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A wise man once told me back in nz he said if you have a problem sing, because you'll realise your singing is a bigger problem

The *sad reality* is... Most of our societies don't understand the importance of emotional/mental health.. Just physical health.. :'/

That guy in red brought me to tears! I can feel so much empathy when I look at him. We are all that guy and we should love each other more.

I am proud of myself for growing from the broken person I was for so long and still am in many ways, but the change is there. All love.

I feel so bad for the little red stripey guy… he looks like he’s having a tough time

oh boy...

This got me to fully realize how emotionally immature I am. Thank you.

The middle finger definitely made me laugh 😂😂😂😂

so, what you're saying is that my emotional health is equivalent to lung cancer

I am a highly sensitive and emotional personand it makes my life messy. I hate that. *Does anybody else feel like crying for no apparent reason?*

In response to the comments that imply attention seeking is a bad thing: I honestly think seeking attention isn't bad at all, it probably means that we're seeking help. And seeking help is the first step to getting better i think, we just need to find the right place to get it (and I know how hard it is to find what works). So please don't feel bad for seeking attention, it's much better than being completely reclusive. I wish everybody good luck.

I obviously do have some emotional problems and I really wish I could seek help,but my parents and almost nobody knows I am actually depressed.I try my best to present myself as a funny,energized and decent person,but inside I just feel worthless.

this made me have an existential crisis

Everybody should get therapy honestly

About 2 years ago i went through this major existential crisis where i became almost entirely disillusioned with myself and completely stopped lying to myself about who i was, where i wanted to be, and the gap between those two things that was caused by my own flaws. Realizing how hard it is to admit youre wrong EVERY time youre wrong, realizing when youre fuckin up or when youre just wilin and need to calm down in the heat of the moment. Its insane how difficult taking responsibility is. World shattering. At first i wanted to die. However i got through the initial shock and now i can feel myself getting stronger. Ive never been this strong. And ill be stronger tomorrow. I dont care whats happening to you. Do not give up. I wanted to and i didnt.

Emotional health 1. self love -know my self worth..-if I think it's a okay then fine -leave an abusive relationship -dare to admit fault 2. degree of openness -be open to believes and stick on values 3. communication -talk well ,assertive communication -misunderstanding 4. Trust -close to catastrophe -how tightly we need to cling.. -how save the world is.. -or settle for inathenuicty

The comment section is in a sorry state.

My mind is broken and I don't how to fix myself. I feel like I'm the one who needs fixing. I'll never be accepted here but I can't leave. Personally I've always had a positive out look on life, but myself on the inside I'm depressed.

*sees video in recommended* "I'm sure this'll be good" *sees first step(self love)* "Lmao no"

Love this video and a word of kind advice to others - Accepting your own emotion and "perceived faults" is really really important for your own benefit, even though in reality it is not socially acceptable on many occassions. I have in the past been called "too straightforward, have no filters, aggressive" at workplaces and personal life. However, that's actually unfortunately a combination of "me wanting to be authentic" plus "however, I did suffer low self-esteem and had childhood trauma issues". So in real life, I admit that self-healing and "wanting to change" is rather difficult, because there are many obstacles and hurt along the way, as you seek to change. It's not like the world is going to immediately smile and hug us, when we decide to "come out". I remember the only reason I kept going was my belief that authenticity is good, and that I'm going to do it at all cost. I accept that I may look like a bad person in other people's eyes, but if I AM genuinely a bad person and my authenticity attracts attention and criticisms, then at least I'm on the road towards healing, because other people will help me if I make myself visible. So after all these years of making myself visible regardless of public image, I couldn't be any happier now because help keeps coming my way (even though in very harsh forms sometimes) and I become more mature and content. Most importantly, it is the feeling of "me coming to the world with the authentic me and getting some feedback in return" that's so damn good -- real engagement, raw exposure, at all costs....Even though I shed tons of tears in the process - they are authentic tears and I feel very connected to myself, even though I'm looking like a looser from appearance. But that is what I call REAL happiness.

Looking at the state of the comment section, PSA: The video is not asking whether you are Emotionally Healthy as a yes/no question. This rhetoric wants to incite a self debate on four important qualities, various angles to them and how we fare in relation to them. The first part of solving the problem, is to understand the problem like your friend. Everyone is fucked up but not similarly. While you may have social anxiety but you also don't have criticism issue (and so many more). In a way, Alan wants you to do a self check up - mental one, just like doctors do with checking your pulse and response. So don't just watch the video - sit back, close your eyes and understand it. That's important. Chio :3

His voice is so fucking SOOTHING

I'm very emotionally healthy, and I'd like to say to the people in the comments that you're taking the first step in admittance and seeking help. I see a lot of fastidious individuals who can obviously express their feelings in words. Expand your comfort zone, and try with everything you have. All you have control over is your mind. Outside forces (friends, looks, others, the world around you) has nothing to do with what you are personally enabled to feel and think.

