As the world reckons with the lingering shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic, our latest episode reaches into the hearts and minds of young adults grappling with this new reality. We're joined once again by Matt Fox, whose Tough Mudder trials serve as a powerful metaphor for the resilience we explore. We're not just talking about bouncing back; we're sharing lived experiences and the essential self-care toolkit that helped Matt and me anchor our mental well-being. From the tactile satisfaction of assembling model parts to the endorphin boost of a successful obstacle course, our personal passions light the way for listeners seeking solace in their hobbies.
The journey from adolescence to adulthood is never without its hurdles, but throw in a global pandemic and you have a recipe for unprecedented stress. We unravel the layers of anxiety and depression that have become all too common among young adults during this period. The conversation takes a turn towards the scientific, with MRI scans revealing startling changes in the brain structures of our youth. But it's not all clinical; we weave in stories that resonate with anyone who's felt the weight of isolation or the struggle with disrupted life plans. Through the lens of these challenges, we offer insights into how the pandemic has accelerated the aging of emotions but also how we can support our younger generations in recalibrating their mental compass.
The path to mental wellness is intensely personal, and that's why our final chapter emphasizes the significance of finding the right therapist. It's a candid discussion on the trial and error that often accompanies the search for a fitting mental health professional. We dive into the varying faces of depression and anxiety across age groups, hinting at a possible deep dive into this topic in future episodes. Our parting message is one of encouragement—to step forward, seek the support you need, and remember that the journey towards healing is both courageous and achievable.
FIND ME: My Website: https://motorcityhypnotist.com/podcast My social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/motorcityhypnotist/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjjLNcNvSYzfeX0uHqe3gA Twitter: https://twitter.com/motorcityhypno Instagram: motorcityhypno FREE HYPNOSIS GUIDE https://detroithypnotist.convertri.com/podcast-free-hypnosis-guide Please also subscribe to the show and leave a review. (Stay with me as later in the podcast, I’ll be giving away a free gift to all listeners!)
Change your thinking, change your life! Laugh hard, run fast, be kind. David R. Wright MA, LPC, CHT The Motor City Hypnotist
As the world reckons with the lingering shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic, our latest episode reaches into the hearts and minds of young adults grappling with this new reality. We're joined once again by Matt Fox, whose Tough Mudder trials serve as a powerful metaphor for the resilience we explore. We're not just talking about bouncing back; we're sharing lived experiences and the essential self-care toolkit that helped Matt and me anchor our mental well-being. From the tactile satisfaction of assembling model parts to the endorphin boost of a successful obstacle course, our personal passions light the way for listeners seeking solace in their hobbies.
The journey from adolescence to adulthood is never without its hurdles, but throw in a global pandemic and you have a recipe for unprecedented stress. We unravel the layers of anxiety and depression that have become all too common among young adults during this period. The conversation takes a turn towards the scientific, with MRI scans revealing startling changes in the brain structures of our youth. But it's not all clinical; we weave in stories that resonate with anyone who's felt the weight of isolation or the struggle with disrupted life plans. Through the lens of these challenges, we offer insights into how the pandemic has accelerated the aging of emotions but also how we can support our younger generations in recalibrating their mental compass.
The path to mental wellness is intensely personal, and that's why our final chapter emphasizes the significance of finding the right therapist. It's a candid discussion on the trial and error that often accompanies the search for a fitting mental health professional. We dive into the varying faces of depression and anxiety across age groups, hinting at a possible deep dive into this topic in future episodes. Our parting message is one of encouragement—to step forward, seek the support you need, and remember that the journey towards healing is both courageous and achievable.
FIND ME: My Website: https://motorcityhypnotist.com/podcast My social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/motorcityhypnotist/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjjLNcNvSYzfeX0uHqe3gA Twitter: https://twitter.com/motorcityhypno Instagram: motorcityhypno FREE HYPNOSIS GUIDE https://detroithypnotist.convertri.com/podcast-free-hypnosis-guide Please also subscribe to the show and leave a review. (Stay with me as later in the podcast, I’ll be giving away a free gift to all listeners!)
