[trailer] welcome to 'she persisted'

I'm Sadie, the host of She Persisted, a psychology student at the University of Pennsylvania. But seven years ago, I was receiving intensive mental health treatment for depression, anxiety, and suicidality. Mental health education and evidence based intervention saved my life and forever changed it for the better. It's my mission to make these insights widely accessible and equip Gen. Z with the tools to take ownership of their mental health.

If you're looking for vulnerable conversation, psychology back tips and expert insights, this is the podcast for you. So here's a quick peek at what you can expect. The quality of our life depends on the state of our mind. How? Much of our. Mental. Health is the skill. Set and nobody talks. About it like that. No matter what craziness comes your way, there are ways for you

to be resilient. When we've gone through something many times before, we know that we have coping strategies that have worked for us. But it's harder when you're experiencing these things for the first time and you're still trying to figure out, who am I? How do I navigate the world? Teenagers are lonlier now than teenagers have ever been. Loneliness, in part, comes from a feeling of wanting to be known at a deep and intimate level. Is anybody really experiencing what I'm experiencing?

There's someone. Else out there. Who feels symptoms you do or is felt hopeless or lost? It's a human commonality to struggle with our thoughts, to have struggled with our negative feelings. If you start to isolate, you really start to believe this narrative that it's just you. I don't think you should be expected to navigate this yourself. No human should. So crazy how stigmatized mental health is. I think people don't even realize how much they are struggling.

The answer isn't just putting the lid on it, getting really good at distracting ourself away from it, and marching toward this idealized idea of what happy is. It is. It's actually learning how to be stress resilient, how to go through hard, difficult emotions. Life is impermanent and that impermanence will be on your side. That extreme feeling of suffering cannot persist forever. You have to want to change. You have to want to improve your life, to have a life worth

living. You can't telepath yourself until like a different way of experiencing your life. Nothing changes if you don't change something. Subscribe wherever you get your podcast to never miss an episode and follow along at at She Persisted podcast.