The Importance of a Breakdown

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I needed this.

This is what is happening to the whole of America at the moment. Simply put, “ordinary” America has simply been pushed too far—by corporate America.

You want to right? It's there. Rage.

Thank you folks for putting this video together. 💜💖

when i lost my mind in college, i had already had terrible OCD for years. then i began to worry i would become schizophrenic. and the worry caused me to hallucinate. which caused me to worry. which caused me to hallucinate. i’d hear my name or dogs barking and think it was my own brain when really there were just sounds happening. i convinced myself reality was losing my mind. i would have never got to a point of being alright with ever becoming schizophrenic if i didn’t accidentally give myself temporary insanity 😂

i went crazy my third year of college. now that i’ve read the bell jar as a grown adukt, i relate too much. i was dosed with k2 or dmt (idk because i’m not gonna go try them to find out), and dissociated for months despite being medically fine. i got functional pain disorders and psychogenic seizures from the stress from the pain. i remember calling the school hotline (2020– no clinic available on campus) telling them i couldn’t remember how to get home. i was next to the clinic office but couldn’t get any help. a spider scared me into realization and i got brief clarity for an hour and got home.

I always noticed the day after is Really Good. If I struggle to grasp something new and get to the point of giving up, it somehow clicks overnight.

Ok, I'm 5 seconds into this and already heard a truth which applies to me. BTW, I think I've just finished and am getting out of a breakdown which lasted months.

2 years ago I had a major breakdown that left me unable to work for about a year. It was, as if myself dissolved and rebuilt itself. By this experience I changed so much and broke the cycle of depression haunting me for the last decade. Since then I think differently about mental health and the power of selfregulation.

I emjoy a lot of these videos, but this video is seriously flawed. Some people need to take meds because trauma is so large that one can't cope to get to the reasoning part. You're assuming medications prevent reasoning, but they don't. They can help for a very many people and those people should not be judged for needing the extra help, especially when they have no one to talk to and are literally going mentally ill.

whenever i hit a break down, i come and watch this video everyday. thank you.

Thank you. This did happen to me 2 years ago. It takes years to heal? I'm 85. I do hope to heal as my final Goal.

A life full of trauma and 43 that's the age I broke down properly the realisation of your family everything connects it feels I broke down last night 😢 however this morning here we go again from UK at 7amish

Sometimes what smacked you down into one takes second
place because the trauma of having one and being debilitated.and judged
takes all.of your energy to survive !.You Don't escape the toxicity. trauma ! Then your brain chemistry starts to not work properly. It's too late. No one knew what they were doing !
Your life is over at 16 ! you've never been treated well on a consistent level by the people God entrusted you to, the ones who were supposed to love you !

I hope I can get better I don’t like feeling like dying anymore

This is as true as it gets. I lived until 39 years in constant inner turmoil, suppressing my emotions, getting addicted to anything and everything, not understanding what i am missing. Now i finally conciously allowed my latest breakdown to happen, while just observing and let it play out. In that process, which took a few days everything felt quite surreal and i had to do reality checks. I wasnt sure if i was healing or going crazy. The reason was that my true personality came out for the first time with its own feelings and thoughts and the mind needs time to adapt.
The important trigger was that for the first time ever i opened up to someone else about my feelings. It was unthinkable before, especially the closer someone is, the harder it seems, so i chose a distant relative.
After everything i now feel whole and content for the first time in my life. And all my inner blockades are gone. All of a sudden i am completely social without any inhibitions, i like to socialize and express myself and i dont hesitate to state my feelings and oppinions, all almost opposite behaviours from my previous self and ones i always wished i had. Also i discovered that i am actually an empath and can literally see and instinctively feel others emotions by the tiniest clues. And my thinking and speech skills improved drastically. It is all so perplexing, i feel like i gained superpowers, although it is quite clear i just became the person, i was always meant to be and it feels like what others might describe as "reaching enlightenment".

Amazing video - thank you

This is exactly what I needed today.
I know I'm 6 years too late but this perfectly explains my burnout.

No offence but this strikes me as theoretical pondering.

There are actual real world consequences to mental breakdowns, more so than "inconvenience".

Dunno bout you people but i dont think its really a good idea to look on ythe lighter side of having an emotional breakdown.

I cant afford to lay in bed for days ill lose my job and if i lose my job i lose my home.

I wanted to reach breakdown because I thought than something will motivate me too change. But I never get to the breaking point. Its like bending until I crack over and over.

