you are not depressed stop saying that yikes
did Prince EA a really just say that did he just say that you're not depressed
this video he made got a lot of people upset and one of them being bullying a
band so in this video we're gonna discuss both sides of it and see if we
can come to a good conclusion so stay tuned what's up everybody this is Chris
from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the
solution so Prince EA this was about a year ago I know I'm late to the party on
this but about a year ago he posted this video it says you are not depressed stop
it that is literally the title of this video and if you have watched my other
video about Neil brennan's stand-up special on Netflix I'll link it
in the description up here he talks about how there is a lot of ignorance
about depression and people think that it's just a switch we could turn off and
on and those are ignorant people and as somebody who struggles with depression I
take offense to that so when Prince EA said that there was a
big big big backlash and boyinaband made a very good video about it and what I'm
trying to do in this video I want to give you a very objective point of view
on this because I think there's a lot of stuff lost in communication and I'm
gonna explain why now I'm not gonna go deep into my thoughts on Prince EA in
this video I do have my own thoughts on it but I think the argument here between
the two is a lack of communication so I'm gonna be the mediator for them so
basically Prince EA starts his video out again with this you are not depressed
stop saying that here is boy in a bands quick response to
that okay I'm gonna have to stop you there no depression does not always go
see it looks like you're mixing up this Wikipedia page with this one depressed
can be a mood like sadness or frustration but depressed can also refer
to major depressive major depressive disorder a mental disorder people are
genetically predisposed to alright who's right and who's wrong now I will link to
both of these videos down in the description below but here's the thing
here's the thing with Prince EA and here's what I try to do differently with
my channel Prince EA is a meditator he meditates he meditates a lot he has a
weird past if any of you know about his past being a rapper and a lot of people
bring that up anyways I don't know if he's somewhat enlightened now or
whatever but he meditates okay and here's what I try to explain to people
that you know might confuse you if you don't meditate people who meditate they
kind of they they kind of have their own their own language and it's it's a
little bit different and it's not like you know like some weird like alien
language it's just some of these things sound weird and they sound kind of crazy
like that's the issue with this video a lot of people thought he sounded nuts
um one of the examples I give is as Jim Carrey like all the stuff that's been
going on with Jim Carrey and some of his interviews lately like people like this
dude has lost his mind but as somebody who practices meditation
and I'm really into Buddhist philosophy like what Jim Carrey says it pretty much
makes sense to me anyways point a band is absolutely right depression is a
legitimate mental illness I've done plenty of other videos on it I explained
the science of depression I explained the lack of certain neurotransmitters in
the brain that are responsible for depression now well Prince EA is talking
about is what we do with a meditation practice and my issue with Prince EA is
is that he never talks about meditation like okay I said I wasn't gonna you know
judge him too bad but here's one thing I'm judging him on he never really talks
about meditation practices like he tries to put on this persona that all of these
things are very original that he's coming up with but for anybody who is a
meditator like this is just like very well-known things that he's talking
about it's nothing crazy so in a meditation practice you learn to watch
your thoughts rather than being swept away by them so when Prince EA is making
his analogy of the clouds or he did something that upset people he holds up
a little remote control and says look this is your depression now it's gone
and that seems nuts but what he's talking about is sitting back and
watching these two press of thoughts this is something I've
talked about in other videos which is called non identification alright so
what the problem is with anxiety with depression and all these other things is
that we identify so closely with them that we get swept away by them okay so
what Prince EA is talking about is saying that you your physical self your
idea of self you are not your depression depression is a part of you but you are
not that depression something that we talked about is with meditation rather
than being in the movie being in the thoughts you're able to sit back and
watch the movie okay I hope that analogy helps out just a little bit now in my
response to boy in a bed like boy to band did a great job you did a lot of
research he also reached out to a lot of professors and psychologists and things
like that now some things that I'll make very
clear for you science has proven time and time again in multiple studies I
will link to some articles down below that meditation reduces depression one
study found that forty minutes forty minutes of meditation every single day
is as beneficial as the best antidepressant medications out there
they see the same neurobiological changes in the brain that
antidepressants have so meditation is a legitimate practice for anybody who
struggles with depression other studies have shown that people who regularly
meditate even for five minutes a day that's right everybody I said five
minutes a day people who meditate for five minutes a day have more activity in
the part of the brain responsible for positive thoughts so if you're somebody
whose struggles with depression think about that for a second so meditation is
a genuine solution to symptoms of depression it might not be a complete
cure-all but the relationship to depression changes this is why I talk
about it a lot on my channel and why I teach it to my clients who struggle with
depression alright so in the future I will do a
more in-depth video on my thoughts on Prince EA and what's he what he's doing
and stuff because you know as somebody who's trying to
you know teach people about mental health as well as meditation I have some
issues with the way he kind of does things but anyways like I said I will
link to both the videos down below I think the one that boyinaband did was
very well done I just think there was some miscommunication and he doesn't
fully understand this meditation practice and then I'll also link to
Prince EA's response in there like Prince EA had the perfect opportunity to
do what I'm doing and explain what he actually meant but instead Prince EA
made a video set he made a video like saying like a video to my haters and
that's like come on dude he could have had a logical conversation about this
and just explained it but anyways I hope that cleared some things up for all of
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