Having depression and anxiety is the worse. The wanting of doing well as others give you the pressure when you're considered smart , but the feeling of just pure emptiness and no drive to do anything. Is just horrible because you're constantly split between both.
Cypher Emily I relate so hard with the ‘pressure when you’re considered smart’ thing. I’m just so fed up with people (mostly my classmates) seeing my achievements as the standard and being so surprised when I get an eight or something.
Omg... that's what I'm facing right now. It's not a feeling of dissatisfaction, I just feel empty in doing things. And I hate that before I was considered one of the "smart" kids but now I'm really struggling in my new school... And I feel like other people are judging saying "Oh that's all you can do? You're such a failure" I still do my best tho, I just cant keep up anymore and even when I get ok results... I dont feel anything anymore
This made me cry right when the D grade came on screen. My math teacher asked me why my grades are going down, I couldn't tell her it was because of my depression. Now I feel horrible. I feel so lost. I feel gone.
Bro, i will pray for you. Jesus died istead of you and me, that we might live within joy and free from all of depressions, fears and sin. Gob bless you!
@@flipox9932 yeah well I would have to get up at 6:30, but I get up at 5:00, to prepare for my day. It's all about mentality and lifestyle, guys. Human mind is programmable.
Anxiety and depression is horrible. Everyone says that I have talent and that I'm gifted. I'm always pressured to do well in school but that's hard because I don't have any drive to do anything. Also, it's hard to focus when you're sad as hell and contemplating suicide 24/7. I feel like dropping out of school would be best for my mental health, but bad for my future.
Hey, I hope you're doing better now. I was in your exact situation, I can feel the pain in your every word. Try to find some creative activities that suit you. Sing, dance, draw. For me, writing poems helped me put my muddled thoughts onto a piece of paper and somehow healed me slowly but surely. I'm not fully recovered yet, but I believe we will both be fine!
why do I relate to this so hard? This is me right now. I started out pretty great and have greatly slipped. I'm now in my final year and it literally feels like climbing a gravel mountain. I met up with one of my old professors who once taught me and when she saw my current results she was shocked. She kept asking me "what happened to you? You used to be so smart!" and I honestly couldn't answer her. Also, I have also slipped from an As and Bs student to high C and solid C student and D is considered a fail in my country.
It must have felt so hard to hear that from your old teacher. It hurts so much it makes me cry when current teachers underestimate the efforts I put in my education because of my absences and other symptoms of my mental illnesses (anxiety, a bit of OCD, bordeline personality disorder and ADD: really though combination). I feel for you. Your teacher didn't chose her words very carefully, I think: you're just as smart as you were before. The challenges are just greater, and you're now very strong and courageous for facing them. I don't think you regressed: I think you grew, even if your marks may not reflect this at the moment.
Holly Leafwell Wow, your teacher should have been a bit more professional with her choice of words. It's obvious that when a student that used to get good grades starts struggling to pass there are personal problems at foot. You aren't any less intelligent than you were before!
Exactly the same here! For the first two years of uni I was fine. I was stressed, yes (who wasn't?), and at times it felt impossible but I always pulled through with good results... but now... even things that used to be very easy are a challenge. It feels as if just living takes up all my energy and everything beyond that is just too much. And honestly I don't know what to do. I don't want to drop out and disappoint everyone yet at the same time I don't know how on earth I'm gonna get through this.
@@queenand37sugars68 That's not depression,but laziness.I won't really go into much detail,i'd say for me that im depressed,and i surely have reasons for it(big lack of money,friends,entertainment and having health issues),but not the type of people who just comment it on yt,claiming it is a "serious worldwide problem" and then doing nothing about it except writing yt comments about their depression.I do all i can to fix my mental state(Work out,study more,get rid of bad habits,start working even in young age and make some money,try to be more social and more),but not studying,or laying in bed all day,doing nothing is pure laziness.I started doing something to counter my depression,what have you done people?
couldn't have put it better. This might sound silly, but I had a mental breakdown the other day because a sauce in my mcdonalds order was missing and i thought it was a sign that i should just kill myself. it sounds so dumb.
@@queenand37sugars68 no it doesn't sound dumb at all. It's the things around u that u see in everyday life, like it can't be a coincidence right? What if they're signs? I think the worse thing about suffering from a mental illness is doing it alone. My family don't even know what I'm going through, they don't think having depression is a thing, like it's not an illness, just a mood and it will pass or whatever. It sucks
Demonic Khri Yeah I thought they'd portray it a bit more accurately. It's a short though so I understand there's only so much you can get in to the video. My first medication just didn't really change anything while I steadily got worse. Now I'm pretty frequently changing meds. and it's been over half a year with no real improvements and just side effects depending on the medication. My current one is little to no appetite along with difficulty sleeping. probably going to be switched again soon.
I was put on Fluvoxamine for Anxiety and depression even though it's mainly used to treat OCD, can safely say for me personally it didn't help at all. It was pretty much "What would you rather; feel shit, or not feel shit?" So I stopped taking them and felt better idk, I don't think I'm going to go back to using medication, just gotta deal with everything myself.
TOY0BOY0 I was put on Fluoxetine previous to my current medication and it made me feel terrible. it increased my suicidal thoughts and I was having an anxiety attack at least once every few days, so I know how bad it can be. I've gotten through depression before without medication, but this time is pretty severe so I thought I'd give it a try. It doesn't really seem to be helping at all.
Yeah, trial and error is the only way for some people with prescription medicine unless you get lucky first try, or decide not to take the medication route.
The sad part is that when vacations finally arrive for me, I tend to loose my will to live due to the lack of productivity... I usually get so obsessed with my grades, that I end up thinking that the only thing that matters in life is to be academically good in order to have a successful life and if I'm not productive, my self-esteem just drops and makes me think I'm not productive enough...
I have very high grades but i dont even have any high future dreams. I just study because i can and, like you said, i feel like i have nothing else. Might aswell you know?
Yeah my father thinks I should not warn my school about my hallucinations and panic attacks he thinks that they will think I'm insane so since the school was not warned I ended up having a flashback and almost hyperventilating it's annoying and upsetting (I know I'm late)
Even though I am depressed, I still meet up at school but it is more like I don’t care if I meet up in time for class, can’t focus, doesn’t give a shit about grades, feeling overly irritable and feeling either completely empty or too emotional. I hate having mood swings, going from motivated, happy, energetic back to depressed again.
Ah depression.. I go through it sometimes. Yet I try to think our minds and emotions are subjective and variable so why stick to it? I say to myself. This shall pass as well
As yoy guys can see anxiety/ depression can affect you ANY time. It is really unpredictable. Like.. Yesterday you couldn't feel more happy and today your just... Empty. Depression/anxiety is super unpredictable. You might have been happy 7 seconds ago and now u feel like trash.
I have mood changing very quicly often I feel reallt happy and then feeling really bad but it doesn't affect me at school it's only when I'm at home, that's quite strange I know hehe
Two types of comments here: "This is literally me" *goes into full detail about whatever mental illness they have or think they have* or "HE GETS TO WAKE UP AT 9 UGH I HAVE TO WAKE UP AT 6 AM EVERY DAY NOT FAIR UGH"
Mike Hunt can I just say that I actually relate somewhat to this video, except I don't get good grades and there's a lot of other shit I have to deal with too. But my mom won't take me to a doctor to actually get me diagnosed. Cause god forbid she has a child who has some type of mental illness. So maybe some of these people in the comments do have something similar to this. You're not always right you know. And what you said it's pretty fucking douchey. You don't know how peoples lives are, or how their parents are. So don't just assume someone's making up their illness. But I get what you're saying. I personally don't like the people who are like "I'm literally so depressed" but have no idea what depression is really like or when people say they're suicidal, but when you talk to them about it, and ask "so you've thought about committing suicide" and they say "oh god no!" That's actually a conversation I had, and I'm just kinda thinking "you aren't suicidal then" it's hard to explain. But anyway, I get how you feel. But not everyone in the comment section is like that. But some people do think they have something, when in reality, they've only dealt with something so small, and pointless, yea. Now I'm rambling. Whatever, I'm sorry. Now I feel bad. I'm sorry
I can easily relate to this, especially in my high school experience. I used to have amazing grades, now I'm struggling to get a C+, because due to my mental illness, I was happy in life, before I went to high school, a lot of people hate me, because they think that I can't learn because I'm too mentally disabled to do so. I do go to therapy once a week
this similarly happened to my art in art class after social anxiety suddenly peaked, and depression came. Remember it is not that you were once good and now you're bad, or that people have just shot up in being better. It is your mental illness sucking your esteem and confidence dry, making you an obsessive perfectionist, telling you you're not "Good enough". It's so hard to go from that bottom, and when you're at your last steps you're an emotional roller-coaster expecting this "good luck" of academic achievement to not last. Just keep going to therapy, tell your therapist everything, including this. And never listen to those thoughts telling you, you now sucks. it's easy to understand its your mental illnesse's fault, but a lot harder to accept I found out. I was in your situation, I have recovered 90%, I will make it the rest of the way. You can recover from this.
I literally try to avoid school and fake sleep but then I know I have to get up and I look like a horrible mess because I'm not ready for another day at school
you can't really "mostly get rid of it". you can treat it. it is very possible to learn to cope/live with it, but there's no great way to just get rid of some parts of a mental disorder.
Did anyone else cry while watching this? The music progressively getting slower and discordant, the person's dark thoughts constantly interfering with his reality and taking up his day, and then with the person just completely giving up and believing in all the lies... Sadly, this is too real and too common of a problem nowadays.
This was so fucking real. I really wish I could tackle my problems like the guy in this video. I've suffered from depression for years and to this day, this gives me some hope.
I can relate to this so much as a university student myself with a diagnosed MDD with Social Anxiety. It is so difficult to concentrate on study without random negative thoughts keep haunting you, keeping you from having a proper sleep and pretty much ruined your whole life. I was like this man I kept enduring with the disorder,thought it would get better,that it's just nothing. I was wrong and hospitalized. I'm on a proper medical treatment now and while it didn't completely restore my whole life back, it's slowly coming back to where it should be. Life is a struggle especially for us with mental illness but please keep on hope that you will get better. Please never stop having hope.
Mr.Nature i only come back here because i see a notification under what I posted and..?? i don't understand why are you so angry about someone trying to be positive?
Ever since I started school I was top of my class. I always got the best grades and I was noticeably the smartest. Then everything changed when I started middle school. In 7th grade my grades were still very good but I felt like they needed to be better and I was always stressing over it. Then my mom finally decided to get me a therapist at the end of the year and things started getting better. And later I started 8th grade. That's when the doctors diagnosed me with anxiety disorder. My grades started dropping even though I was trying my hardest. And it didn't help that my friends were complete assholes. I'm still currently in the 8th grade and I'm trying my best to get through the year without losing it. But damn, it's really hard.
Middle school was the worst period of my life. Just hang in there. You were fortunate to get a diagnosis so fast. I've had problems with my brain being all sad and anxious since 6th grade and it's taken until now to get my mom to take me seriously (10th grade) and take me to a doctor. I'm sure somebody can help you through it.
theatre kid I’m a freshman rn and I’m facing a similar issue, which sort of started in 8th grade when I began stressing over small things more and more. I’ve always been the smart, motivated, punctual person who others turn to for help and now I’m the one who is lacking motivation, turning in assignments late who can’t help my peers anymore because of my anxiety. It’s good that your mom is supportive, mine tries to tell me I’m just lazy. But anyways I want you to know you’re not alone and not to worry too much bcus to be completely honest as long as you’re understanding what you’re learning you’re grades right now don’t matter. Save the stress for hs bcus it only gets harder, but that’s not to say what you’re going through isn’t valid bcus it completely is. All I’m trying to say is try to have as much fun rn as you can bcus you’re going to miss it next year, or at least I do.
This is very relatable. I've always been a socially anxious and shy person, but after my first university lied to me (making themselves sound cheaper than they truly were), my father died and having to pay a university loan with my parent's house on the line with a Graphic Design career in a country where getting a job is hard as it is... I lost it. I had to go in for therapy to solve all of these; plus depression, panic attacks, and suicidal thoughts, but after it all I didn't feel any better, even more so with the possibility of having to go on medication that could make things worse. Now I have sort of gotten over my father's death (as much as one can, that is), but the thought of having to pay for university with a loan that has our only home at stake and with no guarantee that I'll get a job to pay it back in time was apparently the one thing that was choking me. So I decided to stop studying, get a job and start saving money. Yes, I haven't got a diploma but that isn't everything there is to life. I can still make a life worth living for myself and my family. I'm still young and even if things look bleak (because I still have to pay for that loan somehow), I'm sure that I can make it. Unlike the protagonists in this animated short, I realised that pushing it and trying to keep going with university (where I don't feel welcome at anymore) was going to do me more harm than good in the long run. Now the anxiety, suicidal thoughts and panic attacks have gone; but of course I feel unfulfilled and depressed over what it could have been, yet hopeful and optimistic as I there are still other things I can do.
Eve Canas Please, I don't mean to get mad or anything but why..? If you Became emo that means you have given up. Honestly, you hated your life because all of that happen, you let it all happen in vain.? You never mentioned suicidal thoughts, but if you do, just know your life is important like everybody else's, the reason you're still here right now is that one small piece of hope saying, "Never give up!" That's why you're still here. Don't let all of that stuff drag you down. Your family loves you like everybody else does, so why would you choose this path..? I'm sorry if I offended you in any way, and if I misunderstood on what you were saying, but just know the reason you're still here is because of you. You never wanted yo give up inside, so please have a nice day, I don't want to see anymore people depressed, it honestly breaks my heart..
