there's been a lot of talk about credentials lately and those are great
we should go out and go see licensed professionals get professional treatment
whenever we can but what about the millions of millions of people around
the world who can't afford to get that kind of treatment what are they supposed
to do are they supposed to just lay down roll over and give up well here's my
answer to that 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 and I'm here to provide you with some
solutions for your mental health and I'm also here to advocate for mental health
so the in that stuff makes you subscribe and bring that notification bell so a
lot of you know what's been going on with me lately and I'm not gonna lie
I've been feeling a little attacked I've been feeling like oh my god everybody's
attacking me and I know I teach you guys not to care so much what people think
but it's something that I've been dealing with lately so I actually just
went to a doctor's appointment and I I was waiting and stuff and I had a chance
to meditate and one thing that I love about meditation is that it's free but
it also offers me some clarity right like my ego and my inner voice just goes
crazy right and when I'm meditating and got some clarity today I have been
meditating but today I just got that aha moment by the way for those of you
meditating the aha moments don't happen all the time but when they do whoa girl
it feels good i sat there I just remembered I remembered I remembered why
I started this channel why I started the rewired soul so I remember working in a
treatment center here in Las Vegas and it was a ritzy treatment center all
right like I'm talking like expensive we have celebrities come through there
expansive treatment okay and a lot of times we had you know wealthy people
coming in or people whose parents young people whose parents had really good
health insurance I remember doing groups and one-on-ones and things like that and
you have people in there who just don't want to be there
don't care not paying attention goofing off like it's high school and I remember
going hey giving them a little bit of that tough love Chris action and saying
you need to be grateful that it you're in here alright you do not even
understand how many people are outside of this treatment center who would give
their arm or leg to have the same opportunity as you all right
this treatment center if you didn't have insurance it was about thirty thousand
dollars for a month and even if you did have insurance
sometimes your copay or deductible was thousands of dollars I knew a ton of
people who wanted to come to treatment even with insurance their copay was
insane so I remember sitting there thinking I was like I want to help more
people I want to help more people but how how do I do it what about all the
people who are never gonna have the opportunity to come into an addiction
treatment center to go into a mental health treatment center to afford
therapy to afford a psychiatrist what about those people are we just gonna
forget about them and I was like no so you know what I did I was working
full-time at actually Med Center I came home I turned on this camera and I
started recording right I had a lot of positive feedback from my clients as
well as fellow licensed professionals that I worked with and they loved what I
was doing and I was like well why don't I just do that for free on YouTube
people can watch and worst case scenario they gotta watch a couple ads but as
long as they have an internet connection it's free so that's one of the main
reasons I started this channel because I know I know there are so many people
around the world who do not have the financial means to afford the right type
of treatment and they still need help and we cannot we cannot forget about
those people and you know what absolutely disgusts me
you know what disgusts me so I'm the guy who went through 12-step programs and I
was fortunate enough to have my mom pay for my sober living okay I never went to
treatment I never went through therapy this was my
only option I had to take the free route because if I did it I was gonna die and
what disgusts me is what I hear these professionals these mental health
professionals trying to turn people away from 12-step programs is
absolutely disgusting because those things are free I remember so a lot of
you know I'm a big neuroscience nerd sometimes I will sit on YouTube and just
watch hour-long lectures about the brain and addiction or mental health or
whatever so I'm watching this dude who says addiction isn't a disease I'm like
okay let's see let's see where you're going with this right so I'm watching
I'm watching I'm like okay you're making some good points but you're still not
explaining how this isn't a disease or whatever so he then he gets he gets to
the the climax of this neurological presentation right and he starts
explaining how transcranial magnetic stimulation is a great solution for
addiction those of you who don't know what transcranial magnetic stimulation
is it's this this little doodad they put on your head that's not the scientific
term and since these magnetic pulses to different parts of your brain it is an
excellent form of treatment and if you can afford it go do your thing all right
it's great and basically what it does it can help reset your prefrontal cortex
mess with different neural pathways and all that stuff I'm like okay okay sir
all right mr. science man so your alternative to 12-step programs is to
get transcranial magnetic stimulation like I don't know if you guys got the
memo but drug addicts often don't have that much money because they spent it
all on drugs okay so when I see these mental health professionals getting
really upset about these reactions I have to sit back and start questioning
their motives right are you just upset that there's a free option out there yet
people might be turning to so there's less money in your pocket I don't know
I'm not saying that people all people about I've worked with some of the most
amazing amazing just nothing but like selfless mental health professionals
I've worked with so many amazing people but when I see garbage like that I have
to start questioning their motives especially when you look at the
addiction epidemic with tens of thousands of people over 70,000 of
people alone in the United States are dying from opioids that's just one
substance all right and we're supposed to say oh well you can't afford
treatment sorry your SLO all right so where the free options Act so last night
I was having a little back-and-forth in the comments of one of my videos and
one of her replies she says considering I have credentials I know what you're
attempting to do it's poorly done and to be honest the video is overly defensive
you have no credentials if you if you think that's fine fine but don't package
it in a way that is seen as not a valid criticism the fact that you're a
recovering addict who posed for videos a day and replies to comments within 10
minutes honestly makes me think you're not in a good enough place to even
attempt this so I'm sitting here now I have a new response I have a new
response because I got some mental health professionals coming at me
sideways on my channel don't get me wrong I have a bunch of mental health
professionals who come to my channel and love it I get some of you who tell me
that you're showing your therapist my videos and they absolutely love what I'm
doing all right but for people like this for people like
this miss credentials over here I'm asking all of you out there to put your
money where your mouth is because my new answer is for you okay mr. or mrs.
