It's finally Friday, and
you know what that means.
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It means I got my hair done!
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Look, it's straight.
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I never straighten it 'cause I'm lazy.
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I just wash and wear, that's my style.
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But if any of you are
looking for a hairstylist
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in the LA area, Sarah is my favorite.
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I've been seeing her for
years and years and years.
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And she did this amazing job.
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And I'm still growin' my hair out.
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But anyway, that's enough about me.
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Blah blah blah, right?
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So today, it's Friday.
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It's finally Friday.
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And that means I'm on Facebook.
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So if you'd asked your questions,
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and you made them short and concise,
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and you were like #katiefaq
this is my question,
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I found 'em, and I'm answering them.
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And today I have one to do, I have four.
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And I have a journal topic,
so stay tuned for that.
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And also, if any of you
haven't added me on Google+,
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I know I say this all the time,
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but if you've missed
some of the other videos,
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don't forget to add me to
your circles on Google+
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so when you ask a question
or you leave a comment
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or anything like that, I
can respond, I can reply.
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'Cause some of you
leave wonderful comments
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with great questions
and then I try to answer
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and it won't let me, so Womp Womp.
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And I know everybody's
like "I hate Google+"
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but it really helps me out
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so that then I can talk with you more
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and that's what we love
about our community, right?
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So, give this a plus one or
like it or both or whatever.
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And then we'll keep talkin', okay?
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"Is there a way to get help
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"and recover from a mental illness
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"without seeing a therapist?"
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"There's only one in my area
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"and he really makes me uncomfortable
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"and I'm afraid that my
parents might hospitalize me
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"at some point, dot dot dot.
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"Thanks for all your videos and support."
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You're very welcome.
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I'm sorry that you only have
one option, that's terrible,
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and not everybody fits with everybody.
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We need to have more options,
we need to have more people.
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And that's kind of what I'm hoping to do
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by growing our community,
is make more people aware,
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and get more professionals
out there that understand
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so we can help one another, right?
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But, if that's not an option for you,
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there are amazing
workbooks and regular books
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that you can read to help
yourself, as well as journaling,
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creating a really nice circle of friends
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that are really supportive.
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I've found, even for myself,
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And if any of you didn't
watch the interview I had
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he talked about how his
friendships with other males,
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who work in a stressful job,
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and being able to communicate
with them and vent with them
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has been really helpful for him
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and he needs that time, he
needs time with his buddies.
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And I myself even admit to that.
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I see a therapist once a week,
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but I also rely on my friends
a lot if things are going on.
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So those are some options.
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If any of you have had a workbook,
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I have a widget on my website,
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obviously at the bottom of
any page on KatieMorton.com
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you can look in my Amazon widget,
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and those are some books that I recommend.
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If there are any books that
you recommend let me know,
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and let the person that
asked this question know,
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and also I could maybe
add 'em to my widget.
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If you want me to, just
let me know below, okay?
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And those I find the best.
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The journaling, the working on our own,
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because a lot of the work
we've done in therapy,
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if we're devoted enough and
we put enough time to it,
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we can do it on our own, okay?
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Question number two.
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"What is the difference
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"between transvestism and cross-dressing?
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Transvestism being like transvestites.
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We hear that word a lot but
nobody really talks about it.
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And I though this was a great question
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because we've opened up talking about
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being gay, coming out, and all of that,
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and how hard that can be for some people.
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And the truth of this is, little surprise,
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there's no difference.
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Transvestism and cross-dressing
are the same thing.
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Back in, I guess I'll
call it the olden days,
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back in the 50's, 60's,
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they called it transvestism
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but people who were
transvestites, meaning they,
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more predominantly it's
men who dress up as women,
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that doesn't mean that's the
only way that it can happen,
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it can be women who dress up as men.
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But it's when you dress
up as the opposite sex
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and act out in that role a lot.
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They would call it transvestism,
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and those people didn't like that term
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and so they coined their
own term in the 70's
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called cross-dressing.
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And since we've had
kind of both terms used,
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cross-dressing, I have
found, is as we would suspect
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more well received by
people within that realm
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who do the cross-dressing.
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They prefer to have it be called that.
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So anyway, that's just a little
information for all of you.
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Question number three.
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Oh and also, for transvestism stuff,
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no that doesn't mean your gay.
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I know a lot of people will say that
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or will worry about that
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and feel really insecure about it,
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but that doesn't mean anything.
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There's plenty of heterosexual people
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who enjoy cross-dressing, okay?
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Question number three.
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"Do you think certain sports,
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"like ones that are
judged on how you look,
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"aka riding or dancing,
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"have a huge effect on eating disorders?
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"How can we stop it, slash,
become immune to those comments
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"if our brains twist comments around
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"and we dedicate most of
our time to this sport?
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"It is so hard because it's always
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Thinner, Faster, Stronger
Powerful, yet so light, right?
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"I just think it's hard
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"when you have to wear skin tight clothes
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"and judge your body even if you hate it."
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Now I know that kinda sounds confusing,
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it's kind of a longer question,
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but the main question being is,
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"What are my thoughts
on sports and activities
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"that are focused on body image
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"and it's all about you being
faster or lighter or quicker,
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"but yet in your skin tight clothes,
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and you lose weight here."
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Gymnastics being one,
ballet being another.
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Horseback riding being yet another.
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And there are a lot, a lot
of professional athletes,
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or even collegiate athletes
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or people who compete at a high level.
