and I think it's so important to talk about mental health and so many people
to shove it away or they feel weird or embarrassed about talking about it and
it's just so important everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we
talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you are new to my
channel my channel is all about helping you out with your mental health and also
increasing a little bit of awareness about mental health so if you're into
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ring the notification bell because I put out a ton of videos and something I've
been doing a lot more lately and something I try to do is pull from pop
culture like whether it's YouTube or TV or movies or news and things like that
and try to see what we can learn to improve our own mental health today
Jeffree star just released a new video revealing more of his dark secrets and
he talks a little bit more about self-harm and we're gonna unpack a lot
of things from this video because there's a lot a lot that you can learn
that can improve your mental health now before I jump into it just if you get
triggered by this kind of thing you may not want to watch this video or come
back and watch it when you're a little bit better of a headspace but I think
there's some stuff in this video that is truly inspiring for anybody who
struggles with depression or self-harm or anything like that some of you have
come to my channel because you saw the videos I did about Jeffrey star and
Shane Dawson when he opened up first about you know his self-harming
behaviors so today Jeffree released a new video
which I will link down in the description below and I really think
everybody should watch it it's kind of you know two different topics he talks
about his self-harm he also talks about his family and there's like two or three
videos I can make on just his video alone with different topics so if you
want me to do that make sure you leave a comment down below but anyways so for
those of you who aren't caught up to speed when Jeffrey did his documentary
with Shane Dawson he talked about how a lot of his tattoos are covering up his
self harm scars and he was doing this for a long time and he said that he
hasn't self harmed in 10 years so he sorts his video off by saying like he
was losing sleep and things like that and
wanted to make a new video and I was sitting there watching with my
girlfriend I'm like I wonder what this is about like you know what else
happened or whatever and basically what he talked about was how four years ago
he's self-harmed again he had a a relapse where he cut himself and he he
didn't feel right it wasn't sitting with him how he told Shane spent ten years
and he had he had to come out and talk about this and I I applaud him so so so
much for doing this and for those of you who don't know me I'm a drug addict and
alcoholic in recovery I've been clean for six years and just there were so
many parallels and like it bugs me and one of the reasons I have this channel
it bugs me that addiction is often over here and the mental illness is over here
when they're the same like there's so many parallels between what Jeffree
dealt with and what people with addictions deal with especially when we
talk about relapse so we talk about that guilt and shame
so at 12-step meetings for example we call it dirty chips right where somebody
goes up and gets like a 60-day coin but they really relapse you know what I'm
saying there's a lot of guilt and shame and like I'm very proud of Jeffree from
coming for coming out and opening up and explaining what happened four years ago
basically what he talks about is four years ago he got to this place you know
where he felt lost and alone I felt hollow inside this is something that we
talked about one of the reasons that people self-harm is just to feel
something and he was kind of in that headspace his music career was ending he
didn't blow up as this you know beauty guru and you know has a makeup line and
all that stuff and what happened was he turned back to self-harm and he
mentioned he wanted to see if it felt the same right and basically it was a
one-time deal from what it sounds like it was a one-time deal and he says you
know this September it'll be four years and like yes like this happens so often
am i this is where mindfulness really comes in like if you have any toxic
behavior okay it's important to sit back and recognize like is this still giving
me that feeling or that release or that escape that I was looking for because
what happens especially with addictive behaviors like self-harm life substance
abuse is we keep doing it over and over trying to
get that original feeling and we stay stuck in it but Jeffrey saw like very
quickly like no this isn't giving me what I was looking for and he was able
to pull himself out of it really quick and I applaud him for that because those
of you who don't know my story I've been clean for six years but I had multiple
relapses my last relapse started off with one pill just one vicodin pill
kicked off my relapse and I was stuck in it for a year and a half and one of the
reasons I make these videos and I share my personal experience is because the
hell I went through I don't want anybody anybody to go through what I went
through so like when I hear somebody like Jeffrey who had this like one-time
thing or it was a even if it was only a week or a couple months or whatever it
was I'm like thank God it didn't take you where my last relapse did and
something I really want to talk about is how in this clip I'm about to show you
Jeffree talks about this front that we pull it up here watch if you know that
someone maybe does just check on someone and see how they're doing because most
people never checked up on me and and I don't mean that in a negative way
towards anyone but when I was really young a lot of people just thought I was
fine because I put up the front that I was
