What if the first step toward healing wasn’t advice, but silence—the kind that lets someone finally speak? We sit down with Noah, who was diagnosed with clinical depression at 13 and later with anxiety that didn’t look “textbook.” His story threads through family strain, a grandmother’s dementia, school pressures, and the moment a mom simply asked, “Are you okay?” and then listened for two hours.
From there, we trace the realistic path forward: medication that stabilized the lows, therapy that eventually fit, and practical tools that kept him present when panic tried to take the wheel.
Our goal is to make mental health support practical. Parents get concrete cues to watch for, language that opens doors, and a reminder to listen without interrupting. Teens and young adults get permission to seek a second opinion, try therapy again after a bad fit, and celebrate small wins that build momentum.
We also tackle the cultural stories that keep men quiet—why “be strong” can become a dangerous muzzle—and how honest conversations can interrupt isolation before it turns into a crisis.
If your anxiety doesn’t match what you’ve read, or if depression feels unpredictable, you’re not broken—you’re human, and there are options. Subscribe, share with someone who needs it, and leave a review to help more people find their next right step. What part of Noah’s journey mirrors yours?
If you want to connect with Noah, reach out to him on Facebook or Instagram at @lethalvenompodcast.
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Transcript:
If you’ve ever struggled with fear, doubt, or worry, and wondering what your true purpose was all about, then this podcast is for you. In this show, your host, Sylvia Worston, will interview all these experts and ordinary people that have created extraordinary lives. So here’s your host, Sylvia Warsham.
Hello bringers, it’s Sylvia Warsham. Welcome to Release. And today is Noah May, and I remember reading his profound thinking, yes, I want him on my show. I want to talk about anxiety and depression and mental health disorders because it is a hot topic right now, especially since pandemic times. There’s been a lot of children that have dealt with this silently for years and years and years, gone very unnoticed, very um people don’t really understand mental health disorders. In some cultures, they shame them into not speaking about it. So I welcome guests that openly speak about these subjects. So without further ado, Noah, thank you so much for joining us on the least out review of purpose.
Thank you so much for having me. It’s an honor to be here today.
It is for me as well. Noah, where are you from?
I’m from Alabama. I’m from the deep south, so you might hear a sudden twang in my voice.
Just a bit, just a bit. And I’m in Austin, Texas, so of course we’re southern states, but I do have the nasal kind of that mixes in. I’m I’m of Mexican heritage, and so I will have sometimes you’ll hear it in my voice. You’ll say, where’s her accent from? Because it’s not truly Texan, unless I say y’all, and then I really reveal where I’m from, but uh where I was raised. So tell us a little bit about your story transformation. Why is this topic so personal to you?
You kind of had mentioned it in the in the introduction. It’s something that people usually are so afraid to talk about because it’s it’s something they get ashamed of a lot for, and it’s a shame because it is such a serious, serious conversation that people need to have. And which I think it’s gotten a little bit more opening and accepting now, but especially but when I first got diagnosed with it, it was pretty much taboo. No one really talked about it. So I was kind of real hus hesitant about opening up when I was younger about my struggles with mental health, and because of the fear of me getting teased and getting picked on, and I would be seen as different than everyone else. So I was kept quiet when it came to my mental health struggles and my story with it.
So how have you started this journey? I mean, you’re on podcast now, you’re openly talking about it. Obviously, you’ve gone through a journey from high, you know, from the time in school. You kind of share with us what that journey was.
Um, I got diagnosed with depression when I was 13. I was very, very young. I was still in middle school. I was just finishing up middle school, and uh that time was really dark and challenging for me. My grandmother had recently gotten sick with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Um she kind of um made it to where living at home was a little difficult just because of how the disease really altered her state and alter alter how she acted. Um my parents usually fought a lot about it and about her behavior, and my grandmother would fight my grandfather a lot, and it was just kind of a lot of tension. I also was hanging around a bunch of troublemakers at school where they were kind of um a bad influence on me, and I started hanging around them and picked up some of their bad habits, um just how they were acting. Um, and I was also doing a lot of personal stuff too during that time. So all of that kind of factored into how I got depression. It was just a multitude of different reasons of um family sickness and drama to school drama to bad behavior, and it all just kind of mixed together and ended up with me getting diagnosed with a depression at a very young age. So and I’ve been dealing with it since 2015, and I didn’t get diagnosed until about 2016.
