- So last night, I binge watched the entire season
of The End of the F***ing World,
the new series up on Netflix
and today, we're going to be reviewing the first season
as well as how it pertains
to self harm as well as depression, so stay tuned.
What's up everybody?
This is Chris from The Rewired Soul,
where we talk about the problem
but focus on the solution and, yes,
we will be reviewing season one
of The End of the F***ing World
and if you haven't seen it yet, do not fret,
because there will be no spoilers in this video.
And what I mean by that is nothing I will say is
anything that you cannot find in the trailer.
But, in short, I did love the season.
There was a couple weird things,
but I'm not here to do an in-depth analysis on it.
I am a mental health channel, so,
if you're into channels that help you out
with your mental health,
I'm here to give you suggestions about depression,
talk a little bit about the symptoms of depression,
so if you like that kind of stuff,
be sure to click that little subscribe button.
All right, so, if you haven't seen the trailer at least,
basically, this show is about a young boy named James,
he's about 17.
He is somebody who's been harming animals and
now his plan is to kill an actual person.
So, he tricks a girl into falling in love with him
and his plan is to murder her.
So, I won't tell you how that whole thing ends up,
but the topics I want to talk about today as
how it pertains to depression
mainly is the feeling of numbness around depression.
I think a lot of people when we talk about depression,
you think of just sadness or a lot of negative self-talk,
low self-esteem, not feeling good enough,
the whole world's out to get me, self pity,
and all these things, but one of the symptoms of depression
that we need to talk about is this feeling of numbness,
this inability to feel.
And I think this show did a very good job depicting that
with James and how he doesn't feel.
At a very young age, they show this
through James doing some self harm
and this is one of the many reasons why people self harm.
So, James, as a young boy, his dad bought a deep frier
and James just straight up takes his hand
and he plunges it into the deep fryer
just to feel something
and it obviously messes up his hand
and he lives with this for the rest of his life.
But this is one of the reasons why people self harm.
They have this feeling of numbness
and the only way they can feel something
is through some kind of physical pain.
As this goes on, James ends up starting to harm animals.
He finds some kind of relief when he harms animals,
which is pretty twisted but this is how,
you know, if you're into serial killers,
how some serial killers start.
They start by harming animals
and when that wasn't enough, James decides that
he's going to find a person to do this with.
So, one of the problems with depression is
when you're not feeling anything,
you're constantly seeking a way to feel.
Now, those of you who are new here to my channel,
I also talk a lot about addiction.
One of the reasons that people become addicted
is because they are trying to feel something.
One of the leading causes of addiction
is symptoms of mental illness.
So, when people can't feel anything due to depression
and it's been undiagnosed, they might turn to drugs
as a way to do this.
So, the three reasons why people use drugs
is to get a feeling, to get rid of a feeling,
or to have an escape.
So, when it pertains to depression
and those feelings of numbness,
people are going to turn to a substance
or self harm or crazy behavior as a way to feel something.
Now, as it pertains to addiction,
what happens is is that we're training our brain
so that whenever you're feeling numb
and you want to feel something, use this substance.
And after repeating this cycle over and over and over again,
the brain becomes dependent to it
and most of these drugs, as well as alcohol,
when you keep abusing them, then
you start to increase your symptoms of depression.
So, basically, what I'm here to do,
what my channel's about is trying to give you
different methods and suggestions and advice and tools
on scientifically proven methods to get out of depression.
Now, when it comes to not being able to feel anything,
this is based on different neurotransmitters in your brain,
so the first suggestion is to see a doctor,
see a psychiatrist, see somebody
to talk about these symptoms because
what it is is it's an improper tuning
of the neurotransmitters in your brain
and different antidepressant medications,
they're not these immediate happy pills,
and I've done other videos on antidepressants,
but what they do is is they start
regenerating certain neurotransmitters.
So, an antidepressant might be able to help you.
Now, if you're somebody who likes to read,
one of the best books that I've ever read on depression
and neuroscience is this book called
The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb.
All right?
I will link in the description below
to this book as well as the rest of my reading list,
but this book has various chapters on
how to kind of hack your brain.
It's kind of the foundation of my depression hacks series,
it's how to hack your brain to
get motivated, to experience pleasure
in very natural ways and
the author does this by showing a lot of different
scientific studies and experiments that they've done
with people where they monitor the brains
and they see how these neurotransmitters
actually start to flow.
So, again, if you want to check that book out,
please check the description below
and if you're somebody who feels like you need therapy,
maybe you're already on a antidepressant
or you just want to talk to somebody,
you're not sure if you're struggling
with the symptoms of depression,
there is also going to be a link in the description below
for some online therapy.
So, both the links to the books
as well as to the online therapy,
these are both affiliate links,
so, any time you use one of these links,
it does help support this channel
so I can make more videos to help you
and everybody else with symptoms of mental illness.
So, if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up,
go check out The End of the F***ing World,
its an interesting series,
I'm wondering what's going to happen in season two,
so go check it out and, again, if you're new here,
please click the little round subscribe button,
turn on the notification bell.
I'm always making videos that help out you
with your symptoms of mental illness
as well as your emotional wellbeing and addiction recovery.
Thanks again for watching, I'll see you next time.