 Living in the past is depression. Living in the future is anxiety. Just don't do that. Cool, thanks. Hello, my beautiful internet friends. I'm Mr. Backup. This is the whole video's gonna go. Net friends, welcome back to my channel. I would like to introduce you to one of my very best friends, Megan. Hello. So a while ago someone suggested that I do a reaction video to r slash wow thanks I'm cured and I figured who better to do this with than Megan. So both of us have dealt with mental illness over the years. I've dealt with depression and panic attacks and PTSD. It's a fun time and you've dealt with mental illnesses. So as people who have some experience in this realm we're gonna go learn how to fix ourselves. I don't know about you Megan but I'm really looking forward to standing up from here. Cured person, complete. Yeah because the internet usually tells you how to put your pieces back together very well. Generally speaking that's true. We both have had oh so many beautiful experiences with people curing our depression. So we're gonna be going through this reddit thread as my dogs bark outside. Let's see what wisdom the internet has for us. Most people never heal because they stay in their heads replaying corrupted scenarios. Let it go. I am partial to corrupted scenarios personally. That's my favorite thing to do when I'm trying to sleep. Coming up with the worst possible scenarios of what's going to happen the next day. I basically have a play going on in my head all the time. 24-7 worst things that could happen. All my life is going to be terrible. So I don't know why I never thought of that before. Thanks. S. McNutt singing. We're in middle school I apologize. Thank you S. McNutt. My thanks. We're cured. Where would we be without you? My advice to everyone always be happy and nothing will bring you down. Oh my god. That's like a Facebook post too. I know. Who's aunt posted that right before Christmas dinner? Who's aunt posted this shit? If you're weak minded, you obviously are not gonna be able to do this. Didn't mean to interrupt your song there. Having a panic attack? Don't worry. It's like what? Everything's fine. If you rearrange the letters in depression you'll get I pressed on. Well I mean like sure they're not wrong. Do you ever find stuff like that helpful? I personally think it's really cheesy. It's like live, laugh, love. Yeah. That type of stuff. I'm like that's lame. Yes. Or more meaningful ways to like encourage somebody. Yes. Rather than just like I pressed on live, laugh, love. Yeah. Be happy. I would agree. Stuff like this. I don't know. If it helps you comment down below. I saved your coffee from the dogs. Sleep paralysis is for the weak minded. Oh god this is a good start. If one is powerful enough they can simply will themselves out of sleep paralysis. What the fuck is sleep paralysis? So I've actually had before it's when you wake up but you cannot, like you can't move. Oh yeah. And but you're kind of conscious of things. You weak minded. Move. Just move. Because that's not what I was screaming the whole time in my head. I wonder what McNutt would have to say about this. I think he would say let it go. Let it go. Living in the past is depression. Living in the future is anxiety. Just don't do that. Cool. Thanks. Cool. Thanks. New facial muscle. Smile exercising. So does it, it does bizarre. What? Does it make you smile? I don't know. She doesn't look very happy there. They don't look like they're smiling. They look like they're being tortured. Don't buy this. Lincoln bio. It's easy to fall into the trap of being hopeless for one reason or another. You feel like shit. I don't want to take that away from you. I would never want to discount that fact. Okay. But if I can ask one favor from you, pretend. Pretend that your pain is temporary. Pretend that this is just a mind cold. What's a mind cold? Start at 10 minutes a day and just keep moving up. It might take weeks. It might take years. It might seem absurd and hell. It might even seem to make things worse. Highlighting the reality of your situation. Well, yes, that would make sense. But over time, I know you will transcend all self-doubt. Okay. I know. Create a outlet to cure depression. Okay. Stitch quotes like these on the pillows. The whole thing. People walk in and they have to like stop conversation and stare at your pillow for like 45 seconds. Terrible advice. Yeah. I think it is too. Well, and I've met a lot of people who, you know, kind of follow this pretending to be okay. And they almost like trick themselves that everything's fine. And it's almost just a different form of denial. Yeah. And so then it's just avoiding the problem rather than, um, you know, actually working through it and admitting that like stuff sucks. Yeah. Okay. And that type of avoidance, I think can lead to like a lot of, um, dysfunctional tendencies. Yeah. How do you guys cope with sadness? We