This is the last one we need to record. What if I go and zoom in my computer? You guys can record it. Connect the HDMI coordinates. I have an USB-C. If I connect to zoom, then you guys can record it. Why do you need to connect to there? You guys are still connected to the zoom, right? I'm here. It's my Allison. I share the account. So I'll be there. I'll be host. No, the host. Well, co-host. Yeah, I'll be co-hosting. Yeah, I'm just co-hosting. So you guys are hosting. Yes. I'm just co-hosting. So I'm just co-hosting. I'm just co-hosting. With the priority. It's recording. That's where I'm. Sharing screen. It's good. You looking at the way. No, no. Sorry. Okay. We're going to change things up a little bit. I know you guys have been patiently kind of sitting absorbing a lot of conceptual information. So what I've done in the Moodle system, I've added two more links. And what we're going to do, I'm just going to demonstrate a couple of the features that I was discussing before. I've given you links so you can follow along. I'll identify what those links are. So you can log in and actually get a better sense, you know, for what some of these things are in the system itself. And then after we'll do an exercise. So no more presentations for today. Okay. And instead we'll, we'll do a bit more. We'll do a bit more hands on. Okay. And, and if they're like, I know it's tough because it's a long day, but please, if there are specific items that you want, or just generally want to see more about how DHS to works. And we can have some Q and a sessions afterwards. And we're happy to show you some specific features or walk through some demonstrations or just give you a better idea for how the system itself functions. I know we're not covering that so much during this academy, but we can talk to you separately about that if you have any specific questions. Okay. So for the first demo, I'm just going to cover, show you how validation rules works and some of the other features related to that works. If you click on this link here, analysis demo inside a Moodle, it'll open up a new or sorry, it'll give you this link, I guess, just click on the link. Okay. And then the login details are at the bottom of the page. Okay. I'm not going to go through a ton of features. I'm going to go kind of slow. You guys can follow along. If you'd like, in order to just, you know, get a better sense of how some of these features operate. Okay. So I'll give everyone a chance. Remember if you, it's on the Moodle page. So it's this link here. Okay. And I just open it up and it'll give me the login details at the bottom of the page. Okay. So the first thing that I just going to kind of explain a little bit, and just so you can see it, how it operates. Okay. Is the validation rules. All right. So first is everyone able to access the link any issues. Access and login. Any problems. No. Okay. I see everyone kind of, okay, so far. All right. So I'm just going to explain how validation rules work, both when you enter data, but also when you kind of want to perform this bulk analysis. Okay. And I'll just focus on that so we can kind of all see together. All right. So the first thing I'm going to do is navigate to our data entry app. Now some of this might be new for some of you. I apologize if I'm moving slowly for those of you who are kind of already experienced in using DHIs too. I just want to make sure no one's left behind. Okay. So if I click on this kind of menu button, this multi dotted menu button in the top right corner here. I can access an app called data entry. This is where we actually enter all of our aggregate data. Yesterday you used it in the exercise to enter data from your tally sheets. Let's make it nice and big. Okay. And we interact with the hierarchy. None of this is different so far. Right. All I'm going to do is select a facility, a data set and a period. I'll select this cardinal hospital. This immunization data set and let's select. September of. Let's like maybe something a bit more earlier February. Maybe. Okay. So you select your data set or sorry, your organization unit. In this case, I selected this hospital. This data set, which was immunization. And the period, which was February. All right. So when you're in this data entry interface as people are entering data aggregate data into your system, right. And you guys had a little opportunity yesterday to check this out and try it on your own. All right. So what this allows you to do one way you can check some of the data quality before, you know, at the facility level or at the point, I should say at the point of data entry in case you're entering data at a higher level. So basically, I mean, we're not going to enter any more data. You've already went through that. Okay. But you can run this. If you click this run validation button, it'll actually run any type of logical rules that you have set up for the particular program area that you're viewing. As they're entering the data. Okay. So if I select this run validation button. It actually pulls up in my example. An issue. Okay. And there's an issue with the stock in this case, right. The number is comparing the number of doses given with the number of vials that I've reported are used and wasted. Right. It's saying that for whatever reason, I've used more vials than I've actually administered stock or administered doses of this particular vaccination. So this is an example of internal consistency. I'm collecting all the data within the same kind of process, same form, same tool. Okay. And I'm comparing variables within that same form based on a rule that I've defined. Okay. So all these rules, like this doesn't come. You can use these tool kits that we will talk about later on to bring in some of this validation. Okay. But you can also, of course, define your own validation as well. All right. And we can run this as I mentioned at two levels. So one is here. You can run it at data entry and I can check and I can have, make sure I implement in all my procedures. Whenever a user enters data, they should click that validation button because they should actually check the data as they're entering it. All right. We have similar types of rules that we can set up at the point of entry for case-based data where you can check, you know, you can hide and show variables based on what they've input. You can indicate if a value is out of an expected range, you can let them know. For example, if they enter a BMI value, that's too high or too low or a weight value for a pregnant mother that perhaps is out of an expected value based on which trimester they're in, you know, other rules like this, where we can create prompts that allow a user to kind of immediately see, you know, if there is an issue with the data that they're entering. This allows in this case, for example, I can, I can kind of see what the error is. And then you would, you know, kind of show the user how to fix this, right? So if I go to the vaccinations I've given, so what is this again? DPT happy doses given. This is adding up all of these. Right. And if I just increase this value a little bit, maybe it was 60 instead. Oh, I can't write. Okay. Sorry. Just let me log in as mine. So you can see. Okay, so I see that change value and then I'll run it again. Hasn't registered change the stock. Okay. Sorry. Can't write the data. Okay. So the whole idea is that you're able to alert the user and provide some information as to how they can alter those values and update those subsequently, right? So you can try to catch some things. That's kind of the point of entry. If you'd like. So what I want to show you is actually, you can also do this. So what I'm going to do, if you go to, if you're following along, if you navigate to this apps area, I'm going to go to this app here, data quality. Okay. And this is where I can run in bulk. Validation rules that I have defined. Yes. So this is the dashboard for the people who are looking at the data as aggregate. So we have a look about like what's the dash and what is the dashboard for the people entering the data. It's would it be that complicit to you. So this is the data entry page. What we're looking at right now. So this is where they enter the data. They enter it as an aggregate, not. Well, it depends. There's multiple models. We're just showing the aggregate data entry right now. They could also enter it as case-based data. But in this particular example, they're entering it as aggregate data. So here's my question. Having this much as a huge matrix. Make the error. Higher. Because you have the PCG, the DPT, all of them in the same high, and all of the slots are the cells are near each other. There's no next option. So that's, we'll be confusing for the people who are entering the data. This is my high. Yep. This is just an example. You can change how it looks. Yeah. But I mean, many forms are kind of made this way in reality. We see many, many forms, much less readable than this, but that being said, you know, we, you base, this is just an example. You base these tools that they're entering data on your actual kind of data collection tools, right? So how they're configured, how they look, how they appear for the user, that's kind of based on your own implementation, your own context, right? So examples we saw yesterday, examples I'm showing now, they're just examples, right? You take everything, you localize it, contextualize it to your own setting to make sure that it works for you. I mean, you probably wouldn't want it all in English either, maybe in Arabic, for example, right? But all of these examples are that I'm showing are in English. We do have other languages, French, Portuguese, but nothing in Arabic configured, but we do have other examples where you could use Arabic instead of English for everything that I'm showing, not just the data entry pages, but all the warnings, everything, right? Okay. Okay. So what I'm going to do is just show you how you can kind of analyze these rules in bulk real quick. All right, so I'll just go to this data quality app. All right. And I'm going to go to this first one here called validation rule analysis. Okay. So for those of you following along, it's just the first box. All right. So I'm actually performing this manually, but you can also schedule this to run on a period of your choosing. In this case, data that I was looking at was collected monthly. Okay. I could have this run, you know, on the first of every month or maybe the 15th of the next month to give people enough time to submit their data. And then I could kind of analyze everything in bulk. And I try to identify any challenges or issues with my data. Okay. So what I'm going to do here, just because I'm doing it manually, there's a couple more steps, but of course, if you're doing it automatically, you would pre-define which of these characteristics that you're selecting. I'm just going to select this unit.  The top one here. It's in green.  Okay. Instead of 2023. I'm just going to run it for the year. Maybe in practice, you'd only run it for a month. Maybe you would run it for a year if you're doing an annual review of some kind. Okay. Okay. So I'm just using the date selectors to select from. January 1st to, I guess I could say December. 