True Joy Update Damnit!
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- Опубліковано 2 лис 2023
- Hey, Hi, and Hello There Bad-Ass Wonderful Friends ❤️🩹💖💜,
I hope y'all had an Awesome-Sauced Halloween Evening and that everyone got to experience at least one incredible spooky experience 💚☠️💚
I personally love to habit-watch 'Hocus Pocus' and 'Ernest Scared Stupid' every single Halloween that I can 🦇🎃.
Anywhooo…so I'm back today with some ACTUAL wonderful-news updates, good ol' fashioned fun stories, and a few new experiences/thoughts that I have been just DYING to share with y'all ☠️🎃🫣😱☠️….
Lol, sorry😘!
Okay, I officially apologize for the massive amount of corny halloween-sized jokes that I've already managed to cram into this text…so I promise y'all, that's the LAST one 👍.
And honestly…because this video is so silly long in it's run length…I'm just gonna shut my red-bearded face-mouth up right now and let y'all get to the video without further unneeded, unwanted, and unnecessary interruptions from said beard-face over here.
Thank you again, from the very bones of my heart and soul, for y'alls continued infinite support, love, compassion, and Awesome-Sauced Human Friendships!!!
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"I smiled at the fuckin' sun". Such a beautiful statement with so much gravity. Gods I'm so happy for you.
Seen you on SBSK years ago and was surprised to see you had your own channel! I love how honest you are and informative on your struggles, it really helps everyone understand the complexity of your disability!
So happy to see you are doing better. Joy looks great on you. I wish you all the joy life can bring.
THIS was a joy inducing report full of hope and wonder, Daniel, congratulations on getting what you have always, ALWAYS deserved - humane and thorough attention from a case worker who could put 2 and 2 together, and a treatment protocol that dug deep into the heart of the trauma. You haven't ever seemed so lucid, full of light and grounded energy, in all the time I've had the honor of watching your story unfold. Please accept my wholehearted support, and sharing in your joy, with lots of love all the way from Spain. Hugs to you and your animals, plushy and otherwise. Wooohoo!
YES!!! Omg, so heart wrenching hearing all the stories. FINALLY someone who understands. He deserves nothing less.
"Put 'em up when you need to. Put 'em down when you need to. Hug something soft. Play with something silly. And punch a bag if it comes to nothing else." --- Truer words have never been spoken!! I want this on a t-shirt. I want this as my mantra every day.
Oh Daniel, I haven't finished your video yet, but want you to know that this old woman is literally crying for happiness for you!!!
OMG Daniel, this video gave me goosebumps. My kitten was sitting beside me as I watched this, and when you started talking about how much things are getting better, she went behind me and started gently making biscuits on my back. I'm sure you know what that means. We all love you Daniel, and my kitten does too.
There is so much that can be said right now, but instead I think I'll just say: we love you so much, Daniel.
I DO know how big a statement that is! Glad to see you found your smile. Very happy you are celebrating these victories along the way even if it's not a magic wand that fixes everything all at once. I can see a difference in your energy even through the screen. So much good stuff crammed into this update it's hard to imagine there's more! I was _definitely_ not bored hearing you talk! Nothing but love coming from here in chilly Minnesota. Keep that energy flowing, Dan. I'm so proud just to be able to be along on this journey with you in whatever form.
God is good
So happy for you! I am thrilled at your promise to us. It’s something to hang on to. When you said “Is this what life can be like?” my heart broke a little bit. It’s not always that great but sometimes it can be. I’m so glad you got to experience it 😊❤
I'm so sorry that your experiences with in-patient facilities have been so profoundly negative. I'm glad you were able to help maintain order and keep people safe, even though that should not be your job at all as a patient. I'm so glad that the ECT has provided you the ability to process your fears and has allowed you to feel joy, and I hope it continues to work for you. And congrats on getting your VA stuff worked out finally! It's about damn time! As always, thank you for being a continuous inspiration to me and the other people who follow you. You are such a light wherever you go, and you've gone to some pretty dark and pain-filled places. May your days continue to be colored with vibrant shades of light!
you're so right, about damn time! for real
Psychiatric treatments in North America are barbaric! I'm in Canada and the abuse in the system is RAMPANT.
