[Revisit] Trauma, Depression & Self-Discovery, with Wil Wheaton

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  • Опубликовано: 20 дек 2024

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  • @Raienya
    @Raienya Год назад +45

    I can't express how much I love this revisit. Wil is so honest, raw, and open about his struggles, and it is a joy to see him thriving after suffering for so long.

    • @MS.QUEENIE5
      @MS.QUEENIE5 Год назад +1

      I agree! One of the best! Really helped me.

  • @candicel956
    @candicel956 Год назад +32

    I love that eye-opening moment when you suddenly see colors and beauty again and realize how you've just been coasting through life ❤

  • @CaptainNamikaze
    @CaptainNamikaze Год назад +12

    This is still one of my favourite episodes! His explanation of how he felt after getting his medication, is very reminiscent of how I felt after my burnout and it forcing me to deal with 10 years of grief and depression.
    After I worked through everything, I registered the world properly for the first time in ages.
    I live in the middle of a national park in Ireland and always loved nature but for years I was barely aware of it.
    I went on a run through the park as I do every morning and it suddenly was breathtaking to me, even though I new how beautiful it’s always been. I came across my favourite spot at Muckross lake and actually sat there and cried for over an hr, it was incredibly freeing. So yeah, take care of your brain as you would with a broken leg, because you wouldn’t walk on a broken leg for 10 years, you’d have it set. I definitely learned my lesson.

    • @MayimBialik
      @MayimBialik  Год назад +4

      LOVE this!!! 🏕🧠🫶

    • @matiaspereira9382
      @matiaspereira9382 Год назад +1

      @@MayimBialik Keep your good job! You're an awesome actress!

    • @CaptainNamikaze
      @CaptainNamikaze Год назад +1

      @@MayimBialik I deeply appreciate the podcast and you talking openly about mental health, there shouldn't be a stigma on it. It helps so many people, so keep up the amazing work!! 🥰🖖

    • @CaptainNamikaze
      @CaptainNamikaze Год назад +1

      @@matiaspereira9382 I second that! :)

  • @ValerieFulmer
    @ValerieFulmer Год назад +4

    I am heart-broken Wil had to go through all that pain from his parents. It sounds like he’s become his own best advocate. Way to go Wil!!

  • @orland0110
    @orland0110 Год назад +12

    Thank you for posting this episode with Wil Wheaton. Two videos with you in one week is so awesome. This is a wonderful podcast, Mayim! ❤

  • @dianamcmahon51510
    @dianamcmahon51510 Год назад +12

    This was such a good episode. I'm gonna rewatch it. Wil speaks so eloquently and in such a healthy way about his past.

  • @l.baughman1445
    @l.baughman1445 Год назад +15

    Wil gets 🌟🌟 and you get 🌟🌟 for the forum and decency as a good human. I have PTSD and he is so articulate!! Thanks y’all! ❤❤❤

  • @berniecasey7592
    @berniecasey7592 Год назад +2

    Im sorry you suffered like that-you are a really cool guy and Actor I'm hoping you have a better life ahead.

  • @dvoramayer8977
    @dvoramayer8977 Год назад +5

    Thank you both for all you do and your openness. My 2 grown sons both admire you. My younger son quotes your struggle all the time, he's autistic/Asbergers his whole life with some mental development issues. My younger son had to deal cognitively with his abusive father (whom I divorced when they were 5 & 3 because I recognized what he was doingto them), and he had a wonderful therapist who gave him the best advice I ever heard. He told my son, "it's too bad that you are more mature than your dad that you have to be in the adult role, but the best thing you can do for yourself is not to deal with dad at all unless in that moment you feel strong enough, you set the boundaries. " it helped my son greatly. Unfortunately, my younger son was stricken with affective schizophrenia at age 25, but I admire him since he's always been desire to "feel ok again " and was open to finding his correct balancing medication. When he was stricken I went to NAMI to learn how best to support him, took a 12-week invaluable course, and told him it's like getting used to a new brain. Now at 34 & 32, we all 3 live in Israel where I can feel assured they will never fall through the cracks, their future is government endorsed, and I can grow old peacefully. Thanks again to you both.

  • @birdie6916
    @birdie6916 Год назад +6

    Wow. Incredible episode. I wish all parents could just love and support their children simply for existing. Anything else should be icing on the parent cake. I mean, some parents do CHOOSE to have children, right?... Then why not love your children for who they are, for who you brought into the world? It seems so simple, but for many, it's so complex. Really moved by Will Wheaton's authenticity. What a wonderful person!

