Mental Health- The Oil Change We Ignore | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 26
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about mental health, therapy, shame, faith, anxiety, and why getting support should not feel like something we have to hide.
I share what mental health looked like in my family growing up, how my mom’s breakdown shaped the way I saw therapy, how my brother’s addiction keeps me passionate about people not suffering alone, and why I think therapy is more like taking the car in for a tune up than admitting failure.
I’m not sharing this as a therapist. I’m sharing as someone who is still learning that needing support does not mean you are weak.
00:00 Welcome Back And Hawaii Anxiety
00:24 Why Mental Health Should Not Be Taboo
01:35 Therapy Is Asking For Support
02:48 My Family’s Mental Health Story
03:50 My Mom’s Breakdown
05:32 My First Introduction To Therapy
07:32 Addiction, Anxiety, And Fear Around Mental Health
09:34 Stop Invalidating Your Own Pain
12:09 Ignoring My Own Need For Help
13:43 Mental Health Is Like A Car Tune Up
16:19 Why Do We Apologize For Crying?
17:42 How I Found My Therapist
18:19 I Turned Out Fine, But Did I?
19:27 Why I Refuse To Stay Quiet
20:33 Kids, Therapy, And Support
21:50 Mental Health Days Should Be Normal
24:51 Mental Health Is Not A Lack Of Faith
26:47 Therapy Is A Lifelong Journey
28:09 Anxiety In The School Drop Off Line
29:14 Tools That Help My Mental Health
31:01 Therapy Is For Everyone
32:01 Boundaries Around Mental Health Shame
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to another episode of After Hours with Amanda, the podcast that's about parenting, but not just for parents. |
| 0:08.9 | And we cover a plethora of life topics. |
| 0:13.5 | We got that intro out of the way. |
| 0:15.0 | How professional was that? |
| 0:16.1 | Can I just tell you something? |
| 0:17.5 | Y'all know we're supposed to leave for Hawaii this week. |
| 0:22.1 | It's been a trip that's been three years in the making. There's been cancellations, reschedules, and all the things, right? |
| 0:27.8 | All the things that have gone into, you know, the last two years in trying to travel. And I want to |
| 0:35.0 | just talk today about this idea of mental health. |
| 0:38.6 | And the reason that I'm so passionate about it and the reason that I think that it's not |
| 0:42.9 | something taboo that has to not be talked about or that should be taken care of in the |
| 0:48.4 | shadows of quiet, hushed, blocked out appointments that no one knows what it's for, |
| 0:53.6 | that we say, oh, I've got an |
| 0:54.7 | appointment. That shame that I think is so ridiculous that stems from this idea of being judged. |
| 1:02.5 | And like, I get it. I get it. I trust me. Because there is this weird, stupid shame that is cast or almost weakness that is implied by people |
| 1:16.1 | when you go and you ask for support because that's what going to therapy is. |
| 1:20.2 | Therapy is looking at your situation or yourself and saying I could really use assistance |
| 1:27.0 | here. |
| 1:29.5 | And I don't think there's any other area of life where if you went up to someone and said, I need help with this, they would be like, |
| 1:33.3 | wow, you're so weak. But therapy has this weird stigma. And I just want to kind of break down for |
| 1:39.9 | you because I get asked a lot why, well, not why I'm so open with therapy, but how I can be so open with therapy. |
| 1:47.7 | In a very loving, appreciative way, most people will DM me and say, like, oh, my gosh, thank you so much for being so open about it. |
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