so after doing some research on Billie Eilish watching interviews analyzing
song lyrics and reading comments from her fans it seems like a lot of the
Billie Eilish fans are worried for her and I think it's a topic that we should
really discuss i'ma die one day so it doesn't really matter to be honest but I
did everything nothing matters what is up everybody this is Chris from the
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you're new to my channel my channel is all about mental health on what I like
to do is pull different topics from pop culture and try to teach you how to
improve your mental and emotional well-being or maybe even help somebody
that you know so if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring
that notification bell so in this video we're gonna be talking about Billie
Eilish but I think this is a more important discussion because it's not
about Billy hollers chances of her seeing this video one in a million right
but I want to start a conversation because I think for us on the outside
looking in its and what if we got some topics that we should all be thinking
about when it comes to helping somebody that we might know who's struggling with
depression now the question of the day is is Billie
Eilish depressed I don't know I know this might come as a shock to some of
you but I don't know Billy I wish I do not know Billie Eilish but like I said I
want to bring this up as a discussion because basically a lot of people
requested for me to check out some of her other songs and lyrics and things
like that and one song that people kept recommending to me was listen before I
go all right and looking at these lyrics it it's a troubling song right it's a
song that a lot of people can connect to but we're gonna show the comments in a
section of some of the comments rather and it has fans concerned alright so
anyways some of the lyrics go like this take me to the rooftop I want to see the
world when I stop breathing turning blue tell me love is endless
don't be so pretentious leave me like you do if you need me want to see me
better hurry cuz I'm leaving soon sorry can't save me now sorry I don't know how
sorry there's no way out but down moon down so like it's a song about somebody
jumping off a roof alright and like here's the thing again
I don't know Billy Eilish I don't know if Billy hi that she's depressed I'm
going to talk about her method of like storytelling in a minute because that
brings up another topic that we need to discuss
but anyways I'm talking from the experience of somebody who for many
years I was extremely depressed I contemplated ending my own life and I've
lost a lot of people who have taken their own life or they've died of
overdoses and things like that but it's also important to realize that a lot of
us have experienced just people in the mainstream who have lost their life far
far far too soon alright so anyways as I was looking at this song on YouTube and
looking through some of the comments like I'm gonna do another video about
Billy Eilish fans particularly and depression within youth but anyways
that's what I was expected to see in these comment sections but I saw these
instead I saw a lot of people saying that they're worried for Billy Eilish
right and here's here's the reason why I think this is a really important topic
to discuss so some of you saw that the other day I did a video on Lincoln Park
lyrics for the song heavy and talking about Chester Bennington so Chester
Bennington unfortunately took his own life not that long though and I know
those people who are like oh you shouldn't comment on you know these
things you know other people and their mental health and mental state but
here's the thing that I think is natural for a lot of us especially when it comes
to depression suicide people taking their own lies like I don't know if you
like me but a lot of us asked why why they do it and as somebody who grew up
listening to linkin park and watch a lot of interviews with Chester like when he
passed away I started because I haven't listened to him in a while and I start
watching all of his recent interviews I'm like were there any sign
were there any clues what what could people have done to prevent this and and
it's it's confusing like something that I do is somebody trying to recover from
you know depression and most days are pretty damn good for me so if you're
struggling with depression like believe me things can get better now I have my
ups and my downs and things like that but what I try to do is I look at other
people and I try to analyze what's working for you what's not working for
you what can I do differently to you know avoid getting back into those dark
thoughts so I was I was really interested in these chester bennington
interviews and mike it seemed like on paper he was doing everything he was
supposed to do he was talking about going to therapy
he was also somebody who was back and forth in recovery talked about going to
12-step meetings even in the music video for heavy you saw kind of a 12-step
meeting setting right and when he passed away and you know there were interviews
with his wife and you know people like Mike Shinoda people were talking about
how happy he was and like this was so so so unexpected and and that's what that's
what messes me up because I'm sitting there and it's just like okay what do we