31st of 2022. Okay. That'll run. Run whatever rules I will select. For the whole year. Okay. So what we do when we create these rules is we can create the rules out that way. We're not running. Maybe you want to perform a check. You just want to run it for immunization instead of malaria immunization TV all at once, right? So the idea is we kind of segment those out. So if I select this box here. It'll have a kind of a list in this case, of a couple of different programs. So I could run just the rules that I've assigned to that particular program based on kind of a grouping that I've made. is run it for this group called Immunization Thresholds. And I was showing you some examples of this predictive analysis in some of those previous slides on data quality, where you can define what your outliers look like. So what I've done is I've created an outlier for some of my immunization data. I'm going to compare the actual data that I've entered with the outlier that I've defined. And I mentioned, or maybe I didn't mention, but you can send a notification as well to a user to let them receive this data. So if I was running this as an automatic process after the process was run, if nothing was found to be incorrect, I wouldn't receive any message. But if something was found to be incorrect, it would send a message to the users that I tell the system basically to send those notifications to. All right, so just to recap, I've input which kind of area, geographical area, I want to analyze, I've input the dates that I want to analyze the data for. I've selected kind of the program logic or rules validation that I want to set it up for. And in this case, it's immunization. And I'm saying send a notification if you find anything wrong with the data, okay? And even though I'm doing this manually, all these same parameters can be configured to run automatically. Let's say every month, for example, all right. So, may I ask something? Yes, sorry. So basically you can set this to run every month for each district or each facility. And the system is doing the automatic check of the data quality without the system manager interfering. Exactly, yeah. So you can set this all up to run automatically for various geographical units in your system. It'll let you know if it finds anything wrong, yeah. But of course you have to set up everything initially, but once it's set up, yeah. So I'll just click on this button validate and give it a second. Okay, so it's output a couple items here and it's given me a description. The amount of rotavirus, if let me just pull up the details, I'm zoomed in. The amount of rotavirus to administer should be less than or equal to, this is not proper language, I apologize, I should really fix that. The mean plus three standard deviations of the last 11 months, that's how the outlier was defined, okay. So this is a particular, you can make formulas to define your outliers or you can just use other ways to bring in outliers into your system, okay. But because the amount of doses administered was greater than my threshold, it has identified some values that aren't quite in line with what I would expect, okay. And it's given me an output of this and to the appropriate people, it has emailed them to me, okay. So this is my email now and it sent a notification of all the different rules that have been violated, okay. So we can set this up to be automated, you can send it to the users that are supposed to receive this, you can provide it with descriptions, you can see here I have specific names, they're made up places, but specific facilities, I have the month in which this violation was created. So I could actually go and check, I could follow up appropriately if I had some procedures in place, if someone receives this of course and doesn't know what to do with this information, that's problematic. But of course, if you set this up and then they have some proper follow up procedure and they know what to do when they receive this information, it allows you to go in and modify values accordingly, follow up with facilities to ensure that the values are reported correctly, et cetera, et cetera. So this, I went through a number of features but just to show you kind of hands-on, you know what this looks like? For those of you who were following along, I think, sorry, where was my, yeah, you would have got here, okay. This is also useful because it allows you to review them within the application itself, right? You can pull up details and you can kind of see which value, as I mentioned in some cases, in this case, I have two values contributing to the total number. I can have as many or as few values contributing to my total, yes? Yes, again, please, how flexible the rule creation again? I'm sorry. How flexible, how much flexibility in the rule creation? Yeah, it's totally up to you. Based on what? Yeah, so it's totally up to you in terms of defining the rules, right? As I mentioned, we have a number of predefined rules that we've taken with the guidance of partners like WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, for some of the programs, that might be a good start, but you define the rules based on any mathematical formula you might have, any type of internal checks that you want to create. Programmatically or there's a user interface to do that. There's a user interface, yeah. This is also here as an example here.  But if you do have questions, we can go through it, but let's just see the outlier, RV2. Just open up one. So this is an example.  This is what I'm comparing my values to. This is what the behavior should be between them. And it's all defined by you in this interface and then you can save those rules and apply them to the program. And for most, anything that we're showing, dashboards, any type of analysis output, adding in data collection tools, there's user interfaces for all of these things actually. So there's not so much of a need, depending on the scale or what you're trying to create to kind of do something without an interface. All of these operations that we show you have a user interfaces to add these items. Yes. Could the validation rules be determined centrally, not on to the facility level? Yes. So normally, I would say in a normal case, they are defined maybe nationally and then the facilities use those. So the national level defines them for the facility. That's very normal, I would say. That's not to say if facilities have the capacity, they can't define their own and add them, but it's a typical case where there's a lot of national involvement in defining these rules for the programs, which also helps because there's standards to compare the data across the whole country. Yeah. Yeah, so there's not like you typically only allow a very small amount of users access to these interfaces. Otherwise it can create some havoc in your system. So it's really only people who are, we'll talk about this more later on, but people who have the right training, who are involved in the process who really understand what they're doing. It's not something you would allow just anybody to do typically. Yes. Yeah. It's just a comment on that one because those data elements being used for creating that validation is a data element being used by the whole users. So you can't allow users at some national levels maybe at a facility level for them to create different visualizations, I mean, data violations. In that case, users will be changing what has been created by other users. So it's good to give this feature for system administration and aeroized system administration in most cases they are at central level, but also there are some implementations depending to how countries are organized. For example, we do have some countries which have a kind of regions or islands where they prefer to have system administration at each and every island, but in any case, this I think it's good to be created by system administration at national level. Thank you. All right, so I hope that gives you some idea. Here we can, I could show a little more and then we'll kind of move on. So where am I now? Yeah. So I'm just gonna go back and I head back to the data entry app and we can select the same dataset. Say February, that was the one I was working with. All right, so a couple more kind of features to help the user at the kind of site level. So if I'm here and you know what I've just gone back to the data entry app, I selected my location, my dataset and my period again and open that up. Let's open up the dataset for me. You can select any, if you're following along, you can select any dataset at any period, okay? If I just double click on one of these boxes, it's gonna bring up this history, okay? And this can also be helpful if we just show them kind of the basics of identifying trends in their information. If they see some huge spike again here, for example, you can put this on the dashboard too, but at least at the point of data entry, this also helps if people kind of just have a little suspicion about their value because they'll be able to see, like this is pretty consistent. I mean, there's not, there's some kind of ups and downs but nothing really crazy. But for example, if someone hits zero one too many times, so I can do that, let's see here. For example, it's not registered, okay? Yeah, so if someone hits zero too many times or whatever the value was inflated or too small, whatever the case may be, right? They would be able to see some of the dips and increases in these values as well. You're also able to kind of take note of who entered those values, right? So you can see, for example, this I just entered this value now, has my name now, okay? If there are changes, so this is very useful if you have procedures for modifying the value, right? So if you note that there's an issue with your data and you end up modifying the value, okay? You can see who entered the previous value. You can keep track of then who modified the value as well, right? So if there's any kind of procedures around that, any type of approval or other kind of items that you need to look at, there is some information that allows you to track that information as well. Just really quickly before we move on, I'll show one or two more things that you could try on your own as well if you want. I'm going to be using the second link I've posted in Moodle, the data quality demo, okay? So either you wanna follow along now or you just wanna check it later on. We have a couple different demos for you to access, all right? So I'll open this one up and same thing, you can just use the login details at the bottom, sorry, at the bottom of the page here. Okay, so I'll just log in with those. And this is where you can view the WHO data quality tool amongst other things, okay? Oh, it's in French, that's okay. Excuse me. Yes. Yes, maybe I'm confused, but does it work as EMR, electronic record, health record management set? Does it work? As an EMR? Is it designed to work as an EMR? What is it at data analysis and reporting tool, yeah? Pure, okay, core. Okay, so I would be careful in terms of how we classify it, right? So I would not say that we use DHIS too as a type of patient interaction system replacement. I wouldn't say that it's kind of replacing a full EMR. It does not do direct hospital billing. If I'm consulting with a patient and I have no idea what their diagnosis is and I wanna enter in a bunch of notes, patient notes, I wouldn't use DHIS too for that specific purpose, okay? Yeah, I mean, yeah, the life cycle of registering a patient, registering a visit for the patient, dispensing the medicine, follow up appointment, et cetera. Okay, yeah, for that type of thing, that's much more appropriate. If I have very specific services that I'm delivering, maybe I'm delivering certain delivery, let's say it's an ART patient, for example, okay? And they come, they receive their treatment. I want to know when they're coming back. I want to know what medicine I've given them. It's a very well-defined treatment protocol. Yeah, patient treatment, et cetera, follow up. Yes, yes. Then in that case, we can think about kind of case-based models for that and we can use DHIS too in those scenarios. So it is not a full kind of electronic medical record replacement. Just again, for me to understand, I know there's a core functionality, right? You can build on that. Yes. So you want to build on that, what I'm talking about. It needs a lot of customization or not, something to apply. Okay, yeah, so there's two things, right? How complex, yeah. Right, there's two things. Let's look at it this way. I'm considering implementing DHIS too, okay? When we refer to kind of localization and customization, this is not extra, like what I would consider development. We're not creating a new application.  