 Today was the powerful finale of Shane Dawson's look into Jeffree Star's life and in the video titled The Truth About Jeffree Star he dives into his past and he talks about his struggles with depression but more importantly self-harm and there's a lot a lot to unpack from this so make sure that you stay tuned. 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 are new to my channel my channel is all about mental health so I try to pull things from different YouTubers or TV shows or movies and see what lessons we can learn when it comes to our mental health because I'm here to help you out with yours and I've been following along with Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson's documentary uh fun story my girlfriend introduced me to Shane Dawson when I first got into YouTube and then because she loves makeup and all the makeup tutorials online all the makeup YouTubers she introduced me to Jeffree Star so this collaboration was something I was fascinated with I bet you didn't know that about me oh by the way I'll link up in the info card I did a video a while back about me following a makeup tutorial and I think I came out stunning but anyways I've been following this long and it's been very fascinating to me uh just like it's really inspirational like love hate just Jeffree Star whatever your feelings are about I'm like his his road to success like that's that's inspirational in and of itself you know in today's video they go back to his old apartment where it all started and by the way like Shane talked about this like that apartment was nice like y'all can't see the apartment I'm sitting in right now but dang I would love me that apartment um anyways Shane finally sits down with Jeffree Star and they they sit down and they they really dig deep okay I didn't know how deep they were going to dig but they really talked about a lot of emotional stuff and like so if you haven't watched it yet go watch it there's spoilers in it but anyways like Jeffree Star talks about self-harm and everything that came along with it and his depression and his difficult emotions and all that kind of stuff and I have a few things that I want to talk about because self-harm and mental illness it's a huge deal okay I'm like I'm gonna start this video out like this review this reaction if you will by by just pointing out like Shane's reaction like Shane's reaction to seeing that Jeffree Star was a cutter you're two inches away from my arm lift up one more inch oh my god oh my god Jeffree like that to me said it all like so Shane has done videos in the past talking about mental health if any of you know about uh his his little pet project Bobby Burns Bobby Burns have talked about mental health and like right here we see like people talk about mental health but you don't really know do you you don't really get it like Shane is just amazed he's baffled he's in shock he didn't he's never seen anything about like this and I'm like yes yes like this is the real stuff this is what we're talking about this is what we're talking about when it comes to mental health awareness this kind of stuff the stuff that you don't know about we're not talking about everyday depression we're not talking about anxiety like we're talking about the real stuff where people are injuring themselves right or living these lives that they just can't uh deal with and you know I'm about to talk a little bit more about self-harm and the things we can learn but like this isn't always suicidal behavior it's not always just like zero to a hundred okay there's other little things that are going on and there's a variety of different mental illnesses so like I really hope that throughout this experience like Shane like really opened up his eyes and I'm really glad that he's working with better help now and like he's understanding like mental health is more than just being like a depressed youtuber or depressed celebrity and I know Shane gets that Shane has had you know mental health issues in the past and stuff like that but I'm really glad that this opened up the eyes to the audience as well and you know another thing is like that's why I made this channel I made this channel to not only help people out with their mental health but to also increase awareness and let you know that there's other stuff going on that we really need to address so I'm really glad that they touched on it in this last episode something that Jeffrey mentioned multiple times and like I think it's for a reason and I really hope that this sunk in for you guys it's like like Jeffrey star mentioned like I was walking around in 90 degree weather with full sleeves like sweaters and jackets and nobody asked me why like yes yes you know and like when I when I see him talking about that here's what breaks my heart over and over and over again is what we find out about suicides or we find out about people cutting or we find out about their depression and people are just like oh my god I never noticed but it's like people just don't know the science like Jeffrey's talking about like this probably fueled his depression even more made him feel like nobody cared about him like how come nobody has asked him how come his mom didn't ask him how come teachers didn't ask him how come friends didn't ask him how come nobody said hey Jeffrey why are you wearing that hot outfit in the middle of the summer so we feel more isolated we feel more alone and this happens a lot like through this uh video like we saw what Jeffrey star looked like as a teenager and stuff like that and there's so many people like I want you to sit back and ask yourself this question how many people do you interact with okay if you're a teenager the people at school or you know people at your office or people on the streets and they dress a certain way or they look a certain way and you have you feel a certain way about them so you don't talk to them you don't ask them because maybe you're afraid of them right like think of just I want that to sink in for a second because Jeffrey star has his mass audience of people who love and adore him and care about him but if they look a certain way it's not important to ask them about how they're doing how they're feeling are they struggling with anything so I just want you to think about that for a second so later on he reveals that one day he was doing the dishes and one of his sleeves rolled up and his mom saw it and he talks about all the thoughts that rushed through his brain about what his mom was thinking right he didn't want his mom to feel