A Video of a 95-Year-Old British Woman Giving Advice to Her Granddaughter with Anxiety Has Gone Viral: 'Do This Little Thing'

• Christina Symes, 30, a U.K.-based artist, tells PEOPLE she's been living with anxiety, depression and agoraphobia

• Last year, when she was feeling low, Christina filmed her grandmother, Christine, 95, telling her to take things one step at a time

• This past summer, Christina rediscovered the clip and shared it on TikTok, where it has generated 3.6 million views

A video of a British woman giving mental health advice to her granddaughter has become an unlikely viral sensation on TikTok.

Christina Symes, 30, an artist who resides in the English seaside town of Eastbourne, posted the clip of her grandmother, Christine Symes, 95, on the popular video-sharing platform on July 26. While the video was recorded the year prior, Christina rediscovered it while going through old photos.

“I just thought [it was] such a nice message,” Christina told PEOPLE. “Maybe some of my followers and friends might like to see it because I see a lot of negativity online. So I just decided to upload it one evening and didn't think much of it. But then the next day it just completely blew up.”

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In the clip, Christine is seen matter-of-factly telling her granddaughter — who is off camera — to take things one step at a time and to stay in the present.

"Look at yourself in the mirror, wash your face, put your makeup on, put your clothes on and then say, ‘What must I do next? I must have a little breakfast,’ or ‘I must have a cup of tea, and then I will start to do this little thing that needs doing,’ " Christine, a former teacher, says.

“You’re not going to worry about anything else but that at that moment,” she continues. “And then when you’ve done that, you think, ‘I’m dressed, I’ve got some makeup on. I’ve done that task it’s taken me two hours or three hours. I need a cup of tea in the cafe and the gallery. I’ll go there and have it. That’s my reward and I deserve it.’”

"‘I deserve it because I've done those things, and I can take pride in the fact you've done them.’ Never mind about what else has happened years ago, what's going to happen in the future," Christine adds.

In the video’s text overlay, granddaughter Christina wrote, “My 95 year old gran gave me this advice. Thought someone else might need to hear it too."

Christine’s words seem to have resonated with TikTok users, as the clip has generated over nearly four million views as of Friday, Dec. 6.

“I've had really long messages from people sharing their own experiences or saying, 'Oh, that's like advice that my mom or my grandma would've given me, but they're no longer here anymore,’ ” Christina says. “People have said, 'Oh, I've been depressed for a few weeks and hearing this video made me get out of bed finally.' And they're listening to it on repeat every day.”

Christina shared that she’s experienced depression, anxiety and agoraphobia throughout her life. She previously lived in London where she started her art career, but things were upended with the arrival of COVID. It was around this time that Christina also experienced the death of a close relative.

“I didn't sell as much, so then I couldn't afford to stay in London,” Christina recalled. “I ended up moving to Eastbourne with my gran. And then, unfortunately, my mental health declined quite a lot. I'm still not in a brilliant place now, but I'm kind of trying to get back to where I was with my art.”

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Christina noted that she regards her grandmother more like a parent than a grandparent. “She's basically my best friend and has supported me throughout my life consistently,” she says.

“She's an artist,” Christine says of her granddaughter, “so she needs support. I'm very proud of her."

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Christine, who doesn’t own a cellphone, says her sudden online fame feels strange, though notes, “If anything I say is any good for people in the present world, I'm glad I've said it. Even though to me, I was just talking.”

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The now-viral grandmother also notes that it’s "important for people to feel that they matter.“

"And if they're going through a bad time, they matter more,” she continued. “That's all I would say about that. If anything I've ever said actually helped somebody to get up and see the sun shining and saying, ‘I will get dressed today. I will go out, I'll contact my friend’ — that's good.”

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