Thank you so much for this one💜

The receptive mind we possess since birth is ever so more and more inquisitive as we grow up and the mind which has the discipline and carefully beaten by caregivers with opportunities to learn in a systemic manner for a future which is respectful and secure in a given community! The process comes to about to take a halt once we have rightly followed the trajectory by the norms set to roll at the start of our journey to fruition of touching the target! We gradually become prominent to some extent or other and our learning process is like a second nature that doesn't require to take the same level of care, attention, references, and the attitude to surpass our peers and we have stopped going through the same process! This is almost the sure fire bread earners who by their position automatically are the flag bearers of a certain society and people of lesser achievements tend to give much impetus to their opinions and directions, even if inside the group of followes we have still some who despite being followed keep their own countenance within themselves and the flag bearers enjoy their position of superiority, a part of which has been thumped upon them by still others and larger section of crowd! By the time we have our own family and offsprings we are involved in building our own children and so on! Now ask one of such a moderate achiever about what it should be like if this was otherwise than this, you probably be dumbfounded by their reactions of being hackneyed and cliche to bear anything new in their thoughts! When such process are running (not utterly ruining in the eyes of sagacious) generations together, there still a section of crowd have different growths erratic unmethodical no restraints for a debacle and very uncouth when it comes to social matters none cares who they're because of their being shabby and having no manners of any kind they find it's always hard to find understanding people and they loiter here and there with vacant eyes and they goes on and finishes life without contributing much to hungry society striving for waves of crowd of the same vision! One fine morning a discovery was made in his abandoned space of living a treasury of ideas and thoughts that bewilders even the best available mind! But there's a peril to getting shocked and going through traumatic time, because in such a period of time one can run into the risk of not getting back to normalcy and he or she finds no time to experience what it has been for a learning of our infinite psyche especially, if it's more forced to harm than normally going into such a state of mind which requires very learned and careful therapist to get back from such an experience and otherwise it's dangerous to get willfully into such a mould for learning the new avenues of knowledge!

Stoicism is my path forward from my breakdown. For me it's proving to be more effective than any antidepressant or any cognitive therapist I've experienced in the past.

I thought this video was about the importance of breakdowns as in metal music breakdowns... 😅

This video literally saved my life so grateful ❤❤thank you soo much

I had gone through a horrific time and all I focused on was keeping going on until it was over or I found a way out of the situation. It did end and with a little help I did go back to doing what I had always done. But then many years after I just couldn't I really didn't know why I couldn't but I just knew I could no longer just will myself to keep going. Then a bit after that I felt that this is all useless there is a pointlessness to do as I had always done. And then I found after an encounter that I had froze. The part of me that could always gathered up my information, put it together, form a plan as to how to proceed and carry on was gone. I don't know how to explain it other than my coping mechanism froze. I still walked and talked dressed and bathed but the real work that needed to do to function was gone or frozen. Because I feel better now. I've got a bit better of myself back with some better coping mechanisms, happier coping more caring or more awareness of their need of joyfulness not just okay this makes me feel better today I can go on. And then see what tomorrow brings to get me through that day. I also came to realize I had been through many difficult times and always did the same thing just carry on. No stopping and breathing and admitting hey that was a bad time you just went through. And then reflect on just what happened to me and how did I feel about that. I now know how it's necessary to do that. To give that event it's proper due and reflect on what just happened. The how, when and why are my feelings about it. A bit of discovery needed to be made I guess for each and every incident. I now know that it needs to be done for each event close to the time of the event not save them up for a later better time to go over them, which basically never comes. So I guess that is what caring for yourself means just like washing your hair or taking a bath. It needs to be done all the time, frequently to stay fresh and presentable.

Had a breakdown and it made me lost custody of my kid. And now she’s with my toxic ex and his family. I feel like I lost her but I’m not giving up

I’m no expert, but it doesn’t seem totally accurate to say that the conscious mind is “lazy.” That makes it sound like there isn’t a real reason for it operating the way it does or ignoring the signals from our emotions. I think the conscious mind is most of the time doing its best to navigate a life that doesn’t come with an instruction manual, and it triages the voluminous input it receives, which unfortunately means that signals from the subconscious can be brushed aside due to fear, lack of understanding the signals, or imperfect priorities. Again, not an expert, but the word “lazy” didn’t sit right. Really appreciate this great video overall, though!

Getting through my breakdown, feeling better and realizing I need to move away from home but I’m not feeling good enough to work, any ideas on how to get money from my cellphone?

Thank you for helping me to understand what is happening in my mind and life.

i love you alain i love you

I'm willing to accept I need help and give in to my mental breakdown I'm currently having but, I don't know what it is I need to fix 😮 I have an urge to either die or to dissappear an live like Tom Hanks in castaway

Thu, Oct 15, 2020 - 10:45 p.m.

I just had my first breakdown in my life at the age of 32. It was tough and dark. But blessed, I learned to listen to my emotions better. I’m thankful for this new perspective on life. Let us remember that don’t forget to heal and love ourselves everyday. ❤ Know that you are not alone, wherever you are.

This is dead nuts on what I've been experiencing the past few weeks and very satisfying/vindicating/relieving to hear. This gives purpose to moving on to the next steps

So what sources are there for this, or is it just a bunch of buzzwords thrown about by some english narrorator

Thank you. It's the most helpful video I've seen to explain what's happening to me.

Got to go through it to get to it what ever it is is the truth of our being. All is well. You will be fine. Trust the process and remain true to yourself.

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