 Are you somebody who struggles with depression and you like to isolate? Well, do I have some great news for you? 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. So if you want to improve your mental and emotional well-being, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. But my guess is if you're watching this video, you're one of my amazing, loyal subscribers. You are a hashtag Rewired Soldier. And yeah, exciting announcement. I am writing a book, okay? I have already written two books, so they're usually linked down in the description. I think if you want to check them out. First book I wrote was like my story of overcoming addiction, depression, and anxiety. The second one is shorter and it's for anybody who's affected by a loved one's addiction. But anyways, anyways, before I jump into what this book about depression is about, I just want to put out a reminder, like please, please, please check out the description as well as in the pinned comment. Sign up for my email list. I am going to start sending out emails with just mental health tips, advice, just things that come to my head so I don't feel like I have to put everything in video, okay? So sign up for my email list. A ton of you already did, but there's going to be a lot of good stuff there and it might be something that just gives you a little, that little uh, that you need to get through your day, okay? So yeah, this book, idea, all right? So the title of this book is going to be The Isolator's Guide to Overcoming Depression, all right? So how did this come to mind? Well, I am somebody who, I meet people where they're at, okay? So isolation, as some of you know, is one of the worst things for your depression and your anxiety. I've made videos about this in the past. I discussed the brain science and the evolutionary psychology behind this, but like if I just come straight at you and say, hey, go out, go, go do stuff, like you're going to look at me and say nah, right? So I'm making a book to take what you're doing or what you won't do and try to give you help, because everybody can get help no matter what. I don't want you to think that just because you're in a certain place in your mental health recovery, that there's no help for you. So I am somebody who loved isolating and everything and like I have tips and this book is going to be filled with like scientific evidence and studies and everything to explain why certain things that you do, even though you're isolating will help with your depression. I plan on doing a bunch, a bunch of these books and I've just been delaying on it. And I know a lot of you enjoy the sound of my voice. I was actually just talking to my buddy Q-Star about how like it's weird that people like our voices, like I think my voice sounds weird and nasally. But anyways, what I'm getting at is I might, might do an audio book. I'll see how it goes. I am a writer by trade. I've been procrastinating on writing way too long so I don't want to over promise anything, but I will try to do an audio version of this book as well. But anyways, the next thing is I'm going to need your help. Okay, so first I want to give a shout out to my girl Jeanette. All right, she is an editor and she's a subscriber to the channel. And she like, I asked you, I'm like, yo, I have these book ideas and I don't know where to get started. Like every time I think about writing, I'm just like, uh, I don't know how to organize my thoughts, right? And this amazing woman took time out of her day and we sat down and we had a video call and she helped me just kind of organize some thoughts and just get started. And I love her for that. So if you are planning on writing or anything like that, I'm going to provide her links down below. Go follow her on Twitter. She's an amazing, amazing woman. But yeah, so we're talking about this and I want to get started by, you know, getting feedback from all of you. Like this book is for you. Like I already have my own ideas and things that I want to touch on, but I want to make sure that I'm doing this for you and there's going to be useful tips for you. Chances are if you're struggling with something, a lot of other people are struggling with something as well. Okay, so I'm going to ask you three questions. I'm going to post this all over social media as well as here, okay? And I'm going to pin these questions down in the comment because I need you to help me write this book. And everybody whose suggestions I use will be credited in the book. I will have an entire page or two pages depending on how many people contribute and all of you will be credited in this book. Pretty sweet, right? So question number one, what are your fears? Like anybody who isolates, there's fears, right? Like fear of, you know, being judged by people. Fear of, you know, certain interactions. Fear of being harmed, whether emotionally or physically or whatever, like what are the fears that are surrounding this, okay? And then the second question is very similar to the first, but there's a method to my madness. The second question is why do you isolate, okay? I'm guessing a lot of this ties into fears, but I would like to hear like personal experiences maybe, okay? And, you know, when I write this book, if I am credited in you, like, you know, I'll keep you anonymous or whatever it is that you're comfortable with, but like, I just like to tie in personal experiences because sometimes I can tie that in with something that happened in a previous relationship in your childhood with your parents or a family member or even at school or whatever. So why do you think it is that you isolate, okay? Or what kind of thoughts are going through your head? For example, some people don't like hanging out with friends because they think their friends don't really like them or, you know, nobody likes them or nobody cares about them or whatever it is. So question number one is what are your fears? Question number two, why do you isolate? Question number three, most important question. What are your hobbies? What are your interests? What do you like to do, okay? And there is nothing too stupid to put in there, okay? I don't care if you like watching YouTube. I don't care if you like being on Twitter. I don't care if you like to draw or paint or watch TV or Netflix. I don't care what your hobbies or interests are. Just let me know, okay? Because what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take things that you already like doing and explain with neuroscience how this helps with depression, okay? So those are the three questions. I'm gonna pin them down in the comment section below. And just a real quick Patreon plug. I know a ton of you are supporting me on Patreon. So something I've had up on Patreon, which I haven't really been able to give benefits for yet, is at the $20 tier, whoever is in that tier will get free copies of all my e-books. So I plan on selling these books for like four or five bucks on like Kindle and Audible if I end up doing audiobooks. But if you sign up for the Patreon, every book I write, you'll get a free copy digitally, all right? And I plan on doing a lot of these. I will be making more videos like this to get your feedback. Like I have books I want to write about, like, anxiety and meditation for beginners, addiction, you know, all sorts of stuff. I have a billion ideas. Jeanette helped me kind of organize them. It should give me a cool app to use. But anyway, so if you're interested, go sign up over on Patreon and you will get a free digital copy of every book I write today and for the rest of my life as long as I got that going, all right? But anyways, that's all I got for you with this video. Again, please sign up for the mailing list and I will leave the questions down in the comments below. All right, give me your feedback. I will be posting this stuff all over social media as well. So, yeah, I'm excited to get started. I plan on starting this as soon as Tristan and I move into our new apartment this week, get settled in, and I'm gonna get cracking on this thing. And like, I hustle and I write fast. So this project might come pretty quick and I'll release it. So anyways, that's all I got for you. Huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. Make sure that you don't leave me hanging because I need your help to write this book, all right? I love each and every one of you and I got some new videos coming up very soon, all right? I'll see you next time.