so it was just announced that Aaron Carter not only sold his guns but he's
tapering off of xanax so we're gonna be talking about xanax addiction we're
gonna be talking about Aaron Carter because I've gotten a lot of requests
from all of you to discuss it and I'm actually finally going to address
another creator who's made I think like over 15 videos about me so stay tuned
what's up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
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soul alright so today's video this video and I'm actually gonna record a video
right after this too but anyways the theme for this video is we need to start
recognizing how we justify and rationalize and this is something that
became very apparent to me when I was recovering from my addiction but this is
something that you don't have to be an addict to struggle with this all right
but it might help you understand what Aaron Carter is going through so those
of you who don't know me by the way I'm not a licensed therapist or psychologist
or anything like that my experience is I am seven years clean and sober from
drugs and alcohol I haven't had any drugs any alcohol since June of 2012 not
only that but I work at a drug and alcohol treatment center for a little
over three years and I'm currently halfway through my CADC which is
certified alcohol and drug counselor license alright so although I'm not
licensed therapist or psychologist I have quite a bit of experience okay so
anyway it's like I said a lot of you have been requesting videos about Aaron
Carter you guys let me know when he was hanging out with Trisha Paytas a lot of
people were worried that her and Aaron were using together
they did a livestream that was a little little odd but anyways I started
following Aaron Carter on Twitter and yeah like I don't know it's it's really
sad man like you can tell he's going through some stuff um but anyways he
recently went on the show the doctors and he talked about how he's been sober
for ten years or not ten years two years and he said his drug of choice was
huffing right and yeah I've worked with a lot of people who huffed and things
like that but he also said he was also diagnosed with a few mental illnesses
and he held up his bag of medications all right and he says he got those from
rehab and he went to rehab and everything like that well people have
been worried because not only has he been acting very erotic but he also owns
guns but anyways today after we got a restraining order from his brother Nick
dude from the Backstreet Boys he ended up selling his guns but he also said
he's been tapering off xanax for the last I believe five days I think you did
an interview with TMZ alright so some of you might be wondering why is he
tapering off of xanax if he was sober alright because when people hear sober
they think no addictive substances well this is something that's actually quite
common because again our Bray's they justify their rationalize right and this
is something extremely common in the realm of addiction where we quit one
thing and think it's okay to take another right so in Aaron Carter's mind
he felt that huffing was the problem but he can still use xanax right and Aaron
Carter is a prime example of no you probably shouldn't alright because xanax
not only can it become addictive but you become physically dependent and I hope
that he's going through some kind of medical detox because xanax withdrawal
is extremely dangerous and I talked more about this in my video about Jordan
Peterson going to rehab just the other day now my experience with that
my primary drug of choice when I first started it was alcohol I was a
full-blown alcoholic and then I found my new love which was prescription
painkillers and in my mind going from alcohol to painkillers was better
okay this was this was better than alcohol because I don't have to stupid
I'm not hungover I don't smell like booze I I don't black out right but I
was just swapping one addiction for another the last time I tried to get
sober about eight or nine years ago before the most recent time I smoked
weed right because I thought hey I can do that and what that did was it led me
right back to the opioids and let me write back to alcohol and this is why
most programs whether it's rehabs or 12-step programs they teach complete
abstinence all right there are some fringe programs out there that try to
teach like harm reduction right but I don't really agree with that that's my
opinion I I haven't seen it work out for anybody I see people use that as a way
to keep using so sometimes they try to teach you how to use that drug or drink
in moderation it works for some people but the majority of the time from my
experience I haven't seen it work and that's one of the reasons I recommend
against it so with Aaron Carter I'm glad to hear that he got off of xanax but
this gives me the opportunity to talk about another situation so the other day
I made a video about Jordan Peterson and some people went around saying all this
pill shaming and everything like that I've made a video yesterday morning and
I showed all the statistics of overdoses and addiction rates and everything like
that but a lot of people were upset but Aaron Carter
Jordan Peterson are examples of how benzodiazepines can become addictive so
I'm about to talk about another creator and I haven't talked about him so
remember how we're talking about justifying and rationalizing so I I like
to think I'm pretty self-aware and about to justify and rationalize all
right like that's just something that we do as part of our nature
so there's another creator out there who has made 15 videos about me at least
alright and I've never to my knowledge I don't think I've ever mentioned him in a
video I might have mentioned him in a podcast a long time ago once but anyways
he's a smaller creator and I don't believe in punching down so here's my
rationalization for bringing up this other creator one is that he's made 15
videos about me alright he's a smaller creator but combined with his 15 videos
plus I would estimate he's had probably about 10,000 views maybe more so my