credentials why don't you start a YouTube channel when's the last time you
offered free therapy to somebody when's the last time that you took time out of
your day giving back without expecting a damn thing in return all right that's
what I started this channel for because I know there's people out there who get
turned away left and right because they don't have the money in their pocket and
is that fair hell no it's not now again those of you who know me I promote
professional help I am NOT a fix for you I'm here to provide you with resources
so if you're in the United States I am here to let you know about two excellent
resources all right one of them is Samsa okay I'm gonna rake
it down in the description it's up on the screen basically it will help you
find government funded treatment facilities whether it's mental health or
addiction here in the United States a lot of them are free problem is is that
the waiting list is too long in some places in some places the other thing is
when you are looking for therapy ask therapists all right ask them say do you
have a sliding scale what that means is that they will adjust their pricing to
match what you're making right so somebody making a decent money maybe
it's $100 for an hour if you're not making that much money
maybe it's like 20 or 40 dollars for an hour alright so I do always recommend
seeing a professional but we can't stop thinking about the people who can't even
afford that I've seen people say that they can't afford my patreon at the
lowest tier which is $1 a month well guess what I have over 700 videos on
this channel I think it's over 700 anyways on this channel that are free
and again worst case scenario you got to watch some hags
sorry so again licensed professionals out there how about you get out of the
problem and get into the solution you start off with free treatment you start
raising money to scholarship people for treatment because here at the rewired
soul we talk about the problem but focus on the solution so right now I'm gonna
announce a giveaway because I need to change what I'm doing here okay I made a
promise to myself that when this channel got bigger I was gonna give back as much
as possible alright so make sure you're following me on over on Instagram
because there's an amazing book it's called lost connections by Johann Hari
so Johann Hari is actually another he is another unlicensed professional who is
talking about mental health and lost connections is one of the best the best
books on depression and anxieties that I have ever read in my life and it was one
of the best sellers last year what those Cambodian doctors knew intuitively is
what the World Health Organization has been trying to tell us for years
depression is a response to things going wrong deep in our lives in our
environments our pain makes sense as their World Health Organization put it
and mental health is produced socially it's a social indicator it requires
social as well as individual solutions so if you follow me on Instagram and
giving away five free copies of this book the details are over on my
Instagram go check it out all right because for people out there who can't
afford treatment or afford therapy here is a free option like I don't get what
the big hubbub is about have you ever walked into a freaking bookstore there's
an entire self-help section for people who can afford books but they can't
afford professional treatment I don't know why
this is even a conversation but anyways anyways something else that I'm going to
be doing serving next month the month of February
alright I'm saying this on camera to keep myself accountable because
something that I wanted to do when my channel got bigger was do monthly live
streams to raise money for different organizations we're talking about the
suicide foundation we're talking about other mental health organizations that
deal with eating disorders depression trauma abuse survivors all those things
so every month I'm gonna start doing a livestream where you donate Super chats
and all that money goes to charity alright so mental health professions out
there again if you've got a problem with my channel quit talking about it be
about it and start giving back alright but anyways that's all I got for this
video if you like this video give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you
subscribe and bring that notification bell because I make a bunch of free
videos talking about mental health alright a huge thank you to everybody
supporting the channel over on patreon you're all amazing and thanks again for
watching I'll see you next time