Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmer Stories podcast. I'm your host, Dr. John DeLin. It is July 10th

2021 and today we are in store you are in store for I think a really important

special interview today we have with us

Kelsey Marie Warner. Hi Kelsey. Hi. Thank you for having me. Oh, it's my pleasure. A lot of you will know who Kelsey Marie Warner is

she is a mental health. She is in a master's degree program studying mental health

but she's very well known for a TikTok channel she has with over 500,000 TikTok followers where she

tiktoks about mental health and specifically about self-harm.

So this is a particularly poignant and sensitive topic for me

just this week I had a friend who passed away and

and

let's just say that mental health and distressed tolerance and coping mechanisms were all part of this friend's experience

it was super sad and hard and

what it really focused my attention upon is just

what I think I've been feeling for a long time which is this life is super hard and

sometimes this life you have anxiety sometimes you have depression sometimes you have distress and

we are not taught how to cope in healthy ways

with distress and with sadness and with tension and with pain and

there are less healthy ways of coping and there are more healthy ways with coping and

it's really important to understand

healthy coping mental health but also

stopping short of people ending their lives by suicide

there are other ways of self-harm that are really common and these are

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