Change your thinking, change your life! Laugh hard, run fast, be kind. David R. Wright MA, LPC, CHT The Motor City Hypnotist
Speaker 1:
Go In this episode of the Motor City Hypnotist Podcast. Matt, what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 2:
I'm a little rusty over here. You're a little rusty. I like this in the background what the fuck is it with you?
Speaker 1:
Go on, we're here In the podcast your voice, southfield Studios Speaking of which Doing a podcast In this episode of the Motor City Hypnot, a podcast.
Speaker 2:
In this episode of the Motor City Hip-Hop. In this episode of the it's part two. Yeah, I know you threw me off there a little bit, matt.
Speaker 1:
This is part two of Effects of COVID on Young Adults. This is part two. Before we get into that, though, I forgot on our last episode.
Speaker 2:
I didn't show you our dog for the end. Yeah, okay, we'll do that. We'll do that.
Speaker 1:
All right, so first off, that is Matt Fox, the other voice you hear.
Speaker 2:
Thanks for joining me, Matt.
Speaker 1:
I'm just pushing buttons, no you're doing a lot more than that. Yeah, you're winner of the week. What in Jesus, are you talking about? The special winner of the week? Well, no, you did a tough mutter. It's more than I would I've ever done. I'm actually doing it again this year. That's the. That's the rumor.
Speaker 2:
It's a rumor. Yes, the rumor father's day 2024.
Speaker 1:
Oh good for you. That's fantastic. Where can we find you, sir? Let me tell you my website is motorcityhypnotistcom. Check out the website. When you go to the website, you're going to see a tab that says shows. Click on that, especially if you're looking to book a high school grad night or post-prom party. The days are filling up. I've just had two requests over the past week and I had to turn them both down because I was pre-booked. So if you're interested and if you need somebody and if you want a good hypnotist for your all night party, you need to call me, and if you want a good hypnotist for your all-night party, you need to call me. You'll even take a nap for it. I'm just saying I've been doing this a long time and I can tell you that it's going to be a good show Excellent. So check that out on the website.
Speaker 1:
My Facebook and YouTube are both Motor City Hypnotists and I did mention this last episode and I'll lean into this a little bit. But I talk a lot about self-care when I'm talking with clients and I'm starting to post videos of me building my model. Yes, that may be helpful for some of you, might just be interesting to watch Again. I'm not a professional, I'm an amateur, but these are the things. I've been through this model once. This is my second time and I learned a lot during the first round. Uh-huh, there's a lot of intricacies and ways to do things in a specific order to do them in, so you don't get messed up. You mean, you don't start at the middle and work your way out.
Speaker 2:
No, not really.
Speaker 1:
You don't start at the end and work your way backwards. I'm going to get into the weeds here for a minute. So it's a mobius jupiter 2 model from the original series lost in space from the late 60s. Okay, so this is a huge kit, I mean very detailed, but there's a lot of painting, a lot of detail, work, a lot of tiny little pieces and to light, everything you you have to. You can either buy a lighting kit or you can do it manually. I'm doing it manually.
Speaker 1:
I'm like soldering wires to strips of leds and and smds and so so, but, but, but there are certain parts of this model that that, if you build it, if you build the kit exactly the way they tell you to, for one, for one thing, that they're, they're, they're these walls in the jupiter ii, they're beans and they and they glow, they light up and they pulse like a, like a. Okay, the kit pieces are just two pieces of plastic stuck together and they give you a reflective tape to put them in the middle. Yeah, it's not good enough. No, so you got to these wall pieces you just built from scratch. Wow, so that is one thing I cover in this first video is how to make these scratch built wall pieces that you can light, that will have that glow, that led, that led pulse, yes, okay, so check that out. I I know it's a little bit different, but but for me I kind of look at it as like it's for people who enjoy doing that. That's self. I know it's a little bit different, but for me I kind of look at it as like for people who enjoy doing that. That's self-care. It's taking care of yourself, doing something you enjoy. It's therapeutic, it is therapeutic, very therapeutic, and for me, I just enjoy getting into it and solving issues and making something Got it. Check that out. That video is on my YouTube channel right now. Cool, so YouTube and Facebook are both Motor City Hypnotist. Check that out. Snapchat and Instagram are both Motor City Hypno H-Y-P-N-O and, as we do every single episode, from one all the way to 257, something like that, which is, I think, where we're at right now, somewhere in there.
