 Hey what's up you guys, welcome back to my channel, if you're new here hi, hello I'm Lydia and if you aren't new here make sure you hit the subscribe button, join the growing family. Today we're doing AQ&A. I've got questions on both YouTube and Instagram, I'm gonna start with YouTube. What do you think should be done to improve mental health system in this country? I hope you're in the UK. In my opinion I think we should get rid of all the different teams and just have one team. There are specialists within it because we have the eating disorder team, psychosis, early intervention psychosis team, both teams are the crisis teams, community mental health teams, complex care teams, it's just too much. If we had one team that worked well, they'd treat a lot more people than they are currently and honestly how it is in the minutes and it's a drink. But yeah if we had one team that works really well a lot more people would be treated and they'd have better health funds than they do currently, that's just my opinion now. Take it with a pinch of salt because that's never gonna happen. Next question is when you were growing up did you have a pet dog? I wish. Now when I was growing up we lived with my grandparents until I was seven. We had a dog. I had a hamster called Meg, two Gs because it's cool. My little Meg, my little baby hamster, that's my first hamster, the Russian door. I wish I had a duck there. My family wouldn't get a duck now well so who am I kidding. When I get my own place I wouldn't get a dog. I would get a duck but I can't afford a house so I can't afford a back garden to have a pond. Good thing you asked. I am so obsessed with ducks. I have a duck army from my Christmas advent calendar. I have a duck calendar. Ducks are my special interest. Now I'm going to go on to Instagram. So the first one is does having a platform revolving around your mental health keep you in your mental illness more than if you didn't? That's a good question. Making mental health content does keep me in mental illness a lot and a lot of the time it's what I'm thinking about because I'm thinking about making new videos but I have to think of topics and I can only talk about topics that I relate to and may have been doing. I couldn't make a video on schizophrenia because I don't know enough about it. So to a point yeah it does keep me in mental health. It doesn't stop me from progressing in my mental health recovery. So it does and it doesn't. It's a good question though. Next question is are there any skills you gain from therapy that you use regularly to manage your mental health? A lot of the skills that I do I've learned from watching YouTube videos and from researching myself online. I've done dbt twice. I've done cbt three times. Today I'm therapy and I'm waiting to do trauma therapy. Any therapy I've done has been teaching coping skills. There is one I guess I've learned from cbt or was it dbt? One of the therapies is TIP which I'll put on screen what that is. It's a distressed tolerance skill. T is for temperature. I is for intense exercise. P is for pace breathing and P is for prepared muscle relaxation. What I do when I do this is you get a bowl of ice cold water and you dunk your face in it for as long as you can. And when you come back out you probably are going to feel more regulated. Now I did used to have a video with that on. I don't know if it's still on. It might be one of the ones I had to take down. If it is I'll leave it in the description down below and if it's not well I'll delete it and be saying it out loud. I have a lot of self-help books so I've learned a lot through self-help books. I'll link a few self-help books in the description down below because they are helpful. The next question is do you think the police need more training and dealing would meant to have an autism? Yes I do. Because they are as involved as they are they should have to go through a basic level of training to deal with mental health conditions. I'm not saying they should be experts on different types of mental illness because it's not their job. And I think people forget that mental health is not part of their job description. They turn up when the NHS fails. No I'm not anti-NHS. Don't get me wrong they saved my life. But I do think police need more training on mental illness and autism. I remember once I was trying to on stimulate myself. I was trying to deal with how I was feeling which meant I needed a little pace about. I got put in handcuffs and leg restraints because I wouldn't stay still. So police need to not use as much force I think. I've been handcuffed from all the times that I care to mention. For just being me. Which is a pain because I talk with my hands. And when they're behind your back it's a bit hard to talk with your hands. So yeah I do think that police need more training. But I think we all also need to remember that dealing with mental health is not part of their job description. Next what are your favourite fidget toys? I also have one there that's on my remote holder. I got this one last week. It's purple. I like tangles and fidget cubes. Fidget cubes are my jam. I'm not going to get one out though because I'd have to go into my box of distractions and it's quite full in there. I had a dream last night that I snapped my laptop in half just because I'm getting a new laptop. I kind of messed up ways like that. I could literally sell that laptop. Yeah I love my hate fidget toys. But I do like tangles. I always had a tangle on me. When I don't I get really distressed. I hate not having anything to do with my hands. Whenever I have my camera on me I always fiddle with buttons because on my camera there's this little joystick thing and I play with it. No idea what it does but I play with that. But when I start to fidget with things that I don't know what they do it gets bad. So tangles are my lifesaver. Tangle, tangle, tangle. I've also started with my scrapbook. Next question. Do you ever look back at your old videos? If so, how do you feel? I don't really watch back my old videos. But over time I have deleted some of my old videos. Again it's a hard one. I watch back some of my old videos for memory's sake. Like the videos with Becca. And the videos with me and Kyle. Not a lot. Because I genuinely miss them. Because I wish me and Becca was doing contact with each other. Me and Kyle still talk. But it's not the same. So I watch back the old videos and I just laugh. But as for mental health videos I don't look back. Ever. If I remake a video I delete the old one. And the final question is, harm your leg or arm? Well I don't sell harm anymore. I haven't been here for a year and a month. But I used to sell harm on my arms. I don't know if you can see. But I don't sell harm anymore. So I can't really answer the question. But I've never sell harm on my leg. Never ever. I have sell harm on my neck. But that's when you sell harm on the floor. So we say it can't. Anyway. Because that's the point. Man this coke is flat. I still drink it. But time to open a new bottle I think. But yeah that's the only answers to your questions. If you have any more questions for me leave them in the comments down below. And I'll do part three of the big Q&A. So I don't know what that was but little dance. Little spin. You spin my hair right now, right now. When you go now, you go down. Yeah thank you for watching and if you're new like the beginning subscribe, join the growing family. 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