Why is everyone on YouTube so sad
I have suffered with anxiety and panic attacks
Basically I suffer from anxiety
I'm just literally out there having a panic attack
I became severely depresed
Freight train of thoughts
Feeling a lot more anxious
I've been pretty sad
don't misunderstand this message
I'm not calling anyone I've shown fake
but the rise in mental health videos have left some people to question
if Youtubers who upload such videos are doing so for the right reasons
are youtubers actually concerned about mental health?
Or are they making these videos because they know it gets them views
one very fast growing channel, the rewired soul
This channel is hosted by a guy named Chris
You might have seen him talk about YouTube drama before but concepts in mental health and psychology
he uses trending YouTube topics to explain concepts in mental health and psychology
well, he's been accused by a few individuals of
being a drama channel pretending to be a mental health channel
in hopes for views
This guy has been preying on mental health people for way too long
And I'm starting to question if he's really a mental health activist or just some guy trying to make a quick buck
So what's going on are people actually just starting to open up about mental health more
or are they faking it for the views?
Welcome to psych IRL. My name is Donna
So a few months ago keemstar, put out a tweet that said
from now on every youtuber that claims
They have mental health issues must provide a note from your doctor
And don't get me wrong
That tweet is pretty messed up
But it does have me thinking whether or not youtubers have put out mental health videos out there
For the wrong reasons because I do see a lot of mental health videos pop up
So are we just talking about it more or again are people doing it for the views?
So there's this guy named Chris from the rewired soul
Some people in the YouTube community think that he is just uploading mental health videos
For the views, so I'm actually gonna talk to him.
You recently came under some drama or some controversy
I think... I mean from what I've seen, do you consider yourself as controversial?
You know
I think I'm controversial like when I sit back and I look at it and I look at why I started my channel
Like it was inevitable what's gonna happen
I started my channel because I want to change the way the world looks at mental health
A lot of people say I'm a drama channel pretending to be a mental channel.
the numbers do not lie
I made hundreds of videos just like tips for depresion, tips for anxiety,
This is what this disorder looks like
and they failed
most of those videos have less than a thousand views
I have covered those exact same topics
plugging a big youtubers name in
Thousands of views
one of the things that I did and I don't want to use the word martyr
But I can't think of you know, I can't think of another word for it. A synonym
for right now, but I saw how many of my other youtuber friends out there were had had mental health channels
that weren't gaining traction
So I'm like screw it
I'll do the controversial thing
and that way I can rise up everybody else
at the time of you and me recording this I have guest videos scheduled all week from smaller creators
and you know what really bums me out
the views on them suck
people can call me controversial all they want but the views don't lie
and that's that's what bums me out about society
But I accept it
I accept that if you want to get clicks you got to do what you got to do
And I'm trying to educate people
So I always looked at it as the lesser of two evils
if I'm trying to help people
Why am I gonna put it in a place where nobody can see it?
I'm using YouTube drama to get people to care about their mental health, but I also diversify
I don't think I get enough credit for that like and it's interesting too. Donna
feel free to look into this
some of the most positive influencers in my eyes are people like, Anna Akana
I've made the most positive videos about that woman
some of my lowest viewed videos
But you talk about a controversial topic
boom
so, my question is
I've been accused for gas lighting when I asked this question is
am I the problem or are the viewers the problem?
I want people to see mental health the same as physical health
I look back at High School and how all we did was talk about physical health
Nobody told me what the signs of depresion were
signs of anxiety were.
They didn't tell me how to deal with trauma
They didn't tell me how to deal with my neglectful
alcoholic mom. they didn't teach me any of that stuff. Right?
but I knew what the food pyramid was
I made it a mission. Like when I started, you know,
when I overcame my addiction, when I started putting my mental health first,
I realized how many other people weren't talking about this thing
So, yeah like I'm controversial
because I'm trying to talk about something now a lot of people don't want to talk about yet
but hopefully and maybe it's when my son has grandkids
you know, people are just like
Talking about their emotions. So the next time you know, when...
I envision a future where you you meet somebody and they say hey how it's going and they tell you the truth
I think my channel growth
Proves that people agree with what I'm trying to do.
Another thing that people have been concerned about
is people masquerading their videos as mental health but in reality they're kind of profiting from it
or getting views. What do you think about that?
It's a really tricky situation
because something that I'm trying to teach on my channel is
Mental health is not a lack of having a mental illness like a diagnosable disorder
everybody you meet, people walking around, these kids. Mental health part of everyday life
like same thing as physical health, so
Everybody is going through something. Everybody goes through a depresion. Everybody experiences anxiety
right and in my opinion you should never
Judge, another person's reality. Like it's it's a jerk move to say you're not really anxious
You know, like I keep some of those comments to myself, you know what I mean?
but either way it's sparking the conversation now as far as
the profit aspect of it
in my opinion, and I don't know if this is what you want for your video
but in my opinion, too many people are
worried about how people are making their money
Right now, if it becomes like a manipulation technique
you know like, oh, I'm so depressed
I can't pay my bills. Like that's a bad manipulation, but you know to get views or anything like that. Either way, I
believe you know with the
Conversation being talking about who cares? you know what I mean?