Speaker 1:
Um, your free hypnosis guide. Text the word hypnosis to three, one, three, 800, eight, five, one, zero. If you need that number, just go to my website. That's the number right on the website. You can text it directly to that or, if you just need it later check out the show notes and see the phone number to text that too Excellent, just need it. Later Check out the show notes and see the phone number to text. That, too Excellent, big thing. Wherever you're listening, whatever platform you're listening on whatever podcast platform, or if you're on Facebook Live. Either way, leave a review. Reviews. Help us get more people, help us grow the show. Have more people listening. That's kind of the idea.
Speaker 1:
All right, sounds good, here we go, we're ready. Okay, all right.
Speaker 2:
Sounds good, here we go, we're ready OK.
Speaker 1:
That's how winning is done. So this is a cool story. All right, this isn't. This is about an NBA. Nba star oh, okie dokie.
Speaker 1:
For most basketball players, making it to the NBA is the ultimate dream. Okay, but Brooklyn Nets star Mikal Bridges has another dream as well. My other dream was being a second grade teacher. The small forward told CBS News. I think just helping kids has always been a big thing of mine. Why second grade? Because I loved second grade when I was young, he said. I feel like that was one of the years I really remember just having a great year. I had a great teacher named Mrs Porter and I felt and I just feel like I always loved second grade.
Speaker 1:
Growing up in Philadelphia. Bridges was inspired by Mrs Porter to follow that dream. He got to do that this month at PS 134 in Brooklyn where he worked as a teacher for the day. Okay, yeah, the Nets got in around 1.30 am the night before after beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-101. The player had a long night but he was committed to teaching those kids the next day. Good, good for him. Mikael Bridges in gym class with the fourth graders at PS134 said they got me excited. Bridges said he started the day playing basketball in gym class. The six-foot, six-inch player, who was drafted to the NBA in 2018, organized a game of knockout for the kids and answered their questions. It always kills me when he's a small forward, but he's 6'6". This always kills me in basketball.
Speaker 1:
He said small and I'm like okay, like when you watch basketball like even back in the day, back when Isaiah and Dumars and— the fridge, like Isaiah and Dumars, when you watch basketball, like, oh, those guys are small, they're still like 6'4", yeah, 6'5", yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it's crazy with NBA. Yeah, and then there's Bill Lambert.
Speaker 1:
Right. And then there's Bill Lambert, right, yeah, exactly One student had a question that surprised him. How do you incorporate your personal life with your professional life?
Speaker 2:
Isn't that one? Yeah, go on.
Speaker 1:
I like that question. He said it's not that bad. Actually, I think the biggest thing is time In season. You don't have much time because I travel a lot, but I've been in it for about six years now, so I found a good balance, hanging out with friends and relaxing and preparing for games. Her next question if your family comes to your games, do they get free tickets? His answer was yes.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, duh.
Speaker 1:
And then another student asked why didn't you be a teacher if you wanted to be? And then he answered because of basketball. But basketball doesn't go forever. He said this is just the first part of my journey, so I think a teacher is going to come up next trying to do both. After gym he went to first grade music class. They were teaching me on this little xylophone. I didn't know what I was doing, what the teacher was teaching, he said. The kid next to me was pointing at the board like follow that, follow that. I'm like oh, okay, that makes sense. So the kid corrected him on how to play the xylophone.
