Lizzy Hadfield (Shot from the Street)

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I don't think 'Belinda' will like her getting a cat. Lizzy has let the neighbors cat in her house. With her having her own cat, there is going to be fights. As far Belinda's concerned, Lizzy's house is his territory. I do think, a cat will is a good idea, as Lizzy won't be traveling anytime soon.

Having experienced two strict lockdowns in New Zealand, my cats loved me being home. I must say, that the restrictions in England don't seem so bad. Confusing but, at least you can socialise outside you're household . We couldn't. The only thing open was supermarkets, chemists and doctors.
 
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I must say, that the restrictions in England don't seem so bad. Confusing but, at least you can socialise outside you're household . We couldn't. The only thing open was supermarkets, chemists and doctors.
Yeahh. I was in NZ up until a month ago (I miss it so much! ) and the UKs lockdown earlier this year was basically level 3 of 4 lockdown. Right now I'd say it's quite a lax Level 2 in London, and maybe a strict Level 2 up north. The UK gov won't shut things down until they're absolutely desperate.
 
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Yeahh. I was in NZ up until a month ago (I miss it so much! ) and the UKs lockdown earlier this year was basically level 3 of 4 lockdown. Right now I'd say it's quite a lax Level 2 in London, and maybe a strict Level 2 up north. The UK gov won't shut things down until they're absolutely desperate.
The restriction in the UK in comparison to some other countries is so lax even during the peak in April. During April time we can still go out but in some countries you need to fill in a form and there is road block to make sure people aren’t cheating. In the UK it is so lax that we don’t even know how lucky we are. You can go out for lunch with your ‘bubble’ and who is really monitoring how big is your bubble. Lizzy and Lindsey can still mix together if they are each other bubble, they can even go to pub if it is for ‘work meeting’.
 
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I feel like the restrictions in the UK are like a choose your ending book. Or like some bananas math problem - if you go to A, you can’t do B but you can do C under the condition that you do D.
 
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Has anyone listened to their latest podcast on anxiety?
I haven't! They've become so irksome and boring it's become a bit much. I'm not sure what new angle on anxiety they can share over a whole episode when they've already spoken about it 264757 times?
 
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Has anyone listened to their latest podcast on anxiety?
I did, actually find their podcast quite nice and laidback to listen while I'm working haha.
They didn't say much that we don't already know, Lindsay has horrible anxiety since her uni days to the point that she went to ER many times until she got diagnosed. It revolves around the health and safety of her friends and family so this time is being specially horrible and complicated for her (anxiety-wise).
Lizzy says she developed anxiety a couple of years ago, but after what she explained I personally believe it's not really anxiety (don't come for me lol), she's just a very perfectionist person and has high expectations about everything in her life, put's a lot of pressure on herself and is a big over thinker. Honestly, I think everything that she described fits exactly with the mentality of an only child that just talks to themselves constantly due to "loneliness". I identified a lot with everything she said and personally wouldn't say it's anxiety, it's just the way you are that sometimes, on bad days, get's worse and less manageable. But this is just my opinion of course.
 
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I’ve only just started watching Lizzy recently.

i wanted to post here because I really take issue with some of the comments. This is not an easy time for anybody. Anxiety isn’t a competition. If it was was where would it end, arguably people with post natal depression should be dismissed as lucky because they don’t have infertility issues. That doesn’t happen thankfully. Of course some people have it worse than others financially & otherwise in Covid times. But I don’t agree that someone who hasn’t lost their job or worse shouldn’t feel anxious or complain. For starters it’s a very lonely time for people & loneliness is incredibly bad for us.

And so what if someone went to ER with anxiety the medical system treats all conditions not just physical last time I checked. I don’t think it’s the best way to get help but she probably wasn’t thinking rationally.
 
