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i was six foot two weighing 50 kilos i
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experienced a massive amount of trolling
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on social media i would go out into the
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boiling hot weather with a hoodie on
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track too so i'm like double layered to
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make myself look bigger i think i really
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didn't actually notice it until i came
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out of my what what happened to be an
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emotional breakdown but i didn't realize
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so yeah i would say that definitely like
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my physical health does
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impact my mental health and i've got a
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great example because of why like back
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in the day i used to be an extremely
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extremely extremely skinny guy so to
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emphasize that i was six foot two
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weighing 50 kilos so severely
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um and my mental health was extremely
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low like i just i felt horrible um
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i would go out into the boiling hot
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weather with a hoodie on track too so
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i'm like double layered to make myself
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um and yeah she felt really bad uh but
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then i started hitting the gym
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i gained a bit of weight
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i felt a lot more confident in myself
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and that inevitably inevitably
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impacted on a positive
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from working out so not only a physical
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gain but also a mental gain if if there
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bad for my mental health because i know
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that physically it's bad for me if i'm
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not eating much but then if i eat the
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the calories i need to get in i ate
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healthy once again i'd feel amazing and
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just feel great about myself yeah yeah
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so i know for me a sign for me where my
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mental health has kind of developed over
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time and it definitely got worse over
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time was actually this year very
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recently um and it was very interesting
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time for me because i would say i've
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been always been aware of having mental
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health health issues since i was about
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13. so it's always been something that's
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been on in my mind sometimes it's just
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been at the back of my mind sometimes
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it's been right at the forefront but um
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this year it was really triggered by i
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experienced a massive amount of trolling
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on social media so it was on one
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singular post it had to like 400 to 500
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i've you know you get hate comments
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every day but dealing with it in that
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mass amount such a short space of time
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it really just knocked me for six um and
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i was upset for a few days and then i
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just did the i think maybe typical thing
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of like that's fine get back to work you
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carry on but i didn't realize over time
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that my mental health was like
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over the time and i think i really
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didn't actually notice it until i came
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out of my well what happened to be an
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emotional breakdown but i didn't realize
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it till after because it was i was
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realizing over the last few months i
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hadn't been taking care of myself in a
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way which i'd normally love to and i
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hadn't been respecting myself and my
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body in the way of which i think
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so it was like little things like i used
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to i mean i do now but i used to love
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getting up at the gym but like at like
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5am but there were nights where i
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sometimes wasn't sleeping till 4am and
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there'd be days where i felt like i
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couldn't eat i couldn't prepare meals or
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there'd be days where i'd want to eat
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everything just not being the person i
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was i just really felt like a shell of
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what strategies did you put in place you
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mentioned getting up early and
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did you adapt your nutrition and
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what what strategies do you put in place
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now and going forward if you feel one of
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those dark episodes coming on yeah so i
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think for me from something that really
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helped was getting up early for the gym
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i know that everyone likes to do it and
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that's like totally fine you don't have
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to go for like 5am to go to the gym to
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have a good session but i really love
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being up early i feel like it really
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sets me up for my day and i don't like
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it my alarm goes off this every day i
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wake up oh i'd much rather be in my
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toasty bed but i know that once i'm up
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and i'm starting my day i've had like a
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productive start to my day but i've also
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had a start to my day where i'm doing
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something just for me so i'm getting
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that like hour hour and a half where i
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can just really dedicate time to being a
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better version of myself i think in
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everyone's everyday lives we give so
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much to other people whether that's in
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work in relationships with families or
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whatever it is we give so much of
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ourselves to everyone else i like
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starting my day knowing that this is for
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you and that only for you