Realizing what could have been is indeed a terrifying thought. However, the things that happen to us are deterministic. The part that's not strictly deterministic is so small and insignificant and in any case outside of our control. Therefore, the way things happened is the only way things reasonably could have happened. The only thing you can do is figure out why it happened and slowly desensitize yourself to it. If I look back into my past, most of the "gut reaction" anxiety responses have mostly dissipated by applying this process of desensitization. There are some things that I still truly don't understand, and it takes all of my mental faculties to imagine that this too can be explained. Of course, disregarding veracity for a second, the disadvantage of this model is that you cannot ever truly say you "chose" to do something, since this model excludes free will. Now, personally, I don't see how free will could ever exist as a concept, but I realize many people are not willing to take that leap. At least I hope that those people can still relate to the idea that behaviors are consequences of moods, affects, personalities, environmental factors, and not just completely free choice. The world needs skilled workers, as has been reiterated many times by skeptically-minded college advisers and business analysts. There is nothing pessimistic about almost any career path if you're conscientious and intelligent enough to perform well in it. Of course, in terms of money, a lawyer will make more than a construction worker, but both can be very satisfying jobs and have varying rates of pay depending on performance and dedication. Not to mention the family life difference between the version of you that's working 40 hours a week versus another version that makes much more money but needs to work 60 hours a week or more and has a poor family life. There really is an upside and a downside on each of these coins. The main difference between them is the way you look at them.
honestly, it's good to see a short film in which the mental illness is shown as persistent, but not overpowering, and doesn't vanish immediately as soon as treatment is found. mental illness takes a long time to treat, and most adults don't understand that the moment you get medication and therapy for your illness goes away, and when they expect minors to start "acting normal" immediately it really gets on most of our nerves. as a mentally ill minor, i'm happy to see something that isn't based around that thought. also, i'm glad that the character started avoiding their "friends" after getting treatment after the way they all started generalizing mental illness and putting stigma against it. and the analogy for suicide was honestly a really good way of putting it without making it too violent, i'm impressed, i would never think of any other way to put it aside from censored graphic images.
I'm in a persistent and terrible mood since I was 14, five years ago. That things evolved into a hard sensation of aware and hopelessness, and frequently dead thoughts. Don't generalize your condition, every single case is independent.
My college kicked me out bc I was struggling with depression and couldn't focused on the work and skipped too many class ,I had the opportunity to got in but couldn't finished it bc of a mental illness ,it really sucks when you're unable to do the things that most people can easily do but you have to suffer from it and the worst part is people assume that you're faking it because of laziness
Connie Lee depression ain't a excuse I got bullied and I dealt with it.it gave me thick skin so I could take life more harder so it made me work harder
OG penguin you cant just say that like you know how depression is like. Being bullied is hard, sure. Growing thicker skin is relatively easy, maybe. But being depressed is a psychological and mental condition, you can't just "grow thick skin" or deal with it. Granted, i was bullied like you were and i did develop thick skin, but i also got depression, and suicidal thoughts so i know how he feels. You cant grow "thick skin" to "block out" something when that something affects your very core now can you? Please do tell me if you can, id love to know. Oh yeah and you saying depression is an excuse is basically how the college staff and headmaster thought of it. Really? Did you even read his comment properly?
The Infinice its still not a excuse to skip classes. i understand what a deppression is still, skipping too many classes is a normal reason for a college to kick you out. what else should they do? let you retake the year over and over??
The Infinice God dammit, this is the reason why I'm a religious person. It's because I still have Faith in this shitty life and my religion forbids suicide. And also, yes you can have a "thick skin" and say fuck you to depression. Damn pussies always want to suicide.
It's so heartbreaking to see what people with mental illness have to face everyday... I hope whoever deals with this gets the help they need and the strength to fight all these obstacles. REMEMBER: You are NEEDED, you are LOVED, you are IMPORTANT & you are GOOD ENOUGH💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
I feel like I lost myself,fell like I never was normal as people,I had depression and anxiety ,also I have an exam in few days I try so hard to study I wish allah give me strength
My College actually told me to come back next year because my anxiety was badly distracting me. So I'm literally stuck in my home with nothing to do all day.
I'm from Germany and obviously not in college xD But I'm in a different situation, I should stay home until next year because my mental health is "distracting" me too much and since I can't have a job bc of that and still no therapist (working on that for TWO years now) things only get worse.
In my country attending college isn't obligatory (except for labs and if you don't attend exams you fail) and I find myself in the same situation every so often. I would just wake up and skip uni for days and just stay in and not answer my phone or eat properly or shower . And then I would feel bad for doing so. At first I thought I was lazy but now I'm starting to realize I might have an issue but I can't bring myself to go to therapy (and I don't have the money or a supporting family from that aspect)
For me, it like living in contradiction, i mean by this that, you are having or, you are accepting thoughts that not correspond to your own image of yourself, not believing in you is the worst you can do it happened to me and now im trying to do the opposite i hope all can understand it, thats how i see when i happened to me.
JCrispy_ Yeah, it feels great to know that some people out there can see what we're going through every day. Also, I love your profile pic of Tae, hello fellow ARMY.
I was just going to see your picture a bit better, then I saw it was Jimin instead of Taehyung, like here in the comments I see Tae, then I see Chim chim on your channel, tf
I suck at studies too but luckily people around me are kind enough to hug me and love me for the person I am. I might be a failure in studies but I am not failure as a person.
Everyone is depressed nowadays. It makes it seem like your own trials and tribulations are so..trivial and unimportant. "What's it matter" "I'm just another sad person"
Da Greatest the worst part is that you think everybody has it worse, causing you to think you’re not special or it doesn’t matter to you. Really though, everybody is struggling and fighting their wars, we’re all the same.
Just cuz everyone is depressed doesn't make ur problems any unimportant. U r just as important as everyone else. If u r cut with a paper or a knife u r still cut and u need that extra help. If u ignore a small cut it will lead to bigger problems. And tbh that comparison paper and knife only exists in our head making us feel a paper cut is insignificant when we are all actually cut by a knife.
Actually I was telling myself for sooo long that I'm just wanting attention and that other people have it so much worse than me. So I got to the point were I was saying what other people normally tell people with a mental illness...
Okay I have never said this out loud but does anyone else have this problem? So you know one of those days. you just sometimes can't get out of bed. you are just gonna miss your class because you mentally/physically can't just leave. While I already feel anxious, then I start to think about my friends/classmates. and of course they are wondering why I am missing the class. which may happen quite frequently. and somehow I always start to think that they hate me or think I'm being lazy (even tho I am a lazy person lmao) or get mad at me. Then if one of my mates texts/rings me I just ignore it because I'm scared they will start asking questions like "why am I not there" etc. because I'm just too anxious to answer. And when I ignore I feel like they think I'm trying to seek attention or then think that I don't care about them and it makes me even more anxious. And the next day if I am going to attend the class, I feel really anxious because 1. what if they are going to hate me 2. what if they ask where I was and why. I'm a mess
THIS IS EXACTLY ME OMG I do this A LOT at my school. Whenever I have school projects, I procrastinate very badly to the point where I lose most of my points in my grades for not doing anything. So whenever the teacher calls for projects, I always sink back into my seat and watch as everyone else gets up and turns in the project. I stay quiet so nobody will notice me, and it surprisingly works every time. And that's when the teacher calls my name while the entire room goes silent. "Where's your project?" I have to force out a reply because I've learned that if I don't say anything, it counts as disrespectful and rude and a reason to email my parents. I can hear someone snickering in the background, and even if nobody was snickering, I could still hear it. So in my head, I feel like everyone hates me because I'm a slacker. And I'll never be able to forget.
I've been getting the same issue. I really want to attend class but I keep thinking it would be better if I get more sleep, my desire to sleep or not get up keeps winning out. Whenever I wake up tired, it's like I can't control myself. I'll even put coffee on my bedside table and when I wake up, I don't get up and drink it. I feel so pathetic! It's so hard to override the thought that I need or want to keep sleeping. It's like it's my subconcious taking over and thinking I'm going to die if I don't let myself sleep for 12 hours. I'm even on meds and it's been helping me get through the day MUCH better but I still have motivation problems especially this crap in the mornings!
Please say this to my mother..she thinks that I got bad grades just cause I don't study and when I told her that I forget and can't remember anything she went on and blamed on me saying that I never even study while I do and I really tried to get good grades but maan I just want to die.
I find it so hard to even wake up for school, sometimes my anxiety is so bad that she I wake up and think about school I just start sobbing and having a mental breakdown.
It is even worst when the people around you, those who are supposed to help you with your emotional problems, doesn't want to recognize how roblematic are depression and anxiety.
Of course because they're either to self-absorbed or have been influenced by the shitty doctrine of every cry for help with depression is for attention.
Barbarian Mage mental condition can apply to a lot of things and it is extremely vague. autism is a developmental disorder and even though mental condition is true, that still groups it with mental illnesses because those too are mental conditions. also yes I agree to never classify it as a learning disorder. I have Autism and I am in the 90th percentile, though it can effect learning it isn't specifically a learning disorder. but yes, you are right but it is a bit better to be specific here.
Seen a couple comments saying that that this is an over simplified portrayal of depression or mental illness in general but I want to clear up that this is probably not depression. I'm a psychology student and I have studied schizophrenia, if you rewatch with a view that the little grey thing is an auditory hallucination (voices in his head) it's a whole new ball game. He also demonstrates another symptom called paranoid delusions, a belief that others are against him and social isolation results. His immediate improvement after beginning to take medication it pretty accurate too, antipsychotic drugs generally help , but the remaining presence of the grey bubble represents that he can't stop taking them or he will return to being symptomatic. Just thought I'd put it out there, but take what you want from it everyone has a valid interpretation
I disagree, sometimes a specific target can work very well. Not every piece of media depicting mental illness has to generalise to the entire topic, focusing on something allows those who care for/ suffer from a specific illness something to relate to. Generalising causes the more common place illnesses more coverage, which is not a bad thing, by any means, but there needs to be a balance between specific and more generalised portrayal of mental illness.
Rock Lee the Handsome Devil of the Konoha// hmm this could be true, but I saw it as a symbolic way to represent the depression. Like that little voice in your head telling you to do or not to do something. I didn't see it as an actual hallucination.
Alyssa Ryanne of course that could also be true, I just personally recognized more specific schizophrenia symptoms than I did of depression. It is worth noting that in mental illness there is a lot of overlap between symptoms for basically all conditions. Besides, this is just an artistic expression of someone's view of the subject, we can interpret it however we see fit.
The part where the negative voice knocks the phone off the table is so true. My friends are really great and they want to talk with me but sometimes I just can’t pick up the phone. Why? I just can’t. Getting better at being better though:) I watched this video a year ago and came to revisit it to see how I think of it now.
This video relates on such a personal level. People who don't struggle with this don't understand what it actually does to the person. You cannot help what's happening. It's not a ploy for attention or blowing off class because you're lazy. These dark thoughts start to invade your mind and they distract you. You lose your focus, and your anxiety starts growing. Sometimes you mentally/physically can't drag yourself out of bed to go to class. And then you begin to worry about your teacher or classmates wondering and asking why you aren't there. Yoy start feeling ashamed and don't want to hang out with your classmates because you're worried they'll mention it. You skip class again. And it becomes a cycle that just gets worse. Much like in this video, I tried to hurt myself too. Was in the hospital for a while. Put on medication. It helps, but doesn't solve it. Just makes slightly easier to fight. Didn't realize how literal the term invasive thoughts was until I started having them.
Dylan Holman yeah.... i feel you but i think im okay now without any med. Im not telling my friends or my mother about this but to my sister yes,its hard..it makes me want to kill myself but i tried to be ok to pretend im ok...its hard to pretend and sometimes youll see yourself holding a blade blood is falling and youre crying trying to end your life but i use to get up chin up and cope all the loneliness im going ..the lonely road im taking ..EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY TRUST ME ♥
the thought of graduating rily stroke a nerve.. yeah, that was my motivation back then, everytime I experience such invasive unwanted thoughts, I just thot i had to graduate. altho i took baby steps, and grades were from failing to just average, for me it was an improvement. i had suicidal ideation, manic episodes, worrying shit tediously that it made my day unprogressive. there were days i had to hide from everyone else even from myself, just by lying in bed and not looking at the mirror or any reflection, because, how i thot of myself. it was horrible. but i needed to graduate, so i wud stil go to class, and barely had conversation, or worse fake smile and laugh just to make them feel not weird, did not look at our restroom mirror, or evading any type of reflection. but i have help.. also great friends that i hav been opening up to.. things are better now, not like it used to be. Intrusive thoughts and episodes are still there, however i just kinda grew up with it and hav learnd how to deal with them, of course with help. the feeling of just lying in bed part and staying away, it used to happened in long span of period, the least was 2 to 3 mos. now, 1 to 2 days - so i guess its normal now.
Fernando Aureus - I totally know what you're talking about. I struggled in school so much. The parts about lying in bed all day and not being able to go talk to friends were especially true. For me, it would usually last 4-6 days, but being on the quarter system, that one week was enough to fck my grades up. Slowly, and I mean s l o w l y over the span of literally years, I've been able to make improvements, the biggest being coming to terms with the fact that I cannot right now pull a 4.0, but I can pass my classes, and, to me, that is a huge accomplishment
Fernando Aureus Not lying. But you are not even ugly. U just think that to yourself. Stay strong keep fighting , you are not alone going to this even me but we fight. 😬😭😑✌️👍🏻
I feel this deeply. I'm a senior in high school who wanted to go into the Air Force, but I can't because of my illness. I currently want to go into Aeronautical Engineering, but I'm having such a hard time in school now.t I go through periods of being very good and diligent with my school work and getting great grades, but then I hit periods severe depression and suicidality. I can't focus or do school and I often make myself sick and can't attend because of how depressed I become. This puts me so far behind that when I finally do come up again, I have a hard time catching up. I'm not sure how I'll ever get there. I just keep falling.
