 Hello, I'm Charlie and welcome to Authentic Mental Health, the channel that offers advice and friendly support within our like-minded community. Today's video is coming up right after this. I told you yesterday what is your problem, you've got one last chance. This isn't authentic mental health anymore, you've got one more chance. Hello, I'm Charlie and welcome to the rewired soul. Chris is still away so you're stuck with me, unfortunately, sorry, can't help it for another couple of days. So what I want to talk about today is how the lowest point of my life made me who I am. So the lowest point in my life was in 2016. I was 22 and I was at rock bottom, literally I couldn't go any lower in my life. I couldn't reach a lower point in my life. At that time I didn't want to be alive anymore, I was considering ending my life, it's just how I felt. I felt I had no purpose in my life, I didn't know what I was going to do, I felt like a failure, I felt everybody in life was judging me, I felt everybody I knew was surpassing me with their career and further education and I was kind of just standing still. I wasn't getting any better and I wasn't getting any worse because I was literally at the bottom, that's how I felt anyway. My mental health was declining at an absolute crazy rate, it just kept going down and down and down, I was getting more and more depressed, I was getting more and more anxious, I didn't want to leave my house, I didn't want to socialise, I lost a lot of my friends, my family didn't understand what was going on with me, I got out of a relationship where she didn't understand anxiety or depression, she judged me, she called me nasty names, like her family, they also, her mum was horrible to me, she said you need to man up and all these other things that had a negative effect on me and I was kind of like, I can't help the way I'm feeling yet these people who are supposed to care about me and love me are being horrible to me and they're not really understanding how I'm feeling, I just didn't know what was going on with my life. Well anyway, one morning I woke up and I realised I need to change, something has to give, I'm at the bottom, I can't go any lower so no matter what I do from here, no matter what change I make, it can only go up, my life can only move forwards and get better because it couldn't get any lower, I didn't want to be alive anymore, it can't get any lower than that, so I literally for the whole weekend I got an A4 book and I started writing everything I wanted to do down in life, everything, you name it, where I wanted to go, what car I wanted to drive, how many children I wanted to have, how long I wanted to be married for, where we wanted to go on holiday with the kids, where I would get married, literally you name it, I wrote it down in this book and I filled it in a weekend of goals for my life, what I wanted to do, then what I did is I started to figure out and write down how am I going to achieve those goals, how am I going to do it, how am I going to go on holiday, how am I going to afford a car, how am I going to meet my future wife, how am I going to achieve my career goals and what I want in my life and I started to make steps towards that and the only way that that came about was from me being at the lowest point in my life, like I've already said 15 times already in this video, I was at the lowest point of my life, I didn't want to be alive anymore and then authentic mental health came along, the opportunity arose for me to create authentic mental health and it was created, now that's what I'm doing with my life, so I turned a negative, the lowest point in my life, to a positive authentic mental health where I'm reaching millions of people a month and helping them change their lives and what I always say to people who ask me advice or say hey Charlie how can I create a community like authentic mental health etc etc and I say good things come out of bad things, when you're at the bottom there's only one way up and I personally went through that change and I experienced it myself, I have a piece of advice for you and I'm sure Chris will totally agree with me and I'm sure Chris has been through similar situations to myself, as you all know he was an ex drug addict, now look at him, he's done a fantastic job in changing his life and as Chris knows, I'll tell you on camera I'm so proud of Chris and what he has achieved in his life, the odds were stacked against him to even be alive and look at him now, he's more than alive, he's making a positive change on the world, so from his negative the drug addiction has turned into a positive helping people on the rewired soul and he works in an addiction clinic, so well done Chris, but he's just another example of no matter what you do or the mistakes you make in your life you can turn that around, if you have the willpower and you want to change it yourself you can turn it around into a positive, turn that negative turn it around and turn it into a positive, make a change in your life, my advice to you would be evaluate your life, write down everything about your life, what you hate currently about your life, what you dislike about your life, what you want to change about your life and then after all that create a new page, a new book how you are going to change those things, how are you going to change them, are you going to change your job, are you going to change the course that you're doing at college, university, are you going to change your friends, are you going to move out of your house, are you going to rent a new house from a new tenant, are you going to get a mortgage, are you going to buy a new house, are you going to sell your car, buy a new car, whatever it may be, write it down, Have a plan and plan your life and then you can stick to the plan and picture what you want in your mind all the time. Have your goal in your mind. Little secret. When I first started YouTube I never expected, I'm almost at 90,000 subscribers and I never ever imagined when I started YouTube I'd have like a thousand subscribers. That wasn't the goal. The goal was as you already know from yesterday's video if you watched it, the goal was to help people and help myself become less depressed by doing authentic mental health and try and connect with like-minded people. And then I got to a thousand subscribers, then I got to two, then I got to ten and when I got to ten I wrote down in my A4 book I still have it when I write down my goals, my ambitions and how I'm going to achieve it. I wrote down 100,000 YouTube subscribers and every single day since then when I wake up or I go to sleep I picture 100,000 YouTube subscribers in my mind and I think about how amazing it would be and how of an exclusive club you'd be joining if and when authentic mental health gets to 100,000 YouTube subscribers. I picture it in my mind so it's always there. I know what I'm working towards, I know why I'm doing it, I know what I'm doing, I know what I want. That's what you need in your life. You need a goal, you need a plan and you need to stick to that goal and that plan. Anything that tries to pull you off that path, negative thoughts, your friends that do drugs, alcohol, anything negative that when you're on your road to your goal and something comes off that road and the path and tries to pull you away you say no, this is my goal, this is what I want from my life and nothing will deter you off that path until you reach the end point. But when you get to the end point that doesn't mean you stop, you just write new goals and assess your life again. Anyway that is how I turned a negative in my life into a positive. That's how the lowest point of my life changed to who I am and where I am today. I am who I am because of the lowest point in my life I decided to make a change. If you're at the lowest point in your life too you can also make a change and you can make a change. Look at me, look at Chris, we both made positive, positive changes in our lives to be who we are now. Anyway guys and girls thanks for watching, take care, I'll see you tomorrow.