Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain shares shock diagnosis in emotional video
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00:00I cannot express enough the importance of taking care of yourself. I am the kind of person who burns the candle at both ends, takes care of everyone else's needs but my own, I don't take time out for myself, I don't really know what that means or what that feels like, not really.
00:25And when I do take time for myself, I feel incredibly guilty. Usually when I'm doing things outside of the house or away from my family, it's always because I'm doing something else but it's nothing to do with my relaxation or my well-being, it's always about just doing other things, running errands, helping, whatever I can do and that might be outside the house and then I feel really guilty about that.
00:49Yeah, my alone time, me time, keep my mind and body healthy time is very, very minimal and that is really bad and that's something that I've been really thinking about this year, especially because I turned 40 and I'm kind of, I'm very aware that when you turn 40 you have to do that MOT at the doctors and they check everything out.
01:08But recently, mostly this year but over the course of two years I've been quite unwell, I've just been getting quite sick and over the course of the two years I've been diagnosed with two autoimmune diseases which I'm not going to go into now, I will go into in the future when I know more about it and when I have a better handle on it and when I understand it a little bit better.
01:33But till then, I cannot express the importance of listening to your body, of taking care of yourself and like I said, I'm the worst at that, I'm not very good at it at all and I will only ever take care of myself when my body's in shutdown and that's not good for you.
01:57We need to take more care of ourselves and we need to take more time in our care and our well-being, mental and physical.
02:07So yeah, I just wanted to come on here and it's been a really tough year because of all the tests and trying to work stuff out and getting my head around things but I feel like it's really important to come out the other side and really be grateful and feel blessed that although it would be great not to be sick, I'm here and that's really what matters is that I'm here.
02:36And I need to do all the things that I can to positively impact myself mentally and physically and that's all I can really do.
02:45But I just think it's really important, like my takeaway from all of this that I always have is like listen to your body and I really want, I kind of want to come on here and share that with you guys because I think we don't say that to each other enough.
02:59And I certainly don't, I think moms don't say it to each other. I think women moms just are not very good at it and I know all the moms that I know are not very good at it either. So take care of yourself, listen to your body, listen to your instincts and press push if there's something not right, press push, make sure you get to the bottom of it.
03:19And I don't think I would have got to the bottom of it if I hadn't pressed and pushed because I could feel that there was something wrong. So press push, push, press, press, push and follow your instincts and know that what you're feeling is not in your head. You're probably very well right so just trust your own instincts and take care of yourselves.