'm not depressed
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I'm not dealing with anxiety
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I'm not dealing with this massive
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diagnosis that literally stresses my life and like
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brings on so many responsibilities and challenges
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I internalized a lot
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from that and I refuse to do that any longer
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because it's just a lot
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it's overwhelming
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and it shouldn't be like that
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and as a therapist
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that's something that
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we talk about and teach to a lot of our Latinas client
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that it's okay to sit with the discomfort of things
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and it's a whole learning experience to be able to
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allow your body and your mind to just
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be present with discomfort
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it really changes the way that you perceive things
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that you feel about things and
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it's growth ultimately
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but I think
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we learn from our our parents and our caregivers
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those that we grew up with
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in regards to how to cope with stressors right
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and a lot of them
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7 and Chinga
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they were just on the go go go
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we just adopt their strategies when it comes to stress
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until it no longer works
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and at some point
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for our families
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it no longer works for them as well
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but that's all they know
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most of the time
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and so that's what they keep
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and for us right
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where we are being exposed to
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more mental health content
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there is a little bit more of that privilege of
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our generation
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here in the States
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where we have a little bit more resources
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compared to what they had
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were able to see things
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and embrace emotions differently than they did
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and so I'm glad for you
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you've been speaking up
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and I feel for that inner child of you
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that didn't know how
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that was struggling with
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for your parents
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brainstorming questions to ask the doctors as well
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and that was
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trying to figure out
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all the emotions that depression comes with
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and the thoughts
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that depression comes with
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just so everyone knows and understands
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like I will never hold anything against my parents
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because they're also living life at the
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the first time too
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so they did their best
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they were immigrants
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they came to the United States
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like wanting a better life for us
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and they worked so hard
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and they did their
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best for not knowing what Ms was
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what depression was
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and like I know now that I'm an adult and I
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I talk to them about these kind of
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kind of things
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like they make a little bit more of an effort
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kind of understand what I'm trying to explain to them
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and like I feel like you need to allow yourself
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to know that like okay
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like they might not get it
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but it's whole process
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and there might be
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situations where they might never get it
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because they're not living
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the same lived experience as we are
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but just more in terms of like
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I'll be a little bit more at peace
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knowing that I
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I did my best
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and they also
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did their best
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given the situation
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absolutely I share the same sentiments
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as a daughter of immigrants
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Damian and that's
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a whole segment that we can get into as well right
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like yeah oh
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let me go into the next question
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please tell
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what are some of the myths of multiple sclerosis
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oh okay so I have three big ones that I
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always talk about
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but like I mean
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it's just people
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generalize and make assumptions and I mean
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I understand sometimes
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people are unfamiliar
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with certain things
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it's all about education
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and that's something that I really
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advocate for on my platforms
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education is key
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but for me the first one is
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everyone with a mess will eventually end up
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in a wheelchair
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and honestly everyone
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who is diagnosed with
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Ms is living a different experience
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Ms manifests itself so differently for anyone
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so for me I was diagnosed with relapse remitting
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which is one of the types of a mess
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there is primary progressive and secondary progressive
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and then there's a first one that is literally
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escaping my mind right now
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and I'm so sorry
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but also I think the most important thing here is
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mobility aids are a form of freedom
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I don't think that a wheelchair should be
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perceived as a negative thing
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and that's something that I've Learned
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and accepted and embraced
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and to me my mobility aids give me freedom
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my cane my walker
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my wheelchair
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like that to me
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is just my way of being able to do whatever I
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dream and can imagine in this life
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a second one is Ms doesn't cause pain
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I am living proof that Ms causes a lot of pain
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and this is unfortunately a problem too
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because Ms is an invisible illness
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so you could see me talking here and think well
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she's not experiencing anything
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but little do you know
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that I'm currently experiencing nerve pain
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I'm experiencing
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like spasticity
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which is like
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like your muscles
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like get so stiff
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and it literally hurts
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and it's just
