

Microblog: 7 to 8M 14-24 Year Olds Suffered from Anxiety, Depression or Suicide Ideation


DOES MENTAL HEALTH & DIET HAVE A CONNECTION?
YES.
š¤I used to suffer from severe depression and anxiety. There were days that getting out of bad was excruciatingly difficult. It didnāt matter how many commitments and promises I made the night before.
šYou donāt understand if youāve never been in that dark place.
š±I was also plant-based for 12 years, thinking I was doing the best service for my health.
ā ļøNever once, when I got administered to the psych ward for a mental breakdown, did they ask about my diet.
ā ļøNever once did the dietitians in the intensive eating disorder facility say that plant-based diets arenāt ideal. And I was in there for 10 hours a day.
ā ļøNever once did my drug-prescribing psychiatrist recommend dietary changes.
āThey honored requests for eating plant-based but they wouldnāt allow low-carb. THAT was considered disordered eating.
š¦Thereās a lot wrong with the model but I loved that in those facilities, most of the time was focused on healing and getting-to-know-yourself therapies.
š”I recommend therapy for everyone.
š¦š»I want my boys to grow up as confident men and to be good salt in this world. I donāt want them to look towards external validation.
š„And in therapy, I learned of a slap-in-the-face truth.
āJudy, you can only give what you have.ā
šI needed to love myself to show my boys self-love. That was when my healing journey began.
š§Right now, thereās A LOT of noise in the world. And while so many are living in fear, we need to stop for the next generation.
šInstead of watching one more hour of fear-mongering noise, take a walk outside with your loved ones.
Because they need us.
šThis P-demic has done harm in areas we donāt even want to look at but we need to. This is our future generation.
š§ I lived in depression. I was on SSRIs and antipsychotics. That is NOT a fun place to be and they donāt work in the long-term.
We must help our next generation. We can start by:
š„© Feeding them REAL WHOLE FOODS (MEATS)
š” Being a role model by STOP LIVING IN FEAR and
⨠START LIVING.
ā ļøIf you are living in fear, your kids (all ages) can feel it.
You can only offer what you have.
ā„ļø And I actively choose love and meat.

