I'm Sadie, the host of She Persisted, a psychology student
at the University of Pennsylvania.
But seven years ago, I was receiving intensive mental
health treatment for depression, anxiety, and suicidality.
Mental health education and evidence based intervention
saved my life and forever changed it for the better.
It's my mission to make these insights widely accessible and
equip Gen. Z with the tools to take
ownership of their mental health.
If you're looking for vulnerable conversation, psychology back
tips and expert insights, this is the podcast for you.
So here's a quick peek at what you can expect.
The quality of our life depends on the state of our mind.
How? Much of our.
Mental. Health is the skill.
Set and nobody talks. About it like that.
No matter what craziness comes your way, there are ways for you
to be resilient. When we've gone through
something many times before, we know that we have coping
strategies that have worked for us.
But it's harder when you're experiencing these things for
the first time and you're still trying to figure out, who am I?
How do I navigate the world? Teenagers are lonlier now than
teenagers have ever been. Loneliness, in part, comes from
a feeling of wanting to be known at a deep and intimate level.
Is anybody really experiencing what I'm experiencing?
There's someone. Else out there.
Who feels symptoms you do or is felt hopeless or lost?
It's a human commonality to struggle with our thoughts, to
have struggled with our negative feelings.
If you start to isolate, you really start to believe this
narrative that it's just you. I don't think you should be
expected to navigate this yourself.
No human should. So crazy how stigmatized mental
health is. I think people don't even
realize how much they are struggling.
The answer isn't just putting the lid on it, getting really
good at distracting ourself away from it, and marching toward
this idealized idea of what happy is.
It is. It's actually learning how to be
stress resilient, how to go through hard, difficult
emotions. Life is impermanent and that
impermanence will be on your side.
That extreme feeling of suffering cannot persist
forever. You have to want to change.
You have to want to improve your life, to have a life worth
living. You can't telepath yourself
until like a different way of experiencing your life.
Nothing changes if you don't change something.
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