 So a lot of people were waiting and anticipating on J-Station to do some kind of etiquette Ouija board or 3am challenge and it just happened and people are really upset and that's exactly what we need to talk about in this video. 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 what I like to do is take different topics from the YouTube community try to see what lessons we can pull from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being and something I'm very very passionate about is mental health awareness so if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So yeah I'm J-Station just came out with this video and it's this etiquette Ouija board challenge so for those of you who don't know I'm J-Station like congratulations you're probably over the age of like 10 years old so good job so let me just recap who I'm J-Station is for those of you who don't know um he's somebody he's one of those YouTubers out there who has millions of subscribers and most of them are children there is a genre I guess you can call it on YouTube where you do these kind of like spooky challenges or these 3am challenges and everything and I'm J-Station has done this and you know it does weird just weird videos a lot of people made videos about it but anyways he started to get a lot of flak or at least when I heard about him after the passing of Mack Miller like it was it might have been the same day or the next day after Mack Miller passed away from an overdose that I'm J-Station did some kind of like 3am challenge and people are like yo this is extremely disrespectful dude but here's the thing like I'm J-Station he's a dude he knows he's gonna get clicks he knows he's gonna get people talking about him and all these things like if you don't like him don't watch right but anyways after we found out about Etica yesterday I saw a lot of people on Twitter just saying like yo I'm J-Station better not he better not make a video on this he better not make a video on this and boom he just made a video on this and I just saw Twitter blowing up this morning and yeah I was like okay let me let me see I'm like did he really do this so I clicked on the video and yeah it's it's clickbait so the first thing I just want to talk about like is like yeah the dude is disrespectful but he clickbaited to get a bunch of people to watch um I think a lot of people who are leaving comments a lot of people who are tweeting they didn't actually watch the video because he didn't actually do a 3am challenge like in this video J is visibly upset and something I talked about in my videos yesterday is like whenever somebody passes away or especially when you know a young person takes their own life like people are really upset and this video from J he was very upset bro you can't tell the difference between my regular video and this I don't want people to make YouTube videos about me okay if I was literally I thought I was about to die so the reason I'm making this video is because J has millions of subscribers his video right now has hundreds of thousands of views and he said some very problematic things when it comes to depression and mental health and I feel for him because he's in a bad headspace right now but when you have that much exposure like that many people watching your videos if you're gonna say some things like that like I want to come on here and correct some of those things like I'll be completely honest with you guys right now this is just my personal opinion I really feel like after watching on J stations video and seeing how Keemstar has reacted to this I really think it woke those guys up I think it's woken a lot of people up and it's it's awful that it takes a tragedy like Erika for it to wake people up because in J's video he talks about how he's done doing that stuff and part of it comes I guess he had a near-death experience recently um which kind of like flicked on a light bulb as well but yeah like I've had issues with you know Keemstar in the past or the way he talks about mental health you know and and a lot of it's just from our personal experiences right like a lot of people don't have the experiences that I've been through those of you who don't know I worked in drug and alcohol treatment for you know a little over three years I've been clean and sober for a little over seven years I've just celebrated seven years of sobriety just the other day but anyways throughout my time is just a recovering addict and working in treatment I have seen so much death like I have experienced more death than most people experience in a lifetime so that's why I take this so seriously so when I see people who like for example when Jay station did the video about Mack Miller like I'm a recovering opioid addict like Jay doesn't have that same experience that I I do he doesn't understand how disrespectful that is when Keemstar is out there talking about mental health and people faking it and things like that like I'm just like okay I don't think Keem has ever like lost somebody or really experienced that so hopefully you know this is a wake-up call to these guys like Keemstar was actually he he's currently is actually promoting like a mental health organization and everything but anyways there's a couple things that I want to talk about because Jay said some really problematic things when it comes to depression so something that Jay talked about was if if you're not as depressed as Etika you're not really depressed and I I want to straighten that out because that is not not a good thing to say people made actual videos about Keemstar yes Keemstar's fault because he's hard on mental health youtubers just putting on I'm a I'm depressed guys I'm depressed I'm breaking down I got depression or I do something bad it's because I was depressed he's hard on because you know what it's true bro these youtubers are doing this making five different videos about being depressed bro I'm sad too bro but I'm not about to say I got depression dude because you know what man if you didn't feel like Etika did you don't got depression because what he is saying is unless you are suicidal you're not actually depressed and you're just doing it for attention and that is that is like just a terrible thing to tell people because we have to realize like depression is an ongoing thing depression is something that's on a spectrum most people experience about a depression at some point in their life not everybody who struggles with depression is suicidal but I'll tell you this if you minimize everybody's depression it could lead to a point where they do get suicidal so like I and ah it it hurts too because Jay has such a young audience right and one of the issues that we have in this world today is that a lot of people aren't comfortable talking about mental illness so when I see Jay saying that about depression I sit there and I imagine these kids watching it right and imagine one of these