 So I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get up the euphoria season finale video today but I'm so good to you guys that I'm gonna do it. So in this video we're gonna break down the ending of Rue and discuss everything that happened in the finale 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 if you're new to my channel what I try to do is typically I take topics from the YouTube community but I also like breaking down topics from movies, TV shows, pop culture in general trying to see what lessons we can learn from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and for those of you who don't know I have an entire euphoria playlist and this is the first finale video that I'll be making. All right so make sure that you're subscribed make sure you check out the other videos because I've done some other episode breakdowns character breakdowns and everything like that. A lot of the videos I've done have been based on Rue so that's why I'm focusing on her in this video but anyways let me know down in the comments if there's any other characters you want me to do. So I also covered the last season of 13 reasons why and I'm excited for season three and what I did was I did each individual character and kind of explained their ending so I'm starting out with Rue but I also want to talk about Cat and Cassie, Nate, Jules, things like that so if there's any characters you want me to break down let me know down in the comments all right. So anyways let's talk about Rue in this finale and for those of you who don't know this is going to be filled with spoilers baby. All right so yeah the ending of the episode we saw Rue relapse all right so again I'm going to be talking about the characters but I really want you to just kind of look at your own lives as well because I know so many people out there either a you're struggling with addiction, b you're in recovery from addiction, or c you know somebody who's struggling with addiction. So this show Euphoria did an excellent job like the writer and creator of this show he battled his own addiction when he was around Rue's age so this show did a phenomenal job depicting an addiction right myself I just celebrated seven years clean and sober and my drug or toys was actually the same as Rue which is prescription opioids so I can relate a lot to this so not only have I been clean for seven years but I also worked in a dual diagnosis drug and alcohol rehab center for over three years all right so I'm speaking from that experience and I hope some of this can help some of you viewers out there who are watching or maybe a loved one who you know who maybe watch the show or is just struggling with addiction so the first thing um I let everybody know that I was going to be making my finale my first finale video and there's a conversation going on around uh like did Rue overdose or did she die at the ending right there and I'm just going to get that out of the way before I kind of break down her character I don't think so I don't even know if she overdosed really the way I interpreted the ending and her you know um relaxing and then that whole like kind of uh the music video that happened at the end I just figured she got high and those are a lot of the emotions and everything like that that she was kind of explaining and she got messed up but I guess it is possible because it's not something that I thought of so first here's the first thing let's talk about real quick being in recovery I have seen so many people overdose and die from what did happen to Rue and what that is is having a period of clean time and then using especially when it comes to opioids or benzodiazepines like the real strong stuff that are depressants all right like when I was working in the treatment center over those three years I had over 70 people die all right most of them were from overdoses some were from health related issues some were from suicide but most of the people who died from overdoses it was from their first time using after treatment because what happens is your tolerance changes all right when you stay clean for a while you can't use as much as you used to but many people who relapse they go back to using as much as they were before and then that leads to an overdose and their their body wasn't ready for it all right so this is something that we have to be very very very careful about I cannot tell you how many people I saw die just from their first time using again okay so basically I want to talk about Rue and kind of what I feel led her to relapse and this is after all of my experience my own screw ups my own relapses and everything like that so when looking at Rue and we'll be talking about her but again I want you guys to learn from this so the first thing is like kudos to her for staying clean right she stayed clean for three months thinking the last episode they mentioned that she had been clean for three months but she went to rehab six months ago and obviously what we saw in the like the series was that you know she was using and she was lying about it right but that's a big deal like I'm gonna be a little hard on Rue a fictional character but anyways just know this as somebody who has relapsed many times I tell everybody my secret to staying clean and sober is looking at everything that I refused to do or everything that I was doing and do the opposite all right like in all honesty Rue made every single mistake that an addict can make in early recovery and now she can learn from it okay so I'm hoping that's what season two is all about so the first one is she wasn't working a program all right I'm glad that she came clean and honest in the 12-step meeting that she was going to because they say in recovery that our secrets keep us sick so I'm glad that she stopped taking those dirty little chips and she actually got clean and if any of you watched my previous videos I was so excited when she started working with that dude Ali to be her sponsor and I was hoping that that was going to be like a main part of this show I was actually surprised the season was only eight episodes but anyways she only met with that dude once right or maybe twice I think it was once though when they met up for pancakes right but they also talked another time about her relationship with Jules which we'll talk about in a second but anyways many of us when we first get sober especially if we get a sponsor like we we use our sponsor is kind of like this oh crap button right like we only get in touch with them when we are just going nuts and it's like the last resort right but the purpose of a sponsor is to take us through the book whether it's AA or NA or whatever your program is and to take us through the steps we need to figure out why we keep using right so like having a sponsor is one thing but doing the work is something else like my sponsor