1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,640 I'm Sadie, the host of She Persisted, a psychology student 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:04,000 at the University of Pennsylvania. 3 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,560 But seven years ago, I was receiving intensive mental 4 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:09,320 health treatment for depression, anxiety, and suicidality. 5 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,960 Mental health education and evidence based intervention 6 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,240 saved my life and forever changed it for the better. 7 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,960 It's my mission to make these insights widely accessible and 8 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:18,720 equip Gen. Z with the tools to take 9 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:19,960 ownership of their mental health. 10 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:22,680 If you're looking for vulnerable conversation, psychology back 11 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,240 tips and expert insights, this is the podcast for you. 12 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,320 So here's a quick peek at what you can expect. 13 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:29,760 The quality of our life depends on the state of our mind. 14 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:31,040 How? Much of our. 15 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:32,479 Mental. Health is the skill. 16 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,240 Set and nobody talks. About it like that. 17 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,400 No matter what craziness comes your way, there are ways for you 18 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:38,760 to be resilient. When we've gone through 19 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,200 something many times before, we know that we have coping 20 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:42,520 strategies that have worked for us. 21 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,640 But it's harder when you're experiencing these things for 22 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,080 the first time and you're still trying to figure out, who am I? 23 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:49,800 How do I navigate the world? Teenagers are lonlier now than 24 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,920 teenagers have ever been. Loneliness, in part, comes from 25 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,360 a feeling of wanting to be known at a deep and intimate level. 26 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,920 Is anybody really experiencing what I'm experiencing? 27 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:00,520 There's someone. Else out there. 28 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,440 Who feels symptoms you do or is felt hopeless or lost? 29 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,080 It's a human commonality to struggle with our thoughts, to 30 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:08,840 have struggled with our negative feelings. 31 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,200 If you start to isolate, you really start to believe this 32 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,560 narrative that it's just you. I don't think you should be 33 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:15,440 expected to navigate this yourself. 34 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,560 No human should. So crazy how stigmatized mental 35 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,920 health is. I think people don't even 36 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:22,520 realize how much they are struggling. 37 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,040 The answer isn't just putting the lid on it, getting really 38 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,960 good at distracting ourself away from it, and marching toward 39 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:29,960 this idealized idea of what happy is. 40 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,560 It is. It's actually learning how to be 41 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,920 stress resilient, how to go through hard, difficult 42 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:36,960 emotions. Life is impermanent and that 43 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:38,400 impermanence will be on your side. 44 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,880 That extreme feeling of suffering cannot persist 45 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,760 forever. You have to want to change. 46 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,640 You have to want to improve your life, to have a life worth 47 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:48,720 living. You can't telepath yourself 48 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:50,960 until like a different way of experiencing your life. 49 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,760 Nothing changes if you don't change something. 50 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,800 Subscribe wherever you get your podcast to never miss an episode 51 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,240 and follow along at at She Persisted podcast.