bad he didn't want his mom to feel like she wasn't doing enough and yes yes yes yes yes so as a mental health youtuber and I gained you know a lot of subscribers and a lot of views for my series on 13 reasons why and this is a show you know mainly for young people and I've had so many young people reaching out to me over the last year I've even been on YouTube and Instagram and Twitter and all these other things and they tell me like the same things like they don't want to tell their parents about it because they don't want their parents to worry right they don't want their parents to think that they did something wrong they don't want their parents to think that it's their fault like think about that like that is heartbreaking and I and I have these conversations like you've got to tell someone you got to talk to an adult you got to talk to your parents you got to talk to a teacher you got to talk to a counselor you got to talk to somebody about this but this is to increase awareness for all of you and understand this like if you're a parent out there like I've been talking to my son about his mental health since he was like five or six years old he meditates with me we talk about his feelings his emotions what he's going through we walk through this stuff it's so so so important like because although he has nine year old problems now like he's only nine years old like when he gets to the point of being a teenager and you know he's having relationship issues with friends with girlfriends or whatever it is he's going to know from a young age already that he can talk to me and open up about this stuff and there's no judgment coming my way so I hope this is a lesson to all of you parents or future parents out there that we need to start talking about mental health as soon as possible so they feel comfortable opening up to us about what they're struggling with so we can provide them with the help that they need and this is the first time we've ever seen Jeffrey start open up about this stuff he talks about why he doesn't let people in and open up about this stuff publicly I can only imagine being someone you know as famous as he is but he talks about he has this fear of people using that information against him he talks about these sick and twisted people who have used his father's suicide as something to harm him with okay and like this is real stuff and I'm not here to tell you that that's uh you know an irrational fear because people will do that but I'm here to tell you right now screw those people screw them okay because something's wrong with them not with you and if they're going to use that to hurt you that's on them this is more of a reason why you need to surround yourself with people who love you and care about you and will support you and not judge you for these things this is why another reason why we need to increase the conversation about mental health because it's not something that is to be stigmatized and look down on people at or use it as something to attack them with this is something that must be treated the same way that it would be if somebody got any other type of illness all right so the only critique the only critique I have for this whole video and it's a very minor one is that Shane Dawson and Shane Dawson is coming into his own as an interviewer and interviewing people and I think he does great because when he's interviewing somebody it's like the cameras aren't there it's like you know this isn't going up on youtube so my only critique is if I was Shane I would say like what do you want people to know like what would you tell the young jeffrey star back then like what would you want to tell him what would you want to tell to your young fans out there what do you want to tell to my audience out there like this is why I start off every video with we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and they have such an impact like I know a lot of people are going to be helped just by knowing that somebody can become successful like jeffrey star and they can come from that that terrible mental space that they were at I know that that helps people but I just wish there was more of a conversation about getting help go out and get help now I will say I did watch the video so like they show some snippets about how jeffrey star does some motivational stuff and this might be therapeutic for him where he goes on snapchat he talks to people like you're not alone you're never alone and it might be those those might be the things that he wish he could tell himself when he was younger and Shane partnering up with better help and providing resources in the description that's awesome too but like I said it's a very small critique but I just wish that Shane would have talked a little bit more about the solution and like what what do you want other people to do if they're in the situation that you were in so as a mental health youtuber I also work with better help online therapy very affordable if you watch Shane's video you know it's awesome so I'm going to provide the link to better help down in the description below as well as some other resources if you are struggling with your mental health but again like subscribe to my channel all my videos are mental health related and I just make these videos to try to help others out there because I'm somebody who's struggled with this a lot in the past all right but I want to end this video by saying you know even though they're probably never going to see this a big thank you to Shane Dawson and Jeffrey Starr just for talking about this stuff and using their platform to talk about this and increase awareness and decrease the stigma like that is huge and I I really hope that they do more stuff like this I hope that Jeffrey talks about this a little bit more openly and you know and is able to help more people and using his platform to help all the people out there struggling with this but a big big big thank you to them but anyways that's all I got for you so if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you are new here I'm always making videos to help you out with your mental and emotional well-being make sure you click that little round subscribe button and a huge huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon to help me spread a message of hope for anybody struggling with mental illness if you want to check out some more content on my channel you can click or tap on one of those thumbnails all right anyways that's all I got for you today stay in the solution and I'll see you next time