 Alright so Karen and Cop just got a ton of backlash for her mental health merch and my opinions on it might surprise you a little bit. 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 is all about mental health and what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being so the end of that stuff makes you subscribe and ring that notification bell and real quick exciting announcement the unsolicited advice podcast with myself and that is now available on Spotify so if you haven't yet go check it out go follow it it helps promote this mental health podcast that we just started and we record it every Tuesday it should be up on Wednesdays but I'll let you know when it gets up on the other platforms alright so yeah let's jump into this I put up a poll yesterday on the community tab I've been doing a bunch of polls and I appreciate all of you getting involved but anyways I put up a poll saying like do you want me to chime in on the Karen and Cop situation and overwhelmingly the answer was yes so here we are so I was unaware of this I watched ready to glares video on it I watched I'm Alex's video on it and yeah something that you know I I've brought up to all of you is like creating this kind of echo chamber of everybody you know talking about the same subject and all that but I wanted to do this video as well because I have some different views on it for those of you who don't know what's going on current a cop is getting a bunch of backlash because she made this merch and it says my anxieties have anxiety or something like that on the front then on the back it has the dictionary definition of anxiety and it's getting a lot of backlash for a variety of different reasons okay so I'll start out by saying this like I 1000% agree that it is lazy merch okay so some of you who have watched the nerd the new nerd city video where he's kind of ripping into Jake Paul and stuff like that like this merch is very very lazy ready to glare said it too and yeah I was looking at him like yeah that's that's pretty lazy merch like Tristan designs all of our merch by hand like for example this shirt right here of Wyatt um so yeah that's one of my issues with it would I buy it now but it is lazy merch okay and that's something that I think a lot of youtubers do like it's interesting because I see some of the youtubers who are like you know upset about it like I've seen their merch like when I'm researching you know what merch other youtubers have and stuff I look at it I'm like really like a lot of youtubers out there are selling merch with just like a word on it you know and I'm all for like minimalist designs and things like that but it's like a balance between like minimalism and then like you know the quality of the clothes the price all that kind of stuff comes into play and that's just me personally alright so anyways if you're somebody who bought Corinne Koff's merch you do you baby girl that's your thing alright it's just something that I'm not a fan of alright now one of the other complaints was that Corinne Koff was only only donating 15% of the profits to the ADA which is an anxiety organization right like you guys come on okay like a lot of this video is gonna be about outraged culture and how ridiculous it is like 15% is a pretty decent amount alright most places are gonna do five ten percent I think 15% is very generous okay especially when you consider the fact that a she didn't have to donate anything and be a lot of people don't donate anything right like at all like zero percent alright so the main concern everybody has not even concern I don't know why it would be concerning concerning is making profit off of mental health now something that I will say like noticing what's happening in comments and on Twitter something that Tristan just introduced me to is gatekeeping right like gatekeeping is like oh you don't understand this I understand this and I'm gonna make some videos about that in the mental health sphere I just learned this term and it's absolutely ridiculous but anyways like people are saying you shouldn't profit off of mental health merch and like that's something that like really intrigues me because I have a mental health channel I'm doing this full time you know I get this same kind of thing but like you guys you need to understand like I worked in the mental health field okay I worked at a treatment center and I got a paycheck like am I supposed to feel bad about that or therapist psychiatrist psychologist you know behavioral technicians nurses like all these people who work in the mental health field are they supposed to feel bad for quote-unquote profiting off of mental health like should doctors feel bad for profiting off of physical health like this is something that just absolutely fascinates me also I read a ton of books a ton of books and 99.9% of the time actually a hundred percent of the time I read mental health books like that's what I read right so should those authors not get paid for their work because they're talking about mental health like my question to all of you is like where do we draw the line like where do we draw the line with like people profiting off mental health right like taking advantage of the mentally ill is an issue like I've mentioned this in previous things like something that I'm you know always looking into is like addiction like there are some very shady treatment centers especially out in Florida that take advantage of people in this vulnerable state but like as far as like quote-unquote profiting like everybody needs to like really really chill out on it especially because I'm not gonna lie I thought I've thought about making mental health merch and the thing is the thing is is like everything's about perception and how you see things like I see what Corinna Coffin's doing even though I think her merch is kind of lazy and maybe overpriced but I don't know the quality and all that but like the way I see it is empowering right like like taking back this thing you know like I like one of the critiques that I keep seeing online is like oh this is a terrible thing you shouldn't you shouldn't put that on merch and it's like well not everybody like I remember a while back this comment hasn't happened for a while but it was a long long long time ago but somebody's like you're laughing you're laughing about your mental illness this is absolutely miserable