YouTube Mental Illness Community Thrives

Typed aloud earlier asking whether there wasn't a vibrant survivor community @ YouTube.

There is.

Have spent the last day or so working my way through the videos, collecting subscriptions and videos for later perusal and possible contact. Making a movie together gets us ALL out of isolation.

This is an extant community ready to speak.

Ready to - no- breaking the silence wide open.

His slideshow at the end - 20 Reasons Recovery is Impossible - applies to me, as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse as much as to anybody trying to make a difference in their quality of life.

From his post on the subject:

1. When we don’t search for help as 50% of social phobics!
2. When we don’t know that we have social phobia
3. When we don’t know that social phobia is a mental illness
4. When we think that we are the only ones
5. When we don’t have heard from recovery from others
6. When we isolate ourselves
7. When all we do is just complain about us
8. When we have tried a lot of “solutions” without any solution and then we give up
9. When we have tried wrong solutions for us
10. When we don’t initiate a recovery process
11. When we don’t search for a solution
12. When we think that it is too late and we are too old
13. When we think that recovery is to difficult
14. When we don’t work on our low self esteem
15. When we want to continue to live in our comfort zone
16. When we think that there is no solution for us
17. When we think that others have to help me
18. When we don’t know how to recover
19. When we don’t want to recover
20. When we don’t take responsibility for our recovery

Grassroots, yo.

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