 what's up tiktok family love you want to give a shout out if you guys want to know like natural treatments for bipolar natural treatments for depression the truth about Alzheimer's disease and how to wake the f*** up do that for two to five minutes try it with two minutes starting first try to go for five minutes and you'll see your soul's gonna come into your body your ego's gonna get out it's gonna be transmuted into the light and then you're gonna have a kick-ass day oh you guys are in for a treat 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 so if you're somebody like me who is actively trying to improve your mental and emotional well-being make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and as some of you saw from a previous video i did reacting to drug culture on tiktok i've been trying to get a little bit more into tiktok recently and when i come across one that's you know on the subject of like drugs or addiction or specifically like mental health i stopped because it catches my eye and i came across this tiktok from someone named dr samuel lee and it was about bipolar disorder and like i said it stopped me in my tracks and i was like okay this is a psychiatrist let me see what he has to say about bipolar disorder okay 60 seconds bipolar depression bipolar depression bipolar disorder is a made-up disorder uh by pharmaceutical companies who sponsor research papers which have now been ingrained into the psychiatrist bible diagnostic manual five the symptoms are real but the diagnosis and labels are not see bipolar disorder is when a soul goes into a uh rapid energy it's all about energy and frequency too high of an energy during manic episode there's too much energy going on in the brain so there's no cleaning of the subconscious mind and so they're going to be repressed energy and repressed emotions are all brought up to the brain and so they can't sleep they can't meditate and the ego is operating and so they go we're into the activity they have all these symptoms grandiose all these things but actually the key during bipolar disorder is to bring the energy it's all energy five seconds from the brain to the feet and get some sleep and i was like oh dang what is going on so i decided to check out his actual profile and he has over 87 thousand followers on tiktok and kind of like that last video i just showed you he has this whole kind of series like explaining different topics in 60 seconds this is weird kind of like high energy like rapid fire like impactful like just kind of like putting it all out there on a certain subject but when i saw this about bipolar disorder i'm like that's not exactly how this works and you are a psychiatrist all right so there's a lot of brain science around bipolar disorder and just for example i want to pull from a study which was one of the largest studies an actual neurological scans around bipolar disorder all right it says by revealing clear and consistent alterations in key brain regions the findings published in molecular psychiatry on may 2nd offer insight to the underlying mechanisms of bipolar disorder quote we created the first global map of bipolar disorder and how it affects the brain resolving years of uncertainty on how people's brains differ when they have this severe illness so it goes on to say the researchers measured the MRI scans of over 6000 individuals including 2447 adults with bipolar disorder and 4056 healthy controls they also examined the effects of commonly used prescription medications age of illness onset history of psychosis mood state age and sex differences on cortical regions the study showed thinning of gray matter in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder were compared with healthy controls the greatest deficits were found in parts of the brain that control inhibition and motivation the frontal and temporal regions all right so when i saw that his video on bipolar disorder polar disorder is a made-up disorder like there's actually some neuroscience around this stuff like what are you what are you trying to say like are you trying to let people know that bipolar disorder isn't an actual brain disease like many other forms of mental illness so i wanted to see a little bit more of what Dr. Samuel Lee was about and i came across another one of those rapid fire videos where it's explaining antidepressants in 60 seconds antidepressant medication uh antidepressant medication so there's uh three primary kinds there's ssri's uh selexa zoloft um you know that class there's also snri's simbalta effects her uh prestige things like that and there's the old school uh tca's which no one really uses anymore um you know so the ssri's can temporarily numb like a band-aid for symptoms and making numb and continue to function in a sick society uh and it's never asking to fix the problem uh snri's can be kind of helpful uh for giving you a little bit of energy like simbalta but they're a to get off of i'm telling you man so i'm looking at this and i'm like well yeah like a lot of medications like pretty much all psychiatric medications and there's many other medications for our physical and mental health where if you stop taking them you're going to have withdrawal and stuff like this concerns me because antidepressants save lives yes there are a lot of different holistic ways and different forms of therapy that are really beneficial for treating depression but there are many people who need antidepressants so i'm worried when somebody with this many followers is potentially scaring people from taking different antidepressant medications and that's when i wanted to dig a little bit deeper into this guy and i went over to his website so on his website here's his quick little bio it says i'm a certified holistic psychiatrist that teaches a spiritual based mental health discipline i focus on natural healing techniques that promote the body's innate ability to heal itself through an