Hey guys, welcome to the Mental Makeover podcast. I'm Lauren Curtis. You've probably heard the phrase,

the grass is always greener on the other side, but I believe it's greener where you water it.

This podcast is here to provide you with meaningful advice from myself and others in order to give

your little patch of grass the best chance to grow and flourish.

Hey guys, thanks for tuning in. Today's episode is, as you can see by the title, it's all about

me getting help for myself. But it's uncomfortable for me in a way to talk about because

it's just still still kind of surreal for me in a way. Like just preface this video,

sorry, this episode, it will be quite jumbled because I will

just be actually talking to you like, you're a friend of mine and don't have a script or dot

points. I'm just talking as it comes to my head and sharing my thoughts. But therapy or outside

help or whatever you want to call it, it's, I don't know, I think I

probably got sucked into the stigma, which was if you've been through something like traumatic

in your childhood or you're going through depression or anxiety or something that might be more of a pressing issue

for you like it really affects your day-to-day life and so I thought to myself because I don't

struggle with any of that I don't really have any reason to go and seek outside help because

I guess I was down playing or didn't realize that it's not

all or nothing. It isn't like you have to have a certain, you have to meet a certain criteria

to be able to seek help. Just because you don't have one thing doesn't mean that the thing

that you do have doesn't

really impact your life. And regardless of any of that, I also find it very difficult to be,

to trust people that I don't know with personal information. Like, it would take me a long period of time to get to know someone to feel comfortable enough

to tell them personal details about my life.

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