Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, I'm back with something for you to
Speaker 1: think about.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long this episode is gonna be,
Speaker 2: but it's something that I wanted to talk about. People
Speaker 2: have normalized mental health issues.
Speaker 1: You heard me.
Speaker 2: People have normalized mental health issues.
Speaker 1: And it's very unfortunate because when you give power.
Speaker 2: To something in your life, it can consume you. You can
Speaker 2: succumb to it.
Speaker 1: A lot of people.
Speaker 2: Have labeled themselves and they wear those labels.
Speaker 1: Lack a badge of arms honor. It's horrible. People have
Speaker 1: normalized mental health issues.
Speaker 2: Mind you, mental health issues that they were not born with.
Speaker 2: Most people in the world that have mental health issues
Speaker 2: were not born with those issues. They developed those issues
Speaker 2: later in life through their lifestyles. They developed those mental
Speaker 2: health issues because of who and what they allowed in
Speaker 2: their lives. They developed those mental health issues, and then
Speaker 2: they normalized them.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what I know. I'm telling you exactly
Speaker 1: what I know.
Speaker 2: A lot of people have unresolved inner issues which have
Speaker 2: formed the mindsets that they currently have, and those mindsets.
Speaker 1: Do not.
Speaker 2: Allow them to make good and sound judgment, make good
Speaker 2: choices and decisions.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are always.
Speaker 2: Making choices and decisions that are against their own best
Speaker 2: interests because they don't have eyes to see the mindsets
Speaker 2: that they have.
Speaker 1: You know, it prohibits them.
Speaker 2: It blocks them from being able to see reality, the truth.
Speaker 2: They see their version of reality, but it's not real.
Speaker 2: They see what they see based on their wants, their desires,
Speaker 2: their feelings, their emotions, things like that. But they get
Speaker 2: into things that are always against their own best interest.
Speaker 1: Then they go through life.
Speaker 2: With all of their unresolved issues, and they compile the
Speaker 2: issues of other people onto the issues that they've never
Speaker 2: resolved their own issues. Then life happens, the jobs, the children,
Speaker 2: the significant others, the neighbors, and so forth. Then it
Speaker 2: brings about stressors, and these stressors add to the stress
Speaker 2: in their lives, and that stress becomes an overload which
Speaker 2: causes people to break down mentally, physically, emotionally. And then
Speaker 2: the mental health issues come anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and
Speaker 2: different and other different things. Oh yeah, that's exactly how
Speaker 2: it happens. But see, most people in the world do
Speaker 2: not understand that connection. So I've told you several times
Speaker 2: about a book that I've written, and any day now
Speaker 2: I will tell you more details about it so you
Speaker 2: can go and check it out. But I talk about
Speaker 2: all of these things in my book. People have normalized
Speaker 2: mental health. That's why anytime someone do something the unthinkable unthinkable,
Speaker 2: the first thing.
Speaker 1: You hear is mental health issues. You hear that about
Speaker 1: a lot of.
Speaker 2: Non black people. When it's black people, you rarely hear
Speaker 2: it's mental health. They're just crazy and savages because that's
Speaker 2: what people have been taught to believe. But when it's
Speaker 2: non black people, oh, it's mental health. No, it's stressed overload.
Speaker 2: They caused them to succumb to the already negative thoughts
Speaker 2: that they were having because they were unhappy people, already
Speaker 2: unheal hearts and minds.
Speaker 1: Then they have these negative.
Speaker 2: Thoughts and they succumb to those negative thoughts because they
Speaker 2: gave power to those negative thoughts.
Speaker 1: You know how they gave power.
Speaker 2: They gave power to those negative thoughts listening to other
Speaker 2: negative people.
Speaker 1: Or researching negative things to do.
Speaker 2: So if you're researching things, you're thinking about what you're researching,
Speaker 2: you're developing negative feelings behind all of those.
Speaker 1: Negative thoughts, and you keep giving power.
