- Bro, I appreciate searching for content in mental health
that will reach a large amount of people,
but maybe stay away from the YouTube drama B.S.
I.E. Tenacon and this stuff.
I know where you're coming from,
but I feel you may lose credibility
to new potential subscribers.
Just a thought.
That is a very valid point in my comments section,
so let's talk about it right now.
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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.
Welcome back to another video
where this week we're diving into the topic
of how to be a better person.
This is actually like a really, really important topic.
I'm glad that some people are pushing back
on some of the other videos I do about YouTube drama,
and stuff like that,
because I haven't really fully explained why I do that,
and it's interesting too.
Some of you my know my buddy Kay
from the channel Bipolar Pug.
She just put up an awesome video
about what's been going on with Fousey,
because Fousey has struggled with bipolar disorder
and he seems like he might be going through a manic episode,
so Kay actually made a video about this.
It's very well done, I'm gonna link to it,
down in the description, the comments.
Please go check it out because Kay talks
about her lived experience being in manic episodes
and breaks down some different aspects of what Fousey says,
and things like that.
So please, please, please go check it out.
Subscribe while you're there and let her know
that I sent you over.
Anyways, I was talking to Kay,
because when things come up I try to talk
to my mental health community YouTubers.
I say hey, this might be a topic that you can touch on.
Because me, I'm not that well-versed in bipolar disorder,
but Kay is.
Kay works in the field of mental health care,
struggles with bipolar but she said,
she's like I don't really like jumping into YouTube drama
and stuff like that.
She didn't really say she didn't like it,
but she doesn't want her channel to turn
into a YouTube drama channel.
So I talked to her a bit about it,
and her video's doing very well.
Not because of me, by the way,
but because she did such a great video.
Anyways, let me start out by saying this.
Let me give you some of my experience.
And this I hope you can relate to
and understand why I make these videos.
So back in the day, back when my mental health
was just terrible,
I was the most pessimistic, depressed, anxious person
on Earth, I used to be obsessed with the news.
I would sit there and I would watch the news.
I would watch the news constantly.
What's going on?
What's going on, right?
And I would just sit there and be like, these people.
What is wrong with this world?
What is wrong with these people?
What is wrong with everybody?
I can't stand it.
Or I would watch reality TV and just laugh
and laugh and laugh at all these crazy people on TV,
but meanwhile I was a loser.
I was a mental mess.
I was struggling with my addiction,
but I would just watch these things and look
at how messed up everybody else was.
So it's really important that when we're watching things,
we can sit back and say, oh my God do I do that?
One of my biggest fears in life is being a hypocrite.
For example, the comment that that video came from
was my Trisha Paytas-Jason Nash video.
I can relate to their drama in their relationship.
I used to do that, I used to be that.
I was watching those videos with my girlfriend,
I'm like dang, I used to be messed up in relationships.
So rather than just watching these things
and judging everybody,
I try to see how it can actually relate to my life
and if I'm doing something,
maybe it's something that I can improve.
But I think one of the biggest things is,
it's 2018 and millennials are constantly,
constantly talked down to because of how we use technology,
how we go through Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat
and Twitter and all we do is watch YouTube
and stuff like that.
Or we watch too much TV or Netflix or movies.
One of the reasons why,
one of the reasons why this stigma is out there
about technology is because we do it in such a passive way.
We sit back, we watch these things
and we don't let any of it sink in.
How many times have you watched a movie
and taken a lesson from it and put it into good use?
So what I'm trying to get at is we need to quit looking
at all these things passively.
Look at how much time you spend on YouTube.
Look at how much time you spend on Twitter.
Look how much time you spend on Instagram.
If we can take every single thing that we're doing
in our life and turn it into a learning experience,
we gradually improve as people over time.
So we start to recognize, oh, I'm acting like that.
I'm doing that.
Or I have a friend who did that.
All these other things, because we're helping ourselves
as well as helping each other.
So that's the main reason why I touch
on this YouTube drama stuff because I know
most of you are watching it.
I know that you know about what's going on,
so I take that and I try to flip it into something
that you can understand and say,
oh, maybe I need to reflect.
Maybe I can take some of the advice that Chris is offering
in this video.
But I'm not gonna lie to you.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
My main goal of this channel is to help
as many people as possible.
One of the uphill battles
that all of us mental health channels have is
that it's really hard for us to be visible on YouTube
because of the algorithm, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So, I would be lying to you if I didn't say part
of the reason I touch on these trending topics,
I'd be lying if I told you that it wasn't
to get new subscribers and new views.
So I do do that, but it's to bring them to the channel.
Then they watch the video and they're like,
oh, this guy actually dives deep into these topics.
He unpacks it.
I can maybe improve my mental health,
or they come through the funnel of one of those videos,
then they look around my channel and they're like
oh, this guy talks about depression and addiction
and anxiety and all these other disorders.
So it is a gateway, too, to get some new audience.
But the main moral of this video,
the main moral of this video is
to quit watching things passively.
Quit reading books passively.
See what you can adapt to your own life.
See what lessons that you can learn and I guarantee,
not only will it improve your mental health,
but it will make your life better
because you won't be wasting time.
We've got one life to live, do not waste a single moment.
But if you know somebody who just wastes time
just passively watching stuff,
go ahead and share this video.
I would also like to hear from you in the comments.
Do you feel that you just watch videos passively,
or do you try to take lessons
from everything that you watch?
Go ahead and leave a comment down below.
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Make everything a learning experience
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