The Kia D Unplugged Show feat. the Hot Topic panel
The Kia D Unplugged Show feat. the Hot Topic panel
Shine Lord Radio Show feat. Pastor Jeremy Glen (The Power of Faith Work)
Shine Lord Radio Show feat. Pastor Jeremy Glen (The Power of Faith Work) on http://www.WeTalkRadio.com.
Spirit of Inspiring Love Church is a ministry that Inspires the Love of Christ through the sound teaching of the Word of God.
https://soilchurch.online.church/
Shine Lord Radio Show feat. Pastor Jeremy Glen (The Power of Faith Work)
Shine Lord Radio Show feat. Pastor Jeremy Glen (The Power of Faith Work) on http://www.WeTalkRadio.com.
Spirit of Inspiring Love Church is a ministry that Inspires the Love of Christ through the sound teaching of the Word of God.
https://soilchurch.online.church/
The Cave Radio Show feat Gospel artist Titus Showers
The Cave Radio Show feat National Gospel artist Titus Showers. Hosted by TSmiley every Saturday morning at 10am(CST) on http://www.WeTalkRadio.com.
Multiple chart-topping independent recording artist and songwriter Titus Showers, a native of
Hammond, Louisiana is certainly an artist to watch. Two Stellar Award nominations, two #1 gospel
albums, a #1 radio single and five career top 30 songs. On Youtube, he has eclipsed 1 million
views. And he’s rocked national TV performances such as the 2021 Presidential Inauguration
Gospel Celebration for the 46th President Joe Biden, BET’s 2020 Stellar Awards, CBN’s The 700
Club, BET’s Bobby Jones Gospel Show and Stellar Tribute to the Holidays to name a few.
On January 15, 2021, he digitally released a powerful new song “We Need You” and its exactly
what we all need right now. The record, which was produced by Vaughan Phoenix and written by
Titus, Ernest Vaughan and Owen Nixon is the follow to his radio hit “It’s Gonna Be Alright Remix”
featuring Jermaine Dolly, which reached #1 on the Billboard Gospel Airplay chart in October 2020
spending 11 consecutive weeks in the Top 30. On the Gospel Airplay chart the song cracked Top
10 on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart peaking at #9, while his digital release of the classic
cover tune “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” (Nov. 27, 2020) landed on iTunes Top 200
Holiday Digital Song chart.
Titus is among the area’s most famous, respected and boasts no less
than seven businesses owned and operated by his siblings. Whenever he is back home, Titus serves
as COO of one of the family’s enterprises: O&M Family Care, a community-based mental health
care agency (his brother Timothy is CEO).
The Cave Radio Show feat Gospel artist Titus Showers
The Cave Radio Show feat National Gospel artist Titus Showers. Hosted by TSmiley every Saturday morning at 10am(CST) on http://www.WeTalkRadio.com.
Multiple chart-topping independent recording artist and songwriter Titus Showers, a native of
Hammond, Louisiana is certainly an artist to watch. Two Stellar Award nominations, two #1 gospel
albums, a #1 radio single and five career top 30 songs. On Youtube, he has eclipsed 1 million
views. And he’s rocked national TV performances such as the 2021 Presidential Inauguration
Gospel Celebration for the 46th President Joe Biden, BET’s 2020 Stellar Awards, CBN’s The 700
Club, BET’s Bobby Jones Gospel Show and Stellar Tribute to the Holidays to name a few.
On January 15, 2021, he digitally released a powerful new song “We Need You” and its exactly
what we all need right now. The record, which was produced by Vaughan Phoenix and written by
Titus, Ernest Vaughan and Owen Nixon is the follow to his radio hit “It’s Gonna Be Alright Remix”
featuring Jermaine Dolly, which reached #1 on the Billboard Gospel Airplay chart in October 2020
spending 11 consecutive weeks in the Top 30. On the Gospel Airplay chart the song cracked Top
10 on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart peaking at #9, while his digital release of the classic
cover tune “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” (Nov. 27, 2020) landed on iTunes Top 200
Holiday Digital Song chart.
Titus is among the area’s most famous, respected and boasts no less
than seven businesses owned and operated by his siblings. Whenever he is back home, Titus serves
as COO of one of the family’s enterprises: O&M Family Care, a community-based mental health
care agency (his brother Timothy is CEO).