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unfortunate that I've become an expert at masking
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and I talk about it a lot on my social media platforms
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but that's all due to medical gaslighting and trauma
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but I literally live with pain every single day
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and the last one that I wanted to share is
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Ms only impacts adults
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again very much untrue
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I was diagnosed as a child
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Ms like does not care how old you are
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I've met people who have been diagnosed in their teens
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in their 20s 30s 40s
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age is nothing but a number
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when it comes to this unpredictable disease
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thank you so much for that
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trying to DJ the banners
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as I mentioned
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such a great job
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people that may not have
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chronic illnesses or
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or any other medical conditions
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they have this ableist privilege
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it's really important to educate ourselves
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about these because
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so again I'm
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you're on here and
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and for you
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your content specifically
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to be so transparent with
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changing your catheter and showing us
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days on what it's like to be in a wheelchair
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it shows that
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there's more
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to multiple sclerosis
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and I think we also can get
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not false information
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but just maybe confused
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based off of
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perhaps celebrities that may have it as well
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yeah so I feel like I
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appreciate and commend celebrities that share about
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their stories and their experiences
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but at least for me
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what really catches my attention
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whenever I'm looking at content online
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I like to see real people
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I like to see people living their lives
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seeing them work different professions
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having to experience
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their disability
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and the way that it
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it's just so different from anyone else
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and like I appreciate that
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I appreciate that type of content
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because it just makes me feel like it's much
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more relatable
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and I just feel like there's that connection
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and there's that feeling of these people get me like
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they understand what I go through on a day to day basis
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where I'm trying to
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unfortunately
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explain to my parents
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or explain to my siblings or my friends even
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like right now
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I'm struggling with
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for example
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I've dealt with Ms Hug
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feels like I'm being squeezed by barbed wire
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and it typically happens around my chest
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and I remember I talked about that it back in 2020
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2021 and I thought I was
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I like it was all in my head
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and I remember I brought it up to my doctor
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and he was like
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oh yeah well
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that happens
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and I was like poor
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like how was I supposed to know
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what that was in the first place
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but it wasn't until I connected with other
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people online that they were like oh
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I've dealt with that too
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or I didn't know that's what it was called
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and I'm just like
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it just makes me so grateful
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because I always say that I'm community made
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and like community is so important to me
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and they show off for me
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and they show me so much love and so much support
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and I'll forever be grateful for them
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that that definitely helps as well
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with the mental health aspect
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right to be able to relate to people
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and I also understand that point of like
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when there are celebrities
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or high profile folks that talk about their diagnosis
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and even people on social media
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when it comes to
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to mental health for me
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I appreciate that they're articulating thoughts
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and feelings that I haven't been able to
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put words to
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and in that censor
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what you said resonated with me this time
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what are some things that you would like
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for people to know about you
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I think one of the key things that I want
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people to always remember is that Ms looks different
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for everyone
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a mess could look different for me
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it could look different for you
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for your DIA your deal
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your friends
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it's just the way that it is
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and I get a lot of messages from people on social media
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telling me oh
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but you're not experiencing this
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and I'm like well
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maybe you might not see it
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but I actually am
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and I try my best to share as much as I can
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but it's different for everyone
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right and like
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you could literally take one look at me
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and you'd never know that I'm wearing a fully catheter
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and it's helping my bladder properly function
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it's helping with my kidneys
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because it also impacts that
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I sometimes have to use my cane
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and that's totally okay
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I do struggle with neuropathic pain
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and it's awful
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it's so painful
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it literally feels like my legs are on fire
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but I also like to go to concerts
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I also like to go look for the best matcha
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wherever I could find it
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because I'm obsessed with matcha
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and everyone's living a different story
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everyone's living a different experience
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mine just happens to include this invisible
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illness that
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has basically been my companion since I was a child
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and how do you manage the depression
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the mental health
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aspect within your
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your diagnosis and your day to day
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I will say that my community has helped me a lot
