the more I see these news stories and everything unravel in the public
spotlight on social media the more I'm like dang black mirror might actually be
right what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk
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about so yeah like some people or most people you saw that Etika was trending
on Twitter and I said to tweet out I'm like okay who is Etika and what the heck
is happening and I just got like drawn in I'm like what is going on like I saw
live streams of it look like cops and everything so anyways anyways it looks
like a Takei some people are saying you know he's just doing things for
attentionand its not a mental breakdown you everything like that and something I'll touch on is looking for
attention can also be a cry for help all right
like eddie burback he did a video about another creator who was going around you
know like pretty much for asking people in public and yeah that dude like it
seemed like he had some some issues and before I go any further there full
disclaimer I'm not a licensed therapist or psychologist or anything like that
I'm somebody who has struggled with my own mental health issues I've worked at
an addiction treatment center I worked there for a little over three years and
we also specializes in mental illness although I'm not a licensed professional
so that is the perspective I'm coming out with this video all right
so anyways anyways basically like I've been piecing together a timeline of
events and he's he's a streamer he does some trolli stuff sometimes but in the
last couple weeks he seems to have become a little unhinged doing things
which would appear for shock value right so something that he was doing is he was
going off on Twitter he was saying like laces and
somatic things you so didn't even like uploaded porn on to his YouTube channel
to get it taken down then he did it to a second channel as well and everything
and then like a former girlfriend of his came over to check on him and she like
posted and said hey it's okay but one of the things was is that he was
threatening to kill himself okay and then he showed a picture of the gun all
right publicly so at that point he was taken because a wellness check was
called on him and you guys it's like I I get so frustrated a couple months ago
there was a bunch of stuff going on in the community and some stuff going on
with me even though I wasn't involved there was stuff about wellness checks
like you guys wellness checks are there to help people who are mentally unstable
and the fact that people have demonized the wellness checks just absolutely
blows my mind okay and this is a prime example of it but anyways it he went I
don't know if he went to treatment or I don't know if he you know I was on a
72-hour hold or a 48-hour hold or whatever it was and what those are for
those of you who don't know is when you are suicidal okay if you are a danger to
yourself or other people you will typically be put on a psychiatric hold
okay and that is just so doctors could get you stable sometimes they medicate
you sometimes it's therapy just to see what's going on to make sure that you
will not hurt yourself or anybody else typically within 72 hours
some people just they they get very just emotionally fueled and during that time
they just need to be in a safe place so that's typically what these holds are
for but anyways edeka got out of there and then it looks like just today or
even in the last 24 hours he's with sending a bunch of tweets so
I've heard some people mentioned mania and things like that and for those of
you who don't know mania is a symptom of disorders like bipolar disorder and in
these states you can become somewhat psychotic okay so you can you know have
just delusions of grandeur s'ti you can see things you can hear things you can
just all sorts of things that happen and people it seems to me it seems to me
that people were worried that when he started doing this again on Twitter in
the last 24 hours like oh crap this dude needs help so basically what
and today was that the cops and the EMTs were called to Etika house in Brooklyn
because he was acting erratic okay and this is a red flag like this is a
red flag for somebody who is just threatening suicide in the last couple
of weeks to start acting this way like this is a red flag all right so I don't
know Etica I'm not diagnosing attak I don't know anything about it but like
but I try to do all my channels like I try to take these very very public
topics so you can like know what to do in these situations like you might have
a friend who is doing these things so some people are like oh oh it was just a
cry for it was just him trying to get attention don't mind it don't mind it
him just trying to get attention like somebody even just on Twitter who kind
of gave me a little insight into the story they said don't do a video on this
until more information comes out the fact that the cops showed up and Anika
was detained okay and put in college and take it away like this is something that
we need to talk about if there are more developments to this story I will try to
do another video on it but here's the thing
any kind of cry for attention like that like 20 get that attention is a cry for
help a lot of people do that and something else like oh my god I just
made a video about Chris Brown and how many people are neglecting the fact that
I say I'm half african-american is absolutely mind-blowing but mental
illness in the black community is prevalent and many many black people but
mainly men will not get help for their mental illnesses and I watched attica's
entire 30-minute livestream somebody re-uploaded a he was live-streaming the
whole thing over on Instagram and one of the first things he says in that
Instagram livestream is you're gonna take me away and try to put me on
medications okay I can't remember he said again but that sounds like
something somebody would say who has already had this happen before so I'm
curious if that's what already happened but a lot of people especially those and
again I don't know ehtekaf I can't diagnose him I don't know what he's been
diagnosed with if if anything but especially when it comes to mania and
manic states a lot of people don't like medications okay because during those
manic states those extreme highs like they feel invincible and they don't
want medications to bring them back down but the problem is especially with
bipolar disorder is the depressive state right that brings you to a point where
you think about taking your own life all right but the last thing I want to talk
about with this story and watching etiquettes livestream on this and just
read in the comments seeing him or apply the comments like this is why I
mentioned black mirror in the intro like it's just disturbing man it is
disturbing how disconnected we are from so many people right we look at we look
at celebrities or youtubers or whoever it is is there just these things you
know what I mean and people in his livestream were egging him on there were
even people a lot of people on Twitter egging him on and playing into it and
stuff and thinking it's funny and this is one of the reasons why there's such a
stigma around mental illness as people think it's funny and then it's a joke
and all these other things like so people were in the livestream like
saying like you know because you know Anika was posting about how he's like
the Antichrist and everything like that people this is not what you do for
somebody in that state you don't gas them up alright but the other thing was
people thought it was funny to like tell this guy who is potentially going
through like a psychotic episode telling him telling him who's like one
of the symptoms of that is extreme paranoia right and people were saying in
the live chat like oh watch out man there's snipers outside the window
there's snipers what what there's snipers right all these things are not
helping the situation look at this I'm like oh my god the
world is insane you know because it's just some person some guy or girl just
like sitting there like oh this is funny you know what I mean and it's just like
where is the human compassion where is the empathy where is you know just
trying to understand what this person's going through like I don't know maybe
it's just working in addiction treatment for you know a few years and seeing so
much death I take this stuff very very seriously
all right but I even saw some youtubers and other people on Twitter who I won't
name like gassing him up as well and it's awful it's just like a lot of
people a lot of people don't think about worst-case scenarios like I'm somebody
who has had over 70 people die in the last few years working in treatment and
other people I know like a very high way some some people like a handful of those
people probably close to a dozen I talked to the day before they died which
is pretty crazy and I don't think a lot of people think about this when they're
watching this from the sidelines and egging it on to making all these jokes
and everything they don't think about how they're going to feel if they they
find out that Etica hurt himself right if Annika took his own life
if something terrible happened I don't think they'd even consider how they're
going to live themselves even considering they played a role in that
and like you know I hate to get so serious about these things but we're
talking about human life here okay and you know just my final thoughts on this
is just it's a crazy world and you know I'm a youtuber I make some commentary
videos about other youtubers and what's going on and like I just hope anybody
out there who is aspiring to be in the public spotlight you really take a look
at these things on what people are going through and how everything is worth
everything is trapped I get Atika was just some random dude with like 100
followers on Twitter or Instagram or YouTube a lot of this stuff most people
wouldn't have even noticed but this guy is you know he was putting this out
there or threatening to take his own life and acting about it in front of
thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people and when you're doing that a
wellness check is gonna get called but anyways I hope the best for Etica if any
anything comes up if there's any new updates to this story I'll try to make a
video on it with my thoughts but let me know your
thoughts on the situation down in the comment below and yeah let's have a
conversation together and try to get rid of this stigma well anyways that's all I
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