What we're doing is we're trying to understand for our context what health programs we want to implement, what data we're collecting, what indicators we need, what type of outputs we need. This is all configurable in the system without having to create an application without having to kind of extend the platform. This usually takes us 80 to 90% of the way, but then there might be something missing, some type of custom report, some type of interface you need, some type of other solution. And in those cases, you might create like an application or something like this to extend the kind of features within DHIS too. In top of it or something separate? On top of it, yeah? Same system. Top of it, same system, just on top of it. It's a platform, right? We're gonna discuss this more in the coming days, but the whole idea with customizing DHIS too, it just comes as an empty box. We decide what we put in, right? So if you wanna add stuff for your country, you add your facilities, you add your indicators, you add your data collection forms, you add your reports, okay? And that doesn't require some type of extra development work, I would say, okay? But in every context where DHIS too is set up, you go through that process. Because it doesn't come set up with any of those things specific to any one country, yeah, okay? Okay, so we're just gonna switch over to a little bit. If you have more questions on the data quality features, wanna see more demonstrations, please come grab us, okay? And we're happy to go through that. It's not a presentation, don't worry. We have another exercise for you to work on. And I think we've spoken enough about data triangulation and for you guys to have an idea of what that is. So we're just going to do a little exercise to get you thinking about this a little bit more. Abdulrahman and Hanin will help explain some of this in case I'm not able to convey it to you well enough. I'm just going to try and explain it to everybody. And then if you do have some additional questions, Hanin and Abdulrahman will help me out. Okay, so I'll just open up the exercise, okay? So what we're going to do, and just to go back for this exercise, we're going back to the original demo that we set up. So we're gonna use this demo for the exercise, okay? The DHS2 demo with the RHIS login, okay? And let me go to that. So in this system, we have, in this demo system that we've set up for you guys, we have two dashboards that we've set up that are triangulation dashboards, okay? And what this means is we have data from multiple sources feeding in to all the outputs on the dashboard, okay? So what we're going to have you do in this exercise is just review those dashboards a little bit and kind of think about in your own country and your own context, what you could do to implement something similar potentially. All right, so if I go back, okay? So I just list out all the instructions. I apologize, it's all in English, but like I said, Hanin and Abdulrahman will be around and can explain a little bit more, okay? So there's two triangulation dashboards that are available. One is called immunity gaps, one is called program performance. So you can access these dashboards when you log in to that RHIS login demo that we've set up, okay? So these dashboards take data from three different places, okay, one is routine immunization, one is stock and one is vaccine preventable disease surveillance. Both case-based data as well as aggregated data, all right? So what I would like you to do, I have three questions, okay? You can open up that dashboard, just have a look and you might wanna do this in teams and groups, okay? Because different folks are going to have different input as to how to kind of interpret some of this stuff, all right? So remember we're in this system, okay? The system link is taken from the course page, the DHI's two demo, okay? That's where we're performing this exercise. So you don't have to follow along with me right now, you're gonna get chances to work on your own, okay? But there's a couple of things I'd like you to do, okay? I'd like you to look at the items in the dashboard and try to identify where the data is coming from, okay? Which of these three programs are inputting into the different outputs that are available on that dashboard? So you might need a little bit of help from someone who's familiar with health, the health domain, maybe a doctor on your team, okay? Who understands that process. Again, okay. Okay, so the first thing we're gonna do, that's better actually, okay? We'll just log in to this system, okay? The link is on Moodle, the DHI's two demo with the RHIS login, okay? And I'm going to ask you to look at all the different visualizations on the dashboard called EPI immunity gaps and try to identify where that data is coming from. So for example, I'm looking at a different dashboard program performance. This is the second one. So if I look at this first one here, for example, I can identify that this data is coming from both case-based surveillance as well as aggregated surveillance. That's what this is representing. I have something down here that's coming from a different source. So what I want you to do is go through each visualization and try to identify the source of that information, okay? Okay, then there's a couple, yeah? Okay, I think they can help you a bit more with the specific questions, right? So the next question is thinking of the data in your own context. So in your own setting, whether you have DHI's two or not, okay? Are there programs that you would want to present together in this manner? Okay, so are there kind of program areas that you would want to perform triangulation on, okay? And then once again, thinking through your own context, your own country, at the moment, are you able to do that? Okay, so if you want to do that, are you able to actually set up analyses where you're combining information from multiple sources? Okay, and if not, then what are some steps you could take to kind of make this work in your own setting? Okay, so I would suggest you work in country groups. I think Hanin and Abdul Rahman will help me split up some of the teams. So you're made sure to distribute equally, but for those of you in smaller country teams, you can just stay together, okay? You can have a look at the different components of this exercise. If there are questions, I can try to answer. And then as well, Hanin and Abdul Rahman are assisting me and they will also be able to help you explain how to perform this exercise, all right? So I'll give you guys a little bit of time to work through this in country teams and we'll go from there, okay? Yeah, I can post the answers to you later, but we can also discuss a bit tomorrow, yeah.


Hey, fellow buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay, let's talk mugs bread and butter mugs Mugs that are a little easier to find than those crazy ones that we're never gonna find. Let's talk about those All right, let's get started All right, did I say that ice? Ooh, I think I forgot to say Hey, fellow buddies. Thanks for watching. Did I forget? Oh? I Don't know. I have to watch this back. Maybe I said it twice. I don't know. I'm recording several videos tonight, so I can't remember All right mug one Starbucks mugs, okay, so Starbucks mugs can be like bread and butter. They can be like hundred dollars. They can be like $800 they just range range range.  I'm never buying glass. I'm never buying breakables again Then I might skip the Starbucks mug. But anyway, this one is says Ireland on it And it's super cute I don't drink coffee. 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Anyway, imma bridge water never heard of this one, but I saw these so I thought I would share it again bread and butter, but um made in england Decorated by hand 37 dollars three of these sold for and the buyer paid the shipping So I would look those up if I saw that brand All right, so this is a kind of a stein type mug and it's a Sigma alpha Epsilon president stein from 1956 so number one it's vintage and I don't know if that's a I'm guessing that's a fraternity maybe but um I could I could see this being collectible. I personally think that maybe The seller would have gotten more for this had they just did a high buy it now or best offer simply because you know With an auction you limit yourself to a time frame When maybe only certain people will see the item Whereas if you let the item sit with a buy it now or best offer Someone could come along, you know, it might take it might be a long tail item But you may get a hundred dollars for something like this. I would have listed this higher Buy it now or best offer, but that's just my opinion. I could be totally wrong Maybe it's only a 51 dollar mug. I don't know The next item I definitely pick up our vintage Christmas mugs if you see them I have not found any but I would definitely definitely pick it up if I saw it anything Christmas that looks like a face is pretty cool. So this is a left in um made in japan, which I love made in japan items They're like one of my favorite things to look for when i'm out thrifting This one sold for 42 dollars and 99 cents with nine bids in the buyer paid shipping All right, so this is a rare anchor hawking fire king bosco snow bear mug snowball fight And bosco mug it says on the side Um Hmm, I don't know where they're seeing anchor hawking or fire king I was trying to I always try to get you guys um What to look for but I don't see it this one sold for 43 dollars with three bids in the buyer paid shipping The next item is this antique occupational shaving mug railroad locomotive. So this is a shaving mug Definitely be on the lookout for these. They can go for decent money. Here's what's on the bottom This sold for 40 dollars one bid buyer paid shipping Late night with cone and o'brien sold for 44 dollars for bids buyer paid shipping So this is from 2003. I would say, you know anything that has you know, like Movies or uh tv shows sitcoms, you know, they're definitely going to be a bread and butter item This one did pretty good 44. I think is a little more than bread and butter, but um Yeah, there's usually somebody looking for something like this The next item is spode. This is a set of six Um spode, you know, it's okay made in england. They do all right Uh, there are people that collect them another thing this seller could have done is sold these individually Because people have collections and if they break one they may only want to buy one So this set of six sold for 30 dollars and the buyer paid shipping Kaba or yaba. I'm like kaba yaba Yaba yaba, yaba, yaba, do I can't remember how you said yaba yaba, do How do you say it guys? I feel like I'm saying it wrong yaba, do I don't know. Anyway 1960s hannah barbara um, it's like a Looks like a plastic mug um, looks really small in that picture But it's for fruit drink it says Yaba daba, do Trying to get it right $45 this sold for and it only had one bait The next item is this mid-century franciscan atomic starburst 1950s 1960s grand mug So this mid-century modern look with the starburst People collect that it does have some damage on it. I'm trying to get you a picture of the bottom There it is sold for 41 dollars with five bids in the buyer paid shipping The next item is this ember temperature control ceramic mug These are I think a current item that is currently on the market that seem to do pretty good This one sold for 29 dollars and the buyer paid shipping The next item liby liby liby Are they pronounced the same because they're spelled different liby liby liby liby, I don't know cobalt blue celestial I think i'm saying that wrong too sun moon and starglass mug celestial Let's ask Surrey Celestial Read it to me Read it to me Sounds like an r's in it to me, but maybe not Okay Anyhow, I have to ask Surrey everything No chips or cracks, but this is just a pretty mug. It's sold for 41 dollars with 10 bids in the buyer paid shipping The next item is this vintage GOZ leften Bluebird of happiness child's mug cup