Mental Health in Thailand.. MY STORY!
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The best thing that happened to me in Thailand was having the opportunity to attend a few meditation retreats in a Buddhist monastery. It did not solve all the problems in my life immediately but life slowly got much better after that.
That's really good to hear! Id like to try meditation actualy with my friend shortly
@@ProjectBangkok Waking up by sam harris. the app.
For me I’m lonely here at times , i have a girlfriend, but it’s a bit rocky , all my family have passed away in the uk 🇬🇧.. if I didn’t enjoy walking 🚶♀️& exploring about I’d be struggling somewhat too. Having a plan & some form of structure is good sleep early , wake early helps me to clear the head .. Well done Rob for sharing your story 🙏 best wishes, shall if needed , research the support group for sure .
Sounds like we are in a similar boat Jon! Surrounded by millions but still alone ah.. odd sensation to describe. Same as you.. up early.. walk walk walk haha Bangkok keeps me fresh mate.. hope my videos can bring ya some kind of joy. Reach out if ya ever need it lad
@@ProjectBangkok thanks 🙏 I will do. Maybe try to meet up sometime 👊
@@ProjectBangkok now we’ve finished. She’s started giving me crap already as they do .. blocked 🚫 but it’s not going to be easy for a while .. resentment , anger , moods set in I’m sure 🥹
@@jonhobson3592 Meditate. When you meditate it actually reduces the impact of the Amygdala, the part of the brain that works with fear and the flight/fight reactions. Deep breathing will help to lessen the impact of stress and tension. Work out a little, weights and aerobics, they each cause the brain to release different chemicals that help to lessen anxieties and improve how you think. All of this will give your mind and body a chance to then deal with the emotions you are feeling without spiralling downwards. Trust me, it works and you really don't want to spiral down. Done that, lucky to be here still.
Great vid man, nice and positive. BKK looks beautiful man, I’m missing it so much. It’s always good to see Bangkok Pat the RUclips legend
Thanks Jorma! Bangkok is missing you too I’m sure
Asoke, Rob and Kies One on the BTS. I almost died.
I am too old to deal with mental health.
It was called life. When you think our fathers went to war, and now people have no idea how to live without finding excuses for being alive.
Just my 2 cents.
Like you say, when it hits you know. Great video mate. This video will definitely help some people
Hope so! I don't mind sharing my story a little.. not everyones doing so well
It hit me at 38. I collapsed and passed out and rushed to hospital. Thought I was having a heart attack. Just ended up being a panic attack. Then I went through about a year on a downward spiral into a deep depression. Awful time of my life but learned along way about myself and changing my mindset.
Bro! I’ve learned more about it myself in the past 3 years than the previous 35+ before it.. crazy af! I honestly found myself because of it.. the only way is up now…
It also happened to me at 38 during a stressful situation (the most important job interview of my career). I managed to postpone the interview for 3 days and went to the doctor, who prescribed me a drug that did its job. But then I made another mistake: relying on that drug every time I was in a stressful situation.
What I am trying to do now is change my habits. I am improving my diet, reducing alcohol consumption, exercising more, and taking better care of my friendships. I force myself to socialize a bit more so I don't focus too much on my job. I started using a planner to schedule personal life obligations and avoid being late. Now, when I start feeling anxious, I try to openly say what is happening to me. This helps me stay calm and allows others to understand the situation and not feel uncomfortable.
I really think that low testosterone levels are part of the problem. I want to get them checked just in case, even though I am not planning to do TRT until I am at least 50.
let's say the least I expect in a mental health video is BetterHelp, since their therapist is quite litrally the oppisite of good mental health
Have you used there service?
This is something that’s needs to be addressed more and more and this video has really helped me to understand more and better about mental health. Walks , Good Health and Good Friends as I agree are a good source of inspiration and to be able to talk to through Better Health is amazing such a blessing to know . Thanks Rob for this . To better health and happiness for everyone. Peace ✌️
Im happy you found it helpful Paul! Trying to share more about my good times and bad in life to perhaps helps more out there. You're very welcome Paul
Such an important message bro..... it's definitely important to find an outlet/interest etc to channel energy into. I remember just being stuck behind a laptop hiding from everything on the other side. Fruits, sports and travel are things that help me push through confidence barriers. Also understanding there are things outside of our control and not to stress about them where possible.