and it's like no like something that I do like it empowers me to laugh about you know my anxiety to laugh about my depression to laugh about the crazy things I did in addiction my co-host Matt and I we we talk about this all the time like this is something that we do so like that's a form of gatekeeping like who are you to say that people can't you know empower themselves through this type of thing like if I made merch for it just so you all know if I ever make like mental health merch to talk about anxiety or depression or whatever like just so you know it comes from an empowering place now all of us are in different places on our journey like I remember when I first got sober I was like what the heck is so funny why are you guys laughing right but then I began to understand like people are laughing about this thing because it no longer has control over them now I think ready to glare brought up a very interesting point when she was talking about you know other forms of mental illness like what would we think if it said something about like my bulimia has bulimia or something like that and that's interesting like I love like getting my wheels turning and saying okay you know but things like depression and anxiety are the most common forms of mental illness that people struggle with so I think you know it is different like I don't know if I would like do something about trauma you know it's a little bit more serious don't give me wrong anxiety can be very very serious and debilitating but I just want you guys to think about that like let me know down in the comments below like are you at a place in your recovery journey where you can joke and laugh about your mental health issues you know what I mean like let me know down in the comments but the other thing is this is something that I actually talked about on the guest video I did over on psych IRL like I talked about like I'm trying to change the way we look at mental health right like I I see a lot of the you know controversy that I get you know thrown at me is like people aren't at that place yet where you know they're they're ready to normalize mental health but like I said in my video with Donna is like I imagine a day where people look at mental health the same as physical health right like for example like nobody would even question merch that says something about like getting into shape or like you know going you know like going on the treadmill because you're overweight like nobody would even have a second thought about that but when it comes to mental health it is and one of my missions here at the rewired soul is to normalize this conversation so I absolutely 1000% disagree with the backlash in that sense now here's my main problem here's my main problem with Karinikov okay so when I was doing some research for this video Karinikov actually launched this merch like nine months ago that video right there that's her opening up about her anxiety when she first launched the merch so real quick like I don't understand why this is such a big deal right now because she launched this merch forever ago but she just made new Instagram post about it so maybe people like missed it in the last time or maybe outraged culture has gotten worse in the last nine months I don't know but here's my issue with it watching that video it's one of the reasons why I started this channel watching Karinikov's video or you'll see it with a lot of videos where people are talking about mental health issues is that it's all problems no solutions right like don't get me wrong that's why I say we talk about the problem but focus on the solution like I believe that you know Karinikov helped a lot of people with that video like letting other people know it's okay to talk about your anxiety it's okay to have anxiety I deal with it too I'm sure a lot of people connect but at no place in that video did she like provide resources or anything like that she did mention that you know she has a bunch of different coping skills but like what are they like is it something I can learn is it something that other people can learn you know what I mean so that's one of the reasons I always say we talk about the problem but focus on the solution because there are too many people out there who are just talking about their mental health issues and then like I'm sitting there waiting like you know I know a lot of people are sitting there waiting saying what do I do about it right so I think Karinikov should you know lean into this thing and make some videos about what her coping skills are is she on medication did she talk to a doctor or a psychiatrist is she going to therapy you know does she meditate like what is she doing what can she do to help people with their anxiety you know what I mean so like me personally like I you all know like I meditate I write I do all sorts of things these videos you know all sorts of stuff okay something that I just started was therapy with better help I'm gonna do a review of it pretty soon like after I've done like a whole month I actually have my first appointment with my therapist today to actually do a one-on-one talk because we've just been messaging and it's not no fault of her it's like she's been asking me to do it but like going to California and all that and like I got trust issues so I was feeling her out so I want to do that call first and then you know let you all know but if you're interested in checking out better help online therapy the link is always down in the description below but also like if you don't use better help just go find a therapist somewhere like it can be very helpful like I am learning so much more and it's awesome I'll let you all know in that follow-up video but anyways let me know down in the comments below like do you get empowered laughing or joking or normalizing the mental health conversation like because for me it does but I want to hear from all of you I want to know where you guys are at in your journey all right but anyways don't forget the podcast unsolicited advice is now up on Spotify go check it out give it a follow give it a listen okay but if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon you are all amazing and don't forget I have the February Patreon Q&A up so make sure that you ask your questions there and if you want to become a patron click 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