well logic is back at it again talking about mental health in the brand-new
single he just dropped titled confessions of a dangerous mind and Wow
like I was getting ready to go to bed and then this song drop and I listened
and I could relate to it a ton and I know a lot of you can as well so this is
my mental health reaction to logics new song confessions of a dangerous mind
what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is
all about mental health what I try to do is pull different topics from pop
culture and hopefully try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional
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notification about so yeah just so you know if you're new to my channel I am
NOT a licensed therapist I am somebody who has worked in the field but I like
to use a lot of my own experiences my own mental health issues as well as you
know people I've worked with and talk to and things like that to try to bring up
topics so hopefully this could help and one of the things that's very
therapeutic for me and I know a lot of you out there is connecting with song
lyrics right so logic I love that dude I love him and I know some people haven't
liked some of his recent stuff I've I thought the production on a lot of them
have been really good I like how they get a little funky and stuff I don't
know if any of you watch the the song he just did with Joseph gordon-levitt's
company hit record but that was awesome many ways logics awesome logic another
reason why I connect with him his he is another guy like myself who's half
african-american but does not look it at all the only difference is logic has a
much thicker flow than I do you know I mean because everybody wants to tell you
who you are what you are where you should fit in or what you should do and
it's like no I'm biracial anyway so he just dropped this song confessions of a
dangerous mind I'm gonna be talking about it not gonna be playing the song
it'll be linked down in the description below I am new to the whole music
reaction so I'll be throwing up some video clips
but I do not know how to not get copyright claimed by using copyrighted
music so use your imagination go check out his song after this video or you
probably already listened to a song alright anyways there's a few different
things that I want to talk about so this video like I was like sitting here
watching it my way is his throat slash like what's going on but then when he
starts rapping and getting into it like he's talking about some of these mental
health struggles that he's dealing with I remember when he released his his song
with the phone number for the suicide prevention hotline and like he was
inspired by that song or to make that song because so many of his fans said
like his music helps save his save their life and he like didn't really like even
get it until he started meeting his fans and stuff and you know he even admitted
that he hadn't really struggled with really any mental health issues and
things like that so it's really cool seeing him release this confessions of a
dangerous mind and talk about some of his own struggles so one of the things
he's talking about is like just social media and all the input and a lot of it
has to do with just blowing up as an artist but like one of the one of the
things that he talks about is like all the pressures you know all the input of
social media and my he talks about no wonder why like rappers are turning to
substance abuse and things like that and this is very common right this is not
only very common for like rappers it's very common for people you know people
turn to substance abuse as a way to cope right from my experience and from what
I've learned there's three primary reasons why people drink or use drugs if
you're somebody who you know turns to substances to you know deal with your
problems you might be able to relate to get a feeling to get rid of the feeling
or to have an escape right and with all of the massive criticisms an artist can
get especially when you're in the public eye like it can be rough it can be
difficult so I have become so much more empathetic towards other youtubers as
well as celebrities and things like that because you know my channel was built
upon making a lot of videos you know using youtubers as a reference and
trying to teach others about mental health and things like
and like now that I've gotten a lot more attention and gotten some negative
attention and things like I can empathize so so so much more I was
actually watching a smaller youtuber today I was actually watching a few
smaller youtubers today one of them have less than a thousand and one of them had
about 5,000 and they were just talking with this kind of like they don't they
don't give a s attitude you know they don't care what people think and I was
talking with my beautiful girlfriend Tristan about this and just being like
man I remember that because my channel kind of blew up in the last year and
like there's not as much pressure when you're smaller there's not as much
pressure so you know a youtuber or even somebody like logic you know when you're
getting started like you're getting you're getting the feedback you know
what I mean you could be on that you know that high of everybody loving you
and things like that but the higher you get the more critics you get as well so
that pressure just increases like I remember sowed in my own you know
starting this YouTube channel I started recording on my cell phone before I got
like you know the money to get a camera and lying in like a microphone and
things like that and you know it was easy to deal with comments cuz you're
