Elijah Daniel is losing it on Twitter right now and for good reason so let's
talk about it what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we
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it on Twitter right now and for a pretty good reason a pretty good reason and one
of the reasons I wanted to make this video is because Tristin and I actually
just finished watching the series surviving our Kelly and I will be doing
some follow-up videos on that but anyways basically what happened was
Elijah Daniel sent out this tweet you know what let's make this a thread reply
with a funny messed up childhood moment I'll go first when I was 11 i
fist-fought my meth head black eyed drunk uncle on Thanksgiving while Kid
Rock blared out of his f150 then people started replying people started replying
with these messed up childhood stories trying to make them fun I get that like
what are the things when it comes to mental health and just messed-up stuff
that's happened to you is that we joke about it like my mom my amazing mom
who's been sober about 13 years now and I've been sober six and a half years you
know we joke about it we we laugh we joke about it you know it's messed up
but that's that's one way to cope and I will be doing some more videos just
about like laughing about it and for me personally it helps kind of take the
power away from it right but when Elijah Daniel's tweeted this he started getting
a ton of replies a ton of applies and he started to see a pattern so his next
tweet said this all these sexual assault stories are pissing me off
give me names and I will ruin their freakin lives for you and that's when
things got a little bit crazy alright so I get it I get where this anger came
from why because he just started seeing it
over and over and over and over again and for a lot of people in that moment
you're just like I need to do something about this so Elijah Daniels has five
hundred and seventy seven thousand followers on there
he just keeps reading all of these people all of these young women and I
think maybe even some young men talking about sexual assault right just over and
over and over again but yeah I can I can definitely relate to this so the problem
is is that you know this happens far too often and what Elijah Daniels is doing
which is coming from a good place Elijah Daniels I've had mixed feelings
about him but one thing I can say about him that I love is that he's very
outspoken about mental health right he talks a lot about mental health and his
own struggles and tries to help others and all that so what he's doing is he's
getting all these names and screen shots and everything like that and he's
putting them up on Twitter and I'm not gonna show them so you can go follow the
lines of Daniels and check this out for yourself but he's putting like these
men's names even I think there was one woman in the mix but he's saying like
where they work what they want to do and all of these things and he's just making
this gigantic threat with all these people and something that I was just
talking about in my last video about our Kelly and the Gillette commercial that
people are freaking out about like yeah like we need to start coming together
and doing something okay and here's what my experience comes in so growing up
I've always had a lot of female friends and and I've just heard this all too
often all too often it is it is actually surprising to me if I have a female
friend who hasn't been assaulted at some point in their life like that is messed
up so when I was talking in my last video about how we have to teach our
young men to be better you know like I mentioned that I have a son and all
these other things like this is why like this is one of the reasons why like this
is a reality my audience here on my youtube channel is like 80% female and I
know so many of you asked me to make videos about these things to talk about
you know mental illness related to this one of the things that really makes me
mad is how much blame goes on drug addicts and alcoholics right like
working in addiction treatment working in large groups of both men and women
I'm working in one-on-one sessions like both men and women coming into my office
having one-on-ones talking to me about when their drug addiction started just
hearing stories hearing stories so many of them when you listen to an addict or
alcoholic story so many of them like I'd sit there and be like no wonder you
started using drugs no wonder you certain you started using
alcohol so it breaks my heart when I see you know these these people out there
who are like oh well you made their choice to use it's like if your
stepfather was doing what I you know I to you what he was doing to these people
when they were young you might turn to drugs or alcohol to cope as well like
there's so many people who are just messed up because of this and this is
one of the reasons I make these videos right like I know I got some backlash
for talking about you know a YouTube couple's children right and by the way
if you know what I'm talking about I'm not saying there's any type of assault
or anything like that I'm not saying that at all but what I'm saying is is
that kids can get messed up at a young age which carries on throughout life a
lot of you watching this video if you wouldn't like to prove my point
comment down below and let me know something that happened in your
childhood that is causing mental illness issues to day all right
because here's the thing there are so many examples of mental illness that are
caused by something messed up happening in childhood right or any time in life
but a lot of people get messed up in childhood because that's when their most
most vulnerable right so like I said addiction addiction is often a way to
cope so there's only three reasons people drink or use drugs just three all
right to either get a feeling to get rid of the feeling or to have an escape so a
lot of people who are being abused especially kids right they're more
likely to turn to drugs and alcohol because that's the only way that they
can cope with the situation that's the only way they can escape their reality
and what's happening is they're training their brain that whatever they're
feeling some type of way or when they want that escape to turn to drugs and
how the hall right so this is a major issue
because then they become dependent then they become addicted and all that there
are also a lot of people who are like adults and they're in domestic like
domestically violent situations and they're doing the same thing like I've
had mother's come into my office crying and telling me how awful they felt
because they they stayed with an abusive man because of the children and the only
way they knew how to deal with it but it was by drinking or getting high right so
a lot of this comes from abuse a lot of this comes from assault now next PTSD
PTSD is a very very difficult illness to deal with alright there's a ton of
triggers and like it causes a ton of anxiety a lot of people who have PTSD
related to sexual assault and it's very hard for them to have relationships
later on in life and I'm not just talking about intimate relationships it
can be difficult to have relationships with friends or family members okay and
this can cause a lot of issues later in life something that I've talked about
which absolutely breaks my heart when it comes to mental illnesses like
borderline personality disorder not everybody with borderline personality
disorder is a victim of childhood abuse but I can tell you from personal
experience working with clients who have borderline personality disorder there's
a huge huge chunk of them who experienced abuse as a child that's one
of the reasons I got so interested with borderline personality disorder because
I kept seeing this pattern of people I was meeting in my treatment center who
were diagnosed with BPD then I started talking to him learning more about their
story and I would say at least in my experience ninety to ninety-five percent
of the time they they went through some kind of childhood trauma right so it
bums me out that's there's such a huge stigma around BPD and not more empathy
when so many of them were a victim of some kind of childhood abuse you know
what I mean and this is why I try to increase empathy across all forms of
mental illness not just like Oh feel bad for people with depression or feel bad
for people with bipolar or feel bad for people with you know this like we need
to understand that everybody like everybody is struggling with something
different you know I'll be honest like everybody's
talking with something it's just to what degree are you struggling with it right
like everybody could benefit from therapy having a support group whatever
it is okay but anyways getting back to Elijah
Daniels I can definitely understand his frustration and it struggles for me it
turns into a call to action like what what do I do about it
and my call to action like what what I do is I do this YouTube channel and we
also have the Facebook group we also have the discord server for people to
talk and you know have had others who have been through their experience get
suggestions on how to work work on things you know I'm gonna do a video
about the amazingly strong women from surviving our Kelly and how powerful it
is that they're sharing their stories and sharing how they overcame this
things I can't guarantee those women have given other women hope who have
been through similar forms of abuse so just know if you feel bad about
something it's a call to action now Elijah Daniels on Twitter blasting these
guys all over the place with his gigantic following of over half a
million followers and I absolutely respect what he's doing but all I can
say is that I really really hope that no harm comes to Elijah Daniels for what
he's doing right now on Twitter all right but anyways let me know let me
know down in the comments below like I did a whole series on alienation like
what suggestions do you have for somebody who has been through assault or
been through abuse like what can they do to get out of it let me know down in the
comments below okay anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this
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