So you mentioned habits that you develop. Can you delve a little bit deeper in this? Because if there’s any parents listening to this conversation, and I guarantee you there are, what are some tips you could guide parents on if they do have a a kid that presents with depressive state?
I would say to really approach their child first and just say, hey, I’ve noticed that you you’ve acted differently, there’s just a change in mood, and is everything okay? Um So I would make sure parents are very individual and vigilant about it and that they’re very aware. My mom was very aware of what was going on with me. She was um first off had said, Are you okay? And you know, at first I was always kinda like, Yeah, I’m fine, don’t really want to talk about it, because I didn’t really know at the time what it was. And finally there was a breaking point that I had. Um during that time I really started having like a bad porn addiction, and of course I got caught because I was stupid and watched it during the day. Had a brain back then. And that was kind of the breaking point, and I think for two hours I just kind of spilled everything about what was going on, and she didn’t really interrupt at all. She didn’t say butt in or nothing, she just let me rant about for a good long time about what was going on. So that’s another thing for parents to also consider is when they start talking, just don’t interrupt them. Let them say what they want to say, and then at the end say what you have, uh what you think the situation is. But being able to have your kid talk to you and be able to open up and not to be interrupted is so rewarding to them because you’re just letting them talk on your on their own terms and they feel heard and that they don’t have to worry about being ignored or anything. So um always check in with them and just be be watchful if you start noticing a change in how they act, just be very, very aware and be kind of keep a very close eye on them.
So you were lucky that you had a parent that stepped in and said, Hey, are you okay? Had you not, I wonder what would have happened. Because there’s a lot of kids that don’t have some parents are very distracted with what you were discussing earlier, your grandmother having a new diagnosis that puts a lot of pressure on the parent whose parent that is, right? So I don’t know if this was your mom’s mom that had been diagnosed or your dad’s mom. Was it your mom’s mom?
It was, it was my mom’s mom.
So what a what a beautiful person. You know, she’s already carrying the weight of seeing her mom deteriorate. And then despite the grief, because there’s a lot of grief around that, I will tell you, I had my father before he passed away last year, began having dementia in 2021. And it’s very hard to accept because they start to lose their, they don’t know where they’re at a lot of times, and it causes a lot of grief. And if you don’t know what they have initially, it can cause a lot of stress in a home. So I want to just say kudos to your mom. What a beautiful person to be able to carry the grief and then to still be so present to address this with you. I mean, what a blessing to have a mother like that. You know, and I want to commend her for that. Number one. Two is kudos to you for thinking and reflecting this through, to be able to share on the podcast, because this information is really critical to the state that we’re in with children, especially right now. We have seen suicide rates increase exponentially due to depression going undiagnosed and mental status like changing. Because sometimes when our hormones start to kick in, that also kind of kicks in these major brain changes that start occurring. The brain chemistry starts to change. And so if there’s not someone watching, these kids go unnoticed, and that’s where they start to get ideas in their head that they can’t get it, they can’t do anything, and they don’t ask for help. And I think for you to have a mom that was present was very it was key for you. But I also commend you because you could have easily shut down and said, I don’t want to talk about this and shoot her away. Instead, you invited the question and was vulnerable enough to share your you know your situation with your mom. What did your mom say after that conversation? How did she guide you?