You are loved. Hearing your positivity is so uplifting. You have the power to beat anything brother.
Daniel, I can't express how much I appreciate your open and honest discussions regarding your mental health. I will never ever pretend to know what you go through on a daily basis but hearing someone who deals with CPTSD, severe anxiety, and so on gives me something to look forward to. Your good days, your bad days, your conquests and triumphs and your bad days where it seems like surviving the next 60 seconds has allowed me to feel like I do not have to suffer my own struggles alone.
You are forever a beautiful and wonderful man. Your scars and your stories open my world.and let me know that I may be by myself but I'm not truly alone. Thank you for being you Daniel. I look forward to all of your updates. I want you to know I share in your joy and cry for your rough days.
Thank you... I don't feel completely alone while surrounded by people when I see you post.
Never stop fighting man, a lot of people including me have followed your story and are rooting for you always, you’re stronger than you may even realize ✊
DANIEL!!!! So great to have connected with you, even though we were in a rough spot. Hope to hear from you soon!
Yaaaayyy!!!!!
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It was seriously an absolute HONOR, and PRIVILEGE, to meet you in person like that!
I mean....come'ON!!
What are the odds that you and I-
Two fortunate SBSK interviewees.....
Would SOMEHOW end up at the SAME hospital AND during the SAME time period?!
It's impossible I tell you, simply impossible, lol, except for the fact that I DID indeed happen.
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Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to write me on here so that I could end up seeing you on here and have the chance to respond by writing back.
Thank you for being the absolute AMAZING and LOVING Person that you are; I am so lucky and happy, beyond words, that I was able to meet you in person.
Much love to you, dearest friend!
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Daniel, my uncle had a lot of mental issues. Meds no longer worked for him so they decided to do ECT. It's the only thing that helped him. He starting riding his motorcycle again and being able to spend time with friends and family. I truly hope it is a success for you as well. Good luck my friend. I am glad you are doing ok.
Daughter had 16 ECT treatments a few years ago. Saved her life 🎉
You go Daniel! There ARE rays of beauty and color 🩷💛💚🩵💜
For the first time in a really long time I can hear it in your voice that you’re recovering and responding well to the treatment. You’re not stimming as much, you’re more coherent, and there’s a light in your eyes. I’m elated for you! It’s incredible that things have shot up for you, you’re well on your way to having that life you’ve spoken about before.
As for psychosis, depression can make it 10x worse. In fact depression can be a cause for psychosis. Hopefully with the ECT it’ll level out to a point where it’s background noise. Even if it isn’t I know you’ll handle it.
How long is the ECT? Have they set up a plan for when you’re finished with it, and how to go from there?
I know that awakening feeling all too well, being mentally unwell for so long and finally getting the right treatment it’s an actual life saver.
I’m really hoping and preying that this is it, that this is something that works long term. Treatment resistant depression is an absolute nightmare, but as far as I’m aware ECT has been proven to be effective. I’m also glad to hear it’s ethical, because tbh I had my qualms with it.
Daniel, to see you be so open about all you've experienced while speaking with such emotion has made me feel the happiest I've felt in a long time. I feel that being able to confront your "demons" with the attitude I saw in this video is such a great sign for the future. Thank you for twenty-four minutes and forty-four seconds of happiness today and many more counting your past and future videos.
why is it so calming listening to you talk, Daniel? oml
I loved the clip of you singing!!! I didn’t know you were such a good singer, I’d love to hear more!
Daniel you and bandit are hilarious and that mental place is mental for putting you and others in danger I’m glad you’re ok. Also I love your voice it sounds perfect for doing parts in a audiobooks
Just really need to give Daniel a hug rn. Been a shit day. Wish I could see the sun.