I'm a sophomore in high school and I'm currently dealing with the same thing. My parents used to take me to therapy and I was put on meds, but after a bit my family wasn't able to afford said therapy appointments and medication. It's not like they really helped anyway. It's catching up with me now though, if I miss one more day of school I'll have to go to court for truancy. I have no idea how I'm going to make it these next two and years. To be honest, if it weren't for my sister I wouldn't still be here. I really hope we can get through this though, it's only a few years after all haha
It’s sad that half the people in these comments probably self-diagnosed themselves with depression by looking shit up online and matching up with like one symptom and that shit really gives a bad image to those who actually suffer it
Brad Eats there’s a difference between having a depression disorder and being depressed. I don’t suffer from a depression disorder in any way shape or form, but I’ve gone through periods in life where I’ve almost lost the will to live and felt a deep unhappiness for an extended period of time. Depression is a normal part of life and it can happen to anyone.
Connor Wilde congrats you just fit the description I gave. Everyone gets sad every once in a while but either you completely fucking exaggerated it for attention or hell maybe you do have depression and need to go to a doctor
Wish it was that simple to get help. I've been trying to get my friend diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, and every professional she's spoken to had said "you've got it, but you're too extreme for my department". So we go higher up, and again they say she's too extreme. If she's so bad, then why not HELP HER! Medication will help a hell of a lot more than doing nothing! I've ended up in hospital so many times with her before now because of suicide attempts. You're not only dragging out the suffering of a 22 year old, but it is making all of her friends, including the 19 year old depressed person trying to help her, mentally worse as we try to help our friend. This video is the sort of things we deal with; wish the professionals realised it's not all straightjacket or hormones. 😐
Medication is a touchy thing man, the wrong one and everything goes horribly wrong, I'm not fully sure about the going higher up part but they can't diagnose a medication if it sounds like something that severe. I feel as if the medication won't do anything and your friend would just deal with the side effects if they used weaker medications than is specified.
jessstoryqueen I have bpd, and for some reasons everyone is too scared to diagnose people with it, I don't really get why tho?? I went to two psychiatrists and the second one straight up said that he has to try treating me for any other possible mental illness before jumping off to bpd ( and it didn't work) lol the first doctor diagnosed me with it, it was so severe she has to give me mood stabilizers so as I don't feel anything. Tell your friend that bpd may not be treatable but she HAS TO LEARN ABOUT IT, ask every question she can about it, know every small little detail. That's the only way if she wants to live normal, instead of running from it like everyone else she needs to cope with it, she needs to learn when she starts to have weird thoughts about herself that it's just dissociation it will be over and she doesn't need to think too deep about it, and when she starts picturing someone as perfect she needs to focus more, it's hard ik but she has to look for one's flaws instead of idolizing him because she doesn't want to end up being heart broken. Learn as much as you can about yourself and try to find solutions for everything whether the mood swings the emptiness, or anything: "she needs to learn about them in order to stop them when they happen or cope with him" Meds can solve it temporary but they can't give her meds forever now can they? She needs to treat her mental illness as a friend, embrace it and understand it rather than treating it as an enemy and only then she will be able to live peacefully.
Allie wright You're right. But most times, mentally ill patients have difficulties with work/school and social interactions. Medications might not cure, but they do help patients to cope and live their lives as normal and safe as they can. If we can't cure, the least we can do is help patients to decrease the hallucinations and other symptoms rather than leaving the patient, waiting for an alternative treatment while they're at risk of suicide/homicide.
+Inari i know, i'm a college student. i didnt mean to put question mark there 😂 sorry. but for this semester i dont have a night class. only one until 6pm. i actually have many free time lol
I'm actually crying. Because I don't have any mental disorders to blame for my actions. I show up at school late, or even don't show up most of the time because i simply don't want to get up...like today. I am failing at everything and it's not because I'm depressed or anything that is related to that. I'm simply very lazy that I have to talk to myself to get out of bed every morning.
camzjergui You never know what might be causing your lack of productivity. If you feel that you have no control over your procrastination, and that it’s stressing you out constantly, I would recommend consulting a professional or seeking out someone to talk to.
Why don't u want to get up n why r u failing? Is it because u r lazy or u have something else going on? If u r just naturally lazy then it's okay. Do what interests u. That might help. But if ur actions changed n now u just don't like doing what u normally did that's when u need to go to a therapist. U don't have to have a disorder to feel what u r feeling too. Maybe talk to someone u trust and have a discussion about urself.
Same problem it make you feek heavy all day even you haven't anything tiring still feel lazy and sleepy and this eating me now too i really want to get rid of this laziness but i'm not acting on it all the time i keep saying this that is my problem.....
This... is my college experience. Except for the almost killing himself part. I self-harmed, and experienced suicidal ideation, but never actually tried to hurt myself badly or kill myself. I'd think of how much it would hurt my loved ones and have a meltdown instead. It was kind of freaky though. I never realized until I experienced them just how literal the term "invasive thoughts" is. Meds and therapy helped, but I ended up burning out anyway. I've had a few years to think and rebuild my confidence, and I'd like to start easing back into college to finish my degree, but honestly, I'm really scared still.
seatbelttruck I had an extremely similar experience and had to leave college due to anxiety and depression. I am now finishing my degree through Arizona State Online and I have found it to be a really great way to go back to school without all the pressure of regular college. Maybe consider alternative options like online school. You can do it!
I've done online classes before and it didn't work very well. I'm autistic too, and the lack of structure in the classes made it really hard to complete in a timely manner. It'd be great if it would work, but my track record isn't promising. I'm also a Biology major. You kind of need access to a lab for that. My plan is to start with community college to get back in the groove then move back to a university part-time. And maybe take O-chem by itself or with one elective class, because that was one of the classes that was getting me. The concepts themselves aren't hard, but knowing when to apply them is difficult even when your brain isn't already frazzled.
I wish you the best! College is daunting for anyone, but going at it with mental health problems is a whole other ball game. You are strong for doing it. Don't give up.
i like how this not only illustrates the stigma other people have against the mentally ill, but how that stigma affects the person suffering from the illness as well. well done animation! have hope you guys im proof that this stuff is overcomable
BTS GOT 7 of EXO's Jams Woah there, no need to call them stupid. They might not have scantrons where they're from, or they might not have gone to school when they came up with scantrons.
The Shwaznut/ Scar/Faultyspark No it is not a setup for failure, your mindset is a setup for failure. If you tell yourself you are a failure, then your issues are never going to get better. Change your mindset to something more positive. I know this is an old comment but I hope you’re doing well
I have the same mental health issues as you so I know exactly how it feels but like the comment between us says it’s all based on our mindset and it’s super hard to not think like that but slowly it might make a difference
Have you tried meds? My depression and anxiety are incredibly reduced, and help me initiate healthy things like socializing and eating well. And the cycle continues...
Me too, I totally understand your struggle. It's a hard thing to have to live with. But hang in there! People who battle their minds day to day are the strongest people :)
@dog bone there are types of schizophrenia, but most common is losing sleep and stress that can cause hallucinations to the patient, it's terrifying actually, most people can't hear what the voices say, it's just you. You alone.
This is a really well done video; depression and anxiety are crippling to certain people, like myself, for example. You want to do well in work or with your studies, you want to get up and do your hobbies, you want to go and chat with people, but sometimes you just can’t. This feeling can last from a few weeks to a few months (in my experience), and taking tablets doesn’t always work. This issue can ruin someones life, and if it’s ruining yours, like it does mine, then I’m really sorry. Truly! You’re not alone, I promise.
Gibe da Pucci plis Kids complain about not getting enough sleep when there are literally people who don't get enough food. Our generation has turned into a big pile of pussies.
I've been depressed for so long I'm scared to see what will happen if I get better or seek help. I've gotten used to this but I hurt myself and want to die
Demon Wolf Nobody's life is better with depression. Whether your scared to lose 'yourself' or simply think therapy/meds won't work, there's no harm or shame in trying to get help.
I just spent a week at a mental hospital after posting this. It was an amazing experience besides the circumstances. Please get help if you're like me. It's scary but you'll be happier
Trust me if you seek help it's going to show you're much stronger than if you sit back and let the depression get hold of you. The fact that you're considering getting help is showing you care about yourself. Its a small step but nevertheless a step in the right direction. I have hope for you
*" You don't have depression your friends are just giving you negative vibes"* *"your teacher assaulted you? Well you must have done something wrong"* - my parents
You can't, and trust me. When you think about it too much seeking for help, it doesnt help at all. Its best to not think about it and try the work, works for me when depression hits sometimes.
And dont be confident about it, itll make you think about it even more. Personally i dont know how to cause or stop anxiety, but this is what ill think will help.
I'm in college and I can totally relate to this as I have spent one whole semester in this state. Now the end of the semester is approaching and my grades have gone down. I didn't feel any drive to do anything the whole semester. I even stopped working out. It's just as shown in the video. I would lay in my bed whole day and miss classes.But the point which needs to be highlighted in this video is that nobody is coming to help you. You have to help yourself. And I know I will rise again!
Depression is like something inside of me telling me I’m not good enough and I’m not worthy I try my hardest to reason with myself and try to stay out of that black hole 🕳 being around supporting people helps me a lot especially devoting my time and energy to do good 😊
I had sooooo good grades. but idk it became harder and harder, and I also had a lot of personal problems. And now my little brother gets so many good grades. And my parents are so proud of him. I feel left out, like im stupid and dumb. I am in my final year, I do the best I can, I hope to graduate.. (sorry for my bad english)
Nadya Amani Hey i am in my final year too .. same thing happens all the time about being compared to siblings that are younger than me .. about school and life in general.. at least they are not telling it to ur face that u r a worthless shit like mine do .. remember to talk to ur closest friends and the loved ones as ur supporters :)
that is envy an envy can be a depression youust have fun like playing video games,laughing without you kill your envy to your siblings it can be a depression
You need to talk about it… Tell it to a confident schoolmate who can help you to breath. Good luck to you. (Sorry for the mistakes, english is not my mother language.)
@ki kus Only bad psychologists tell you "its no big deal". When you often have anxiety attacks, that's a big deal for you, and you really need help. Do you know one person in you family/friends who can listen your distress and try to understand it ? (Sorry, english is not my mother language and this topic is very complicated ^^)
@Mia Sarah Maybe you have hyperemotivity ? I have seen a lot of psy, one day a psychiatrist finally told me I have a thymic disorder, hyperemotivity and anxiety. I have the same problem as you with people I already know, because I am afraid to lost them, and I'm fine with strangers too. What I do now is telling it to my friends when I am very anxious with them, and see a psychologist to improve my self confident. Maybe this can help you too. (I hope my comment is understandable, English is not my mother language and this topic is very difficult to me ^^)
I really enjoyed this :) I've had a similar experience with mental health affecting my academic performance, but not with self harm or suicide. My only criticism is from a film making perspective, which is that the end doesn't really feel like an ending just that the story has stopped being told. Perhaps that was an intentional decision since life and our struggles just sort of continue on regardless. Really great animation though :) Gonna go check out some more of your videos now
Sometimes mental illness never fade away, but you can do your best to control it and keep bad thoughts as low as possible, whether it be healthy eating, sports, medication, going to a therapist or all of them. At least that was my interpretation of the end :)
not every ending has to have a button on it. a lot of great stories and films end with the character continuing on with their life. from a film making perspective, endings to movies are as subjective as the filmmaker desires.
joolzzenda - I would agree that the story does kind of stop being told, but I think that was intentional and an accurate depiction of what it is like to be a student with chronic depression or other mental illnesses, at lease in my experience. It's hard to think that the struggle will "end." Rather, it goes on and on and the best one can do is be better today, and do what they can despite everything. Sometimes getting out of bed, getting a C, and graduating is the best one can do given the circumstances, even if that means not getting a 4.0. Sometimes that even means avoiding your friends, and that's okay, too. It's unrealistic for those with depression to expect to wake up and be 100% better instantly, but rather healing and getting to a good place is a process.
I'm so sorry for you.. I don't have schizophrenia but have ADHD instead, and I lose my motivation (and concentration) a lot too. Hopefully you've found proper help and treatment to deal with your mental disorder. Please remember that you are still deserving of love and respect like anyone else! All the best 💙
kirbylovesyou2 it is actually bro... Learn how to change your thoughts. Search it on Google it's supeeer easy. No pills btw just repetition of the thoughts you want. If I could do it you can do it😘
Mhm, it seems no matter what I do I can’t get the help I need, people tell me that I shouldn’t be depressed, because I have a happy life, but I can’t help it and cry myself to sleep every night trying to make it go away, and here I am reaching out to random strangers in youtube comments who will probably just criticize me.
I remember watching this video when it first came out as a sophomore in high school, and not being able to relate. Now, as a sophomore in college, it’s scary how similar I feel to this animated person
I'm perplexed as to why so many people in the comments are so eager to narrow the theme of this video down to one specific disorder. The beauty of this work, if you ask me, is that it could be interpreted in so many different ways, because the struggles that the protagonist faces are reminiscent of those of so many mental health issues; he could have anything from depression to ADHD. The more important piece to take away from it is everything else, so to speak: that symptoms can be mutable and unpredictable, how living with a disorder can affect a person's motivation and self-concept, that being a high-achiever doesn't mean you don't have mental health challenges, and of course, society's misconceptions surrounding all of the above. P.S. Just retyped this entire thing after spending several hours on it because the comment submission froze. Woohoo!! Thanks, youtube!! (Though to be fair it was probably a Firefox issue, what with their recent browser update...)
