1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Unbreakable Mental Health podcast with Jay Glazer. 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: I'm Jay Glazer, and if you're like many people, you 3 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: may be surprised to learn that one in five adults 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: in this country experienced mental illness last year, yet far 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: too many failed to receive the support they need. Carol 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: on behavior Ealth is doing something about it. They understand 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 1: that behavior L is a key part of whole health, 8 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: delivering compassionate care that treats physical, mental, emotional, and social 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: needs in tandem. Carolin Behavior ell where is in the 10 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 1: quality of life through empathy and action? Welcome into Monday 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: Motivation and I want to talk to you all today 12 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 1: about using our mental health issues as our superpower. What 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 1: Blazer superpower? Are you crazy? It's one of the things 14 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: I've been able to do much better over the last 15 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: several years. But I went back and I lived in 16 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: my life, and I looked to my career, and I 17 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: started taking a checklist of not we're depression Verbi and 18 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: Eli back, not wear anxiety me and helped me back? 19 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: Not where ADHD hurt me and helped me back? Where 20 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: did they help me? Think about that? Shift and narrative? 21 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: So okay, I have ADHD got diagnosed in nineteen eighty nine, 22 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: and I realized, Okay, I may not be able to 23 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: be professor at a class for three hours. I may 24 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: not be able to sit in a cubicle somewhere and 25 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: work with numbers. But because of my ADHD, because I'm 26 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: doubts all over the place, I've been able to do 27 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: five things at walks. I've been able to handle three 28 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: careers at the same time. So I stopped beating up 29 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: with myself. I said, oh, man, yeah, it definitely sucks 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,279 Speaker 1: that I have no attention span and to struggle in school, 31 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: but when you realize where it led you to good, 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: it's liberator. Okay. My depression anxiety always led me to 33 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: feel unlovable because I couldn't buy love or feel love 34 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: from the inside out. I realized now that caused me 35 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 1: actually to go out and do all these brief things 36 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: to get some love from the outside in. If I 37 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: didn't have my depression, I wouldn't be as motivated to 38 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: go do those great things. And man, I dare to 39 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: be great because I was trying to find some love 40 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 1: from the outside it. So my depression ended up helping 41 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: me get to where I am. I would be nowhere 42 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: near where I am today or have the success I've 43 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: had without my depression and my anxiety. My anxiety makes 44 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: me always feel like I'm a state of chass well 45 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: as a results of that, I'm great at chaos. In 46 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: the middle of a fight, it I could help adjustifiers 47 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: game plan. Bam, right there. Things slowed down for me 48 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: because of that anxiety. I'm used to living in that 49 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: world of things are just chaotic and chaos, So when 50 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: there is chaos, I calm down. So look where these 51 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: things have become my superpower. I may have thought they 52 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: held me back at the time, they may have caused 53 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: me pain at the time, but now I've gone back 54 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: and I've taken a mental checklist. They even write them down. Folks, 55 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: where have the things you dealt with ended up helping you? 56 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: And then recognize them moving forward? They could be your tools. 57 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: You could always use that. So let's take our mental 58 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: health issues, flip the strip, turn it upside down on 59 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,239 Speaker 1: his butt, and make them our superpowers. Just keep walking 60 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 1: this walk together.