kids they get to middle school they get to high school when their mental health starts to get messed up and they remember that this gigantic youtuber said unless you are thinking about taking your own life you are not actually depressed like that is a major issue like I'm here to let you know like depression is on a spectrum like you have various disorders you have major depressive disorder but then you also have dysthymia right which is um like functional depression okay but just know no matter what type of depression that you're struggling with like get help it doesn't it doesn't have to get to the place where you are considering taking your own life before you get help like one of my goals is to help people get to a place where they start treating their mental illness sooner rather than later like we we can't keep waiting for things to get so bad so so so bad that we finally ask for help like if you're struggling right now reach out talk to somebody friends family members parents doctor psychiatrist therapist school teacher counselor whoever it is like if you are struggling right now talk to somebody now the next thing and again I understand Jay was upset but he started um talking about how people making videos about edica is just for attention and everything like that and he calls out Philip DeFranco now here's the thing like Philip DeFranco is you know a massive influencer and he made a video a short video on his secondary channel talking about edica because he had a lot of people requesting it and when I look at that I I think of Philip as somebody who's spreading awareness right and he linked to some resources so anybody talking about this is good I made a video yesterday like we need more people talking about this not less and here's the thing like man just whenever these tragedy happens there's there's just so many people who are just at each other's throats and I wish when these things happened it brought people together because what I'm thinking about is boogie 2988 he got a bunch of flak yesterday because of some things he said about edica the night before but anyways then boogie donated like five hundred dollars to a mental health organization some people called him out on it and said like oh yo why are you showing the number like why do you have to show how much you donated right so so think about that boogie got a bunch of crap for showing how much he donated but then you have jay saying that you need to donate money but the only way that you'll know if somebody donated money is if they show how much money they donated which will get you pushed back anyways you see what I mean like just I wish tragedies like this brought out the best in people but sometimes it brings out the worst in people but the last thing I want to talk about is the other harmful message that jay sends out there is unless you're donating money to like mental health organizations or anything like that like you're you're not you don't actually care I want to say I'm very sorry and I want to make a new thing on YouTube about if you're gonna tweet about this guy dying if you're gonna pretend like you were his friend put some money at least to something like his funeral you got to support these people put some money donate some money or else you're doing it for pure attention and that that is a big problem because a lot of you if you're like me you've been broke for most of your life and I think it's an issue to say like the only thing of value is if you have money because that's not true in any way shape or form when tragedies like this happen like we need to understand that we all need to do a better job being there for one another and opening up talking about mental health and like you guys like you don't need to be a therapist to just lend an ear to somebody if you have a friend who is in a dark place you don't need to be a professional to listen to them because especially in the United States when so many people don't have health care they don't have mental health care they don't have access to these things we need to start having all of us working together and talking to one another i'm actually going to link a ted talk down below and uh it's from this guy vicarin patel and basically like what he talks about is there's so many places around the world that are in poverty and they don't have resources because poverty is a major cause of depression right like if you if you can't feed your kids or if you're a kid who can't eat or you know if you don't have schooling if your family you know family and friends are dying around you because lack of mental care is going to make you depressed they don't have access to this health care so what vicarin patel and people did was they started training people in peer support right and they saw depression rates drop okay so i mentioned that and i want you to take a look at this um ted talk so you understand how beneficial it is for you to just be there for one another you know what i mean like that's all we can do like get into support groups facebook support groups and everything like that like i i personally you know i'm in a bunch of different support groups on facebook and when i get time i hop in there i look for a post and if somebody's struggling i try to give them some words of encouragement or some things that i've been through that you know i found a way to get out of that maybe i can help them with you know what i mean like it's not that hard it's not you don't you don't have to donate thousands of dollars you don't even have to donate a dollar like if you can do your thing i'm going to link down below if you want to donate to the fund that um you know i think keemstar might have started but like if you want to do that cool do it but just know like you don't have to donate money like that it is not it's not good to send out the message that the only way you care about this or if you care about mental health then you're going to donate money like not everybody has that option so we need to work on spreading awareness talking to each other letting people know that it's okay to talk about what they're dealing with and what they're struggling with all right um but yeah anyways just to bring it back to what i said like jay is visibly upset he click baited a bunch of people that i don't think watched his video um yes i do think he's done some problematic things in the past i think he said some problematic things in this video but i'm an optimist and i'm hoping that you know this does change jay for the better all right but anyways um that's all i got for this video if you like it give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell um yeah i was going to be done with this but when this whole thing with jay blew up i just felt the need to make a video so i will have some new videos coming up very soon about some other topics and things like that so thanks again so much for watching i'll see you next time