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So the other day I went to Podcast thing interview with another student who also does actual podcasty stuff and website stuff And I'm really cool stuff in the description down below Attractive what do we think that's taken me literally 20 minutes to do and I'm Hey guys, what's up welcome to my vlog I've got half my makeup on half no makeup and today I'm vlogging because I am going to Meet up with someone who found me through my channel who wants to do an interview talkie chap thing Because there are her student in said this like the center of London I city of London, uni not saying you need I go to but they Doing like podcast sort of thing And I got asked if I would have a chat and I said yes, and I'm super excited and decided to vlog today so let's get on with the day and That's how some fun Let's be who we want to be and I'm watching Disney Channel films because I've run out of things to put on Netflix I tried to match it. I think I did okay Like if they start smoking every time you straighten your hair They're still smoking If your hair, but if your hair is going to smoke every time you try and use them Get new ones. There's advice. Oh god. Oh god. I've been filming videos. I'm learning I've only just realized that my clone is unplugged. Oh gosh. We're gonna have crap audio for a few We go Yeah, no because like this is the thing, right as a journalist like it's so difficult to get interviews Like I literally have to message people on like every single platform to get like one response like I got literally everything. I know you're like Italy. I was like, oh, I love that. I answer pretty much like It's because I can't normally hi everyone. Hello. What's up? Welcome. We're chilling. Hi. So, um, I'm Romy I'm a journalism student at City University And yeah, I'm doing a little interview with Lydia today about her journey and her experiences with the mental health journey You can follow me on Instagram at this is Romy and I also have a website which is at thisisromy.net I'll link them all in the description. So Lydia When did your mental health like issues or problems start like when did things first get difficult for you? Um, six, seven years ago Like I was living with my mom And it was me and my mum who had kept just Up and down constantly and then we on that it was like lots of trauma then Things just crashed and I went in-patrick without really knowing what was going on Everything that's got like a chance of working is always worth the trouble So what do you think the most important thing is For other people and for yourself when you know, you're struggling and you're on a road to recovery What's like the most important thing for you? Reach out to people. Always. Even if you get a little bit on it, it's always worth like just phoning like a friend, phoning Helpline, phoning a charity. Charities are okay Stopped you. Yeah Or just like even like going to see the GP the day after or finding a way of releasing what you're thinking like You know talking to the voice know it's up what you think you can learn just Helps Going forward, you know, what's what are like your hopes and aspirations and dreams? I know you're studying film at university I don't really know at the moment. I want to get more into documentary production like pressioning But I just go with it now. I'm not trying to force myself to do things anymore. I'm just going with that Like doing the film degrees one I get to learn new stuff and two I'm just interested in like all the other kinds of film Why I don't want to do like like fiction films or anything like I can't I can't look like a sci-fi genre Like script or anything. I'm terrible at it. I could do like documentary stuff But I just got to have an experiment with it so it's a bit of fun and What's like the way that you would hope that things would change in our mental health system, you know going forward What needs to happen? I don't know. I would say they need to employ more people. They do try and employ more people. I think They just need to offer more lines of communication people Even it's just sending the letter saying how far like how long they gotta wait for or an estimation of higher Or it's like going once like a month. Oh, how are you doing? I'm not just missing people like Say, oh, are you just a borderline? Yeah Except for that before as well. Oh, you're just a borderline Which that they've noticed is so stigmatized, so it's like I don't just need to be less different I think Or more educated on the diagnosis rather than being like, oh well F1L says your attention see because I don't want to go with that Because I've had people say that as well that question all So it's just I think I just need more support of the people and keep them like humans rather than Hit marks And you know given the fact that you do have YouTube now I feel like you're more part of the community. Maybe also you're away from your mom You're like, yeah, doing things well that you love do you feel like? You know, do you feel like you're better now than you were? Definitely got better than I was definitely when I started YouTube originally. I was really depressed And then I got even worse. It's showing us in the video to one But like you can see that the progression through like when I was impatient to man and it's Like I watched up the I filmed a little video while I was impatient like the whole experience I had and then when I came I was like, oh, do I post this I was like I had it all like the little bits of that come online and be okay And I put that out and then like now I look back at it And I'm just like, how did I get to where I am now? For men, I don't know. I love it. I literally loved doing it. Amazing. How is it? And the turn my camera off We've nearly filmed for a whole 29 minutes. Wow