I am under the impression that the anon from before who messaged me about young girls self-harming is perhaps mistaking me for another blog or something because I’m trying my best but I have no recollection of ever saying that.

Again though, I could be wrong, but to throw it out there if I did say that, I definitely disagree with it now. You can be any age and understand depression/self-harming urges.

Anonymous: Why are you running this blog? You guys are just so young. I don't really think you understand half the topics you are talking about.

Being sixteen doesn’t mean I’m completely uneducated. I’ve been going through depression for a good 3+ years, anxiety for maybe 4+ and other things as well.

While I’m in no place to do things like diagnosing people or prescribing medication, I am in a position to give people advice and my opinions on certain things.

That’s your decision or opinion to think I don’t understand the things I discuss, but I am inclined to disagree with you.

Anonymous: it bothers me how young you are. You wrote something a while ago about younger girls writing about how they self-injure themselves, and how you don't know how they could understand yet. Well you're the same age as those "little girls". I just don't think your advice is always accurate.

I don’t recall ever writing that considering I don’t think that at all… I could be wrong and have forgotten, but, I really don’t remember saying that, and if I did, my opinion has changed considerably since then.

Anonymous: really? you have anxiety and yet you're posting videos on the web for thousands of people to see. yea right, that takes a lot of coincidence.

Anxiety and social anxiety come in many forms. I’ve had severe social anxiety and general anxiety/paranoia for a good few years. Despite my recovery with my anxiety being well underway, I am still very nervous about making videos. I talk a lot faster than I usually do in real life, I stutter and say ‘um’ a lot, but you guys don’t see that particular stuff aside from the fast talking because of the magic of iMovie. I generally have to edit down a 15 minute video into a 6 minute one.

I am unable to film outside my house let alone my room most of the time. I try to take loud enough for the camera to hear me, but quiet enough so no one in the house hears me. My anxiety DOES affect my vlogging. I’m not as animate as I would like, my voice isn’t as deep as I would like especially because of my nervousness, my hair usually doesn’t look right and I constantly have to fix it, etc.

Anxiety and social anxiety come in many, many different forms. _____ trigger it for some people, for others ______ doesn’t.

myinevit-able-end: Did you ever take medication for your SA is so which? And did u feel it helped. Medication has been the only thing that has helped me. Been in therapy for 2 years. I feel like my da is genetic ya no and cnr just be helped with that cbt stuff but hey

I take medication for my depression and my anxiety together. I’m currently on Fluoxetine (about a year?) and Quetiapine (half a year?) which have both given me pretty good results. That being said, just because it works for me, doesn’t mean it’ll work for you, so please keep that in mind, and don’t take any medication without consulting your therapist or whoever would be next in line for that of thing.

Medication isn’t required to overcome social anxiety, it can be overcome WITHOUT medication, since as I try to stress, overcoming SA includes a shoot load of facing your fears and getting out and doing it.

For some people, medication is used to calm them in the moment, some it’s a stabilizer, some it’s this and that and whatever else. 

Whatever works, I guess. Best of luck, yo!

Anonymous: A video about glamourisation or mental illnesses?

That’ll be the next video, actually. I said some stuff about it in the one I posted today but I edited it out, saving it for its own vidya. :o

(Thanks, though!)