All I could do is smile. I'm so happy that you're finding positive relief. You deserve every bit of it
I just want so badly for you to be happy, I really truly do. Know there's a random person in Vancouver who is cheering for you and wishing for your wellbeing ❤
Yaaaayyy! I can see the happiness in your eyes and it's contagious, now I can't stop smiling. ☺️ I can relate to the feeling of being depressed forever and a day and then you find a certain kind of treatment that's a game changer and realize: OMG, my brain IS actually still capable of producing happy feelings. That is HUGE and I understand it must profoundly change your outlook. Thank you for sharing that wonderful new development. ✨️💖💫
It's always such a joy to see you Daniel. I'm so glad to hear that things are so improved! There's so much light in your eyes and it just brings me joy.
That story of the watcher just standing by while you helped the fellow get out of a fight (one it sounds like he would have lost terribly without you intervening) is so sad. I hate that it's not that uncommon. Changing your medication and then ignoring the side effects it caused, refusing to send patients to hospital unless they're literally /dying/ are just another layer of cruel, I don't understand how they can justify that at all.
Hearing you talk about the experience of confronting the fear after the ECT and the change it made to your mindset almost made me cry, honestly. You give me so much hope.
I'm glad you got something out of that facility. I'm sorry the places people go for help are so indifferent. I'm glad you can explore your sadness without being engulfed by it. I'm so happy to know you're feeling more alive and you're getting actual help. You could never be boring, you're too funny and articulate. I love you clips in between too. Beautiful, love you too.
Every time I hear from you Daniel, I feel better knowing you’re still with us. Seeing your photography, your animals, your familiar mug! Let’s keep fighting together ✌️✨
dropping in to say my usual comment for you that im so deeply grateful to share this tiny planet with you. and to see you riding a wave of sunshine and sustained peace is simply beautiful. be well, my friend.
Love from Germany my friend ❤
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Sweet Dan, this video is everything!!!! You have no idea how emotional and wonderful it is to see your joy! We all celebrate with you!! I wish for you a lifetime of continued joy!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Daniel. You handsome man. I'm so elated, finally you have a new perspective and a light to focus on. Keep on doing, one step in front of another. As long as you keep moving you are moving forward. Luv ya!
Isn't he gorgeous inside and out?! What a darling soul to have on earth.
Daniel! You bring me true joy any time I get to see your face on this cursed fuckin internet. I can see your light shining through the screen in this video and it's so good to see you in high spirits.
Following up now that I’ve watched the video - your new case worker kicks ass. It’s such a goddamned shame not all of them are like her - you deserve every bit of joy you feel now and for the rest of your life. I’ve been watching your updates for a couple years now and remember a time you felt so incredibly hopeless - it makes me cry with joy to know that there’s a treatment that’s finally given you your hope back. What an incredible thing life can be. Feel better soon, Daniel - all my love!
Hi Daniel, in my experience ECT works well on people with depression. It can cause memory loss, though only for a short period of time. So sorry to hear this is how psychiatric patients are being treated in the USA, it's absolutely insane! I fully believe that your journey would have been easier, had you received the right help from the start! I could never even dream of treating patients like prisoners!😢
Happy to hear you're doing better though ❤
I watched your video when it came out, but I really heard it this second time around.
You are more courageous than you realize. When they offered me ECT to me I was scared it make me wingier than I was on the (heaps of) meds, for depression and suicidal tendecies.
When I was given another psych dr she weaned me off all of the meds ecxept for two at bedtime. It took years~seven, but my mind has been clear for the last 3 years. My family has been with me through this journey, and are still around me, and through any "bad" days.
Praying for you on your journey, and rejoicing with you on your new found clarity. I am so thankful that it is working for you. Love and hugs Cyn from central Ont Canada.
Thank you for sharing this update with us. I’m sorry you physically had to be in such a bad place and I hope you don’t have to go there ever again.
I really liked the intermissions and as a 29 years old man who sleeps with a blåhaj, a panda and a seal I will hug something soft today.
Even though I know you can do it all I wish you will turn to us when needed and that you sing more on your walks.