  • @m_brokenleg
    @m_brokenleg Год назад +4

    Thank you Wil for stripping your soul & mind so raw openly in this episode! It was worth & hearbreaking to watch this short from the original episode. It moves me to rewatch it fully again today! Virtually hugging you both, Wil & Mayim! 💙💜💛

  • @heathershinnie-gonzales3933
    @heathershinnie-gonzales3933 Год назад +11

    Thank you Mayim, helping, and making us aware and how to handle anxiety and depression, you are a dear, and I do believe we are over medicated and listening to your podcast is so helpful, as a senior and mother I do so appreciate you, God bless❤️🇨🇦🙏💐

  • @bbjd9328
    @bbjd9328 Год назад +3

    Why is it such a stigma for a person to seek mental and emotional health. With Mayim Bialik's pod cast and listening to people's journey in getting healthier and getting happier we realize we are not alone. Then we all can understand the process better and take the first step in our journey better emotional health. Wil Wheaton is brave in telling his story. Thanks Dr. Bialik!
    Dave Martin, MSW

  • @thegingergyrl455
    @thegingergyrl455 Год назад +5

    I adore Wil. His journey and his sharing of it has been a great comfort to me alongside my own mental health journey of the past 23yrs of my life. Love you both❤❤

  • @leticiaperez243
    @leticiaperez243 Год назад +3

    You did it again! Just what I needed to hear. I just posted today about how I decided to speak up about my struggles in the hopes to help others. Wil’s episode is one I revisit often. It's very informative and helpful. He's such a great speaker. I'm so grateful he spoke up and helped you speak up so we have this Podcast. The way he explains just existing and not even knowing that there was something else out there that he could finally hear and feel - he put words to exactly how it feels to be in the trenches of depression not knowing its depression not feeling anything and not even knowing that you aren't feeling. I use this episode to remind me that it does get better. Thank you!!!

    • @angelaholmes8888
      @angelaholmes8888 Год назад +1

      I love watching will's episode he's such a wise man

  • @Jashuapro1
    @Jashuapro1 Год назад +1

    Mayim, this is the one episode that truly speaks to me. Thank you for the candid talk about childhood trauma and mental illness. One of things that I always remember about Wil in his movies was that he was sweet, but you could see the sadness behind his eyes.

  • @marisamartinezolivera
    @marisamartinezolivera Год назад +5

    How I adore this revisit of one of the episodes that touched me more deeply! Thank you Mayim and Will for letting yourselves be so open and vulnerable, even if it hurts yourselves. That allows us to understand & be vulnerable and open too when writing comments.
    The mum I am wants to comfort, embrace and hug that lost teenage boy & young man so deeply hurt that Wil explains he was. 🫂

  • @charlotteblanchard
    @charlotteblanchard Год назад +5

    I can totally relate to Wil’s story. Unfortunately I married a person who was just an extension of my abusive parents so I had to endure the same kind of abuse well into adulthood. I’m glad to say I left that marriage and set boundaries for my mom (my dad passed away years prior so I wasn’t able to talk to him), but I’m on the right track.

  • @sweetsasa2000
    @sweetsasa2000 Год назад +1

    Preach Wil! Had the same life experience 😢❤

  • @gloriouslyimperfect
    @gloriouslyimperfect Год назад +1

    I am so thankful for this episode. Will is explaining my entire relationship with my own mother, and so much of how Im feeling. I needed to hear what he had to say - and so did the little girl inside of me. Thanks Will.

  • @DwarferAimi
    @DwarferAimi Год назад +2

    This is my favourite interview still, Wil is packed with so much information, many people must have benefited from it, i would love to see another interview with Wil Wheaton! He and Jeanette McCurdy really show us that parents aren't always deserving of that pedestal.

  • @keva_artwork
    @keva_artwork Год назад

    I finally watched the episode. Didn't watch it earlier because I went threw similar things. But now that I'm getting help myself (about time 'cause I'm 46) I felt it was time to watch it. Thank you for this episode.

  • @sofiamiliaressis5403
    @sofiamiliaressis5403 Год назад +2

    Will Wheaton your life resonates. Whatever you went through from then to now is unfortunately common. I wish you well from now on in.

