 Hello, I'm Charlie and welcome to Authentic Mental Health, the channel that offers advice and friendly support in our like-minded community. Today's video is coming up right after this. Hang on a second, cut, cut, cut this out, cut, cut. Hello, I'm Charlie and welcome to the rewired soul. For those of you that know, my name's Charlie and from Authentic Mental Health and that was the intro for my channel. And as you know, we're not on my channel anymore. We're on the rewired soul. Chris is away for a week or so and he's asked me to fill in on his channel for him. So you're going to see me in a couple of videos on this channel. The first thing Chris and myself wanted to talk about on my first video on his channel was why I traded Authentic Mental Health. For those of you that have never met or seen me before, I run a YouTube channel called Authentic Mental Health and I created it in December 2016. Since then, I have over 9.5 million views and I'm almost at 90,000 subscribers, which is insane for me to even say or think about that many people subscribe to my channel and that many people have listened to what I have had to say. It's mind blowing. It really is when you think about the numbers. So why exactly did I create Authentic Mental Health? I'm currently 24 and at the age of 14, I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression. And in 2016, I was 22 and I had a really difficult year. I didn't really want to leave my house. I didn't socialize. I bottled up how I felt. So I thought, how can I feel better about myself? How can I let all my emotions out? So I decided to video myself each day and just explain to the camera how I'm feeling. So in the future, I can look back at my videos and say, well, on Monday, I wasn't doing so great. Tuesday, I got a bit better. Wednesday, I went out. That's fantastic. Well done, Charlie. So I could see what I was doing, how I improve my life. Now, those videos weren't for YouTube. YouTube comes in later on in that year. Eventually, I got comfortable in front of the camera and I started to feel a lot better in myself from looking back on my bad days, my good days. It made me a more positive person. Instead of thinking negatively, I thought positively because I could see a change in myself. So in December 2016, I thought, maybe there's other people out there who are feeling like myself or they were feeling like myself, how I felt earlier on in the year. So I created a YouTube channel and I thought, what could I call it? So I came up with the name Authentic Mental Health. Authentic means real, so real mental health. So on my channel, I talk about my experiences with anxiety, depression. I make videos that I think other people who are suffering want to see and want to hear about. The channel is designed to be as positive as possible because as you know, in the world that we live in currently, everything is negative. You turn on the news, negativity. You watch TV shows, negativity. You go on social media, negativity. Everything nowadays is negative. So I try and be as positive and as helpful as possible. The aim of Authentic Mental Health is to help as many people as possible. To help people be more positive in their life rather than negative. And that's the same with Chris's channel, The Rewired Soul. Everything is about positivity. We want to remove as much negativity in the world as we possibly can. That's why I think mental health YouTube channels are so important because people suffer in silence. Like I did for many, many years. I suffered in silence and I bottled everything up inside me. Then when I started making videos, I was releasing how I felt onto the camera. I was pouring my heart and my soul and my emotions out onto video. And that made me feel 10 times better. And when people comment or email me or message me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, explaining how they feel or telling me, Charlie, thank you so much for creating Authentic Mental Health. You've done this for me. You've done that for me. You've helped me with this, that, blah, blah, blah. It makes me feel amazing and makes me less depressed because I know I've had a positive impact on the world. And I know it's the same with Chris. He loves it when people comment nice things. When people comment how you have helped them through their bad situations in life. And it makes myself and Chris less depressed because we're doing something positive to impact people's lives rather than creating negative content and making people negative. We're pushing people up and making a positive impact on people's lives. So that is why I created Authentic Mental Health. If any of you want to check out my channel, I'll leave the links in the description box down below and I'll see you tomorrow on this channel for another video. Take care guys and girls and I'll see you tomorrow.