She kinda after I had gotten done ranting, she was like, okay. She was a little disappointed about the board watching all admit, but she didn’t really she didn’t really punish me severely over it. Um she said, I’m gonna take it to the doctor and we’re gonna see if you have it. I I think another thing of why it was so rewarding to have a mom like she is, is because she’s dealt with it as well. Um she had actually told me later in life, um, a few years after the fact, that she prayed every day since I was born that she that I did not get any mental health struggle. And unfortunately that didn’t ring true, but she dealt with it in the past as well. And she didn’t want the for me to have the same thing she did, but things have things happened where it did end up happening to me, but um she kind of knew firsthand about this next step. So we went to the doctor and the doctor had no literally said, You got it. I mean you show all the signs. It’s uh it’s clear it’s clear to me and to everyone probably around you that you have it.
So um Can I interrupt you for a second and ask, what are those signs? What were the signs that were very prominent in you?
The suicide thoughts were prime. Um the to me it was sadness a lot, stress was also another factor as well. Um but to me it was at the time the suicidal thoughts is what I kind of contributed to um depression. And he could just tell that there was just a mood change. I was just I didn’t really want to interact with anyone, I was always kinda kept to myself. So there were signs to me as also to my doctor that he was like, Yeah, you clearly got it.
So what were the steps after that? Once once you got diagnosed, did they put you on medication or did they say, hey, start with these modalities first?
Um I can’t fully remember. I think he he had put me on medication immediately after that. Um I was diagnosed with a special type of depression, it was clinical depression, and um for people that don’t know what that is, it’s a depression that’s really hard to prepare for. It comes and goes in waves. Um it’s a thing where I could be depressed for a month and then be depress-free for maybe six months, and it’ll come back for two days and then be gone for five years. So it’s it kind of comes in waves. It’s never like, oh, I get depressed on this day and I’m depressed some amount of times every year. Um it it just really comes and goes. I think I had got put on medication. I think he had recommended a therapist, but I had before then had gone to therapist for other reasons and theirs were not good. So I was real hesitant about therapists at the time. So I didn’t really go to him at first I didn’t. Um he put me on he just put me really on medication. That’s the only thing I can fully remember. He just kind of was like checking and we’d have to do check-ins every now and then about how I was doing, and then if there was a change in my attitude and it got worse to come back and they would try to I think then would have to I’d have to be forcefully put in therapy to be on watch, but yeah, I think the only thing they did was medicine at the time.
At the time, but you said that you you didn’t want to do therapy, that he kinda recommended it, but you were hesitant about that. Can you share a little bit why you were hesitant about therapy at the time?
Weirdly enough, I had gone to a therapist for I can’t remember the exact reason. It was before I got diagnosed with everything. It was I think for something else. I was having I think I was having nightmares a lot and bad dreams, and I also was having a behavioral problem. I think I was had like kind of a bad temper at the time, so they kind of s my doctor had recommended me to go to a therapist that was in my hometown. And she was just not a good therapist. The whole office was kind of the it was an elderly lady that worked up front, had a really bad attitude, and the therapist kind of focused on other things more than the problem I had gone for. I remember I went in there for another thing for nightmares, because I was having pretty bad bad nightmares every now and then. And she kind of made me do these tests where it was taken like it reminded me of like English test. I I I didn’t quite understand the purpose or the full extent of why I’m having to take these tests. I didn’t quite understand what the purpose was. And I don’t think she even really knew what was going on. Um I went to her probably two or three times what I remember, and it was like, this is not working, you’re not doing anything. So I quit, and then after that I was real hesitant about it because it was just a bad experience, and I kind of based it off that experience where I was like, uh I don’t know.
But it sounds like maybe you’ve reconsidered that. Maybe as as you got older, or no, that was never reconsidered.
Oh, I reconsidered it. It happened later like a few years ago, I started going to therapy, and it was um probably the best thing I did.