Reading the title as “how emotionally HURT are you?” already says a lot...

Reading the comments... I'm glad I'm not the only one who's emotionally screwed! Yay!

“It is No Measure of Health to Be Well Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society”

the animations always bring me to tears, I feel so connected to the reactions of this guy :(

Never took me an hour and a half to finish a 5 minute video..and that's how I know how much invaluable it is 💜💜

Just remember life is meaningless, do what makes you happy, dare to conquer the world

Always keep in mind how big the universe is ("no, it's even bigger than that") and compare that size to your life and your problems. You then realize everything is alright, really.

So much information at once, it feels like this one video needs to be incorporated into a class, dissected to fully understand it and ourselves.

This channel helps me see the bigger picture, thanks to all of your team. It is honestly the best channel on KZfaq.

Now I realize even more that I need to get away from where I stay right now. But I don't have the money to start a new hopeful and exciting life of my own.

I have a web of problems in my spirit and it is quite a long story so I will reduce the whole thing into keywords. Low self-esteem, loneliness, perfectionism, disappointment in society, disappointment in self, mild alcoholism, arrogance but too much humility, masochism... and the list could go on for much much longer but I think this is the minimum that can more or less sum up my situation. Have a good life, everybody!

Every question he asks has a devastating event associated with, in my life. And tears immediately roll down my cheeks thinking of all of them.

When the characters hugged it made me happy 💞

This video is very frustrating, as he only speaks in questions...

Hahahaha... I'm deeply broken.

The way this video is made (audio and video) is so beautiful

Overall, I think I'm quite healthy! Which is surprising since I thought I was going back to times where I had no self-love or respected myself after a really horrible break-up, but this video actually gave me so much hope. The only thing I'll really have to work on is on the fourth one, since I have social anxiety and it's difficult for me to really feel everything will be alright when I want to talk to people, but still, I'm making a lot of progress. I love your videos so much! Thank you

The animations are on point. Very expressive cartoon drawing!

The drawings are so amazing I want to hug this creature

Not very healthy at all, but your channel really helps me understand what issues I'm dealing with, physically and emotionally. For that I must really thank you, for a long time I have been lost as to how to deal with these complicated feelings. Really, thank you for showing me a new way of approaching how I am as a human.

damn this made me feel good. this really summed up my transition from adolesence to adulthood. from no longer considering suicide, but only wondering about when would be the right time to waking up excited to get things done again and being content with the daily struggles and discomforts; never however taking life lightly

The art in this video is so expressive and perhaps adorable. I hope you guys features more of this art style in the upcoming videos.

Right off the bat, without even clicking play yet, let me tell you: Not very much.

This is beautiful. Thanks for educating about what really matters, our emotional well being and growth

This was super rewarding - I have been in therapy for a year now consistently. If I took this "test" a year ago it would be worse than today. Hope to return later and be able to answer more positively still. Thank you!

My ratings out of 10: self-love: 2 candor: 7 communication: 5 trust: 2

With nobody in my life, I experience very little emotions at all. It seems most emotions are stimulated by other humans. Since I have no other humans in my life, emotions are very few and far between each other. It is a very simple, stable, predictable, very affordable life when there is nobody else in your life. Social isolation has a tremendous amount of benefits. I recommend all try it. If you find you can not exist without being a member of a social herd, you can likely reassimilate back into a social herd and lose a lot of individuality.

This video speaks of very common situations we go through, yet it's very depressing. You have touched all parts of emotional problems, people in general go through

So satisfying to click on a video and have what you came for right at the beginning. I actually clicked on the video and started skipping 30 seconds before I realized it wasn’t just you asking to like comment and subscribe and telling us about your patreon or something.

the animation in this video is soo cute omg!!!

it's 2018 no one is emotionally healthy expect for children

I love how much this feels like the narration done in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

These little guys are sooo cute!!! Love the animation, and found out I'm right in the middle, doing just fine with my emotions. Thank you for the video!

To anyone who ends up here: we are all a bit broken in one way or the other. The part of us that wants us to improve is the same one which does not condone our small mistakes. We are the mixture of all things good and bad and we can always learn. It's hard but learning to love yourself is a beautiful experience. Stay positive and keep working on yourself. 😊

This hit really hard, I wish I saw this sooner before the damage I caused was done

One of the best I have seen. You are doing a great service to humanity 🙏🏼

I love this channel, so glad I found this. The contents are really great and so is how it's presented.

