 Why do I want to take a break? There's many reasons. First and foremost, my mental health. I'm gonna be real with y'all. I am mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted. Well, the latest YouTuber to need a mental health break is Lilly Singh. But there's actually a lot that we can learn from her new video talking about why she's taking this break in the first place. 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. And what I like to do is pull different topics going on in the YouTube community and try to use those as lessons to help you 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. But before I jump into Lilly Singh and you improving your mental health, I do have a little housekeeping, cool, couple quick announcements. 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Something that I have not done enough about on my channel is mental health issues in the LGBTQ community. So for anybody out there who is in the LGBTQ community, check out the description down below. There's an entire resource list, courtesy of Catherine. So check that out. All right. Now that that's over, let's talk about Lilly Singh. So I've known who Lilly Singh is. How could you not? She's one of the biggest creators on the platform. But I want to give a quick shout out to Shell. This is why I have the best audience on earth. Like she tweeted this at me. She's like, if you're ever looking for another great example of a well done video from a youtuber announcing they are taking a break from mental health, check out the latest from Lilly Singh. So I did that and here we are. So thank you Shell for that amazing suggestion. Yeah. So I checked this video out and there's a few things that we can touch on. So again, if you're new to my channel, my channel isn't always about these youtubers. What it is is about you because I know a lot of you can relate to these youtubers. That's why you watch them. So I try to give mental health advice that maybe you can be like, Oh, okay. I'm struggling with that too. Here's what I should do. And I know I'm always about hustling and hustling harder and making journalism, being productive, but I'm also about happiness. And I always preach that you should be happy. You should take care of yourself. But what kind of person would I be if I preach that, but didn't actually practice it myself? This first clip is just so important. That is so important. What she just said, like lead by example, like that is what I'm always trying to do. So like for all of you, I take care of my mental health in a variety of different ways. And I'm always trying to share little tips and pieces of advice with you why I take care of my mental health because I cannot come up on my channel acting a fool or being miserable or angry or whatever it is and try to give you some kind of hope to improve your mental health. So like, I think that's really admirable of Lily to be like, yo, like I'm not being that example right now. And like, I'm a father too. Like I have to think about that with my son. I can't tell him to behave if I'm not acting right or I can't tell him to like eat healthy or meditate or whatever it is or be nice to people if I'm not doing it. So it's very important for me, like one of the things that has helped me stay on the straight narrow since I started working on my mental health when I got sober about six and a half years ago is I'm always thinking about how I need to be a good example for other people. And that's important. That's important, especially when we're in a time in YouTube where there's so many young creators who are like, Oh, I don't I'm not a role model. I'm yes. Sorry, you are. You are a role model. So I'm really glad that Lily Singh is taking responsibility of that, especially in a time like this, when I see people like Tana Mojo or Thomas Halbert or other people like, Whoa, whoa, whoa, don't look at me as an example. Like, sorry, we signed up for this thing. The thing about YouTube is in all of its glory, it kind of is a machine and it makes creators believe that we have to pump out content consistently, even at the cost of our life and our mental health and our happiness. Because if you don't, then you'll become irrelevant. That is something really interesting. It's so interesting to me. So something I always try to talk to you guys about is like the lies that our brain tells us. Our brain tells us so many lies. And this is something that you consistently see in all of these YouTuber mental health break videos. Their brain tells them things that are not true, that if you take a break, if you're not uploading consistently, you are not going to have a following, you are going to lose subscribers. You guys, let me give you a good example. Many MUA had like one of the craziest controversies of the year. And that fool is still sitting at over 4 million subscribers, almost 5 million subscribers. All right? Like, so you think that if you take a couple weeks off, you're going to lose everybody? Heck no, okay? Like something that we all need to work on is separating the truth from our faults. Like she said too, like she's, she's acknowledging that fear. And I know a lot of you watching my channel, you struggle with anxiety. A lot of us struggle with anxiety or stress or fears, whatever it is. Like one way that I manage my fears is saying, is this rational or irrational? Something that you can do, a great practice that you can start, is writing down your fears in a notebook and looking at it, looking at it and saying, is this rational? Okay? Like, does logic agree with this fear? Okay? So like, especially like just using Lily Singh as an example, she has so many, so many millions of loyal subscribers, right? And like looking at that on paper, Lily could be like, okay, this many people are loyal to me. Are they really all going to leave