It you know, sometimes it’s a hit or mess with therapists. It’s like it’s like hit or mess with coaches. You you hire somebody and you want to see results right away. But we also have to realize that our problems didn’t just appear right away. And so this idea of wanting it to shorten the the duration of the time that we have to be there is really unrealistic because some of these things are biological in us, right? So there’s that trick, you know, there’s that composition, like your mom was praying that you didn’t get it, but she passed on biology. I passed on biology to genetics to both of my children. Um, I they did genetic testing on me recently, and they saw that both my parents passed on the gene that uh means I have very low dopamine in my system. And so I have a lot of focus issues and um attention span issues. So it’s not a big jump to understand that I’m gonna have ADD and I’m gonna have anxiety and I’m gonna have all these things that affect focus. So I was like, oh my goodness, did I pass this on to my kids? But we’ll both of my kids ended up with mental health, you know, with ADD diagnosed and with OCD. And at the root of it is anxiety. So the doctors explained to us if you treat the anxiety, these two go away. These two are a byproduct of the anxiety disorder. So I’m kind of wondering if in your case there was two disorders kind of playing around with each other. Aside from clinical depression, you mentioned anxiety in your in your answers to me prior to coming on the podcast. Do you also suffer from anxiety?
Yes, and the anxiety was kind of a weird way of getting diagnosed because uh at that point I had I was taught what anxiety was, and I didn’t really show any of the cli technical main signs of anxiety. So it was really it was a weird diagnosis of how I got diagnosed with it. It was kind of it was just a weird experience.
It it’s intensive, like for me, what the trigger was when I faced six doctors in my hospital room when I nearly died in 2012, is what truly triggered my anxiety. So what I remember going to a talk at my church long ago, I was doing research for my son. My son had had you know, had been diagnosed with ADD and with um OCD and had some anxiety, and I was just I was desperate for answers. So I remember JP Morgan came to the church and started speaking about general generalized anxiety disorder. And he said there could be a trigger for anxiety, or you could also have modeling. So if you have a parent that modeled anxiety to you, that could also trigger that anxiety in you. Or you could have the trifecta, you can have the genetics passed on, the trigger, and the modeling. And I have all three. So I was like, okay. So ones that phase the sixth function, you’re like, of course it’s gonna get triggered. You know, you you nearly died, you’re not gonna want to go to sleep at night. In my case, I had pulmonary embolism, and it happened in the middle of the night that I got jolted out to be able to breathe. But had I stayed asleep, I would have died. And so I remember when I got back from the hospital after spending two weeks there in Houston, I was a single mom at the time, and I begged my mom, who was in her 70s at that time, to sleep with me in the same bed because I didn’t trust to go to sleep and not wake up. I mean, it was a real panic and fear that I felt of, you know, every night I just couldn’t get past it, you know. And at first I didn’t realize I was exhibiting anxiety until much later when I went to this talk and I started to really piece together. And when I married my husband, he’s like, I think you have a little bit of OCD, and I think you have a little bit of anxiety. And and at first I wanted to deny it because I didn’t want to be marked, if you will. And then the more I started to really understand it, the more I started to see it reflected in my children, the more I realized I had been modeling it. And it sounds like I don’t know if your mom modeled some of those too. Like, if did she have anxiety as well or or clinical depression? Is that where you got the diagnosis first?
She suffers from depression as well. Um I’m not quite sure if she does suffer from anxiety, but um, I think mental health disorders do run in my family, so it it wasn’t really a shock that I got diagnosed with something, because someone in my family has had some form of mental health disorder diagnosed. Um I think she does suffer from anxiety, but it’s not as severe as mine was. Mine was pretty severe. Um and the depression to her was severe too.
So You say what? So what did you do to kind of manage that anxiety?
