so what's up again everybody it's Chris from the rewired soul where we talk
about the problem but focus on the solution and again if you knew my
channel is dedicated to taking different topics that are going on in the YouTube
community or in pop culture or society or whatever it is and try to see what we
can learn from them all right so yeah like I'm supposed to be finishing my
book right now but ever since I posted my last etiquette video like just
something has been eating at me like when I made that video when I made that
video and like here's the thing like I understand people I made that video I
knew I knew it was gonna come and a lot of you are new here and like welcome
thank you for subscribing because I'm you know all about mental health
awareness and trying to convey a message of hope and everything like that but I
knew there was going to be some backlash and it's absolutely ridiculous
okay so here's here's why and like the first the first comment that I saw were
on Twitter right and somebody tweeted a fan of the remarks also if you're
watching this like no offense towards you it's just I knew this was gonna
happen I'm just using this as an example because other people think of it and
then we addressing this tooth because a lot of creators are going to be making
videos about this alright and it's a point that we talk about this when we
raise awareness but somebody you know they tweeted at me and they said it's
too soon to be talking about this it's too soon to be talking about the loss of
Etika I'm like are you serious right now like are you kidding me
alright like that that kind of ridiculousness reminds me of when we
have yet another mass shooting in the United States and people are like yo yo
yo yo yo yo yo yo it is way too soon to be talking about gun control like what
we need to talk about this stuff now while it's fresh on everybody's mind so
we can hopefully do something about it so hopefully people will reach out to a
friend and talk to them about it so hopefully if other people are watching
this happen and they're in a dark place they know that there's help available
all right like this stuff cannot wait we need
talk about it all the time not just now we need to talk about it all the time so
it's absolutely ridiculous when people are saying it's too soon to be talking
about this we need to be talking about this more all right and clearly clearly
every single time we lose a life we need to talk about it more I was actually on
Twitter earlier and I saw I think I'm Alex made a little Twitter video about
it and he mentioned in there you know like nobody's talking about this stuff
right and it's true like this is something that one of the reasons why my
channel exists right like nobody talks about these things until something
happens when something happens then everybody wants to talk about it when
something happens like today was like Anthony Bourdain day and you know
raising awareness and everything like people only want to talk about this
stuff when things happen we need to talk about this all the time we need to be
there for one another all the time we need to let people know that there are
resources available we need to let people know that there is hope all right
but to anybody out there like I empathize greatly like I had another
Twitter comment again from a loyal subscriber so I love you but this is
just not the only one so I'm using this as an example no saying like oh you you
should have been monetizing this and I'm like did you even watch the video like
it's not monetized like the video is not monetized alright but there are some
other comments and most of the comments were good most of the people thank me
but the goal of that video was to answer some questions because I still see it on
Twitter people being angry upset like and that's that's normal like whenever
there's a loss of life like we get upset we want somebody to blame we want to
blame somebody for this right and we want to blame you know the people who
were like egging him on on Twitter or in his livestream
wanna blame you know people who were interviewing him or we want to blame the
people who were like making fun of him on Twitter we wanna blame the people who
thought you know this was a joke when he first released that video we want to
blame people but like I wanted to make that video to explain like how serious
this thing is and we can try to point fingers all we want but at the end of
the day here's here's the real issue here is the real problem all right
although we have more people talking about mental health and mental illness
more than ever before a lot of people don't like talking about it most people
who are struggling with a mental illness severe depression anxiety whatever it is
they are not getting help you know why in fear that people are gonna judge them
and fear that people are gonna think they're weak right and I'm here to let
you know right now if you're struggling you are not weak okay
there's nothing to be embarrassed about alright if you got diagnosed with some
kind of physical disease you would get help so why not if you have a mental
illness but again like one of the other reasons I want to make this video it's
like if you're somebody reading the ridiculous comments that people are
leaving cuz I guarantee they're not just leaving them on my videos are gonna be
leaving on other people's videos like just just don't let this prevent you
from spreading awareness and talking about this like I'm good I'm gonna keep
doing my thang baby because I have lost over 70 people alright in the last few
years working at a drug and alcohol treatment center many people died after
they left treatment from overdoses or suicides I've also had people in my life
who weren't just clients who have passed away and I'm going to keep talking about
this this is something that we do not talk about e-enough alright but again
like do me a favor and reach out to somebody like be there for other people
and the other thing is to like I guess I want to talk about this real quick cuz I
left it out of my last video is don't don't blame yourself all right
like I could have never worked in the drug and alcohol treatment center as
long as I did if I took personal responsibility for every person that we
lost and I I was so passionate about my job I'm so passionate about what I do
here and the only thing that we can do is do the best thing that we can do we
just help people as best as possible every time we lose somebody it motivates
me more to help everybody else out there right but we have to realize like we
cannot save everybody the most we can do is be proactive and talk to people and
be there for people and try to understand people try to direct them
towards getting help like you guys like something that you can do if you have a
friend who's struggling like you can't get better for them but if you can help
by finding them resources do it okay like the United States mental health
system is absolutely screwed up all right
it is fucked up okay but there are resources out there okay like man I I
don't I don't know really what to say because here's here's the thing here's
here's what bothers me as somebody who tries to advocate for mental health and
increase awareness about mental health what's gonna happen in the next week in
the next month why this story's going to you know go away and people are gonna
stop caring about mental health again until the next one and then until the
next one until the next one this is something that we need to care about
every single day you know what I mean we need to be there for one another we need
to recognize that mental health is something that we need to take very
seriously and I I cannot express enough that we need to be proactive about our
mental health we need to treat our mental health when it's at like a two so
we're not getting to the place where it's out of ten okay something I try to
teach people all the time is you don't practice a fire drill when a fire is
happening all right you practice a fire drill so when the fire happens you know
what to do there are things that I do on a daily basis for my mental health
because when I get in that dark space I need to have tools at my disposal that
will help me and this includes my support group first and foremost my
therapist I have 12-step meetings I have meditation I have workbooks out of
journals I have so many things and we all need that
so to anybody out there saying it's too soon to talk about this it's never too
soon and it's something that we need to be talking about all the damn time
alright and again down in the description below there will be
resources if you're struggling please get help please talk to somebody okay I
as well as many others are living proof that even if life doesn't seem like it's
worth living things can get better okay one of the biggest things that I
realized through my mental health struggles is that I struggle with
patients I want things to be better now okay and as a recovering drug addict an
alcoholic it took me years to get to a better place but I look back at those
dark times and I can't even believe that I was almost gonna miss out on how
amazing my life is today so please never lose hope alright anyways thanks for
watching you guys be kind to each other talk about mental health
don't be embarrassed don't be ashamed help one another out alright thanks
again I'll see you next time