Living With Severe Anxiety
Living With Severe Anxiety
By Autumn Faggett
Imagine that its Saturday night. You are perched on the most comfortable piece of furniture in your house doing the thing you love the most. Then suddenly, your chest tightens. It becomes harder to breathe even though you were not in a state of activity. Your heart is racing as though you have just run a marathon. You start feeling as though you are in danger. Like there is someone out to get you in your own home. You know that the only people in your house is the people you love, but somehow the feeling of danger still lurks in your mind. The extremity of these physical and emotional feelings continues for what seems like a lifetime, and you start to feel as though your world is ending.
Then just as quickly as those feelings began, they disappear. You are baffled by what just happened as your body calms down. Without a diagnosis, you go about your business doing what you were doing before, hoping that those feelings do not return.
You have just had a panic attack.
Normal people may experience panic attacks one or two times in their lifetime as a response to extreme amounts of stress such as the loss of a family member, or major life changes that involve uncertainty. However, for people like me, who suffer from severe anxiety under a condition called, General Anxiety Disorder (G.A.D), panic attacks happen often without the proper reason to occur. Because anxiety is the body’s natural response to stress everyone at some point will experience anxiety. Anxiety can occur from excitement or somber occasions, but regardless, it will happen. The only difference between normal anxiety and severe anxiety is the rate at which the anxiety occurs.
In hopes that my story will help someone, I am going to share my story below from the perspective of a southern, African American woman in her early twenties.
I had my first panic attack when I was thirteen years old. My grandfather was just admitted to the hospital for the first time, and I was in school when my mother first sent me the dreaded text. She was coming to get me out of class early, but at the time, I was eager to leave school just so I could see my grandfather for perhaps the last time. At that moment in time, it was not going to be the last time I saw my grandfather, but my anxiety plagued me with all kinds of worries of what could happen in the hospital while I was not there. I worried so much about not being there when my grandfather died that my body thought that I was in a state of danger, and the panic attack came as swiftly as my worries. My teacher thought that I was having a heart attack and sent me to the nurses that could not figure out what was going on with my body. Eventually, the attack subsided, but the memory of that attack resonates with me today.
That single attack makes my stomach churn because if I had sought out mental help sooner, I would not have suffered from my anxiety as long as I let myself suffer from it. When my mother picked my twin and I up from school that day, I was too embarrassed and ashamed to tell her that I had an incident with the nurses. I could not bring myself to tell her while her father lay in the hospital. Worrying about the health of my grandfather was only the beginning of all the worrying I would do through high school and my college years. Worrying about things out of my control, about social activities, how I looked, and the perception others had of me prevented me from living my best life during the times I should have been having the most fun.
My anxiety prevented me from being able to relax and enjoy the things I formally would spend hours doing. My anxiety prevented me from pursuing relationships from people who had a genuine interest in me as a larger woman. My anxiety caused me to stray from the tight relationships I formed in middle school with people who I talked to well-into college because I worried that not talking to them for an extended amount of time made them hate me. My anxiety made me quit jobs over minor mistakes that were easily forgettable, yet I would stay up all night crying over those simple mistakes because I believed that I was bringing everyone down at my workplace.
And finally, after 12 years of letting my anxiety rule and ruin my life, I finally sought out help at the end of 2020. As a black woman of an emotionally unavailable mother, I was too afraid to seek mental help since my family always had a stigma against mental health. Seeking therapy took the greatest amount of courage I could ever muster from myself. Getting the diagnosis of why I always felt the way I was feeling felt like a boulder was being lifted off my shoulders. Even though my mother teased me over my condition at first, she became slightly more understanding as I educated her on GAD. With the help of antidepressants and calming pills, I now feel like I have the freedom to do things I never would have imagined myself doing.
I can say with pride that seeking help changed my life for the better. Although I have a long way to go to recovery, just the simple step of seeking help dramatically changed my outlook on life.
For anyone who is doubting that they may have severe anxiety, I encourage you to look at what your anxiety is making you miss out on. Ask yourself; is this anxiety affecting my relationships? Is my anxiety causing me to ruin my performance at my job or school? Is my anxiety making me miss the best parts of my life? Is my anxiety consistently infiltrating my day-to-day activities? If you have said yes to any of these questions. Please, do not wait to seek help and let your anxiety get out of control the way I allowed mine to.