But yeah, thanks so much for sharing, much respect.... and keep up the amazing work on the videos too, they are very good quality☑
Good video- very important to talk openly about depression and anxiety. My 2 cents as someone who battled depression for over a decade......depending on the person, depression can take many different forms and require treatments tailored to the individual. One of the worst aspects of the condition is that it tends to have a "come-and-go" character. Many people experience intermittent symptoms that seem random.......symptoms will appear for no apparent reason, then eventually fade. The "depth" and length of the symptoms can vary dramatically from person to person. Speaking for myself, the severity increased with each 'episode' until I finally sought professional help. For years I visited shrinks, tried exercise routines, altered my diet, quit alcohol, and at times took medication when symptoms became disabling. I read dozens of self-help books, also. The road "out of the hole" (i.e., getting to a place where symptoms never returned regardless of life circumstances) was incredibly hard and required all tools mentioned and continuous effort. I did not want to depend on medication, shrinks, or anything.....I wanted a "full fix", to be 100% free of symptoms. I had to explore my past time and time again, digging around to find out what had happened. That self-exploration was crucial and led to "root causes" I had no knowledge of. All of the work gradually paid off as my symptoms became less severe with time, although I still struggled to be completely free of symptoms and the nagging dark clouds that sometimes returned. At the suggestion of a shrink, I tried doing mediation. It took some time to finally reach the point that I could practice regularly and effectively, but after about a month I began to feel a real change. My general mood gradually improved, and the symptoms of depression finally disappeared. That was 10 years ago, and the symptoms have never returned. I will finish by saying that everyone who suffers from depression needs to realize it's very common, with millions of people suffering to varying degrees. Many never fully move past their symptoms, but rather find "vices" to distract themselves from the symptoms......friends, alcohol, even exercise can be an escape. You need to face it head on, get help if it's serious and realize that there's effective pharmaceuticals available if symptoms become overwhelming. Don't try to go it alone. Depression is usually too powerful to battle it alone.
thank you for sharing this! im about to finish a 3 year therapy for depression here in germany and plan on moving to bangkok for a couple of months as a sort of reward and marker of this chapter. still worried about doing this alone and about finding friends etc. of course, but hearing about others experiences like yours always helps, plus now i know i´ll make it.
so if anyone needs a gym buddy in bangkok early next year, hit me up :D
Drop me a message on IG bro! Will come smash gym with ya. Project.bangkok 👍🏻
@@ProjectBangkok will do mate 💪
Great to see you and Bangkok Pat collab together on this very serious and delicate topic... Pat has for Expats living in Thailand brought this topic to light several times with real life stories. Thanks for bringing this to your viewers Paul.
It’s all good.. something I have wanted to so share for some time now. Was good to include a second perspective in the video as well as mine and hopefully can relate more with others too 👍🏻
You’re a good lad, Rob. All the best mate 👍.
Thanks bro much appreciated 🙂
Well done Rob on speaking about your personal struggles. This will help other people experiencing mental health challenges. Great advice on what can help .
Happy to share.. happy if it helps 👍🏻
well said, and it always helps when people share their experience.... be it Bangkok, HK, London wherever there's always gonna be those moments
I agree Mike.. changing places is a short term solution for solving life problems I think
Good on you for putting your story out there - you will for sure have helped people by doing so! 🙏
Thank you so much! I hope so 🙏🏻
So great to get this type of video, just a guy sharing real life in a beautiful country. Something very genuine! Thanks for sharing.
Not all sunshine and rainbows.. happy to share a bit of me and my story for those to relate too a bit more
Onya man, good topic to open up about and I hear betterhelp does an amazing job. I too had suffered badly a few times over the last few decades. At first I didn't understand it, got the help I needed way back then nowadays I know how to deal with it. Top video!
Thanks Dave! It’s never an easy experience to talk about or share with others. Always best to get help if you can or at least work a path to battle it
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Thanks 👍 😁
So important to create awareness about mental health! Myself I suffer from depression as well as anxiety. Turns out mental health can be shared genetically and also taught/learnt through family and friends. Thanks for helping creating awareness and being such a positive spokesperson on mental health!
Baby Steps and remember it is OK to take it SLOW!!!
Mate.. comments like this make the whole video worth it! Really happy to step out my comfort zone a bit with this one but glad I did 🙂 thank you for watching and leaving a comment I appreciate it
Great video mate. A very touchy subject in general to alot of people but you covered it well! Good job on the sponsorship too!