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There's a lot of pressure to
look a certain way and do well.
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And often times, because
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of that quick connection
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between getting praise
and being successful
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and looking a certain way and
doing things just perfectly,
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obviously that's what we're doing, right?
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You're being judged on how
you look and what you do.
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And then that's how we're
kind of basing our value
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in our success it life.
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It's very easy for us to fall into
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eating disorder-like habits.
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Now, if it's not something
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that we're not willing to give up,
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'cause a lot of my clients
don't wanna give it up
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because it's a big part
of our lives, right?
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Obviously probably been
doing it since we were young
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and without it what do we do?
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I find the more open we can
be about it, the better.
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I would encourage you to have a full team,
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a therapist, a psychiatrist, a dietician.
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And you have to be
honest with your coaches.
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I know it's uncomfortable.
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I know at the beginning
you're gonna be like,
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"Katie, I don't wanna tell them."
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But, in order for them to know,
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to maybe not comment on your thighs
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or your stomach or whatever
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in the way that they were,
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that might help us more
than we can even imagine.
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And just saying it and letting them know,
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helps us out, right?
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And I know it's a uncomfortable
and I know we're embarrassed
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but that's just your
eating disorder talking.
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And there's no need to be embarrassed.
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People struggle with things all the time.
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And there are probably
other people on your team
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who struggle as well,
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and you speaking up and
you being honest about it
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will really help them out maybe too.
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So, I would encourage you to speak up.
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If any of you have gone through this,
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I know there are many of you out there
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who have this same scenario
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where you're in in a
club or a team or a sport
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or something that's focused on body image.
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How have you worked on it?
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Have you spoken up to your
coaches or your teachers
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or parents, and how did that go?
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Let us all know so that we
can kind of share in that.
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But, I think having a team
of your supportive people
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like your psychiatrist, your
therapist, your dietician,
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is key, and then as open and
honest as we can be about it
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the more help and support we'll get, okay?
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Question number four.
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"My question for you is, can manic,
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"slash, depressive episodes,
be bipolar and be short?
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"I hear about them lasting
weeks, slash, months,
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"but I was wondering if you
can switch from one to another
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" within a matter of hours and days.
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"I absolutely love your videos.
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"I think they're extremely
mind-opening and helpful."
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Yes they can be quick.
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They can be much more quickly than
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once a year I have a depressive
episode or a manic episode.
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What we call that within
the bipolar spectrum
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this is a very difficult form
of bipolar disorder to have
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because, like you're saying,
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it happens more quickly
and we're up and down
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and things are really changing quickly
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and it's really hard for
us to get ahold of it
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in time before it switch
into something else.
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So having a therapist and
potentially getting medicated
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are key components to
a recovery from that,
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and being better able to
manage those symptoms.
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Also if some of you are thinking,
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"Hey my mood is up and down.
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"Some days I'm really happy
and then I'm really sad.
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"What's with that, or is
that bipolar disorder?"
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Many times we will have ups
and downs within our mood
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and that's completely normal.
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Often if we're not getting
the right nutrients,
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we're not eating enough,
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our mood can be really
labile, up and down,
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and so having that experience
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doesn't mean you have bipolar disorder,
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it means that your having mood swings
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and a lot of us have those.
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Specially if we have PMS too.
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If you're a girl and it's
right before your period
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you may have mood swings
where you're crying
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but at the same time you're really angry
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and you just feel all over the place.
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Another thing really quickly
about bipolar disorder
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is that we can have what
is called a mixed episode.
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So we have manic, hypomania.
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If you haven't watched my
bipolar disorder video,
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check it out 'cause I explain all of this.
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So we have all these levels, right?
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But when you have both at the same time
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like I talked about in a Q
and A, I think yesterday,
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that's a mixed episode and it
can be really uncomfortable
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and we can feel really irritable,
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but when we're kinda going back and forth
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from one to the other,
that's a rapid cycler.
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Now, I know it's kinda confusing.
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I'll be putting out more
videos about bipolar disorder.
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Many of you have told me
that you wanna hear more,
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and I will share more.
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So don't worry, that
is coming out shortly.
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Now the journal topic for today.
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I think this is something
that we need to do
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"What's something about
yourself that you're proud of?"
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Proud being the operative word.
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I don't want you to
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get it connected with any of
your mental health issues.
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I don't want to be connected
to your eating disorder,
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or any of your OCD-like
tendencies or your anxiety.
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I want it to be something
that you've done for you,
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something you're proud of.
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For instance, I'll go first.
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I am really proud that I'm
a self-sufficient woman.
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I work for a living.
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I can pay for my bills,
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and obviously I have Sean as well
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but I'm able to support myself.
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I was supporting myself before I met him.
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And I continued to while we were dating.
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And that's something I'm really proud of.
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I feel really empowered by
the fact that I can do that.
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I can pay for my own hair cuts.
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I can live my life.
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And I'm really proud
that I'm able to do that.
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So what's something that you're proud of?
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And let's share so that each
of us can maybe learn something
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from another person or
something about someone
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that we didn't know was happening.
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Have a wonderful weekend.
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I'll be back on Monday,
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so make sure to subscribe to my channel
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so you can get that topic video.
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And I will see you
Tuesday, I'm on Tumbler.
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So if you wanna ask your
questions for another FAQ
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I'll be there on Tuesday.
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Love you all, have a good one, bye!
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