what lessons can we learn from the tragic suicide deaths of both Kate Spade
and Anthony Bourdain what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired
salt where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and today I'm
gonna be focusing on two problems with lessons that can be learned about these
tragic suicide deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain now I will say there
isn't enough information out there yet all we know is that there were suicides
there's some things coming out about Kate Spade Anthony Bourdain struggled
with alcoholism but I don't so much want to focus on that but I do want to focus
on a couple major problems in our society as a whole
all right the first lesson that we need to learn okay is that success does not
equal happiness what pains me what pains me so much is whenever I see celebrities
pass away right like aside from the tragic loss of life is that I know that
there are still millions and millions and millions and millions and millions
of people all over the planet who are going to work every day to a job that
they hate because they want to be quote unquote successful because they think
success equals happiness I've done videos on this in the past celebrities
who take their own life are living proof that success does not always equal
happiness like I mentioned it in a few videos ago the backlash that Justin
Bieber got when he said something about this and people like well that's true
like always remember I think it was Jim Carrey who said something along the
lines of I wish everybody could become rich and famous to understand that it's
it is not what will make you happy like it's so true so like I really just wish
people would grasp this concept and understand that this success or fame and
fortune will not solve all of your problems there's a lot that needs to be
worked on when it comes to our mental health the second thing that we have
to talk about is the Mental Health Awareness problem in our society all
right I'm gonna read you a tweet that I've seen getting retweeted and shared
around all right it says Kate Spade committed suicide now
people are advocates for suicide prevention and mental health meanwhile
your best friend is struggling depressed suicidal you haven't checked on them in
weeks you guys are so fake concerned about
mental illness it's actually hilarious now this woman who posted this tweet
don't know where don't know what she does I've seen a lot of people pass
about and this is such a problem depression to expression actually made a
video and like it was a short three-minute video and his rant was just
perfect and I guess we're lucky that a celebrity dies by suicide so we do get a
bit of attention how sad is that to think about it's a tragedy
it's too common it's too common it happens way too often an action isn't
just about tweeting about it action doesn't mean rallying around some
fucking hashtag and thinking that's enough these are things like everybody's
gonna forget about this in a week two weeks maybe on the anniversary of their
deaths people might talk about it again but we live in such a fast-paced society
where new news is coming out all the time all the time and we forget about
this stuff so yeah it's true people do stop caring about mental
health as soon as the news dies down and it breaks my heart I see on social media
all the times people that I see we're saying like we need to care about mental
health we need to care about mental health yet they do nothing and we call
this slacktivism slacktivism so many people use their social media platforms
I'm not talking about celebrities I'm talking about people like you and me
okay people who go around acting like they care about stuff so they get this
this idea like other people had this idea that I'm a good person I'm a good
person see I retweet and I share about these
things I'm good I'm good like there's people who talk about stuff and there's
people who do something about it right and there's so many people who simply
talk about it but they don't do anything about it I was waiting to to show you
guys this experiment that I've been doing oh is
waiting and I might still do it when I celebrate six years sobriety but I've
been doing a little experiment on my Facebook page unbeknownst to all of my
friends they don't even realize what I'm doing here's the example Facebook post
number one boom you see this you see this right there I say that I've lost
almost 50 pounds since last year good for me congratulations Chris look how
many likes that that thing has 86 86 likes because I'm almost down 50 pounds
that's amazing right yet every single day on my personal
Facebook page I share post like this look how many likes it has here let me
zoom in let me zoom in a little bit closer do you see that one one like
nobody on my Facebook page shares engages comments when I'm constantly out
there posting stuff that can help people with mental illness this is the problem
this is why I asked you guys to share my video you never know who it's going to
help but there's so many people on this planet who talk about it but they aren't
really about it alright so sorry I had to go on this little rant real quick
again this is such a tragic loss but it's gonna keep happening it's gonna
keep happening and we're quick to forget until it happens to somebody really
close to you alright so anyways if you like this video please give it a thumbs
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spread some awareness and I'll see you next time