do how do we know the signs how do we know what to look for right and it's not
like I said this isn't just necessarily Billy Eilish but what about the people
in your life and you know there's a question I'm asking I don't necessarily
know the answer to this okay and I think Billy Eilish is a great example of this
because when I first did a video on Billy Eilish we talked about her
influence and things like that I had a lot of people saying like you need to
watch Billy Eilish interviews you need to understand her songwriting style you
need to understand how her and her brother Phineas write songs and it's
true a lot of her songs are stories her and Phineas create these these
characters right but to me that's even it's even scarier because you're able to
put on this mask whenever you want right like I would imagine so
the father I have a ten-year-old son he's gonna be a teenager soon being a
teenager is rough a lot of symptoms of you know mental health issues can pop up
during teenage years and I think about that as a father but like Billy Eilish
has positioned herself to wear this mask whenever she wants to okay and what I
mean by that is she can make these dark lyrics and talk about very personal
experiences but if anyone were to talk to her about it and say like are you
okay I'm worried about you she could put the mask on and say oh no I was just
creating a character That's not me I'm not in that dark place that was the
character I was talking about and that's something very concerning because a lot
of people with depression put on a mask I can share from my personal experience
from the outside looking in a lot of people didn't understand how how
tormented I was inside inside my own mind because outwardly I could wear this
smile all over the place and part of it was part of depression and I don't know
if you could relate to this is my brain would tell me oh people don't care about
me nobody's asking me how I'm doing why aren't people coming to me and asking me
how are you doing Chris and I came to realize later that they didn't have a
reason to like you can look at me you can look at like I looked like happy I
was making jokes I was going to work every day or going to school every day
back in high school so for someone to ask me that would be very out of the
ordinary because I wasn't giving off any signs or symptoms so that's one of the
troubling things about dealing with these mental health issues is that we we
have to reach out and ask for help we have to do that because a lot of us are
good at putting on that mask you know what I mean
so my suggestion to you what's worked for me is I have to fight that inner
voice that tells me that nobody cares about me I had to take responsibility
and accountability for my own depression and I had to start reaching out to other
people I had to start doing to other people and saying hey I'm not okay right
now can you talk you know what I mean like I had to do that because I couldn't
constantly put that expectation on other people so
well the other thing is - it's like and there's a question I want to ask you
that I don't necessarily know the answer to like what level do we get concerned
so some of you who've been around my channel for a while you know that I
worked at a dual diagnosis treatment center we specialized an addiction for
people who have mental health issues as well and I remember this this young man
he got really he was very quiet introverted shy didn't talk much and he
got into it with his therapist one day and me and this kid had a really good
connection right like he would come in and talk to me and everything like that
him and his therapist got into it one day and she came over and she saw him
drawing in his notebook in the treatment center and he was drawing like a scene
of him killing her right and like when you're working in that type of treatment
center it's like how seriously do you take this like how do you take this
thing right was he just drawing something that let out his frustrations
was just completely normal or just something to be concerned about right
and everything you need that turning out all right that kids actually been sober
for a while now I talked to him probably not that long ago by me in the last few
months but anyways it's just something that I want to like bring up as a topic
of conversation because there are people in your life who might be struggling and
you don't even know it so although I was talking about how people need to reach
out and ask for help and I hope if if Billy Irish is depressed she has people
in her life who she can talk to but like on the other end of things I think it's
a good common practice to like just sit down with like people in your life and
just say hey how's it going like how are you really doing right not that just
kind of like in passing like hey what's up are you doing but like really asking
like what's going on in your life how are you doing how are you feeling about
this you know if something happens to that person like or they have a rough
day like asking like how are you feeling about this and see if you can open up
that conversation because one of the main goals of this channel is just to
start opening up that conversation and having it normalized so we can start
talking to each other and helping each other alright but anyways let me know
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