or creamer super adorable from the 1950s I definitely would have grabbed this if I saw it. It is so cute sold for 40 dollars with 10 bids in the buyer paid shipping hustle run Run ray done hashtag hustle mug I mean it says em stamp. I don't know what the em stamp magenta But I don't know if that makes it more valuable um This one may have went for the price it did because it says hustle I don't know ray done is tricky because it's really saturated But some of the older ones can still do very well So definitely look them up. This one sold for 36 dollars eight bids buyer paid shipping This royal doubting Santa Claus mug Again, you know, I recommend if it's shaped like something Christmas and it's a mug It's definitely probably going to be a bread and butter item Worth the pick up if you can get it for the right price. This is from 1983 3499 one bid buyer paid shipping Uh Teen shen country bear teapot four mugs hot chocolate cocoa Super cute set I'm shocked that this did not sell for more than 25 dollars Again, this might have been one that I would have started the auction much higher Or I would have done a buy it now our best offer because it's adorable And it's t-shin t i e n s h a n And again, I can't show you guys Um the bottom because they didn't put a picture I recommend always putting a picture of the label that tells the brand Vintage 1978 mcdonalds garfield Coffee mug glasses 32 dollars these went for with one bid again. These are kind of all over the place Definitely look them up if you can get them cheap, you know, they're going to be bread and butter more than likely Tiki mug. This is a monk teeny shrunken head. This is what it says on the bottom And this one only went for 26 dollars two bids buyer paid shipping and tiki mugs again Have a huge range. So definitely look them up This is a pandemonium pottery 1981 trashcan pottery mug with lid Kind of interesting never seen anything like it. It sold for 36 dollars with 11 bids That's what it says on the bottom So I don't know that one's different never seen it buyer paid shipping It's interesting. I think I probably would have bought it just because it's so unique But uh, yeah, there's your bread and butter mugs guys Thanks for watching. Be sure to hit that thumbs up. Be sure to like comment subscribe and share and Let me know what you think what's your favorite mug to sell Comment below and if you made it to the end comment made it to the end. Thanks for watching


Hello, psych to go viewers. Welcome to our first ever holiday hangout. I'm so excited. This is the perfect opportunity for anyone who is holiday fatigued, tired of all the stress. I'm here with the amazing Dr. Rijon. You know, she is a licensed psychologist. She has her own practice in Beverly Hills. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, Dr. Rijon? We're so excited to have you here. Yeah, it's my pleasure to be here. I'm excited to be with you all. I'm a clinical psychologist and a relationship coach. I also do life coaching and I've been working with clients now for almost 25 years. So it's been a long time and I loved what I love what I do. I get to help people understand themselves a little bit better in terms of how we work emotionally and mentally. And I get to help people feel better and heal and live their best lives. So I'm all about it. And I know that Christmas is a tough holidays can be tough. So I'm happy to be here. Thank you so much. And like, how are you feeling during this holiday season? Has it been a lot? Has it been stressful or has it been just like a little more chill, calm? I've actually had a lot going on. There's just been a lot of family stuff happening and a lot of, you know, I think for me, it's also just schedules change like a lot because everybody's going out of town and, you know, everybody's kind of, you know, needing new session times or more session times because people start to feel kind of blue or, you know, kind of feel anxious about the holidays. So it's always a little hectic for me, but I love this time of year. Yeah, me too. And I was going to say, so this we're approaching Christmas, we're approaching Christmas Eve, or Christmas Eve and Christmas kind of like two separate holidays, would you say? Because like people celebrate on both days? Yeah, I think it depends. I've noticed that sometimes like culturally it's a little different. Like some people will open gifts on Christmas Eve and sometimes people, Christmas Day is a big deal. Yeah, I think it depends though. And then there are some people who are celebrating Hanukkah this time. Yeah. Yeah. And that's what I was going to say, Hanukkah and then there's New Year's and there's so many other holidays. And so it can be really strong. These are like the big ones, right? Exactly. There's usually a lot of pressure around, you know, people that we haven't seen for a while, maybe how we look to our relatives who haven't seen us for a while. Maybe it's like, oh my gosh, someone's going to make comment about my weight or someone's going to say this or that. And also just, you know, I think, you know, wanting the dinners and everything to go well.  Have I really achieved what I wanted to achieve this year? You know, so there's that kind of anxiety too, because people start to reflect, you know? No, I definitely think that people will reflect and I think that sometimes it brings out the best in people and sometimes it brings out the worst because they don't see the spiritual aspect of it. They seem more of like the vein sort of superficial aspect of it. Like I have to have the best gifts and the best outfit in that and this and that. It's just ridiculous, right? And I want, yeah, go ahead. Oh, no, I see already somebody sent April saying she hates this time of year. I'm sorry, April. I was going to bring that up. April, why do you hate this time of year?   Let us know in the comments. Who else hates this time of year? I don't hate it. I don't hate it, but it can be difficult. It can be like, I want alone time, but it almost feels like you're forced to spend time with people. And sometimes when anytime you're forced to do anything, I don't know. I think it's kind of upsetting. What I always tell people, and this is something I encourage all my clients to do is I encourage people to make the holidays yours. And I do that through, you can do that through ritual. You can do that through little things like for example, I love doing little gratitude tree, you know, like for Thanksgiving. So like people like all the Christmas stuff is out at that Thanksgiving time, or you don't even really need even a tree. If you hang like you can get like coat hangers or something to make a little mobile and start, you know, make little, little tags that you can hook on there for things that you're grateful for. So that you're celebrating Thanksgiving or Christmas or New Year's in a way that's meaningful for you. And, you know, so maybe doing something special for yourself, before you see your family, so that you can really kind of take in the time of year and, and ask yourself, okay, what does this time mean for me? What is it that I'd like to, to think about, reflect on, you know. Yeah, definitely. I agree with that gratitude. And I was going to say, Helen, you love Christmas. Why can you tell us in the comments like what's the, what do you love the most about Christmas. And Ariel also said, yes, I feel the pressure. Let me see. She said, I feel pressure to be happy and festive when I feel like I need a long time. Yes, I think that's the biggest problem. Like, life goes on. It's not just like the holidays for most people, but we have to almost like, like, oh, where's the Christmas spirit and that can be a lot of pressure to people. I feel my mom, if I'm in a bad mood, she'll say that to me like, where's your, where's your spirit. I don't have any. Be authentic. You know, no matter who says what, remember that you have more power than you think you do. You only don't, you only feel powerless when you give it away. So sometimes we put so much attention and focus on what other people are saying, or on what expectations might be. If you take a breath and take a step back and go, wait a minute, I'm going to be me right now. And how do I feel, you know, what do I need? Right? Yeah, I wanted to bring this up. Thank you, James, for bringing it up. He said it's stressful for me because I work retail. James, I used to work retail. You guys are amazing. It's so difficult this time of year for people in the customer service industry because I know that sometimes they might get treated poorly or they have to work the holidays and we appreciate you so much and you deserve those holiday bonuses. If you get them, you deserve them. You should get them. And yeah, we need to acknowledge that more because I know people who think, oh, people in the service industry, they should work on Christmas.  No, no, I agree, James. I'm so sorry. It's a bummer when you have to work on a holiday, but you guys are amazing.  But take little breaks for yourself and, you know, do try to build in time for yourself so that you don't feel like, oh my gosh, here's the holiday and it's all about everybody else. You know, self-care is important during this time. And then Gail mentioned, I'm wondering what you guys are celebrating spending money you don't have so people will like you. Dr. Rizwan, what's your take on that? How do you feel about the consumerism aspect of Christmas because it is a lot of spending? Yeah, I don't like the consumerism piece. I think, and this is why I really like, I like ritual. I like the idea of ritual because Christmas is not about how expensive a gift, you know, who got the most expensive gift or who's buying the most expensive gift. Christmas to me and any holiday where you have an opportunity to spend time with people is about sharing your heart and about really kind of being able to appreciate time with others. And to me, you know, I think the more personal, sentimental things are cards and, I mean, people who bake and spend time, spend quality time giving of themselves, right? Definitely. It's too bad. I feel like it's such a weirdly stressful time in stores like you just barely have enjoyed Halloween and all of a sudden they have all the Thanksgiving, you know, decorations up and then all of a sudden it's Christmas and all of that. So, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I agree. And so I wanted to start with like questions. Dr. Rizwan, if you're okay with that, I wanted to start the hangout with some questions. So, Princess Emile asked, and I think this is a great question because for a lot of people, like I mentioned earlier, there's a lot of pressure on the holidays. She asked Dr. Rizwan, my question is what advice do you have for panic attacks? And before everyone, before you answer that, what is everyone drinking? Tell me in the comments. I'm drinking coffee with vanilla cream. What are you drinking, Dr. Rizwan? Water. A healthy queen. We love it. Well, I talk all day long, so, you know, I have some water. You know, that's a great question about panic attacks. When all the anxiety builds up and builds up, we start to spin and we can start to feel it in our bodies. So we'll start to get the sweaty palms and maybe the tightness in the chest and difficulty breathing. What's really, really powerful two things I can share with your viewers. One is to be able to do a grounding exercise. And grounding exercises are super easy. They take you a few seconds and you can start to feel better. When you have a panic attack, essentially your mind and body are split. Your body is holding so much and your mind hasn't processed. It's spinning. Right. So then your body carries the overflow and all of a sudden you start to feel all of your anxiety and panic in your body. So what do we need to do? We need to ground. We need to pull ourselves out of our heads and connect with our bodies. So a grounding exercise that I like that's very easy that you can even do in a room full of people is, you know, when you look around the room, tell yourself, okay, I'm going to count blue things and start counting blue things. Or I'm going to count round things, start counting round things. Why does that help? It helps because you're engaging your senses in an activity and you're refocusing. So you're giving a pathway for your senses to connect in a different way, which means that you're engaging with your body. If you're engaging in that way, you can't be at the same level of panic. Your, your respiration will slow down, you'll start to calm and things will start to shift. That's one thing you can do is a grounding exercise. Another thing you can do is deep breathing and visualization. A good one that I like is a three, one, three breathing cycle where you inhale for a count of three, you hold for a count of one and you exhale for a count of three.  