Speaker 2:
Right, yeah, it's not ding it's dong Go on.
Speaker 1:
Many of the kids seized the opportunity to tell Bridges. They too play basketball On the playground at recess. They marveled at how tall he was, and one stopped their ball game to ask Bridges for a hug. At lunch he answered the first grader's riddles and then he taught his favorite class, math. Okay, that's where perhaps his inclination for teaching others began.
Speaker 1:
Math came easy to me, I feel like I was probably one of the smartest math kids in our class, he said, adding that when he was a kid he'd help other students. I'll try to teach them like oh, this is how I learned it and it's pretty simple to me this way. Just think of it this way. A lot of days we're in school, he said, and we're with our teachers, and I think they just don't get enough credit because we're around them a lot you know what I'm saying and they help us become better people every day, and I think many teachers are overlooked. Bridges says he hopes to become a teacher or even a principal after he finishes his NBA career. Nice, yeah, it's a cool story. So to I want to get his first name Mikal M-I-K-A-L. So, too, I want to get his first name MikalM I K a l Mikal bridges of the Brooklyn Nets. Winner of the week.
Speaker 2:
Great story, absolutely great winner that's how we did is die did. Uh, did you ever have a elementary school crush on a teacher when you were in grades?
Speaker 1:
when in grade school, I did not in grade school okay, I didn't have any attractive teachers in grade school. First, first and second grade I had the same teacher, mrs hall. Third grade I miss had Mrs Mehatch no, not so much, all right. Fourth grade, I had Ms Hirschman Gotcha, not so much, all right. Then fifth and sixth grade, I had Mr Hawkins and Mr Bell Okay. So I met in fifth and sixth grade Gotcha, gotcha. I did have a crush on my junior high teachers.
Speaker 2:
I had good for you.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, coming into your own, you know, yeah, you know, just getting you know, yeah, getting aware of things, how things worked.
Speaker 2:
You know this is not a joke. This is the truth. My third grade teacher was mrs jones, so, yeah, I had a crush on them, and that was the only reason why I decided to go to that school, because we had just moved across the entire country.
Speaker 1:
Well, yeah, because you're a service brat. Yeah, I was a service. Yeah, I was a military brat. Yeah, yes.
Speaker 2:
So we walked into the school we were going to and I was just not into it. And then the teacher walked in. I'm like, okay, hello, whatever you say, I'll be a good student. Mm-hmm, I'll be a good student.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it's crazy. Like this in the background. What?
Speaker 2:
the fuck, is it with you so?
Speaker 1:
yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2:
That's awesome oh good for you. It is what it is. It's fantastic. What's that?
Speaker 1:
Oh, so back to it.
Speaker 2:
There we go. We had to get that in, so we had to get that in so we're going to continue so we're continuing on.
Speaker 1:
This is part two of the effect of covid on young people, and when I say young people ages 18 to 23, 24 ish all those people that were probably juniors or seniors in high school when covid hit and now they're into college or into their careers we're talking about really how it disrupted the lives of young people. I mean honestly, it disrupted everyone's lives. I'm not I'm not downplaying that, but for kids in in the normal routine of things, that that that was a huge change that they had to make right like, especially, again, my son his senior year from march on it was he was sitting at home in his room yeah, and then it just um, it just had.
Speaker 1:
It has a lot of effect. So we talked on first episode really about how it had affected the research adolescent ages 13 to 17.
Speaker 1:
Let me just review that real quick. They did MRI scans of adolescents ages 13 to 17 for several years when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and they had to pause their research. When they went back to it, they compared images from before and after and it showed that the… Brain structures responsible for controlling emotions and executive functions such as decision making, were adversely affected. In effect, they showed that they said that it, aged three years, in a matter of a half a year, in a matter of six months, ended. There became a really big increase in reports of anxiety and depression with young people from ages like 17 to 23, 24.
