Climbing out of addiction and depression: Margo Talbot at TEDxCanmore
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Talk Overview
Current research suggests that addiction and depression are symptoms of emotional distress, not causes of it, forging the link between childhood trauma and mental illness. Margo Talbot's journey supports these studies. Diagnosed Bi Polar at age twenty-two, Margo spent the next fifteen years in suicidal depression before discovering the healing power of presence as the antidote to emotional trauma. Being present to our thoughts and emotions, not running the other way or masking them. Where best to practice the art of presence than the frozen world of ice climbing...
Speaker Profile
Margo Talbot is a writer and climber who lives in Canmore, Alberta. She was the instigator and main contributor to the fourth edition of Waterfall Ice Climbs in the Canadian Rockies. As a climber, her favourite medium is ice and alpine, and she has accomplished many first ascents of waterfall ice in Canada. She has competed in a number of climbing competitions, including the ESPN X-Games and the Ouray International Ice Festival. A sponsored athlete with Outdoor Research, she also guides for Chicks with Picks and runs an adventure guiding company for women, The Glitter Girls. Her travels have taken her from the High Arctic to Antarctica, and the mountain ranges in between. Her goal is to visit the remaining wilderness of the planet while sharing her personal story with others, a story about reconnecting to life after spending decades in darkness. Her first book, All That Glitters: A Climber's Journey through Addiction and Depression, chronicles this story. As a speaker, Margo has given presentations of her adventures in Canada, the United States, and Australia.
I strongly agree... every single addiction is rooted in trauma... a big one or a series of small ones that just add up :(
Thank you so much. This is a honest talk. She doesn't "sell recipes", instead, she tell us the hard reality and how to face it, one step at a time. Thank you Margot
Wonderful talk... Made me cry
just extraordinaire
Geez, what a power packed amazing presentation. Helped me a lot
thanks!
Its not to late to turn your life around its not we conquer the mountain but we conquer are self's very inspiring
Person god bless you Margo live a good life and keep helping other people
Thank you Margot. I wish that i was able to talk to you about my depression.
Hey how are you now ?
Hope you're doing well now.
It’s hard but I know I can do it, I’ve stopped one of my addictions but I still have more to go through.
You’ve got this! Stay strong!! Don’t give in! It will be SOOOO worth it🥰😘
I’m proud of you🥰
How are you doing now?
You got this !!!! Keep going keep watching these videos they helped me!
Been thru so much trauma it's an emotional overload explosion inside me of deep hurts
hey bro ugood
My problem in the beginning was trying to find a "real" therapist who wanted me to recover instead of over-medicating me and keep me "needing them so they could keep on getting paid.BTW Ive always said that I am climbing out of a hole daily
2:32 this hit me like a rock
100 % approved by myself haha
Awsome this made my day xD
Thank you for this message. When I was a Little boy maybe 5 to 13 years old. I was witness to my sister's being molested by our own grandfather, who now is deceased.. my sister's wouldn't let me tell my parents because they didn't want to cause problems or hurt my father.. I am an alcoholic/addict. You have motivated me in more ways then one. I love the replace the addiction with a passion!! And also you have giving me courage to seek professional help and talk about the horror myself and siblings experienced .. Thank you and God bless! Stay strong stay positive stay beautiful
i have been bouldering my way out of depression/addiction. still on the recovering process. still having ups n downs. physical health getting very good. mental health still needs a lot of work to do.
Thank you for sharing this Margo. I still remember the great conversations on our bus ride from the Huntsville OB camp down to Toronto. As always I am in awe of your compassion which I saw displayed so eloquently in the way you handled the kids on your trips at OBC.
Mayur, I too remember those talks! Thanks for watching and checking in, it's a wonderful blast from the past! M
thank you.
Simply amazing. What a beautiful soul and such an eloquent speaker. I would love to have her as a friend.
yes. well said
Ice climbing gave her MINDFULNESS.
YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION. Thank you!
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I can totally relate to Margo, climbing saved me and i felt reborn after my first summit. Hearing her has inspired me again as I head out for my next expedition :)
As an Ice Climber, and someone who has a similar past this was really enjoyable for me. It helped me to see the corelation to the peace I find, but have never really thought about. Margo Talbot you have a place to stay in The Whites if you ever need it. Thank you very much for sharing.
Amazing insight. I'm working through a lot of personal pain right now and the way Margo describes the process is absolutely in line with my experience. Thank you
Wow you told my life story except thankfully I wasn't suicidal. Thanks you are inspirational!
If you wasn't suicidal then that's not your story....
Margo is such an inspiration to me. I’m lucky enough to know her personally through family. Her book is amazing
Thank you Denali!
Some powerful truth said here. Thank-you!
so emotional and yet rational. Thanks for sharing!
Lots of wisdom and good advice in this talk. Ice climbing looks amazing too. Thanks Margot.
thank you for sharing
Absolutely right Margot. Child protection systems need to take this on board to provide early intervention services for traumatized children in care, particularly children with serious conditions such as reactive attachment disorder.
You had me at the first sentence! I had extreme emotional neglect and molestation!
