today was the powerful finale of Shane Dawson's look into Jeffree sta'rs life
and in the video titled the truth about Jeffree star he dives into his past he
talks about his struggles with depression but more importantly
self-harm and there's a lot a lot to unpack from this so make sure that you
stay tuned what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we
talk about the problem but focus on the solution if you are new to my channel my
channel is all about mental health so I try to pull things from different
youtubers or TV shows or movies and see what lessons we can learn when it comes
to our mental health because I'm here to help you out with yours
and I've been following along with Jeffree star and Shane Dawson's
documentary fun story my girlfriend introduced me to Shane Dawson when I
first got into YouTube and then because she loves makeup and all the makeup
tutorials online I love the makeup youtubers she introduced me to Jeffery
saw it so this collaboration was something I was fascinated with bet you
didn't know that about me oh by the way I'll link up in the info
card I did a video a while back about me following a makeup tutorial and I think
I came out stunning it's been very fascinating to me just like it's really
inspirational like love hate Jeffree Star whatever your feelings are
about I'm like here's his road to success like that's that's inspirational
in and of itself you know in today's video they go back to his old apartment
where it all started and by the way like Shane talked about this like that
apartment was nice like y'all can't see the apartment I'm sitting in right now
but dang I would love me that apartment anyways Shane finally sits down with
Jeffery star and they sit down and they they really dig deep okay I didn't know
how deep they were going to dig but they really talked about a lot of emotional
stuff and like so if you haven't watched yet go watch it
there's spoilers and about anyways like Jeffrey star talks about self-harm and
everything that came along with it and his depression and his difficult
emotions and all that kind of stuff and I have a few things that I want to talk
about because harm and mental illness it's a huge deal
okay I'm like I'm gonna start this video out like this review this reaction if
you will by by just pointing out like Shane's reaction like Shane's reaction
to seeing that Jeffrey star was a clutter you're two inches away from my
arm lift up one more inch that to me set it all like so Shane has done videos in
the past talking about mental health if any of you know about his his little
project Bobby burns Bobby burns have talked about mental health I'm like wait
here we see like people talk about mental health but you don't really know
do you you don't really get it like Shane is just amazed he's baffled he's
in shock he didn't he's never seen anything about like this I'm like yes
yes like this is the real stuff this is what we're talking about this is what
we're talking about when it comes to mental health awareness this kind of
stuff the stuff that you don't know about we're not talking about everyday
depression we're not talking about anxiety like we're talking about the
real stuff where people are injuring themselves right or living these lives
that they just can't deal with and you know I'm about to talk a little bit more
about self-harm and things we can learn but like this isn't always suicidal
behavior it's not always just like zero to a hundred okay there's other little
things that are going on there's a variety of different mental illnesses so
like I really hope that throughout this experience like Shane like really opened
up his eyes I'm really glad that he's working with better help now and like
he's understanding like mental health is more than just being like a depressed
youtuber or depressed celebrity and I know Shane gets that Shane has had you
know mental health issues in the past and stuff like that but I'm really glad
that this opened up the eyes to the audience as well and you know another
thing is like that's why I made this channel I made this channel to not only
help people out with their mental health but to also increase awareness and let
you know that there's other stuff going on that we really need to address so I'm
really glad that they touched on it in this last episode something that
Geoffrey mentioned multiple times and like I think it's for a reason
and I really hope that there's something for you guys it's like like Jeffrey saut
mentioned like I was walking around in 90-degree weather with full sleeves like
sweaters and jackets and nobody asked me why like yes yes you know and like when
I when I see him talking about that here's what breaks my heart over and
over and over again as what we find out about suicides we find out about people
cutting we would find out about the depression if people are just like oh my
god I never noticed but it's like people just don't know the silence but
Jeffrey's talking about like this probably fueled his depression even more
made him feel like nobody cared about him like how come nobody has asked him
how come his mom didn't ask him how come teachers didn't ask him how come friends
didn't ask him how come nobody said hey Jeffrey why are you wearing that hot
outfit in the middle of the summer so we feel more isolated we feel more alone
and this happens a lot like through this video like we saw what Jeffrey star
looked like as a teenager and stuff like that and there's so many people like I
want you to sit back and ask yourself this question how many people do you
interact with okay if you're a teenager that people at school or you know people
at your office or people on the streets and they dress a certain way or they
look a certain way and you have you feel a certain way about them so you don't
talk to them you don't ask them because maybe you're
afraid of them right like single just I want back to sink in for a second
because Jeffrey start has his mass audience of people who love and adore
him and care about him but if they look a certain way it's not important to ask
them about how they're doing how they're feeling are they struggling with
anything so I just want you to think about that for a second so later on he
