 Do-de-de-dee-dee-dee. Nom-nom. Hey guys, what you all doing? Welcome back to my channel! If you're new here- Puh. Ugh. If you're new here- Hi, hello, I'm Lydia. And if you are new here, make sure you hit the subscribe button, then join the growing family. Turn notifications on, give me a big thumbs up, because it really does help me out. Today we're doing a Q&A. Now I haven't filmed a Q&A in a while. I asked for questions on my Instagram, like that, if you're not following me already. And on Twitter, and if you're not following me on there, it's limited there. All my social medias are in the description down below. So if you want to follow me, check out the description. Let's get some questions up. Questions, questions, questions. This question I've got is, what's your opinion on the police dealing with mental health crisis? Now, I've spoken about police and mental health a few times on here, and I've personally had experience with police and mental health as well. Having been sectioned by the police multiple times, removed from my flat, and voluntarily, I've been stopped from jumping off a bridge by police. I can say that I wouldn't get a life without them. The police have arguably saved my life. Last time I had police involved was just over a year ago, and I left ANA after over-dosing. My personal opinion on police dealing with mental health crisis is there should be a specific team that comes out when you're having a crisis. Police aren't good at what they do. I have had some bad experiences with police and mental health. If you don't know about that, I will make a video on that soon. Personally, what do I think are police dealing with mental health crisis? I think the NHS should be dealing with the crisis. When we come to ANA and ask for help, there should be some help offered. Police only have so many powers. They can detain you under section 136, section 135. That's it. Other than that, they can arrest you. Now, then that got the T-shirt. If you want to hear more about that story, let me know in the comments down below. Personally, I think that police should do a good job on the whole. Should it be their responsibility? No, it shouldn't. It shouldn't have to come to getting police involved for mentally ill people. I think it's just not fair. All right. But the police have arguably kept more people alive by being involved. than if they once didn't. So yes, that's my opinion. Next question is, what was your opinion also on how people try to understand mental health? I think getting anyone to understand mental health is a challenge. For me, I'm open about my mental health. I'm not ashamed to have a conversation in public about it. I'm okay to say I've been sectioned in a mental hospital. But then you have certain family members or friends that don't really understand what you're going through. My method for getting people to understand my Borderline Personality Disorder. I bought this book called Millie the Cat Has Borderline Personality Disorder. And it's a picture book. It's like a kid's book. But it breaks down what Borderline Personality Disorder is. And I show that to my mom to give her the standings. And it went really well. When it comes to bipolar disorder, it runs in my family. So everyone's kind of aware of bipolar disorder. My grandma has it. My mom has it. My grandma's mom had it. So my great-grandma had it. So it runs in my family. I find that if someone asks me about mental health, I refer them to my YouTube channel. Because that's where all the information about me is. Personally, I think the best way to communicate about mental health with other people is to just be open about it. Talk about it like you would any other subject. I'm not saying go into detail of what stuff is. I mean just say, hey, I have bipolar disorder. Hey, I have PTSD. And this is what happens to me because of this. Or I'll do what most people do. And get a sunflower line yard. Sunflower line yards are a sign of hidden disability. You can get mental health conditions, physical health conditions, neurological health conditions. And physical health conditions. And learning disorders. The next question is, does it get easier? Brackets recovery for cell harm? It definitely does get easier. I'm a year and a month free from cell harm. And honestly, I don't think about it anymore as an option. That I got tattoos over all of them. Over my scars, I have tattoos. So I don't trigger myself anymore. Because when I was looking at scars, I was always thinking I can do better than that. And it was just a competition with myself. Roaring up, I had a friend who cell harmed a lot. And quite serious too. Definitely does get easier though. The longer you stay free from it, the easier it gets. Stopping is the hardest thing. And if you haven't already, I made a video called Hard to Stop Cell. How I stopped cell harming. And I'll