Speaker 1:
Now I've seen this in my office. I see a lot of adolescents, young adults, and a lot of them have been, I'm going to say, affected that's the best way I can put it by having to upend their lives and reschedule everything and do things different, Even just college courses. Even meeting with his advisor my son has had. He has to call and leave a message and they trade phone calls and it's a couple weeks before they talk Without him driving downtown and going into the advisor's office office. It just becomes more difficult so you can't pick up a phone and make a phone call well, that I mean you can.
Speaker 1:
But a lot of times you just leave a message and hope for a call back and you know it's just. It's just not an ideal situation. You dial them back five minutes later. Well, yeah, you could do that, but but here's, but here's the thing that's happened.
Speaker 1:
It's, it's like there has been this, and this is kind of a joke, that's this running joke that millennials are just um lazy or passive or not motivated just biting my tongue over here and and, and I think to some extent that may be true, just based on anecdotal experience from my own practice, from seeing people in that age range, and yes, you're right, they do seem unmotivated, they do seem lazy.
Speaker 2:
I have to having three adult children that are millennials. Right, I don't see that in them and I really you know their, their upbringing, you know their, their mother and I, you know we, we wouldn't allow them to be lazy. Right, if something's got to get done, you need to do it, and we may have gone about it different ways, sure, but they're not lazy people, right, right, they are. They're motivated, they've got careers, they're out making a difference for themselves, they're contributing to society.
Speaker 2:
They're not afraid of going into social interactions or going to a bar, to a concert. They want to be out there. But now we look at these younger millennials, right, and it's a completely different it is.
Speaker 1:
They don't go out, they don't hang out with friends, they don't go and do things.
Speaker 2:
It's really mind numbing? No, it is.
Speaker 1:
And just that in and of itself, if you isolate, you're more likely to have symptoms of depression and anxiety. And that's what happens. When you isolate and don't go out and you don't see people and you don't do things, yes, you're probably going to have some depression. So let me talk about what they learned from these studies, because this is where we ended off on last episode. All right, after the shutdowns, after the pandemic shutdowns, there was a rise, a huge rise, in reports of adolescent anxiety and depression.
Speaker 1:
The report also showed that they internalized problems more than teens interviewed prior to the pandemic. So internalizing problems like they held it all in, they weren't processing things, they weren't doing things. Here's the interesting thing the brain scans showed that parts of the brain involved in memory and emotion, the hippocampus and the amygdala, were thicker. In post-shutdown teen brains, the abdullah amygdala yeah, the hippocampus and the amygdala was thicker. In post-shutdown teen brains, the cortex, the area involved in executive functions such as self-control and problem solving, was thinner. These changes are normal in brain development, but they appear to have happened faster during the pandemic. I mean, just that is like there there were, that there was a change in brain function for a lot of this population, a lot of decision-making got taken away from them.
Speaker 1:
And here's what we mentioned a little bit earlier On average, the brains of teens who went through 10 months of pandemic shutdowns aged around three years. Yeah, that's what they showed, and I mentioned that way early in the last episode. The premature aging is similar to changes that happen in the brain of teens who experience violence, neglect and family dysfunction. Wow, so think about those things if you've been a victim of violence, of neglect or family dysfunction. This covid shutdown had the exact same effects that those things would, which just blows my mind. It's, it's I. I chuckle because one trauma.
Speaker 2:
Yes, the world's coming to an end. The second one, david. Yeah, what was the second? Neglect, neglect, violence, neglect, family dysfunction I'm leaving violence out of there. But you know the the whole trauma thing. Things changed and they couldn't comprehend, they couldn't, you know, wrap their brains around the change that was happening so incredibly quick right? Yes, because it happened like overnight, overnight yes, next thing, you know you can't go outside. And then the, the third one that you had mentioned there was family dysfunction, family dysfunction. Everyone's household got just up, was just uplifted.
Speaker 1:
Well, because you talk about the kids in school, that's upended the parents and their work schedule upended, upended, right.
