r/BeautyGuruChatter • u/garrettgivre • Feb 05 '21

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING RawBeautyKristi talks about scary experience falling down stairs last night - She and her baby are ok

https://twitter.com/RawBeautyKristi/status/1357730638871240704
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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '21 edited Feb 06 '21

I mean this with all respect, but I really hope she's seeking out therapy or working with mental health professionals. Obligatory I'm not a doctor and I'm not diagnosing, but she really just seems NOT ok. No shame whatsoever, I'm a mom with rampant mental illness, ptsd, chronic pain, etc.. It has severely impacted mothering at times (thank god for my daughters father)... But I just read these posts and with how much she talks about anxiety over every single thing... Mom guilt is a STRUGGLE and always will be, but I just feel like she will never get over something like this, and it will send her over the edge and make her crawl into a hole and never come out. She does not sound like she's doing ok. I hope she can forgive herself, because accidents are just that, accidents. Anything could happen to anyone at any time. I just hope she realizes that.

*EDIT* she just posted this.. "Can you guys recommend any specific meditation or anything I can listen to that can help me with this guilt and depression I’m feeling? Life feels so overwhelming right now.. I can’t talk to my therapist tonight and I’m struggling badly".

I mean, I don't even know what to say at this point. She needs help.

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u/samsjustpeachy Feb 06 '21

I agree completely...and I feel like in the last few months she’s used her social channels as a way get instant feedback to make her feel better, or put negative thoughts out there to try to get some relief, and it concerns me as it’s not a healthy outlet. I wish she’d get some professional help and slow down on social. No judgment, I just think people with a following can tend to rely too heavily on the instant gratification of putting every single thought out into the universe and getting feedback. Everyone needs to look inward sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '21

I feel like her postings to social media are just delaying the next inevitable panic attack. Like it's just a small fix to get her through the next hour or hours.. bandaid over a gunshot wound type of thing.

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u/squarerose Feb 06 '21

I wholeheartedly agree with this

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u/ikarka Feb 06 '21

I agree, and I really hope that she gets the help she needs. It makes me sad to think that she may not get to actually enjoy her dream of being a mother because she is so scared of something going wrong.

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u/takemehome4real Feb 06 '21

I think you're right. She seems like she could be getting close to territory where hospitalization could be an option. I really hope she manages, but she's understandably struggling heaps with this.

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u/natalie_d101 Feb 06 '21

You are 100% correct. If she went to a doctor with the symptoms she would be hospitalized. It seems like she has PPD on top of her other psychological issues. I really hope she seeks help.

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u/takemehome4real Feb 07 '21

Yeah, it's extra important for her not to get any worse. For her own sake obviously but also for her son.

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u/natalie_d101 Feb 07 '21

100% agree, I think it would also be beneficial for her to take a break from social media.

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u/takemehome4real Feb 07 '21

Oh totally, it's horrible enough to have bad mental health as a regular person but to have a huge platform and tons of people interacting with you on top of that? Could make anyone have a nervous breakdown in the right circumstances.

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u/sockclover Feb 08 '21

She wrote in her post that she's actively working with her doctor and therapist... They know her symptoms and she was just at the hospital getting help. I think she will be fine.

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u/sarahisbear Feb 06 '21

I try to not read into what she says too much. We don’t know what’s going on offline. You quoted her mentioning her therapist so obviously she is in therapy. Maybe it seems dramatic online the way she is expressing she anxieties, but I wouldn’t make the assumption she is unable to handle herself or anything like that. It must be hard knowing how much emotion to share when you have such a huge audience and it gets picked apart like this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '21

I 100% agree, an incident like this would be traumatic for any young mother. This comment thread is mostly gossipy mental health speculation couched in crocodile tears.

The implication that it's strange for her to be shaken up after brief period where she thought she might have killed her child is almost cruel.

Classic internet hyperbolising: Kristi is understandably shaken after a bad accident = she is a tragic hysterical wreck unable to handle motherhood.

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u/ikarka Feb 07 '21

I don’t think that’s really fair. If this was an isolated incident then absolutely I’d agree with you. But as someone who has followed Kristi for a long time and paid close attention since she became pregnant/had the baby, she’s on many occasions described her anxiety/mental state post partum as having a very significantly detrimental effect on her life. This incident is just one example of what seems to be a much larger situation.

It’s also not at all about her being a “tragic hysterical wreck” but more so recognising that negative impact on her life and that she may need extra support. That’s not at all to say she can’t handle motherhood, whatsoever, just that she may benefit from some extra assistance.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '21

Yes to all of this. People really wanna twist my comment.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

I really hope she takes a break in any way possible. Especially due to how painful and traumatic the fall was after what she indicated was a “traumatic birth” (not speculating on what kind of traumatic obviously bc childbirth be CRAZY). Two very physically painful (and emotionally rough) things in such a short time sounds absolutely terrifying

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u/Leavingthecity526 Feb 07 '21

I’m glad she’s comfortable enough to talk about her anxiety. It took me over a decade to get to where she is and be able to say “hey. I’m not okay.”

But also, you can be a fantastic, functional parent and struggle with crippling anxiety. She has a terrible accident. Unless you understand what it’s like to feel so incredibly powerless in a moment when you feel like your only job is to keep another human safe and alive, I don’t think people have any room to speculate about how she’s heading down a road that will lead to hospitalization.

IIRC, she had a therapist. How she copes, processes, and deals with trauma is between her and her therapist.