 What is up, everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And welcome back to another video where this week we are focusing on the subject of anxiety. And I have a special guest for you today. He's a fellow mental health YouTuber. His name is Trey Jones, and he is amazing. I recently just met him not too long ago. I love his channel, I love what he's doing. He does so much on anxiety. When I first started watching his videos, I'm like, dang, this dude knows his stuff. But please, please, please give this video your full attention. I get so many of you who ask me for tips and advice, especially when it comes to anxiety. And although this channel is supported by better help, I know a lot of you still can't afford online therapy. Trey's entire channel is about natural ways to overcome anxiety disorders, as well as having anxiety attacks. So please, please, please, please pay attention to his story and go subscribe to his channel. But anyways, that's all I'm gonna say right now. Take it away, Trey. What's going on, guys? Thank you so much, Chris, for having me on the channel. If you're subscribed to him, you're in good hands. He knows his stuff. He uses his past experiences to help you out. That's what it's all about. That's kind of what I do on my channel. I have a self-improvement channel. So there's gonna be anything from health reviews to healthy living, ways to lose weight. I do addiction recovery help. That would be with tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. I also have a huge emphasis, especially lately, on anxiety relief, depression help. Any type of anxiety disorder, basically, I give my advice, my past experiences with, because that's what I struggled with the most. For five years, I had health anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, and depression. It basically crippled me. So I just kinda wanna give you my backstory on that, how it got started, and give you some methods on how you can overcome anxiety naturally, okay? That's the key, naturally, all right? So, backstory about me. I was drinking really, really heavily in my early 20s, and a weekend bender is what started it all, okay? I'm sure it had been building up and building up, but my drinking and smoking cigarettes basically had finally caught up with me, okay? So I was drinking all weekend. We were staying up all night, didn't get any sleep. I did this for two days straight. We would get up at like 7.30 and drink a lot of beer. I was chain smoking, we ate horrible food. So I came back home on a Sunday evening, had to work the next day, so I went to sleep, and I was just laying there, couldn't fall asleep. I guess I was just really stressed out. I was having so much fun at my friend's house or whatever, so I'd come back home and I was kinda depressed, I guess, because I had to go back to work the next day, so the stress was kinda getting to me. So it kinda started to build up and build up, and then I had this palpitation. My heart just shot up, my heart rate. Then it was pounding out of my chest, my blood pressure skyrocketed through the roof. Then I had a lot of chest pain, okay? It was crushing, it was sharp. Every type of chest pain all in one session, okay? Terrible. I thought I was having a heart attack. Then I got tingling, numbness, depersonalization, derealization. I started actually hallucinating, seeing things. So I was like, this is it. I'm dying. I jumped on the computer, I was looking up symptoms, and everything that I had seen was telling me heart attack, right? If you Google your symptoms and you have any type of anxiety or health anxiety, just don't do it. If you have any questions, just go to the doctor and get a handle, get that reassurance that you need. But I was very early on, I didn't know that, okay? So I looked it up, so I called my mom, she's a nurse. I'm telling her, look, I'm having a heart attack, so she takes me to her office, she checks my blood pressure, it's really high. This panic attack lasted a total of six hours, okay? That is a very, very, very long panic attack. Worse six hours of my life. From that point on, yeah, I had five to 10 panic attacks if I had to put a guesstimate on it. Every single day, that was every day, five to 10 a day. My whole life fell apart, okay? Relationships, friendships, my money was, I was dead. I owed everybody money, it seemed like. I job hopped, I had great jobs that I just couldn't handle anymore because of the stress and anxiety. I had horrible panic attacks driving, so I had a really, really great job where I was actually a general manager. I'd work my way all the way up to that. Something I'd always wanted was to be a manager. And I was making good money and I just couldn't handle the drive. It was a 45 minute drive and I had panic attacks all the way there. From that point on, you know, the health anxiety got worse. Sort of think I had things like cancer, it didn't matter if I went to the doctors, I didn't trust them, I got all these tests done, I had tons of medical bills. I thought I had MS, cancer, Parkinson's, HIV, everything under the moon, I thought I had it at the same time, okay? Crazy, I know, right? But, you know, I was scared. The panic attacks really, really shot fear to the top priority of my subconscious mind and it's really, really hard to knock that off, okay? So, you gotta start working on it. But that led to my social anxiety. I started to stutter, I couldn't really talk to people, I couldn't relate to people anymore and I used to be the life of the party. So I was stuttering, couldn't relate, couldn't talk to people. My mind would go blank in the middle of conversations and then I was just chronically depressed after that. I was always either not getting any sleep because of my insomnia or I was sleeping all day because I was unmotivated and just didn't have any confidence about my day, my life, who I was. I didn't know what was going on. All