 Morgan Adams just opened up about her depression and she just made a video with her brother Ryland Adams and there's a ton that we can learn about overcoming depression and we're going to talk about everybody's favorite subject, neuroscience. 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 if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And for all of you who didn't get the memo, my book Rewire Your Anger is now available as an audio book narrated by yours truly so if you would like to get a copy it's actually bundled with the ebook version so it's $7.99 just click or tap on the link down below or in the pinned comment if you want to get it. The ebook version is only about an hour and twenty minutes so if you drive to work stuck in traffic and you're starting to get angry, boom, to switch on some Rewire Your Anger. What's interesting is there's actually quite a bit of information in there about how I overcome road rage so there's some tips in there if you struggle with road rage too as well as dealing with your relationships and all that kind of stuff all right. All right so yeah, Morgan Adams just released a video and it was her and her brother, Ryland, making some pizza for the first time so we're going to be talking about depression, overcoming depression because she started out her video by talking about this. So this is what I've learned in my time of studying so if you go to my channel you'll notice that the last time that I posted a video was three weeks ago. I made a list for valid reasons why. Symptoms can vary from mild to severe and can include feeling sad or having a depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasures in activities once enjoyed, changes in appetite, sleeping too much, loss of energy, feeling worthless or guilty, difficulty thinking, concentrating or making decisions and symptoms must last for at least three weeks for a diagnosis of depression. So welcome back. So I'm going to come back to that pretty soon but I'm going to talk about how what Morgan's doing in this video with Ryland there's actually some science behind how this can actually help you overcome depression but before I move forward I do want to toss in a disclaimer like when I talk about these subjects about neuroscience and you know improving different neurotransmitters like you know dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and things like that like if you're struggling with depression go out get help talk to your doctor like this is not always a replacement for medications like I personally take an antidepressant anti anxiety medication called Lexapro all right typically medications are to get you to a baseline so some of these other things work all right so I would recommend you talking to your doctor talking to a psychiatrist psychologist whoever it is and maybe get on some antidepressants if it's something that you're struggling with I'm not a doctor that's just the medication that I'm on but go out try your own thing I did do some videos about my experience with medications not only Lexapro but Prozac as well so if you want to check those out go find them all right but yeah anyways let's jump into the neuroscience of depression how this thing works all right so people who are struggling with depression now there is typically a chemical imbalance all right with science is discovered though there's not as much of a chemical imbalance as many people think there is but a lot of people who are struggling with depression are not creating the right neurotransmitters and this eventually happens especially if you're isolating a lot which is a terrible terrible terrible thing to do so the first thing I want to talk about which isn't so much science-based it's more personal experience-based is what Morgan does in this video with Rylan is they try cooking for the first time and this is the first tip I want to give you go find a hobby find a new hobby please for the love of god please do this when I first um got sober six and a half years ago I was just like depressed as hell and this is this is something very common with people who just get sober like your brain is not creating dopamine because it was relying on substances for dopamine anyways I was extremely depressed when I got clean and one of the things I struggled with most of my life is that I didn't even know who I was one of the reasons you know people are so depressed or even anxious is because they don't know who they are they don't know what they like they don't know what they don't like you know all these other things so what I started doing I just started experimenting with everything I get so many comments where people like I don't know what I like to do I don't know what I like to do try everything like for me like I just tried doing stuff I started hanging out with my friends trying to get into new hobbies one of my roommates he was you know a musician so I went out and found a guitar on Craigslist for like 50 bucks had him start teaching me to play guitar I didn't really pick it up you know so I stopped doing that but then like my grandma was over and she was knitting a beanie I'm like I like beanies maybe I like knitting so I had her teach me how to knit a beanie she did that I started knitting beanies all right so like I just found things that I like I was interested in and knitting by the way it can be an extremely extremely relaxing hobby to pick up all right one of my friends Stephanie from the channel it's crochet a clock she actually did a collab with me a while back about um studies that show how knitting and crocheting can help reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety so go check that video I when you get a chance but yeah you guys like especially because my primary demographic is like 18 to like mid 30s like you're still young go try stuff do new things see what you like all right one of the symptoms of depression is not finding a pleasure in things that you used to find pleasure in maybe you've grown and there's something new that you need to find that will start making you interested again and making you happy all right and some of this you know might be like hiking or going outdoors or whatever it is find a hobby please so a lot of what I'm going to be sharing with you is from one of my favorite books about depression and neuroscience which is called Upward Spiral by Dr. Alex Corb he specializes in brain and depression type studies all right so get this book I'll link it down in the description below get my book too but anyways so one of the issues with depression which also leads to anxiety is isolation all right so Morgan is living by yourself um if you didn't see a while back uh Ryland and uh Shane Dawson actually had Morgan move into the other place that they had all right so what happens is when you get lonely and one of the reasons is called Upward Spiral is because you can go into a downward spiral all right so when you start isolating like you start