“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” - Laurie Halse Anderson

I beleive it's essential to pause our busy lives for a second and ask ourselves "Am I ok?" Btw, I love your channel. ✨️

In the 20-ish years since my diagnosis with bipolar disorder I have never had as effective an experience with a mental health professional as I have from watching Dr. Tracey Marks' videos. I believe she is a cornerstone for my finally (FINALLY!) reaching a point of balance in my life. Because of this I will very likely be joining the group you are starting. I used to belong to a bipolar disorder support group/Meet Up but we had no professionals involved and things sometimes got a bit chaotic until the group finally imploded. This sounds like a much healthier alternative and a good investment in my continued mental health. Thanks for all you do for us Dr. Marks and good luck to you.

I first reached out for professional help in 2020. Now three years later I finally feel mentally well and feel it’s managed. My psychiatrist and therapist have helped me so much. I literally owe them my life and want to give them the world. You guys are my true saviors and have made me an aggressive advocate for professional help to prevent someone to wait so long before doing it

Bp1 since 2001 and learned hands down more about my disorder through your videos than any other Dr. or person has taught me. Thank you, I Greetings from Vancouver Canada. Paul 🙏

Dr. Thank you for your platform. You are appreciated.

What an amazing idea. I love watching all your videos. I've learned so much about myself and about my 2 daughters with ADHD. You've helped me deal with past traumas and dealing with my recent divorce and finding my way back to confidence in myself. Clean eating, experiencing nature, and self care are so important. I've shared many of your videos with my daughters as well. Thank you for all your insight and sharing such helpful information.

Tracey, you're such an ispiration.. I'm studying my way to becoming a clinical psychologist (with mental disorders of my own :D ). And your content has been always guiding me and showing me what it takes to be a great and always growing psychologist. you're always up-to-date with the most recent recearch. and I can see that the learning process is a lifelong process for you. I am so happy to see you go on a new entrepreneurial journey. Thank you for all the lives you have braught light to. Bless you.

thanks! sometimes i feel like an imposter when i feel good, i wonder if i actually have depression but this makes me feel less stigmatized and compassionate towards myself!!

Thank you so much! I am looking forward to being a part of this platform and thankful you are doing this!!!

I have said this before, but I want to say it again because I really mean it. I appreciate your videos so much, I feel like I learn a lot even in the short 10 minute videos I feel like I've gotten a lot out of them. I really appreciate you.

I’ve been following you for more than a year now, really enjoy your videos and learn a lot of it, will absolutely support and join the happy community you’re building 😊

Dr. Tracey ! I really love how you can communicate things so pointedly, and matter of fact, yet still convey your individual personality with confidence, and backed by education. You show such poise. If I was mentally well, I bet I could do that too with my own specific, and personal flair. I love your videos ! I’m always seeking knowledge, and self help. You speak in a way that brings me forth, and in a way that I understand. I love your videos! Thank you for your great work !

I wish I had a doc like you. I have a bipolar diagnosis and all I get is meds and no explanation for anything. Thank you for these videos.

I had really one desire since childhood...I realised that the OCD type irrational thought that I am getting after years of chronic depression...I realised in my case and many other case the main cause of depression is unfulfilled desire..if I knew I would never create any Desire. Because after u get depression the brain creates irrational fears when u see anything related to unfulfilled desire or dream.depression compels you to overthink ...it wants u to feel restless and unsatisfied no matter what u do ..even I was living good life for brief time (lovebomb phase ) with my ex narcissist husband I was totally numb and unsatisfied.

THIS! I have been watching, learning, and waiting for this information. Thank you so much. We learn so much about what is off - and much of it is outside our control or self that affects us. This is wonderful. Thank you again.

Your amazing Tracey😍 Thanks for being a positive force to all that have discovered you!

I am glad you will still provide your video and I am definitely curious but don't have use at this time, but certainly will consider and I do appreciate what you've done so far, it helped me better understand what folks I know are probably going through.