this started to lead me to realize that I have to do something, okay? So I made an appointment, they prescribed me Cedrilline which is an antidepressant and they prescribed me a low dosage because I didn't want something high. I took it for two days and I was like, you know what, I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna put a bandage on an infected wound. So I started looking up natural ways and started doing it, okay? So I started exercising every day. I started doing P90X, all right? And then I did Insanity after that. I did that every single day. So I was spending about 30 minutes to an hour doing it. Helped me tremendously. Gave me confidence that I wasn't dying, okay? I forced myself to exercise. Now, exercise is key but diet and combination I think is way better than any antidepressant is ever gonna be. Now, I know some people in extreme cases need those but I try to encourage everybody to at least try the natural way first, give it all you have and see if it works because it does work and that's what I tell everybody on my channel that suffers from any type of anxiety disorder. That's kind of the way I like to lead people, all right? So, exercise and diet, as far as diet goes guys, just make sure it's a healthy one, all right? I like to go by a plant-based diet so that's plenty of green vegetables, fruits also are acceptable and lean meat so that's gonna be chicken and turkey. Fish is really good, high in omega-3. Make sure that you're getting a multivitamin as well because you're gonna probably lack some nutrients in your diet. Vitamin B is great, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, they're great mood stabilizers, a lot of evidence suggesting that they help with depression so think about that. Meditation guys, this is one of the big ones right here, meditation, all right? So you're doing your exercise, you're doing your diet, getting up early in the morning you should be spending 15, 30 minutes doing meditation. It's not taboo, it's not just for monks, okay? It'll help you visualize what you want in your life, it'll help you accomplish your goals, okay? Help you get there step by step but you'll see the whole picture, trust me, you're slowing your life down, you're slowing your 99 mile an hour mind down, okay? Doing the mornings, doing the evenings right before bed. It's important to do it at those times because that's whenever you're the closest to your subconscious mind. Your conscious and subconscious get a little bit closer so your conscious mind can have some actual effect on your subconscious if that makes any sense. I know I'm saying conscious too many times. So that's gonna help rewire your brain. Do that every single day. Journaling guys, journaling, journaling, journaling guys you gotta do it, okay? Get a notebook if you can't afford a regular journal. No books are cheap. Write in your diets, write in your exercises, write in your meditation sessions, write what you did today that you could do differently tomorrow, okay? Why did today not go well? How many panic attacks did I have? What were my symptoms today? What can I do to improve that? Just do everything that you gotta do, write everything down, okay? Journaling is very important, it'll help you get there. Also, there's plenty of videos, there's ASMR, there's positive affirmations, there's CBT, plenty of things, there's counseling therapy, but there's a lot of online support groups as well. I have a Facebook group on my channel that's strictly for anxiety disorders. So if you come over to my channel and wanna check that out, I have the group there in the descriptions of my videos and then the pinned comment. So be sure to check that out. Guys, thank you so much for giving me your time and Chris, thank you so much again. I will see you guys on my channel if you decide to describe. If not, take it easy, guys, overcome it the natural way. All right, that was such an amazing video and it was so inspiring. Like, I think the biggest takeaway I took from that is just the hustle. Like, that's one of the reasons I already liked this dude, Trey. Like, when he reached out to me and I checked out his channel, I'm like, yo, this dude hustles. And like, he was backed into a corner with his anxiety attacks and he decided to do something about it and he forced himself. And like, what I try to teach you all out there and I don't stress it enough is this. If somebody out there can do it, so can you. And you need to believe that. You need to know that in the fiber of your being. You can do the exact same thing. And Trey doesn't talk about doing anything crazy. Like, it wasn't skydiving or like wrestling bears or anything. He's talking about exercise and diet and meditation and journaling and mood tracking. He's talking about very simple things that you can do at pretty much no cost at all. Aside from the food you're buying and maybe a dollar a notebook. You know what I mean? But like, think about that. Like, when you are stuck in this situation, you got two options, all right? You either lay down and let it keep happening to you or you do something about it. Now, I know it's a lot easier said than done but one baby step at a time, do something even if it's going out and buying a dollar notebook, okay? But anyways, do us both a favor, me and Trey. Share this video, share this video because it's so inspiring to anybody out there who is struggling with anxiety, all right? But if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. And if you are new here, I'm always making videos that help you out with your mental health. Click or tap on that little round subscribe button and please, please, please go check out Trey's channel and subscribe to him, the link is right there. I'm also gonna link it down in the description and in the comments and join his Facebook group as well. I'll be up in there too, all right? Thanks for watching, I'll see you next time.