what is up everybody it's Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution and as you can see I am in a beautiful new
location I had to go for a little walk this morning and this is a video of the
plenty I'm making for weeks now and because of some events that happen I'm
like you know what Chris it's time to make this right so on that beautiful Red
Rock Canyon here in Las Vegas to kind of go for a walk Simar make a calm
collected video if you will all right there's gonna be some changes to the
channel I'm not going anywhere so calm down all right but there's gonna be some
shifts in the way I do this thing and yeah like I have to discuss why I'm
choosing to leave this drama community now those of you who follow my channel
you know what I'm trying to do here I typically pull in drama topics to try to
teach people about their own mental health right how are you not a drama
channel what separates you from drama channels and for me that answers simple
and some of you get that some people don't but when I watch a drama channel
it's just drama that's all it is it's just drama maybe a little bit of an
opinion if you're lucky right but what I try to do is I take that give you some
context and then have you look at your own life and see okay can I relate to
anything in this video that might be affecting me right and
I want to make it very clear from the start like I I look at drama channels
and commentary channels very differently like my buddy I never I look at him as a
commentary channel drama channels a lot of stuff like if they're talking about
beauty influencers a lot little back story of how I got involved in this
community in the first place I made hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
videos and they weren't really getting any views I wanted to get this message
out there to teach people about mental health the importance of mental health
raise awareness all sorts of things and my message really wasn't going out there
there my beautiful girlfriend Tristan and her friend Shelby they are heavily
involved in like all the makeup gurus and like the gossip and drama that goes
around it there were showing me videos and I'm like oh my god like this is a
lot of problems and no solutions being talked about right so I decided to try
something right I was like okay maybe I could take these topics and just help
somebody you know who might be able to relate to the people who are being
discussed in these stories right because I remember I remember back in my active
addiction I was the type of guy where I would watch intervention right I would
watch intervention while drunk and high and think about how messed up those
people were you know what I mean and I know that a lot of people watch reality
TV or even YouTube or whatever and they think about how messed up everybody is
on the opposite side of that screen without self reflecting so I was like
okay let me try doing this so like when I first started doing it I think it was
right when like drama Gaiden was happening and I was talking about a lot
of stuff going on in there and relationships and everything I'm like
huh this is kind of working I started broadening out and you know I did you
know the Shane Dawson series with Jake Paul a lot have you found me through
that people don't talk about mental health so this is how you do it but
again like it's surprising but not surprising like I pulled in the drama
community like that is the the market if you will of people who I
was grabbing the attention from and what I've found is that I've reached as many
people as I'm gonna reach you know in that community and now it's time to move
on and broaden this thing you know but there's so much toxicity and I get it
I've talked to you guys all about like negative bias and like if you watch the
video I did on the YouTube rewind when you focus on the negative or even like
selective attention theory like when you focus on that stuff your brain is
trained to do it right and it bums me out like I made a video earlier this
morning about a conversation I had with Carly Steele and how I have trust issues
and all of that and you know there's there's probably some videos coming out
and like that's one of the many reasons why I'm not I don't want anything to do
with the drama community anymore but a lot of you know what happened with
Trisha Paytas and Trisha Paytas put drug addicts in a very negative light okay we
have tens of thousands of people each year dying from drug addiction that was
me as well and part of my channel is to bring
awareness advocate and stuff like that so I was kind of involved with that
community met some friends and things like that like I was like okay how about
instead of just talking about like what James Charles said or what Jeffrey star
did or what you know whoever else did here here is a youtuber with millions of
subscribers talking about drug addicts or just drug addicts right putting this
negative light on drug addicts here's a topic that I think you could talk about
to help raise awareness about the addiction stigma and the mental health
stigma as a whole and and now I don't know how well I do know how because
that's what they do the perception is being that I was trying to quote-unquote
capitalize on that situation so that's another thing is when you're training
your brain to focus on the negative trying to expose people left and right
you don't even see it's hard to even see the bigger picture like it's hard to
even sit back and say wait a second maybe these guys trying to bring
awareness to a very serious situation that's plaguing our word right now world
right now no that's not what it is right so I was being you know tagged on
Twitter this morning and all that but that's that's just the long and short of
it but anyways yeah so part of my mental health what I have to do and you know
what I realized was not only or you know did I do I have these drama channels
starting to stir up stuff but they all have a community too
who's looking for that right and if you want to stay in the drama community by
all means do your thing right but what I have found especially throughout my life
is that I have to separate myself from those people but I see I've had even you
know just subscribers of my channel who have talked to me at length and I've
talked to them and helped them out and you know giving them advice and tips and
resources to go see a therapist or whatever and now because you know they
came from the drama community they're trying to capitalize on this stuff right
like oh I'm gonna make a video about Chris and all this and I'm like oh my
god but again it's not surprising that is the audience that I pulled from you
know what I mean so this morning on Twitter I started blocking a bunch of
people and stuff like that and like that's a boundary that I have to set
like call me petty if you want alright but I have to set boundaries today like
you guys like some people don't understand my mental health is my number
one priority all right and my mental health leads to my sobriety which almost
killed me and if I don't keep this thing on straight my son doesn't have a father
Tristan doesn't have a boyfriend my mom doesn't have a son my friends don't have
a friend you know what I mean so I have to set up a boundary and get away from
that so basically what I wanted to say was
no I'm not leaving YouTube and I'm not even saying that I'm not gonna talk
about YouTube related topics anymore but there's gonna be shifted shift in my
channel some of you have already seen it this last week or two so what I'm gonna
try to do is what I originally wanted to do on YouTube was talk about TV shows
and how they depict mental health mental illness same thing with movies I want to
do more song reviews because there's a lot of songs to talk about mental health
and addiction and all of that something I'm trying to figure out is how to not
have them copyright claim or even copyright strike so that's one of the
reasons I stayed away from them but yeah I want to talk about what's going on in
the news I want to talk about what's going on with the mental health care
system all these other things you know what I mean
like those are the things that I want to talk about now when I feel that there is
a situation in which you know something in that community like people might be
able to benefit from maybe maybe but as a general rule of thumb if you see all
of the drama channels talking about something I'm probably gonna stay away
from that like it's the plague all right and trust me I get it a lot of you found
my channel 4 drama based stuff and like I might lose thousands upon thousands
upon thousands of subscribers but I always talk to you guys about what your
values are your value systems and everything like that and that's the
thing like that's okay with me because I want the people to stay who care about
improving their mental health who care about advocacy who care about spreading
awareness and all of that so if you came here just to get a different spin on the
drama or the tea or whatever like I'm sorry but this channel is gonna be
refocused and like this I've been working on and thank God for
you know my support group like I mentioned in my video with Carly's steel
there are people who I'm no longer going to be talking to as well like I don't
know it just sucks but anyways like yeah I am focusing on
my mental health and part of that journey is helping all of you with the
things that I learned the things that I ate myself about and all that so if
you're into that stay tuned if you're not thanks for hanging around for a
while you know what I mean I will say I don't mean to make a blanket statement
but it's just how the mind works where we focus on the negative and you know I
love commentary channels but I've had to unsubscribe from a lot of drama channels
just to kind of cleanse myself if you will so people like I neighbor who I
love you know even like Leone lush and Elvis the alien I'm Alex and people who
are like you know being funny and just like talking about things and talking
about Instagram things like that like mental health to me is supposed to be
kind of funny and kind of laid-back because I want to make it more of a
conversation but yeah anyways it's really pretty out here so that's all I
got for this video thanks to all the patrons thanks for everybody who's been
supporting the channel knows what I'm all about and what I'm here for and I'll
see you soon