You should consult your everyday doctor or licensed professional therapist to help you work through your anxiety, and the symptoms that come with anxiety. Do not wait because you feel embarrassed or ashamed of these symptoms. You cannot help how you feel, and you will only hurt yourself further if you do not seek help.
If you’re still wondering if you have severe anxiety, please use the link below and use this free quiz provided by Rogers Behavioral Health below.
https://rogersbh.org/anxietyquiz
Thank you for reading my tale. Have a wonderful day and I hope this has helped you understand anxiety a little more!
Taking Care of Me: A story of overcoming anxiety, depression, and trauma
Taking Care of Me
A story of overcoming anxiety, depression, and trauma.
By Keely Messino
I started therapy about a year ago for anxiety, depression, and the effects of past trauma. The journey to wellness has been a roller coaster; there was so much more involved in the journey than I ever could have foreseen. I’m really involved in the process of learning about myself, getting to know all the things about myself, the good things about myself, the things that I like about myself, as well as my flaws and the things that need to be worked o., Everyone has something about themselves that they want to change.
I wanted to work on some deep-seated fears. I struggle with many anxiety triggers due to my disability as well as my past trauma. As time passed, I dealt with the fact that I will never fully “heal” while I am getting better, but instead, I would learn to cope with my mental health struggles.
Hearing the words “You’re never done healing” was both a gift and a curse. Those words made me feel so conflicted. I know the purpose of those words was to make me feel like I didn’t have to be hard on myself if I were struggling or if I experienced a setback. On the other hand, I’ve been a student for my entire life, all classwork has a deadline, and I wanted to know when I “was supposed to be better” or “how long therapy was supposed to last.” There is no deadline to healing.
When I was at my lowest, I was sleeping very little, and I was eating sweets to cope with the unpleasant feelings.
The lack of sleep was taking a huge toll on my body and my mind. I would cry myself to sleep at night, and the pain in my body was never-ending. Sometimes I would drink a few glasses of wine just so that I could fall asleep. I finally went to the doctor, and he offered me medication for my pain and my mood. I had so many mixed emotions. I was scared—some people in my family struggle with alcohol abuse. I questioned if the medicine was additive. The doctor told me that addiction was not a risk.
Within a few weeks, I started to see an improvement. I was calmer, and the pain was almost completely gone. In addition, I was sleeping through the night.
I went to visit family recently; my family noticed the little yellow medicine bottle in my purse and asked what it was for. At first, I didn’t answer; I was worried about being judged for taking these meds. But eventually, the questions became too much, and I talked about my medical issues with my family. There is no shame in taking care of my needs and putting myself first.
Celebrating 4 Asian American and Pacific Islander Changemakers
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month. Here at WeTalkRadio Network we want to highlight Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals who have made an impact on the world!
Peter Tsai
One Asian American and Pacific Islander, or AAPI, who has done great things to help our world is Peter Tsai. He is a Taiwanese American who created the N95 mask. He led a team that created the mask while he was a professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Even though he retired in 2018, he came out of retirement in 2020 to help find new ways to disinfect N95 masks. He has been instrumental in getting COVID-19 under control.
Eric Yuan
Another AAPI that has played a big role during the pandemic is Eric Yuan. Born in China, Yuan moved to Silicon Valley in 1997. He quickly got started working on American technology, and founded Zoom in 2011. In 2020, Zoom technology became a huge part of most people’s lives. If it weren’t for Eric Yuan, communicating would have been exponentially more difficult during these trying times.
Lisa Ling
One more AAPI to watch is Lisa Ling. She is a journalist who has been prolific over the last 30 years of her journalism career. She has had many journalistic roles over the years, including being a co-host on The View, hosting National Geographic’s Explorer, and being a special correspondent on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Today, she covers profound topics while traveling across the country on her show This is Life With Lisa Ling airing on CNN.
Rupi Kaur
Additionally, Rupi Kaur is an up and coming AAPI poet. She initially gained popularity by sharing her poetry and associated drawings on the social media website Tumblr. In 2014, she self-published her poetry book Milk and Honey. It covers feminists topics, including immigration, relationships, and trauma. Her book quickly gained popularity on social media, and was re-published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. It has now sold more than three million copies. Rupi Kaur has since published two more books, titled The Sun and Her Flowers and Home Body.