  • @joannestanley8478
    @joannestanley8478 Год назад +2

    I really loved and needed this episode. Thank you.

  • @Nethanel773
    @Nethanel773 Год назад +2

    24:11 - 24:30 Honest and very hopeful at the same time, really appreciate that take on it. "You can't cure mental illness, but you can super manage it and super heal some, if not most of the collateral damage it inflicts on your life." I like that Wil emphasizes "super" like getting across the message that, with a good mental health professional and a lot of hard work and commitment, you can have power and control and hope in your life. Thank you, Mayim and Wil, for doing this interview.

  • @starlinguk
    @starlinguk Год назад +5

    WIL! We've missed ya.
    When I went on antidepressants I watched a funny movie and actually laughed. I hadn't laughed that hard for years.
    Good lord, I think our parents may be related.

  • @angelaholmes8888
    @angelaholmes8888 Год назад +1

    I really enjoyed this episode it's so important I'm glad that will spoken up about his mental health and about his toxic parents he made the right choice to cut contact with them

  • @ingebaeten1598
    @ingebaeten1598 Год назад +1

    What Wil went trough combined with your eating disorder = me ... I would like to ask you to adress the influence all this has on your children. Mine are 15 and 18 now and although I was open with them and tried so hard to be there for them, I still am terrified I burdened them.

  • @tim-hypnotherapist
    @tim-hypnotherapist Год назад +1

    Great show. See me for permanent trauma clearing. I love this stuff. So free-ing when the trauma is cleared.

  • @d-padqueen1103
    @d-padqueen1103 Год назад +5

    Love you both, you're so awesome!

  • @melissawyder6477
    @melissawyder6477 Год назад +1

    @22:00 “That’s not me .” Huge

  • @chloe2264
    @chloe2264 Год назад +1

    I feel like you should have added the parts with him adoring his wife and being a great support for him all these years. It was really sweet in the original.

  • @jmsl_910
    @jmsl_910 Год назад

    i just love your podcast. you are so reflective & ask thoughtful questions. and you listen so attentively. great job

  • @kimmacdonald7527
    @kimmacdonald7527 Год назад +1

    Wow, how insightful and inspiring Wil is. I totally relate to suffering from toxic relationships with family members. I finally stood up for myself and removed two of them and the weight I felt lifted was amazing. ❤ Thanks for sharing this Mayim. 💕💕🥰

  • @angelaholmes8888
    @angelaholmes8888 Год назад +2

    Will is right it's hard healing from childhood trauma I'm still a work in progress I struggle with PTSD and anxiety from being sexually emotionally and verbally abused as a child

  • @hp6964
    @hp6964 Год назад +1

    I can genuinely say Wils episode is my favorite of all the ones you’ve done so of course ima watch the revisit ❤️. I go back and forth all the time about getting on medication because I know some people don’t do well on it and I’m scared of experiencing that myself but I don’t wanna just exist anymore either

  • @AngelaJeanBarr
    @AngelaJeanBarr Год назад +1

    I would absolutely love to see an episode of breakdown with Matthew Perry someday. THAT would be a very interesting footnote for Mayim to ask questions that maybe weren't answered in his book. ❤️🇨🇦

  • @amyjimenez3913
    @amyjimenez3913 Год назад

    I just how honest and real this is, it really helps me think your podcast is amazing and incredibly helpful! I love how honest will is about these subjects even though it can be incredibly difficult definitely one of my favorite cause you broke down so many interesting and relatable things,

  • @audiovideophile5317
    @audiovideophile5317 Год назад +1

    What meds are working for Will? It would be helpful to know.
    The problem for many when they seek help is finding good specialists and getting the right meds and doses. Finding those decent to superior specialists is hard, real hard.

  • @vanessalawson68
    @vanessalawson68 Год назад

    I already knew Will Weaton was cool but I had no idea that he and I had so much in common or that he would inspire me to be a better person. This has touched my heart and I will remember his advice as I try to find the door out of the dark room.

