DDG talks about protecting his mental health when it comes to navigating social media.
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00:00and being live all the time man it must be tough how do you how do you manage your relationship
00:07with social media making sure that doesn't have negative impact on your mental health how do you
00:12do that because everyone's watching you just they can say anything on the internet i mean i think
00:16over just over time like over the years i develop a really thick skin on the internet just you know
00:23just getting constantly hated on for unnecessary things it kind of just builds you get a lot of
00:29hate on it yeah so it's like it's just like a a boxer you know i'm saying if a boxer is
00:35is doing warm-ups where he's taking a lot of body shots from the coach or whatever when he get in
00:43the fight you know he gonna be able to eat the you know i'm saying it ain't nothing why do you think
00:47it's important to um continue having these conversations about mental health uh i mean
00:52mental health is extremely important you know i found my myself in dark times before you know
00:58dealing with like content creation music you know just wanting my wanting to see myself at the
01:05forefront of the industry and things like that but you know i never really let too much get to me
01:12but um you know i always give myself pep talks here and there when i ever feel down
01:19is there anybody you uh talk to when you when you feeling that way or when you get into those spaces
01:26because like you said when you're on social media people say things and you know they always say
01:31ignore it or whatever but at the end of the day you see the comments you see blogs and all that how do
01:37you how do you deal with that my mom like i call my mom about anything still there still still there for you
01:43yeah yeah yeah if i if i feel like some type of way i'm going through something just anything
01:49internet real life whatever i can call my mom you know she might not have the solution right then and
01:55there but you know sometimes you just need somebody to talk to and just hear that voice
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