It was it was there’s really n for my for m for me, the anxiety was a very long process. I got diagnosed with it back in 2020, it was right when the pandemic had started, and the I didn’t show the classical signs of anxiety, I showed an odd an oddity. about about it. Um my anxiety attacks kind of range from vomiting a little bit. It that was my doctor’s way of explaining it. He said, you know, most people have when you hear anxiety, most people say the shortness of breath and they have a really bad pain in their chest. But he said in some cases and this was after he did some research is that some people have um vomiting and nausea as a way of anxiety. And I’ve actually have had interviews where people have had actually had dealt with the same thing I have and they thought that oh I I don’t have anxiety because it’s not I don’t have chest pains. I don’t have shortness of breath. And so it is kind of a way of treatment. For four years before I had gotten really like uh or for two years. I was traumatic. For two years I was just trying to deal with it and then finally I went to a psychiatrist and she put me on a medicine that just very much cured it. It it was a thing where it took a long time and it took a lot of trial and error with medicines. And um she had put me on Mtazepine or it was something I think Zoloft it it was one of those two names. Was a great medicine. It was like a God sent me my anxiety level really had diminished. Um the thing with my anxiety was once I got diagnosed with it it was a very much traumatic experience for me because everything that I had normally done growing up was now a nerve thing. Whether it was going out to eat at a restaurant I’ve been to since I was a baby, going down five minutes down the street to the gas station, just hanging with family members, hanging out with friends I’ve known for years. I mean everything made me have this nausea to the point where I would have an anxiety attack and would f throw up. I mean it it it was just such a life altering thing because it was like having to live a new life and how to change it was a lot of changing schedules and if something m major changed in the schedule to where we’re going to this place but now we’re going to this place would trigger it. I mean it was just a multitude of things that would trigger it. It was such it was such a hard time because it was also thing where no one else really dealt with it so I was really hesitant about sharing what I was going through. And it was kind of embarrassing to me be like oh I can’t go out because of my anxiety. I felt so I felt so excluded from everything and I couldn’t do anything like if we went out to a restaurant with friends and I couldn’t eat it was always embarrassing to be like oh I can’t eat ’cause I I had to try to come out with an excuse. It was always like oh I I just haven’t really been feeling well but it especially when in reality it was oh I have anxiety I can’t eat so it would always be I’d always have to sit there. So it was always it was always embarrassing when I had to go out with friends because I just couldn’t eat because of my nausea at the time. It was it was pretty it was pretty difficult to deal with.
But then they put you on the medication and it finally started to you started turning the corner didn’t you?
Yeah um it was it was just a miracle of how it started. It was I was actually able to eat out at restaurants again. I didn’t really get the shakiness and nausea at all anymore. It I was able to actually go to places even like on vacation and then when I went off to college it was just non-existent. I mean it was I’ve had spells here and there but they’re not on the multitude or severity of how it was before so the medicine I got on has been truly a godsend.
I do know that medication is a very good option but I remember the psychiatrist always explaining to us that the medication will only go so far and you’ve got to do your part with it what other did you do other modalities aside from medication to kind of keep that anxiety at bay if you will kind of like steady or was it just medication?
At that time I did go to a therapist I did sort of therapy around this time. It wasn’t until a year after I got diagnosed with it because I was still against it but I finally came in I said fine I’ll go to a therapist just to see well actually I had actually gone to a therapist right after I got diagnosed and she kind of was I don’t know there was just something off. I went to her one time didn’t go back and which of course this was during the height of the pandemic so it wasn’t like a natural experience. Um it wasn’t till about a year and a half after I got diagnosed with it. I said fine I’ll go to a therapist and um the therapist I had gone to was really um really good. He he gave me some good advice and some helpful tips about if I’m in the middle of an anxiety attack try to think of something or try these methods. Um one method he had given me was kind of a category method and list method. It was a way to um if I’m in an have an anxiety attack and that I could try to get my mind off the situation by naming like making categor categorical lists. So it was an example would be name four things that are green and I could just list four things that are green. And then the objective is to kind of break it down to more of a specific thing to where it makes your brain think. So it would be like okay name four things that are green that you find in a classroom and then you would sit there so you’re sitting there thinking about okay what’s green what would be green in a classroom so you would break it down and kind of get it more specific to where you think longer times to the point where you’re you forget thinking about what made you nervous now thinking about trying to figure out what’s green and what’s in a classroom and um you’re just trying to think about that thing. Now it doesn’t work for everyone and even in times when I’ve had severe anxiety attacks I’ve I’ve told people that no matter how many times they can try calm calming me down, no matter how many times they tried to get me to do this, I’m like I’m in that point where I’m having an anxiety attack it has to run its course. Nothing I will say will help it nothing will help at this time just leave me alone let it pass. And it’s been to that point where I’ve tried these methods and that has not worked ’cause it’s so severe I’m like, okay it it has to just pass until it gets until I started finally gets calmed down. So sometimes the methods do help sometimes they don’t but um that’s been some ways and I’ve tried finding music as a way to help cope with it as well. Um and this was before I even did there being winter doctor music was just always kind of a pathway to for me to kind of decide a way to escape and just kind of go into reality and YouTube as well was kind of a really good technique of um escaping from what was going on and kind of just get my mind off some things. So there were there were some things I did to help cope with it but sometimes it was just so severe it was hard to ignore and it was hard to try to make it go away. It just had to run its course and had to go away on its own.