Speaker 2: The more you think about it, the more you think
Speaker 2: about it, the more you think about it, regardless of
Speaker 2: what it is, until you succumb to it. And now
Speaker 2: people want to say mental health issues.
Speaker 1: For people.
Speaker 2: Some people they were just struggling beforehand because of unhealed
Speaker 2: hearts and minds. You have to understand the connection. Any
Speaker 2: person alive can have PTSD. Some people are so ignorant
Speaker 2: to the fact that they think you have to be
Speaker 2: in the military just to have PTSD.
Speaker 1: Anything can cause you PTSD. You can be traveling down
Speaker 1: the street and have a near.
Speaker 2: A wreck or have almost you know, a near accident
Speaker 2: and it was so traumatic for you that could cause PTSD.
Speaker 2: You can see somebody else have a rate that could
Speaker 2: cause PTSD. You can see a dog getting ran over
Speaker 2: that to cause you PTSD. There are so many ways
Speaker 2: a person can develop PTSD. But it's such a grandiose
Speaker 2: thing these days, or I have PTSD when people really,
Speaker 2: really really they don't.
Speaker 1: They don't like going around saying I got PTSD.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying so it's lifestyle. It's experiences. The bottom
Speaker 2: line of it all experiences bad experiences that causes people.
Speaker 1: To have.
Speaker 2: PTSD and other mental health issues. Stress can be good
Speaker 2: or bad. Good stress can become bad and I'll give
Speaker 2: you an example. You're getting married.
Speaker 1: That's great. It could be stressful, but that's great.
Speaker 2: But then all of the things leading up to the
Speaker 2: wedding can make that good stress bad. So there everything
Speaker 2: don't have to come from trauma, is what I'm trying
Speaker 2: to tell you. That can become stressful. It does not
Speaker 2: have to come from trauma. But most people, it's trauma
Speaker 2: or some bad experiences that they have not dealt with,
Speaker 2: not cope with, not allowed to heal and release those things.
Speaker 2: In stad they go through life powering it on, you know,
Speaker 2: powering other things on top of what they have not
Speaker 2: dealt with already, and it just becomes too much to bear.
Speaker 2: And we've all heard of people who got old in
Speaker 2: their seventies and eighties and then they committed suicide. Still
Speaker 2: went to their grades talking about stuff that happened when
Speaker 2: they were kids.
Speaker 1: The past don't hold on to us. We hold on
Speaker 1: to the past through our memories, our thoughts.
Speaker 2: For people empower those memories that give so much power
Speaker 2: to those memories to make them feel like they're living
Speaker 2: those things currently when it's been over for years and
Speaker 2: years and years and years, but they still feel the
Speaker 2: strong effects because that's how much power they give to
Speaker 2: those thoughts and then lifestyles, drugging alcohol into dark side,
Speaker 2: you know, the dark side, doing very nefarious things in
Speaker 2: toxic relationships. All of it and much much more can
Speaker 2: lead to mental breakdown. A person don't have to totally
Speaker 2: break down to develop depression or to develop anxiety or
Speaker 2: suicidal thoughts, etc.
Speaker 1: Etc.
Speaker 2: But it's just too many people in the world today
Speaker 2: claiming mental health health issues.
Speaker 1: Proudly, and especially on the jobs.
Speaker 2: So many people, unfortunately a lot of people use mental
Speaker 2: health issues as an advantage, especially at work, you know,
Speaker 2: getting reasonable accommodations and things like that. And you know,
Speaker 2: I believe that when people do things the wrong way,
Speaker 2: it always comes back to you some way, somehow, in
Speaker 2: some form of fashion. But it just goes to show
Speaker 2: you the mindsets that people have.
Speaker 1: There are so many more than not people. So many
Speaker 1: people love unheal hearts and minds, and.
Speaker 2: Because of it, they go through life and oftentimes make
Speaker 2: life much much harder than it needs to be because
Speaker 2: of what's already there that has not been dealt with.