Speaker 2:
So the whole this, the whole family vernacular, uh-huh, changed a complete 180 hey, you leave in the morning, you come home in the afternoon now now everybody's home. Everybody is home. Yep, you is home. Yep, you know, you got your dad sitting there in a dress shirt on video wearing shorts because he doesn't need to wear pants In his underwear.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, he doesn't need to wear pants.
Speaker 2:
You know, mom's out there trying to make a difference because she may be working as well and then their work schedule's all messed up. Or if they didn't work, they're trying to figure out how to make this household work when everybody's still at home. Yeah, exactly, literally, literally. So I get it, I get the. I understand why the COVID, the COVIDian timeline that we are living in, is still a relevant and prevalent thing in today's society, right, so the findings of the study really kind of what's a good word for it.
Speaker 1:
So the findings of the study really kind of what's a good word for it kind of underscore the struggle that adolescents have gone through in the past four years. So and I know that a lot of mental health providers and professionals are kind of aware of this they're kind of seeing the results of all of this, I don't know dysfunction, let's call it that. And again, a lot of my clients in that age range are really dealing with serious symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Speaker 2:
So what do you help them? How do you help them? Are you using hypnosis to help them through that?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, a lot of times I'll use hypnosis to try to help or modify. A lot of times it is just addressing the symptoms of depression which, again, when you're depressed you're going to isolate. You don't feel like doing anything, you isolate, stop self-care activities, you don't shower every day. You don't shower every day. Depression. I think of it, as I like to put it in these terms like there's just this two-ton weight on your back and you've got to carry that around and it's easier just not to move, it's easier to just stay in your bed and not do anything, because carrying that weight is a lot of effort.
Speaker 2:
It's a lot of work just to brush your teeth and shower. Sometimes, well, in my brain it's more of if it's the weight and you just don't want to get up and shower, just do it, you might feel better.
Speaker 1:
Well, but see, that's the whole thing. And I tell clients that there are three major pillars to combat depression. It's sleep, diet, diet and exercise. So if you get at least eight or nine hours of sleep not more, because, again, if you're depressed you tend to sleep more Eight or nine, even nine is maybe pushing it but eight or nine hours of sleep On a schedule, on a schedule Same time, go to bed at the same time at night, wake up the same time every morning, doesn't matter if you have something to do or not Right, make that your schedule. The second pillar is diet Eating as right as you can.
Speaker 2:
You can have cheat days, but you have to still I mean, you can have cheat days, but overall Make good choices. Make good choices.
Speaker 1:
You need to have at least two meals a day and be fairly like I said. You don't have to be vegan or vegetarian, I'm not saying that, but eating smart, eating things that you know are going to be good for you. And then the other one is physical activity. Exercise will make you feel better, although but here's the challenge when you're depressed, you don't have the motivation to do those things. You don't have the motivation to get up. You don't have the motivation to do those things. You don't have the motivation to get up. You don't have the motivation to eat right, you just eat when you can.
Speaker 1:
You don't have the motivation to um exercise, you just don't feel like it, so you don't do it. And and that's why that's how to, when you get stuck in this, in this trench of depression, is so hard to get out of um. But but those things, if you can implement those things, that that's fantastic, because that is going to help you feel better, you don't will and and you know, you don't have to do all three at the same time well, and I always say don't think of it as, because because when I say exercise, the first thing, naturally the first thing people think of, I don't have a couple of hours every day to exercise?
Speaker 2:
No, you don't need to.
Speaker 1:
You don't need a couple of hours, but that's the point. I don't care if it's 10 minutes, right, and people say, well, I don't want to go to the gym, I don't, I mean, walk up and down your stairs.
Speaker 2:
20 times I can't go to the gym. They close the doors.