I wouldn’t say that this is autism. I don’t even know how to explain autism. For me, I just want to sing but my brain tells me that my parents will be disappointed in me if I sing the songs I like. That’s why I love drawing so much, because I at least get to express myself. A joke drawing and a drawing I did of autumn as a girl my dad interpreted as me expressing something and I was like ”no dad that’s just a joke drawing. I literally posted that autumn one on my Instagram saying what it was” His response was ”well other people will interpret it as that” He posted the autumn one because ”it looked sad” One thing in the video that just isn't autism at all as far as I know, is when the person punches themselves in the face. What IS autism is being fine to go to school one day and then suddenly not wanting to go because of one class on that day. I had taken over a week off because of two classes, Challenge (only for top class which I was in for some reason), and Geography. I’m really lazy and I say that I’m going to do things later so my preferred way of being homeschooled doesn't really work that well, but I also can't stand my family helping me do something. I try and keep my energy by only doing 2 classes a day. But drawing also counts as a class. I guess drawing is the only one where I’m trying to tell myself that I’m not going to count it as a class. I help my mum do work by sorting and counting money and I had to be her nurse yesterday because she was ill. Being homeschooled I notice how much work she does in a day, and how often she goes out. Whenever she goes out I immediately start playing and singing along to Hamilton. Ok I’ll stop rambling about other stuff now. Me and my brother are actually in the process of getting diagnosed with asperges syndrome. There’s a _v e r y s m a l l_ chance that we might not have it. I probably have it but since almost all work on autism has been on boys I might not be diagnosed, but I took a boys autism test and just about got in so I guess I must have it?? Kthanksbye
Or bipolar, schizophrenia, BPD, DID, schizoid type personality... you get the jist there is a plethora of them which get consistently overlooked. We can live fulfilling and normal looking lives too.
S. Krystal You don't look [insert mental disorder here] I for some reason just call everything a mental illness which I guess isn't correct. disorder sounds better. idk why i replied.
One of the main ways to combat this is to allot dedicated times for studying and relaxing. Then, even if you don't feel like studying, you at least sit there and try to do something. It's like how you treat anorexia; you're forced to sit at the table, although not forced to eat, since that is inhumane. You show up, and then vary performance, instead of varying the show-up rate. What this does is it creates a habit that gets your brain accustomed to the different settings like "relaxing right now" and "studying right now" so that you have a clear view of when you're doing what and how much you're getting done. Instead, if you jumble things up, you don't really feel comfortable while watching TV because you still have homework to do, and you don't really feel comfortable with homework because you want to relax and watch TV. Again, regardless of if you're able to do the homework properly, at least dedicate a time slot for homework and sit there without distractions. The key is to realize that this really does get easier over time, since you're doing things in a way that allows your brain to make a habit out of it and therefore largely automate it. Keeping up with the deadlines is, then, simply a consequence of a clear daily structure and the resulting ease with which you can determine how much you get done in a day. You can start planning out better and better the whens and whats of your assignments. Eventually, once you get good grades, you not only can do this better, but you also actually gain leeway since your grades could take a little blow if needed. Also, try to focus on how often you feel happy during the week. Especially if you successfully manage your time after a while, this should at least be at the moments dedicated to relax and do fun stuff. Now, if that's not happening for several weeks, then you really do have a serious problem and you should definitely talk to your parents/counselor about it! There's "I'm feeling depressed right now", which everyone has sometimes, but then there's also "I haven't felt happy at all in the last month", which does not happen to everyone (excluding obvious traumatizing events like death of a relative).
Why do people think it's schizophrenia? It's just anxiety about having good grades. I had it, I was getting many F's and almost failed a class. I felt so much pressure to do great on a test that I totally ruined everything. Those demons are just internal voices telling him he's stupid
xTheSecretDiaries Actually, my opinion is that it was purposefully ambiguous so that each person can interpret it in the way that most relates it to them.
xTheSecretDiaries Damn girl, your comment made my day! Glad to know that other people managed to pull through the same problem i used to suffer from. All you have to do is believe in yourself to get rid of that anxiety (voices) 😁
xTheSecretDiaries I'm like that atm I start my last year of school on Tuesday and I'm really scared bc I almost failed the previous year and I watched this video even though I knew it would me feel scared again and idk watching videos like this make me feel like crying bc I hate knowing that I am like the person in the video
School is want makes me happy, it gives me hope to a future. I have something to look forward to and to complete during the day, people to mingle with, and avoiding solitary. Structure and stability have allowed me to avoid falling into a pit.
seems more like anxious ocd ..depression feels a little more like fuck the clock, skip the teeth, skip the egg, eh...i guess i will go get educated if i dont have to participate
Kelly Vincent I have anxiety and depression and so it's a vicious cycle of the tyrant of anxiety telling me if I don't work (I'm not in school) then I'm a failure, which feeds the depression monster and continuing the cycle. I'm trying hard to fight back but it's hard to put meaning into any activity or plan for the future when you want to die (which makes me more anxious and then it repeats)
Hey dude try not to worry people love you I love you alright your family loves life is to short to feel down. Try to stay up stay positive and wright down what you appreciate like family and the love you get not the negative ,that always helps to change a state of mind. Love you stay positive.
When I was in school, I was considered very smart. Around 7th grade I started getting bad grades. Back then I didn't understand what was wrong with me, & my parents were like 'you have absolutely no reason to be bad, we're providing you everything you need' , which my teenage mind found no argument against & I had no option but to blame myself. It didn't work out so well. Eventually I got decent grades but life for the most part has been gloomy. I'm in my 20s now with severe depression, realizing that my parents were in fact the reason I was always so sad. Please listen to your kids. They will try to tell you what's wrong if you just fucking listen. Never cut off conversations with your kids assuming you know better, because many times we don't.
Having depression and anxiety is the worse. The wanting of doing well as others give you the pressure when you're considered smart , but the feeling of just pure emptiness and no drive to do anything. Is just horrible because you're constantly split between both.
Cypher Emily I relate so hard with the ‘pressure when you’re considered smart’ thing. I’m just so fed up with people (mostly my classmates) seeing my achievements as the standard and being so surprised when I get an eight or something.
Omg... that's what I'm facing right now. It's not a feeling of dissatisfaction, I just feel empty in doing things. And I hate that before I was considered one of the "smart" kids but now I'm really struggling in my new school... And I feel like other people are judging saying "Oh that's all you can do? You're such a failure"
I still do my best tho, I just cant keep up anymore and even when I get ok results... I dont feel anything anymore
Im in Grade 10 and thats legit my state right now, but is it normal?
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oh my god im so similar
This made me cry right when the D grade came on screen. My math teacher asked me why my grades are going down, I couldn't tell her it was because of my depression. Now I feel horrible. I feel so lost. I feel gone.
Bro, i will pray for you. Jesus died istead of you and me, that we might live within joy and free from all of depressions, fears and sin. Gob bless you!
then how were you diagnosed with depression if your parents don't know?
@@camc3893 my parents did know??
Then they would know that depression causes lower grades
@@camc3893 i'm talking about my teacher?
If only we could wake up at 9am for school ..
Underrated comment
I have to get up at 6:30
@@flipox9932 yeah well I would have to get up at 6:30, but I get up at 5:00, to prepare for my day.
It's all about mentality and lifestyle, guys. Human mind is programmable.
Ikr. I get up at 4:30 and I still get late for class
Tell me about it 😂 I have to get up at 5:00 😥
Anxiety and depression is horrible. Everyone says that I have talent and that I'm gifted. I'm always pressured to do well in school but that's hard because I don't have any drive to do anything. Also, it's hard to focus when you're sad as hell and contemplating suicide 24/7. I feel like dropping out of school would be best for my mental health, but bad for my future.
Hey, I hope you're doing better now. I was in your exact situation, I can feel the pain in your every word. Try to find some creative activities that suit you. Sing, dance, draw. For me, writing poems helped me put my muddled thoughts onto a piece of paper and somehow healed me slowly but surely. I'm not fully recovered yet, but I believe we will both be fine!
this is exactly what im going through right now
i feel you, cause me too.
Take life one step at a time girl. When you feel stressed, relax and have a relaxing bathe.
Search Teal Swan 🖤🖤
This was in my reccomended. RUclips knows when I'm not going to school.
ThePolishWarrior this was recommended to me on the last day of summer...
ThePolishWarrior we're same lol
+Duckgon SAME LOL
ThePolishWarrior Same, the day I'm watching this on is Saturday.
ThePolishWarrior I think I have seen you before lol
why do I relate to this so hard? This is me right now. I started out pretty great and have greatly slipped. I'm now in my final year and it literally feels like climbing a gravel mountain. I met up with one of my old professors who once taught me and when she saw my current results she was shocked. She kept asking me "what happened to you? You used to be so smart!" and I honestly couldn't answer her.
Also, I have also slipped from an As and Bs student to high C and solid C student and D is considered a fail in my country.
It must have felt so hard to hear that from your old teacher. It hurts so much it makes me cry when current teachers underestimate the efforts I put in my education because of my absences and other symptoms of my mental illnesses (anxiety, a bit of OCD, bordeline personality disorder and ADD: really though combination). I feel for you. Your teacher didn't chose her words very carefully, I think: you're just as smart as you were before. The challenges are just greater, and you're now very strong and courageous for facing them. I don't think you regressed: I think you grew, even if your marks may not reflect this at the moment.
Holly Leafwell Same here ;-;
Holly Leafwell i hope you feel better stay strong 💗
Holly Leafwell Wow, your teacher should have been a bit more professional with her choice of words. It's obvious that when a student that used to get good grades starts struggling to pass there are personal problems at foot. You aren't any less intelligent than you were before!
Exactly the same here! For the first two years of uni I was fine. I was stressed, yes (who wasn't?), and at times it felt impossible but I always pulled through with good results... but now... even things that used to be very easy are a challenge. It feels as if just living takes up all my energy and everything beyond that is just too much. And honestly I don't know what to do. I don't want to drop out and disappoint everyone yet at the same time I don't know how on earth I'm gonna get through this.
Study for long hours, forget everything on exam day.
how about wanting to study but you're so depressed that you dont want to do anything and then hating yourself even more because you're not doing it
@@queenand37sugars68 That's much more relatable
Study each set at least twice and look at everything before exams
@@queenand37sugars68 That's not depression,but laziness.I won't really go into much detail,i'd say for me that im depressed,and i surely have reasons for it(big lack of money,friends,entertainment and having health issues),but not the type of people who just comment it on yt,claiming it is a "serious worldwide problem" and then doing nothing about it except writing yt comments about their depression.I do all i can to fix my mental state(Work out,study more,get rid of bad habits,start working even in young age and make some money,try to be more social and more),but not studying,or laying in bed all day,doing nothing is pure laziness.I started doing something to counter my depression,what have you done people?
Queen and 3/7 sugars I suffer Exam anxiety like bad.
It's hard to stay positive in a negative world. Everything and everyone seem to be putting u down, like you're suffocating.
couldn't have put it better. This might sound silly, but I had a mental breakdown the other day because a sauce in my mcdonalds order was missing and i thought it was a sign that i should just kill myself. it sounds so dumb.
@@queenand37sugars68 no it doesn't sound dumb at all. It's the things around u that u see in everyday life, like it can't be a coincidence right? What if they're signs?
I think the worse thing about suffering from a mental illness is doing it alone. My family don't even know what I'm going through, they don't think having depression is a thing, like it's not an illness, just a mood and it will pass or whatever. It sucks
mY NAME IS sumz POWER I agree, it’s hard to act like everything’s okay when this world is so sick and twisted
Yeah...
@@queenand37sugars68 what the fuck?
Lucky person, his first medication worked for him.
Chris Drewly the first meds I was put on caused severe head aches and hallucinations... it was not fun
Demonic Khri Yeah I thought they'd portray it a bit more accurately. It's a short though so I understand there's only so much you can get in to the video. My first medication just didn't really change anything while I steadily got worse. Now I'm pretty frequently changing meds. and it's been over half a year with no real improvements and just side effects depending on the medication. My current one is little to no appetite along with difficulty sleeping. probably going to be switched again soon.
I was put on Fluvoxamine for Anxiety and depression even though it's mainly used to treat OCD, can safely say for me personally it didn't help at all. It was pretty much "What would you rather; feel shit, or not feel shit?" So I stopped taking them and felt better idk, I don't think I'm going to go back to using medication, just gotta deal with everything myself.
TOY0BOY0 I was put on Fluoxetine previous to my current medication and it made me feel terrible. it increased my suicidal thoughts and I was having an anxiety attack at least once every few days, so I know how bad it can be. I've gotten through depression before without medication, but this time is pretty severe so I thought I'd give it a try. It doesn't really seem to be helping at all.
Yeah, trial and error is the only way for some people with prescription medicine unless you get lucky first try, or decide not to take the medication route.
The sad part is that when vacations finally arrive for me, I tend to loose my will to live due to the lack of productivity... I usually get so obsessed with my grades, that I end up thinking that the only thing that matters in life is to be academically good in order to have a successful life and if I'm not productive, my self-esteem just drops and makes me think I'm not productive enough...
Me too! I even feel worse on the weekends or on vacation because I'm alone with myself and I don't have anything to do
@@marie-tv7vz do sports or go in a gym
I have very high grades but i dont even have any high future dreams. I just study because i can and, like you said, i feel like i have nothing else. Might aswell you know?