Speaker 2: And then they compile life people things on top of
Speaker 2: what's there, and then you get these different mental health
Speaker 2: issues that people normalize.
Speaker 1: You should not be.
Speaker 2: Comfortable or complacent with having something.
Speaker 1: That you know you was not born with.
Speaker 2: I know, in life things happen and things change and
Speaker 2: this and that, but you should not normalize it. It
Speaker 2: should be something that you're working on to become better,
Speaker 2: to get rid of it, not something that you're just
Speaker 2: taking medication to mask, because medication is not fixing what's wrong.
Speaker 1: It's masking what's wrong, and it only make things.
Speaker 2: Worse in other areas you take your medication, you begin
Speaker 2: to have other issues because that's what medication do. It
Speaker 2: have a lot of side effects. So people normalize mental
Speaker 2: health the different issues, and they just accept it, embrace it,
Speaker 2: and never try to be better when you should always
Speaker 2: try to live your life without taking medication.
Speaker 1: Now though that.
Speaker 2: Necessary sometimes, but I'm saying with things like this, you
Speaker 2: know you wasn't born with it, so you need to
Speaker 2: try to work to get passed whatever it is that
Speaker 2: caused you to have those issues in the first place.
Speaker 2: And medication will only keep you in the same state
Speaker 2: of mind. It will not make you better. It may
Speaker 2: make you feel better because you're not feeling the anxiety,
Speaker 2: the depression or whatever it is at the moment, because
Speaker 2: the medication is masking it. But if that's all you're
Speaker 2: doing is.
Speaker 1: Taking medication, you're normalizing the condition. You've accepted it, you're.
Speaker 2: Embracing it, and you normalize it, you become so comfortable
Speaker 2: with that condition, and you just take medication pop pills,
Speaker 2: pop pills every time you feel the symptom, pop pills,
Speaker 2: pop pills. But that's not fixing the problem. And that
Speaker 2: is the societies we're living in. All around the world,
Speaker 2: people have normalized anxiety, depression, bipolar, all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: When they was not born with those conditions.
Speaker 2: All my life, all my adult life, I've dealt with
Speaker 2: people with issues all my adult life. Any position I've
Speaker 2: ever held, I've dealt with people from all walk of
Speaker 2: life with issues, mental health issues.
Speaker 1: Or issues of stress. I think I know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 2: I've had many, many years of experience, many many years,
Speaker 2: at least thirty for sure, hands down at least thirty.
Speaker 2: That's why I can talk about so many different things
Speaker 2: because I've had so many experiences. I've dealt with so
Speaker 2: many people with their own experiences in and out of country.
Speaker 2: Male female adolescent teenager elderly in different environments such as corrections,
Speaker 2: mental health, psychiatric hospitals, in school detention centers, juveniles.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: From all walks of life, all walks of life, military, civilian.
Speaker 2: So I think I can speak on it. And I've
Speaker 2: seen so much. I've seen people use and abuse their
Speaker 2: labels like it's nothing, and I've seen people wear them
Speaker 2: like badges of arm honor.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to share.
Speaker 2: What I'm seeing, what I'm hearing when it comes to
Speaker 2: people normalizing mental health issues, and I mean people from
Speaker 2: the top down, celebrities, politicians, you name it, own them
Speaker 2: normalizing it.
Speaker 1: When you shouldn't.
Speaker 2: That should never be an option in your life to
Speaker 2: normalize it. Making pills for the rest of your life,
Speaker 2: not working on the problem, just taking pills to masket
Speaker 2: is not benefiting you, keeping you in the same negative mindset.
Speaker 1: And that's it. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I pray you get something out of it, or someone
Speaker 2: gets something out of it.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing, because I know you're gonna share.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much for stopping by and listening.
Speaker 2: Much much love to each and every one of you
Speaker 2: in every episode the same and I hope and pray
Speaker 2: you do it, thank going it,