Yeah I um I have so much to say about this because I’ve had not to the degree that you’ve experienced because that’s a big degree where you can’t go places and you can’t eat and it it did affect me in my relationships with others and one of the things that I too not the list but I remember my therapist and my coaches kind of saying hey stay in the present moment the the issue with anxiety is it takes you into the what ifs of the future or something that happened in the past. So the the the aim is to stay in the present moment and that’s why the lifts are really important because it it it forces you to get out of that loop that your mind is in. So one of the things that I have coached people on and I myself have coached my my kids on and myself on is to do the five senses exercise when I I sense because I start to feel it in my heart space my heart does start to race and my voice I I start speaking faster when my anxiety is present and I’m starting to really identify who’s showing up my anxious my anxiety was not only passed on genetically but it was also triggered early on um now I’m starting to realize where she comes from and who she is and it’s my my seven year old self that that had a traumatic event and when she shows up she speaks really fast and she tries to please and she tries to stop things from happening and and she just starts going in different directions. And one thing I’ve recently found out to be very very true is to talk to her and just say hey I know you’re scared I know you want to make things right and I know you’re you know this is going on what I’ve realized is just acknowledging her has calmed me down because my mind wants to race it wants to go to the catastrophic event that is about to happen and my mind just wants to take me down that rabbit hole and it tried to do it to me yesterday as a matter of fact and I had interviewed someone two weeks ago that had discussed a journey where they identified who was showing up for them when they were sensing uh stress in their body and it reminded me of one of my trainings from long ago in 2018 I I trained under this guy who had been a trainer under Tony Robbins. And in neurolinguistior but one of the things that I remember one of the talks from long ago and it was like what is your pain what is your anxiety trying to show you about you know the situation and I was like that’s such a strange question but yesterday I started to feel doubt about something in my relationship with others and when doubt started to show up that anxiety persona started to show up and it just started to get stirred up and I just remember just kind of just acknowledging it and accepting that she’s part of me and she’ll always be part of me. And I think that acceptance base is so important in anxiety in in depression because people often through their shame want to change it and they want to deny it. And I think the more you deny it the stronger it gets almost like it’s trying to show you something of what happened long ago and why you are anxious and why you are clinically depressed you know and all these things all these factors so I found it interesting that yes my new death experience triggered it again and gone dormant for a while but she had been there all along and um and she just needed to be seen and accepted and and she just needed to feel safe kind of like you were talking about with your mom you just want to feel safe to be able to open up to somebody and just share your experiences without the fear of judgment of this is wrong. You’re not supposed to be feeling this no and there’s we all have our bodies keep a record of everything that’s happened to us. And so it’s of course we’re sometimes we don’t even realize all of this is inside of us until we accept and acknowledge and and move forward in our journeys and I I think you you’re very courageous to come on podcasts and talk about these experiences because a lot of men especially men would shy away from this type of conversation you know because of the cultural aspects of it. In my culture it’s shame that it’s like not seen as a good thing to have mental health issues. They don’t talk about it in in the Mexican culture. And then if it happened to a male it’s even worse. It’s even worse because they’re supposed to be the strong ones and the protective ones and how dare you be quote unquote weak because you have these things that are happening to you and can’t you just toughen up and get over it and that’s kind of the the dialogue that we need to start changing around this because children out there are suffering in silence and they need to be heard whether it be through a therapist, a teacher, a mentor friend I think what’s really important is to have a community of people that that’s around you that are light bringers to you that can say hey I think what you’re doing is awesome I congratulate you I commend you for being brave enough to talk about this so that other people feel less alone.
