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Remember I said that you should look at examples of emotional health to sustain your own emotional health? Well, I'd like to show a couple examples of emotional health I look at sometimes.

I enjoy watching ClevverTV and its two hosts, Dana and Joslyn, as they report on celebrity news. Dana and Joslyn are frank but never mean, even when talking about clearly despicable people or actions. They seem sincere, enthusiastic, and confident. When they interact with each other, on Girl Talk segments and such, they seem just as sincere, confident, comfortable, and secure in themselves. What I like best, though, is that they're on Youtube, so like all Youtube people, they must deal with the Mean Comments. Some people make mean comments about Dana and Joslyn, some make mean-horrible-vulgar comments about the subject matter or celebrity, some make mean comments to other commenters, and some make mean comments in general. But Dana and Joslyn just keep on truckin', video after video with smiles on their faces like it doesn't phase them. I am often told not to worry about the trolls or the Mean Commenters. They just want to cause trouble. Still, the mean comments hurt just to look at. But here are two women who really don't seem to care, and I know they read some comments because they reply sometimes. I was a bit scared of starting a blog because of the comments I might get. People are mean more openly and to greater degrees on the internet than in real life, and I don't want to be confronted with that. (I keep trying to stop reading Youtube comments, but it's harder than it sounds. I plan to do a post on that later.) It's disturbing. A couple years ago, before I saw ClevverTV or other healthy Youtube people, I only saw people who didn't respond to mean comments or people who were just as mean back. I couldn't exactly blame them. I didn't know how they could deal with it, or WHY they'd get on Youtube at all. I couldn't imagine anyone not caring about the mean comments until I saw Dana and Joslyn. It helped me to imagine myself not caring.







I also enjoy watching Xsparkage because, not only does she come up with fun makeup looks, but she also seems so sweet and genuine. She, too, has to deal with mean comments, but she always seems profoundly nice, even for a makeup artist. (All makeup artists seem so nice, friendly, outgoing, and well-adjusted. Why is that? It's awesome. I'd choose a career as a makeup artist just to get that personality, but I'm not sure it works that way.) In this video, she responds beforehand to negative comments she might receive about the makeup look. Now, this is tricky, because the kind of comment she responds to is not the kind of comment that would come from someone just trying to make her mad. It's the kind from someone who actually cares about the video, the look, and the character. Xsparkage responds to it with a sense of humor AND respectfulness. She ALSO addresses people who merely comment to hate on a book and its fans, and she addresses them respectfully too. Bravo, Xsparkage! She also seems smart, as she says in another video that she realizes Twilight isn't the greatest literary work, but she likes it anyway. This is brilliant for someone who's not me! She likes something but also sees its faults. I'm not a big fan of Twilight. It's alright, and that's a balanced opinion. It's nice to find someone else with a balanced opinion, who knows it has problems but can like it anyway.

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The following documents provide evidence against psychiatrist Dr. Infectious in memos to his secretary, Mr. Communicable, conspiring to infect the public using his patients:


Mr. C,
Please call Sarah and confirm she made that Youtube channel I recommended to let out, in fun ways, her frustration at being bespectacled, freckled, a citizen of the United States, and so much less charming than everyone else. Remind her I said making fun of herself will help her overcome life's misfortunes. With luck, bespectacled, freckled U.S. Citizens will see her videos and begin down the path of self-hate, and we'll have scores of new customers.


Mr. C,
Please call my friends at the station and secure the prime time slot for our up-and-coming rock star friend to tell the world what he looks for in a girl: beauty as great as his. His fans should get the hint, and before you know it, they'll come crying to us about how they're not pretty enough or how they obsess over beauty only to tire themselves out, never feeling beautiful INSIDE.


Mr. C,
Please write the military base and tell them I recommend Mr. Jonson for a promotion. The more people that come under his authority, the more will come to us to "fix" their own abusive tendencies, which they acquired after meeting the superior that abused them.


Mr. C,
Please call Rich and remind him how important it is that he join the debate team, no matter how uncool he thinks it is. He'll confront even more people with his stubbornness, opinionatedness, and constant interruptions and insults. Once that happens, we'll be swamped with people just like him who complain that they're angry, unheard, and overly opinionated, wishing they didn't blow up over every little opinion.


Mr. C,
Please move up my appointment with Larry. I plan to emphasize that he must cope with his impatience by letting out his emotions, letting others know how he feels. By which I mean it's altogether fitting and proper that he should purposely knock over display stands while in line at Walmart because that will make his parents just as antsy to get out of line. They'll come to us about their nervous impatience.


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Script for Emotional Illness Insurance commercial:

*Man in park runs from sneezing man to scowling old woman, from angry woman to man flashing ultra-violet-white smile at himself in anything shiny, from vain man to boy hiding acne-ridden face behind hands, from self-hating boy to pole, INTO pole.*

Announcer: Hello. I'm here to talk about emotional illness. Emotional illness is a serious malady, costing the sick thousands each year in therapist bills. It can affect even the healthy with self-inflicted face-palms, running into poles, and of course the worst aspect of emotional illness - its contagiousness.

But. You can be prepared. The irrefutable fact is this: you are what you choose to be. You must build up your emotional immune system. You can do this by looking at examples of emotional health and by familiarizing yourself with types of emotional illness, seeing them in small doses from a distance. This vaccination will allow your system to distinguish the truth from the pathogens and exterminate them from within you, without needing to wonder if your physical looks are more important than who you are, if you should be ashamed of your looks, if abusive behavior is necessary, or if it's best to be stubborn and opinionated. It can still be difficult to ensure your system is not overwhelmed. It can be extremely difficult to CURE emotional illness when you already have it, but never panic. Once you recognize your sickness, you can do something about it, at least attempting to control your actions. Keep in mind that it's slightly easier to control your actions than feelings. However, you can control both your actions and your emotions best with a healthy helping God's influence in your heart, soul, and mind.

Or you could soften face-palms by gluing oven mitts to your hands and stay out of parks with poles.

That's EII's stand. Are you in good oven mitts?