Speaker 1:
It's Well that too Well, they're open now. Study found it correlates with depression and anxiety and addiction. Addiction is the other thing. I haven't mentioned yet, that a lot of these kids are going to have addiction issues going forward because they've been isolated. And what do you do when you isolate? You drink or you smoke? I mean it just adds to the and and, of course, for the future that means a higher risk of cancer, diabetes, you know, between, like I said, 18 and 23, 24. Sure, this is going to be a lot bigger problem in the next 10, 20 years when these people start getting medical issues because of their lifestyle now, Right, so here's the thing.
Speaker 2:
Better invest in Ozempic now. Here's the thing Better invest in Ozempic now.
Speaker 1:
Here's the thing Take action now, and I know this sounds it's a little bit counterintuitive, because when you don't feel like doing something, you typically don't do it. But if you start now, it's going to be much easier than 10 years from now when you're locked into the cycle of poor behavior. Years from now, when you're locked into the cycle of poor behavior like sleeping 14 hours a day and eating crap and not exercising. There's no easy answer, I guess is what I'm trying to say. And yes, it takes work and it takes some effort. But if you start doing things in small increments, then you can build on those over time. That is the important thing. Small increments, then you can build on those over time. That is the important thing. So I would say for a person just starting out who's in a state of depression or anxiety first off, try to regulate your sleep pattern. Like Matt said, same, go to bed the same time every night. Get up the same time every morning, I don't care if you're tired or not. Do it, Go to bed. I don't care if you're only in bed for two hours the first night. Once you get it, once you make, once you establish the habit, it will start working for you.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, eating better. You know whether that means, I don't know, have a salad, I I mean not, not even that, but but just just cooking something at home. Right, process the process. Yeah, the processed foods are the ones that are going to kill you. That's frozen foods, anything like that, microwave stuff. It's all processed. And then the other thing is really being active, trying to be more physically active and, like I said, you don't have to work out for two hours a day. Take 10 minutes Jog in place. Anybody can do that anywhere, yeah, anywhere, anywhere. You don't have to be at a gym, you don't have to be out, you can do it right in your living room. So so just start with these small things and kind of build into that.
Speaker 2:
But back to these, these young, this younger generation. It's, you know, going back to their. Hopefully they're seeing somebody for these things.
Speaker 1:
Well, that that too, and I would say, if you are in a state of depression or anxiety or you feel like you're trying to manage it, by all means see a therapist. That that is one of the best things you can do for yourself now. And and I'm going to say this, and I I I don't know if I've addressed this, I'm sure I probably have at some other podcast along the way but going to therapy is not easy because sometimes when you go to therapy, if you have a good therapist, you're going to talk about things you probably don't want to talk about, sure, and it's going to be difficult, it's going to be challenging and it's going to bring up feelings, especially if you've had violence or trauma in your past. And I will say this COVID thing was a trauma for people. It was for people in school and in that age range was a trauma for people. It was for people in school and in that age range. So, yeah, going to therapy sometimes is difficult because you got to talk about things that are sometimes unpleasant, but that's the way to work through it and get past it and establish these new habits that are going to make you feel better going forward. So, definitely if you're feeling depressed, if you're feeling anxious, definitely reach out.
Speaker 1:
Find a good therapist and I know I've went over this before. Gosh, I'm sure we had an episode at some point along the way on how to choose a good therapist. Yeah, we did. We did. I may revisit that because that's been a long time ago, but we may come back to that.
Speaker 1:
But the big thing is find somebody who's going to fit for you, because all therapists are not equal, just like any other profession, and I'm sad to say I've seen it, I've seen it in my own clinic there are some really bad therapists out there, sure? So if you don't, if something's not right or you don't feel like it's helping you, you you as a client have the right to choose who you want to see. Now, I don't mean that to say you're going to find somebody who agrees with everything you say that's's not what I'm saying Somebody who you can respect and work with, who's going to help you get Because, again, there are a lot of bad therapists out there. So, you know, do your research. Here's one of the big tips and we are going to come back to this choosing a good therapist. We may do that next week, okay, but one of the big things is check out their website read their bio.