Omg same T_T on holidays, i feel like i'm just useless nd have no purpose in life :/ thank god its not only me who thinks this way :"(
@@casperl8408 same i'm really confused about my future nd what i want to do :/
The saddest thing is when you parents don’t understand you 😔
That's exactly what's happening with me
I'm completely screwed
The worst thing is that they are the very reason you've developed depression and anxiety sry for bad English
same :
Yeah my father thinks I should not warn my school about my hallucinations and panic attacks he thinks that they will think I'm insane so since the school was not warned I ended up having a flashback and almost hyperventilating it's annoying and upsetting
(I know I'm late)
damn i wish i could get up at 9 instead of 6
We are student in Asia (crying
I wake up at 5 😣
Same
That's also what I thought when I saw his clock
Damn I hope I could get up at 6 instead of 5:50 those 10 mins would make my day
Even though I am depressed, I still meet up at school but it is more like I don’t care if I meet up in time for class, can’t focus, doesn’t give a shit about grades, feeling overly irritable and feeling either completely empty or too emotional. I hate having mood swings, going from motivated, happy, energetic back to depressed again.
try and meditate, friend
Have a magical day Stay strong, I am going through the same thing as you. Hang in there❤️
I hope you escape depression
Ah depression.. I go through it sometimes. Yet I try to think our minds and emotions are subjective and variable so why stick to it? I say to myself. This shall pass as well
All power to you. I hope that it gets better. I want you to know you are not alone and it can get better.
As yoy guys can see anxiety/ depression can affect you ANY time. It is really unpredictable. Like.. Yesterday you couldn't feel more happy and today your just... Empty. Depression/anxiety is super unpredictable. You might have been happy 7 seconds ago and now u feel like trash.
TopCutee world almost everyday there was a badmood
Nani ?! I have severe depression I skip meals and sleep in till around 10 also I have a lock of focus
I have mood changing very quicly often I feel reallt happy and then feeling really bad but it doesn't affect me at school it's only when I'm at home, that's quite strange I know hehe
Exactly
@@-Rubatosis- At the end of the day I believe lots of people actualy feel like this
Well, at least that guy has friends.
Estefanía Ibáñez Reyes 😢
Can we be friends?
Be a friend with your on self.
Support is important for every challange in life.
Elitza Harrington I'll support you.
My anxiety makes me forget everything that I have studied for hours
dude getting an A in college is like winning the lotto
Mood
Getting an A in school or college wouldn't make me feel something
Two types of comments here:
"This is literally me" *goes into full detail about whatever mental illness they have or think they have*
or
"HE GETS TO WAKE UP AT 9 UGH I HAVE TO WAKE UP AT 6 AM EVERY DAY NOT FAIR UGH"
ahahah true
Johnny Cash welcome to the internet
like seriously, we get it. he gets more sleep than you, get over it
Mike Hunt can I just say that I actually relate somewhat to this video, except I don't get good grades and there's a lot of other shit I have to deal with too. But my mom won't take me to a doctor to actually get me diagnosed. Cause god forbid she has a child who has some type of mental illness. So maybe some of these people in the comments do have something similar to this. You're not always right you know. And what you said it's pretty fucking douchey. You don't know how peoples lives are, or how their parents are. So don't just assume someone's making up their illness. But I get what you're saying. I personally don't like the people who are like "I'm literally so depressed" but have no idea what depression is really like or when people say they're suicidal, but when you talk to them about it, and ask "so you've thought about committing suicide" and they say "oh god no!" That's actually a conversation I had, and I'm just kinda thinking "you aren't suicidal then" it's hard to explain. But anyway, I get how you feel. But not everyone in the comment section is like that. But some people do think they have something, when in reality, they've only dealt with something so small, and pointless, yea. Now I'm rambling. Whatever, I'm sorry. Now I feel bad. I'm sorry
Mike Hunt this
I can easily relate to this, especially in my high school experience. I used to have amazing grades, now I'm struggling to get a C+, because due to my mental illness, I was happy in life, before I went to high school, a lot of people hate me, because they think that I can't learn because I'm too mentally disabled to do so. I do go to therapy once a week
Lord of Corn I laughed but that's super mean
good joke
this similarly happened to my art in art class after social anxiety suddenly peaked, and depression came. Remember it is not that you were once good and now you're bad, or that people have just shot up in being better. It is your mental illness sucking your esteem and confidence dry, making you an obsessive perfectionist, telling you you're not "Good enough". It's so hard to go from that bottom, and when you're at your last steps you're an emotional roller-coaster expecting this "good luck" of academic achievement to not last. Just keep going to therapy, tell your therapist everything, including this. And never listen to those thoughts telling you, you now sucks. it's easy to understand its your mental illnesse's fault, but a lot harder to accept I found out. I was in your situation, I have recovered 90%, I will make it the rest of the way. You can recover from this.
Thanks for the advice 👍
Squid Bryan I saved you from 99 likes
The most unrealistic part is that he can wake up at 9am for school.
May be his first class starts after 10?
he’s in college i presume
not unrealistic.. he's just in a different schedule, I wake up at 9 for my 10:30 class so yeah xd
I literally try to avoid school and fake sleep but then I know I have to get up and I look like a horrible mess because I'm not ready for another day at school
Man,i wake up everyday at 6:00 AM to get to school before 7:00 AM
Dude! This is an amazing animation! It shows how mental illness may never fully leave! However, it shows that you can mostly get rid of it!
As if that's how it always works...
KalaTurtle if you're struggling, seek treatment and give it time.
you can't really "mostly get rid of it". you can treat it. it is very possible to learn to cope/live with it, but there's no great way to just get rid of some parts of a mental disorder.
Aaron Schneider you can fully recover.
Aaron Schneider no. You can't get rid of an mental illness. I have a mental illness and it can never leave.
Did anyone else cry while watching this? The music progressively getting slower and discordant, the person's dark thoughts constantly interfering with his reality and taking up his day, and then with the person just completely giving up and believing in all the lies... Sadly, this is too real and too common of a problem nowadays.
Christina Kim hi your beautiful you have fb baby
This was so fucking real. I really wish I could tackle my problems like the guy in this video. I've suffered from depression for years and to this day, this gives me some hope.
@@pushkaraksh123 life is amazing! Just smile!
Hell no why?? Ain't no reason to cry
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I can relate to this so much as a university student myself with a diagnosed MDD with Social Anxiety. It is so difficult to concentrate on study without random negative thoughts keep haunting you, keeping you from having a proper sleep and pretty much ruined your whole life. I was like this man I kept enduring with the disorder,thought it would get better,that it's just nothing. I was wrong and hospitalized. I'm on a proper medical treatment now and while it didn't completely restore my whole life back, it's slowly coming back to where it should be. Life is a struggle especially for us with mental illness but please keep on hope that you will get better. Please never stop having hope.
shin- seiki i have adhd, i take pills for it but the temptations of my phone stop me from getting enough sleep and studying ;(
Have you tried getting some exercise? Exhaustion and Endorphine can help you sleep easier.
same. and I'm tired of it.. I'm always thinking my future is going to be a mess
Mr.Nature i only come back here because i see a notification under what I posted and..?? i don't understand why are you so angry about someone trying to be positive?
shin- seiki Is social anxiety even a thing? What is it like? Being scared to talk to people?
Ever since I started school I was top of my class. I always got the best grades and I was noticeably the smartest. Then everything changed when I started middle school. In 7th grade my grades were still very good but I felt like they needed to be better and I was always stressing over it. Then my mom finally decided to get me a therapist at the end of the year and things started getting better. And later I started 8th grade. That's when the doctors diagnosed me with anxiety disorder. My grades started dropping even though I was trying my hardest. And it didn't help that my friends were complete assholes. I'm still currently in the 8th grade and I'm trying my best to get through the year without losing it. But damn, it's really hard.
Middle school was the worst period of my life. Just hang in there. You were fortunate to get a diagnosis so fast. I've had problems with my brain being all sad and anxious since 6th grade and it's taken until now to get my mom to take me seriously (10th grade) and take me to a doctor. I'm sure somebody can help you through it.
@theatre kid You need new friends.
theatre kid I’m a freshman rn and I’m facing a similar issue, which sort of started in 8th grade when I began stressing over small things more and more. I’ve always been the smart, motivated, punctual person who others turn to for help and now I’m the one who is lacking motivation, turning in assignments late who can’t help my peers anymore because of my anxiety. It’s good that your mom is supportive, mine tries to tell me I’m just lazy. But anyways I want you to know you’re not alone and not to worry too much bcus to be completely honest as long as you’re understanding what you’re learning you’re grades right now don’t matter. Save the stress for hs bcus it only gets harder, but that’s not to say what you’re going through isn’t valid bcus it completely is. All I’m trying to say is try to have as much fun rn as you can bcus you’re going to miss it next year, or at least I do.
You should do the things that gives you peace more often. Try to find what you really love.
Conclusion. You do not have any good school friends. It huts i know that.
This is very relatable. I've always been a socially anxious and shy person, but after my first university lied to me (making themselves sound cheaper than they truly were), my father died and having to pay a university loan with my parent's house on the line with a Graphic Design career in a country where getting a job is hard as it is... I lost it.
I had to go in for therapy to solve all of these; plus depression, panic attacks, and suicidal thoughts, but after it all I didn't feel any better, even more so with the possibility of having to go on medication that could make things worse. Now I have sort of gotten over my father's death (as much as one can, that is), but the thought of having to pay for university with a loan that has our only home at stake and with no guarantee that I'll get a job to pay it back in time was apparently the one thing that was choking me.
So I decided to stop studying, get a job and start saving money. Yes, I haven't got a diploma but that isn't everything there is to life. I can still make a life worth living for myself and my family. I'm still young and even if things look bleak (because I still have to pay for that loan somehow), I'm sure that I can make it. Unlike the protagonists in this animated short, I realised that pushing it and trying to keep going with university (where I don't feel welcome at anymore) was going to do me more harm than good in the long run. Now the anxiety, suicidal thoughts and panic attacks have gone; but of course I feel unfulfilled and depressed over what it could have been, yet hopeful and optimistic as I there are still other things I can do.
Eve Canas Please... stop
Edgy kids lol
Eve Canas Please, I don't mean to get mad or anything but why..? If you Became emo that means you have given up. Honestly, you hated your life because all of that happen, you let it all happen in vain.? You never mentioned suicidal thoughts, but if you do, just know your life is important like everybody else's, the reason you're still here right now is that one small piece of hope saying, "Never give up!" That's why you're still here. Don't let all of that stuff drag you down. Your family loves you like everybody else does, so why would you choose this path..? I'm sorry if I offended you in any way, and if I misunderstood on what you were saying, but just know the reason you're still here is because of you. You never wanted yo give up inside, so please have a nice day, I don't want to see anymore people depressed, it honestly breaks my heart..
Man. I'm sorry for what happened to you.
Realizing what could have been is indeed a terrifying thought. However, the things that happen to us are deterministic. The part that's not strictly deterministic is so small and insignificant and in any case outside of our control. Therefore, the way things happened is the only way things reasonably could have happened. The only thing you can do is figure out why it happened and slowly desensitize yourself to it.
If I look back into my past, most of the "gut reaction" anxiety responses have mostly dissipated by applying this process of desensitization. There are some things that I still truly don't understand, and it takes all of my mental faculties to imagine that this too can be explained.
Of course, disregarding veracity for a second, the disadvantage of this model is that you cannot ever truly say you "chose" to do something, since this model excludes free will. Now, personally, I don't see how free will could ever exist as a concept, but I realize many people are not willing to take that leap. At least I hope that those people can still relate to the idea that behaviors are consequences of moods, affects, personalities, environmental factors, and not just completely free choice.
The world needs skilled workers, as has been reiterated many times by skeptically-minded college advisers and business analysts. There is nothing pessimistic about almost any career path if you're conscientious and intelligent enough to perform well in it. Of course, in terms of money, a lawyer will make more than a construction worker, but both can be very satisfying jobs and have varying rates of pay depending on performance and dedication. Not to mention the family life difference between the version of you that's working 40 hours a week versus another version that makes much more money but needs to work 60 hours a week or more and has a poor family life. There really is an upside and a downside on each of these coins. The main difference between them is the way you look at them.
honestly, it's good to see a short film in which the mental illness is shown as persistent, but not overpowering, and doesn't vanish immediately as soon as treatment is found. mental illness takes a long time to treat, and most adults don't understand that the moment you get medication and therapy for your illness goes away, and when they expect minors to start "acting normal" immediately it really gets on most of our nerves. as a mentally ill minor, i'm happy to see something that isn't based around that thought. also, i'm glad that the character started avoiding their "friends" after getting treatment after the way they all started generalizing mental illness and putting stigma against it. and the analogy for suicide was honestly a really good way of putting it without making it too violent, i'm impressed, i would never think of any other way to put it aside from censored graphic images.
I'm in a persistent and terrible mood since I was 14, five years ago. That things evolved into a hard sensation of aware and hopelessness, and frequently dead thoughts. Don't generalize your condition, every single case is independent.
You’re so right
it??? can still be a nice short film??? if it has an important message???
nessitis Are you really sure it was a metaphor for suicide? I mean, he wakes up and lives his day-to-day life at the end
JUST LIKE THE MOVIE BEAUTIFUL MIND HAHA
I love how there is no spoken dialogue
I feel sorry for that boy I wish I could give him a hug
Don't he'll probably have a stroke if you touch him
@@NoSubsWithContent I meant it in a good way you know
I am 13 and have depression, anxiety and dissociative identity disorder and I never had a hug for like 5 years know. I miss hugs.
@@alphaeussherlockjr.4390 I never got a hug from someone else than my parents I'm 18
@@SimulationWithDaniel my last hug was when I was 7 years. My parents never liked me really. Very bad relationship with them.
My college kicked me out bc I was struggling with depression and couldn't focused on the work and skipped too many class ,I had the opportunity to got in but couldn't finished it bc of a mental illness ,it really sucks when you're unable to do the things that most people can easily do but you have to suffer from it and the worst part is people assume that you're faking it because of laziness
Connie Lee depression ain't a excuse I got bullied and I dealt with it.it gave me thick skin so I could take life more harder so it made me work harder
OG penguin you cant just say that like you know how depression is like. Being bullied is hard, sure. Growing thicker skin is relatively easy, maybe. But being depressed is a psychological and mental condition, you can't just "grow thick skin" or deal with it. Granted, i was bullied like you were and i did develop thick skin, but i also got depression, and suicidal thoughts so i know how he feels.
