so as many people know by now Gypsy Rose Blanchard who was in prison for murder
just got engaged and I stumbled across an article in which a psychologist
weighed in on the situation and I thought it would be an interesting topic
to discuss so let's do this
what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired saw where we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel what I like to
do is pull different topics from the news or pop culture and try to see what
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and ring that notification bell and one of the things that I'm passionate about
is mental health mental illness mental health awareness and all that although I
am NOT a licensed therapist or anything like that it's something that I have
experience with and I'm very passionate about so I like to pull these topics and
I want to ask you guys some questions as well
because in the case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard it's interesting because I've
made my first video about her the other day and a lot of people have a lot of
opinions on this situation I plan on doing some more videos to kind of
discuss some topics but Gypsy Rose Blanchard she was traumatized her mother
made her seem as though she was ill and forced her to be in a wheelchair and so
many other things is a crazy crazy story I won't give all the details in this
video because it is absolutely nuts if you want to there's a documentary about
it there's the show that act on Hulu which I've been watching and it goes
over some of the details in there but anyways
Jessi Rosa Blanchard was the victim of Munchausen by proxy all right so what
that is is when a caregiver typically the caregiver will do this to someone
who's very young or very old and it's making the person believe they have a
bunch of illnesses or they'll you know like make them take medications and
everything like Gypsy Rose Blanchard lost a bunch of teeth because of the
medications she was taking and like I mentioned like she was forced to be in a
wheelchair and it was just absolute madness so anyways what ended
up happening was Gypsy Rose Blanchard ended up meeting a guy online and she
you know convinced the guy to murder her mother and by the way by the way can we
just time out real quick in my last video in my last video I
discuss how Gypsy Rose Blanchard murdered her mother and there's so many
people who are like she didn't murder her mother her boyfriend did okay you
guys okay alright alright let's let's chat real quick Gypsy Rose Blanchard is
in prison for second-degree murder okay Gypsy Rose Blanchard got the knife
in which her boyfriend killed her mother with and she was involved in it and that
is why she got convicted I don't know I just want to talk about that because
just something that's really fascinating about just like people it's like these
very small little like outraged about it's like just just alright anyways like
I said there was a psychologist who weighed in on Gypsy Rose Blanche of
getting engaged and this is an article from Inside Edition which I will link
down below maybe when she talks about some of the struggles that Gypsy Rose
Blanchard is going to deal with I'm just personally as well as in a relationship
alright because she is in prison for the next ten years and that's something else
I'm gonna talk about in another video there's a lot of people don't even think
that she should be in prison and real quick in my opinion on that and I would
love to hear from you down in the comments like I think that she should
have gone to you know a psychiatric hospital like do you guys remember the
the Slenderman killings or no it wasn't a killers it was they they trying to
kill a young woman but anyways they got sentenced to like a psych ward they were
and they were younger right and that's something that you know I I wish we
could talk about more and really look at as a culture because so many people who
are getting locked up in prison like they're struggling with something so
many people have some kind of traumatic past you know what I'm saying
and like even though gypsy is living a better life in prison like is she
getting the psych yeah should care that she needs is this the
right place for her like she's living an amazing life according to her cuz it's
much better than the way she was living with her mom
didi but like a psych facility in my opinion might be a better option anyways
in this article the psychologist talks about one of the things she talks about
is like kind of like the honeymoon phase that a lot of us can relate to right
like she she talks about how these two getting together there's a lot of media
attention there's a lot of you know trouble law everything it's all good and
all great and everything like that but the real test to any relationship
again in my opinion and what's mentioned in this article is during the difficult
times like it's easy it's easy to think that everything is gonna be all happy
happily ever after I mean this fairy tale when you know everything's great
like it's easy that is easy and and I want to I want to know like how many of
you can relate to that when you get into a relationship and there's that
honeymoon phase but like as soon as like some some difficult times hit like it
just crumbled it just crumbled and like in my opinion when people get in
relationships like it's not how good things are when things are good it's how
you to work through things when things are difficult so the other thing that
this psychologist brings up in this article is that gypsy is the victim of
trauma and like this is an extensive trauma ok so again I'm not a licensed
professional but there is something called C PTSD complex post-traumatic
stress disorder where it is repeated trauma over and over and over and over
and over again right and that's something that usually
happens to a lot of kids who go through traumatic experiences and Jim sue was
constantly in this cycle of being abused by her mother for years and years and
years and years so gypsy needs time to recover from that but what they talked
about in this article is that you know there's going to be a lot of
communication that needs to be happening and you know the future husband he's
gonna have to be very patient with her and everything like that and any of you
who have been the victim of trauma you might be able to relate to this like it
affects your relationships and it doesn't even have
to be you know sexual abuse right it could be physical abuse verbal abuse
emotional abuse like for example myself like my my version of traumatic
childhood was just growing up with an alcoholic mom so you know it was a lot
of you know verbal you know and emotional things that I dealt with fear
of abandonment and everything like that and for many many many years I struggled
in relationships because all of those things that I had not worked through yet
were still there so I had a lot of fear of abandonment issues I was always
afraid that you know a woman I was dating was gonna leave me I also had
codependency issues and all these other things and that didn't really get better
until I started working on myself so so gypsy you know one would argue that
while she's in prison she's working on these things but do you think do you
think that somebody who hasn't fully worked through their trauma yet should
get into such a serious relationship because here's here's the question that
I have alright and I would love to hear your thoughts on it
is is it fair to the other person is it fair to and not even just in the Gipsy
case but like if if you're somebody who hasn't worked through your trauma or
issues yet is it fair to bring somebody else into that relationship knowing that
that other person is going to have to deal with a lot is that fair for the
other person okay because I know some people might say like um you know well
you know it's their choice it's their decision or they want to be with me or
they want to help me you know all these other things but again like I mentioned
just a few minutes ago codependency is a very real thing right so do we allow
somebody to be in that relationship like I'll share with you my personal
experience when I woke up to the fact that I was no good in relationships that
I would you know put another person through hell if they were in a
relationship with me single for a year and a half all right
and then I got into a relationship for maybe a little over six months and then
after that relationship ended I stayed single for a very very long
time because I realized that there was even more stuff that I had to work on so
just me personally me personally I decided to not be in a relationship
until I was at a place where the other person could get everything that they
deserved from me because I was constantly getting the relationships
where the other person was not getting the the best version of myself
and I was putting them through hell so I have personal experience with this but I
want to hear your thoughts on this because this is kind of like a touchy
subject like whenever I bring it up on my channel but like for me for me in my
head like I was like it is extremely selfish to bring somebody into this
where you know I have abandonment issues so I'm very needy I'm very clingy and
all these other things right I freaked out and I have issues with my emotional
regulation all these other things and I kind of woke up to the fact like oh man
it is not right for me to bring somebody else into this right so when I look at
the situation with Gypsy Rose Blanchard getting engaged I'm like okay is that
fair to the other person involved right so I would love to hear all of your
thoughts on it and if there are any topics that you
would like me to cover like I know some of you mentioned that you want me to
kind of dive into the topic of Munchausen by proxy and everything and I
do want to discuss you know what led to you know Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her
boyfriend killing the mother and being in that kind of household in situations
I've found some really fascinating articles about this so anytime you say
you want me to discuss let me know down in the comments below
and I would love to know your thoughts as well all right anyways that's all I
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