One of the most difficult aspects of life that no one exactly prepares you for is overcoming life’s constant hardships. Most people even tend to opt to sweep their personal issues and struggles under the rug, with the shapeless hope that their problems will go away on their own or at the very least, never to be seen again. There are some, however, that refuse to accept the debilitating obstacles that life throws at them and instead embrace, conquer, and even learn from them. Social media star Tina Sadri happens to be a shining example of this.
Tina Sadri is an online influencer who also leverages a very accomplished psychotherapy career through avenues such as Instagram blogging and YouTube videos. Suffering from postpartum depression following her second child’s birth, Tina truly found herself understanding how the patients who would come to her for her therapy services would feel. Tina’s initial depression lasted about half a year at its worst.
“The whole thing took about five months. It was really bad and then after five months, the depression decreased but the anxiety was very high.” Is how Tina describes it. Being in such a low stage for so long led Tina to have an epiphany of sorts on mental health.
“It changed my perspective as a human being and a therapist. As a human being, I learned that there is a fine line between sanity and insanity. I learned that you really can’t judge people because you don’t know what they’re going through, what their experiences are like, and what their past experiences have done to make them who they are today.” Says Tina. Through her tenure of depression, she learned that past experiences define who a person is in that moment and never judge another person on what they have been through, making her ideals far more effective and relevant for her to help those same individuals.
Through treacherous hardship and a desire to learn, Tina Sadri began to truly be able to understand exactly what is best for the clients she treats in therapy. Instead of becoming frustrated with the seeming indifference to get better that she saw in her patients, Tina developed the ability to be genuinely empathetic, as well as use the lessons she learned from overcoming her own mental health crises to help others far better than she could in the past.