getting a bunch of negative thoughts you start ruminating and you also can start getting anxiety I've talked about this in other videos about how based on evolutionary psychology we are not meant to isolate all right but one of the things that your brain starts doing is it starts getting feelings of rejection okay this is because of a lot of the stories that our brain creates now one of the issues with rejection is when you feel rejected it actually triggers the pain centers of your brain so feeling rejected can actually be painful so one of the really cool studies that they did was they had people in this experiment play a game right it was like a computer game where you passed the ball with two other people now what the subjects didn't know was that the two other people were actually just computers but they told the people that these were real people playing the game with them right so what they did was they hooked them all up to scans and stuff like that because they wanted to see what the brain would do so everybody's passing the ball passing the ball passing the ball but then the two computer players just start passing the ball back and forth all right so then the the subject started feeling rejection which then triggered pain centers of the brain isn't that crazy so rejection can actually be painful all right now what the goal is with part of overcoming depression is to spark up neurotransmitters such as endorphins endorphins are a natural pain reliever all right they also can help um increase feelings of pleasure so they've done a bunch of other studies one of them was with an ice bucket and this is why it's so important that rylan and morgan are doing this baking uh together cooking a pizza together all right as humans we are meant to be connected with others some of you have heard me say like if you're isolating stop doing it even if you're just going to a coffee shop and reading a book go do that you will start to feel better naturally all right but anyways with this ice bucket experiment that they did they had people put their hand in a bucket of ice all right and leave it in there obviously you know after you keep your hand in a bucket of ice it's gonna start hurting but what they found was is that when you put a friend or family member next to them why they had their hand in a bucket of ice the pain actually started to reduce in the person all right not only did they see the pain centers of the brain start to show less activity but people also self reported less pain here's the crazy thing y'all ready for the crazy thing not only did it work when a friend or a family member was right next to them it worked when they put a complete stranger next to them as well so think about that so when i'm telling you to go out and just be around people and quit isolating so damn much is because it will actually start to make you feel better all of my subscribers out there who struggle with things like chronic pain quit isolating all right find a support group hang out with friends hang out with family members all right this starts to make you feel better you start to feel more connected so as i was watching this video of Ryland and Morgan Adams and seeing them have fun having a good time like it seemed like that was legitimate happiness coming from Morgan because she has been isolating so long so doing this activity with Ryland was actually helping her out now now i wanted to do most of this video about the good things that Morgan was doing hanging out with Ryland and all that but i'm gonna show some tough love to Morgan as well as Ryland Adams maybe Shane Dawson if he sees this too but one of the things i'll suggest knowing this information i get a lot of people who ask me i have a friend with depression what can i do what can i do what can i do hang out with them all right there are so many benefits to just having people around you all right having people check in on you there are so many benefits to that i know it can be difficult for you know dealing with somebody who's struggling with depression because they can start to you know sometimes you'll start to feel down to because maybe they don't want to go out or maybe this or maybe that right i used to have to have my friends physically drag me out with them i'd be like no i'm just gonna sit home and they're like no dude you're coming with us you see what i mean so be that person for your friend okay there are so many benefits to having that type of support if this is a friend if this is a family member hang out with them have conversations talk to them on the phone send them a text see how they're doing now when it comes to Morgan Morgan Adams specifically all right i had some issue with the beginning of this video because she was reading off the symptoms of depression on her phone and she's like yep that's me never self diagnose people never self diagnose even when you're watching my videos never ever ever ever self diagnose it is the worst thing that you could do i've had some people comment and say you know what if you don't have the resources to get help all right like what i'll say is is like the best thing you could do is identify with symptoms i would say don't diagnose yourself but if you can identify with symptoms of depression like Morgan Adams was doing all right start working on things that's what my videos are for my videos are more for providing you know useful tips whether they're science-based or personal experience that can help you start managing certain symptoms but you're not Morgan Adams all right Morgan Adams makes bank all right even though she's not making that many videos that girl makes some money there is absolutely no reason in hell that this girl should not be seeing a professional to get diagnosed and get the help that she needs all right so although like there are all these tips i'll give you and everything like like something that i've noticed in some videos is that you know it it's it's very like it's very brutal when you see people who don't have the resources like i just said so somebody like Morgan Adams like whenever i talk about these big youtubers they need to be talking about going to therapy one of the few youtubers who i saw mentioned that was Liza Kochi all right so if Morgan Adams was my friend this is the tough love for Weiland and Shane as well like if Morgan was my friend i'd be like girl go see a doctor go book a therapist appointment go book an appointment with a psychologist you have money go do it you know what i mean so this can be very beneficial if you're watching this same thing for you go to your doctor talk to your doctor maybe they can recommend a therapist for you if you have insurance talk to your insurance provider see who they can recommend in your network if you have friends who are in therapy talk to them see who they recommend for therapy all right i just made a video about better help online therapy and it is a 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