Any do you think this is your purpose now like coming on podcast and sharing this story or or where do you think your your light is where do you think your light is taking you I’m not quite sure I think it’s I’ve been very passionate about mental health since I’ve gone through it and you you made a very good point about what the main reason why I do it is because our society has kind of made it where men are scared to talk about it. And it’s a thing where it’ll people would say oh you’re weak and all this stuff and it is right that you you know they a lot of society usually think tend to think that men have no problems at all that we’re supposed to be strong and not show weakness and break down with but in reality it’s actually not true that we do have moments where we do have to break down and that we do have um very traumatic moments and that it’s okay for us to actually be able to open up and share those feelings and emotions with people and not be judged for it. Um a lot of people have praised me for being able to be so vocal about it. Um and I don’t I hate to say it ’cause it’s ’cause I’m a man, I guess. Um I guess they’re I think they’re more proud of how how old how young I am and uh of thinking that the think that you’re 23 now and that you’ve gone through two major mental health disorders at such a young age. It’s I think they think it’s courageous that you’re saying it at such a young age. ‘Cause I don’t think they I I guess they think most people say it later in life when they’re a little older and where they kind of don’t really care a lot more about what people would think. Um a lot of my friends have also dealt with mental health and I think it it kind of comforts them for them knowing that they have a friend that’s going through the same thing they are so it kind of makes them feel more okay. I’m not the only one going excuse me going through it and that it’s I can open up and share what I’m feeling without being judged. So I’m not mad really about being a voice for it. Um was it something that I thought I would be doing in life no it’s I didn’t plan it but it’s something I don’t I’m not really mad about. I’m it happened for a reason and I think it’s the reason I got it is for so that I can help other people and not feel alone with it and that it’s okay to have what I have and that it doesn’t make you any more different than the than the next person. So um I’m I’m grateful for being able to be a spokesperson for it and be able to be like hey it’s okay to have depression anxiety or PTSD or bipolar and all this stuff because someone else you know or someone is else is going through it and they might feel alone and just knowing that they have someone else that deals with it, y’all could help each other out. So that’s usually how I see it.
Thank you so much for sharing your story with us and being vulnerable enough to to discuss these very important issues for parents for kids alike out there that are suffering in silence and just afraid or ashamed to come forward and say hey I need help and I need someone to guide me because I I’m having these thoughts and it’s a very I think we need to start talking more and more to our younger kids about suicide thoughts because if if we don’t start that conversation and they hear about it elsewhere they get the thoughts and act on them it may be too late. So Noah thank you so much for joining us on release out reveal purpose.
If if people wanted to contact you and have you come on their podcast how can they reach you um the best way to um probably contact me for being a guest is by email um lethalvidompod at gmail.com feel free to send me an email if you um are interested and want to have me as an inner as a guest I’d be more than happy to come on there. They can also reach me on social media as well. Instagram and TikTok is probably the more most likely place you’ll get me are probably Instagram it’s lethalvitomodcast on there. I’m also on Facebook Twitter and um YouTube as well as Noah’s podcast on there you can send me a message on of Facebook and Twitter as well um I check Facebook a little bit more so you’ll have better luck on Facebook. So um those are usually the best ways to contact me and on wanting to be a guest on there.
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