link it on the icard up there. Because honestly, cell harm is something that is hard to stop doing. Because it's addictive. If you haven't seen my playlist of cell harm videos, I will link that in the description down below. I've got a whole playlist on cell harm. Next question is, how do you do uni with health problems? I'm trying to study it. It's difficult with health problems. So I have physical health conditions that are kind of hard to deal with. Especially with the underground. And I use my knee because I tore a tendon in my knee. And I've got arthritis in my ankle, my knee, my toes. So I have to use a cane. Which is fine. There's nothing wrong with that. Personally, I do find it a bit embarrassing. Because I'm only 26 and I need dysmobilia. Well, that was loud. My camera's flashing red and I went near through all these cancers. So how I manage uni is I use a cane together. So physical health reasons. I'm a mental health. I take my medication before uni. I have planazepam at uni. And then I buy milk chain. So as I was saying before my camera died on me, I'm now using my Canon G7X. Because my Canon 750D is dead. Why am my camera's dying? I personally make sure I have my medication. The planazepam that I take during my lecture is a big life saver for me. Personally, I do take mental health days off. I took yesterday off, which is Thursday. For two reasons. One, I really didn't feel up to going to uni. Two, they was doing presentations. And I don't do presentations. It doesn't affect my grades so I skipped it. When I'm actually at uni and my health problems are playing up, like my parts, my arthritis. Just something I've learned to be aware of. Because I've had health problems since I started uni eight years ago. I started uni in 2016 and I was in 2024. So it's been a long time. And I've had arthritis diagnosed before that. I was diagnosed with arthritis. So personally I just take each day that comes and I'm my best focus on uni. I do always take fidget toys with me. Like my fidget quills. And my unicorn. My unicorn comes to uni with me. Because my unicorn is my confider. And honestly I tend to plan videos when I'm in lectures. Because my role that I'm acting as for this production that we're doing is this assistant director and editing. Both stuff that I can't do until we actually start shooting. Not shooting until we've actually got a script. I can't do anything. But yeah, that's my advice. Just try and stick that out. The next question is, how do you manage anxiety out in public? For the Mazapam. Which I was joking. I don't know. But let's talk about the underground in the morning. So what I do to make myself feel less anxious is I wear my AirPods. Given I'm always terrified one's gonna fall out my ear and I'm not gonna train tracks. Because that's just a mean thing that would happen. So yeah, that's fun. So I have my AirPods in. I have my cane. I try to get myself to the middle of a cheer. So I can hold onto the pole. Because my balance is so shit. That if I wasn't holding on to something I would knock up everyone over. But by my unsteady feet. So yeah, that's kind of how I deal with anxiety. My headphones didn't take the Mazapam. And I just try to let go of some music. Now we're going on to Twitter questions. Or should I say X? So the first question is, when should a person post a trigger one? Head wounds, cell phones, fresh self-harm scars, not scars, fresh self-harm, suicide attempt, eating disorder content, blood, sexual assault details, assault details. The next one is, okay I've got one for you. Do you spend time looking back at your mental health journey and how far you've come in the intervening time? I look back and all I think is how much time have I spent in the hospital under section. And it honestly upsets me because I was in such a dark place when all these admissions took place. I didn't see a way out. I thought I was going to die by suicide. So I was particularly hard to come to terms with. Then I look back at my eating disorder and I've gone from this. But I try not to look back too much if I'm being honest because it does trigger me. My own past triggers me. So there's only so much I can do to really manage how I feel. So yeah that's all the questions I've got for this video. If you have questions you'd like to ask me to answer in a video, leave it in the comments down below. Or if you just have a general question about anything, also put it in the comments down below. Put anything in the comments down below. They're waiting for you. It's waiting for you, not air waiting for you. Now I'm going to go back to bed because I am tired. But it was a great feeling this video. So thank you. Thank you to everyone who asked questions. And if you're new, subscribe. Join the growing families. We need you. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in my next video. Peace.