You cant grow "thick skin" to "block out" something when that something affects your very core now can you? Please do tell me if you can, id love to know.
Oh yeah and you saying depression is an excuse is basically how the college staff and headmaster thought of it.
Really? Did you even read his comment properly?
The Infinice its still not a excuse to skip classes. i understand what a deppression is still, skipping too many classes is a normal reason for a college to kick you out. what else should they do? let you retake the year over and over??
The Infinice God dammit, this is the reason why I'm a religious person. It's because I still have Faith in this shitty life and my religion forbids suicide. And also, yes you can have a "thick skin" and say fuck you to depression. Damn pussies always want to suicide.
EkyMamba Girls agreed even though I ain't religious
It's so heartbreaking to see what people with mental illness have to face everyday... I hope whoever deals with this gets the help they need and the strength to fight all these obstacles. REMEMBER: You are NEEDED, you are LOVED, you are IMPORTANT & you are GOOD ENOUGH💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
thank you, fren
Thnx I really needed to hear that☺
THIS👏IS👏GOOD👏
Thanks
Thank you 💙💙
At least he has friends
Bob Jones exactly.
Bob Jones can't relate,,,
lucky him !
Right
Me: thinks the mental illness is being able to hear things only through guitar sounds.
I feel like I lost myself,fell like I never was normal as people,I had depression and anxiety ,also I have an exam in few days I try so hard to study I wish allah give me strength
This can help with depression, wishing for shit don’t give you shit getting shit gives you shit فلافي-fluffy
My College actually told me to come back next year because my anxiety was badly distracting me. So I'm literally stuck in my home with nothing to do all day.
Aimee Barrett do short online courses. go for walks. get fitter.
I had that too. It hardly helps, does it.
I'm from Germany and obviously not in college xD But I'm in a different situation, I should stay home until next year because my mental health is "distracting" me too much and since I can't have a job bc of that and still no therapist (working on that for TWO years now) things only get worse.
Aimee Barrett that sucks try to hang out with friends or get a day job it sucks but it usually takes my mind off it
In my country attending college isn't obligatory (except for labs and if you don't attend exams you fail) and I find myself in the same situation every so often. I would just wake up and skip uni for days and just stay in and not answer my phone or eat properly or shower . And then I would feel bad for doing so. At first I thought I was lazy but now I'm starting to realize I might have an issue but I can't bring myself to go to therapy (and I don't have the money or a supporting family from that aspect)
Anybody has any idea how does it feel not to study for a long time
Very frigin stressed because you have work piling up? 😂
Feels worse. Trust me ... 😓
regrets
It hurts if you used to be brilliant or when you realize that you were able to make really great things but you didn't unfortunately
Yea no job for me.
Depression is a random fart cloud popping up in your face apparently
Yep it stinks
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Depression as a physical object is hard to animate lol
For me, it like living in contradiction, i mean by this that, you are having or, you are accepting thoughts that not correspond to your own image of yourself, not believing in you is the worst you can do it happened to me and now im trying to do the opposite i hope all can understand it, thats how i see when i happened to me.
lol
❤️❤️ I'm not gonna give a super long example. I'm just going to say thank you. For making more people aware of the things we have to experience. ❤️❤️
JCrispy_ Yeah, it feels great to know that some people out there can see what we're going through every day.
Also, I love your profile pic of Tae, hello fellow ARMY.
I was just going to see your picture a bit better, then I saw it was Jimin instead of Taehyung, like here in the comments I see Tae, then I see Chim chim on your channel, tf
Armyyyy
JCrispy_ jimin
JCrispy_ Now you can find ARMY everywhere...
Oh look! I’ve been animated.
(As a college student with severe anxiety and depression, I can confirm that this is a perfect representation.)
I suck at studies too but luckily people around me are kind enough to hug me and love me for the person I am. I might be a failure in studies but I am not failure as a person.
Rizwan Ali Shah I didn’t even graduate from high school so don’t get yourself down
You're lucky bro
It's not about sucking up at studies,, it's about how anxiety disorder affects an already brilliant student and how it degraded him.
Well yeah look at your face.
Studies doesn't define you as a person, glad you consider yourself a good person, man i would love to have some support like you had
Everyone is depressed nowadays. It makes it seem like your own trials and tribulations are so..trivial and unimportant. "What's it matter" "I'm just another sad person"
Exactly right ? Other people have it worse than urself aswell
Da Greatest the worst part is that you think everybody has it worse, causing you to think you’re not special or it doesn’t matter to you. Really though, everybody is struggling and fighting their wars, we’re all the same.
Just cuz everyone is depressed doesn't make ur problems any unimportant. U r just as important as everyone else. If u r cut with a paper or a knife u r still cut and u need that extra help. If u ignore a small cut it will lead to bigger problems. And tbh that comparison paper and knife only exists in our head making us feel a paper cut is insignificant when we are all actually cut by a knife.
Actually I was telling myself for sooo long that I'm just wanting attention and that other people have it so much worse than me. So I got to the point were I was saying what other people normally tell people with a mental illness...
@@elenakgalaxy4110 i get that
Okay I have never said this out loud but does anyone else have this problem?
So you know one of those days. you just sometimes can't get out of bed. you are just gonna miss your class because you mentally/physically can't just leave.
While I already feel anxious, then I start to think about my friends/classmates. and of course they are wondering why I am missing the class. which may happen quite frequently. and somehow I always start to think that they hate me or think I'm being lazy (even tho I am a lazy person lmao) or get mad at me. Then if one of my mates texts/rings me I just ignore it because I'm scared they will start asking questions like "why am I not there" etc. because I'm just too anxious to answer. And when I ignore I feel like they think I'm trying to seek attention or then think that I don't care about them and it makes me even more anxious.
And the next day if I am going to attend the class, I feel really anxious because 1. what if they are going to hate me 2. what if they ask where I was and why.
I'm a mess
a Bear You sound like me.
Depression.
THIS IS EXACTLY ME OMG
I do this A LOT at my school. Whenever I have school projects, I procrastinate very badly to the point where I lose most of my points in my grades for not doing anything. So whenever the teacher calls for projects, I always sink back into my seat and watch as everyone else gets up and turns in the project. I stay quiet so nobody will notice me, and it surprisingly works every time.
And that's when the teacher calls my name while the entire room goes silent. "Where's your project?" I have to force out a reply because I've learned that if I don't say anything, it counts as disrespectful and rude and a reason to email my parents. I can hear someone snickering in the background, and even if nobody was snickering, I could still hear it. So in my head, I feel like everyone hates me because I'm a slacker. And I'll never be able to forget.
a Bear this is me and this only causes me to miss another day of school because I'm too scared to go back
I've been getting the same issue. I really want to attend class but I keep thinking it would be better if I get more sleep, my desire to sleep or not get up keeps winning out. Whenever I wake up tired, it's like I can't control myself. I'll even put coffee on my bedside table and when I wake up, I don't get up and drink it. I feel so pathetic! It's so hard to override the thought that I need or want to keep sleeping. It's like it's my subconcious taking over and thinking I'm going to die if I don't let myself sleep for 12 hours. I'm even on meds and it's been helping me get through the day MUCH better but I still have motivation problems especially this crap in the mornings!
Accurate for the most part, besides getting better so quick
The reason why this all happened was just because he didn’t have toast for breakfast on his second day. Life lesson: Don’t forget to eat toast.
Shalom
Your name says it all
Because of my anxiety and depression I realy forget everything
damn.. same
Bullshit
Anxiety and depression can't make you forget things.
RNJesus Depression makes you lose interest, lack of interest in the details of life makes you forget, and anxiety makes you distracted intellectually
Please say this to my mother..she thinks that I got bad grades just cause I don't study and when I told her that I forget and can't remember anything she went on and blamed on me saying that I never even study while I do and I really tried to get good grades but maan I just want to die.
I find it so hard to even wake up for school, sometimes my anxiety is so bad that she I wake up and think about school I just start sobbing and having a mental breakdown.
Cute Sage Nightcore me this morning
And I punch my bed lolol
It is even worst when the people around you, those who are supposed to help you with your emotional problems, doesn't want to recognize how roblematic are depression and anxiety.
Of course because they're either to self-absorbed or have been influenced by the shitty doctrine of every cry for help with depression is for attention.
Kevin Fermin school counselors
God this is so me. I really hope you managed to get the help you nedded and deserve man
Still doing better than me bc at least he made it out of bed.
I don't even have the motivation to eat breakfast
I don't even have the motivation to live(2)..
Have you been feeling any better lately?
At least you have a bed
its not a competition
He wakes up at 9 because he's in college not in school.
Colleges are schools.
@@deliriousjason8133 I take school as high school
I wake up at nine for school. Not in college I’m thirteen
I have to wake up everyday at 5. I'm in college
I have classes at 7 am and I’m in med school
at least he wakes up at 9
I sleep at 1 am and wake up at 5:30 am.. i would be happy like hell if I could wake up at 9 am
Ranjit Kalita then go to sleep sooner not hard ya know
@@OliverRedit I hope I could ..... But..... My matric is just 1 month far .... M going to give mah boards...😭😭😭😭
@@JustMagicYT I used to wake up at 5:00 but now I wake up at 6:00
depression comes and coughs in your face, rather accurate
Yep, it's schizophrenia.
Schizophrenics are unlikely to hurt people, they're more likely to hurt themselves, (or be hurt by others) like most other folk with mental illness.
Barbarian Mage autism isn't a mental illness.
miner johnny1211 it's actually a developmental disorder.
Barbarian Mage mental condition can apply to a lot of things and it is extremely vague. autism is a developmental disorder and even though mental condition is true, that still groups it with mental illnesses because those too are mental conditions. also yes I agree to never classify it as a learning disorder. I have Autism and I am in the 90th percentile, though it can effect learning it isn't specifically a learning disorder. but yes, you are right but it is a bit better to be specific here.
Seen a couple comments saying that that this is an over simplified portrayal of depression or mental illness in general but I want to clear up that this is probably not depression.
I'm a psychology student and I have studied schizophrenia, if you rewatch with a view that the little grey thing is an auditory hallucination (voices in his head) it's a whole new ball game.
He also demonstrates another symptom called paranoid delusions, a belief that others are against him and social isolation results. His immediate improvement after beginning to take medication it pretty accurate too, antipsychotic drugs generally help , but the remaining presence of the grey bubble represents that he can't stop taking them or he will return to being symptomatic.
Just thought I'd put it out there, but take what you want from it everyone has a valid interpretation
I was thinking that too while watching this
I disagree, sometimes a specific target can work very well. Not every piece of media depicting mental illness has to generalise to the entire topic, focusing on something allows those who care for/ suffer from a specific illness something to relate to. Generalising causes the more common place illnesses more coverage, which is not a bad thing, by any means, but there needs to be a balance between specific and more generalised portrayal of mental illness.
Rock Lee the Handsome Devil of the Konoha// hmm this could be true, but I saw it as a symbolic way to represent the depression. Like that little voice in your head telling you to do or not to do something. I didn't see it as an actual hallucination.
Alyssa Ryanne of course that could also be true, I just personally recognized more specific schizophrenia symptoms than I did of depression. It is worth noting that in mental illness there is a lot of overlap between symptoms for basically all conditions.
Besides, this is just an artistic expression of someone's view of the subject, we can interpret it however we see fit.
Rock Lee the Handsome Devil of the Konoha I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this was schizophrenia!!!
The part where the negative voice knocks the phone off the table is so true. My friends are really great and they want to talk with me but sometimes I just can’t pick up the phone. Why? I just can’t. Getting better at being better though:) I watched this video a year ago and came to revisit it to see how I think of it now.
Alyssa Anyone Have it changed you? Or you still struggling fighting your own war?
Did you have schizophernia?
@@lilynguyen8447 did you had schizophernia?
This video relates on such a personal level. People who don't struggle with this don't understand what it actually does to the person. You cannot help what's happening. It's not a ploy for attention or blowing off class because you're lazy. These dark thoughts start to invade your mind and they distract you. You lose your focus, and your anxiety starts growing. Sometimes you mentally/physically can't drag yourself out of bed to go to class. And then you begin to worry about your teacher or classmates wondering and asking why you aren't there. Yoy start feeling ashamed and don't want to hang out with your classmates because you're worried they'll mention it. You skip class again. And it becomes a cycle that just gets worse. Much like in this video, I tried to hurt myself too. Was in the hospital for a while. Put on medication. It helps, but doesn't solve it. Just makes slightly easier to fight. Didn't realize how literal the term invasive thoughts was until I started having them.
Dylan Holman yeah.... i feel you but i think im okay now without any med. Im not telling my friends or my mother about this but to my sister yes,its hard..it makes me want to kill myself but i tried to be ok to pretend im ok...its hard to pretend and sometimes youll see yourself holding a blade blood is falling and youre crying trying to end your life but i use to get up chin up and cope all the loneliness im going ..the lonely road im taking ..EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY TRUST ME ♥
the thought of graduating rily stroke a nerve.. yeah, that was my motivation back then, everytime I experience such invasive unwanted thoughts, I just thot i had to graduate. altho i took baby steps, and grades were from failing to just average, for me it was an improvement. i had suicidal ideation, manic episodes, worrying shit tediously that it made my day unprogressive. there were days i had to hide from everyone else even from myself, just by lying in bed and not looking at the mirror or any reflection, because, how i thot of myself. it was horrible. but i needed to graduate, so i wud stil go to class, and barely had conversation, or worse fake smile and laugh just to make them feel not weird, did not look at our restroom mirror, or evading any type of reflection.
but i have help.. also great friends that i hav been opening up to.. things are better now, not like it used to be. Intrusive thoughts and episodes are still there, however i just kinda grew up with it and hav learnd how to deal with them, of course with help. the feeling of just lying in bed part and staying away, it used to happened in long span of period, the least was 2 to 3 mos. now, 1 to 2 days - so i guess its normal now.
