so I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get up the euphoria season
1 episode 8 finale video today but I'm so good to you guys that I'm gonna do it so in this
video we're gonna break down the ending of rue and discuss everything that
happened in the finale so stay tuned
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 what I try to
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but I also like breaking down topics from movies TV shows pop culture in
general try to see what lessons we can learn from them to improve our own
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I have an entire euphoria playlist and this is the first finale video that I'll
be making alright so make sure that you subscribe make sure you check out the
other videos cuz I've done some of the episode breakdowns character breakdowns
and everything like that a lot of the videos I've done have been
based on Roux so that's why I'm focusing on her in this video but anyways let me
know down in the comments if there's any other characters you want me to do so I
also covered the last season of 13 reasons why and I'm excited for a season
3 and what I did was I did each individual character and kind of
explained their ending so I'm starting out with roux but I also want to talk
about Kat and Cassie mate jewels things like that so if there's any characters
you want me to break down let me know down in the comments alright so anyways
let's talk about Roux in this finale and for those of you who don't know this is
gonna be filled with spoilers baby alright so yeah the ending of the
episode we saw Roux relapse alright so again I'm gonna be talking about the
characters but I really want you to just kind of look at your own lives as well
because I know so many people out there either a you're struggling with
addiction B you're in recovery from addiction or C you know somebody who's
struggling with addiction so this show euphoria did an excellent job like the
writer and creator of this show he battled his own addiction when he was a
russe age so this show did a phenomenal job depicting an addiction right myself
I just celebrated 7 years clean and sober and my drug of choice was actually
the same as Roux which is prescription opioids so I can relate a lot to this so
not only have I been clean for seven years but I also worked in a dual
diagnosis drug and alcohol rehab center for over three years
alright so I'm speaking from that experience and I hope some of this can
help some of you viewers out there or walking or maybe a loved one who you
know who maybe watch the show or is just struggling with addiction so the first
thing I let everybody know that I was gonna be making by finale my first
finale video and there's a conversation going on around like did Roux overdose
or did she die at the ending right there and I'm just gonna get that out of the
way before I kind of break down her character I don't think so I don't even
know if she overdosed really the way I interpreted the ending and her you know
relapsing and then that whole like kind of the music video that happened at the
end I just figured she got high and those are a lot of the emotions and
everything like that that she was kind of explaining and she got messed up but
I guess it is possible because it's not something that I thought of so first
here's the first thing let's talk about real quick
being in recovery I've seen so many people overdose and die from what did
happen to Roo and what that is is having a period of clean time and then using
especially when it comes to opioids or benzodiazepines like the real strong
stuff that are depressant all right like when I was working in the treatment
center over those three years I had over 70 people die all right most of them
were from overdoses some were from health related issues some were from
suicide but most of the people who died from overdoses it was from their first
time using after treatment because what happens is your tolerance changes
alright then you stay clean for a while you can't use as much as you used to but
many people who relapse they go back to using as much as they were before
and then that leads to an overdose and their their body wasn't ready for it
alright so this is something that we have to be very very very careful about
I cannot tell you how many people I saw died just from the first time
using again okay so basically I want to talk about ruh and kind of what I feel
led her to relapse and this is after all of my experience my own screw-ups my own
relapses and everything like that so when looking at room and maybe talking
about her but again I want you guys to learn from this so the first thing is
like kudos to her for staying clean right she stayed clean for three months
thinking the last episode that they mentioned that she had been clean for
three months but she went to rehab six months ago and obviously what we saw in
the like the series was that you know she was using and she was lying about it
right but that's a big deal like I'm gonna be a little hard on rule fictional
character but anyways just know this as somebody who has relapsed many times I
tell everybody my secret to staying clean and sober is looking at everything
that I refuse to do or everything that I was doing and do the opposite all right
like in all honesty rue made every single mistake that an addict can make
in early recovery and now she can learn from it okay so I'm hoping that's what
season two is all about so the first one is she wasn't working a program all
right I'm glad that she came clean and honest in the 12-step meeting that she
was going to because they say in recovery that our secrets keep us sick
so I'm glad that she stopped taking those dirty little chips and she
actually got clean if any of you watch my previous videos I was so excited when
she started working with that dude Ollie to be her sponsor and I was hoping that
that was gonna be like a main part of this show I was actually surprised the
season was only eight episodes but anyways chili met with that dude once
right or maybe twice I think it was once though when they met up for pancakes
right um but they also talked another time about her relationship with Jules
which we'll talk about in a second but anyways many of us when we first get
sober especially if we're we get a sponsor like we we use our sponsors come
like this oh crap button right like we only get in touch with them
when we are just going nuts and it's like the last resort right but the
purpose of a sponsor is to take us through the book whether it's a a or na
or whatever your program is and to take us through the steps we need to figure