And that's kind of just my opinion about it
you know?
and then as the viewer, they need to take with that what they will. I'm the type of guy where
Watch it. And then analyze it yourself, right?
I think too many people have trust issues with other people
you know, if that makes sense?
like people like oh,
Why did they do this? they're always trying to check somebody else's motives
when I try to teach people to check their own motives
Why did you watch this?
So, you're basically saying "trust everyone or..."?
This might be easier if we start with the better help thing
one of the issues with the whole better help quote-unquote scam
That was going on was yes
Obviously like with any other brand deal, affiliate deal, youtubers were making money off of sign ups
so one of the things that I think led to this whole
you know, bubble bursting if you will because every youtuber was you know,
Promoting it. Was that better help reached out to somebody, that person was making up a story
just to
Fit that brand and I take issue with that. I've been a better help affiliate this entire time
I use their service, my girlfriend uses their services, and I think
Influencers kind of muddied that up because they were trying to profit off of that
but going back to my whole optimistic outlook
Them doing that
There was some benefits. I try to think about the people who they "tricked"
or "manipulated" who legitimately got help
I can't get angry about that
I think part of it being scummy is making up a story about it
and talking about, you know, being like oh, yeah
I was depressd the other day because you know, I don't have a specific example
But something like trivial and what that does is it kind of minimizes somebody else's experience
But again in a different question, I answer I think everybody's had that experience,
but if they're not thinking about it
And they're just looking at it as a paycheck.
They're not gonna dial into that experience
or they're not gonna give vulnerable and they're just like, oh, I'll make up a story
Something I'll touch on real quick, Jarvis Johnson another creator
He made a video about a YouTube channel called "Actually Happened" which takes real stories
and that's one of the issues that he took with it, that I take as well is
Submitting fake stories as true.
his is that it's manipulating the audience
for me, it's putting out misinformation
that's the issue that I have as a mental health advocate, as well as an educator. I have an issue with
Misrepresenting what this thing looks like
I personally think that too much blame was put on Better Help and not enough on the
Influencers for the way they were doing it. One thing
I don't know if you want to bring this up because I know it's come up and I haven't covered it
is the...
People think it's messed up that youtubers get paid for every sign up
when it comes to how much people are making, you know?
If you look at how much somebody's getting paid as a as a therapist as a better help affiliate
whatever they're making
Pennies compared to that. So my mom has a PhD in psychology
She talks to me about how more and more people are getting out of the field not
Pursuing degrees in mental health because of how little they get paid, but from the consumer end of it
They're like how dare you profit off someone's mental health.
Yet, nobody has an issue with the fact that if you look at
Your insurance bill from a hospital
They billed your insurance like $15 for an Advil
one question that I ask myself is, would a youtuber get as much flak
for promoting an
exercise routine, as they would
some kind of fitness for your brain, which is therapy because a therapy
because therapy is basically your physical trainer, but for your mind
You can't deny that people do use mental health as a view grabber
So just final thoughts on
Differentiating between the two like who is in the right?
Who's doing it?
Kati Marton's doing mental health right. Kati Morton is a licensed therapist
she's doing mental health right and you know, she has been able to
Get a large following so I appreciate that
There's also so many other small mental health channels
I'm gonna send Donna a list because I can't think of all of them.
My biggest suggestion to everybody like my dream
My dream is just a day where?
Like I said where people care as much about their their mental health as they do their physical health, right?
And what can we do to be more mindful about our mental health every single day?
Something that I don't want people to do anymore is be reactionary about their mental health
I want them to be proactive about their mental health. I have seen far too many people
Not get help until they had the mental breakdown
You know what what I mean?
until everything crumbled to pieces. like if people get anything from my channel
It's just to care a little bit more about your mental health on a daily basis, so you don't have to get to that point
You know what? I mean?
I wish that's something that somebody taught to me
and that's why I do what I do to make people try to care about their
mental health on a daily basis
so I did learn a few things from my meeting with Chris. Even though there may seem to be a
big rise in Mental Health videos on YouTube, it's better to just take those videos as they are because
Even though the youtuber may be making it for selfish reasons
It's still getting the word out there.
Now Chris's channel. I don't always agree with what he says, but upon meeting him
He genuinely seems like a good dude and he cares about what he does
We did do a video on his channel links are down below. I will see you guys next time. Stay psyched!