I Didn't Let Anxiety Ruin My Life
My Anxiety Story
In 2019, I was on a family vacation, about to eat dinner at a nice restaurant, when suddenly I began to feel nauseous. I didn’t know what was going, I had never felt nauseous for no reason before. Interrupting the lively conversation about our plans to go to Disney World the next day, I told my parents that my stomach hurt really bad and I needed to go back to the hotel to lie down. After laying in agonizing pain for an hour, I decided that I should go to the ER before things got worse and ruined any more of our trip.
The doctor at the emergency room said that it seemed that my symptoms were caused by constipation. He gave me some medicine to help me get through the trip, and recommended I see more doctors once I got back home. I was able to get through the trip without feeling too awful, although I did have to skip half of the activities so I could rest up.
Once getting back home, I visited my primary care doctor. After explaining to her everything that was going on, she said that it seemed like all of my symptoms were caused by anxiety and depression. It had never crossed my mind that those were the reasons for my sickness. Mental health wasn’t something that my family and friends talked about often, but I was getting ready to move across the country to go to college, so it made sense that anxiety and depression would go along with it.
Following my diagnosis, I partook in some reflection. Looking back on my life, it seemed that I had always had a touch of anxiety, but it wasn’t until I got to high school that I started to experience physical and symptoms due to it. I felt nauseous every morning my junior year, and I assumed it was due to lack of sleep. But looking back, I had just started at a new school and hadn’t made many friends yet, so the nausea was actually a symptom of my mental illness.
Leaving my parents and going to college was just such a monumental event that it set my anxiety and depression over the edge to the point where it began to take over my life. My primary care doctor has prescribed the drug Lexapro to take, to limit my anxiety and depression. I took it for about four months, from July to October, and did not see any changes in my symptoms.
On the contrary, once I arrived at college my symptoms worsened. Being in a dorm made me feel like I was constantly being watched, as there was no privacy. People were always around, which made my social anxiety go off the rails. I began having diarrhea every single day, multiple times a day. It was difficult for me to eat because I felt sick all the time, and when I did I had to use the bathroom immediately after. I had to take Pepto Bismol all the time just to be able to attend class. I weaned myself off of the Lexapro, because it didn’t seem to make a difference and I forgot to take it every once in a while anyways. That was a rough time in my life.
Over my school’s fall break, in November, I went to see a different primary care doctor to see if she had any different advice than the first doctor I saw had. After explaining my situation and symptoms to her, she agreed that I had anxiety with a hint of depression. However, in addition to that, she diagnosed me with IBS, otherwise known as Irritable Bowel Syndrome. She explained to me that many people with anxiety have IBS, as well, because anxiety can affect one’s digestion. She prescribed a fiber supplement to me, called FiberCon, that was supposed to calm my stomach and help with constipation and diarrhea.
I have been taking FiberCon everyday for a year and half now, and my anxiety and depression symptoms are as limited as they have been since I began high school. Yes, I do occasionally have an upset stomach when I am stressed about a school project or meeting someone new, but nowhere near the extent that it was my first semester of college. This is all to say that even when you feel like your mental illness is taking over your life, there is a way out of it. Don’t give up on yourself and don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it.
For those of you that experience symptoms of anxiety and depression like I do, here are some of the coping mechanisms that I employ to take back control of my mind. First, I like to do breathing exercise. I know that this is a common one that most people already know about, but it really does work. When I feel my anxiety start to build up, I take slow, deep breaths until I start to calm down. The great thing about this one is it can be done in public without anyone around you knowing.
Another thing that I do is sing and dance by myself. Yes, this sounds silly, but it really works. When I’ve had a bad day and am feeling stressed and depressed, I turn on some of my favorite music,do a little karaoke, and have a little dance party for myself. When I do this, it’s hard to get into it at first because I don’t feel happy and I’m not in the mood to sing and dance, but after faking being happy for a few minutes, I start to feel actually happy! Trust me, this works.
WeTalkRadio Network will be posting mental health related content all month long, so make sure to check back often for updates!