  • @carolag
    @carolag Год назад

    This was so helpful. Inspiring. Thank you ❤️

  • @gurudattaacharya9106
    @gurudattaacharya9106 Год назад +4

    Beautiful podcast ❤❤❤

  • @amypascuzzi8657
    @amypascuzzi8657 Год назад

    Love this
    That open doo🙌
    Good for you Wil, keep up the good fight!❤️

  • @tomlichnofsky.7048
    @tomlichnofsky.7048 Год назад +2

    The Awesomeness Continues! Like I Always Say 😊 Another Fantastic Episode! 👍👌 You Guys Are The Best! 😎👊✊🖐🖖🍁

  • @melbanunez2733
    @melbanunez2733 Год назад

    So glad to watch this episode and de-visits great bullet moments in the episode.
    Promoted me to go watch the original. And sending it to those that come ask me for helps with some of these issues.
    Thank you 🙏🏻
    Thank you.

  • @dawna.x
    @dawna.x Год назад

    Wow. This is fantastic. I'm so glad I found this.❤

  • @patsybling020
    @patsybling020 Год назад +1

    I can listen to them all day.❤

  • @ImHandlingIt
    @ImHandlingIt Год назад +2

    I am very critical of people getting involved while they're raising minor children. Hearing Wil say that his wife loves him "unconditionally" really didn't sit well with me. Of course her love is conditional. So is his. She had conditions for her love of her first husband. As an ACoA and an advocate for children of divorce, I am strongly opposed to getting remarried while raising minor children. And Wil's story convinced me of it further. He is an alcoholic who stopped drinking in 2016. This means that his wife's children were subjected to a depressed alcoholic who likely took their mother's attention away from her first priority - them. I'd be very curious to know how her children truly feel about their own childhood and of Wil's own blindspots to the environment they had to endure. Do they now struggle with depression?
    I know nothing about Wil's parents. It's interesting that he is unaware or at least omits their own upbringing. Trauma didn't start with them and it seems, sadly, that it didn't stop with Wil.

  • @angelaholmes8888
    @angelaholmes8888 Год назад +1

    I read will's memoir a few months ago it's really good definitely worth a read

  • @HectorRoldan
    @HectorRoldan Год назад

    I've been dealing with this for decades as well and the worst thing that's going on now is that I had to accept, help after someone tore through my finances and caused me to rebuild from scratch, going back to people that abused me {My Family}. I don't regret it because I got to spend some time with my mother but the step father hasn't changed much and he triggers my mother to have major breakdowns and pits her against me in different ways. Am hoping the next few months go well so I have enough time to save disability money and get back on my feet before he/they tear me apart again. Florida hasn't been the best place to get services but the plan is to get back to Washington State who have done wonders for me as well as Therapy and getting my on Anti Seizure Medication that helped me big time. I would get on Anti Depression Medication had I still a need for it but after watching this, I wonder if there's a potential I'm living life at 50% even though I think things are fine~ This was a great Breakthrough Video!!!!

  • @matiaspereira9382
    @matiaspereira9382 Год назад +3

    WHEEEEEATOOOOOOONNNNNNN!!!!!!!

  • @matiaspereira9382
    @matiaspereira9382 Год назад +2

    Amy stay away from Wil Wheaton! Wil Wheaton is only using you for his evil plans against Sheldon!😂😂😂😂
    Keep your good job Mayim! You're my favorite actress ever! Congrats for your Emmy nomination!

  • @kathleenquilausing3165
    @kathleenquilausing3165 Год назад +1

    He as ptsd. But I feel he is also HSP as well. I also have that diagnosis and I see similarities

  • @LeyasLife
    @LeyasLife Год назад +1

    I love his bravery so much.I don’t understand parents like this. My daughter did competitive tumbling & cheer from the age of 4 to 8. Right before school let out she was like “I don’t wanna do it anymore. I wanna go swimming and hang out with my friends.3 days a week at the gym is too much.” I said “OK”
    Did I like it ! No! I’ve spent thousands upon thousands of $$$ in the past 4 years. I enjoy it. However that’s the point I enjoy it not her, anymore. So we’re gonna stop. If it’s forever, ok and if it’s for the summer, Ok.
    I can’t force something on her. My thought was she would get into a state school on the gymnastics team or a university cheer team and get a scholarship.
    But u know what_ I’m proud of her no matter what. She’s a awesome kid. If I have to take out loans for college …That’s alright.
    Point I’m making this man was turned into someone who is now suffering because his parents couldn’t say Enough Is Enough.
    I wish all the best to Will and his family ❤

  • @sidewalksurf800
    @sidewalksurf800 Год назад

    Dang I was waiting for that after-the-revisit-present-day-chat with you and Jonathan lol

  • @christyb.2272
    @christyb.2272 Год назад

    One of the worse things that can happen is if you find a medication that helps but after being on it for a long time, it starts giving you bad side effects and you have to get off to get rid of the terrible side effect it was causing. It’s a problem with all medications unfortunately and you don’t know when it can hit you..