You are loved and we are here for you ❤
Hope and despair, up and down, the two sides of the same coin we pretty much ALL experience. When at peace, I try NOT to analyse or figure a way to remain in that state anymore. I just surf the wave, gratefully. With time, I begin to realize the ME in the middle, gazing at the world, unworried, is the REAL me. I like the ups, of course, but now I know the BEST spot is in the middle, where I do find happiness that sadly cannot be shared, and I know I'm not helpless anymore.
Discovered you a few years ago. I remember you seemed to ALWAYS be in my worst day, and I felt such empathy and admiration for your courage that I just HAD to follow you. It's amazing witnessing your transformation. I know you're still struggling, but to me, you have become SO much more resilient and even positively driven and defying of your inner fears than at the beginning. Yours is a beautiful soul, a poet and a warrior. You might not think you've accomplished much in terms of personnal social achievement, just like I do sometimes, but on the SPIRITUAL side of things ( strenght and love among others ), you are WAY ahead of the majority. You know total darkness, you stood on the edge, fought your way back, and still manage to share your inspiring journey with so many of us.
I too am proud of you, incredibly proud. You know what my personnal definition of friend is ? A friend is someone you can just be yourself with, and also a friend is someone who truly believes in you. Count me in as a friend. Like the terminator said ; I'll be back.
That is a beautiful comment.
Daniel: You are loved.
This is AMAZING!!!!
I am blown away. Finally! You have people in your life that are actively assisting you. The clouds have parted, and the sun is shining down. May God continue to bless you, and I will continue to hold a prayer in heart for you.
Daniel, when we are so, so used to getting awful, gaslighting medical care, when someone validates your needs and begins to provide answers for you, it is almost unbelievable. You deserve to be cared for Daniel. I love you.
Do any of your medical team actually take the time and have the patience to listen to you on your many honest talks?
I truly hope one does, gets you, and advocates to the other professionals on your behalf.
I can't help much here in Canada, a very poor homesteader on disability.
I love listening to you, with your honesty and ability to articulate your experiences. I see a book here. Have you considered it? Your words, someone else with patience to write your words down.
It's just that others need to hear your messages of hope despite the struggle.
Wow. Man, sending my best wishes. I'm subscribed and will tune in again.
Oh Daniel! I am so happy to see and hear you doing so well! I have been receiving ECT for nearly 2 years and it completely changed my life. It breaks my heart that it is so misunderstood when it could drastically improve so many lives. I've been diagnosed with depression, bipolar 2, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, panic disorder, ptsd... and I've been on and off every combination of meds and types of therapy... and nothing could put my depression in remission. Other than ECT. I'm so happy that you're on a similar journey. Just remember that recovery of any kind isn't a straight line, and you may have setbacks or bad days or ugly thoughts. But, from my own experience, it's so much easier to remain hopeful about Getting Better when you know you've been there before. And the memory issues will improve! Maybe not perfect, but better, and definitely worth it.
I am very glad for you... In one of your last videos you spoke about the feel of emptyness and how people hide it..... I really connected with that. God bless you
Thank you so much for your kind message and for your courage to share your own experience; thank you dear friend! 🫂🫂🫂🫂
Dude! Congratulations on finding something that works for you! A lot of people don't understand the struggle of searching for it, and the joy of again finding our quirky brains working somewhat like it should! 🎉
I believe in you Daniel! You will conquer the negativity in your life and you will not fail! You have a beautiful voice and you are a wonderful poet! Would like to hear you singing and reading some of your poems. Take care, you are in my prayers. I love you! 🙏♥️
When I started Prazosin for my PTSD, which I'm being treated for now (I don't know whether or not I can say I have something or not because I haven't been evaluated, but have been treated for it?) and I started to sleep without any nightmares, it really was like the days were brighter and the colors were more vibrant. I think that there's a truth to the fact that you can actually feel the difference in the world when you have the right treatment and it starts to actually repair the things that plague you. When I found Modafinil for my chronic sleeplessness, it was the same way. I'm so glad that ECT seems to be the thing for you, Daniel. Everyone deserves a break and deserves something that works.