Im not so good with talking about mental health to be honest so was difficult to open up on camera about it too.. I think it's a good thing to share after expected Thailand to solve all my life problems when the reality of living here can be much different. Happy to share my experience
Great well structured video Rob. You could see that you’ve thought about / write the content and approach this in a video. Everything you sent resonated with me and is a very similar story particularly the part about thinking you are bulletproof when you are younger..
All the best mate, saw you from my Taxi the other day and shouted out the window but you were busy with your camera gear stomping off to the BTS. 😊
Haha always stomping around somewhere 😂 appreciate the shout out from the taxi as well haha I bet your driver was happy 😃
Powerful Rob - very powerful.... much respect and love Sir!
Thank you Jeff.. Something a bit more personal today.. Car show video of me shouting in a mall car park tomorrow haha from one extreme to another :)
Same here mate,when my anxiety kicks in,its like asthma attack n hard to breathe 😅.
It’s super odd.. I wouldn’t accept it for almost a month! I couldn’t take a deep breath and would yawn every few minutes.. such an odd sensation. Ended up watching a RUclips video where someone described exactly how I felt and they said it was anxiety. Ever since I always know what it is so never panic. Just makes it hard sometimes
I don't know if you will end up reading this, about 10 years ago I lived on Soi 10 at Centrepoint and your video here in the same park I used to visit to 'reset' brought back memories of the internal struggles I had.
Its good to see some services available now as back then it was not talked about so much. I enjoyed your video. Thank you . DJ, Australia
Very real.This helped me . Thanks Rob .
You’re very welcome! We all human.. sometimes hard to tell when we only share highlights of life via videos on RUclips. Felt good to take a step back and be real.. even if I still make it cinematic 😂
Powerful video dude!
Glad you liked it 🙏🏻
Depression is healthy. It's your body telling you your not living up to your standards & expectations. Having a focus, good habbits, couple of good friends. Your doing great man, making quality videos, all the best.
Although I actually so get your point.. at the same time it’s a horrible experience and not all can cope with it and come out the other side feeling stronger. It’s a tough one
Great video Rob 🙏🏼
Thanks Marc appreciate it lad. Hope ya well bro
Nice vid Rob. In BKK with fam in 3 weeks. If you need any stuff from UK reach out
Great video Rob! and very good you talk about this. To stay mental healthy it is important you have a good relationship, good friends. Drinking too much is certainly not good, also keep yourself busy with things you like, walking or sport helps also a lot. We have to live more in the moment than of thinking to far in the near future but that is sometimes not easy. Great video Rob and good you talk about this. To stay mental healthy it is important you have a good relationship, good friends. Drinking too is certainly not good, also keep ur self busy with things you like, walking or sport helps also a lot. We have to live more in the moment than thinking to far in the near future but that is sometimes not easy.
I definitely spent too long worrying about the things in the future that were out of my control that’s for sure. Just try to focus on what’s in front of me more now and the things I can control
Great idea for a video. Those who are often forgotten are the older foreign people living in Thailand, as many chose to be here for retirement. Most ideas presented are great for the younger generations of your viewers. But for those of us over 60, alone, and who do not relish going out to bars to drink and meet bar people, or getting up early to go out exercising in the heat, or with no particular pastimes, making friends is much harder to deal with. There are no opportunities that I know of in Bangkok for older mature foreigners to just meet and have coffee or a simple glass of wine before the sun sets. This is just a comment as I have no solution to suggest. But thanks for your contribution and Pat’s to this issue 👍
2 years ago had a panic attack before boarding a flight in Singapore to go back to the Philippines. Was the end of a 3 month journey and Singapore was just a stopping point. I have a fear of flying and it escalated to the point of nope I am not getting on a plane today. I ended up staying in Singapore for a week extra which wasn't cheap before I could get the nerve to jump back on a plane. Like you mentioned it is mostly out of your control
From outside looking in that moment probably sounds crazy I bet.. but at the time must have been crazy stressful! I can relate. Bailed on a couple of moments myself over the past couple of years. Thanks for sharing bro.. it’s good for us all to talk!
My friend… where are you based..? Early morning structure is fantastic strength of mind and so enriching for your clarity of mind… your place looks beautiful to walk!! Where is this?
Was walking around Benchakitti park in the video. Clear mind and focus helps a lot.. sometimes easier said than done
Really appreciated this video, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. It all helps 🙂
Very well explained! Yep- mental health is a thing!!! Make life happen.