Fernando Aureus - I totally know what you're talking about. I struggled in school so much. The parts about lying in bed all day and not being able to go talk to friends were especially true. For me, it would usually last 4-6 days, but being on the quarter system, that one week was enough to fck my grades up. Slowly, and I mean s l o w l y over the span of literally years, I've been able to make improvements, the biggest being coming to terms with the fact that I cannot right now pull a 4.0, but I can pass my classes, and, to me, that is a huge accomplishment
Fernando Aureus Not lying. But you are not even ugly. U just think that to yourself. Stay strong keep fighting , you are not alone going to this even me but we fight. 😬😭😑✌️👍🏻
Me too. I graduated, didn’t have the best gpa, but at least I made it out. Do your best and don’t beat yourself up for it.
I feel this deeply. I'm a senior in high school who wanted to go into the Air Force, but I can't because of my illness. I currently want to go into Aeronautical Engineering, but I'm having such a hard time in school now.t I go through periods of being very good and diligent with my school work and getting great grades, but then I hit periods severe depression and suicidality. I can't focus or do school and I often make myself sick and can't attend because of how depressed I become. This puts me so far behind that when I finally do come up again, I have a hard time catching up.
I'm not sure how I'll ever get there. I just keep falling.
Frost Night I'm so sorry this is happening to you. I don't know what to say except that I am in a similar situation and you are not alone.
MrsChocolock That's very reasurring. I'm sorry you have to deal with it to.
I'm a sophomore in high school and I'm currently dealing with the same thing. My parents used to take me to therapy and I was put on meds, but after a bit my family wasn't able to afford said therapy appointments and medication. It's not like they really helped anyway. It's catching up with me now though, if I miss one more day of school I'll have to go to court for truancy. I have no idea how I'm going to make it these next two and years. To be honest, if it weren't for my sister I wouldn't still be here. I really hope we can get through this though, it's only a few years after all haha
Depressed 2nd year aeronautical engineering student here, AmA.
Frost Night I know the same pain:(
It’s sad that half the people in these comments probably self-diagnosed themselves with depression by looking shit up online and matching up with like one symptom and that shit really gives a bad image to those who actually suffer it
Brad Eats right
Brad Eats I’ve been waiting to see a comment like this
Brad Eats I’ve been waiting to see a comment like this
Brad Eats there’s a difference between having a depression disorder and being depressed.
I don’t suffer from a depression disorder in any way shape or form, but I’ve gone through periods in life where I’ve almost lost the will to live and felt a deep unhappiness for an extended period of time. Depression is a normal part of life and it can happen to anyone.
Connor Wilde congrats you just fit the description I gave. Everyone gets sad every once in a while but either you completely fucking exaggerated it for attention or hell maybe you do have depression and need to go to a doctor
Wish it was that simple to get help. I've been trying to get my friend diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, and every professional she's spoken to had said "you've got it, but you're too extreme for my department". So we go higher up, and again they say she's too extreme. If she's so bad, then why not HELP HER! Medication will help a hell of a lot more than doing nothing! I've ended up in hospital so many times with her before now because of suicide attempts. You're not only dragging out the suffering of a 22 year old, but it is making all of her friends, including the 19 year old depressed person trying to help her, mentally worse as we try to help our friend.
This video is the sort of things we deal with; wish the professionals realised it's not all straightjacket or hormones. 😐
Medication is a touchy thing man, the wrong one and everything goes horribly wrong, I'm not fully sure about the going higher up part but they can't diagnose a medication if it sounds like something that severe. I feel as if the medication won't do anything and your friend would just deal with the side effects if they used weaker medications than is specified.
jessstoryqueen medication only numbs you, its not a cure.
jessstoryqueen I have bpd, and for some reasons everyone is too scared to diagnose people with it, I don't really get why tho?? I went to two psychiatrists and the second one straight up said that he has to try treating me for any other possible mental illness before jumping off to bpd ( and it didn't work) lol the first doctor diagnosed me with it, it was so severe she has to give me mood stabilizers so as I don't feel anything.
Tell your friend that bpd may not be treatable but she HAS TO LEARN ABOUT IT, ask every question she can about it, know every small little detail.
That's the only way if she wants to live normal, instead of running from it like everyone else she needs to cope with it, she needs to learn when she starts to have weird thoughts about herself that it's just dissociation it will be over and she doesn't need to think too deep about it, and when she starts picturing someone as perfect she needs to focus more, it's hard ik but she has to look for one's flaws instead of idolizing him because she doesn't want to end up being heart broken.
Learn as much as you can about yourself and try to find solutions for everything whether the mood swings the emptiness, or anything: "she needs to learn about them in order to stop them when they happen or cope with him"
Meds can solve it temporary but they can't give her meds forever now can they?
She needs to treat her mental illness as a friend, embrace it and understand it rather than treating it as an enemy and only then she will be able to live peacefully.
Allie wright You're right. But most times, mentally ill patients have difficulties with work/school and social interactions. Medications might not cure, but they do help patients to cope and live their lives as normal and safe as they can. If we can't cure, the least we can do is help patients to decrease the hallucinations and other symptoms rather than leaving the patient, waiting for an alternative treatment while they're at risk of suicide/homicide.
jessstoryqueen in Irland, we have a special class for developing a Healthy personality
0:05
9AM? I HAVE TO WAKE UP AT SIX YOU LUCKY BASTARD! 😂
Apart from that i can really relate to this...
Flubber Nuggets IKR
thats how collage works? i mean, except if u got 8am class. maybe u still in school
hawani yeahh most of the time you come back home at 8pm at some point.
+Inari i know, i'm a college student. i didnt mean to put question mark there 😂 sorry. but for this semester i dont have a night class. only one until 6pm. i actually have many free time lol
Are you kidding me? I have to wake up at freaking 4 in the morning 😂😂 you're lucky
HE GETS TO WAKE UP AT 9:00 A.M. I have to wake up at 6:40 A.M.
Scott DiBiasio I need to be up at 5:30 am but I wake up at 6:00
I have to wake up at 7 a.m
Scott DiBiasio 5:30
I have to wake up 5am too
I have to wake up in 28 minutes •-•
I'm actually crying. Because I don't have any mental disorders to blame for my actions. I show up at school late, or even don't show up most of the time because i simply don't want to get up...like today. I am failing at everything and it's not because I'm depressed or anything that is related to that. I'm simply very lazy that I have to talk to myself to get out of bed every morning.
Just because you aren´t diagnosed doesn´t mean you don´t have any other problems than lazyness.
camzjergui You never know what might be causing your lack of productivity. If you feel that you have no control over your procrastination, and that it’s stressing you out constantly, I would recommend consulting a professional or seeking out someone to talk to.
Why don't u want to get up n why r u failing? Is it because u r lazy or u have something else going on? If u r just naturally lazy then it's okay. Do what interests u. That might help. But if ur actions changed n now u just don't like doing what u normally did that's when u need to go to a therapist. U don't have to have a disorder to feel what u r feeling too. Maybe talk to someone u trust and have a discussion about urself.
Maybe there is something that is disturbing you. It is not your fault, go to a doctor,you can be depressed.
Same problem it make you feek heavy all day even you haven't anything tiring still feel lazy and sleepy and this eating me now too i really want to get rid of this laziness but i'm not acting on it all the time i keep saying this that is my problem.....
This... is my college experience. Except for the almost killing himself part. I self-harmed, and experienced suicidal ideation, but never actually tried to hurt myself badly or kill myself. I'd think of how much it would hurt my loved ones and have a meltdown instead. It was kind of freaky though. I never realized until I experienced them just how literal the term "invasive thoughts" is. Meds and therapy helped, but I ended up burning out anyway. I've had a few years to think and rebuild my confidence, and I'd like to start easing back into college to finish my degree, but honestly, I'm really scared still.
seatbelttruck Good luck! I know you can do it!
seatbelttruck I had an extremely similar experience and had to leave college due to anxiety and depression. I am now finishing my degree through Arizona State Online and I have found it to be a really great way to go back to school without all the pressure of regular college. Maybe consider alternative options like online school. You can do it!
I've done online classes before and it didn't work very well. I'm autistic too, and the lack of structure in the classes made it really hard to complete in a timely manner. It'd be great if it would work, but my track record isn't promising. I'm also a Biology major. You kind of need access to a lab for that. My plan is to start with community college to get back in the groove then move back to a university part-time. And maybe take O-chem by itself or with one elective class, because that was one of the classes that was getting me. The concepts themselves aren't hard, but knowing when to apply them is difficult even when your brain isn't already frazzled.
I wish you the best! College is daunting for anyone, but going at it with mental health problems is a whole other ball game. You are strong for doing it. Don't give up.
He's a troll. Just report him and ignore him.
i like how this not only illustrates the stigma other people have against the mentally ill, but how that stigma affects the person suffering from the illness as well. well done animation! have hope you guys im proof that this stuff is overcomable
1:45 , no wonder he got a D. He wrote in morsecode...
zBoostr eh no thats a Scranton, where you put your answers to a multiple choice question based test. stupid.
BTS GOT 7 of EXO's Jams Woah there, no need to call them stupid. They might not have scantrons where they're from, or they might not have gone to school when they came up with scantrons.
He wrote in Morse code in the last test and he got an A on that .
Intergalactic Human Empire but the last test was a Morse code test.
haha!
The youtube algorithm sure knows how i feel right now...
Anxiety and high functioning depression and ADHD combined is a setup for failure. I hate my life and I hate how relatable this is.
The Shwaznut/ Scar/Faultyspark No it is not a setup for failure, your mindset is a setup for failure. If you tell yourself you are a failure, then your issues are never going to get better. Change your mindset to something more positive. I know this is an old comment but I hope you’re doing well
I have the same mental health issues as you so I know exactly how it feels but like the comment between us says it’s all based on our mindset and it’s super hard to not think like that but slowly it might make a difference
Have you tried meds? My depression and anxiety are incredibly reduced, and help me initiate healthy things like socializing and eating well. And the cycle continues...
No its not a setup for failure. you can ask for help and you can change this
I hate my life too
Ironically this reminded me to take my medicine.
Lowkey Lonely me too haha
I have schizophrenia, this is how I live my day to day life. and some people just think im a weirdo.
You're doing great, keep it up.
your life worthy, don't take poeple say
Me too, I totally understand your struggle. It's a hard thing to have to live with. But hang in there! People who battle their minds day to day are the strongest people :)
@dog bone there are types of schizophrenia, but most common is losing sleep and stress that can cause hallucinations to the patient, it's terrifying actually, most people can't hear what the voices say, it's just you. You alone.
I have psychosis
This is a really well done video; depression and anxiety are crippling to certain people, like myself, for example. You want to do well in work or with your studies, you want to get up and do your hobbies, you want to go and chat with people, but sometimes you just can’t. This feeling can last from a few weeks to a few months (in my experience), and taking tablets doesn’t always work. This issue can ruin someones life, and if it’s ruining yours, like it does mine, then I’m really sorry. Truly! You’re not alone, I promise.
at least he gets 9hrs of sleep....
kill me pls..
Gibe da Pucci plis Kids complain about not getting enough sleep when there are literally people who don't get enough food. Our generation has turned into a big pile of pussies.
That was unnecessarily rude. Sleep is just as important as food, and you don't have to be pissed off over it.
I only got 5 or 6 hours of sleep :"v
electric_oven i sleep for 4 hrs...thats y i upload pics of which im sleeping...hahaha
MAD SCIENTIST same
I've been depressed for so long I'm scared to see what will happen if I get better or seek help. I've gotten used to this but I hurt myself and want to die
YoBro Cho You should get outta there, and then you would be a step forward to being happy ^^
Demon Wolf Nobody's life is better with depression. Whether your scared to lose 'yourself' or simply think therapy/meds won't work, there's no harm or shame in trying to get help.
I just spent a week at a mental hospital after posting this. It was an amazing experience besides the circumstances. Please get help if you're like me. It's scary but you'll be happier
YoBro Cho glad you got help! You matter.
Trust me if you seek help it's going to show you're much stronger than if you sit back and let the depression get hold of you. The fact that you're considering getting help is showing you care about yourself. Its a small step but nevertheless a step in the right direction. I have hope for you
I can relate to this too much
*" You don't have depression your friends are just giving you negative vibes"*
*"your teacher assaulted you? Well you must have done something wrong"*
- my parents
Thats sad.
My teacher pick on me for absolutely no reason
Same here... Can't concentrate, need to read a line 4-5 times to finally understand what the line means. Any advice how to treat anxiety plz?
You can't, and trust me. When you think about it too much seeking for help, it doesnt help at all. Its best to not think about it and try the work, works for me when depression hits sometimes.
And dont be confident about it, itll make you think about it even more. Personally i dont know how to cause or stop anxiety, but this is what ill think will help.
Suspicious Bread Man BULLSHIT
Bullshit?
Thanks breadman! I'll try my best!
for some reason this reminds me of sims
colemcgrath 1718 probably the daily routine factor of it
I thought he farted when I saw the cloud @ 1:32
Maya Ash .. Same here
Omg
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂
😂
Lol
I'm in college and I can totally relate to this as I have spent one whole semester in this state. Now the end of the semester is approaching and my grades have gone down. I didn't feel any drive to do anything the whole semester. I even stopped working out. It's just as shown in the video. I would lay in my bed whole day and miss classes.But the point which needs to be highlighted in this video is that nobody is coming to help you. You have to help yourself. And I know I will rise again!