I am not an MD/DO, but with my experience in healthcare, Western AND Eastern, and being an athletic and wellness coach, this is spot-on with every point. Thank you for this as this affirms what I’ve been parlaying to my clients and others.

This is needed. Life 2.0 in a 1.0 world. Thank you, Dr.

You’re so important to me Dr. Tracey. Thank you so much ❤️

I'm so excited for this

This looks amazing- I just signed up. Thank you so very much for putting this together. I feel as though it's going to be very helpful for me. 🙂

Yay!!! This community sounds amazing!!! I am definitely going to be joining next Wednesday when I get paid!

Dr. Tracey Marks: this video is VERY IMPORTANT for me! SO MUCH THANKS for it!

Dr. Tracey I love your videos it helps me understand more of mental health. I thank you for your content. I’m glad your videos came across my feed!!

Thank you Dr. Marks!❤️

Great to hear from you, Thank you, Dr.Marks

Your explanations are very rational and help return me to reality. I need to watch more videos like this instead of videos that feed my insanity.

Thank you Dr. You've given so much to so many. ❤️

Very relevant information! I hope this video goes super viral & could be a great tool for social infrastructures and which can create open pathways for social polarization. America needs a new social filter spiritually because of the economics of mental illnesses & that has been a severe fragment in our society & long overdue! 🙏💪💯

Oooo this is exciting news! 🎉 I am definitely going to see if I can afford to be a member. Thank you Dr. Marks!

"Mental Wellness Space" yes, Yes, YES ! Let's do this!

Just signed up! Can’t wait to see the snowball effect in watching this amazing community grow!

I would definitely take the chance to talk to doctor Tracey Marks! I'm 27 and struggle with hoarding (letting go in general) and it is making me miserable on a daily basis. I cannot even express how much it's messing up my quality of life and it's not even as out of control as it could be, thankfully... The only thing I'm relieved about is that I realize this is such a big problem I have, about my relationship to items and the past, and that I need to change my mindset. I've watched probably all of the doctor's videos here on YT (also on the subject of hoarding) and I feel better about getting treatment and trusting my therapist with this issue. So, thank you very much for posting these videos that are really helpful!!

Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I watch them all. Greetings from Monterrey Mexico ❤

I recently came upon your channel and would like to thank you for your work in making this very useful videos. As a person who has been recently diagnosed with reactive anxiety I find your videos very helpful. Thank you! 😀

Great video, thanks for ur videos on mental health advice, very much appreciated.

I love this idea! Definitely going to check it out 👍🏻

again, you love us foreal. thank you for this ❤

Congratulations on your site, this looks great

I am so excited to join The Mental Wellness Space!

I think this will help many people. Thank you for caring.

Thank You for sharing... Love You🕊

Love this one! Also why it's good to read ancient philosophers for a point of view focusing on what's GOOD to do. The Stoics for the basic premises of modern cognitive behavioral therapy, etc. How to find meaning, what to focus on, what does it mean to live a good life. Even in physical ailments, we often wait for disaster to begin treatment, rather than prevention or early detection, but it's often worse with mental health. People REALLY need to be doing badly before they consider seeing a therapist in so many cases. A lack of focus on wellness, it seems to me, also creates confusion where people pathologize even some potentially healthy things. I've seen people seemingly mistake gratitude for "toxic positivity." It's not. It's an attempt to balance out the bad by focusing on some good!

Thank you as always for the great content.

ty very much Dr. Marks❣️

This is helpful information. Thank you.

I love this!

Damn that sounds amazing

I’m not looking for likes, or attention, but I’ve watched a number of your videos Tracey, and just wanted to say thank you for the great content, and that I think you’re so beautiful. Whoever you date or are married to is a very lucky individual!

The filed of Positive Psychology is precisely concerned with this topic. If you haven't already, made some, a few videos on that would be great. :)

my job helps me if I need mental wellness, with time off, anti-bullying rules, and health care that is helping. At 51, day 2 of my prescribed 10mg daily of basically ritalin.. the new kind... seems to help already, but mood is something I have trouble with keeping up at home, with a partner that is very hard to be with through this... I hope it gets better, these videos sure are helping!