What texture would it be? Maybe my anxiety looks like yellow little fists that are inside. They're in my chest or that are in my shoulders or in my neck. When I inhale, I'm going to inhale white light or blue light, something that's very calming and healing. And I'm going to imagine that light breaking up all of those yellow fists so they break them apart, break them apart. When I hold my breath, I'm going to imagine that all of that broken up yellow stuff is turning into black smoke. And I'm breathing it out when I, when I exhale for three. Immediately, if you do two or three breathing cycles like that, you, you will start to calm down and you'll notice that you'll start to have some tightness release and things will start to get better. But whenever we join mind and body, we are that much more powerful and bringing balance back emotionally and mentally. Amazing. I agree with that. I love what you said about visualizing it. Like how does it look right now? I'm not super stressed. I feel like it looks like a peachy pink. That's how I feel inside. But sometimes I love that. I love that. So CJ studios asked Dr. Jean, why do I feel so hurt and sad all the time? I feel like everyone looks down on me and I'm only a kid. CJ, I just want to say I always felt like that as a teenager and I did not like the holidays as a teenager. I always felt like it was a chore and that people were judging me or that I had to act a certain way and I felt overlooked. So I totally feel you on that. It can be hard for teenagers, but go ahead, Dr. Jean. Yeah, I'm so sorry, CJ, that you feel that way. You know, oftentimes when we are not given space to be ourselves, we can start to feel sad. I mean, anxiety is one response. Sadness is another where we can start to feel sad. We can start to feel invisible like nobody really sees us for who we are. And I think that again, when you start feeling that way, I think it's important for us to be able to affirm for ourselves, tell ourselves what's really true. Is that really, really true? Because usually what we do is we get into a space, we get into just however we feel and the feeling gets bigger and bigger and bigger. We don't ever question it. We don't ever give ourselves a little bit of space to think about it. But CJ, I'd be willing to bet that you're really special and that you are important to your family. You are important to any gathering this holiday. And I hope you can remind yourself of that. And I'm sorry that you felt overlooked and unimportant, but you're important to us and we're happy that you showed up today. All of our viewers are important to us. And we're going to just going to be a thing that we do like very often because we want, you know, our viewers to feel loved and feel heard. And this is a space to feel heard and to have a voice and to meet new people like you guys can totally talk amongst yourselves as well. And so another question I have here is by, it's not a question, it's just a comment, but I really love it by Maria. She said, I lost my mother a month ago, but I keep celebrating Christmas because she loved it. I do too. It's my way to honor her. And Dr. Jean, you talked about this during our last stream that like when it comes to love ones who passed away, sometimes the holidays can be a great opportunity to honor them. And so Maria, that's amazing. That's beautiful, Maria. I love that. And I'm so, so sorry for your loss. That's such a fresh loss. And, and I hope that you're you have the support that you need. I hope that you have the, you take the time that you need for yourself, you know, if you need time and some space. But I think it's beautiful that you're honoring your mother's wishes in a way, you know, you're remembering who she was and, and I am sure that where we put our hearts are our past on loved ones come are with us, you know, where we put our hearts and our energy, I believe that those who have passed on, see that and know that and are with us. So that's beautiful. And Dr. Jean, this is a really sweet question Rain asked Dr. Jean, how do you celebrate Chris? How did you celebrate Christmas when you were younger? It's up on the screen. That's so sweet for you to ask. Yeah, that is sweet. You know, it's funny. I, I, my family is from South India. So I was the first like kid in my family that was born in this country. Oh, wow, your first generation also cool. Yeah. Well, so our, our tradition we don't obviously we don't celebrate Christmas but then, you know, when I was a kid I had to kind of like, I had two cultures, right, because they taught me how to read, write and speak Tamil, which is our language. And we had our customs and our food and all the things that we would do in our home, but my parents also wanted they knew that I'm an American also so they wanted to hold that space for for who I am as an American. So we started to celebrate Christmas. I think for little kids, of course, you see everybody else has toys. I want toys too, even if you don't know what it means. But for us, I think Christmas has just always been about a time where we get to spend time together as a family doing the things that we love. Like we play cards and we'll eat pizza and we'll watch basketball and we'll, you know, we'll do all of the movies and all that kind of stuff and just, and have fun as a family. And then of course we've had, you know, trees some years and we exchange gifts and things like that so kind of a bicultural though sometimes we don't do much and we just kind of do our Indian thing you know what our family is used to but some days we've some years we feel like really decorating and celebrating so we'll do that. That's amazing and I just wanted to ask did you're I don't know if you mentioned this but did your family cook like from scratch or like did you guys buy food because I had a comment on that. Oh yeah no we my mom's a great cook and my I was lucky enough to have my grandparents live with us to for a while so I got I got to learn how to cook and you know nothing like home cooked south Indian food you know it's really really cool so yeah. And it helps you bond and that's that's amazing because that's something I felt like I was missing in my in my childhood because I love my parents they're great but they felt like the best thing they could do was save up money and buy us food during the holidays and I think it would have been great if we would have cooked together or cooked out all like a home cooked meal my mom's never been the one to love cooking and that's okay but I think that that's important honestly to do something together can't just be about gifts and buying food like you should do something together. Well that's it that's the quality time right I mean that's what I think that the you know commercially it doesn't really mean much I mean it got you know I know I know families that did they just write checks to their kids and that's Christmas. But I mean you create memories when you bake cookies or when you you know when you watch a movie together or when you have a you know kind of play cards or whatever you create memories and to me that's what creates a bond. And that's what makes the holidays something special rather than something intimidating something competitive. Right. Yes. Karla I'm from SoCal. Orange County. Sorry Dr. Rizan right. Yeah I live in Anaheim. I'm actually from Anaheim. So. With the land. Well we live we live in Orange County but I'm based in Beverly Hills and I'm also I've got my I'm in my home office now so yeah. Amazing. And then I was gonna put this one up. Let's see. So. I wanted to bring up this kind of SBC productions but I want to have Christmas spirit but I just don't I feel that I think we can all feel that sometimes it just doesn't feel right. And you know what don't force it. That's what I would tell you is there is nothing you know there's nothing more important than being yourself and and being more comfortable being yourself. If we really think about what anxiety is if we really think about what depression is what is it it's it's for whatever reason you're not able to tolerate being present. You can't it's too much.  Right. So, to me, you know, trying to not be anxious trying to not be depressed. You're going to create more of it. Right. Because the thing is, we create change when we can accept the way things are, you know. And I think that that if you're not feeling the Christmas spirit that's okay. You know you're not richer. Yeah, you're not feeling it and and that means that you can do little things if you want to feel the Christmas spirit. I think because I think I believe that's what that with that comment said also do little things like, you know, involve your senses go walk in the mall and maybe not the mall it's going to be too private but but go like if you you know down down a main street like if you live in, for example, one of the things I love to do is I like to go to the orange circle. And they have such beautiful Christmas decorations up. I love the smell of, you know, lots like pumpkin latte or getting into the smells of Christmas the, the, the, you know, going and seeing the decorations and that kind of thing. If that's something you really want to be more present to that's what I would do because I think, you know, and be real about where you are, don't try to pretend, you know, because you get to feel how you feel. Absolutely. I think something that can help people to is maybe looking at something that they feel like they can do to help people what inspires you to help others why not do that during the holidays maybe buy a family who's struggling some food or, you know, donate to a charity give you know choice to children who don't have any which I mean, I think that can really make a difference is maybe not thinking so much about just yourself and thinking about maybe others. Absolutely. I think that can help and I could also make you create new friendships relationships. Absolutely. Absolutely. And you know, you can you can go. You cannot even like a lot I know a lot of animal rescues are looking for volunteers at this time of year, because you know there are a lot of puppies and cats that need attention and go and play with little animals that don't have a home yet.  