tell someone we're sad and they tell us don't be sad. And then we stop being sad. That's so accurate. How to fight loneliness. Just smile all the time. How would that fight loneliness? Like loneliness? Like my smile doesn't make me feel less lonely. You attract more people. Making more lonely. Wilco, I have to disagree. Well, thanks Wilco. I'm cured. This is so morbid. This is so dark. Didn't quite expect that. Don't even know what to say. I'm kind of shocked right now. Looking all sad, tying a rope around a ceiling fan and like holding like a like a noose, like the loop in their hand. And then it says, no matter what situation you're in, happiness is a choice. And then it shows him just like, like rope swinging on it. Smiling. Looked very upset as he was setting up his rope swing. I'm sure that's what he was happy and decided to swing instead. At world's fact. No. Just try to calm down next time. Megan. Amazing things will happen to you today. Can't say it. If you choose not to be a miserable cow. Oh my god. It's really just shaming moms whose milk production decreases. Right. Well, it's shaming moms who are like stressed and depressed. Like guess what? When you have a baby, you are both stressed and depressed. Thanks internet. Yeah, that's super helpful. I'm sorry. I have to say it, but you look like you're sad and your smile is gone. I noticed it bad. The cure is if you let in just a little more love, I promise you a little is enough. No, it's not. That's bullshit. The grandmother is terrible. I noticed it bad. I noticed it bad. Well, I think we all knew we were going to come across one of these. Oh no. Someone told me this the other day about chronic pain. Generally speaking, like it's generally accepted in the medical community that if you've had chronic pain, I think technically it's more than six months. I'm going to give us the benefit down and say 18. It's probably not going to go away. Right. I've been to the Mayo Clinic. I've been everywhere. I deal with chronic pain. And someone said, someone who knows what they're talking about said this to me the other day. I was like, it's probably not going to go away. And they're like, I don't know. The body's programmed to heal itself. So I mean, I was just like, that's not helpful. It's actually pretty, pretty crappy to hear. Like is my body just broken? Especially for stuff like mental illness. I know a lot of people really are against taking medication, which you know, I get that's your prerogative. But at the same time, the reason people take medication is because your brain is not producing enough of the neurotransmitters it needs. And the medication just gives you a boost to help it with that. And it's like after some time, you can wean off of it and like be like self-regulating and functioning without them. Like it's not a life sentence to take medication. And it's just saying that this is basically just saying the same thing. Like just be better. You'll get better. Just heal yourself. You know, I feel like that last sentence like pills only mask and suppress the symptoms. That can be super necessary to survive. Yeah. Like masking and suppressing certain symptoms of certain things. As you learn coping mechanisms, as you find a support system, as you like figure out what the hell's going on can be precisely what you need. I'm not like agreeing with this at all. But like exactly what you said, it's not if you if you choose to take medication and that's totally a personal choice. You can always come off of it. I would just do it. That's frustrating. Yeah. Actually, hold on just one second. I do want to be rich. I'm just gonna go do it. Just go do it. Just go do it. See you later. Share your wealth with me. No, Megan, you're clearly just disenfranchised. What? You need to go do it yourself. I just need to go do it. I mean, it's as simple as that. Oh my God. Wait, this is our friend again. Is this McNutt again? Hard by always being in your head. Life is simple. Get out of your head and get into the moment. S McNutt, where would we be without you? Oh man. If you want to be happy, be so. It's very Yoda-like. Just be so. Happy, be so. Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. It's like the bottle cap just gave you like a massive little bigger. I'm going to make a thousand fortune cookies. It's just horrible. Nobody cares about you. Just stop being miserable, bitch. Signed McNutt. Again, in theory, you're not wrong. In execution, you're horrible. Instead, just don't. It's that simple. That's simple. I'll punch you in the couch. Just don't. It's that simple. You'll hurt. Please unhurt. Please deactivate. Please deactivate. Please unhurt. Please press unhurt button on machine. Deactivating. I would really like to. I feel this on a personal level. I've had a lot of this because I grew up in the church. Have you experienced this as well? Yeah. I've just heard it a lot like when dealing with