emphasis on breath work and other natural healing techniques i help my patients feel empowered to overcome their programming conditioning and trauma so that they can realize the greatness that lies within themselves all right so check this out i want to make it very clear as a recovering drug addict as somebody whose primary drug of choice was prescription drugs like i am really into holistic treatment methods right like i've been meditating for like five or six years now and i thought meditation was just this bogus like thing that people did and it doesn't really do anything it seemed corny and cheesy the only reason i got into meditation was because of all of the science around it there is so much science around how meditation helps decrease symptoms of anxiety decrease symptoms of depression there are some research studies that show that it can help people who have ADHD right but one of the issues is is that when you take some of the science that backs holistic treatment aside from meditation and breath work like there's also you know um natural uh you know uh supplements and things like that that can help like when we start diving into like severe forms of mental illness that's when it gets a little bit sketchy for me so as i continued down the rabbit hole of dr samuel lee i came across his book promotion what's up tiktok family love you want to give a shout out if you guys want to know like natural treatments for bipolar natural treatments for depression the truth about Alzheimer's disease and how to wake the up all of these herbs and tools breath work things like that everything that i know i put into this book called the spiritual guide to mental health might be the best 17 dollars you ever spend might not but might take a risk click the link in the bio if you're interested in waking the f*** up because it's about to get fun love you like 17 dollars like 17 dollars for this book and like you just saw from that clip he's talking about treating severe mental health disorders such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis like this is all throughout his sight right and i was like okay okay you might be wondering the same thing i am at this point where it's like is this guy actually a doctor is this guy a psychiatrist because a psychiatrist is a medical doctor someone who prescribes medications so with the help of my beautiful girlfriend Tristan we did a little bit of research and yeah Dr. Samuel Lee is board certified in the state of California all right so now now the next question that you might be wondering is how much it would cost you to work with Dr. Samuel Lee and wake the f*** up all right i'll give you a short amount of time i'll give you a short little breathing exercise to do while you guess how much it costs to work with Dr. Samuel Lee so what'd you guess 100 dollars 200 dollars 300 dollars well if you guessed any of those you were wrong for a 60 to 90 minute session with Dr. Samuel Lee it is 400 dollars and a 30 minute follow-up is 200 dollars all right and now we'll check out some of his courses because he actually has courses available all right so have you ever wanted to reach self-realization but you don't have too much time on your hands well you should check out Dr. Lee's rapid self-realization program for the low low price of 111 dollars okay so check this out so there's a very famous psychologist who um came up with you know self-actualization self-realization he talked about a lot in fact it was his life's work and that is Abraham Maslow any of you who've taken psychology class you've probably heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs i actually just finished an incredible book called transcend by Dr. Scott Barry Kauffman and it really dives deep into Maslow's uh hierarchy of needs and self-actualization right so for some people this is a lifelong process of this self-actualization so if you're wondering how long this course is for 111 dollars it is a 30 minute course for rapid self-realization okay so to kind of conclude this video what are my final thoughts what are my final thoughts on this so i try to give people the benefit of the doubt like this guy is clearly clearly educated but something i'm always mindful of especially especially as a recovering prescription drug addict is like i can't always trust anybody who gets certified or has an education for example Tristan and i we're currently watching the innocence files on netflix right and they're showing a lot of you know experts out there who have wrongfully convicted people based on junk science right so although we need experts although we need doctors although we need licensed professionals to help us with our physical health our mental health and everything like that we need to be weary of some people like dr lee all right like he is doing like i can see where he is doing some good work but there is some stuff out there where it's like i hope people realize like you're not going to cure your bipolar disorder you're not going to cure your schizophrenia with some of these like holistic breathing techniques and supplements that he's promoting you know what i'm saying so when somebody has a massive following on like this on something like tiktok especially with a younger audience everything like that i think it's important that we get out there and we kind of discuss like hey let's let's do a little bit of our own research and see if there's actually any scientific backing behind treating such severe mental illnesses you know what i'm saying but anyways that's all i got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge huge thank you to everybody out there who supports the channel over on patreon as well as everybody who supports the channel by buying my mental health books at the rewired soul.com that are nowhere near $17 as well as everybody who gets merch from the merch store you're all all awesome all right thanks again for watching i'll see you next time