- I just wanted to spend some time
with my son playing Fortnite this morning
before we go to this vegan food festival,
but Thomas, no, mental illness
is not an excuse to be a dick.
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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's all about mental health,
and we got some influencers out here
who are being a bad influence
on the mental health community,
so I make videos about that stuff.
If you're into that, make sure to subscribe
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So yeah, this is gonna be a short, simple video.
So I just made a different video about Thomas Halbert,
a bunch of you already watched it.
But anyways, in that video, I mentioned that all
of you and Thomas needs this book called
Unf*ck Your Adulting, alright?
Look at this chapter right here.
Can you guys see that, can you see that?
I don't know if the camera's getting it,
it says don't be a dick, okay?
Don't be a dick.
Alright, this is something that Tristan
and I were just talking about the other day,
but anyways, let me just catch you up to speed.
I made this video about Thomas
and tough love but trying to be nice,
but now I'm gonna be a little bit more tough.
Tristan and I were talking, I recently
had to get somebody out of my life
because they have a mental illness,
and they're just a jerk all the time.
And that's not an excuse, that is not
an excuse for anybody.
And Thomas tweeted out, he retweeted
something and he said, "Mental health is not an excuse."
And he retweeted it, it says, "Yes it is."
No it is not, and I have to make
this video because I know how many
of you watch my videos and everything,
and I talk about mental health,
I talk about being a better person.
I talk about getting out of the problem
into the solution, and we cannot have
this dude out here saying mental health is an excuse
for your poor behavior, it is not.
It is never going to be, alright?
This hurts everything that we're trying
to do when it comes to increasing awareness
and decreasing the stigma.
There is a world of people out there
who thinks that we use our mental health
as an excuse for poor behavior.
So when you've got this guy, when
you've got this guy over here who
has hundreds of thousand subscribers,
even though he just lost 30,000,
who is saying mental health is an excuse,
that is not cool, that is not okay.
I am never, ever, ever going to defend any of you
if you try to use mental health as an excuse.
I work with addicts and alcoholics all the time.
They used to call me and say, oh well,
duh, duh, duh, duh, duh I had to drink,
I had to use, I had to do this,
there's no valid excuse, they will blame
their mom, they will blame their dad,
they will blame this, they will blame that.
No, no excuse.
Your mental health is your responsibility.
I have mentioned in other videos,
I have a diagnosed generalized anxiety disorder.
When I get anxious, I get very snippy,
I get very snippy, really just, I can be a dick, alright?
And that's not cool, that's not fair
to my son, that's not fair to my girlfriend Tristan,
that's not fair to all of you,
that's not fair to my clients, that's not
fair to the rest of the world.
So what do I gotta do?
I have to keep it under control,
that is my responsibility, so that
is why I work so hard on my mental health, okay?
The analogy I always give,
the analogy I always give is, imagine
somebody in a wheelchair just loved
to roll around running over people's feet, right?
But imagine that,
and imagine him or her just being like,
well I'm in a wheelchair, I get to do that.
No, you would look at that person
in the wheelchair and say, no you're a dick.
Being physically ill is not an excuse to be a dick.
Same thing with mental health,
mental health is not a valid excuse to be a dick, okay?
A long time ago, I made a video
about Kanye West when he made his album
talking about his bipolar disorder.
It is not an excuse.
You guys, there aren't many mental illnesses
out there that make you into a bad person, alright?
It might distort some of your clarity
and all of that, but most people with mental illness
are able to work on themselves
and get logical and have compassion and empathy
and all of those things.
So for example, the whole Shane Dawson series
and you saw all of the backlash
about them talking about sociopathy
and all of that saying oh, they don't
have feelings, they don't have empathy
and all that, and people were like no,
they do have feelings, they do have empathy.
So then you've got this kid Thomas
out here who's trying to act like
the mental illness that he's struggling
with is making it so he doesn't understand how people feel.
Come on Thomas, come on you're better than that.
But again, my videos aren't about Thomas.
Thomas, again if you watch this video,
I'll send a free copy your way.
But this is for all of you, this is for all of you.
You have no justifiable excuse to be a bad person.
And I'm just getting that out of the way, alright?
So anyways, sorry for this short rant-style video.
If you like it, thumbs up, if you don't thumbs down,
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ring the notification bell, I love you all
and quit using these things as an excuse,
and don't be a dick.