depression or other mental illnesses. Just like, just don't worry. You know, God will take care of it. Just trust in him and you'll be fine, which I know is well-meaning and everything. But also, it devalidates what you're going through. Yeah. And you know, why can't God take care of it through therapy or antidepressants or different sources? Ignoring it and just waiting for God to cure it isn't validating the issue that's happening. Yeah, seriously. I think that's a really good way of putting it because I do think that many people, when I've been in dark places who have been like, don't worry, give it to God or God's going to take care of it, they legitimately want to help and that's how they know how to help. Like, that's what's worked for them. But I think you're right. It really devalues it. I can't even. No, we're just going to go buy that one. Plenty of money. Yes. I don't even know how to describe this one. Just yes. We can improve mental health. Save money and boost the economy all in one go. Wait, how? I don't know. How? Where's the answer? Who do I need to follow? Knick-knock? Does he have the answers? You can't be sad for too long because then that means you choosing to be sad. You're choosing. You're choosing to be sad. You're choosing. You're choosing. There's so much choice in the world of like horrible mental health advice. I know. Just choose not to be suicidal. Yeah, because that's how it works. Stop it. Yes. Hi, monkey. This is the culprit. You have a German shepherd. You really need to get them to one of these balls. I'm confused as to why he just couldn't say, you know what? I'm not going to kill myself. Oh my god. Great. The amount of helpful that that is is overwhelming. Well, just like suicide is such an epidemic and to like spread bullshit like this is just makes me sick. Stuff like this like actually makes me angry. Yeah. Like it stops being funny. I'm like, you know what? I'd like to sit you down and have a long monologue at you. That's the kind of punishment I want to give you. Depression is 100% snowflakes being weak and crying because they are a little sad. Not the fuck up and find something to do besides crying. Did we not write this one? Did we not write this? Hashtag make not the fuck up. It's just all in our heads. We are crazy after all. Yeah, you really can't trust anything in this video because we're fable. Oh, yes. The baggage scenario where you just leave. You just take off your back. Yes. You leave what you've been carrying behind you. Yeah, leave it behind. My favorite. Beautiful. That's like some jokers. Let's put a smile on that face. In life, hands you depression, curve a smile out of your face. Thanks, happy watermelon. That's horrifying. Deep down inside, you know the truth. That's you people. Listen up. The truth is that you can do this. The truth is that if you gave it 100%, you get 100%. The truth is, it's all up to you because we are all, we can all give 100%, 100% of the time. I feel like that needs a hell yeah and a high five. Yes. Hashtag make not. This has been a, oh, hi. Hello. You are just dying for attention, aren't you? So there you have it. Let me know if this cared you. Nick is here for you. Let us know if he cured you. Really. He cured me. Cures me every day. Yeah, so this is all terrible mental health advice and please do not follow any of it. And if you want to have a good time, go to r slash. Well, thanks. I'm cured. It's frightening. And I think the only proper thing to do is laugh at how much terrible mental health advice there is out there. If you're actually struggling with mental health issues, first of all, that's pretty common. You're not alone. You're not weird. And secondly, there's a lot of help out there. I would personally recommend seeing a counselor that works for some people, not everybody, maybe talking to a doctor or a friend. What would you recommend? Counseling, medication, if that's right for you. Talk to a psychiatrist or a nurse practitioner. You don't feel comfortable talking to a therapist or a doctor, someone you trust, someone close to you who would listen without judgment, sometimes even like without advice. And that can be a good thing to say before you start talking if you don't want advice. Like, I don't want advice. I just need somebody to listen. Or if you do want advice, you know, have that as a precursor because some people don't know how to listen. So if you help them, tell them how to listen to you, that can be helpful. That's really true and really important because a lot of people want to, want to help, but we don't do a great job of educating each other on how to do that. Yeah. I'm going to go cry about how sad many of these posts actually were. We're basically just going to cry for the next hour. We laughed, we laughed it out, yes. Sweet, sweet, uh, love reprint tears. But I love you guys thinking about you and I'll see you in the next video. Bye guys. Bye.