 I'm really tired by the way. I got to wear a blanket for Christmas and I thought I'd do a week long review, AFA test and get it for a week and then giving you my final thought. Merry Christmas and so here is the unboxing portion and I will give you my overall epic. So the blanket that I got is this one. So the weighted blankets are supposed to be 10% of your birthday. I'm not getting paid to say this. I actually got this as a Christmas present and I felt like first not. Also it's like it's not really heavy, but it's heavy. Like you know what I mean? These are used to help with insomnia and anxiety and currently I'm using it for both anxiety and insomnia because I'm gonna try and get some sleep because I'm not in cozy. So we're on day two with this blanket and honestly I love it and I'm living for it. It is absolutely incredible. I like it. I enjoy it. I think it's possibly one of the best things I own. It's helped me feel grounded. I started to have a bit of a flashbacky episode last night and just having this to wrap myself up in like this it just really helped a lot and so far day one I had my approval. I'm really tired, I've been just woke up but yeah, it's my approval. Weighted blanket day, I don't even know what day I'm on but I've used the weighted blanket now for a few days and I feel like I can give you a fair unbiased judgment and opinion on what I think of the weighted blanket. I've used this a lot. It has helped me sleep, it's helped me with panic attacks, it's helped me with flashback episodes. It hasn't prevented anything and I want it to perfectly clean. Weighted blankets will not cure your mental health, it won't change anything. It won't make you feel less depressed, it won't do any of that. I saw a YouTuber review this and say it will increase your serotonin and dopamine. Incorrect. It can help ground you, it helps to do with you, it can help relax you, it can't do stuff chemically. It just physically can't, that's not what it's for. I found this very helpful with grounding, with flashbacks and my anxiety and sleep. So I struggle with major insomnia, so sleeping isn't my best skill. Couldn't really put on a CV and get a job. I did use it when I was having a flashback episode the other night and it helped enormously. Normally, when I was having a flashback episode, I would just completely disassociate and panic and cry and usually resort to medication. And why did I have my meds? I will have my meds. My medication is not something I'm willing to stop taking for a blanket video. And I'm a meds for a reason. But, or I'd resort to cell help and I didn't. Yes, I had the meds, but I have the meds as soon as I know it's starting because the meds are there to calm me down. What I found this helpful with is the grounding. I did not disassociate while I was having this panic episode. I found this ridiculously helpful, it kept me grounded. Everyone finds it very helpful. Sleep wires, I'm sleeping a lot better than I was. Now please bear in mind that I'm on sleeping doublets, so I can't really give you a full review. But normally I wake up a lot at night and I haven't been doing that, which is nice. I slept for a night. Gold star. Literally helped me so much. I say that and I'm filming this video at 5am. Welcome to my life with Insomnia, vlog coming out tomorrow. So, my thoughts on this. I've logged the first couple of days which you've already seen. My overall thoughts on this blanket is, it's literally amazing. I have it permanently on my bed because it's so relaxing. My depression's been pretty bad the last few days so I haven't left the house at all. I've been under this blanket most of the time. My mum will agree. It's literally made me a lot calmer, I don't know why. But I think just having the pressure, it literally feels like someone's giving me a hug. And I'd recommend it. I'd like to see if there's a link in the description where you can get it from. Honestly, I would 100% recommend it. It helps especially with flashbacks and anxiety. And just when I feel lonely wrapping myself up in it, it doesn't make me feel less alone. In that respect, it's helped my bed depression a bit. And also this. It didn't help too much with dissociation. It did to a point that it helped ground me, it helped me feel more present and here. But I still couldn't reconnect with myself. But I guess that comes with a territory of dissociation. Do I recommend buying them? Yes. Are they expensive? Yes. But I think it's such a good investment. Overall, I think this was one of the best things I've received as a gift. I'm leaving a link in the description down below where you can get one. If you are interested in getting one, remember they have to be 10% of your body weight. I'd recommend you the max one going up to like 15%. Otherwise it's going to be way too heavy. I know for a fact that if I was to pile this on top of each of the like 4, I couldn't lift it. I definitely couldn't sleep under it. And this is only the... This is a 15 pound one. So it's not really that heavy. If you struggle with any mental health condition, I would recommend getting one. More so one's where you deal with high stress situations and stuff like that. I made a video earlier on for Kay's channel talking about ground techniques. I talk about this blanket in it. And that video will hopefully be up by the time this one is. If not, I'll link it in the description when it comes out and comment it below as well. I think that's all I've got to say. If you have any questions you'd like to ask me about the weighted blanket or how it helps and anything like that, let me know in the comments and I will answer questions in the next video. And I hope you guys found this beneficial. However, I mean I'd hug the camera and hit it, but I'm cosy. I'm gonna lie. I was gonna say that this is really warm as well. Like it's really warm. Anyway, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna finish watching the Santa Clarida diet. I've nearly finished it and honestly it's making me laugh and I love it. So yeah, I'm gonna edit this video and get it up. So yeah, that's all from me. I'll see you guys soon. Peace.