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Hey everyone, welcome back to Teenagey Therapy. I'm Gaya. I'm Kayla. I'm Thomas. I'm Isaac. I'm Mark.

And welcome back to episode 3. No. Welcome back to episode 4 of our Light in the Low Series with Jansport, our final episode.

It's been a great, a good, a good month of this series. I think it's a lot of important subjects for a cover. It was like, yeah, a lot.

It's our quality. Of course. It's the same thing. It's my favorite. I know, right? Maybe it's because we planned it.

Yeah, true. What we said we didn't want to do might have been what was holding us back. Yeah, so yeah, thank you, Jansport, for presenting this series.

And you know, passing the mic down to us, lighten the load as a mental health initiative aimed to tackle the mental health crisis among youth and among teenagers, which is why we're talking about all the problems that we face.

And this episode, we're talking about one that I've been wanting to talk about for a while. I don't know why we've gone two years without talking about it. Yeah, I think in the beginning, I remember like writing this down and all this thought it was so interesting.

We're talking about being fucking poor. Let's go. Let's go about money. I know.

I know. See, so look, here's the deal. None of us are really rich or wealthy or for the most part, even like, well, I'll be honest.

And it's like, I think I just I just wanted to focus on like what that's like and like the kind of pressures that puts on you because for me, I know that I'm like, I'm pretty sure I'm like very near the poverty line, if not like at it, which was like, it's so wild, right?

Because you always hear about like, people, you know, like, oh, people are an impoverty. People are living in poverty. You're like, damn, I'm gonna speak terrible.

And you look at yourself and you're like, oh, shit, that's me. And you don't even realize it, right? And so I think it was it's so weird because I don't know.

I guess ever since I was I was young, I always saw money as an issue, right? Because you always hear your parents saying that you should save electricity.

You should save food, you should save water, you should save everything. And I think I realized that does cause like certain amount.

It that goes into your like adolescent and like adult years. Because for me, I think constantly just feeling worried about our financial situation.

Now I realize makes me scared that like money is going to run out at any time. So every time that I have some money, I like have a habit of saving a lot of it.

Because or now you know what's weird? If I save 100, then I'd never like going down under 100. If I save 200, then I don't like going.

It's like each new goal is like what I can no longer go. I do the same thing. I think a part of it sort of sense because I sometimes feel guilty spending money, even though it doesn't really have to be so expensive.

Just spending money on myself. I sometimes like doubt myself. And I think well, can I get this cheaper? So I really need it. When am I going to be using it? How many times can I use it?

And I just start thinking so much because of the emphasis that was put on money when I was growing up, especially like through my parents and stuff.

Like my dad, he worked two full-time jobs for like the majority of my childhood, like kind of a long years.

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