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She went to the ER, multiple times, with anxiety???
Yeah, before she knew it was actually anxiety. She (and her partner at the time) thought (many times) it was a stroke... the physical symptoms must have been pretty bad. She also said that part of her anxiety now also is based on the fear of something wrong happening to her health wise, she said that when she has a panic attack she always checks the list of symptoms of a panic attack to make sure it's that and not a stroke even though she's had anxiety for years.

I’ve only just started watching Lizzy recently.

i wanted to post here because I really take issue with some of the comments. This is not an easy time for anybody. Anxiety isn’t a competition. If it was was where would it end, arguably people with post natal depression should be dismissed as lucky because they don’t have infertility issues. That doesn’t happen thankfully. Of course some people have it worse than others financially & otherwise in Covid times. But I don’t agree that someone who hasn’t lost their job or worse shouldn’t feel anxious or complain. For starters it’s a very lonely time for people & loneliness is incredibly bad for us.

And so what if someone went to ER with anxiety the medical system treats all conditions not just physical last time I checked. I don’t think it’s the best way to get help but she probably wasn’t thinking rationally.
I'm not judging if she should or shouldn't complain/feel anxious. Everyone's different and handles their emotions in a different way, but as a long time Lizzy follower and after listening to what she described as anxiety, I believe she doesn't suffer from it, she just has bad days like everyone else does (probably worse during covid times). Even she seems to feel uncomfortable when saying she has anxiety (not just on this ocasion, many times before) because I think deep down she knows she doesn't have it, but it's become such a normalized thing specially on the internet/influencer world that sometimes the word is thrown around. On a different episode of their podcast, could have been on a different season, she actually said "I DON'T HAVE ANXIETY", and I believe she still doesn't have it.

It might be silly but I think that even the way they talk about it says something about how they both feel when it comes to anxiety. Lindsay didn't speak much during the episode and seemed quite reflective, her tone of voice appearing pretty quiet and weak. Lizzy on the other hand was laughing while she was speaking about how she called Lindsay crying because she had anxiety while shopping for plants. I feel that she was just having a bad bad day and exploded, like it happens to everyone. If it had been a full on panic attack she wouldn't find it so funny (specially having happened just a couple of days before recording the podcast).

Now I don't think Lizzy is lying on purpose, I just think that the word "anxiety" has become very normalized and to a certain extent misused. But again this is my opinion of course and at the end of the day we only know about them wha the chose to show.
 
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She went to the ER, multiple times, with anxiety???
im gonna guess and say you’ve never had a panic attack before. the first time I had one I begged my boyfriend to call an ambulance because I thought I was going into cardiac arrest. you feel like you’re about to die. that’s all I’m gonna say.
 
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She went to the ER, multiple times, with anxiety???
Panic attack symptoms can be very similar to a heart attack. It can be very serious and scary. I have never had one but have seen a friend having one, On the flip side, I also know someone who was actually having a heart attack and wasn’t taken seriously at first because they thought it was a panic attack, even though this person had never had a panic attack.

i do have a huge amount of sympathy for people who suffer that severely, but like a previous poster, I do not believe that Lizzy has real clinical anxiety.

i appreciate that most people are struggling in one way or another at the moment. I certainly am as I have lost my job, but I am honestly sick to death of people pumping out what they claim their terrible, crippling anxiety into the world, when actually they are just having a hard time like the rest of us. It’s a symptom of privilege and being out of touch with reality which is why it is so prevalent among influencers. It drags everyone down and it’s really not fair on people who genuinely suffer with it.
 
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But I don’t agree that someone who hasn’t lost their job or worse shouldn’t feel anxious or complain. For starters it’s a very lonely time for people & loneliness is incredibly bad for us.
Of course. It's a horrible time, and as Lizzy has said there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. However, perspective, self awareness and gratitude are very helpful in dealing with mental health. You can feel anxious and "whinge" (this is subjective) as much as you want, but I find it tone deaf and excessive how much they both talk about their feelings publicly about this. Everyones feeling of anxiety are valid, and we should all mourn our individual losses this year, however it's tough to take them seriously when their reasons for stress have included not being engaged and not being able to plan life.