beautifully written

2:06-2:39 for reference. I personally think that our true motives will always be unpleasant even if we are acting in a way that people consider to be 'nice'. It may be because we are under the eyes of others whom we may want to impress or to satisfy ourselves that we really are this amiable person. We are capable of lying to ourselves into thinking that we actually act of a kind heart when we act like it. the characteristic of being nice is pushed by society as a trait of the ideal human. At times, we act nice because we want to attain this image for ourselves. If this is true, someone who is fully aware of the thoughts that their brain unconsciously skips over, would be true to their real intentions. Following true intentions is not falling into hatred and apathy for others. This is because there is a reward to living a kind lifestyle. Although you may recognize that nobody is kind from their heart, others do not. They blindly compliment you for friendly actions and lie to themselves that you are a nice person. One of our most common desires seems to be the impression that others have on us. Therefore, a self-conscious man might act kind with the full knowledge just for others to think highly of you. So you may ask: Then how is the self-conscious man different from the blinded man? Both will act kind at similar situations. A self-conscious man will not be kind when he is alone. He will not resemble the traits of an amiable man because he knows that the characteristic is impossible to obtain. If we are a capable of reading our true progression of thoughts, we avoid useless actions (in terms of the result of that action). I may be completely wrong. The things we see everyday pushes facts into our brains until we accept them as truths without questioning why. I admit that I am a victim of this as I am a human under the influence of my parents, friends, media, and the events around me. therefore, my beliefs may be clouded as well. However, to me this is the most logical explanation.

the voice of the girl at the end of this clip is just so sweet !!!!

Practically awesome way to try and reflect on who we really are when it comes to dealing with people.

I have no money, no friends, I'm surrounded by enemies, my family hates me, life is great!

Metal music has been a healthy outlet for emotions for me

Your voice! Omg I could listen to it forever. 💗 calm and pleasant. Just clicked on this video out of curiosity. Been listening to motivational speeches for depression.

This channel is therapy. The cartoons are so well thought out

Just as I suspected...I'm emotionally screwed up

Best marker of emotional health: not getting swept up in our emotions.

Currently loving my self improvement journey, this video really helped me think, thank you

This applies a lot to people who feel shame all the time. Thank you for this video :)

i'm emotionally constipated

I'm fucked up...

One of the best videos if not the Best. It triggers too much at the same time

I find this video wonderful! a very accurate way to portrait guidelines of our emotional health, I found myself reflected in some of the traits. This is very well made! I just wanted to point that out and congratulate you guys for doing so! thank you!

I started crying about 5 seconds in. I have such a bad relationship with my self love. Today I stopped a relationship with a man who wasn't treating me right and I was letting him. The first step in recovery is often the hardest.

Getting out of bed every morning is a huge challenge for me. Living is hard

Wow i never thught that a youtube channel could amaze me that much. The school of life is truly representated in your videos. And it's so true. Thank you for speaking the truth in such a nice warm tone and quality.

Loved this video. I love The School Of Life! I definitely am not emotionally healthy so much work to be done. Definite people pleaser. Have been in a few abusive relationships. I'm clingy and anxious 😔.

Failure is the greatest teacher.

Wow, now I see what self love means, beyond the current catch-phrase. Very important to our mental strength and resilience.

I'm super glad that there's a video like this out there.Now people know what to improve upon without having to talk to a psychyatrist!This is really great!

What a wonderful channel! I instantly subscribed. Solid gold content right here.

I only see relative people and problems in comment sections, but I never see any people with same problems in real world everybody seem to be happy with their life, and so fucking different from me, that I better stay alone because when I within others I feel lonely.

Who cried watching this? Just me? Ok.

Animation in this video is just amazing 😍......You can feel every shot in a deep level!

Work work work and push through, trust me, it gets better! Make yourselves better people, take care of yourself and I promise you, you will get there!

At this particular time in my life I am really not emotionally healthy and I wish I trusted life more. Wish I trusted myself more. But hopefully things will change soon.

Learing english for almost 7 years in school and I really dont know want you are saying so many words I have never heard Sad story

The animation in this is GOLDEN

The whole video is literally this guy, asking you questions non-stop

I'm so lost by myself. When I'm not validated by others I don't feel alive. I always look out for happiness and know that I should teach myself how to be happy. I can't function on my own.

I remember when I was happy and carefree, and mentally secure... And then I started having to adult. Ugh.

The School of Life' has got a Variety of Articles , a person like me , who is very fond of Intelligent Aspects of Life ; ♡ to watch .Thank you !

I absolutely love this channel to pieces! Thank you for this!!! :-)

I couldn’t even get past the title

Bandage my wounds... I think a needle and thread would be more appropriate to close the gaping wound I feel I have emotionally and psychologically. I actually cried for about an hour last night thinking of the past 26 years and what my life has amounted to thus far, which is essentially two decades of regret, wasted opportunities, and disappointment. It feel horrible to be so disappointed in yourself.

Okay, so today I identified myself as needing to trust others more. I'm going to start with that one and make one of these my focus every day. Thank you School of Life :-)