0:05 waking up at 9? can you tell me what school that is because i'm transferring
lily sadoff same
clique |-/
lily sadoff tru
lily sadoff oh next year in my middle schools we do at 9 lucky yaya
lily sadoff any university
this is me right now in high school my senior year...well all 4 of my years actually it sucks
now i am thinking that should i go to collage just because i can
colemcgrath 1718 tell me about it 😩 I'm gonna graduate in like 3 months and I can't WAIT to leave and never look back
I'm only a sophomore and my freshman year was the worst. It still sucks. Hopefully junior year is better :(
colemcgrath 1718 I'm right there with you, man. Depression and no motivation has fucked my education up, I don't know I've come this far in school.
ShyMaloki your comment kind of reminds me of the lyrics of Permanent Vacation by 5SOS
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I know this has nothing to do with anything but
*Who writes on a whiteboard with a pen?*
Edit: wait,
*I see an eraser what is that*
Me
Winter West i do
Winter West an alien
Sprsae so stupid... Winter west said "who writes on a *whiteboard* with pen"
Sprsae he even wrote it in bold. here, this is for you *L*
Depression is like something inside of me telling me I’m not good enough and I’m not worthy I try my hardest to reason with myself and try to stay out of that black hole 🕳 being around supporting people helps me a lot especially devoting my time and energy to do good 😊
Who tf wakes up for school at 9? My school starts at 6
Angry Chicken same
Angry Chicken mine is 8am from the school and
i wake up at 6am
same
You guys. He lives with a roommate so hes probably in college where classes start at any time all day
You can choose your class times in college
I had sooooo good grades. but idk it became harder and harder, and I also had a lot of personal problems. And now my little brother gets so many good grades. And my parents are so proud of him. I feel left out, like im stupid and dumb. I am in my final year, I do the best I can, I hope to graduate..
(sorry for my bad english)
Nadya Amani Hey i am in my final year too .. same thing happens all the time about being compared to siblings that are younger than me .. about school and life in general.. at least they are not telling it to ur face that u r a worthless shit like mine do .. remember to talk to ur closest friends and the loved ones as ur supporters :)
Nadya Amani same
that is envy an envy can be a depression youust have fun like playing video games,laughing without you kill your envy to your siblings it can be a depression
Nadya Amani my life story
Nadya Amani I started to get an anxiety disorder before 4th grade. that's when my chances of good grades and honor roll lowered.
I get anxiety attacs during lessons but i always have to play it off as tiredness. Thanks.
me too
You need to talk about it… Tell it to a confident schoolmate who can help you to breath. Good luck to you.
(Sorry for the mistakes, english is not my mother language.)
@ki kus Do you see a psychologist ? Do you tell it to your friends/family when anxiety attacks happen ?
@ki kus Only bad psychologists tell you "its no big deal". When you often have anxiety attacks, that's a big deal for you, and you really need help.
Do you know one person in you family/friends who can listen your distress and try to understand it ?
(Sorry, english is not my mother language and this topic is very complicated ^^)
@Mia Sarah Maybe you have hyperemotivity ?
I have seen a lot of psy, one day a psychiatrist finally told me I have a thymic disorder, hyperemotivity and anxiety. I have the same problem as you with people I already know, because I am afraid to lost them, and I'm fine with strangers too. What I do now is telling it to my friends when I am very anxious with them, and see a psychologist to improve my self confident. Maybe this can help you too.
(I hope my comment is understandable, English is not my mother language and this topic is very difficult to me ^^)
*how’d they find a video of me*
Did you had schizo?
I really enjoyed this :) I've had a similar experience with mental health affecting my academic performance, but not with self harm or suicide. My only criticism is from a film making perspective, which is that the end doesn't really feel like an ending just that the story has stopped being told. Perhaps that was an intentional decision since life and our struggles just sort of continue on regardless. Really great animation though :) Gonna go check out some more of your videos now
Sometimes mental illness never fade away, but you can do your best to control it and keep bad thoughts as low as possible, whether it be healthy eating, sports, medication, going to a therapist or all of them.
At least that was my interpretation of the end :)
not every ending has to have a button on it. a lot of great stories and films end with the character continuing on with their life. from a film making perspective, endings to movies are as subjective as the filmmaker desires.
it's not an anime
joolzzenda - I would agree that the story does kind of stop being told, but I think that was intentional and an accurate depiction of what it is like to be a student with chronic depression or other mental illnesses, at lease in my experience. It's hard to think that the struggle will "end." Rather, it goes on and on and the best one can do is be better today, and do what they can despite everything. Sometimes getting out of bed, getting a C, and graduating is the best one can do given the circumstances, even if that means not getting a 4.0. Sometimes that even means avoiding your friends, and that's okay, too. It's unrealistic for those with depression to expect to wake up and be 100% better instantly, but rather healing and getting to a good place is a process.
joolzzenda ii
I have paranoid schizophrenia and this is pretty accurate in my eyes. Some days are so so so much harder than others as well
I do too. Some days are very hard. But keep fighting. The strongest people are the ones who battle with their minds, day to day :)
I'm so sorry for you.. I don't have schizophrenia but have ADHD instead, and I lose my motivation (and concentration) a lot too. Hopefully you've found proper help and treatment to deal with your mental disorder. Please remember that you are still deserving of love and respect like anyone else! All the best 💙
I wish it was that easy to get rid of.
That's so hard… Good luck to you guy.
kirbylovesyou2 it is actually bro... Learn how to change your thoughts. Search it on Google it's supeeer easy. No pills btw just repetition of the thoughts you want. If I could do it you can do it😘
Shalom Xi He never got rid of it, he just learned to numb it away
@@ismaelnehme379 I know it, I am suffering from a chronic mental illness as well 😉
Mhm, it seems no matter what I do I can’t get the help I need, people tell me that I shouldn’t be depressed, because I have a happy life, but I can’t help it and cry myself to sleep every night trying to make it go away, and here I am reaching out to random strangers in youtube comments who will probably just criticize me.
I remember watching this video when it first came out as a sophomore in high school, and not being able to relate. Now, as a sophomore in college, it’s scary how similar I feel to this animated person
I'm perplexed as to why so many people in the comments are so eager to narrow the theme of this video down to one specific disorder. The beauty of this work, if you ask me, is that it could be interpreted in so many different ways, because the struggles that the protagonist faces are reminiscent of those of so many mental health issues; he could have anything from depression to ADHD. The more important piece to take away from it is everything else, so to speak: that symptoms can be mutable and unpredictable, how living with a disorder can affect a person's motivation and self-concept, that being a high-achiever doesn't mean you don't have mental health challenges, and of course, society's misconceptions surrounding all of the above.
P.S. Just retyped this entire thing after spending several hours on it because the comment submission froze. Woohoo!! Thanks, youtube!! (Though to be fair it was probably a Firefox issue, what with their recent browser update...)
This comment should be pinned, well done!
I wouldn’t say that this is autism. I don’t even know how to explain autism. For me, I just want to sing but my brain tells me that my parents will be disappointed in me if I sing the songs I like. That’s why I love drawing so much, because I at least get to express myself. A joke drawing and a drawing I did of autumn as a girl my dad interpreted as me expressing something and I was like ”no dad that’s just a joke drawing. I literally posted that autumn one on my Instagram saying what it was”
His response was ”well other people will interpret it as that”
He posted the autumn one because ”it looked sad”
One thing in the video that just isn't autism at all as far as I know, is when the person punches themselves in the face. What IS autism is being fine to go to school one day and then suddenly not wanting to go because of one class on that day. I had taken over a week off because of two classes, Challenge (only for top class which I was in for some reason), and Geography.
I’m really lazy and I say that I’m going to do things later so my preferred way of being homeschooled doesn't really work that well, but I also can't stand my family helping me do something. I try and keep my energy by only doing 2 classes a day. But drawing also counts as a class. I guess drawing is the only one where I’m trying to tell myself that I’m not going to count it as a class. I help my mum do work by sorting and counting money and I had to be her nurse yesterday because she was ill. Being homeschooled I notice how much work she does in a day, and how often she goes out. Whenever she goes out I immediately start playing and singing along to Hamilton.
Ok I’ll stop rambling about other stuff now.
Me and my brother are actually in the process of getting diagnosed with asperges syndrome. There’s a _v e r y s m a l l_ chance that we might not have it. I probably have it but since almost all work on autism has been on boys I might not be diagnosed, but I took a boys autism test and just about got in so I guess I must have it??
Kthanksbye
Or bipolar, schizophrenia, BPD, DID, schizoid type personality... you get the jist there is a plethora of them which get consistently overlooked.
We can live fulfilling and normal looking lives too.
Well said
S. Krystal You don't look [insert mental disorder here]
I for some reason just call everything a mental illness which I guess isn't correct. disorder sounds better. idk why i replied.
i like the art style
nolanix same lol
nolanix me too so aesthetic
I think it's called Flat Style
I'm struggling to keep up with assignment deadlines and it's just filling depression into my mind
One of the main ways to combat this is to allot dedicated times for studying and relaxing. Then, even if you don't feel like studying, you at least sit there and try to do something. It's like how you treat anorexia; you're forced to sit at the table, although not forced to eat, since that is inhumane. You show up, and then vary performance, instead of varying the show-up rate. What this does is it creates a habit that gets your brain accustomed to the different settings like "relaxing right now" and "studying right now" so that you have a clear view of when you're doing what and how much you're getting done.
Instead, if you jumble things up, you don't really feel comfortable while watching TV because you still have homework to do, and you don't really feel comfortable with homework because you want to relax and watch TV. Again, regardless of if you're able to do the homework properly, at least dedicate a time slot for homework and sit there without distractions. The key is to realize that this really does get easier over time, since you're doing things in a way that allows your brain to make a habit out of it and therefore largely automate it.
Keeping up with the deadlines is, then, simply a consequence of a clear daily structure and the resulting ease with which you can determine how much you get done in a day. You can start planning out better and better the whens and whats of your assignments. Eventually, once you get good grades, you not only can do this better, but you also actually gain leeway since your grades could take a little blow if needed.
Also, try to focus on how often you feel happy during the week. Especially if you successfully manage your time after a while, this should at least be at the moments dedicated to relax and do fun stuff. Now, if that's not happening for several weeks, then you really do have a serious problem and you should definitely talk to your parents/counselor about it! There's "I'm feeling depressed right now", which everyone has sometimes, but then there's also "I haven't felt happy at all in the last month", which does not happen to everyone (excluding obvious traumatizing events like death of a relative).
Everything seems fine
Until it isn't.
Did you had schizo?
great guitare player 😮
lol true
Why do people think it's schizophrenia? It's just anxiety about having good grades. I had it, I was getting many F's and almost failed a class. I felt so much pressure to do great on a test that I totally ruined everything. Those demons are just internal voices telling him he's stupid
xTheSecretDiaries Actually, my opinion is that it was purposefully ambiguous so that each person can interpret it in the way that most relates it to them.
xTheSecretDiaries Damn girl, your comment made my day! Glad to know that other people managed to pull through the same problem i used to suffer from. All you have to do is believe in yourself to get rid of that anxiety (voices) 😁
xTheSecretDiaries I'm like that atm I start my last year of school on Tuesday and I'm really scared bc I almost failed the previous year and I watched this video even though I knew it would me feel scared again and idk watching videos like this make me feel like crying bc I hate knowing that I am like the person in the video
I was heavily reminded of what college was like with C-PTSD, which is far more complicated than anxiety.
xTheSecretDiaries
Ya know what
Not every genius gets good grades
Look up albert einstein's school grades
He didnt do well
This is so relateable ... I loved this short film !
School is want makes me happy, it gives me hope to a future. I have something to look forward to and to complete during the day, people to mingle with, and avoiding solitary.
Structure and stability have allowed me to avoid falling into a pit.
seems more like anxious ocd ..depression feels a little more like fuck the clock, skip the teeth, skip the egg, eh...i guess i will go get educated if i dont have to participate
Kayla B true. In addition, depression also most often comes with OCD and other anxiety disorders
Kelly Vincent I have anxiety and depression and so it's a vicious cycle of the tyrant of anxiety telling me if I don't work (I'm not in school) then I'm a failure, which feeds the depression monster and continuing the cycle. I'm trying hard to fight back but it's hard to put meaning into any activity or plan for the future when you want to die (which makes me more anxious and then it repeats)
Kayla B That's not how depression is for everyone..
Hey dude try not to worry people love you I love you alright your family loves life is to short to feel down. Try to stay up stay positive and wright down what you appreciate like family and the love you get not the negative ,that always helps to change a state of mind. Love you stay positive.
Kayla B spot on. For me, at least.
lol at 1:12 It's exactly 9:12a.m and I'm still lying in bed ready to go to sleep after one more video.
basically me but i dont even go to sleep
You sleep early
Kevin Yeoh 😂
3 Am, every night, I keep trying to not sleep till 2pm
Journey awaits so go to bed earlier... ya dunce
ha lies, no college student actually cooks breakfast
u dont know but we do.a person who away from parent has to know how to do.
Madisøn Røwe I do.....
Madisøn Røwe I try to but I have no time😂
Madisøn Røwe you do realize there is a primary school student who know how to cook breakfast here right ?XD
i do 😉
When I was in school, I was considered very smart. Around 7th grade I started getting bad grades. Back then I didn't understand what was wrong with me, & my parents were like 'you have absolutely no reason to be bad, we're providing you everything you need' , which my teenage mind found no argument against & I had no option but to blame myself. It didn't work out so well.
Eventually I got decent grades but life for the most part has been gloomy.
I'm in my 20s now with severe depression, realizing that my parents were in fact the reason I was always so sad.
Please listen to your kids. They will try to tell you what's wrong if you just fucking listen.
Never cut off conversations with your kids assuming you know better, because many times we don't.