John Gardner's Tips for Building Up Your Mental Health
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Phrases like “mental health,” “stress,” and “anxiety” sometimes feel like empty buzzwords that get thrown around too freely these days, but when you read into what people are actually talking about, you’ll realize we hear these words so often because so many people are dealing with real mental health issues and finally have a way to talk about it.
John is obviously not a doctor or certified expert, but he is someone that has been working on himself and is passionate about improving his own mental health and our community’s, too. Hopefully tools like this can play a small part in breaking the cycle of losing skaters to self-harm and suicide.
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Thanks Jenkem. Gardner’s the best. Dude is Zen.
The zine is dope, been struggling with chronic depression for about 16 years now, tried to commit twice. I really hope it goes away somehow. Those are really good advices for this deep state of darkness.
Glad you're still here homie. Keep holding on.
Keep on keeping on man, slowly catch the monkey. I'm 23yrs in to making my way out of the hole and I just never stopped trying and my efforts are finally getting me somewhere. Life is journey, the more I learn to embrace it the easier it's become 👍👍
Big Respect for keeping this conversation going! We all need to check that internal dialogue sometimes. Would we really talk to our closest or dearest the way we talk to ourselves, especially when we are struggling? “Be gentle with yourself” It goes a long way! ✌️
For sure, it's so important but non obvious. A really good question to ask yourself if you are having a hard time and frustrated with how things are going is "what would you say to a close friend if they were going through the same problem?" or"if you looked back on this problem ten years from now what advice would you give yourself ?"
Thank you, I needed that.
Thank you so much. Very much needed man…
To John and everyone else here! Love itttt ❤️
Thank you Jenkem and Gardner for passing the energy 🙏🏻❤️
1. Take interest
2. Memorize music
3. Listen to Bill Hicks
4. Write
5. Recall previous pain
Simple, excellent advice. Thank you, Jenkem and John!
We love you man. You are truly legendary and amazing. Thankyou for what you do and your contribution to skateboarding.
These tips are helpful but I think it's important to highlight that these are only temporary solutions. There is no "quick hack" to improving your mental health. If you are really struggling with mental health issues such as anxiety and depression, then you need to see a therapist which takes time and effort. I would still be struggling with my own anxiety if not for therapy. I feel like a lot of people, skaters in particular, try to go around therapy due to a certain stigma that comes with therapy (there are other reasons of course). As helpful as skateboarding can be, it is not a substitute for therapy. I know that not everyone has access to therapy but if you do, please don't be afraid to seek professional help. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it.
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Not everyone needs therapy and nobody should be convinced they can’t make progress without a therapist. First, many people can’t afford it. These things can be handled internally if you act as your own mentor, support, and caretaker. Some people may not be able to produce these qualities/behaviors at first, but self compassion, kindness, insight, and equanimity can be developed over time with practice. Mental health requires constant upkeep and tragedies in life can strike at any time. I think all people should live putting in the work in both the good and bad times. So you have the inner mechanisms built up to sustain you through the turmoils.
Diet and sleep make a huge difference too! Its a journey and only gets better with the effort you put in
@@audiomystic agree but if you have legit chemical imbalance and a diagnosed mental illness just working on yourself isnt going to cut it. Medication, therapy, and working on yourself can all work in tandem.
@@bigsage88 chemical imbalance? That’s too generic. If you’re using that term to characterize depression, I don’t like that way of thinking. All of life is a feedback loop. Our present state feeds into our future state, our behaviors, thoughts, and feelings prime our neural pathways. I dealt with huge depression in my life and the way out was to put in the work. A depressed mind is captive to depressed behaviors and depressed thinking. Those have to be changed with work.
My depression was significant and over a decade. Periods of not wanting to live mixed in. It was also ‘diagnosed’ by professionals. I also had crippling anxiety + an autoimmune condition.
And meds aren’t the answer for everyone either. A therapist isn’t going to do any of the work for you. They are going to bring insight into the thought and behavior patterns that are feeding the depression and suggest reframing, modifications to thoughts and behaviors to break free.
When you are suicidal or feel severe depression, that hour with a therapist isn’t nearly enough. For me it was just a temporary reprieve. The rest of the week it’s just you and your mind and the actions you take.
To climb out of depression it takes tremendous commitment to yourself. Lots of compassion. It can take years of hard work. But it’s worth it to not live a life of pain or end up dead.
I will always suggest people take a very hands on approach with themselves. A therapist is a very small piece of the puzzle.
Schizophrenia or Bipolar are a different topic - those conditions that require behavior management and pharmaceutical intervention.
John is the best!!
Fantastic. Hearing a lot of buddhist concepts that I resonate with and also work for me.
When youre suffering from depression its not a “temporary feeling” that will go away, this advices/skills could be useful for someone that is feeling anxious or depressed in exact moment, but if you’re having a battle with the demons for quite some time, reach for help. My first panic attack was in a skatepark and weed was the trigger, was trying to get my shit together for 3years with different skills and practices and was unsuccessful. After an episode of severe depression i finally reached for help and got the medication and therapy. I just wish i didnt wait for so long.
I dont think he was being specific towards depression like deep depression per say more toward just well being
@@neoncolours1000 Agree. But we need to clarify types and stages of mental health struggles, so people don’t wait for too long like I did.
It's important to clarify this. Thank you for doing it !
