and a totally different video plan but my girlfriend's best friend Shelby just
had to tell me about this drama going on on Twitter between Jeffree star and
Thomas Halbert so now I gotta talk about it
what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is
all about helping you with your mental health but what I like to do is pull
things from the YouTube community or pop culture to try to teach you some pretty
valuable lessons about improving your mental and emotional well-being so if
you're into that kind of stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification
bell because yeah I am NOT a drama channel I am NOT here to spill any tea
like there's so much there's so much like someone who watches the watch it
and learn from it for the love of God because there's so much to learn how to
not have friendships healthy by doing the opposite of what they're doing so
anyways I went over to check out his video racism sexism and so a lot of you
don't know this about just real quick opinion on this it seemed like a lot of
virtue signaling and I just don't have a way to really tie that in to mental
health so I'm gonna stay away from that but that's my opinion on it real quick
so anyways there's there's two main topics I want to talk about in this
video and I hope that you can learn from it so the first topic I'm going to talk
about is kind of exploiting your own mental illness for sympathy or as a form
of manipulation so I'm gonna start this video out by telling you a story I'm
going to shorten it as much as possible because I
know I'm long-winded but please stay for this story because there's a very
valuable lesson to be learned like a lot of you asked me so many questions and
I've done so many things throughout my life to improve Who I am as a person and
approve my mental health so at the beginning of Thomas Halbert video he
like just casually tosses in eating disorder like in the first couple
minutes just tosses it in there ways that I was conditioned and raised was
like a perfect example is when I would starve myself when I knew I was hungry
which led into something more serious which is an eating disorder here's what
I mean with this story so those of you who are just now meeting me in my
addiction I racked up three tickets in one week or two week something like that
for no insurance and no registration because for me it was more important to
buy drugs than pay for insurance and registration all these tickets there was
a warrant out for my arrest tickets which was thousands of dollars and they
wanted $200 a month from me like the job I was working at the time it was
absolutely no way riding on the bus like there's no way I could afford $200 a
month so I call them up now my yo is there any way you can work with me on
this payment and they say you would have to come down and talk to a judge for
them to lower that monthly price okay cool so I like took a day off work I
went down to the courthouse and I had like wait around for a while in in order
to meet with the judge and ask him to lower that 200
something that was actually like reasonable for me to pay monthly right
so as I'm waiting like somebody in recovery or somebody who's trying to be
a better person like I realized that I manipulate a lot like I am one of the
biggest manipulators on the face of the earth and if I want to be a better
person I need to quit doing that but sometimes my brain doesn't really have a
good judge of what's manipulating and what's not so here's a tip call people
and ask them all right this is something that I was taught so I got clean through
12-step program so I had a sponsor and I called him up I called this dude up I'm
like hey I'm about to go into this to talk to this judge I just want to ask
you if you think this is manipulative so here's what my plan was okay like I
heard so many stories of people like going in to talk to a judge sober and
people always said like yeah I went in I talked to the judge I told him that I'm
clean and sober now and you know the judge was like oh I had a cousin who got
clean and sober so yeah we're just gonna get rid of all your charges I heard
these stories so like I was like well maybe I should do that but if you
remember my my tickets had nothing to do with drugs or alcohol really right so I
called my sponsor up and I'm like hey dude like do you think it would be
manipulating the judge if I told him I said hey you know I'm really sorry about
this I'm a year-and-a-half sober now I was making a lot of bad decisions like
would it be manipulative if I just casually tossed that in there right and
my sponsors like yes of course it would be and I what I did was I called like 50
other people like do you do that do you ever like ask a ton of people the same
question and you just wait for the one person to give you the answer that you
want well thank God I hang around people again who I always tell you to hang
around with people who tell me what I need to hear and not what I want to hear
so I called like 50 people and they're all like yeah Chris that's manipulative
and I'm like her right but like think about that it is
manipulation like I would have been manipulating that judge if I just tossed
in there and I'm a drug addict and alcoholic and recovery had nothing to do
with my tickets all really like and that would
have just been a bad character action on my part you know what I mean
so like this is something that I'm really really passionate about because
like when I see people do that there's a lot of conversation right now with all
the better help stuff going all by are youtubers exploiting the mentally ill
fans or youtubers faking mental illness are they doing that so like I think it's
important to have this conversation I just want to kind of give you some
context from my experience by the way some crazy stuff happened and the judge
actually lowered my payment down to $50 a month I actually still pay it to this
day the minimum payment and do it as a reminder to myself about the screw up I
used to be I need to go and make sure I paid it this month
anyways so going back to Thomas Halbert I do not like how he just casually
tossed in that he had an eating disorder like what was the purpose of that Thomas
it had nothing to do with the rest of the video stop it stop it Thomas now the
second point that I want to make is like if you are watching this if you are
watching this video cut out the people in your life who are constantly involved
with drama like I just made my video the other day I think yesterday about Manny MUA
anyways comeback and the drama around world Mental Health Day and all that
punched into this beauty community and it's driving me nuts because back in my
past when I was very mentally unstable I hung out with all of the drama queens I
was a drama queen I always hung out with people who constantly had chaotic stuff
going on in their lives so basically like you can go over on Twitter I'm not
gonna dive into all this stuff but Thomas Halbert goes over to Jeffree star's
house to kind of talk with them about Jeffree Star's I raised his past and I'm not
here to judge any of that stuff but like like what happened was Thomas was
texting Laura and Manny MUA while he was at Jeffrey's I'm so sorry then Thomas came
out with this video so anyways go check if you want to get all that tea but I'm
sure the other drama channel as well but there was just constantly drama going on
like you guys I am not lying to you I cut all those people out I cut them out
like I have like four really good friends who I talked to on a regular
basis like four okay I have a lot of family members who I don't even talk to
on a regular basis because all they do is gossip and talk drama so I think that
might actually be why I get a little like defensive when people say like oh
you're turning into a drama channel Chris like no no no no no no I'm trying
to teach you lessons about the drama that's going on so if you have friends
that are constantly having drama in their life right now I would have met my
girlfriend and she had this type of drama in her life I would not have dated
her I wouldn't date her I'd be like yo sorry I could not handle that stuff you
know what I mean what's funny is my girlfriend and I should I tweet this you
know by the way that's another pro tip if you have a problem keeping your mouth
shut run it by somebody okay so we're talking
about this video and I was telling ya there's what it's gonna be about the
lessons gonna be about cutting out people who have drama in your life I
told her this so you probably see it on the screen right now but I think so FYI
when I blow up I refuse to be friends with Jeffery
you'll see it's a lesson because she gets worried that I am going to go too
much into the drama and I'm gonna reach and not make it about mental health so
then she says lmao what if he buys you a quart a car or
house or Corgi so those of you who don't know I freaking love corgis and I want a
Corgi so bad so I'm like oh then I have to set up healthy boundaries I was like
that'd be such a good video how to be friends with a jeffree star like OMFG
remind me that video sometime so so yeah I think
that'd be a great video like how do you be friends with somebody like Jeffrey
star who constantly has drama rowdy if you think that would be a good
interesting video because like I told Tristan like it would it would be about
setting up boundaries like constantly setting up boundaries with them so if
you think that would be an interesting video let me know down in the comments
below alright but aside from that aside from
that way let me know down in the comments like how do you feel about
people like just casually tossing in their mental illness like just that's oh
here you go here you go here's my mental illness like how do you feel about that
like and and I wonder wait and tell me if I'm being contradictory as somebody
who tries to increase awareness like am I being hypocritical but I want to hear
your thoughts on that okay anyways that's all I got for you with this video
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alright thanks so much for watching get rid of the drama and I'll see you next
time