Definitely. I'm Latoya McGee just made a comment I'm sad every day. I'm 42 been like this all my life I was the one always getting mistreated. I'm sorry Latoya that breaks my heart especially during this time of the season. Do you have any advice for her Dr. No Latoya I'm so sorry to hear that I mean I think, you know, every, every soul on this planet is is unique and beautiful and valuable. And I think, you know Latoya if you've been feeling that sad every day. I would recommend, you know, if you haven't been into therapy I would, I would maybe go into therapy because it sounds to me like if you're carrying a lot of a lot of stuff from the past, then you might need help processing that and letting that go because you're young you have your there's so many things that you can look forward to but we can't really clearly see what's in front of us if, if we're still looking through the lens of the past we can't do that. And so we have to learn how to grieve losses we need to learn how to grieve, you know, and move through things like abuse, so that we can actually lighten, lighten our load and move forward to the things that we really deserve in life. You know, so Latoya if you are interested in therapy, I would love to talk to you. I'll give my contact information I think at the end. It's in the description. Yeah. Okay. The unconscious mind.com. And that goes for anybody who's listening who feels like they could use some extra support. We'd be happy to see you in my practice so. Before we continue the questions I have an exercise for everyone in the comments tell us what is one thing you'd really want for Christmas like if you had one wish just tell us what you'd want and we can talk about it. Okay, but anyways, SBC productions ask it's hard having autism sometimes I do things. And then I realize it's weird and start feeling like I'm being secretly judge I love this because a lot of people who are neurotypical I think that during the holidays it's very like you have to act a certain way and you have to be a certain way and if you don't people aren't going to be nice about it even though it's the holidays they might judge you or say something rude and so I love this question or this comment because I think that it's interest it's important to acknowledge that neurotypical people might not have the best feelings going into the holiday sometimes in some cases what do you think about that doctor. I know and it's hard it's a tough one I mean the first thing I'll say first of all is that it, you know, it's, I think it's brave and it takes a lot of courage to be yourself when you're when you're neurodivergent and I think that that's exactly what you I think that that we get so caught up in social cues and social expectations and in all of the pressures of how we should be. But remember if you want to change how you are, then the first step towards that is acceptance, but it sounds to me like it's, you know, maybe you're in environments where people are not so accepting. And if that's the case, then, you know, I think that it's probably good for you to, you know, elect to spend time doing things that make you comfortable. If you have to be at a gathering perhaps that you don't want to be at. Is there a person who you feel more comfortable with who you might be able to sit next to and be with during that gathering that's one practical way to deal with uncomfortableness or deal with uncomfortableness when we're in group settings like that. You know, and the thing is there is no normal. That's the other thing I'll say normal is a misnomer. We're all on some somewhere on that spectrum, right. I mean it's it's, it's a spectrum autism spectrum so all of us, you know, have have our own, you know, idiosyncrasies because that's just what it is to be human. But I do understand that feeling of being secretly judged and, you know what, I will also say this, most people are self absorbed, quite honestly. Yep. And so sometimes we can feel the pain of our own judgment more acutely. And we then assume that it's coming from someone else that's the other thing that could be true is because most people are feeling awkward. Most people are worried about saying or doing the wrong thing. Most people are really wrapped up in their in themselves. So that's the other thing I'll say is that if you feel, you know, is that voice of judgment yours or if is it coming from someone else. And maybe that's the other piece to look at is, you know, maybe I can, I can accept myself forgive myself for being different and maybe I can give myself a break and let this go to Yes, I agree with that for sure. And then someone asked, or sorry, let me see this comment. Can you read it? Dr. Rajan, do you see it? Past holiday depression. Can we talk about past holiday depression or post holiday? Post holiday depression. This is a good one. Yeah. You know, I think the holidays and long distance relationships and anything where we don't have any kind of continuity can have a Disneyland effect. That's what I call it. Where everything is so incredibly great and fantastic. You know, my gosh, presents and I know my holidays can be that way. Wow, so and so got me all I got all these gifts. So I got to see someone so they came over. It was so much fun. It was so great. And now I have to go back to work. And now I have to go back to my life. Anytime we have a situation like that.  Which means like for because everybody goes through that we all get kind of the post Christmas blues or the post holidays blues and it's like, oh, gotta go back to work. I will the last, you know, maybe depending on how much time you have off or whatever, whether it's a few days or whether it's two weeks or whether it's three days, whatever. The about a couple of days or maybe three or four days before I have to go back to work. I will do one work thing. And then I'll do, you know, I'll do one thing to organize or I'll do one thing to work or I'll do one thing to clean or something like that where I'm reintroducing my normal activity with into my life again. Towards the tail end of my holiday and then that way when when that first day work comes, it's kind of, it's okay. I've kind of acclimated to it a little bit better. The other thing that you can do that that I think is kind of, you know, can be kind of good is to just have have a little, you know, have a little ritual where you're like, you know, I'm so a little gratitude ritual for the holidays and with what are you grateful for about returning back to work or returning back to life after the holidays because gratitude is something that immediately picks us back up and it immediately puts us into a different flow of energy. So those are two things I would do. And it's fun to look forward to like the new holidays like you're going into winter what's my cute winter look going to be Valentine's Day maybe. Yeah like St. Patty's Day like there's going to be other things you know when the holidays and new things arise immediately after I mean it's all a social construct isn't it. Yeah, absolutely. And part of that too is the commercialism part of the that big let down is that commercialism, because everything is so hyped up in the collective energy. And then all of a sudden when it's gone it's like, you know, it feels like a big let down so, you know, that's that's the other thing to keep in mind is sometimes we're fine, we just have to realize okay you know what everyone's kind of going through this so maybe that's why it's a little bit more intense. I'm sorry go ahead. And just to get perspective. Yeah. And everything goes on sale, like, soon as like the holidays and like January 1 everything's on sale so that's something to look for. All about the sales that's true. I think this one's important because a lot of people during the holidays feel they can't come forward about this because they're, you know, they just have, you know, a way of feeling about this but Dr Rajan she asked how can I help someone who is thinking of self harm. Well, you know, that's such a difficult question. I mean it's such a difficult thing when you have somebody close to you or somebody that you care about thinking of self harm. You know, I think the best thing to do would be to, to, you know, talk to them about getting professional help that is going to be the best thing to do. There's also, you know, I believe it's 211, you can call. It's there's there's suicide hotlines that that also people people who have training to talk about to talk to people who are struggling with self harming behaviors or self harming. Ideation. It's really important to get them to, to see a professional if they can, if they, if they won't, then, you know, I think the thing that also happens with people is they start to feel really stressed out and feel really like a sense of over responsibility. And the truth is, if somebody won't get help, there isn't anything you can do about it. Right. You can be a supportive friend. You can offer to, you know what, how about, how about we check in how about we go out for a cup of coffee or how about, I'll give you a call at the end of the week or, you know, you know, maybe we can text, I think, you know, having having connection with somebody who's in a low place like that is important. But I think, hopefully that connection is about, you know, getting them to start to see that they do need professional help because that's something that would need to be worked out and therapy ultimately. Yes, definitely. Let's see. And I have another exercise for everyone. So let's, let's talk about what is something you're grateful for this holiday season. And yeah, let's start with that in the comments. Let us know what something you're grateful for starting with Dr. is on what is something you're grateful for just one thing. Oh, my season. Yeah. Oh gosh, well, I'm really grateful for my, my, my puppies. I'm grateful for Harley and Lola. I have two senior senior pugs, one of them's Lola 17 and Harley is going to be he just turned 15 actually 15 years old. Oh my God. Lola 17 we've we rescue they're both rescues we got Lola when she was nine. Now she's 17 and then we got Harley when he was 14 and now he's he's going to be he's actually his gotcha day is my birthday in February. So he'll be he'll be 16 pretty soon. Oh, wow, that's amazing. That's a blessing to be able to have pets and for that long because they can be a person's best friend. So yeah, well, they're they're they're the best. I love dogs. I love all animals. I wanted to adopt a kitty. That's something I'm not grateful for because I wasn't allowed to adopt the kitty, but I really wanted one and I might just I have roommates who are allergic. And so it's just it's unfortunate, but it would have been nice. One thing I am grateful for though is this opportunity to be creative on psych to go but especially like with these live from being able to help other people. I'm very grateful for that. I'm grateful for coffee. Yes. Uh huh. I get you there. I to share that gratitude for coffee. We have a viewer listening all the way from the Philippines. That's amazing. Amazing. So glad you're here. Someone put so this one's a really good one. The person's name is Morgan avoid. I'm grateful for having self awareness and my ability to always see the best in others, even if it's to my own detriment. I mean that is a virtue. It's a virtue. And then Ariel said she has a similar one. Dr. I'm grateful for having my pets health and basically. Yeah, exactly. We have someone from Poland. Wow. Welcome. Hey, let's see. And where are you traveling to again, Dr. Jean? So we're leaving. We're going on a vacation to Denmark. So we're going to Denmark on Sunday. Denmark just Denmark are you going to like go to some of the other countries nearby Iceland's near it, right? Probably going to go. Sweden's really close. So we'll take a side trip to Sweden and yeah, I'm excited. Going to go chase the cold, leaving California to go find the cold. No, definitely in the north. Are you going to? Is there northern lights in Denmark or? That's in Norway. But yeah, we're not going to be able to see because that's way up north. But yeah. Oh, Brazil. Wow. Yes, Brazil. We have people from all over the world. This is insane. This is how grateful am I for this? We have someone from Iran. Oh, wow. Iran. Oh, that's amazing. Actually, that's another exercise. Everyone just tell me where you're from. Just go, just do it. Just put it in the chat. Where are you from? So cool. Yeah. Let me ask you a question, Dr. Jean. I'm just going to ask something. Let me see. Okay, we have someone from Canada. We're based in Canada just so you know. It's so cool. Pennsylvania. Cool. Hungary. Yeah. Colorado. Oh, I've always wanted to visit Colorado. Norway. Someone from Norway. Hey, Norway. I'm headed. Well, I hope I have time to go to Norway. We have time to go to Norway, maybe. Australia. Australia. Lovely. Good old USA. It's in Australia right now, right? Yes, Belgium. Turkey. Finland. Finland's in