fine so sometimes the people that are hurting the worst inside are smiling on
the outside like this is so real I work in a mental health facility and when
people first come into treatment one of the first things I tell them about
coming into treatment right I'm like closed mouths don't get fed because I
have personal experience with that and depression especially can have this
downward spiral for example and you might be able to relate to this so
you're depressed right you you get into this depression you get all the negative
thoughts and it's like I'm alone nobody cares about me why don't people ask me
why what's going on what's what's the matter how are you doing nobody would
ask me these things and my brain tells me that nobody cares about me but the
thing is on the outside I was wearing this plastic smile all the time I was
making it seem like everything was okay I have the car I have the kid I have the
girlfriend all these things everything's beautiful but then in my brain it's like
how come nobody ever asked me how I'm doing and sometimes you have to reach
out and you have to for help that's why it's so important
for us to get vulnerable and it doesn't have to be with everybody you don't need
a YouTube channel or anything like that you don't have to do that but you have
to have at least one person you can confide in and say yo I'm not doing well
right now you know what I mean because this is a
thing like I hope with my videos I can empower you to take some responsibility
for your own mental health like we we often stay in our mental illness and we
stay in the problem not focusing on the solution because we get into this
self-pity and we don't take proactive steps towards moving forward and a lot
of times the first thing you have to do is just reach out and ask for help so
like as I was watching this video like I was telling my girlfriend like this is
really inspirational right cuz Jeffery talks about how we kind of pulled
himself out of it and I'm like okay but you know I mentioned it in the last
video like one of my critiques was like they didn't like mention like ways to
get help like they didn't talk about getting help like there are many people
who can like pull themselves out of it and if you can't just pull yourself out
of it it doesn't mean that you're weak it doesn't mean any of that kind of
stuff it's just different people have different types of mental fortitude you
know there's a lot of times now where I can pull myself out of it but sometimes
I gotta turn to people for help anyways Jeffery did a great job where he talked
about how so many people in his audience whether it was on Twitter or in the
comments of Shane's videos and things like that they reached out and they
shared their stories and it inspired them to get help and Jeffery in this
video he says if you are struggling ask for help talk to your friends talk to
your family members talk to your doctor talk to a therapist things like that
like some of you like don't know this but in the description down below like
better help helps support this channel better help is an online therapy service
it's very affordable they have a sliding scale so base off how much income you
make you can get affordable therapy something people have been talking to me
about lately it's like hey I get anxious just going to a therapist right like for
me personally everything online is a lot easier for my anxiety even if it's like
texting and a better health therapist tax and stuff but like even if it's not
better help like talk to somebody reach out and get some help like I'm on
Twitter Twitter's been great lately a lot of you have been
to me on there or tweeting at me and stuff that's a great way to get ahold of
me it's at the rewired soul the same as my Instagram but yeah feel free to you
know reach out to me hit me this is a community get involved in the comments
below like I did a live stream the other day and like just the support there like
I love all of you so much like just this community is truly beautiful for me
because I just see everybody helping each other to get ourselves out of these
mental health fonts I love it so much but anyway it's like I'm really proud of
Jeffrey for making this video I know his fans are I know it's inspired a lot of
people to get help am i one thing that Jeffrey talks about
like it's it's okay like it's okay we have these relapses we
have our slips it doesn't mean that you're a failure but like I hope the one
thing that you take away from his video or my videos is like never give up never
give up hope okay every day every moment is a chance to begin again if you wake
up in the morning and you are alive you have the chance to start over and begin
again so whether it's a self-harm relapse whether it's a a substance
relapse whether it's a depression relapse or anxiety whatever it is you
have the chance to start again alright but anyways that's what I want to say
about this if any of you have this video yet again it will be in the description
if you haven't watch it but I want to see in the comments below like what do
you what are your takeaways from Jeffrey Starr's video and also let me know in
the comments if you would like me to do some more videos about Jeffrey star I'm
one of them I want to talk about is the power of sharing your story and why you
need to share your story the other one is the dynamic he talks about with his
mother I can relate to that since I cut my mom out of my life for a while so if
you want me to do some videos on those topics let me know down in the comments
cuz I'm here for you I'm here for all you beautiful people that's all I got
for you today so if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you
are new here I'm always making videos to help you out with your mental health so
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of hope to anybody who's struggling with mental illness so I love all of you
alright so anyways thanks again for watching and I will see you next time