told me from day one he was not going to keep me sober I can call him and complain and scream about my life and everything like that but the solution was in those steps all right and anytime I came at him talking about my struggles and how people were driving me crazy my baby mama drama or the people in my sober living whatever he would tell me Chris I guess you better work those steps then so you get a little bit relief right and that's something that we didn't see Rue do at all in this season and I'm hoping that's something that we see so one of the things is I'm surprised she did a relapse sooner um when we're in early recovery and don't get me wrong I made every mistake in the book too when I first got clean I just managed to not pick up a drink or a drug but you saw that Rue like she put herself in some situations that wouldn't be recommended for example like the Halloween party right like when you're in early recovery um that's not a good idea it's not a good idea to go to parties not a good idea to go to the bar or anything like that um me I went to a bar in like my first three or four months sober but I managed to stay clean much like Rue did but I put myself in a very bad situation and I was obsessing on it the whole time you know what I mean and when we put ourselves in those risky situations especially in our first year sober like the first year we are so vulnerable to relapse so we need to do our best to try to avoid situations where we might drink or we might use all right the next big mistake that Rue made was getting into her relationship with Jules I can do an entire other video about how messed up the relationship between Jules and Rue is if you want me to do that let me know in the comments down below but it's highly recommended highly recommend like number one suggestion don't drink or use all right number two suggestion do not get in a relationship your first year right so like we talked about Ali was explaining to her why it's a bad idea to get in your relationship your first year see in none of the literature not an alcoholic synonymous or narcotic synonymous it does not say not to date your first year but there are many men and women who have enough experience to know why that's a bad idea and what Ali was explaining to her is like things change right and especially with people going off to college and things like that and Rue beings you know so young um and like you know my addiction actually started from a high school breakup you know what I mean but a lot of times we don't listen to our sponsors us addicts and alcoholics we're not too good at taking advice and suggestions so Rue fell in deep for Jules but in that finale oh my god so Jules hooked up with that other chick and then comes back and she tells Rue that she loves her and also loves this other girl like this is something that Rue could not handle and in an effort to kind of grasp on to that love that she had for Jules let's run away let's run away and get away from here right which was a dumb decision which Rue figured out when they got to the train station and she let Jules go all right because in early recovery we make such dumb decisions and that's why we have a sponsor and that's why we have a support group like we learn in early recovery that whenever we're getting one of those crazy ideas that even might be a bad idea we bounce it off somebody first right because us addicts and alcoholics we have problems with emotional regulation we got problems with impulse control our best thinking gets us into a lot of trouble so what we saw in season one with Rue was a series of mistakes that she was making and probably the biggest one was not taking care of her mental health like they didn't really reference her OCD throughout the whole season until the final episode when her mom was speaking right but I mentioned it in like a previous video that she was having when she was having her depression she wasn't taking care of her mental illness right so what happens and why many people relapses it's a bunch of things that just start piling up and piling up and piling up and piling up and then the straw that broke the camel's back was the situation that she had with Jules all right and she was so sad she was so hurt she was so confused she was frustrated and because she wasn't working a program she had nothing to turn to except for the drugs all right like you guys I've been sober for seven years and it hasn't been all unicorn and rainbows all right like things happen life slaps you in the face when you least expect it but when I talk about like working a program whether it's the 12 steps or going to therapy or whatever it is it's like building up this force field so when life comes at you and stuff goes down you're shielded from a relapse like no matter what happens in my life today I have so many tools that I can pull from what you witnessed in the ending of season one with Rue is she had absolutely no tools to fall back on and because because she wasn't utilizing Ali as her sponsor she didn't even call him before she picked up that next drug all right so like I said this was a prime example of what Matt to do so my hope my wish for Rue or anybody who can relate to her experience is I would hope in season two she's able to look at everything that she refused to do right not utilizing Ali the way she should have not working the steps you know putting herself in bad situations like relationships and go into parties and all those other things look at those things and do the opposite of it one of the most difficult things that I've seen in my experience is for young people to recover because it's hard like that's the time when everybody's drinking and partying and stuff like that but we need to realize addiction is a disease that some of us are just born with you know what I mean I've met people who got sober at 16 years old some people even younger because by that age it already went out of control you know what I mean but anyways let me know what your thoughts are on the finale and if there's any other characters that you want me to break down let me know down in the comments below all right and feel free to check out my website the RewiredSoul.com I'm also an author I write about mental health and other stuff like cancel culture on YouTube so go check it out I have um my whole story about my addiction my recovery overcoming anxiety and depression that's available on my website if you want to check that out all right and if you're into audiobooks I got those too baby okay 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 supporting the channel over on Patreon you are all amazing and if you would like to support what I'm doing here you can click or tap on that Patreon icon right there you get access to all sorts of cool stuff all right thanks again for watching I'll see you next time