getting like five ten of them right but were you still getting like
thousands upon thousands upon thousands it's just like I said it's like that
pressure it just gets more and more intense you know what I'm saying
so as it goes on any and he talks throughout the song he talks about like
reading you know you know things on Twitter or Instagram you know he talks
about like haters and he talks about loving them and you know that'll kill
him you know so you know kill him with kindness and things like that but
something that came up today because the last two days I've spoken out of high
school and answered a lot of questions about mental health stigma and things
like that and something that came up today was you know people minimizing
other people's issues saying like oh you haven't been through this you don't get
it right and something that you know I think will bring us you know a lot
closer together just as a society like you
in the world it's just understanding that everybody's reality is their
reality right like it doesn't matter what job you have there are its own
stresses and things so something I was talking to the the high school kids
about because you know some of them have like parents who like oh you can't be
stressed out I work a you know nine hour a day you can't be stressed out right
but something I was you know talking to them about - is that we should never
minimize somebody else's experience and I see this happen with a lot of
celebrities right like I remember there was a story you know in 2018 where
Justin Bieber got a lot of backlash just talking about how you know celebrities
aren't always happy and you know they have their own struggles and their own
issues and he got a lot of flack a lot of flack right and from my experience
like it's like people think that money increases happiness and from my
experience that's not true right money doesn't increase happiness for most
people money decreases stress okay but here's the thing with every new level
you get like the higher you get in life there's gonna be new stresses and what I
was telling the high school kids it's like you're in high school right now you
know once you you know when you get towards your junior senior year you're
gonna start prepping for college and everything like that there's gonna be
stress right you know studying for finals
SATs a CTS college applications call it's essays you know applying for
scholarships all these things that is your main focus and all these stresses
and then you get that letter in the mail that says you got into college and oh my
god it's so great right but then you get to college now you're in a new place now
you don't know anybody now there's like you know college cramming and all that
stress for those tests and everything like that but you make it through and
you graduate but now once you graduate you gotta find a job you got to find a
good job you gotta find a job that pays you right like now there's a new stress
around that then you get the job well now a bad job you got a boss to worry
about you know you got co-workers who you know might stress you out so like
what I'm trying to say is is no matter who you are or what you're going through
no matter what we get there's always going to be new stresses associated with
it so like I you know I've especially come into a more empathy
place but I hope other people can do that to where you look at these
celebrities it's not just like oh you know booked up like you you got it nice
you got millions of dollars you know what I mean by actually going through
the comments section on this video there was a lot of people thinking here and
thinking for him for talking about his mental health and all of that and I
think that's super super super important and the last thing I want to talk about
is his ending line where he kind of sings you know what you're talking about
put your ego on the shelf and love yourself and yeah like that
that's a huge thing I've been reading books on ego you know to help manage my
own ego and that's it that's a huge huge thing and I've made some videos recently
about vulnerability and shame from brené Brown and all of that but like self love
and self compassion is something that I know I know I have so little with and I
know a lot of people who come to me have struggled with these things as well and
self-love is a very very difficult thing for a lot of people so if you're
struggling with it I can pretty much guarantee that you are not the only
person you know struggling with it as well and I actually have some books on
my reading list that I'm going to get to like there's some great authors out
there who specialize you know in learning how to have self compassion and
self love and all of those things but a lot of the criticisms from the outside
from my experience a lot of those things come when you don't fully love yourself
you know like even with all the criticisms I've received and I've gotten
and things like that when I look deep down inside it's not so much what the
other people are saying it's how I view how I see myself you know and you might
be able to relate to that but anyways if you have listened to logics new song
confessions of a dangerous mind let me know your thoughts down below how did
you interpret it what did you take from it can you relate to it or any of the
topics that I've discussed like though the more you succeed in life the more
there's new stresses and all that kind of stuff let me know let's have a
conversation a nice gentle conversation down in the comments below and let
everybody know you're not alone in those struggles alright anyways that's all I
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