Completely agree! Lets gooooooooo
I stopped drinking too lol other than wedding event I dun drink anymore.Feel younger too
Nothing wrong with feeling younger 😁 sounds good
It happens to all of us. Happiness is internal. It's not a location because once the honeymoon phase of a new location is over the issues will come back ten fold. When you run away from your problems they will always eventually catch up with you. Like Pat said many people move not just to Thailand but all over SE Asia to get away from their problems when in reality they bring them with and in due time they will resurface because they were never resolved.
Moving to Thailand can be great for some people. Others will be happy for a month or so and then when they realise that Thailand didn't solve all of their problems they tend to start over drinking and then they sour on the country and the people. The term grumpy ex pat didn't come from nowhere. You see them at the bars in the morning complaining about the locals and everything in the country as if Thailand was supposed to change and adapt to them instead of the reverse. Some make it and others end up going home or sadly worse.
Yeah I see what you’re saying.. deffo a lot of grumpy expats but then saying that I find even young digital nomads here younger than me don’t even want to make eye contact let alone strike a friendly conversation
@@ProjectBangkok True about even the youngsters. Some people might be introverted and shy and others just grumpy for whatever reasons they have in their life. The Thai's are more open to conversations but the language barrier can be tough if they don't speak english and you don't speak Thai. A smile and the Wai greeting usually brings the same in return. I have met some very nice expats in various countries in SE Asia, But I have also met some really disgruntled ones as well. I spend most of my time in Malaysia. The Expats in Malaysia in general seem happier then the ones in Thailand or Philippines. Just my personal observation. People have to be willing to change and adapt to a new culture. Most importantly people need to come for the right reasons. If they come for the wrong reasons they will have a very hard time when they find out the reality on the ground. Hope for the best for you and a positive life in Thailand.
If you want to understand anxiety read beck ... emotional disorders...
Thanks for the recommendation I’ll keep it in mind 🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing
I think everybody feels like this from time to time but to feel like this must of the tone wouldn’t be great
Physical health is paramount to mental health
Join a Muay Thai gym and pick up done new skills along with discipline ?
What about friends in your workplace ?
I hope things keep getting better for you :-)
I did say in the video things are good now. It wasn’t a cry for help video 😂 but appreciate the kind words and taking the time to comment. Hopefully it helps people are who struggling maybe I don’t know
Random question, do you moderate comments or does RUclips randomly shadow ban comments? I can empathise with you. Especially when you move to certain countries, you can feel isolated (definitely when the language barrier is quite steep). If you end up heading back home, its not quite the same as when you left. I know employers don't really do a great job of taking care of people from a language cultural/reacclimatisation aspect, when moving to somewhere new and back to their home country.
No I don’t mod my comments. I shadow ban rude people but that’s it.
Going through a bunch of related things in preparation to move to thailand at 32 from the states. Curious why you recommend against starting a YT channel? Was hoping you were joking tbh.
I wasn’t joking no haha double edge sword answer.. can be an amazing hobby and obviously lead to a career and future. But can become obsessive and stressful looking at the numbers at the start. It’s not an easy road to the first 1000 subs and can take time. I don’t discourage it at all but just t try focus on making the next video instead of watching the numbers of your last one. Easier said than done though trust me 😂
Grazie.
Thank you so much 🙏🏻 very kind of you 😊
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Thank you very much 🙏🏻 you too 😃
i suffer from Autism, borderline personality disorder , ptsd and sevre social anxiety . theraphist cant help me in uk, all i want to do is get out of shit uk because it makes me miserable, but i cant. my ex left me for a thai women and got to just live there and have amazing life, just makes me angry, why only white men get to move abroad and do what they want, but women can not because we were to busy giving our lives up to cater around men and never worked on ourself and career to be able to do this too.
Thailland made my sex addiction worse
If one has issues with drinking, sex addiction etc, Thailand is a country where they can and usually will get worse for many. Thailand is a wonderful country but it has a lot of temptations for men that warrant self discipline. If someone didn't have self discipline in their home country then Thailand will chew and spit you out quickly. I don't even go near the bars or clubs when I visit. It's not my scene to be around drunks and working women. It's all fake and meaningless. I don't judge those who go or the girls who work in that industry but that is not why I goto Thailand. Maybe try Malaysia. That is where I live. Thailand is for vacation. Malaysia is for living.