Illness and Isolation | Ali Mitrovich | TEDxCardinalNewmanHS
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- čas přidán 9. 02. 2016
- Ali asks, how does disease and illness lead to social isolation and further suffering?
Ali Mitrovich is a senior from Windsor, CA. She is a competitive dancer; dancing since she was 8 years old, and is now teaching a class at the studio she began dancing at many years ago. She has two nieces, with another on the way, and spends as much time as she possibly can with them. After suffering Lyme Disease for three and a half years, Alexandra held her very own first annual "In the Lyme Light" fashion show fundraiser for Lyme Disease and began her senior service project. This fundraiser, held in the Cardinal Newman gym during her junior year, raised almost $7,000 for Lyme Disease, while also educating the audience about the dangers of this invisible illness. She is passionate about this project and is holding the second annual show on April 9, 2016. She hopes to attend college next year at either Seattle University, Pepperdine, or University of San Diego to begin studying medicine.
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Prayers for all who suffer in silence and alone.....you are not alone....reach out....
full moon impossible to speak up. I always feel that I don't belong to this world. I know something is going wrong but don't know how to get out. That feeling is really horrible and obsessive
We are alone
Reach out no one really gives a sh...t ,
Well done on a great talk. So many of the things you said were sad and true. Those of us that are ill, suffer mostly in silence. Hopefully this will help those that are well to understand what it’s really like to be like us.
I have cerebral palsy and I feel isolated a lot of the time it's hard to get people to listen to me even when I listen to all they have to say.
I empathise with you. It's horrible when you're around people yet feel so alone.
So sorry you have to endure. I have a couple of MS like diseases that no one can see and feel much like you do
Hiding is an accurate way to describe it.
What a brave woman! You're my hero.
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Simp.
Why are we heros cuz we suffer in silence enduring pain all day everyday
Lyme is tough, the medical community is of little help, even making things worse. I am having success with the herbs Ohsa root and Japanese Knotweed, also following the paleo diet.
I have complex congenital heart defects and severe asthma. My health has worsened over the last couple of years. I now do my day program for adults with Autism on Zoom virtually. I miss being with my friends. When my staff asks how I am feeling I just say ok since I don’t know what it’s like to feel good every day. My team is now looking in to a genetic disorder that I am teaching my staff about. It’s hard not to have people understand what I go through every day.
How are you doing man?
@@johnpaul5037 I am hanging in there. Getting ready for major ankle surgery.
@@PinkHawk191 I feel you man, I just got diagnosed with lyme and have been experiencing cardiac issues. I'm also am starting to forget what it's like to feel normal.
Hugs!
3:30 all illnesses are terrible to have to endure. I have a stigmatized invisible illnesses. If I disclose this fact it a double insult to injury. People say they know what I’m going through. They know how I feel. I have a bipolar 2 rapid cycling disorder. It’s a mood disorder (hypomania highs to sui cidal depressions).
No general public. You have no idea what it’s like. It is so frustrating. I feel that’s one major different with chronic invisibly illnesses, specifically mental health disorders compared to others.
I was vaccinated for Lyme Borreliose, and than a view years later I got cancer. Sometimes I wonder if there could be a link
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I dont fit in with anyone, I got bipolar and I dont seem to be able to function arnd people.
Raiken Xion - most people with chronic illness have a lot of days where they can't function around other people either (or at all). My sister is mentally ill and of late I've been trying to make her see that she has a chronic illness and should treat it as such - remember to take her meds, maintain good diet and exercise as much as she can, not beat herself up about the bad days, not compare herself to healthy people (probably the hardest one eh?)
@@susie9893 , not comparing oneself to healthy people is indeed the hardest part.
@@bobtaylor170 I hear ya hon, I'm finally recovering from years of chronic illness and if I learnt nothing from that time I learnt that I couldn't afford to compare my life (especially in terms of what I struggled to do that I used to do so easily) with others or to resent others (especially in terms of what they could do that I couldn't). I also used to resent how much my illness had taken from me in terms of time (felt like I had lost YEARS) and money. But now I'm so happy not to be feeling how I used to I focus my thoughts and energy on how blessed I am and how much I need to make the most of what I have now
Lyme here. Only other people with serious illness get it
This Girl needs to go w/ some others w/ upbeat & GO to Schools; Get folks out at Cancer Centers Psychology is Important to help those going thru isolation. This should be in Schools / Universities NOW! ASAP! These Kids w/ Huge college tuition no jobs still living at home on their phones ... We Need our Humans back; Not these Humanoids. We can't Leave this Country like this to our Grand kids. Come On!
I live at home because I am physically and developmentally disabled. I need help with certain tasks. I do my day program for adults with Autism on Zoom. I am not a bad person I am a person with disabilities. Plus my health has deteriorated over the last few years.
How come so beautiful gets lonely
Good talk. And her legs are so gorgeous it should be against the law.
Simp.
I can say the sick is the one who is on bed and cant move ,if you can talk and walk and breath and can smile then you are a live and that is the greatest if you believe in Allah.
Allah is for fools.