  • @ginagray8040
    @ginagray8040 Год назад

    In ACoA we call it Reparenting ourselves.

  • @AngelinaCruz357
    @AngelinaCruz357 Год назад +1

    Crying has physical side effects, like: swelling, puffiness, and redness of the eye lids.

  • @boybawang1981
    @boybawang1981 Год назад

    I suffered every time I saw him driving the space vehicle U.S.S. Enterprise!! & please tell whoever is in charge of this YT Channel, that the second L is missing from his name!!

  • @meynelaacemora6798
    @meynelaacemora6798 Год назад +3

  • @cdmc965
    @cdmc965 Год назад

    I cant find it.,

  • @brittinvancity
    @brittinvancity Год назад

    🎉🎉🎉 yes.

  •  Год назад

    Feels like ı'm still far away suffering from mental health issues because likely ı'm so close to mental sickness virtue, oh yeah, mental sickness is supposed to be a virtue and ı'm proud if it, because you know, there must be some reasons for those sort of issues and mostly social, when people all suck in the neighborhood, the only option you have is to associate with the sickness, you know, because in this case that particular sickness is like your best friend, you know, you know, mental sickness is something cool unless it's a bit overwhelming and intense, you know.

  • @lisbethchristensen1981
    @lisbethchristensen1981 Год назад +3

    🌍❤️🏆

  • @kathleenquilausing3165
    @kathleenquilausing3165 Год назад

    I wish I could find a therapist! I mean a person that can help me with my issues and suggestions to the solution. Mine sits smiles and gets up and walks me to the door and says I will see you in 2 weeks all she does is smile and no, I mean nothing comes out of her mouth to help guide me. Do you have a suggestion? Because I’m thinking I need a lawyer more than a therapist now

  • @MehdiWeekend
    @MehdiWeekend Месяц назад

    Wheatoooooooooooooooon!!!!! 😂😂

  • @slinkyinn
    @slinkyinn Год назад

    What is it when you feel EVERYTHING so deeply, the earth, everyone’s pain. I see myself as a predator and a prey, I have the potential to abuse anyone in my path. And I don’t know how to exist. And everyone has that potential to abuse me if I see them as a predator.
    So is everything just perspective? I don’t understand

  • @FatimaRocha-dj3ug
    @FatimaRocha-dj3ug Год назад

    Sou Fátima Rocha do Brasil/ cidade do Rio de Janeiro RJ

  • @Voltekker
    @Voltekker 8 дней назад

    Nothing happens in a vacuum, interesting to hear him say "my dad just decided he didn't like me" that sounds mentally dishonest and manipulative AF

  • @kathleenquilausing3165
    @kathleenquilausing3165 Год назад

    Maybe Will’s dad felt jealous of his own son , I mean Will had the ability to make more money than his dad did when he was a child. His father is a horrific man that could not accept his men at issues so he passed on his angst to Will. How sad. I had a father like his. My dad actually told me “ I don’t like you, but I love you “ wtf? That’s a horrible thing to say to your child. Men need to be casteratated when they abuse women and children

  • @ToobaNSR
    @ToobaNSR Год назад +1

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸

  • @judybrock7202
    @judybrock7202 Месяц назад

    Will, sounds like your mother is a classic narcissist. I’m sorry you had the parents that god gave you. In retrospect, god or whoever had this Devine plan, made you a much better person.

  • @cohenlabe1
    @cohenlabe1 Год назад

    Am I really to believe this adult never heard a sound of a bird or felt the warmth of the sun until adulthood and suddenly knew what it was.
    Or maybe he is tricking himself to find a change and a good out of it that he lies to himself and others.

    • @pepperwings
      @pepperwings Год назад +2

      When you're so entrenched in depression and your own anxiety and misery, you can still perceive the outside world, but you don't fully *experience* it, and I think that's what he's talking about. A big part of the darkness was lifted from his psyche, and suddenly he was able to *experience* the world more fully, being present enough to feel and hear what was already there. If you've never experienced that kind of emotional weight, and you can't relate to it, then you are lucky.