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great to meet you today
great to meet you as well
yeah so I know you're affiliated with my
mind tell me a little bit about
minding your mind and also tell me why
you're involved with it
your mind is a non-profit organization
that basically basic guides education
around mental illness and moves from a
crisis-based response to education so we
have a variety of presentations that we
can provide either from a peer
perspective or a clinical perspective so
we're getting a lot of different
education and resources out to schools
and communities
great great and why are you involved
with minding your mind what is your role
in it
so I'm involved with minding your mind
because I absolutely love what they
stand for I started off with minding
your mind as a young adult speaker and
essentially what mining reminds young
adult speaker program is is they find
young adults that have gone through a
mental health condition and are feeling
stable within their recovery and they
want to share their story and I thought
that that was really amazing that I
could put my story into something that
would help others so ever since then
I've absolutely loved reading your mind
and always been involved with it and
later on I moved to California where I
became the director So currently I'm in
a spot where I can share my story and
educate others and give others hope of
recovery as well as get the word out
about ending your mind and put it into
schools excellent so tell me a little
bit about you you know you said you had
a mental health uh story would you mind
sharing it here yeah absolutely so a lot
of my mental health issues started when
I was a teenager
um this really happened around my
relationships where I didn't really get
into the best healthiest relationships
with the right kind of people and
because of this it's really manifested
into me not feeling really all that
great about myself so having such low
self-esteem and high anxiety a lot of
that manifested into an eating disorder
where I became really obsessed with
counting calories and over exercising
and controlling my food and I think a
lot of this had to do with the fact that
my life in school and at home just felt
so out of control that I needed to
control something and before I knew it
it became something that I couldn't
really stop even if I wanted to it felt
like it really controlled me so with
some time I ended up getting sent to a
residential treatment center out in
Boston at the time thanks to my parents
nursing something was up and me reaching
out to them and that really gave me the
tools to one recover physically because
that's a huge thing about eating
disorders is that it's really hard to
recover the mental stuff if you're not
nourishing your body so a lot of
physical recovery along with really
breaking down the eating disorder and
understanding where it really came from
and understanding that I am someone that
has a lot of anxiety and I need to learn
to manage that and at the time I was
suffering from depression too so really
breaking a lot of that down and
recovering at the center and then also
just keeping up with that recovery
moving forward that is excellent so
really your parents saw this that you
needed help so they were the first step
in getting you the right help yes yes
I'm very lucky yeah that is excellent
and why is mental health so important to
you that you're spending so much time on
it
mental health just talking about it
learning about it educating about it
gives me this different kind of spark
that no other topic really does and I
think that's because I I know what it's
like to suffer and I know what it's like
to feel like you don't have anyone and I
know what it's like to feel like there's
no hope for the future and being able to
make it
yeah a lot of loneliness around the
struggle right absolutely it's so lonely
and I think loneliness can that itself
can manifest into so many issues so
showing people that they're not alone
and that they can connect with others
and they can connect back to themselves
I think is so important and I think that
they need to hear it from people that
have been there in that spot yeah thank
you Morgan for your time and I'm so glad
that your life experience is actually
being used for something useful thank
you you and your and minding your mind
thank you so much
