 Well, Logic is back at it again, talking about mental health in the brand new single he just dropped titled Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. And wow, like I was getting ready to go to bed and then this song dropped and I listened and I could relate to it a ton and I know a lot of you can as well. So this is my mental health reaction to Logic's new song Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. 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. What I try to do is pull different topics from pop culture and hopefully try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So for any of that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So yeah, just so you know if you're new to my channel, I am not a licensed therapist. I am somebody who has worked in the field but I like to use a lot of my own experiences, my own mental health issues as well as you know people I've worked with and talked to and things like that to try to bring up topics. So hopefully this could help. And one of the things that's very therapeutic for me and I know a lot of you out there is connecting with song lyrics, right? So Logic, I love that dude. I love him and I know some people haven't liked some of his recent stuff. I've I've thought the production on a lot of them have been really good. I like how they get a little funky and stuff. I don't know if any of you watched the song he just did with Joseph Gordon Levitt's company Hit Record but that was awesome. Anyways, Logic's awesome. Logic, another reason why I connect with him is he is another guy like myself who's half African-American but does not look it at all. The only difference is Logic has a much sicker flow than I do. You know what I mean? Like because everybody wants to tell you who you are, what you are, where you should fit in or what you should do and it's like no, I'm biracial. But anyways, so he just dropped this song Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. I'm gonna be talking about it. I'm not gonna be playing the song. It'll be linked down in the description below. I am new to the whole music reaction thing so I'll be throwing up some video clips but I do not know how to not get copyright claimed by using copyrighted music. So use your imagination, go check out his song after this video or you probably already listened to his song. Anyways, there's a few different things that I want to talk about. So this video, I was sitting here watching him like wait is his throat slash like what's going on but then when he starts rapping and getting into it like he's talking about some of these mental health struggles that he's dealing with. I remember when he released his song with the phone number for the Suicide Prevention hotline and like he was inspired by that song or to make that song because so many of his fans said like his music helps save their life and he like didn't really like even get it until he started meeting his fans and stuff and you know he even admitted that he hadn't really struggled with really any mental health issues and things like that. So it's really cool seeing him release this track Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and talk about some of his own struggles. So one of the things he's talking about is like just social media and all the input and a lot of it has to do with just blowing up as an artist but like one of the one of the things that he talks about is like all of the pressures you know all the input of social media and like he talks about no wonder why like rappers are turning to substance abuse and things like that and this is very common right. This is not only very common for like rappers it's very common for people you know people turn to substance abuse as a way to cope right from my experience and from what I've learned there's three primary reasons why people drink or use drugs if you're somebody who you know turns to substances to you know deal with your problems you might be able to relate to get a feeling to get rid of a feeling or to have an escape right and with all of the massive criticisms an artist can get especially when you're in the public eye like it can be rough it can be difficult so I have become so much more empathetic towards other youtubers as well as celebrities and things like that because you know my channel was built upon making a lot of videos you know using youtubers as a reference and trying to teach others about mental health and things like that and like now that I've gotten a lot more attention and gotten some negative attention and things like I can empathize so so so much more I was actually watching a smaller youtuber today I was actually watching a few smaller youtubers today one of them had less than a thousand one of them had about five thousand and they were just talking with this kind of like they don't they don't give a f attitude you know they don't care what people think and I was talking with my beautiful girlfriend Tristan about this and just being like man I remember that because my channel kind of blew up in the last year and like there's not as much pressure when you're smaller there's not as much pressure so you know a youtuber or even somebody like logic you know when you're getting started like you're getting you're getting the feedback you know what I mean you could be on that you know that high of everybody loving you and things like that but the higher you get the more critics you get as well so that pressure increases like I remember starting my own you know starting this youtube channel I started recording on my cell phone before I got like you know the money to get a camera and light and like a microphone and things like that and you know it was easy to deal with comments because you're getting like five ten of them right but when you start getting like thousands upon thousands upon thousands it's just like I said it's like that pressure it just gets more and more intense you know what I'm saying so as it goes on and he talks throughout this song he talks about like reading you know you know things on twitter or instagram you know he talks about like haters and he talks about loving them and you know that that'll kill him you know so you know kill him with kindness and things like that but something that came up today because the last two days I've spoken at a high school and answered a lot of questions about mental health the stigma and things like that and something that came up today was you know people minimizing other people's issues saying like oh you haven't been through this you don't get it right and something that you know I think will bring us you know a lot closer together just as a society like you know in the world it's just understanding that everybody's reality is their reality right like it doesn't matter what job you have there are its own stresses and things so something I was talking to the the high school kids about because you know some of them have like parents who are like oh you can't be stressed out I work a you know nine hour day you can't be stressed out right but something I was you know talking to them about too is that we should never minimize somebody else's experience and I see this happen with a lot of celebrities right like I remember there was a story you know in 2018 where Justin Bieber got a lot of backlash just talking about how you know celebrities aren't always happy and you know they have their own struggles and their own issues and he got a lot of flack a lot of flack right and from my experience like um it's like people think that money increases happiness and from my experience that's not true right money doesn't increase happiness for most people money decreases stress okay but here's the thing with every new level you get like the higher you get in life there's going to be new stresses and what I was telling the high school kids is like you're in high school right now you know once you you know when you get towards your junior senior year you're gonna start prepping for college and everything like that there's going to be stress right you know studying for finals sat's acts college applications college essays you know applying for scholarships all these things that is your main focus and all these stresses and then you get that letter in the mail that says you got into college and oh my god it's so great right but then you get to college now you're in a new place now you don't know anybody now there's like you know college cramming and all that stress for those tests and everything like that but you make it through and you graduate but now once you graduate you got to find a job you got to find a good job you got to find a job that pays you right like now there's a new stress around that then you get the job well now at that job you got a boss to worry about you know you got co-workers who you know might stress you out so like what i'm trying to say is is no matter who you are or what you're going through no matter what we get there's always going to be new stresses associated with it so like i i just you know i've especially come into a more empathetic place but i hope other people can do that too where you look at these celebrities and it's not just like oh you know book up like you you got it nice you got millions of dollars you know what i mean but actually going through the comment section on this video there was a lot of people thanking him and thanking for him for talking about his mental health and all of that and i think that's super super super important and the last thing i want to talk about is his ending line where he kind of sings you know where you talk about put your ego on the shelf and love yourself and yeah like that that's a huge thing i've been reading books on ego you know to help manage my own ego and that's it that's a huge huge thing and i've made some videos recently about vulnerability and shame from brunette brown and all that but like self love and self compassion is something that i know i know i have struggled with and i know a lot of people who come to me have struggled with these things as well and self love is a very very difficult thing for a lot of people so if you're struggling with it i can pretty much guarantee that you are not the only person you know struggling with it as well and i actually have some books on my reading list that i'm going to get to like there's some great authors out there who specialize you know in learning how to have self compassion self love and all of those things but a lot of the criticisms from the outside from my experience a lot of those things come when you don't fully love yourself you know like even with all the criticisms i've received and i've gotten and things like that when i look deep down inside it's not so much what the other people are saying it's how i view how i see myself you know and you might be able to relate to that but anyways if you have listened to logic's new song confessions of a dangerous mind let me know your thoughts down below how did you interpret it what did you take from it can you relate to it or any of the topics that i've discussed like the more you succeed in life the more there's new stresses and all that kind of stuff let let me know let's have a conversation and nice gentle conversation down in the comments below and let everybody know you're not alone in those struggles all right but anyways that's all i got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge huge thank you to 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