Kennedy Bingham

It was really bad.

And so I was like, I'll start tapering.

So I actually started tapering and I recently got off.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

Super happy.

But overall, like it sucks.

Sometimes the thought of like that, that's probably one of my hardest mental health days is the thought of knowing that I'm going to be in pain for the rest of my life.

Like

at 16 years old like that's not fair for like the rest of my life to be that way like most people it's like oh you get old and you get arthritis or whatever but me it's like 16 and like I have to do that the rest of my life and so like that thought can get wearing on me sometimes I know that you talked about kind of during that time of being home I guess and going I guess maybe this transitions into going to school as well but that your mental health kind of being more worse and

I was posting more on social media and I was getting like obviously really mean comments and that would like hurt it sometimes but at the same time I was getting so many comments that people were like you got this like they were building me up and they were like wow like I can't believe you survived something like that and you're still here and you're still choosing and you're sharing like what your life is and so that made me feel pretty good and that helped a lot and then

when i started doing things like not just sitting at home like six months out plus my accident my arm was still broken because my arm like for some reason wouldn't heal and i went snowboarding i was just like okay let's do that so i did and i think feeling capable again of doing things like really helped me of like okay like this this is good for me yeah so i snowboarded skied

surfed like I've done all rock climbed and like that helps me and then when I started public speaking which I think I started a year after I didn't want to my mom actually signed me and her up for one like a mother-daughter thing and I was so angry I was like are you kidding me like I did not want to do that and then I fell in love with it and I just watched like the reactions of people and I think

knowing what I can do to others because I've like watched it firsthand like I feel that power on a stage of like what I can do for others and I watch the reactions and then them coming up to me after and that makes me feel good of like I bettered your life or I gave you a new perspective or I gave you the stepping stones of what to do to like

get on the track of a better mental health.

Cause like, that's what I try to do in most of my speeches is like empower and make you feel worthy and powerful again.

And it does that for me as well.

I think that's what I've learned is like my dad used to, because like he's had a really, really hard life.

Yeah, I was going to say, how is he doing too?

Is he doing better?