Thank god you've been feeling better mate. That made me feel better. Here's hoping that treatment opened some new doors for you. I didn't get ECT but I did TMS for a while and it seemed to help a little. That is after trying almost all ssri's and a couple bipolar meds and them having almost NO effect on me other than negative. It's such a pain and I feel your pain man. I really do. But sometimes it just takes that one drug or "experience" I suppose, that switches the right thing in our brain.
Hi Daniel, first time commenting on your video. Till now I was caching up all your previous videos and finally up to date now. You are true collosus in mind continuing to fight and live every day with such a scarry stuff coming at you dailly and randomly, ton of people would prob. give up long ago. I trully wish you live strong and happy to old age having familly and many many daughters and sons. Regards from Serbia!!!
Daniel, I’ve been watching your videos for over 1yr now. I was so disappointed to hear how you were mistreated at this last facility. But then, to hear about your positive experience with ECT treatments, your dental issues taken care of & the awesome new case worker that you now have, well that just made my day!❤
My mother & brother didn’t respond well to the various psychiatric meds they were given while while they were hospitalized. ECT was a saving grace to both of them. I know it sounds scary to most people, but in some cases it’s the only thing that helps. I really am so very happy for you & I hope & pray your progress continues!❤
Listening to you tell your stories, seeing your photography, is therapeutic for me. Love you Daniel ❤️
Get well soon, Daniel! I was thinking about how a person is not able to feel/notice happiness, and for me there is one straight and simple thing that helps - tasty food :-) I have diabetes so i can't eat everything I want and as many as I want, but I truly enjoy when I can allow something like a bit of a chocolate or an icecream. And if you would get bored of one food, you always have something else to replace it - spicy food, unusual fruits, new sort of coffee - it's limitless.
Greetings from Ukraine and sorry for my non-perfect English. Sending positive vibes your way!
I have the exact same claustrophobia as you🤗. I don't have a memory of when it started, but I am always aware of the exits wherever I am and usually you can find me sitting right in line of sight of them. I have become the designated answer to "how do we get out of here" with my friends. It's like I can feel the air pulling me towards the doors in a room.
Love you and am proud of you - a fellow struggling veteran. You've got this, we've got this.
I wish I had friends like you. Here’s to all of your wonderful supporters & friends. Special people. 😊
“I looked at the sun and smiled” some people have luckily never found this to be such a powerful feeling. I have clinical depression and I try so hard to remind myself of a time I walked outside and smiled the sun,inhaled the fresh air, saw the beauty in the colors of life and truly…..loved them.
I try so hard to remind myself of those rare moments when I’m in my long depressive episodes. “ just remember when the colors of life made you feel alive” because sometimes that’s all we have to hold onto.
I loved this video and it brought tears to my eyes to hear you experience this very feeling. I pray it happens more often then not now.❤
I know this is a very late comment but, this video made my day and filled me with hope. My best friend attempted suicide recently and this video brought my spirits up.
We love you Daniel, and love your videos!
Daniel, I wept watching this and still am trying to comment. I am so fucking glad that you have found something and someone that works for you. That you have received some of the care and support you need and deserve to feel hope and to have the tools to care for yourself. Hold onto this feeling tightly. I’m so glad you made this video so there is a record of this moment. One of the most helpful things anyone ever shared with me is - progress is a spiral (I believe it is an indigenous concept). We will encounter our obstacles and our pain again but hopefully we will have gained tools and support to better deal with them. Demand the tools and support you need.
And keep singing!
I came across your story from Chris. Glad you're doing better and have a treatment thats helping. I definitely relate to when you said you felt unworthy. Fighting depression and anxiety is so hard. Thank you for sharing your story and sharing updates of your progress. Love from South Carolina!
Thank you so much, dear friend
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For taking the very real time and effort to visit here and write such a beautiful, kind, and sweet message of support; even though you'd only JUST met me through Mr. Chris' selfless work helping give voices to those without the platform to do so!
And I ALSO just Love-Love-Love your Awesome-Sauced Profile Pic!!!