Thank you so so much. Thank you for so many things - firstly (not your first but mine as recognize there is a huge process before this point) for coming out and saying what you did, so true, and such a needed message over and over by everyone to say, to increase necessary awareness.
Second, for having the bravery to stand up on TED, and put this out to the world.
Third to be in the position of teacher in a system that thinks it already has it all worked out and has a way to make every consumer of health services the student. For being trauma informed.
And fourth, thank you most of all, for the example you example, that show how it is about people finding their way through, and finding their own solutions to joy, transcendence, meeting the underlying need in more workable ways, a bigger reality, despite the system not offering these types of experiences (and, as an optimist and visionary I feel probably too invested in that being ultimately being possible for people as a potential, despite the current funding limits) by understanding the root cause, and moving with the urge to understand then satisfy it in a different way, that is more recovery focussed, than in perpetuating pain focussed ways that you were operating out of, that shows others, that despite the system (that works for some, and as with any system doesn't work for everyone) can find your own solution, and not get stuck in the waiting place, where nothing happens. That there are other solutions and the recovery drive finds them, they are not 100% found through the Dr's or medical or MH system. They may offer many solutions that do work for a lot of people, however, when they don't, it's important to have the capacity to think our side the square and have an equally viable plan B or C etc., and actually, that is what it is to be 'recovery focussed'. aka "come hell and high water, i will recover, regardless of whether the system offers the interventions that offer the way forward, or it comes elsewhere.
I think regardless of the realities, by keeping with an ethic of informing the system, we don't let the system off the hook (despite the negative views that develop out of people's frustration with it because it has current limitations, actually does need to be recognised that is does want to help people, and does want to find solutions at a quality level, and can listen to how solutions have been found and can learn from these). Your you tube offered that solution focussed approach to learn from without buying into system bashing.
Yes, really, as an end point, regardless of our midpoint reality, people should never be advertising how they survived despite the system, as if it is the only way to recover, the system needs to be open to feedback and from that learn what it needs to do, to meet the needs of people who will be, and do, access services, to find a way to offer them the services that enable them to survive, recover, and thrive into the future.
You've helped tremendously in your talk; it shines the light on the way forward, offering solutions not complaints, and showing just how individualistic it can be, therefore how open we need to be, to create individual options, which apparently is our objective, so theoretically shouldn't be a problem....right?
Again thank you, thank you, thank you, as we say in these parts, as well as congratulations big time, on all levels.
Amazing
excellent talk, you have been so fortunate you found this and you took and ran with it. thank you
This is very beautiful
very important and powerful message.
Well said, Margo. You continue to be an inspiration to many through sharing your painful and profound story of healing. I have always found it an interesting irony that you traded in one frozen world for another -- proof of the duality in all things. Congratulations on your marvelous talk. -- Janice Holly Booth
Janice, many years ago my sister said the EXACT same thing about the two frozen worlds... I hope you are well; we certainly need a catch up! M
Margo that is a fascinating, loving, beneficial and life changing message. Thank you so much!
Thank you for your insight and courage. You are amazing
I feel I connect deeply to your message, Margo Talbot. Your strength and courage has made a difference for me today. Thank You.
Thank you so much for your valuable speech.
Total awesome truth teller....thank you so much.
Thank you.
My personal experience is the exact opposite. I was ADDICTED to ice / rock / mountain climbing literally craving every single day weather went bad until I hit rock bottom (60ft free fall) breaking my spine. Barely able to walk since then, guess what : I got into drugs. YES both are addictive, YES they induce craving, and YES you can heal. Climbing the north ridge of Mt Everest if far easier than getting out of street drugs. For having succeeded in both, I just want to to share with you that both are basically the same kind of brain illness, compulsively seeking for the "substance". Social impact is the same and both can kill you. Be aware of it, never take it easy, temptation is always waiting behind the corner.
What is my new addiction right now ? Talking about it, sharing my experience. The only advice I can give you is to believe in yourselves, your values and have faith, no matter of how difficult the path could look like at any moment. Face it and keep going one step at the time.
Massive respect mate! How are you now, with your injury?
Junkie.
Can I ask you one thing ? How did you overcome?
😪thank you
Brilliant video, big ups for 'climbing the ice'!
I am 63 and still have to keep myself from rocking in front of friends and public
thank you! spoken beautifully
Best video I've heard on TEDtalks yet, on any subject.
This IS my subject though! Which makes it very special to me.
This is an honest and concise tale. This is both a helpful lecture about trauma, mental health, addiction and recovery.
lts a plain talking story, about one person's struggle to survive, from a broken start in life and it has a great ending!
I can be a harsh judge, yet cannot find one thing wrong about all that has been said here.
I enjoyed the reality of the ideas mentioned, for if we're able to better ourselves by finding a way out of such a complex hole, into a more serene existence, for ourselves, it would then be the time to start work on supporting others to do the same.
Striving to change a broken system starts with honesty and hope, which ends in REGENERATION!
I'm feeling hopeful, many thanks for sharing M, this has been inspiring for me today.
BeYOUtiful!
Thank You
So proud of you, love and hugs to you :)
Beautiful seminar.