This is such a wonderful idea. Congratulations and Good Luck!

This is my new favorite video

love this video and congrats on the website!!!

Thank you ❤

I think if I replace the negative thoughts with pleasant thoughts and be thankful for the blessings that I do have. At age 59 I’m ready to start the next chapter of my life. I will try my best not to let intrusive thoughts in. We can’t unring a bell. We learn about things + grow from them. My grandfather taught me that I should always have my own apartment, wheels under my ass, and food in the fridge, along with steady income. I am blessed that I was able to do this after a divorce. Also very blessed with my pup, a ten year old Bassett Hound mix who I love so very much. So instead of allowing intrusive thoughts in, I hurry up + think of other things. I also color, too. I’m gonna try my best to think positively. Thank you Doctor Marks! ❤

DR. MARKS - YOU FINALLY USED YOUR PRETTY SMILE ON THE THUMBNAIL! YAY! YOU HAVE A GOOD DRAMATIC FACE RANGE, BUT YOU RARELY JUST SMILE HAPPILY) AND, OF COURSE, I VALUED THE VIDEO CONTENT, AS ALWAYS TOO.

I've learned that hard physical exercise, which for me is swimming, dancing, or weights twice a week is essential to my sense of well-being and seems to enhance the effect of my medication. Therapy and medication alone were not enough. Although I successfully finished therapy, I'll never quit exercising!

Damn! You are seriously the best! Also, your hair is so pretty! I'm not here to diagnose or feel pitty but to understand myself a bit more and ask myself questions. Thank you for your amazingly knowledgeable content. 🤘🏽

Thanks!

My therapist recommended I find a support group or online forum to share my experiences recently but didn't know where to start. I think I will give this one a try.

This is really exciting 🙏🏾😁😁

bless you!

I like you. Your videos are helping people.

Broading the scope of the subject 👌

Thanks

Watching you for over a year now and I was so excited about your platform! So much opportunity to learn even more. Only issue for me is; no creditcard. Are you planning on expanding the payment methods any time soon? Because if not, I will reconsider requesting the creditcard just for you! 😂 Thank you for sharing your knowledge, you're amazing! ❤️

Awesome!

Excellent 😊😮

This sounds wonderful and I'm considering joining. I'm just curious about how the Q and A will work and how few people can feasibly get questions answered from Dr Marks herself.

Thank you for this my husband brought me here

This is a brilliant idea, though I’m sure you aware of that, but a major parts of people suffering from psychics disorder are also living a very precarious life and sometimes even end up in the streets. Would you consider doing a free or cheaper subscription plan depending of the incomes of the subscribers and his/her condition based on his taxes statements or whatever prove you the person can’t afford the regular plan? Personally I feel super excited joining a community of this kind, but on the other hand, I’m like, I can eat for 3 days with 20$ (im living in Europe) and I’m struggling to fill up my fridge every end of the month.

I was hoping for the continuation from last week's topic...

Hello! First of all thanks for all the free information and awareness You have provided to me and a to Lot of people, wanted to ask if You would take new patients any time soon, since i wanted to dig deeper into My particular case, thanks!

🎉I was wondering this thank you so much It’s been 14 years and I forgot what it looks like

Dr. Marks. Love your videos and I am in therapy now for anxiety and depression. I had an awful experience with Lexapro recently. I am also going for a two-week (5 days/week) therapy course as an outpatient at a local hospital starting next week. I am interested in your "mental wellness space" as this could be another tool in my "toolbox" Can you briefly explain a little more on how it works specifically the time frame? What happens if I can't be available during specific times? Will I miss something or can I catch up?? Thank you, Ed

