"Overly-Attached Girlfriend" YouTuber Laina Signs Off for Good — Here's Why
By Amber GarrettJul. 25 2019, Updated 12:Forty nine p.m. ET
When she created her most famed persona, Overly Attached Girlfriend, in 2012, Laina Morris hadn't anticipated to turn out to be an internationally identified meme. So it stands to reason why she additionally didn't know the toll that repute may tackle her psychological well being.
Prior to posting her latest video, which she says will probably be her final upload, it have been Eleven months since Morris posted to her YouTube channel. So whilst her "breakup" with the platform is by no means unexpected, she did feel the desire to provide an explanation for to lovers and subscribers her resolution to depart YouTube for good.
So, why did Laina quit YouTube?
In brief, Laina's ultimate YouTube video, entitled "Breaking Up with You... Tube" explains that her determination to go away the platform is primarily to preserve her mental well being. The video, which runs simply in need of a part hour, explains in nice detail what was once going on along with her behind the scenes whilst she posted happy-go-lucky, humorous content material each week.
"I would be posting a happy, upbeat video, and then I would have, like, a breakdown, and then I would edit the video, post the video, and then have another breakdown," she says. As she used to be going thru this despair, which she says felt "embarrassing" given her outward luck, Laina began to record a video diary for herself.
She by no means anticipated to percentage it with any person, however she inserted some clips from the ones movies in her goodbye video, regardless of the embarrassment they may deliver her, in hopes they are going to assist others.
She says she decided to take "a break" from YouTube in 2017. The choice coincided with a transfer from Texas to Arizona together with her boyfriend, whom she had now not discussed before the July 24 video, but who she's been with "since before you ever knew who I was."
Celebrating 6 years of really dumb inside jokes and a couple of really smart outside jokes. 🎉💚6️⃣
Though she expected it to be a small wreck, she took a complete year clear of the platform, and because that penultimate video, stayed quiet for almost some other complete 12 months. During that point she says she went to therapy to deal with the problems she was once suffering with privately and now after all feels assured that she's in a position to say goodbye, regardless that not with none emotion over the "breakup."
More necessary than giving herself closure in addition to some closure to her fans, Laina additionally wanted to publish one final video in hopes it's going to help others who battle with nervousness and melancholy. She describes feeling shame for her need for treatment and medicine, regardless of feeling not anything however beef up for others with the similar clinical wishes. She even shared a clip from her video diary the day she picked up her first prescription for antidepressants.
"I don't know why I'm afraid to take it," she says within the December 2018 diary clip the day she picked up her meds. "I think having to face that I'm not OK on my own is hard," she says. "it makes me feel weak for some reason, it makes me feel... I don't know, I'm just not OK."
Laina's struggle with shame over her mental illness is one a lot of individuals who have grappled with equivalent struggles have skilled. But now she realizes it was the most efficient thing she can have performed for herself. "One thing that really helped me to accept the fact that I needed it was seeing people talk about it," she says.
One of the folks she cites as serving to her in finding acceptance is Kristen Bell, who spoke candidly about having been on antidepressants for years when she appeared on Sam Jones's Off Camera Show.
Finding and enforcing a treatment plan for her psychological health and attaining a point where she no longer feels shame for desiring medication has impressed her to succeed in out to others who is also grappling with the similar issues as a result of "at the end of the day, you are alone with you and your own thoughts and you need to love yourself." Laina got emotional after announcing this and added, "I think I needed to hear that one come out of my own mouth, for some reason."
Laina then shared a tearful goodbye to her 1.2 million followers.
Aside from the mental well being issues she was once struggling with, Laina says she has grown up a bit of, which has shifted her priorities and adjusted her dating with the platform to the purpose where her feelings toward it had been more positive than unfavorable. "How does it feel to be broken up with by the Overly Attached Girlfriend?" she joked to her target market.
But she gave lovers one of the sweetest and tenderest breakups conceivable, thanking them for his or her kindness and the alternatives they opened up for her. "It's all because of you guys and your support," she says. You gave me a confidence that I did not have prior to YouTube, you may have given me reviews that you don' t even know you could have given me," she says.
"While this is truly unhappy, I promise you that I know this is the best decision." She ended the video with "a amusing, probably unhappy little montage of our time together, set to a couple track." The compilation is set to "I Will Remember You" by Ryan Cabrera.
So, even though that's all she wrote for Overly Attached Girlfriend on YouTube, she assures fans they can still follow her on Twitter and Instagram — as long as they don't follow her in real life.
If you or someone you know needs help, use SAMHSA’s Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator to find support for mental health and substance use disorders in your area: https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov, or call 1-800-662-4357 for 24-hour help. Laina additionally recommends Crisis Textline. You can textual content HOME to 741741 to obtain loose, 27/7 crisis enhance within the U.S. and U.Ok.
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