Honey Badgers are one of my top five animals in the whole wide world!!! 🥰🩵👏💚🥰
Xander from South Africa here - rooting for you bro, every step of the way! You're a beacon of light, keep shining!
Even the way you're talking and holding yourself in this video is so dramatically different than some of your other videos, I'm so happy to hear life is going in a good direction for you. I can see the joy and hope radiating off you and I have to say, it is very infectious
Thank you so darn much, for not only taking the time to watch such a looong video from me, BUT ALSO for taking the time and effort to write such a touching and wonderful message!!!
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So in a COMPLETE REVERSAL to what I did during the very beginning of this channel.......
***Annnnnnd by that I mean me NEVER having the courage to read even a SINGLE lone comment on any video I made.....***
NOWADAYS I read EVERY SINGLE DAMN comment!!! 👍♥️😋
Allll because I've discovered that y'all are just the MOST incredible, beautiful, and fanfuckingtastic group of people that I've EVER had the honor/privilege of knowing; and that each and every single comment was, in reality, a message of LOVE, ACCEPTANCE, and ENCOURAGEMENT......
So I STUPIDLY...from the START of this channel...whilst bringing together such a UNIQUELY KIND and GENUINELY LOVING group of BEAUTIFUL INDIVIDUALS, missed out on literal YEARS of supportive comments bathed in love and even more love!
All because of FEAR....
Just FEAR!!!
Whelp!
Well....NEVER AGAIN am I going to allow FEAR to make my decisions for me....
NEVER-EVER-FUCKING-AGAIN!!!
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came here from SBSP. You rock! hang in there!
You're such a fighter, dude. the hope you inspire in me is tremendous. but ... Anyway, I'm just so happy, like many others here, to see you and see you well. Just so glad, truly.
❤ I can hear how much you are healing through the tone of your voice, your mentality is so in focus and I’m so happy for you that you’re feeling better , one day at a time and be kind, loving and patient with yourself ❤❤
I'm so glad you found something that can make you feel the sunshine🌄💖, but the way you were treated at that place....💔😭I hope you can get the treatment at another facility that understands you, and will take you to hospital if you need it.
all the love and light and warmth to you and your animals✨💖✨
Joy is nothing less than you deserve, and you are never boring to listen to.
We could listen to you speak all day, we truly love you Daniel💛
Wow, i can't express how happy i am for you. You're such a strong and funny guy, whose worth of love, joy, and hope. We are all glad that you're doing great!!! And we hope we get more joy updates in the future!!!!
Keep up the great effort !!
Your doing great.
I've been in and out of inpatient facilities and I've only been in one verbal fight, but I've seen many. It's not ok, how they treated you. It's not ok how they treat mental illness. It's like they forget we are human beings. This feels so real
10:20 Dan ECT is not new. It's an incredibly old technique but it does work. We have no idea how but I have witnessed someone COMPLETELY catatonic for days, have one treatment and be not only lucid but holding a full conversation, eat meals unaided and clean her bedroom.
There is no scientific basis of how this works or why, but it does.
Proud of you, so glad you’re getting some treatments that work. There was nothing boring about this, though that hospital situation is infuriating.
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Daniel, I remember you from that first SBSK video years ago. I literally just rewatched all that and decided I NEEDED to know how you were doing. The videos he made with you were the ones that most touched me in all the years he's had his channel, because they just resonated with me so much. I am so, so glad you are doing better. Knowing you're doing better just makes me so happy. You've always seemed like such a good bloke and I really hope AND believe your future holds many good things. I am wishing you the very best.
You're coming back with a vengence!
Geez, wish I knew who this Social Worker was so I could send her a fruit basket or something ...
Thank-you for sharing your good news with us. Hope the momentum keeps growing. :)
Daniel, I am so proud of you for pushing through your claustrophobia and taking the doctors deal + trying the new treatment. I feel very similar claustrophobia although I think my anguish about it is not as severe. So I truly admire your strength to push through in that situation. And boy am I happy to hear it had such a positive effect. Also so glad things a finally moving up with your new caseworker!!! Although I rarely considered "failing" going on is exhausting sometimes, but seeing your video reminds me of my own Joy, the one no one can take from me anymore, because I know it always comes back.
