have you ever defended somebody and then it turned around to just bite you right
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and I thought I loved it alright so as form of like accountability on my end I
try to make photo of videos and correct myself if I was wrong and yeah I
defended Trisha Paytas in my video about her withdrawing from opiates and I was
explaining how it's a dick move to accuse somebody of lying about opiate
withdrawal but people have been messaging me and commenting and new
stuff has come out I'm like oh oh now I do I do appreciate the video that I made
though like I am proud of that video I put out because talking about it talking
about that subject it gave me an opportunity to talk about recovery I was
able to talk about like medications when it comes to withdrawing from opioids
like suboxone I was able to talk about medications like suboxone that's the box
but vivitrol and now trek zone which are designed to help with cravings I was
able to talk about complete abstinence and not trying to use other substances
to manage withdrawals so make sure you go watch that video it's linked up in
the info card a lot of good information in that video anyways like I mentioned
in that video I was quite surprised I was quite surprised at how many dislikes
her video had how many comments were accusing her of lying and manipulating
and like for my perspective I listen okay I know I know this girl crossing
wolf but I don't think it's right to try to say somebody's lying about something
like this right like mental health addiction or they're very serious
subjects especially when you look at opiate addiction
like tens of thousands of people are dying every single year and it's
something that's very personal to me because I'm a recovering opiate addict
alright I'm coming up on seven years next month and like a lot of the
comments on my video we're talking about how discussed they were that she was
lying about this and talking about how like you know she you know she's kind of
exploiting like what opiate withdrawal was actually like and you know she
hasn't really been through it and now this new evidences come out like I'm
like oh God so anyways anyways the smoking gun
actually came from Trisha Paytas own mother just like I have to tell you
though um I was feeling really bad a couple nights ago I mean I thought I was
gonna die too like Trisha right and I probably gave her what she's got that's
right Trisha Paytas own mother who also has a YouTube channel just basically
confirmed that she had the flu and she probably passed that flew on to her
daughter and again like opiate withdrawal symptoms are very intense
flu-like symptoms alright but there are very intense aches
and pains it is very difficult to get through without some type of assistance
like aside from like the physical ailment of opiate withdrawal there's a
lot of psychological withdrawal components such as like depression
anxiety irritability all sorts of things that can be attributed you know to like
coming off of opiates and yeah it's just kind of messed up like something else
people were talking about with Trisha Paytas quote-unquote lying in which I
didn't really give too much credibility to they were saying that you know if you
look at the interview she did with you know Perez Hilton or the interview she
did with Tom Ward like the dates did not line up from the last time that she
use and I'm sitting down I'm just like okay that's what drug addicts do like we
lie about stuff like if any of you watch my other videos on suboxone one of the
reasons I didn't take the medication when I went through my opiate withdrawal
was because I'd lied to the doctor I lied to him about how much I was using I
lied about the last time I was using so like when people were pointing that out
to me I'm like oh well you know like if you've ever been to a 12-step meeting
chances are you've run into somebody who's lied about their clean dates so I
didn't really you know give too much attention to that but now looking at
that situation like it's messed up like one of the things that I'm constantly
battling as somebody who's like a mental health advocate and I talk about it
quite a bit on my channel is a conversation that constantly comes up is
is using your mental health issues or even mental health issues that you don't
have like is it like trendy is it cool or a lot of people talking about it and
like it's a yes or no right like we're living in a time where more people are
struggling with depression more people are struggling with anxiety more people
are just suffering right and a lot of these symptoms lead to turning to
substances like the three reasons people use alcohol or drugs is to get a feeling
to get rid of a feeling or to have an escape alright so many people are
struggling with mental health issues or addiction issues but one of the issues
that comes up is when we see a creator like Trisha Paytas who gets the flu and
then gets the idea like okay well I'm going to say that this is opiate
withdrawal I was using opiates and maybe she had a light withdrawal or she didn't
record anything about it she's I don't know I'm still trying to give her the
benefit of the doubt but then she uses that topic in order to I don't know I
don't know what her motives were to get sympathy to manipulate the audience to I
don't know people are accusing her of you know just trying to get the
attention of Jason her acts because she's been very vocal about that I do
not know what her motives were but I can definitely empathize to anybody else who
came across this video and was in her comments or Mike
comments and say how offended they were by this like opiate withdrawal is hell
it is absolute hell okay it is one of the main reasons that people relapse
because people try to do a cold turkey and it is so rough it is so brutal that
people end up turning back to the substance in order to avoid the rest of
the withdrawal symptoms alright but here's the thing too like I don't
know it's it's difficult like I am all about bringing more awareness to these
subjects such as mental health such as addiction and I try to be an optimist
about these situations like at the end of the day at the end of the day
regardless of Trisha Paytas as a whole it has started a conversation like
seeing people in my comment sections talking about their personal experience
with opiate withdrawal with suboxone or methadone or vivitrol or no Trek so like
seeing stories of hope in the comments section where people are talking about
how long they've been clean or I saw somebody talk about like their father
recently went to rehab I'm like yes that's awesome so now we have a whole
comment section you know people getting pretty pissed
off but they're also sharing stories of hope so
like in that sense I'm like okay cool something good something positive came
from this situation you know what I made but it's it's very difficult because
I've been clean for almost seven years and I worked in a drug and alcohol
treatment center for three years and like sometimes sometimes even I you know
believe people with addictions right like one of the earliest stories I
remember it's at my sober living house there was this dude there and he was
having all sorts of erratic behavior I had never been around anybody whose
substance of choice was meth because here in Las Vegas like the primary drugs
back then but I was still using was like alcohol cocaine and prescription meds
right like not a lot of people were doing meth here in Las Vegas it's still
not that hard - anyways I got sober in central California
I was in that silver linin with a bunch of recovering meth addicts right and
there was this kid he was acting really weird and erratic like a little bit
different but I thought you just got like that pink cloud as we call it in
recovery I thought he was just in a great mood so one night our our sober
living house meeting like he stops the meeting and he says he wants to read us
a poem right if he like reads the poem I just said now Mike that's dope I'm like
this dude's getting clean he's finding his creativity his new passions are like
never say I'm like the poem wasn't that good but his he's finding his path and
sobriety right so like after the meeting like some of my buddies were like so
what do you think about his poem I was like I'm like you know what good for him
good for that guy's good like you know he's really high on meth right I'm like
wait what they're like yeah man remember when we went into the garage the other
day and he was asking how much money we thought he'd get for that piano like
this dude relapsed on meth Mike oh my word and you know the next day he got
kicked out of the sober living house anyways anyways even somebody with mice
like myself who has a lot of experience with addiction and working with drug
addicts and alcoholics even I could be a little gullible to their antics
so anyways anyways at the end of the day please please please if you are somebody
who is struggling with addiction or if you want somebody who's a recovery from
addiction like know that there is hope remember to keep spreading hope our
experiences greatly help anybody else out there who is currently struggling so
they know that they never have to pick up a drink or drug again even if they
want to alright but anyways I wish the best for Trisha Paytas and she gets into
gear she has been talking about going to therapy and all that stuff so I hope the
best for her but I wanted to make the video to kind of address my last video
and correct myself because new information is out alright but anyways
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