rationalization is even though I'm a bigger Channel none of my videos have
really been getting that many views now the other justification for this is
Primack has hundreds of thousands of subscribers and the YouTube community is
alright with him making videos about me and the distance between my channels
subscriber count and premix is much bigger than my channels and this guy's
channels but anyways this Creator his name is driven industries and listen I
don't I don't think he's a bad guy I'm gonna talk about that in a second but I
thought I would address this because this is a prime time to address it
because he is somebody who says he's sober and I haven't shared my opinion
about it but he's he's labeled me as a bully which I don't really mind but he's
also labeled me as dangerous and here's my problem he's somebody who says he's
in recovery and he's not alright so you don't have to take my word for it
because I know it's gonna upset a lot of people I try not to judge other people's
recovery but the fact that he's made this many videos calling me dangerous
and he has an audience you know I feel that we should talk about it because
it's important that you know about this too in case you have somebody who just
left rehab and a I'm taking xanax and adderall so
driven industries he says he's been sober I believe for 26 months now
now again you don't have to believe me I would challenge you to call any rehab
facility or any sober living house and ask them this can I be in your facility
and still take xanax and still take adderall because something that driven
industries will try to tell people is that I'm dangerous I'm not a licensed
professional which I've always found kind of hypocritical because he's giving
all of this advice and he's like not in the mental health industry at all
whereas I've actually worked in it but anyways I've worked in rehabs and we
don't let people in there who are taking xanax or adderall so driven Industries
is saying it's okay to keep taking xanax and adderall the other issue that I have
is he promotes 12-step programs and I don't know I don't know maybe he goes to
him maybe not but here's the thing in my experience of seven years sober and
thousands of meetings it would be very difficult for you to find a sponsor who
would work with you if you're still taking xanax or adderall and again if
you don't believe me if you have a loved one friend family member who has been to
a 12-step program ask them ask them hey could you be in that program and get
coins if you're still taking xanax or adderall because my guess is they're
probably gonna tell you no so again although this man has labeled me as
dangerous 15 times people are taking advice from him when he's not really
sober and here's the rule of thumb that I like to use if you can crush it and
snort it to get high you probably shouldn't take it while
you're sober alright so people might call that pill shaming
they can if they want to but in programs like narcotics
they have literature as well as in alcoholics Anonymous they have
literature that talks about taking medications in sobriety and all of them
are pretty clear not to take addictive medications such as xanax and adderall
which driven industries is taking all right so the weird thing is to if you've
ever been to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting and I'm not a representative of
any of these 12-step programs I'm just sharing with you information about these
programs but in Narcotics Anonymous one of the readings at the beginning says
something along the lines of let us not be fooled you know alcohol is a drug all
right and it talks about how many addicts have made the mistake of
thinking alcohol is not a drug so based on that do you think anybody in a
12-step program of Narcotics Anonymous would say it's okay to take medications
like xanax or at all probably not and at the end of the day it's none of my
business like driven industries you're gonna see
this take whatever you want but here's the thing like I said I don't think
driven industries is a bad guy I've been making a lot of videos talking about
moral psychology moral philosophy and you know we we all we all think that
were the hero we're all we all think that were were right
like I don't hate driven industries in his mind he does believe that I'm
dangerous in his mind he believes that I don't think he's a bad person he
believes that right and it would be extremely hypocritical of me to just say
that he's this bad awful person because before everything happened with
me and I was making videos you know when I like for example talking about Trisha
Paytas in my mind I was like this is a bad influence we need to discuss it and
driven industry's mind he believes I'm a bad influence so he's talking about it
so everybody has the right to their own opinion all right and in this video I
shared my opinion based on a lot more experience and I want to end with this
one of my first interactions with driven industries was he I think his first
video about me he said something about not caring about peer-reviewed studies
alright so again if you're online on YouTube taking mental health or
addiction recovery advice from people who don't believe in peer-reviewed
studies you really need to check in with that and see if they're a credible
source because I I personally just my opinion I would not trust anybody who
doesn't believe in science and all the studies they've done around mental
health and medications and things like that alright but again you don't have to
take my word for it call any rehab you want most of them have a 24-hour hotline
call one right now call any sober living house and say hey can I be in that rehab
can I be in that sober living house and take xanax Oh adderall there's a reason
why they say no all right so I wish the best for Aaron Carter I hope he's
getting on a better track I'm thinking about watching his podcast interview
that he did with Adam 22 I think he said he was on impulsive - so I might check
that out May anyways that's all I got for this video if you liked this video
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