 My name is Chris and I'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic and I'm here in this video to tell all of you to quit enabling Bobby Burns What is up everybody? This is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem But focus on the solution and my channel is all about trying to help you to improve your mental health And what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community or pop culture in general and try to teach you How to improve your mental and emotional well-being So if you're into that kind of stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell So this is kind of funny Those of you who know me you know my beautiful girlfriend Tristan and we've been keeping up with Bobby we've been keeping up with Bobby ever since the Shane Dawson series and For a while I've seen this kind of spiral and I'm like telling Tristan I'm like do not let me make this Bobby Burns video until this weekend I got other stuff to do just don't let me make this Bobby Burns video until this weekend because we saw What was going on Instagram, which I will share with you in a second and just now I was just finishing up a different project for some side work and While this video was rendering I'm just scrolling through the comments on Bobby's new Instagram post and I'm just like oh, no Oh, no people don't understand what enabling is So let's talk about this and again who knows if Bobby Burns will ever see this video Who knows if a bunch of Bobby Burns fans will ever see this video But if you have somebody in your life whether they are a drug addict or alcoholic or not This is a good thing to kind of learn about when it comes to enabling because I don't think a lot of people Understand what enabling is so before I get started Here is a disclaimer that a lot of people are going to disregard and leave angry comments anyways But figured I do it anyways. So first thing is I'm glad that Bobby is safe I'm happy for him. I almost died multiple times and yeah, I'm glad that he's safe Second thing is I am not saying that Bobby is a drug addict or alcoholic I'm going to talk a little bit about self-medicating though. All right, so anyways for those of you who don't know Bobby Burns You know, he got a lot of YouTube stardom from you know Shane his collaboration with Shane Dawson Bobby Burns made a hate video Shane Dawson made a series called confronting my hater They came together came became good friends Bobby's channel blew up and he's been kind of on a downward spiral ever since I've done some videos in the past about His mental health and if that so make sure you check out my channel if you want to check out those so anyways most recently He posted a picture of him like kind of bruised up and he said that he got into a car accident now One of the things that happened was Shane moved Bobby out to Los Angeles and Shane ended up buying Bobby A jeep okay, so Bobby got into a wreck in this Jeep and he was all bruised up Well, apparently there was a bunch of comments saying like oh my god You ruined Shane's Jeep like Bobby's already been getting a lot of flak for kind of like ruining the opportunity that Shane Dawson gave him I don't know if I can necessarily disagree with that, but Like I mentioned this in other videos like I'm not a fan of Bobby's music But I'm glad that he's finding his own Creativity but like from an outside perspective and I might do a whole another video on this Like his mental health is deteriorating like I'm a week or two weeks ago He did a video and it was sponsored by better help and he says that he uses the service and Here's my thoughts on it. Okay with all the better help hoopla going on. Here's my thoughts on it either a He's not really using better help and working with a therapist or B He is but he's just not listening to his therapist and that that's like just purely my opinion I might be totally wrong Healing your mental health takes a while, but following his journey. It doesn't seem like it. Well, anyways After Bobby post that he got a lot of hate and he just made a new video, which I'll show you right now Yo, so I just wanted to hop on here and say shout out to all the people who are so angry at me for breaking Shane's Jeep I got a car wreck. Yo guys are acting child. This is Like seriously I Got a car wreck It's the first car I've ever been in my entire life I was completely sober go look at the comments on my last picture if you guys don't understand what I'm saying Most of the comments are like five hundred six hundred likes. Wow you destroyed the last thing you had from Shane I got in a car wreck. I was close to dying today and all anyone gives it about is the fact that a Car that another youtuber bought me was damaged That's That's pretty I'm okay I'm okay, but that's like that's So, yeah, is it messed up that people are saying that yes, okay? Like is Bobby playing a victim here? Yes, okay, and I'll talk about both sides of this. Okay, so I'll say this Working in addiction recovery and I've been clean for six years my substance of choice was opiates If you haven't gotten the memo, there's a massive opiate epidemic in the United States I think the last report was over seventy two thousand people in the United States alone died of overdose, right? Like I know plenty of people who have overdosed and survived I am somebody who almost died from my addiction, right? But here's how you talk to somebody who is screwing up like this, right and says hey And this is what I would say. Hey, I'm glad you're alive But you need to straighten up. All right, like it's both of those things like I work I work in a field