Amanda Springob. (Tyler Rickenbach/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin photograph)
SPENCER — Amanda Springob welcomes any opportunity to share her journey coping with depression and anxiety, while it’s having a small group of a huge audience in a TED Talk or high school students in her hometown.
“depression is pretty much an daily issue for a good deal of students,” said Springob, a school sophomore whose transformation into a motivational speaker started her senior year in Spencer High School if she felt that her entire world was crashing down on top of her.
“Although people look like they are ideal, and they can get all of this material, it could still be they’re breaking inside — and this has been me,” she said.
Springob, 20, juggled extra-curricular pursuits, rigorous high school courses and pressure to do it all absolutely, she stated in a recent interview with USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.
The afternoon before Christmas break started throughout her senior year in Spencer, in 2014, the careful choreography of extra-curriculars and courses of Springob appeared and she fled from the room where her classmates were completing an online quiz.
“My parents had been called to college and finally, after years of holding everything in and not telling them how I was feeling, I just let it out,” she said.
Between sobs, she explained her demons of depression and anxiety. The feelings hurried through her head as she asked every idea her self-doubts started to escalate and she had, Springob stated she informed her parents.
“While everyone else is going to have Christmas break, I’m explaining to my family I’m not OK,” she said.
Eight weeks of cognitive treatment started in January 2015, and the fall Springob started school in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a part-time gig as a speaker as a theatre.
“It all started since I gave a speech in my high school,” Springob stated. She created it following a TED Chat — a type of speaking that is effective and short to capture viewers attention and enlighten them.
Amanda Springob sits down with USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin writer, Liz Welter, on Dec. 23, 2016, in her living room to talk about her potential as a motivational youth speaker, and the way that it has helped children her age cope with issues concerning mental wellbeing. (Photo: Tyler Rickenbach/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Together with Springob telling her narrative, the theme was empowerment. This directed her to a discussion for an annual meeting of college counselors in Madison.
“This was a room filled with about 50 counselors and once they heard me, there were far more invitations to talk,” Springob stated.
She has delivered more than a dozen speeches such as a TED Chat her freshman year, at UW-Milwaukee. Her future schedule comprises speaking Jan. 6 in East Junior High School in Wisconsin Rapids.
It is no wonder that her message is now popular. The state’s youth suicide rate is almost a third higher than the federal rate, according to a USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin special report named Kids in Crisis. Wisconsin officials admit that 20 percent of the students of the state live with mental health problems but 80 percent of these don’t seek assistance.
Amanda Springob sits down with USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin writer, Liz Welter, on Dec. 23, 2016, in her living room to talk about her potential as a motivational youth speaker, and the way that it has assisted children her age cope with issues concerning mental wellbeing. (Photo: Tyler Rickenbach/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Springob relates to high school students and young adults with her fair and compassionate manner of talking, said Leigh Anne Sieracki, 16, who heard Springob’s first speech in Spencer High School and attended the following of her presentations in the wholesome Individuals Wood County Mental Health summit in Marshfield at October.
“She’s so open about anxiety and depression, and it is something a good deal of (high school and college) students struggle with,” said Sieracki, a junior at Spencer High School.
At the Wood County convention, Springob talked about conquering self-doubt and assisting others, which is a positive thought for students, Sieracki stated.
“She makes people realize that they are not alone and also to talk about mental health problems,” Sieracki stated.
Springob imagines a future writing and speaking novels about the topics that resonate with her generation.
“Possibly future talks will be about female empowerment or chasing your fire,” she said. “For today, I just want to instill hope in people.”
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