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I will always give them their flowers
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they notice
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and they reach out
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they're like hey
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like we haven't really been seeing you
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and these people from around the world
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and I'm just like
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these people
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care about me
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and I do the same for them
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you know I'm like hey
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how are you doing
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I hope your day's going fantastic cool
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I'm just so grateful
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especially when I'm dealing with
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like a depressive episode
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that someone reaches out and they're like hey
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you haven't been posting
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are you okay
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what has really been helping me recently
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but I definitely have contemplated
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starting therapy again
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I have done it in the past
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unfortunately
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I've had bad experiences with um
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the therapists that I've seen
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but I mean I don't wanna get too hung up on that
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I know that there's good therapists out there and I'm
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I'm hopeful and I know that it's going to help me and
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I know it's helped in the past
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so I'm hopeful that it'll help me in the future yeah
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it's about finding that right one
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and you know
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for anyone watching that is interested right
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in finding the the right fit of a therapist
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it's really important to do the
23:05
the interviews and to research right
23:07
the interviews
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and the sense of doing the consultations with the
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the provider
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uh that opportunity will give you really a sense of
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how is it that they're answering your questions
23:18
what are their policies right
23:20
how is it that they navigate
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the therapy with you
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and the situation you're going to be coming in
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to the sessions with
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so even if you're using insurance
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private pay
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whatever it is
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uh that you always do a consultation with the provider
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now instead
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we're getting towards the end of
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this English segment
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we have the Spanish one coming up
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I wanted to know
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what are three resources that you wanted to share
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so three resources that I wanted to share were actually
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two projects that I was able to be a part of through
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genetic which we basically discussed
23:57
disability and dealing with an invisible illness um
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while living with multiple sclerosis
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and the experience of being Latin X while living
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with multiple sclerosis
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which can be found on the genetic website
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and also I love to write
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I am a writer
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so I actually have written a lot about my experiences
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is living with a mess
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and most recently
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I was able to write about a concert that I attended
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which was Los Alejandros
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and that was my first experience
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going to an event while wearing my Foley catheter
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or my leg bag
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for the first time
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it was such an experience I loved
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it was the time of my life
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and I got to spend it with my friends and
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had a good time
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I got to dance
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and I don't know
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just share my
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my experiences with a message
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one of the things that I'm very passionate about
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and another um
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resource that I truly recommend to anyone
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is the National Ms Society
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they have so many resources
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and they're super helpful
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and I'm honestly very grateful
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I go to them all the time
25:02
and I visit their website all the time
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they literally have everything I
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I recommend for sure
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Crystal and where can people find more about you
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what you're up to
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I am very active on social media
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TikTok YouTube
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threads and X
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formally known as Twitter
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under the handle
25:23
Crystal Badoya
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and I basically create content that is
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educational
25:28
relatable and entertaining
25:30
I wholeheartedly believe that laughter is literally
25:33
so I try to incorporate a
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lot of humor
25:36
while talking about all of my experiences
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in terms of
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my life as a Latina
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my life living with multiple sclerosis
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and I hope that you can follow me and
25:46
join join the ride
25:48
thank you and you also
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mention in the bio that you're a freelance writer right
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how can people get in touch with you
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if they're interested in hiring you
25:56
you can email me at
25:58
partner with Greece C r
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y s at Gmail
26:03
com perfect
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and I'll go ahead and show it right now on
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the screen for folks to visually see that
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so this is Crystal's
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email address
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to directly get in touch
26:13
I will go ahead and share the resources
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in and then email
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so I'm gonna share them all in the description
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of this video
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and also if you're listening to this
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segment on the podcast
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it'll be in the show note section Crystal
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it was such an honor
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thank you so much for
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meeting with me
26:32
and talking with me in the last few weeks and
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sharing your story today
26:37
much as Gracias
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no thank you
26:39
honestly it
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has been such an honor to be part
26:42
of this podcast and just
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be able to work with Latinx Therapy
26:46
that is such a dream
26:47
I've been following y'all for
26:49
for years now
26:50
and honestly
26:51
I would always talk to my friends about
26:53
the organization
26:54
and I was like this
26:55
this is what
26:56
was needed for
26:57
our community and like
26:58
I will forever
26:59
give you guys praises
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so thank you
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well everybody stay tuned
27:03
we're about to record
27:04
the one in Spanish
4:02
but essentially
8:51
especially for
9:24
someone understands what I'm going through
9:52
that you experienced
10:04
in our community
13:07
translating everything from the doctors
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and here I am behind the scenes
17:34
as you said
17:38
I'm very grateful that you're
19:03
which is basically this feeling where
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or my walker for support
22:01
because when I stop posting on social media
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you can find me on Instagram
25:33
the best medicine
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and Crystal shared more resources by the way