What a beautiful talk resonated so much thanks for sharing xx
Thanks
I find myself here, 37 years old and bouncing back an forth, alone and seeking to further waste my life hiding behind a needle. My only security.
Desperately fighting myself constantly for stable ground, in which I can fix my head.
Alone
The fake mask I’ve created for myself to deal with (the normal reality) is fading very very quickly, along with hope of a life worth living.
I surrender
I can’t do this
I pray that you overcome the addiction in Jesus name. I used to be an alcoholic on my death bed and it was just killing me every single day, and I knew I didnt have long left. I prayed in tears to stop and was able to. Every spring that comes, I know I shouldnt be alive. I just remember feeling so alone, addicted, and miserable, and i never told anyone because it was scary letting people know. I didnt want them to know. So I told Jesus instead...I told Him all the things I hid from other people. I told Him everything. All the things that were too scary to say.
I hope this helps. You are loved xoxoxoxo
@@faithhopeandlovetrustingJesus 🙏🏻🙏🏻 blessed that you’ve heard me, but so very grateful that you have taken time out to write a kind, thoughtful and helpful message. Thank you 🙏🏻 xxx
I did the same through Truth, Reason, Love and becoming an atheist, religion made it all worse, because it doesn't goes beyond common sense, their arrogance and pretentiousness is amazingly and disproportionately big, as she said trust what's teal, what works, what's good for you and build the parts of your life your parents neglected to help you build.
Excellent speech and insight! xo
YES!! I wish more people understood that the western way of treating addiction is just dealing with a symptom...not the true trauma. Your metaphors make me want to be strong enough to ice climb. Please keep telling this story, maybe someday there will be a rehab center that focuses on passion rather than addicts. 💗
I actually when to a drug rehab program that did just that. And i ended up becoming a climber because of it. I handled many of my issues as well as figured out my identity through climbing and only recently started to pick up on that fact that climbing did it. From the first time i grabbed a rock my mood has changed for the better. Great story and great comment. Keep it up
Thank you.
damn.
Beautiful ❤️
love this.
It is interesting that we all want to be happy and joyful, but the arts always have the miserable and complicated characters as the center of the stories and those are the ones into which we are mostly drawn.
something good is taking place in my life behind the scenes , And I'm tired of falling!
I'm fighting this all on my own 😭😢 i cant do it anymore
Well done....
Last few weeks have been awful . Back in the depression pitt . Thank you for hope x
The difference between "ordinary" sadness and depression?
You can handle having a cloud on your head.
It's much tougher balancing a boulder on it.
That was hard to listen to.. Need to find the answer or route out of this..
She's badass
What do you know about it. Have you ever done the same? Please don't insult her if you never did.
@@rmpgva3123 r u ok????
@@kazumak.1542 Hi "K". Well, depending on what u consider as beeing "ok" I'd say yeap. Still alive and kicking off on crazy ideas enjoy the present moment and the ability of beeing aware of it is in itself more than one needs to be grateful for the day.
What if you get addicted to climbing?
I tried bdsm and it got me out of my depression but I regret it as I can't get a high out of anything else now , I feel worse than ever
+Liam L An addiction to climbing is far more positive than an addiction to substances.
addiction is in human nature. The key is focusing addiction in the right places
how old is she?
No biological component at all eh? It's just a symptom of abuse and distress. Sounds like trading one not socially acceptable addiction for a more socially acceptable addiction.
You don't "give up addictions" rather the addiction gives up you. You are at the mercy of your addiction. You never escape from your addiction, it must release you from its miserable hold.
Don't do drugs, do me instead 😗😗😗😆
Yea all of us have the money to quit our jobs and go ice climbing. If we could do that we probably wouldn't be depressed in the first place. This is bullshit.
She just had the opportunity and did grasp it. She doesn”t say you can or must do the same. But you nevertheless can find gold in her insights from the standpoint of someone who did ice climbing. Why don”t you take that as a real benefit for you?
Kaeben ice climbing was her life-saver... But it could be anything, really. Picking up a new hobby, going for a walk, hiking, painting, writing, swimming... Anything that takes you away from the drugs and the pain and puts your focus on a challenging task.
That is very wrong. Judgement on someone else's journey to healing is just so sad. With so much negativity surrounding us in today's world I for one am very proud for anyone to accomplish this goal. Margo everything you said is a true inspiration. Those of us who have been where you have rarely really deal with that elephant in the room. Which for us is a ever constant reminder of shame, rage, sadness as well as desperation to one day take our masks off and live in society as the surviving proud person. TY
Um..Hello? You don't have to quit your job to ice climb. Take some long weekends here and there, maybe, but quit your job? No.
i recently started climbing,bcz i am a bit depressed and really really anxious and i just needed to vent and be in nature bcz it calms me,and you definitely dont need to quit your job...the question is do you really wanna climb or do whatever else makes you happy or not
What's the point? It's just substituting one addiction for another that is slightly less unhealthy
Simon Banks climbing is a passion a sport something healthy for you, for your social life. Hardly compares to an addiction I know I used to climb but depression and anxiety have stopped me from climbing even though it did so much good for me and my health.. I’m also an addict so I know both sides