 Have you ever defended somebody and then it turned around to just bite you right in the 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 what I'd like to do is take a look at the YouTube community and try to see what lessons we can learn from them. 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talk about recovery I was able to talk about like medications when it comes to withdrawing from opioids like Suboxone I was able to talk about medications like Suboxone not Suboxone but Vivitrol and Naltrexone which are designed to help with cravings I was able to talk about complete abstinence not trying to use other substances to manage withdrawals so make sure you go watch that video it's linked up in the info card a lot of good information in that video but anyways like I mentioned in that video I was quite surprised I was quite surprised at how many dislikes her video had how many comments were accusing her of lying and manipulating and like from my perspective I was like listen listen okay I know I know this girl Quassum Wolf but I don't think it's right to try to say somebody's lying about something like this right like mental health addiction or they're very serious subjects especially when you look at opiate addiction like tens of thousands of people are dying every single year and it's something that's very personal to me because I'm a recovering opiate addict all right I'm coming up on seven years next month and like a lot of the comments on my video we're talking about how discussed they were that she was lying about this and talking about how like you know she you know she's kind of exploiting like what opiate withdrawal is actually like and you know she hasn't really been through it and now this new evidence has come out like I'm like oh god so anyways anyways the smoking gun actually came from Trisha Paytas' own mother I have been sick and I just like I have to tell you though I was feeling really bad a couple nights ago I mean I thought I was gonna die too like Trisha right and I probably gave her what she's got that's right Trisha Paytas' own mother who also has a YouTube channel just basically confirmed that she had the flu and she probably passed that flu on to her daughter and again like opiate withdrawal symptoms are very intense flu-like symptoms all right but they are very intense aches and pains it is very difficult to get through without some type of assistance like aside from like the physical ailments of opiate withdrawal there's a lot of psychological withdrawal components such as like depression anxiety irritability all sorts of things that can be attributed you know to like coming off of opiates and yeah it's just kind of messed up like something else people were talking about with Trisha Paytas quote unquote lying in which I didn't really give too much credibility to they were saying that you know if you look at the interview she did with you know Perez Hilton or the interview she did with Tom Ward like the dates did not line up from the last time that she used and I'm sitting there I'm just like okay that's what drug addicts do like we lie about stuff like if any of you watch my other videos on Suboxone one of the reasons I didn't take the medication when I went through my opiate withdrawal was because I've lied to the doctor I lied to him about how much I was using I lied about the last time I was using so like when people were pointing that out to me I'm like oh well you know like if you've ever been to a 12-step meeting chances are you've running to somebody who's lied about their clean dates so I didn't really you know give too much attention to that but now looking at that situation like it's messed up like one of the things that I'm constantly battling as somebody who's like a mental health advocate and I talk about it quite a bit on my channel is a conversation that constantly comes up is is using your mental health issues or even mental health issues that you don't have like is it like trendy is it cool or a lot of people talking about it and like it's a yes and no right like we're living in a time where more people are struggling with depression more people are struggling with anxiety more people are just suffering right and a lot of these symptoms lead to turning to substances like the three reasons people use alcohol or drugs is to get a feeling to get rid of a feeling or to have an escape all right so many people are struggling with mental health issues or addiction issues but one of the issues that comes up is when we see a creator like Trisha Paytas who gets the flu and then gets the idea like okay well I'm going to say that this is opiate withdrawal I was using opiates and maybe she had a light withdrawal or she didn't record anything about it and she I don't know I'm still trying to give her the benefit of the doubt but then she uses that topic in order to I don't know I don't know what her motives were to get sympathy to manipulate the audience to I don't know people are accusing her of you know just trying to get the attention of Jason her ex because she's been very vocal about that I do not know what her motives were but I can definitely empathize to anybody else who came across this video and was in her comments or my comments and saying how offended they were by this like opiate withdrawal is hell it is absolute hell okay it is one of the main reasons that people relapse because people try to do a cold turkey and it is so rough it is so brutal that people end up turning back to the substance in order to avoid the rest of the withdrawal symptoms all right but here's the thing too like I don't know it's it's difficult like I am all about bringing more awareness to these subjects such as mental health such as addiction and I try to be an optimist about these situations like at the end of the day at the end of the day regardless of tritipitis as a whole it has started a conversation like seeing people in my comment sections talking about their personal experience with opiate withdrawal with suboxone or methadone or vivitrol or naltrexone like seeing stories of hope in the comment section where people are talking about how long they've been clean or I saw somebody talk about like their father recently went to rehab I'm like yes that's awesome so now we have a whole comment section you know people getting pretty pissed off but they're also sharing stories of hope so like in that sense I'm like okay cool something good something positive came from this situation you know what I made but it's it's very difficult because I've been clean for almost seven years and I worked in a drug and alcohol treatment center for three years and like sometimes sometimes even I you know believe people with addictions right like one of the earliest stories I remember what is at my sober living house there was this dude there and he was having all sorts of erratic behavior and I had never been around anybody who substance of choice was meth because here in Las Vegas like the primary drugs back then when I was still using was like alcohol cocaine and prescription meds right like not a lot of people were doing meth here in Las Vegas it's still not that hot anyways I got sober in central California and I was in that sober living with a bunch of recovering methodics right and there was his kid and he was acting really weird and erratic like a little bit different but I thought he just got like that pink cloud as we call it in recovery I thought he was just in a great mood so one night at our sober living house meeting like he stops the meeting and he says that he wants to read us a poem right he like reads the poem I'm just sitting I'm like that's dope I'm like this dude's getting clean he's finding his creativity his new passions in life everything I'm like the poem wasn't that good but he's he's finding his path into variety right so like after the meeting like some of my buddies were like so what what you think about his poem I was like I'm like you know what good for him good for that guy they're like you know he's really high on meth right I'm like wait what they're like yeah man remember when we went into the garage the other day and he was asking how much money we thought he'd get for that piano like this dude relapsed on meth I'm like oh my word right and you know the next day he got kicked out of the sober living house but anyways anyways even somebody with my like myself who has a lot of experience with addiction and working with drug addicts and alcoholics even I could be a little gullible to their antics so anyways anyways at the end of the day please please please if you're somebody who is struggling with addiction or if you are somebody who's in recovery from addiction like know that there is hope remember to keep spreading hope our experiences greatly help anybody else out there who is currently struggling so they know that they never have to pick up a drink or drug again even if they want to alright but anyways I wish the best for Trisha Paytas and she gets into gear she has been talking about going to therapy and all that stuff so I hope the best for her but I wanted to make the video to kind of address my last video and correct myself because new information is out 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