I'd add that medication is not always needed either, having a safe place and someone to talk to and work through stuff is the key
Unfortunately I know for a god dammed fact nobody cares more about myself than I do so why would I spend more energy getting help than building the habits to help myself out on my own? Plus I can't bring myself to trust anyone. So glad I have skateboarding.
I needed to hear this thank you
Really needed this today. think a lot of us do. Thank you for posting Jenkem
I'm 39 years old and need to face some mental health problems from PTSD from being incarcerated for 10 years but I'm afraid to ask the last time I did my doctor wasn't supportive and I had to get rid of him mental health is a tough thing to deal with
I hope one day you can live free of this fear and find someone more supportive ty for sharing
Some of the best words I've heard
thank you more of this please!
watched him skate in person in bethlehem with the creature crew, even took time out of their session to talk to us. Some super nice guys frl.
John had lots of great things to share, thanks jenkem!
We love u John🙏🏼
Best Skateboard channel on RUclips.
I appreciate this
I agree with the cellphone issue. It's caused mass psychosis, and the ruination of entire generations of people.
Totally… I deleted Facebook, Instagram a year and a half ago and have never looked back.
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super tempted to do the same , it for sure locks you in.
@@reza_dc2 Now I search for the information I’m interested or want to know about... I’m not longer constantly bombarded by things I’d normally not even care about.
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The only thing I can find beneficial of social media is sharing certain things you do with friends and family , long after your gone at least the ones that cared can reflect on you.
If you start worrying about how many likes or comments you get from each post , then it’s getting to a point that one has to analyze themselves. That’s a deeper “ acceptance “ issue with society.
Thank you! Amazing video :)
I just had a shitty day today, thank you for this
Thanks for sharing John!
appreciate this. Thanks for doing this
Good guy John Gardner
So good! BIG LOVE from texas
this is great, thank you john and jenkem !
this is extremely important
This is so great man for real bro really is zen
Amen
edit: I wrote amen within 1 min of the video knowing it was going to be great. But now I’m back to say I love you John! This is great and thank you jenkem
Amen!
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This a great topic, once I try the meditation thing but didn't work for me, maybe in a group or something is easier for me to get in there... Buuuut the way as a skater I suffer more of anxiety, stress and frustration is when you have the spots, the vision, the way you want the trick to be and can't do it so the breathing helps me a loooot while I'm battling on the streets with the spots or when I'm really tired to get that last pushing, that last effort to land the trick. What I'm trying to say is, meditate while skate :D
Blessings
tbh this introduction to awareness in sk8n is uncomfortable, but it's happening.
dude same. it makes me uncomfortable and i'm into both 🤷🏻♂️
with ben's passing it's kinda the only option
Would be really curious to know what makes y'all uncomfortable about it
it's uncomfortable because it's part of an overreaching ideology that can't keep itself out of subcultures and destroys everything. this "mental health" bullshit has nothing to do with making anyone better, it's all about making people more mentally ill than they are. it's literally about enabling people to feel miserable and blame shit on their mental health.
good shit jenkem
Lovely!
Words of wisdom right here
saw this guy skating in downtown Manhattan, dude is awesome
You just got to love this.
Jawn is my fav skater
Very cool Jenkem, thank you!
Thank You
One more time. Thanks Jenkem
thank you for this
Awesome
Pure gold
bravo Jenkem
He's a good boy
Beautiful ❤️
Good job
Fucking love Dr.John Gardner
the goat
Gardner is sik y'all need to come down to Australia and skate Sydney
And skate and jam with Ambrose Kenny Smith and the rest of the Lads
I used to be so passionate for skateboarding but circumstances kinda ate that away ..just wanna skate and let go again
Whats the song it grooves!
epic content, thanks
What spot is that??? Seen it before and want to skate it so bad. It’s the ledge in the beginning
Nice video
What’s the music? Sounds like something from Ethiopiques
Tezeta - Mahmoud Ahmed x
@@christyoreilly4051 I was right! Thank you!
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Fullmoons ramp up my bipolar. So much I've had to book time off work around them. I don't want to be alive around it and want the whole world to die. Have an amazing girlfriend and doing alright for myself but non of that matters when I feel like that. I dont live near the beach and barely surf anymore which kills me. As an aries I need adrenaline and when I feel unfulfilled I just feel extremely angry which is even more isolating.
Jenkem for the dub
Fuck yeah John 🤘🏼
Songname?
Tezeta - Mahmoud Ahmed x x
What is the song
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i hate being THAT guy but like 5 min meditation every morning has helped me get out of my head for the rest of the day. the netflix headspace one is gangster asf. but sometimes you gotta break down if you wanna break through
top tip throw ur smart phone in the bin and only look at your computer for recreation a little bit bit every day
I have no idea what i'm talking about, but here's my opinion: XD
Jenkem is sik because you can put it on when girl's come over and they can handle it playing. its not as intense as a skate vid but you still watch hammers. thankyou for providing the middle ground! xo
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king shit!
If I could skate like him sure I’d never be depressed
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bruh..its god vs the devil and if yall dont put god and his right way first, how can he protect yall from the enemy. anxiety, depression, crazy thoughts are all a weapon to bring you down into fear and hatred of self or others. u can call bs all u want, but i suggest u ask yourself, what is the truth and why are we here. start with those questions if u dont believe in heaven and hell, good and evil, right vs wrong. no other religion compares to christianity. theres a reason for that, now stop being selfish and get on track or get thrown away with the trash.
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