Hello everyone!!
I am Jasjit.
First of all, I hope everyone is keeping safe and healthy from COVID-19, especially what has had happened in Victoria!!
More importantly, throughout my childhood experiences, I have experienced anxiety. I started schooling from year 3 up to year 12. From all these years I experienced a lot of anxiety: thinking what others will think? Why can't I make friends at school? Why doesn't everyone like me? Why can't I speak like that 'cool' student in my class? So these were all the questions that were in my unconscious mind throughout my childhood. It was a tough journey and it got even worse when I came into my teens. I started experiencing body image, self-esteem issues, and the bullying at school even made it worse! It shattered my self-esteem.
But luckily, I did not go into drugs and alcohol to self-medicate myself despite I was silently suffering from anxiety. Later, I developed an eating disorder at the age of 17 and became quite obese! I could not regulate my emotions and my year 12 did not go as I had planned. Though thankfully I got into psychology, I was still having problems with my eating habits and lifestyle. On top of anxiety issues, I was experiencing depressive symptoms.
During my third year at uni, it really hit me!! I realized for me to do honors I have to keep my GPA high and I worked very hard even ended up with HDs, but I was not accepted.
From all these experiences, what I have learned is that one should ask for help and not be stigmatized. I was quite embarrassed to even go to the psychologist!
So how did I do it? I simply did something for myself.
I always wanted to be in the most shredded shape of my life. After I became obese, I went on a fat loss transformation where I connected with myself, mind, body, and food. Throughout the journey, I learned that a living thing should not be mistreated. From there I became fully vegan – eating whole foods, started supporting climate change. From all these things I started to literarily gain my confidence back. I gained my identity back! Then I achieved my 6 packs, my grades started to improve and became fearless in public speaking – wow! How cool is that?
So that is where I am currently, and I feel I can give back to the community, and hopefully I would be able to save someone’s time from such a long journey. On the last note, I believe connecting and knowing yourself is the biggest gift of human life.
Kind regards,
Jasjit