I certainly am as I have lost my job, but I am honestly sick to death of people pumping out what they claim their terrible, crippling anxiety into the world, when actually they are just having a hard time like the rest of us. It’s a symptom of privilege and being out of touch with reality which is why it is so prevalent among influencers. It drags everyone down and it’s really not fair on people who genuinely suffer with it.
Yeah. I think that's what I'm finding difficult and irksome. Even if we were to say it's hard to say who genuinely suffers from anxiety in the form that induces panic attacks, and we shouldn't belittle peoples feelings (perhaps I was too flippant when I said I'd rather they shut up, although I would still rather they do) it still stands that we're in a world of kids going hungry and people genuinely stuck in doors not seeing people for days/weeks/months. Influencers are allowed to be sad they're having their own hard times. However, they would do well to count their blessings so it doesn't feel like smack in their face to their followers who have it far worse.
 
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I think influencers use anxiety and mental health as a way to relate more to their following and as a crutch. It’s so easy and ‘in’ for them to say they have anxiety and that’s why their content has been crap or inconsistent or dreary. But honestly, is being on the internet, getting free tit and being told by strangers how beautiful they are that much more important to these women than taking a moment to reflect on WHY they’re experiencing these issues, what might be causing them and then either transitioning away from an internet life or working on ways to adjust their content so there are fewer chances of specific responses?

I don’t know. I have diagnosed clinical depression and environmental triggers are something I’ve really had to manage. But thanks to therapy (that helped with identifying why I was feeling particular ways and with coping mechanisms when I can’t remove myself from a specific situation) and medication, I’m managing okay. Covid has been tit for all of us. We’ve never had to go through something so life altering, unpredictable and immediate ever, so yeah, we should recognize everyone’s struggle will be different and we need to have empathy when someone’s experience is different to our own. But influencers are in very privileged positions and it would be much easier for them to find alternative income streams that a lot of people affected by the pandemic or mental illness or disability just don’t have.
 
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I think anxiety (and depression) are on a spectrum. There people who experience the odd bad day but can be boosted by something fun or nice happening, and there are people whose lives are debilitated by it. Who take no pleasure in anything & who cannot function. What I resent is people claiming to be in the latter camp & throwing themselves a huge pity party when actually they are in the former group, and with the right tools & a bit of effort (therapy, mindfulness, gratitude, exercise) could easily sort themselves out & lead good lives. Many people nowadays label ‘feeling sad’ or ‘self pity’ or ‘worry’ as anxiety because it gives normal human emotions a bit of heft.
 
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I think anxiety (and depression) are on a spectrum. There people who experience the odd bad day but can be boosted by something fun or nice happening, and there are people whose lives are debilitated by it. Who take no pleasure in anything & who cannot function. What I resent is people claiming to be in the latter camp & throwing themselves a huge pity party when actually they are in the former group, and with the right tools & a bit of effort (therapy, mindfulness, gratitude, exercise) could easily sort themselves out & lead good lives. Many people nowadays label ‘feeling sad’ or ‘self pity’ or ‘worry’ as anxiety because it gives normal human emotions a bit of heft.

Yes, this is how I feel. Obviously if you've got severe anxiety and you are having full blown panic attacks and feeling like you are having a heart attack then that's obviously very serious. But it feels like a lot of these you tube influencers are calling it "anxiety" just for something to talk about in videos for content, or some just feel a bit down and unfulfilled as all they do is shop and go to the post office and want to put a label on it.
 
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I think the video she just posted was beautiful. She has a real sense of the visual and aesthetics, and creating a mood. I hope she leans into doing more shorts and creative video. I actually really like Lizzy, and I think she has a lot of potential. I'm sure with time and maturity and maybe some more self-confidence she'll really settle into her own.
 
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