the house. All right. Yeah. Oh, listening from Italy. Wonderful. Wow. That's amazing. Like international audience here. We have a beautiful audience. I feel like I've always said that like I've watched a lot of YouTube and I see like different fan bases, but the Psych2Go fan base just getting to know them. They're so intelligent and empathetic and sweet and supportive. I mean, people in the comments will post a video and someone in the comments might say I'm having a hard day and everyone will rush to that person in the comments to try to uplift them. Like the community here at Psych2Go is so beautiful and it's a community of almost 12 million. We're almost at 12 million guys and we're going to have like a big event when it happens. So it's amazing. Wow. Excited for that. Very cool. So speaking, I don't want to get into a negative territory, but I guess we have to talk about it. Someone asked, I'm dealing with a toxic mother-in-law this year. Should I just avoid her? What do you think Dr. Rizzo? You know, it's tough because again with I think with certain relatives that are difficult, that can be painful, that can say hurtful things. I'm guessing there's probably some not so nice comments maybe that are made or maybe there's some tensions or maybe some expectations that feel like a lot of pressure to perform or do things in a certain way. You know, I believe that with, you know, with relatives that are like that, you need to first of all ground yourself, right? If you're going to be in a space where you're going to see this person, then you have to kind of take some time to affirm for yourself. You know what? Someone says I'm going to be there. This is how she always is. But let me remind myself of what's true. I'm a nice person. I'm this. I'm that. Affirm those things about yourself that this person tends to, you know, maybe set off kilter for you and tends to maybe hurt you in those ways. Frontload yourself. Affirm those things for yourself. And then have certain, you know, like I think boundaries are so important. And sometimes we can have boundaries based in some basic things that we decide. I'm going to, I'm going to say this when I know that she's going to make some sort of comment about what I'm wearing or whatever. I'm going to say, you know what, I feel really good in this outfit. I actually really like it. You know, people, people feel like there's this, you know, when someone says something mean or negative or whatever, we sort of shrink. We can kind of shrink and then all of a sudden we start to feel insecure or start to feel like, oh, maybe there's something wrong with me. But what if, what if we treat it like, oh, that's just another comment that somebody's making but actually how do I feel about it. I kind of like it. I think I feel pretty good actually, you know, being able to respond from a positive place where you're, you're the one who's on your side and pretty soon people let go. People will not make those kinds of comments anymore. If you can't avoid people who are mean or, or, you know, maybe not nice, then that that's certainly something you can do is to maybe say, oh, you know what, I'm actually not kind of a little tired, I'm going to take an app or I'm going to excuse myself to go here or there, just to make sure that you have the space that you need to, you know. Absolutely. That's very important. Like you have to feel comfortable before you can, like, I feel like for it to be fun and healthy, you have to feel comfortable first, if for any event they're going to. Yeah, but if you can remind yourself of, oh yeah, this is so and so, I mean, I know I'm going to see her, this is how she is, and I'm not going to take it personally. If you can affirm those things for yourself before you go, it's almost like you're kind of putting your hands together. So, you're not going to react as much when, when they do say whatever they say or make you feel uncomfortable or whatever. Definitely. Chad Travnik, I just wanted to address this. And I think this is a really good one. He asked, I'm not trying to be rude, but if you can provide captions for all of us, I actually just messaged someone who could help with that. And hopefully for the next one we can add captions and subtitles because we really need to be accommodating. So thank you for bringing that up Chad. That'll be really good. And then, so let's, so an animator asked Dr. Rajan, how can I deal with having six diagnosed mental illnesses on a daily basis? I'm still in school and I'm a content creator. Wow, okay. Well, that's a lot. I mean, that's certainly a lot of diagnoses. I'm assuming then that you are in therapy. And I guess my questions would be, are you in therapy? Do your diagnoses require medication?  If we have gotten to a place where we've seen a mental health professional, we know that we've been diagnosed or, you know, they're saying that, yes, we have a certain diagnosis. We need to be able to treat the issue at the level of brain chemistry. So some diagnoses don't require medication. I think some diagnoses, there's a lot we can really do with mindfulness based therapies to help with anxiety and depression, for example. Also emotionally focused tapping and things like that. But if it is a more serious diagnosis, then it would, it really is important to make sure that you're with a therapist regularly. If you're, if you have medication, you need to consistently take the medication and be working with a psychiatrist as well. And when you do things like that, consistency and doing things the right way are really important. Like going to therapy once a month probably isn't going to help. But if you're going regularly every week, then you're going to start to feel better. You're going to start to have that support. Similarly with medication, people are like, oh yeah, medication. I don't like when it makes me feel this way or that way. If you're on a medication, especially a psychiatric medication, it's important. You have to follow as directed. You have to use as directed and make sure that if you're going to make any changes at all, it comes from your psychiatrist. And you're doing it under the care of your psychiatrist. So those are the things I would say right off the bat. And then making sure that you have time for self care, getting proper rest. If you're, it sounds like you're super busy too with what you were saying, being a content creator, being in school, making sure that you have proper nutrition and rest is also really important. Yes. Thank you, Dr. John Jackson.  Yes, ask whatever you want, please. This is a space you can ask literally anything. But I wanted to just put this comment out, Princess Emile, what she's thinking you Dr. Jean, she said, just wanted to say thanks for being able to talk about mental health. Psych2Goes videos have truly helped me understand mental health and they make me feel like I'm not alone. Thank you, Princess. It's my pleasure, Princess Emile. It's lovely to have you here. It's my pleasure to be here. And you know, I think all of us have issues. All of us do. I mean, me included. You know, nobody's alone in this. Nobody should feel alone in this because as I said earlier in the program, there is no real normal. There's no such thing as normal. We're all variations of a kind and we all have issues to deal with. So, yeah, we need to help each other and we need to talk about it so that we don't feel the stigma, right? Yes, definitely. And then Jackson asked, this is his question or his or her question. How can I talk to people about my mental health? I hate myself and I'm suicidal and I feel like I can't talk to anyone. What do I do? I'm sorry, Jackson, and you are not worthless.  But here we are to help Dr. Jean. How can you speak to this? Oh, Jackson, I'm so, so sorry. It sounds like you are really hurting and you're in some pain. You know, if you feel suicidal, then I think, as I said earlier, it's so important to get in touch with a professional. And it's so important, Jackson, to I think you probably would benefit from therapy. You'd benefit from having a regular relationship with the therapist that you can trust.  It sounds to me like maybe you have had to deal with a lot of negativity, perhaps. And this has left you feeling very distorted about yourself. And I will say that you are absolutely valuable. You are so special and valuable and important. And my hope is that you would be able to do these things for yourself so that you can start to build up your self-esteem and confidence from the inside out. And a therapist can help you do that. My contact information is in the box, in the bottom there in the box. So if there's anything I can do to help you or help anyone else who's struggling, please don't hesitate to reach out. And even if I can't see you, then I have a therapist working for me who's taking clients.  So in whatever way we can help, we're here to help. And then I have my email here. If you guys wanted to send Dr. Rajan an email, also put it in the description. Or if you guys had any questions about the live streams or any, any recommendations, I'm going to put my email in the chat. So it's also in the description. And let me see if there's more questions. Well, there's always more questions, but let's, this is a really good one. So me ask how to focus on working and later relaxing, I have that one problem where I can't focus on something. So I relax, but then I procrastinate and I end up stressing out in the middle of the night about my future. Oh my God, that's so me. Working and later relax. Okay, so you need boundaries for yourself then is what it sounds like to me. Now, being able to have internal boundaries and sometimes I find that, you know, when we're dealing with work life balance that that there are some some exercises that can be extremely helpful. Particularly cognitive behavioral exercises I think can be helpful to institute those internal and external boundaries. So for example, one of the things that I say to my clients that are really, really driven. And they kind of are bordering that line of being workaholics is, you need to really create a boundary around, okay, what when is my work time, right, within that boundary of work time is let's say that it's an eight hour work day. Within that eight hour work day. How many breaks do I get right what are what are my what are my little breaks in between like do I get maybe a five or 10 minute break hourly do I get a lunch break do I get a bit of a longer break. Instituting those breaks is important, because you your brain needs to have a break, we can get really amped on anxiety and feel really stressed out and think that we have to work or work all the time but if we don't get enough rest. And if we don't have breaks and your brain's not going to function as efficiently as it would otherwise, right, by the same token if we keep pushing things off and pushing things off and pushing this off not getting anything done.  Right. So, I think that, you know, one trick that I do is if I really feel like I don't want to do anything. I will, I will say okay I have I'm going to do one thing in the next 15 minutes. So let's say that I have like a ton of emails to get through that I have to answer, you know, to, you know, right back to people. If I have 50 emails to get back to write people back, then I will say okay I'm going to do five emails this hour.  I'm going to take breaks but I'm going to come back and I'm going to do another email now. I'm going to do a little bit, you know, or even if it's if you students out there who have chapters and chapters to read or papers to write. It might sound a little silly but small goals really help to build momentum so I'm going to do I'm going to read this chapter for 10 minutes and then I'm going to take a break. I'm going to do, I'm going to write a paragraph or write a page and then I'm going to take a break, because it's still more work than you were doing before. And this way you're also allowing your brain to get into some kind of rhythm.  