so adele is getting divorced and people are blowing up on Twitter about this
whole situation and it's actually pretty gross and we're gonna talk about it in
this video what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we
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videos so yeah I just chilling this beautiful Friday evening and Twitter is
exploding because apparently Adele is getting separated which may lead to a
divorce and Twitter is blowing up about it and Adele is known for you know just
amazing amazing vocalist I'm not like a gigantic Adele fan but I do get down to
some of her music I'm diggin right and yeah so it was announced that they're
separated and yeah people on Twitter or acting pretty ridiculous about it
because they're the rather than being sad for her and what she's going through
people are like stoked about a new album coming out where she can pour all of her
emotions into it and that's kind of ridiculous like here's some of the
tweets that are going around so on the screen as you can see like I'm just
flashing some of these up here like people say like oh my god this new
albums gonna be awesome oh cool Adele's gangsta for so this is gonna be a great
album like what what so I wanted to make a video about this because this is
something that I've just been curious about when it comes to musicians or even
just various types of artists right because like we live in a world where
this has gone on for years where we kind of like romanticize the idea of like the
depressed and sad artist and those of you who don't know me I am
huge huge huge on mental health I've had my own personal struggles I've worked in
an addiction treatment center and yeah like I look at these artists and
everything I've had a lot of clients who came through my treatment center who
were musicians who were artists some were writers and things like that and I
look back at my own depression and everything and I thought I thought that
staying in that state was actually helping me right so when I look at
somebody like a Dell or other artists I'm just like man like is is this is
this something where you know they you know I don't I don't think that you know
she's gonna divorce because of the make her sad but this is something that
either help someone hurts them and I'd love to know your thoughts on this
because yes you can turn that into good music but I grew up listening to like
emo music and sad music and things like that
and it connected with me and I can't help but you know bring up Lincoln Park
Chester Bennington who took his own life because I'm constantly thinking about
people who are struggling with depression and some end up overdosing
some end up taking their own life like Kurt Cobain is one of them and he had a
lot of very depressing and dark songs as well and I think I think at a certain
point some artists like attach this to their identity and but we look at just
how the brain works and like positive reinforcement like do do artists really
have a good enough reason to work on themselves and to get better because
like look at Twitter like here's some more tweets like look on Twitter like
people are stoked people are excited that this poor woman who is separated
like they're excited about that because I think it's gonna create better music
and like you look at people like let's just talk about some like great artists
of the past like like Vincent van Gogh right do struggle with mental illness do
people not want to get help because as part of their identity as part of their
job as part of who they are you know and I want you to ask yourself that question
too do you are you afraid to get better
because your your mental health issues have become a part of who you are to
other people and you know full disclose like I'm not a licensed therapist or
anything like that I just like talking about mental health topics I look back
at my addiction my addiction was a great example like for many years I was I was
the party guy or I was the guy who was always high right that's who I was and
one of the fears I had of getting sober was if if I'm not that then Who am I
if I get rid of my addiction Who am I right and I had this kind of dark
you know mood and everything like that all the time and I was very like
nihilistic and everything I by the way I think that's why a lot of people are
nihilistic and like I made a video about Kevin Kevin Hart talking about how like
being negative is like cool you know it's not something new it's been going
on forever right and and I I didn't want to get better so I want you to ask
yourself like do you think like is it possible that you don't want to get well
because it's part of who you are or if you if you think it's actually helping
you with something this is something that I've seen many people who struggle
with bipolar disorder discuss like Kanye West is a great example of that kanye
west stopped taking his medications and he felt that it made him free or right
but when he got off his medications that's when he was going like full-blown
Kanye you know what I mean because for people who struggle with bipolar
disorder during those manic episodes they flourish with creativity right so
some people with bipolar disorder don't even want to treat their mental illness
because they feel it will affect their arts but then I look at other people
like um Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and he struggled with
addiction for a very long time and he's been clean now and I remember hearing
people talk about how his music isn't as good since he got sober right and I look
at that I'm like damn man like that's like that's really really sad you know
I've seen people say it about Eminem Eminem is another person who is in
long-term recovery and he had a pill addiction that was my drug of choice and
people have said Eminem's music isn't as good as since he got
clean but when I see what's going on on Twitter when it comes to Adele I'm like
no wonder no wonder what celebrities and musicians and artists and writers and
everything stay in this dark place because we as a society we kind of fuel
it we kind of encourage it right yeah yeah be in that dark place that's when
you make your best stuff we should be a society where we're encouraging people
to get better you know what I mean we should we should look at the music
they're creating and saying like oh it's different like I I wouldn't trade the
life I have now clean and sober for anything in the world
you know I feel I'm more creative than ever like my you know my anxiety my
depression my addiction all that stuff was holding me back now I take a
non-narcotic medication for my anxiety and depression
now I'm in therapy I you know I'm involved in you know 12-step meetings I
have a sponsor I work on myself on a daily basis but I can still create you
know so like I'm living proof of somebody who was scared to get better
but now my life is better than ever and I can still do all the things that I
wanted to do so anyways like if you somebody on Twitter saying this stuff
about Adele like really take a look at yourself look look at yourself in your
life and see what you're encouraging and see what you're promoting and all that
like I don't know we just live in a weird twisted world and I just wanted to
bring this up as a topic of conversation and just see what your guys thoughts are
on this stuff all right but anyways hopefully you know Adele gets through
this you know she is a very you know strong woman I know part of her story is
that like she's had struggles in the past and everything and it's you know
it's it's helped her made her stronger made her better that's something that we
should all be able to take from these artists who who are thriving and who
have been through things and that's something that I love bringing attention
to because if if other people can do it we can do it too so if you're somebody
who's struggling right now once you get through to that other side
by putting in the work when it comes to your mental and emotional well-being you
will become a better person on the other side of this thing alright anyways
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