Telling People About Your Mental Health
How to tell someone you love about your mental illness. I have heard from many of you that you struggle to share your mental health issues with those you love and care about. We often plan...
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Hey everybody, today's video is all about how to tell a loved one about our mental illness. Now, the first thing I want to talk about is making sure you understand and agree with your diagnosis. Know that when a therapist or a psychiatrist or a psychologist or whomever you are seeing, gives you a diagnosis and says "Hey, Susie Johnson, you have major depressive disorder." Make sure you understand it and that you think it's the right diagnosis for you. Something that I always tell my clients is I am never going to know your symptoms as well as you because I'm not experiencing them and so make sure that you are telling your clinician, whoever you're seeing, all that you're feeling and all of you're symptoms. And if they giv...
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Hey everybody, today's video is all about how to tell a loved one about our mental illness. Now, the first thing I want to talk about is making sure you understand and agree with your diagnosis. Know that when a therapist or a psychiatrist or a psychologist or whomever you are seeing, gives you a diagnosis and says "Hey, Susie Johnson, you have major depressive disorder." Make sure you understand it and that you think it's the right diagnosis for you. Something that I always tell my clients is I am never going to know your symptoms as well as you because I'm not experiencing them and so make sure that you are telling your clinician, whoever you're seeing, all that you're feeling and all of you're symptoms. And if they giv...