Right. Absolutely. And then Zenforial asks, I never reached out to others about this, but do you guys have any tips for how to deal with hypersensitivity, tony criticism and severe fear of disappointing others and rejection? I would say first is that you probably have to process some traumas or issues that you have that are unresolved that would be my take but go ahead Dr. Yeah, usually when we have something really really when we're super sensitive about something or when we absolutely have no ability to tolerate something. Usually that is tied to some kind of history that that usually means that there is something that has happened historically in our lives or in our relationships that have made us believe a certain way or that have created fear or anxiety around having certain kinds of discussions or having certain kind of information right given to us. So certainly those are things that can be worked out in therapy. I think that with with hypersensitivity to criticism I guess my questions would be, you know, around who are you spending your time with, you know, what what what is the nature of this kind of criticism. And also, you know, what, what is it because usually when we're really really super sensitive to something that someone says, there's a belief that we're holding on to that is triggered, right. So let's say that I feel I'm overweight. And it's something that I'm really self conscious about if somebody says something to me like, oh, that's that's a lot of food are you going to be able to eat all that food or something like that. Immediately, I'll think, Oh, they think I'm fat. Right. Yeah. But what is that really, I mean, is it is it is that exactly what they think may not be at all. It might not be at all. But it attaches to a belief that we already have. And that's why it creates that immediate reaction of like, oh my gosh that hurt my feelings or oh my gosh that's mean or right so so I think that it's going to be important to consider again front load yourself whom I'm going to be hanging out with or is this a critical person do they say these kinds of things. Then what are my boundaries around that you know you can you can be firm and kind you know so you know what I really don't want to talk about that, or I'd prefer not to say, or, you know, that's perfectly fine to do as well. I think that certainly it's going to be the way that we get more resilient and strong in dealing with criticism is to be able to learn how to introspect and look within ourselves and work on those things that are important for us. Because if we're doing that work, then comments really aren't going to matter as much they're not going to, they're going to we're not going to be as tender or as sensitive. I agree. And I wanted to ask your email just to be sure it's at the conscious it's let me see it's I put it in the the group check as people are asking for it they can't all see the description but it's Dr. Jean at the conscious life and then dash dash dash okay is it is it this Dr. Jean at the conscious life dash life.com. It's Dr. Rajan at the conscious dash life.com. That's a conscious dash okay I put it there quickly I just said it wrong Dr. Jean at the conscious dash life.com. Yeah, so it's D R R a J and at the conscious and then a dash and then life.com. Yes and then I'll be in the description to and we will be. Dr. Jean will be on either later again this month or definitely for either January for a post holiday stream and Valentine's Day hopefully for something Valentine's Day theme so you guys will be seeing her again. But I will put all of her information on in the description, and we have it in the chat as well. And so then let's see the next question. We have one by willow. She asked. I have a friend who always criticized me now. So now every time I see that friend I worry if I can trust them and I worry too much about disappointing them. What should I do. I would cut ties. What's your take I'm probably not the best one to answer. You know willow. It's what I'm going to say is probably going to be uncomfortable, but I think it's honestly the best way to deal with these kinds of situations is to have an open discussion to have a conversation about it. If you know this is a friend who you care about if this is a friend who cares about you. Then, then this is a person who would want to know if they're coming off a certain way and you have every right to tell people what you know give people your feedback and tell them hey you know what you're hurting my feelings or hey. Do you are you aware and maybe in a good way to bring that up is hey you know. Can we talk are you aware that when you say this this and this it feels critical to me do you mean to criticize me. And and open up a discussion about it because if that person doesn't know they're behaving that way then that's going to be valuable information for them. So that they can maybe you know think about how they behave and what they say and maybe make some changes. It'll also help you feel better because you're going to be advocating for yourself. Then you're going to be making it clear hey you know what this doesn't feel very good I'd appreciate being treated better. You know and about disappointing them and trusting them I mean I wonder you know like Michelle said she would cut ties. Is this person a valuable person to you because we have lots of different kinds of friends for different you know seasons and different reasons in our lives. If this is a person you really care about if this is a person who's important to you then I would definitely have a conversation about it and be honest about how you feel. If this is a person who's not maybe that important to you maybe more of an acquaintance and yeah I don't I don't see I wouldn't. I probably wouldn't spend that much time around this person because it sounds like they don't have a very nice energy if this is how they deal with their friends but so those are kinds of kind of decisions that you have to think about or you have things that you have to think about so you can make the right decision for you but yeah. Some friends aren't worth keeping that's the truth because they're not good for your mental health and they're not understanding. And so I have one more question that we're going to answer since for Dr. Jean tips on how to flow with life when things aren't working out financially and career wise. This is a really good one I think people stress out a lot about this during the holidays because you got to have that money to buy all these things and it's a lot of pressure so. It is it's hard you know I think that one thing is don't let your values or your feelings you know be determined by other people's expectations or other people's choices right because we can get into a real competitive situation really easily when it comes to who gave the better gift or who bought the most expensive gift or all of that kind of thing. We can get into comparing ourselves to other people when we look at oh so and so is driving this car or so and so is doing this for the holidays or they're they're able to take this long vacation but I can't afford to take a vacation like that. So, I think, you know being clear on what are the things that you are grateful for in your life. What are the things that you are grateful for and working on in your career. And what are what are the aspirations that you have that you're moving towards you may not have arrived yet you may not have the income that you want yet you may not have gotten to that position in your career that you're working towards. But it's important to nurture who you are and the path that you're on because you know we're living in an ego based society that is so ego driven and they want they want to know what the end results are how much money do you make what kind of car do you drive but you know what process is everything life is process life is journey so reminding yourself you know what I'm a good person these are the things I'm grateful for. This is what I'm working towards in my life and I know that I'll get there right so that when you encourage yourself that way when you remind yourself of what's important to you. Then it's easier to have some detachment when there those other things those people say make comments or say other things or when you start to see things that maybe make you feel like you know you're not good enough or you don't have enough for that kind of thing. And you know the other thing I would say to is to have special experiences with people money is not always what you need to have a cool Christmas gift it would be cool to. Hey you know what I'm going to take you out and we're just going to have an adventure today or we're going to we're going to go get some good coffee you're going to get to have a lunch and I want to take a long walk with you I want to hear about how you've been doing. You know quality time and and and also being creative maybe maybe you're an artist and maybe you're creative you can do creative things to as gifts and you know giving those other people to. Thank you so much for that and thank you to our amazing viewers for asking all these amazing questions I just put in the comments. We do have a giveaway but we're not going to announce it until later this month. So if you subscribe to our new channel pod to go which I linked in the description multiple times I'm going to link it again. You'll be entered for a chance to win our plushie and merch bundle so please please subscribe to pod to go it's our newest channel. And this was super amazing I'm super happy that we did this today Dr. Jean I can't wait for our next one later this month or next month. Me too. And hopefully I have so many ideas going forward how to go about these like hangouts I think they're really awesome and therapeutic for a lot of people so thank you Dr. Jean your wisdom is always appreciated. Oh it's my pleasure to be here I'm so I'm so happy to be here everybody have a wonderful holiday season I wish you all the very best in the new year and you know be be willing to make choices that bring you joy over the holidays you have more power than you think you do. Yes you do and thank you to everyone you guys are amazing. Have an amazing holiday season we'll see you again soon probably before the holidays and so bye everyone thank you.


When I hold the spinning wheel, nothing crazy happens. When I flip it, I spin. With back, and I stop. Flip it, I spin. So the question is, why am I spinning? So I have to force the wheel to turn over. Now Newton's third law says that for every force, an equal and opposite force acting as well. So when I force the wheel, the wheel is applying force equal and opposite onto me, causing me to turn. So the same thing applies when I'm on the ground, but the friction between my shoes and the ground stops me from spinning. So another way to explain what's going on is through conservation of angular momentum. Now angular momentum is something that tells you how hard it is to either start or stop something from spinning. One, two things. One, how fast it's spinning. We call that the angular frequency. Two, its shape, or what we call the moment of inertia. So this wheel is rotating counterclockwise. Now I'm going to teach you a trick.  And you'll see that your thumb is pointing upwards. We'll call that the positive direction. So see this wheel has positive angular momentum with a magnitude of L. Angular momentum is conserved. That means as long as there are no outside forces, the total angular momentum of the system always stays the same. So when you flip this thing over and do the right hand trick, your thumb points down or in the negative direction. So the angular momentum of this wheel is now negative L. So the whole system, me, the turntable, and the wheel starts out at negative L. When you flip the wheel, the wheel now has positive L. So the whole system needs to stay at negative L because of conservation of angular momentum. So I need to spin with angular momentum of negative 2L. That's why I spin the other way.