Speaker 1:
If they don't have that on their website, just skip it, just go past it, move on, move on. Every therapist should have a bio on their website talking about their experience, what they've been doing, how long they've been doing it, and that is going to. That's going to weed out a lot of issues for you. Sure, yeah.
Speaker 2:
There's a there's a lot to go over still about this topic, and we will come back to it at some point, but I'm sure you've got a few things lined up already.
Speaker 1:
So yeah, absolutely so. So yeah, and we may come back to this. As far as just just the idea of depression and anxiety in that age range, I know we've talked a lot about depression and anxiety because that's what we do it's a mental health podcast, so but specifically with that age group it does hit a little bit differently. So we maybe we'll do an episode just for that age range. Okay, that could work all right.
Speaker 1:
So, whatever you're dealing with, and if you are in this age range and you are dealing with these issues of depression and anxiety, definitely get help for it. Don't wait, don't think it's going to get better, because typically if you just let it go, it doesn't get better by itself. You have to do something, and I know sometimes that's difficult to take that action. But make an appointment with a therapist, find somebody you can connect with and who does well for you. That's the biggest. I like that awesome, cool. So let's uh, before we end, I know last episode we forgot our detroit dog rescue, so we're gonna have two today, all right, first one is stitch. Stitch needs a home look at that.
Speaker 1:
That's a cute puppers he is a cute puppers. He's a mixed breed, neutered male, 35 pounds. He's dog friendly, uh, kid friendly over 10. Oh okay, um, special needs he has heartworm positive so probably need treatment for that. But but he needs a home. That's a cute pup there's stitch here.
Speaker 2:
I'll let you look at Stitcher Matt. Yeah, let me look at Stitcher. He's got really skinny legs.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, he does, doesn't he? Got to fatten him up a little bit. So our next one, since we're doing a double take here. This is a puppy. He was just born in January, oh my goodness. So he's only a few months old. He's a beagle mix. Okay, he's a beagle mix. Okay, he's a male. He'll be about 50 pounds. He's dog friendly, cat friendly and kid friendly oh nice. And his activity level is high. You want to see Murphy Robocop.
Speaker 2:
Murphy. Oh look at that. That's a robo puppy. Look at that.
Speaker 1:
Oh, I like that. Murphy needs a home. He's three months old.
Speaker 2:
He should be cat friendly and dog friendly and kid friendly at that age. Yeah, he's just a pup, he's a little pup, he's a little pup. Wow, he's cute. Yeah, isn't he? Yes?
Speaker 1:
Murphy and Stitch both need a home.
Speaker 2:
Thank you for that.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, absolutely. Detroitdogrescuecom adopt. It'll take you right to the page. Murphy and Stitch are both on there, and there's tons of other ones, too, to look at.
Speaker 2:
So check it out.
Speaker 1:
Adopt. Don't get it from a Breeder? Well, it depends on the breeder. You have to do your research. But don't get it from a pet store yeah, Well, it depends on the breeder you have to do your research, but don't get it from a pet store.
Speaker 2:
Yeah yeah, don't shop at puppy mills. Puppy mills.
Speaker 1:
Yes, don't do that. And these dogs look at them. I mean, I'm just going to put them both up together. Look at those faces. Come on, so Stitch and Murphy need a home. Detroitdogrescuecom Check it out. Thank you, all right, good folks. Okay, we'll be back in a week, next Monday. A Facebook live people. You can join us every Monday evening from 8 PM to 9 PM.
Speaker 2:
Eastern standard time.
Speaker 1:
Join in on the conversation, Join us on Facebook live and and, like I said, be a part of the podcast ask questions. You know we're here. Questions, you know we're here. Yeah, Make your thoughts known. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 2:
Don't hold back.
Speaker 1:
All righty folks, We'll be back. In the meantime, change your thinking, change your life, laugh hard, run fast, be kind. We'll see you next time.