I feel it now, watching you 😊
Just as you are grateful for the community, we are grateful for you. You bring strength and truth to this world that needs to be shared. I appreciate you very much and am grateful you are here and seeing the light. Thank you
Wow, thank you so much for your beautiful words, dear friend 💖🫂💚
When you're doing good means I'm feeling better about the world also... So happy for you, my friend. God bless. xx
Through everything you’ve been through and continue to live with, I have always seen a spark in you. It’s inexplicable. But you have a spark. Sending love.
So happy with you, getting there must have been a real struggle which only you will ever really and truly understand and know. I hope you many, many more morents to come, when you can smile and actually feel happy. Love and hugs from Finland. ❤ -Wyanet.
Hi Daniel, i'm so happy to see you that strong, with a mindset sharp and focussed.
Please never lose that spirit again, when you feel down remember the promise that you made to all of us that "You will NOT FAIL !!!!"
Hopefully you can give us a daily update, cause our hearts go out to you and you are always in our minds.
Please never ever give up and we love you.
Maybe hang a paper in your room with the text "I WILL NOT FAIL !!!!"
My spouse is a veteran with severe ptsd and it gets better especially with support. It’s an every day struggle and life has its ups and downs, keep it up
This is so incredible, I have been following you for some time and just seeing you speak like this and this is amazing. I'm so happy for you and I'm inspired to continue to work towards a better mental health for myself. ❤❤❤❤❤
You will not fail, we will not fail, we do we.
You look and sound fantastic! I can't recall you being this happy in quite a while, and that's a great thing to see and hear. I'm so glad the treatment works for you, and things seem to be going really well right now. I wish continued happiness for you Dan!! Blessings to you ❤
Hi sweet, Daniel. I'm sorry you had to experience that place. I love your good news. I hope you feel better soon. I just want to add you never failed. At every stage through your journey you coped as best as you could with the circumstances as they were. Sir, you're amazing. We're your UA-cam family. You're never boring. ❤❤❤
Oh Daniel! When you asked"is this what live really is?" I just wanted to hug you so badly❤ Yes, this is how live should feel like most of the time. And I hope this really is the breakthrough we have been praying for you. I am so freaking happy for you. Come join the bright side of live! Feel hugged all the way from Germany😊
you sound so much more lucid in this whole time of knowing you an i'm so relieved you feel it too. i'm so grateful and happy that you're finding so much progress with ect
I was having wild delusions, reliving some of the most exciting times of my life, in the most vivid fashion.
In my mind, I was on jump run, ready to skydive out of a DC3 three miles above the earth . . . going to be the last man out, my favorite position. It was the maximal flying of my body.
Bursting into brilliant sunshine outside the airplane door, I immediately assumed a head dive with my arms tucked behind me (in my mind), feeling the familiar buffeting as I fell beneath the prop blast, watching from upside down as the belly of the enormous silvery plane started to shoot skyward, its huge propellers whirling in slow motion, earth and clouds below mirrored on its underbelly. I was musing over the odd sight of flaps and wheels down (as if landing) while still miles above the ground (all to slow down and minimize wind shock to the exiting jumpers).
I tucked my arms in extra tight in a head-down dive to accelerate briskly to over 220 miles per hour, nothing more than my speckled blue helmet and shoulders against thin upper air to resist the tug of the huge planet below, moving more than the length of a football field every second, the wind roaring by furiously at thrice hurricane speed, louder than anything-ever.
Passing between the tops of two enormous puffy white clouds, I rocketed into the clear chasm between them, green earth and sparkling deep blue sea far below, in my wild, thrilling rush down to join my friends, just barely visible, in the colorful snowflake formation, growing larger every second as other jumpers joined in, far, far below . . .
I was flipping back and forth between being present there in the ICU and being out of my mind in the adrenaline-soaked delusions of a gorgeous skydive.