because I'm taking a little bit of a break? You know what I'm saying? But this is something that all of you can take into consideration too. Like, like when you're, when you're worried about doing like a presentation at work, or these people got to like me, or you struggle with social anxiety. One of the hacks that I use is that I made a video a long time ago saying, laugh at your anxiety. I let my brain go to the absolute craziest worst case scenario, right? So if I was the only saying, I'd be like, oh my God, I'm going to take a week off, and I'm going to come back and have three subscribers. And then I would laugh at how crazy that idea is, and then I would take a break. So for everybody who knows me, here's where Tough Love Chris comes in. I tried to save it for the end so I don't scare all the new folks away. But here's Tough Love Chris. Like, you guys, let me, I just, like for the love of God, could I just get one? Could I get one YouTuber who isn't trying to push better help to say that they're going to therapy? And the better help thing, I'm a better help affiliate, don't get me wrong. But I just want somebody to say, hey, I'm taking a break and going to therapy, right? Like just say it, just do it. Like it drives me nuts. I know so many people, so many of you watching this are people that do not have the money, or you don't have the resources to get therapy, right? So when I see these, these YouTubers who are huge, most likely making millions, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and not one of them, not one of them ever says, you know what, during this mental health break, I'm going to start therapy, right? So when you're somebody like Lilly Singh, who is, and don't get me wrong, she might be, she might be, but when you're trying to inspire people say, hey, I'm not just taking a mental health break, I'm taking action too. Like I talked about this in my Man in MUA video, I talk about this in a lot of these videos, like a lot of people make the common mistake of taking a mental health break, but having no plan of action, all right? Now, don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. Like something Lilly said, which is very true, is that she's been so caught up in this like, you know, routine that she's not being as creative. Like don't get me wrong, like I am somebody who is all about creativity and stuff, and sometimes I just need to step away and like get some ideas. For me though, for me, to be honest, this doesn't come in huge breaks. For me, it's meditation. Like if I am stuck, if my brain is just blocked, I can't think of anything or I don't have any good ideas, meditation helps me because it declutters everything, all right? So that's very important, but like my fear, my biggest fear for all of these YouTubers taking mental health breaks is this. This has become a trend. I'm not saying it's trendy, but we're seeing more and more people like Lilly Singh says other creators inspired her to take some time for herself, but we're going to see this trend as more and more people do this. I guarantee, I guarantee within a year, we're going to see a lot of them doing the same thing again. And why is that? Why is that? It's because a lot of them are not being proactive about their mental health. They think that a break is going to fix them, but no, like so much of our mental health involves like retraining our brain. Like that's one of the reasons why my channel is called the rewired soul. We have to get new habits, new practices. Like Lilly talks about some of her thinking errors, right? Like she talks about things that aren't working on YouTube for her. And then she mentions like, well, that's subjective. And I just really need to get clarity on this situation. But whatever currently works on YouTube does not make me happy. And I think the underlying issue there is that whatever works, I'm literally saying whatever works, what is works? Works is subjective. Just because something's not on the trending page doesn't have millions of views. Does that mean it doesn't work? Is a hundred thousand people not valid? Is 200,000 people not valid? Like, so even if she's not seeing a therapist, like it's important to have people in your life who call you out on it. For example, Tristan, the love of my life, my beautiful girlfriend, whenever I go over to her and whine about views or subscribers or whatever, she brings me back down to earth like that. She's like, Chris, 500 views is a lot of views. And I'm like, yeah, you're right. You're right. So Tristan is my, my way of constantly reminding it, reminding me about this. So if Lilly isn't doing therapy, I suggest that she has a strong support group that calls her out on these things. So when she gets back in that routine, because like I said, my fear is people just taking a mental health break, getting back into it. And then before they even know it, they slip back into old thinking patterns. Next thing you know, they need a mental health break again. All right. But anyways, I wish Lilly the best. I am very proud of her. It as a mental health channel, I am just so happy that more people are talking about this stuff. It just makes me so happy. So, so, so happy. All right. But anyways, anyways, let me know down in the comments below, like, do you struggle with like creativity at all? And what do you do to get over that hump? I'm about to start writing a book. So I need, I need some tips from all of you. All right. But anyways, that's all I got for you with this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And a huge thank you to everybody who has supported the channel over on Patreon. You can get on this list for only a dollar a month. But like I said, exclusive content for anybody signing up $5 or more exclusive videos. All right. Anyways, I love you all so much and I'll see you next time.