where life and death is real, right? Like I have had over 70 people die in the last three years alone. I don't play around with this, okay? So like when somebody overdoses, I'm not just like well glad you're alive. Let's just forget about the behaviors So one of the things about we mentioned is in his video was that he was sober and I call bull on that I call so much bull like are you serious and the fact that people are going to Pretend like he was okay So in case you don't follow Bobby Burns on Instagram, the only thing he's been posting about for a while now is getting high That's all he's posted about and let's not forget his Instagram story Showing us what happened before his accident Yo, so I just wanted to hop on here and say shout out to all the people who are so angry at me for breaking Shane's Jeep I got a car wreck. Yo guys are acting child. This is like Seriously, I was on the opposite side of this I would say okay well those Instagram stories are pretty far apart. He might have sobered up But this is somebody who is perpetually getting messed up and under the influence and we're supposed to believe That when he got in a car accident This was the one time the one time he was sober like that is Being willfully ignorant. Okay. This is how you might be enabling somebody in your life. All right Oh, well, they were sober when they did that like come on you guys. You're better than that You're better than that. There are there are so many people who die from not just addiction Accidents while being under the influence that a lot of it was because people lived in in a state of denial The people in their lives lived in a state of denial and I don't know I don't know where everybody's been But look Mac Miller just passed away. Okay, we had people people like Little peep passed away. We have people like Michael Jackson Prince We had celebrities commit suicide, you know, like just so many things so many things and One of the reasons for this and one of the reasons I have a mental health channel and try to increase awareness and decrease the stigma It's like everybody just normalizes it Like when I'm looking at those comments of people defending Bobby, all I see is positive reinforcement Why is Bobby going to slow down or change his behavior when people are co-signing his BS? You know, like something that breaks my heart something that breaks my heart is when I see People pass away and everybody is surprised except for people like me Who see this stuff coming from a mile away, right? It was like, oh my god How'd that happen like because we keep these blinders on you know what I mean, like Bobby has been self Destructing for a while now and something that you know We just found out was that him and his longtime girlfriend Jordan just split up. All right So it seems to me from an outside perspective that Bobby is self-medicated with weed, okay He is somebody who wasn't messing around with this stuff He might I think he mentioned like he used to smoke a little bit and I wonder by the way This could be a whole nother video I wonder if Jordan feels any guilt about that because it seemed like from what I saw it seemed like Jordan smoked She got him into it and Bobby just kind of ran with it, right? But if you go through his Instagram you go through his videos all the more about rolling bloods and that like people have been messing With Bobby like saying like all right, dude. We get it. You smoke weed like that's all he talks about That's all he talks about but like on a more like on a serious note like again Like I'm extremely empathetic like I've been there. I've been there I feel like he is self-medicating with the marijuana. All right, and like that. That's not good That's not good. I've done other videos about is marijuana addictive and all of that So I know some people might think I'm making like this false equivalent talking about People have passed away like listen. I live in Las Vegas. I voted to legalize weed. I do not care about weed I don't think Bobby's gonna overdose on weed, but but Although you can't overdose on weed if he is getting drunk and high and Driving like that can kill him so the weed won't kill him but driving under influence can and I hope that makes sense But like again again like okay, I'm telling you from one like as a recovering drug addict You know many times I told people I was sober you know many times I snuck into the bathroom and snorted pills and Mess something up at work and told people I was sober like you guys like I hate to tell you this but Some people lie it's I know it's hard to believe but some people lie and especially when they're abusing substances like What I would hope and this Man this sucks Like I'll end with this, you know, I made a video about my best friend passing away and She got into a car accident. She got into a near-death car accident Maybe about a year or two years before she passed away All right, and she was driving drunk and then she died at 24 years from alcoholism. All right So like you guys like we can't just keep minimizing this stuff like I'm legitimately making this video Because I care. Yes, I give tough love, but all of you out there need to quit enabling this behavior Sorry, like that's just the way it is Do not be surprised if he continues to spiral downhill because people are defending his behaviors All right, but anyways, that's all I got for you with this video if you like it give it a thumbs up Let me know down in the comments below. Let me know if you think people are enabling Bobby Let me know if you think I'm an idiot. 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