 Koda Wade is an extremely talented singer and songwriter and today she just released her brand new track called hashtag You Are Not Alone. This is in perfect time for Mental Health Awareness Month and this song has some great lyrics talking about mental illness as well as letting people know that they're not alone in their struggle. So in this video we're going to talk a little bit about her song and then I'm going to take a test to see if I am perpetuating the stigma of mental illness so stay tuned. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and Koda Wade is my girl. She's not really like my girl like we've talked a couple times but she's super cool and like I'm so so so happy to see an artist talking about mental health. Some of you who follow my channel I've done some other lyrical breakdowns. I try to talk about pop culture and when they talk about mental illness as well as addiction and things like that like because it's a conversation that needs to happen all right. So before I get started and talk a little bit about the lyrics of her song do me a favor and share this video. Share this video because I'm also going to link to Koda's music video down below and more people need to listen to this song because first off amazing song second off she's amazing and third off she's helping to increase some awareness and let people know that they're not alone so make sure that you share this video on social media all right. But anyways I just went back and I listened to her song again it was great and so I found out about this song from my beautiful girlfriend she follows somebody on Instagram I forgot her name it's one of Koda's friends but she like does modeling for hot topic and my girlfriend's like yo this artist Koda Wade is doing a music video and she's asking people to like make signs you know talking about their mental illness diagnosis right. So I'm like okay cool I'll jump on that train so yeah I submitted my my picture and check it out boom I'm all up in that video Koda's holding a picture of me but yeah a bunch of people from all over the world like literally all over the world submitted these pictures and there's such a powerful statement too like so many people who are struggling with mental illness they they feel alone they feel isolated and a lot of times it's because of the lack of awareness some of the ignorance around mental illness so a lot of us feel isolated and by ourselves instead of our own homes like our parents don't understand for some of you it might be your spouse who doesn't understand you know and that's one of the beautiful things about the internet. A lot of people talk trash about the internet but like if it weren't for the internet powerful statements like this would never happen we wouldn't be able to bring people from all over the world and say look like I got mental illness too so you know a big shout out to everybody who was featured in this video and submitted your pictures or videos like that is awesome it takes a lot of strength and courage to do that and it sends a powerful message but in the song Koda talks about you know some of her struggles with mental illness you know the thoughts that run her through her head and you know how it feels alone and like it it's it's great to hear her talk about it but I don't want to spoil it for you I don't want to spoil it for you you need to go click on the link down below and check out the full music video okay and one thing that surprised me when I was doing some research I'm like who is this Koda wave gal right like she was actually on season nine of The Voice and you know what fun fact about Chris I love The Voice real quick let me tell you like I love watching the blind auditions like if you're having a bad day just watch the blind auditions of The Voice so Koda did this video in conjunction with I believe CureStigma.org all right so I was like what's CureStigma.org and it is run by the National Alliance on Mental Illness and I went and I watched their video and like they have a great video on their website like it's talking about this disease that you can catch anywhere and stuff and basically it's talking about the stigma around mental illness I was like dang so I was checking out the website and it says have you been infected by the stigma and I'm like you know what I might be I don't know like I think it's important for all of us to get out of our our little bubble you know so many of us because of our ego and things like that we're like oh I'm doing the best out there and da da da da but sometimes like I'm screwing up and I don't even know so I thought it'd be fun if you went on this little journey with me and watch as I take this test to see if I've been infected by the mental health stigma all right so let's get started all right start cure stigma quiz let's see what this is all about so question number one I think people with mental illness a need to snap out of it b did something wrong to cause it c need our love and support d are sometimes faking it okay this is a tough one I'm gonna make a video on this at some point so I hope you subscribe like I don't I don't like saying like you know or sometimes faking it I think that every claim of mental illness needs to be taken seriously okay um I do feel part of the the issue wait wait that's the wrong way to phrase it I think that there is an issue because mental health is getting some more visibility some people are saying you know oh I have anxiety when it's really just stress or people like oh uh I'm suffering from depression but they're really just kind of bummed out you know what I'm saying so I do think it's overused in some cases but like I said all instances of mental illness where people say they have it needs to be taken seriously so I'm gonna say see they need our love and support question number two which of the following is a myth about stigma it makes people feel alienated or feel less than b it's not really a big problem for people with mental health conditions y'all tripping c it prevents people from seeking help for symptoms d it makes people feel judgment if they share their story dang dang this this question drops truth so I'm gonna go with a it makes people feel alienated or feel less than question number three if someone in your family is diagnosed with a mental illness you should a treat them differently than you used to what b distance yourself from them c feel sorry for them d listen to them and show support dang okay so I'm picking d by the way if I didn't mention it earlier share this video um I had somebody just asked me yesterday they have a friend who struggles with uh depression and they don't know how to help and like this is a great question like because d and I hope I'm right by the way d like listen to them and show support I would I need to make videos on this I don't make enough about this topic but yeah a lot of times people struggle with mental illness like I think people feel this need to fix them and if they can't fix them then they either see feel sorry for them or be distance uh themselves from this person like a lot of times these people just need you to listen just shut your mouth shut your mouth and just listen typically that is the best thing that you can do how old are you I didn't know this was gonna be on the quiz 30 to 50 like geez can you put like 30 to 35 what the heck what is your gender uh male want to learn more about how to spread the cure for a stigma type your email here sure why not and by the way as I type this in if any of you would ever like to get in touch with me if you need to talk or if you have topics that you want me to cover in a future video boom you're staring at my email address right now all right uh-oh looks like you might have the stigma what what I promise to change my behavior to support everyone affected by mental health conditions I won't use harmful words that prevent people from seeking help that's how I will hashtag cure stigma all right y'all I'm a little I'm a little conflicted about the results so is this one of those websites where like no matter what it gives you the same what the the same answer like is it or did I really like do something wrong there here's what we're gonna do let's play this game okay if you think that I answered one of those questions incorrectly leave a comment down below rewind if you have to let me know which answer you think I got incorrect because like I I've mentioned this before the best people in your life are people who tell you what you need to hear not what you want to hear all right so like am I perpetuating the stigma did I just did I just realize something I don't know leave comments down below let me know what happened or or do this you go to the website you put your email address in and you take the test and let me know what your results are down below all right let's do that let's do that let's do a little bit of both okay um but anyways anyways again um coda you are amazing thank you for such an awesome opportunity and this song like I appreciate what you are doing and and coda if you happen to see this I live in Las Vegas I think you live in the LA area so if you ever want to collab I'm out in LA sometimes and that would be awesome so hit me up you got my instagram all right but anyways everybody again please share please share so people um can check out coda's video so we can help to end the stigma about this thing but also to show people that they're not alone in their mental health struggles all right so please please please do me a favor share this on facebook 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