out why we keep using right so like having a sponsor is one thing but doing
the work is something else like my sponsor told me from day one he was not
going to keep me sober I can call him and complain and swim about my life and
everything like that but the solution was in those steps all
right and anytime I came out here talking about my struggles and how
people were driving me crazy my baby mama drama or the people in myself were
looking whatever he would tell me Chris I guess you better work those steps then
so you get a little bit relief right and that's something that we didn't see Roux
do at all in this season and I'm hoping that's something that we see so one of
things is I'm surprised she do we laugh sooner um when we're in early recovery
and don't get me wrong I made every mistake in the book too when I first got
clean I just managed to not pick up a drink or a drug but you saw that rule
like she put herself in some situations that wouldn't be recommended for example
like the Halloween party right like when you're in early recovery that's not a
good idea it's not a good idea to go to parties it's not a good idea to go to
the bar or anything like that um me I went to a bar in like my first three or
four months sober but I managed to stay clean much like Roo did but I put myself
in a very bad situation and I was obsessing on it the whole time you know
what I mean and when we put ourselves in those risky situations especially in our
first year sober like the first year we are so vulnerable to relapse so we need
to do our best to try to avoid situations where we might drink or we
might use alright the next big mistake that Roo made was getting into her
relationship with the jewels I can do an entire other video about how messed up
the relationship between jewels and is if you want me to do that let me know
in the comments down below but it's highly recommended number one suggestion
don't drink or use alright number two suggestion do not get in a
relationship your first year right so like we talked about Holly was
explaining to her why it's a bad idea to get in you're like get in a relationship
to first year see in none of the literature not in Alcoholics Anonymous
or Narcotics Anonymous it does not say not to date your first
year but there are many men and women who have enough experience to know why
that's a bad idea and what all he was explaining to her is like things change
right and especially with people going off to college and things like that
Andrew beings you know so young and like you know my addiction actually started
from a high school breakup you know what I mean but a lot of times we don't
listen to our sponsors us addicts and alcoholics were not too good at taking
advice and suggestions so we fell in deep for Jules but in that finale oh my
god so Jules hooked up with that other chick and then comes back and she tells
Ruth at she loves her and also loves this other girl like this is something
that Rou could not handle and in an effort to kind of grasp onto that love
that she had for Jules let's run away let's run away and get
away from here right which it was a dumb decision which rule figured out when
they got to the train station and she let Jules go alright because in early
recovery we make such dumb decisions and that's why we have a sponsor and that's
why we have a support group like we learned in early recovery that whenever
we're getting one of those crazy ideas that even might be a bad idea we bounce
it off somebody first right because as addicts and alcoholics we have problems
with emotional regulation we got problems with impulse control our best
thinking gets us into a lot of trouble so what we saw in season one with rube
was a series of mistakes that she was making and probably the biggest one was
not taking care of her mental health like they didn't really reference her
OCD throughout the whole season until the final episode when her mom was
speaking right but I mentioned it in like a previous video that she was how
when she was having her depression she wasn't taking care of her mental illness
right so what happens and why many people relapse is it's a bunch of things
that's just start piling up and piling up and piling up and piling up and then
the straw that broke the camel's back was the situation that she had with
Jools all right and she was so sad she was so hurt she was so confused she was
frustrated and because she wasn't working a program she had nothing to
turn to except for the drugs all right like you guys I've been sober for seven
years and it hasn't been all unicorn and rainbows all right like things happen
life slaps you in the face when you least expect it but when I talk about
like working a program whether it's the twelve steps are going to therapy or
whatever it is it's like building up this forcefield
so when life comes at you and stuff goes down you're shielded from a relapse like
no matter what happens in my life today I have so many tools that I can pull
from what you witnessed in the ending of season one with Roo and she had
absolutely no tools to fall back on and because because she wasn't utilizing
Olly as her sponsor she didn't even call him before she picked up that next drug
all right so like I said this was a prime example of what not to do so my
hope my wish for Rou or anybody who can relate to her experience is I would hope
in season two she's able to look at everything that she refused to do right
not utilizing all either way she should have not working the steps you know
putting herself in bad situations like relationships and go into parties and
all those other things look at those things and do the opposite of it one of
the most difficult things that I've seen in my experience is for young people to
recover because it's hard like that's the time when everybody's drinking and
partying and stuff like that but we need to realize addiction is a disease that
some of us are just born with you know what I mean I've met people who got
sober at 16 years old some people even younger because by that
age it already went out of control you know what I mean but anyways let me know
what your thoughts are on the finale and if there's any other characters that you
want me to break down let me know down in the comments below all right and feel
free to check out my website the rewired socom I'm also an author I write about
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out I have my whole story about my addiction my recovery overcoming anxiety
and depression that's available on my website if you want to check that out
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