I was between nutty-and getting it.
For two days I blabbered about skydiving, airplanes, and the Internet to all who would listen. As my physical brain gradually recovered its bearings, I entered a strange and exhausting paranoid universe.
In short, I was a little crazy.
You are an amazing, brave, lovely, and thoughtful person, Daniel. Just remember that there are people who think about you and want happiness for you. You may not meet them ever, or they might not be able to help you, but they are there. Thinking about you every once in a while and wishing you well.
Thanks for expressing your joy for life.
Hey Daniel, I hope you're doing well. We're all rooting for you, always.
This is such wonderful news! You have hope and see the light out of the darkness. And through you sharing, you give others hope.(I am included)
I send my love to you, dear Daniel.
Yes! Let's fucking do this!
Great to hear from you man! Hopefully you're getting over the fever and cough, etc. You look happy, and hopeful which is just so awesome to see. I still hope for more poetry from you, although maybe the tone will be different? What you really need to do, hopefully someday, is write a book. The world needs to hear your story. Peace and love to you dude, keep us posted.
Writing from my wifes account. Just want to say, when in doubt; remember how many peaople you have and still are effectively helping , to find the courage to seek help through old intervievs and new videos. Found your channel through Chris. Dont ever let the bad days take over and remember how many people you are inspirering. We need people that can lead. Most of us are blind from the darkness, and to see real progress is better than any magic pill. That said, if you found the right medicin dont stop taking it. Its such an easy trap "now i feel fine, i dont need this pills", next thing you know you are in strains or worse. Just want to say thank you for sharing, and take care of yourself and the people around you
Thank you so much for this wonderfully supportive message, dear friend; and from your wife's account no less! I don't know, and I can't really explain why, but I found that lil' antidote of info absolutely adorable 💜🥰💜.
So thank you not only for the amazing message, but ALSO for including that super cute detail, lol 🫂🫂🩵🫂🫂💚🫂🫂🩵🫂🫂
Daniel this is truly the best news Ive heard in a long long while Ive followed your story since special news special kids & you are sooooo deserving Im so glad things are finally happening for you & moving in a positive direction. You are often in my thoughts & your sitiuation has broken my heart so many times cuz no one should suffer so many obstacles in life. I have always admired your courage to share your story with us. I hope that the blessings continue to find you my friend this is awesome news & god bless this new case manager
Dear Dainel, I'm so sorry for your bad experience being in that place...but I love those parts of your video where you sing songs walking with your dog 🐕 ❤ You are very strong! Get well from your fever and other health issues! You will not fail! It's such a good thing to have pets, they heal us, and they make us better with unconditional love! With Love from Russia ❤️
Thank you so much for sharing your life Daniel, my younger brother has schizophrenia and you have helped me so much as an older brother understand what he’s going through by sharing so many of your experiences, feelings and life . Thank You ❤
So happy for you. Everyone has good days and bad days. Things don’t always have to be good for life to be beautiful. Keep on having gratitude and taking care of yourself and you’ll have so much success. You’re inspirational.
I have followed you for a long time and I can’t express it enough the joy I feel to here you finally finding some relief of your extremely tuff journey.
I am looking forward to here more and to see you enjoying life. You deserve it.! Life is a journey and we are just suppos to grow in good and bad times and you have done exactly that. Good luck 🍀
I send you all the love strength and happiness 🩷🫶🏼🌼love from Paris/Sweden
Hey Daniel, I’ve discovered your story a few weeks ago. You are hell of a guy, you have all my respect and all my support. Keep fighting Daniel.
Love from Slovakia 🇸🇰❤.
Joy looks good on YOU... May God's richest blessings always unfold before you every day Daniel
You really made my day, you're amazing, such a special person you are.... "I'm the captain of my own ship". Man, you woke me up.... You really did, I cannot be more thankful 🙏❤
So very happy for you. I am crying happy tears for you. May you continue to experience more and more internal strength to address or deal with any demons that come at you. Sendig love your way.❤