UNMASKING MENTAL HEALTH Ep.1 with Sam Hard filmed in Ed Bolian’s VinWiki Studio
Welcome to our new Petrolheadonism Series where we will be Discussing Mental Health with fellow Petrolhead’s about experiences, stress, depression, anxiety and the daily battle of life. Our aim is to help at least one person per video (hopefully many more) to realise that they are not suffering alone and life is tough but there is definitely a lot to look forward to – it can get better!
Over the new series we will be unmasking mental health in today’s current social climate and interviewing car enthusiast’s, helping you to find the courage to talk, speak up, be vocal and be heard. We’ve suffered mental health issues in our experiences so we can relate to how you may be feeling.
Episode 1 – This week we welcome Sam Hard of Hard Up Garage – thank you to Sam, we were able to travel to Atlanta and visit Ed Bolian to record some of our own stories for the VinWiki YouTube Channel. We discuss Bullying and being different, having the courage to be yourself and believing in yourself. We would like to thank Ed Bolian for his amazing hospitality, was a dream to film for VinWiki but also to host our first episode in the famous VinWiki Studio with all Ed’s memorabilia as our backdrop. It was a difficult conversation but one we felt it necessary to air – as 3 friends, we found out for the first time that being a teenager was probably one of the toughest times to follow our passion and dreams.
If you are looking for further information or help about Mental Health please visit any of the following UK charities:
MIND
SAMARITANS
YOUNG MINDS
CALM
SHOUT
“The advice I’d give to somebody that’s silently struggling is, you don’t have to live that way. You don’t have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health condition, as long as you open up to somebody about it, because it’s really important you share your experience with people so that you can get the help that you need.” — Demi Lovato
“I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you’re not alone. You’re not the first to go through it, you’re not gonna be the last to go through it,” — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“I understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will NEVER BE a burden.” — Sophie Turner
“The experience I have had is that once you start talking about [experiencing a mental health struggle], you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club.” — Prince Harry
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Bravo for taking on this topic!!
Awesome Topic,
Thank you for your honest chats about something many of us suffer with,
BRAVO guy's 👏 🙂👌🏻
Stay Safe out there,
Mark 👍🏻
New to the channel where can i follow these guys. Links please
Excellent work on a very good topic! I believe everyone struggles with this at one point or another, myself included. When your mental state is sorted out, everything else good naturally follows. Discussions like this are quite important in order to lift both ourselves and others in the community back up to where we can all achieve our greatest. Cheers, guys!
Well done guys. I fully understand the relentless of being bullied for something as banal as hair colour, even now at pushing 50 being ginger will still come up… I'm in a wheelchair and people still see my hair as the first thing to make the Mickey of 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 crazy.
Keep up the good work, respect.
Brilliant to see..🤜💥🤛
Not an easy topic …The stigma surrounding mental illness / mental health means its easier to be push Aside still , So Well done Guys in Taking positive steps in changing people’s prospective on health and well being .. I look forward to seeing more .
Top Video content Gentlemen, Important subject which affects all of us in some way. Great you have all done your own thing, therefore succeeding regardless. Wise work colleague used to say: It’s not me, it’s them others. 👍
Excellent video guys….. sadly lost 3 of my friends who believed there only way to get away from their demons was to take their own lives,hopefully videos likes this which are becoming more and more noticed WILL start to save more people …. ITS OK TO NOT BE OK.
Sam… this upload came at a VERY salient time… much needed… {as i am in the u.s., the "ginger" thing escapes me… bullies do attack the easy reaction… my personal exp.}