Amen

Can you make a video on Body Dysmorphic Disorder? I was diagnosed with it in my early 30s (I also was diagnosed with major clinical depression and anxiety as a child and later complex PTSD). I was given books on BDD (i.e. The Broken Mirror) and attended DBT groups. I do have an odd face but some find me pretty (even beautiful) and others "ugly." Many people have called me ugly, from my family, to friends, to boyfriends, to coworkers, but some do not. I don't have an "average" face. In my late 40s, on the third meeting with a psychiatrist (I learned it was his last day and he was not liked) told me that I can't have BDD because my "flaws" were visible at a conversational distance. That everyone that has said I'm not ugly have lied to me, that strangers that tell me they're worried for me when I say I'm "ugly" and that I'm not are "trying to make me feel better and/or lying" and that I "manipulated" my previous psychiatrists into diagnosing me, but I'd never even heard of the diagnosis to manipulate them into diagnosing me with. Why invest in treatment of a disorder I don't have? I'm very confused. He pulled out a picture on his phone of Lizzy Velazquez who is deformed due to a disease. He said if she can do it, I can. He asked what country people might not find me ugly (cultural beauty standards). Can a person with a big nose that is visible or other odd features have BDD? I've read that if you are ugly, it's just OCD, not BDD. When I began to cry in the office and the psychiatrist who said I don't have BDD because I am "ugly," my therapist came into the room. I told her and she began yelling, "It's just his opinion! It's just his opinion!" So it BDD based on subjective feelings of a doctor or cultural expectations of beauty? I hope you can create a video on this. BDD has ruined friendships and exhausted partners to they point the leave.

Can you make a video about EMDR, and how it affects an individual mentally and self esteem? TIA ❤

hey dr tracy i have a question for you, sometimes i feel like even tho i’ve been diagnosed w many things i feel like all of the diagnoses are symptoms of a bigger thing. i have ocd, add, depression, and signs of PTSD but i feel like trying to find something that actually sums up all of those diagnoses i can’t find.

Well. I guess I have quite a way to go.

*looks at title*...thats actually possible?

Will the live lectures be posted in the group for future reference just in case we are unable to attend live? Thanks 😊

Dr. Marks, I have a question for a possible video related to this! Everyone says "regulated" now. I never used to hear that. I vaguely get what it means but I'd love to hear your definition, examples, how to know when you're regulated or not, etc. Do I have a good life if I feel regulated most days? Do I have a bad life if I rarely feel regulated? I can already hear you explaining these things the way you do :)

What's your professional opinion on taking nootropics for mental wellness and to restore mild cognition decline issues and memory loss?

Please make a video on the difference of bipolar and autism!!

Hello Doc! I have a quick question, i have been getting weird episodes very similar to panic attacks since COVID, been to every specialist there is but they can not find anything..symptoms are really bad dizziness, nervousnesses, negative thoughts, no motivation, weakness, extreme derealization, brain fog, feels like im in a dream all the time, body pain, extreme heart palpitations, numbness, tingling in hands and feet, and syncope. They can not find a reason and told it my be linked to my mental health.. can depression really make me feel dizzy and like im about to faint all the time? And its even worse if i don’t sleep well or if i spend too much time without eating. I’m extremely tired of this situation and scared that i will never get through this.

I have no idea if you read all the comments you get but I just watched your video on schizotypal personality disorder and I have to say you really did a great job at explaining things in a clear and concise manner. Now would you by any chance happen to know if there's any correlation between low IQ and schizotypal disorder? Thanks a lot for your videos.

Any type of this community for clinicians?

Can do a video on nutroopics and effects on those of us with ASD and adhd is it beneficial f

Do I have to pay for membership ? How much

I would love to join this Wellness Community however, I'm in East Asia so I'm looking at the 12+ hour time difference so Zoom sessions would not be possible.

Doc I'm telling you. Come to New York.

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Dr. Marks, please do a video on Delta Gummies.

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Dr. Traci, is there any evidence to suggest sex addictions might be genetic? Very curious on this point. Thanks.

I would love to understand if depression and anxiety have a cure or not.... I feel like I'm cured from depression, but I've heard anxiety doesn't have a cure and I have a hard time planning my life without knowing what to expect from treatment.