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Please don't let the negative comments about your advice get to you. You're trying to help people with the treatment methods you've learned, and we appreciate that!

This video didn't suck at all. It cheered me up (20% 😛) made me realise that I am in control. I can change my mood, I'm not helpless. Thank you. It means a lot. I hope your chanel becomes very successful.

@SelfHelpToons

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks that's nice to hear!

5th depressive episode, day 79, feeling %25 better. Nice video.

@SelfHelpToons

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you're starting to feel better.

I cannot understand why these videos don't have more traction than they do. The content is so good, the presentation is top notch, graphics are very good, even listening to your voice in itself is relaxing. I have been suffering from anxiety, depression, stress and everything that comes with for many years. And now since the past 6 months when I learnt CBT abc from your channel I am noticing great changes. The biggest shift for me was to be made aware that depression, being sort of a mechanic that left untreated will fuel itself and deteriorate many areas of your life both mentally and also physically, is so often rooted in totally false thoughts about your self or your perception of the world around you. That is downright scary how easy it is to plant a seed with a thought that is a lie. And the consequences it has. Enough about me and my digression, keep up the outstanding work with this content. It is so so helpful, how it is easily available in a format that everyone can absorb no matter the state they are in. Thank you for your work.

@SelfHelpToons

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much your kind words and sharing your experience. .

@Evergreen7557

2 жыл бұрын

Agree! Great content

@albertareid8258

4 ай бұрын

walking, go to the gym , eat healthy food, fruit and vegetables helps

The worst part for me and depression, which I dealt with for most of my life, is that the more aware I become of my feelings and therapy, the more I realizing how hard I cling to my pain. Kind of like clinging to a life raft. I am listening to your videos, and they have offered me a great deal of comfort. I'm also doing a lot of the practices that you've recommended, and a very grateful that you've offered them here. But I'm afraid that there's no hope for me because, as I've just said, it feels like I don't want to get well on some very deep level. Do you have any words to offer that would help? Thank you.

@SelfHelpToons

Жыл бұрын

I don't know anything about your situation so this might not apply to you at all, but if we've been depressed for a long time, that becomes what we're used to. Any sort of change can be scary, and so we can feel apprehensive to make changes even if we know it's a positive change like recovering from depression, because it entails entering the unknown. Also recovering from depression can mean we may need to start doing a lot of things that we've been avoiding because we've been too depressed to do them. We can feel like we're going to have a lot more responsibilities and have to deal with a lot of things we've been neglecting and that can seem overwhelming and make us anxious. So sometimes these sorts of factors can lead us to feel like on some level maybe we don't want to get well. And if we feel like maybe we don't want to get better, that can lead to feeling guilty or wondering what's wrong with us for being concerned about what life without depression will be like. And that can feed into depression. And while it's nice to know that there are things we can do to help us recover from depression, and that can give us some hope, sometimes we can get discouraged if we don't feel like we're making progress, despite being told that if we do these things we'll start feeling less depressed. And so we can feel like we're not trying hard enough to get well, so maybe on some level we don't really want to get well. But recovering from depression isn't something we can force. We can do things that can help us feel better, but we often won't progress at the rate we think we should, or will have trouble noticing any progress at all. But that's not because we're not trying hard enough or doing enough to try to get well, it's just the nature of depression. There can be periods where "progress" is simply not feeling any worse for a while before we start feeling better. So that may or may not make sense to you based on what you're going through right now, but the other thing is if you are watching self-help videos, then at least on some level you do want to get better and have some hope that you can get well. And that's a good sign because having hope when we're feeling depressed is already a step towards feeling less depressed.

I agree with the comments below - your videos are awesome. I absolutely begin to feel like it is possible to start feeling better after watching your videos because they make sense: the examples you give of negative thoughts or actions are so realistic, so the possible solutions are also. Plus you explain difficult or tedious concepts with such clarity and empathy. Thank you.

@SelfHelpToons

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much that's great to hear!

I finished IOP 2 wks ago. So grateful I found your vids today. They have actually made me sit up rather than stay lying down w exhaustion all day- a healthy degree improvement.😉 We’ll see where the day leads- But I will say you gave me the laugh I needed when you read the comments! OMG so hilarious! You are awesome & doing a great service! 😊

@SelfHelpToons

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, that's great to hear!

