 So last night I binge watched the entire season of the end of the effing world the new series up on Netflix and today we're going to be reviewing the first season as well as how it pertains to self-harm as well as depression 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 and yes we will be reviewing season one of the end of the effing world and if you haven't seen it yet do not fret because there will be no spoilers in this video and what I mean by that is nothing I will say is anything that you cannot find in the trailer but in short I did love the season there was a couple weird things but I'm not here to do an in-depth analysis on it I am a mental health channel so if you're into channels that help you out with your mental health I'm here to give you suggestions about depression talk a little bit about the symptoms of depression so if you like that kind of stuff be sure to click that little subscribe button all right so if you haven't seen the trailer at least basically this show is about a young boy named James he's about 17 he is somebody who's been harming animals and now his plan is to kill an actual person so he tricks a girl into falling in love with him and his plan is to murder her so I won't tell you how that whole thing ends up but the topics I want to talk about today as how it pertains to depression mainly is the feeling of numbness around depression I think a lot of people when we talk about depression you think of just sadness or a lot of negative self-talk low self-esteem not feeling good enough the whole world's out to get me self pity and all these things but one of the symptoms of depression that we need to talk about is this feeling of numbness this this inability to feel and I think this show did a very good job depicting that with James and how he doesn't feel at a very young age they show this through James doing some self harm and this is one of one of the many reasons why people self harm so James as a young boy his dad bought a deep fryer and James just straight up takes his hand and he plunges it into the deep fryer just to feel something and it obviously messes up his hand and he lives with this for the rest of his life but this is one of the reasons why people self harm they have this feeling of numbness and the only way they can feel something is through some kind of physical pain as this goes on James ends up starting to harm animals he finds some kind of relief when he harms animals which is pretty twisted but this is how you know if you're in a serial killers how some serial killers start they start by harming animals and when that wasn't enough James decides that he's going to find a person to do this with so one of the one of the problems with depression is when you're not feeling anything you're constantly seeking a way to feel now those of you who are new here to my channel I also talk a lot about addiction one of the reasons that people become addicted is because they are trying to feel something one of the leading causes of addiction is symptoms of mental illness so when people can't feel anything due to depression and it's been undiagnosed they might turn to drugs as a way to do this so the three reasons why people use drugs is to get a feeling to get rid of a feeling or to have an escape so when it pertains to depression and those feelings of numbness people are going to turn to a substance or self harm or crazy behavior as a way to feel something now as it pertains to addiction what happens is is that we're training our brain so that whenever you're feeling numb and you want to feel something use this substance and after repeating this cycle over and over and over again the brain becomes dependent to it and most of these drugs as well as alcohol when you keep abusing them then you start to increase your symptoms of depression so basically what what i'm here to do what my channel is about is try to give you different methods and suggestions and advice and tools on scientifically proven methods to get out of depression now when it comes to not being able to feel anything this is based on different neurotransmitters in your brain so the first suggestion is to see a doctor see a psychiatrist see somebody to talk about these symptoms because what it is is it's an improper tuning of the neurotransmitters in your brain and different antidepressant medications they're not these immediate happy pills and i've done other videos on antidepressants but what they do is is they start regenerating certain neurotransmitters so an antidepressant might be able to help you now if you're somebody who likes to read one of the best books that i've ever read on depression and neuroscience is this book called the upward spiral by alex korb all right i will link in the description below to this book as well as the rest of my reading list but this book has various chapters on how to kind of hack your brain it's kind of the foundation of my depression hack series it's how to hack your brain to get motivated to experience pleasure in very natural ways and the author does this by showing a lot of different scientific studies and experiments that they've done with people where they monitor the brains and they see how these neurotransmitters actually start to flow so again if you want to check that book out please check the description below and if you're somebody who feels like you need therapy maybe you're already on an antidepressant or you just want to talk to somebody you're not sure if you're struggling with the symptoms of depression there is also going to be a link in the description below for some online therapy so both the links to the books as well as to the online therapy these are both affiliate links so anytime you use one of these links it does help support this channel so i can make more videos to help you and everybody else with symptoms of mental illness so if you like this video please give it a thumbs up go check out the end of the effing world it's an interesting series i'm wondering what's going to happen in season two so go check it out and again if you're new here please click the little round subscribe button turn on the notification bell i'm always making videos to help out you with your symptoms of mental illness as well as your emotional well-being and addiction recovery thanks again for watching i'll see you next time