Today Sarah cooked 'cheeseburger pasta' which apparently was something from Morrisons. It doesn't even have the pasta boiled separately, instead, it's so easy to do with meat, cheese, flavourings, pasta sauce (the pasta sauce is made from scratch though) and pasta in the one bowl. Guess she wouldn't want to boil pasta separately!!
Chris' story of his mental health
The video starts with him saying he and Sarah had just finished up watching some Netflix, but suddenly realised that there was no fuel in the car and it needed refuelling right then because he wouldn't be able to go to sleep knowing the car was empty in case something happened in the night and they needed to rush and out and drive in the car.
He then says it is too quiet in the house to film video, but it is also too dark in the car to film anything.
The mental health story:
He says he could go on about this for ages but he does not want to make an entire video dedicated to it yet.
He says that the mental illness from childhood onward nearly ruined his whole life. In the first two years of 'high school', he struggled with the transition from primary school more than most children and maybe he was a bit sheltered. He was heavily bullied for two years which ruined his self-confidence. He had OCD thoughts (intrusive thoughts/obsessions is the psychiatric term for it) about germs and contamination and he was also suffering intrusive thoughts about becoming sick because he had a phobia of vomiting. He then started washing his hands to prevent this (the psychiatric term for this rituals is compulsions) to make sure he never got ill. He washed his hands so much that his hands started to bleed from the skin damage of too much washing. He never told his parents about how much he was washing his hands or fears or how badly he was getting bullied. He said the compulsions were a coping mechanism.
In year 9 he took up rollerblading and it made him feel better because he was good at something. He also got friends because he was a cool kid who could rollerblade. He built up a circle of friends so he was happier at that time. He said 'I was not a renegade by any means' but he didn't do too well at school, because he was more focused on the rollerblading and his friendship circle than the academic responsibilities of school. He looks back and feels it was a big mistake to do that.
By GCSE years, he wanted to go to Oklahoma to study tornadoes and thunderstorms as a meteorologist; he became obsessed with this after watching the movie Twister 'it inspired me mega back then' [I don't think that quote from him was proper English, even.]
He knew he had to get his butt into gear to study and get the right GCSEs and A levels etc and his OCD didn't seem to effect him as much then.
To be continued