It's great to see all these wonderful videos! I have had depression most of my life starting around age 8-9 and would get so bad that I would quit eating or literally have to force-feed myself to stay healthy enough (as an adult) to keep going. Contemplated many things I won't mention because of triggers. One day I had an epiphany, I had been trying to get the hang of mindfulness and felt the waves of depression washing over me and there were these thoughts. For the first time in my entire history of my many uninvited depressive episodes I clearly seen these thoughts. One was "Oh God no, not again, these depressive episodes just get worse and worse everytime they happen, I'm not sure I'll survive this..." another thought, "God I don't want to go to hell again..." another which was the most important one, "I don't want to feel like this." I noticed that the more that thought happened, "I don't want to feel like this." The more panic set in and the depression just got worse and what I realized was that by having these thoughts - I was literally "feeding" the depressive episodes, the fear, the dread and creating my own self-made hell. It became intrusive. The thoughts created images and also created depressive emotions. What we think, our body believes. If we have a negative thought about fighting, the body creates fight or flight response and the same for happy thoughts, have a thought about someone you love and your emotions are all warm and positive. The "thoughts about it..." were the fuel, the fuel created negative emotional response and the resistance when I would have one of these thoughts only made me focus even more on the depressive episodes which would make the depression even deeper. So when I would feel one of these thoughts coming up, I would not give it any attention, as counter-intuitive as that sounds because we think the mind can fix things but the mind and all the crowded thoughts and especially "the thoughts about it..." actually create our reality until we see that we aren't our thoughts but we are actually "What see the thoughts happening". I know it sounds crazy and like a lot of work but in the end it pays off. Once you are able to witness the thoughts, knowing they aren't "you" then it is possible to just be aware there are thoughts, thoughts favoring something resembling a cheesy commercial on TV that you ignore. Let it come and go just like a bad commercial without any resistance or like bad gas, let it pass BUT if you resist and get caught up in the narrative of the commercial (depressive, scary thought) you might get dragged under a little until you realize, "Oh yeah, these are just thoughts, are thoughts capable of independent autonomy?" No. So if No, why give the thoughts any attention/energy? Who is it who knows that the thoughts (the negative narrative) aren't independently capable of paying bills, going to the restroom, feeding the pet or anything? They are just thoughts without any sentience, they are dead things unless you believed them BUT who is who believes them? Find out who that one is, the one who sees the thoughts and observe them from that vantage point.🙂 If you can see this then why would you give any attention to these thoughts and create more misery? I ask myself several questions, as sometimes watching thoughts can be difficult. One question I ask myself is, "Other than what I am thinking and feeling, am I okay?" The most important part of that question is, "Other than..." If you don't think about how can I get out of this depression, what do I have to do to get out of this depression, how long will this hell last...you aren't feeding it anymore. The more you are able to do this, the quicker the recovery and also if you adopt this, the less chances you have of being depressed again BUT it takes watching the thoughts you are having and being able to decide to ignore the Oh crap, here it comes again thoughts. Another question, basically the same thing but easier to remember is "What is wrong with right now unless you think about it?" I know this probably sounds absurd but it really works. The 2 questions, "Other than...what you're thinking and feeling, are you okay?" emphasis on "Other than..." and "What's wrong with right now, unless you think about it? These have saved my life several times, along with mindfulness. These are mindful questions to ask every time that a scary or depressive or even an intrusive thought surfaces. These questions help remove any resistance, resistance is most of what causes intrusive, depressive and anxious thoughts to grow worse. Of course biological problems can also cause depression like diabetes being too high, thyroid problems and chemical imbalances to name a few OR they can make depression even worse. Dear Self-Help Toons, thank you so much for everything you do to try and help people. I also do the same thing in an Eckhart Tolle group using midnfulness techniques. I hope I did not step on your toes, it was not intentional. I have been depressed so many times and so deeply along with intrusive thoughts and major fear and anxiety and like to share the good news, just like you do, that there is a better way to live and that there are tools to use to keep us above water. I really have enjoyed your DBT series, as it really is what brought me to mindfulness and then a doctor told me to check out Ram Dass and from there I went into non-duality but still love to help where I can. Bless you from the bottoms of my heart.

This truly resonated with me. Thank you. I appreciate at the end, where you mention the normal responses for someone with depression to have to this video. I’m finding out that a lot of the things I get offended by are the truth and a disruption to my reality. The reason I feel so offended and angry even, is because of the delivery from the truth teller. It’s a gradual journey of appreciating the moments that are right in front of me and it compounds to feeling so much better in a shorter amount of time. Will continue watching more videos, thank you!

This vdeo is very useful, and I will be sharing it with more people I know will benefit from it as well. Thanks for posting it, really appreciated!

@SelfHelpToons

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

Thank you for sharing these videos❤. Thanks for caring.

Thank you for the video sir!

thank you for these videos!!!! ima college students and my therapist introduced me to ur channel cuz she used DBT for our session and helped me a lot. i used to have a lot of suicidal ideations and stuff but my therapist probably used ur videos to develope her own methods tailored to me

Love these videos ❤

Thank you!

Thank you brother

Nice video. Not all patronising. Thanks for the time you spent doing it.

Thank you❤

so more balanced thoughts and mindfulness of thoughts

This is a great video. Very helpful points

@SelfHelpToons

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

❤ excellent

You help me a lot thank u so much and i want to be a psychologist like u

There is always a reason to be depressed, for someone it's a heartbreak, one sided love or for someone finances crisis In my case my hair fall making me so depressed, i am shedding to much hair since 2020, it's like a nightmare for me, it's like a slow dying , moment to moment i think i can fight to hair fall problem, but each time my hair fall i am getting stuck in depressive mode

Thanks!

@SelfHelpToons

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your support!

@georgekobler77

9 ай бұрын

@@SelfHelpToons your videos have helped me tremendously! Keep up the good work!

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Hii sir love ❤❤❤ from 🇮🇳🇮🇳India Your videos awesome...

@SelfHelpToons

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

And having a Traumatic Brain Injury ( like I have) makes depression worse.. 😢..

Sir I feel helpless doesn't help it seems I will not recover please help

My problem at the moment is that I am not able to identify exactly what thoughts are causing my low mood, everything looks quite foggy in my mind. 😞

@SelfHelpToons

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah thoughts can be hard. Often trying small behavioural change is the best place to start.

This is fine. But imo you cant THINK your way out of a depressive episode unless there is a cognitive cause with a cognitive bias. What if its caused by the gut? I tend to wake up depressed, and the day before I was just fine. Stable energy stable moods. And when waking up depressed you just feel right away something is off. My thoughts are the same, my situation is the same. yet my muscles and brain are slowed down and I have no energy. I slept enough, I ate enough. But there is still something inside my body going on that causes depression. Whats your take on this? This is my biggest problem, not negative thinking.

@SelfHelpToons

2 жыл бұрын

You can try behavioral activation kzread.info/dash/bejne/fXqh0JSAYcTZkso.html and sometimes once you start doing things you might start to feel better

@emf2482

2 жыл бұрын

@@SelfHelpToons Thanks I will try this!

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