reveals that one day he was doing the dishes and one of his sleeves rolled up
and his mom saw it and he talks about all the thoughts that rushed through his
brain about what his mom was thinking right he didn't want his mom to feel bad
he didn't want his mom to feel like she wasn't doing it out yes
yes yes so as a mental health youtuber and I gained you know a lot of
subscribers and a lot of views from my series on 13 reasons why and this is a
show you know mainly for young people I've had so many young people reaching
out to me over the last year I've even been on YouTube and Instagram and
Twitter and all these other things and they tell me like the same things like
they don't want to tell their parents about it because they don't want their
parents to worry right they don't want their parents to think that they did
something wrong they don't want the parents to think that is their fault
like think about that like that is heartbreaking and I have these
conversations like you've got to tell someone you got to talk to an adult you
got to talk to your parent you got to talk to a teacher you got to talk to a
counselor you got to talk to somebody about this but this is to increase
awareness for all of you and understand this like if you're a parent out there
like I've been talking to my son about his mental health since he was like 5 or
6 years old he meditates with me we talk about his
feelings his emotions what he's going through we walk through this stuff
it's so so so important like because although he has nine-year-old problems
now like he's only nine years old like when he gets to the point of being a
teenager and you know he's having relationship issues with friends with
girlfriends or whatever it is he's gonna know from a young age already that he
can talk to me and open up about this stuff and there's no judgment coming of
my way so I hope this is a lesson to all of you parents or future parents out
there that we need to start talking about mental health as soon as possible
so they feel comfortable opening up to us about what they're struggling with so
we can provide them with the help that they need and this is the first time
we've ever seen Jeffery store open up about this stuff he talks about why he
doesn't let people in and open up about this stuff publicly and I can only
imagine being someone you know as famous as he is but he talks about he has this
fear of people using that information against him he talks about these sick
and twisted people who have used his father's suicide as something to harm
him with okay this is real stuff and I'm not here to
tell you that that's you know an irrational fear because people will do
that but I'm here to tell you right now screw those people screw that okay
because something's wrong with them not with you and if they're gonna use that
to hurt you that's on them this is more of a reason why you need to surround
yourself with people who love you and care about you and will support you and
not judge you for these things this is why another reason why we need to
increase the conversation about mental health because it's not something that
is to be stigmatized and look down on people at or use it as something to
attack them with this is something that must be treated the same way that it
would be if somebody got any other type of illness all right so the only
critique the only critique I have for this whole video and it's a very minor
one is that Shane Dawson and Shane Dawson is coming into his own as an
interviewer and interviewing people and I think he does great because when he's
interviewing somebody it's like the cameras aren't there it's like you know
this is it going up on YouTube so my only critique is if I was Shane I would
say like what do you want people to know like what would you tell the young
Geoffrey Starr back then like what would you want to tell him what would you want
to tell to your young fans out there what do you want to tell to my audience
out there like this is why I've showed off every video with we talked about the
problem but focus on the solution and they have such an impact like I know a
lot of people are gonna be helped just by knowing that somebody can become
successful like Geoffrey star and they can come from that that terrible mental
space that they were at I know that that helps people but I just wish there was
more of a conversation about getting help go out and get help now I will say
I did watch the video so like they show some snippets about how Geoffrey started
as a motivational stuff and this might be therapeutic for him where he goes on
snapchat he talks to people like you're not alone you're never alone and it
might be though those might be the things that he wish you could tell
himself when he was younger shayne partnering up with better help
and providing resources in the description that's awesome too but like
I said it's a very small critique but I just wish that Shane would have talked a
little bit more about the solution in life what do you want other people to do
if they're in the situation that you were at so as a mental health youtuber I
also work with better help online therapy very affordable if you watch
this video you know it's awesome so I'm gonna provide the link to better help
down in the description below as well as some other resources if you are
struggling with your mental health but again like subscribe to my channel all
my videos are mental health related and I I just make these videos to try to
help others out there because I'm somebody who's struggled with this a lot
in the past alright but I want it in this video by
saying you know even though they're probably never gonna see this a big
thank you to Shane Dawson and Geoffrey star just for talking about this stuff
and using their platform to talk about this and increase awareness and decrease
the stigma like that is huge and I I really hope that they do more stuff like
this I hope that Geoffrey talks about this a little bit more openly and you
know and is able to help more people and using its platform to help all the
people out there struggling with this but a big big big THANK YOU to them
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