 so what's up again everybody it's chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and again if you're new my channel is dedicated to taking different topics that are going on in the youtube community or in pop culture or society or whatever it is and try to see what we can learn from them all right so yeah like i'm supposed to be finishing my book right now but ever since i posted my last etica video like just something has been eating at me like when i made that video when i made that video and like here's the thing like i understand people and when i made that video i knew i knew it was gonna come and a lot of you are new here and like welcome thank you for subscribing because i'm you know all about mental health awareness and trying to convey a message of hope and everything like that but i knew there was going to be some backlash and it's absolutely ridiculous okay so here's here's why and like the first the first comment that i saw were on twitter right and somebody tweeted a fan of the rewired soul so if you're watching this like no offense towards you it's just i knew this was gonna happen i'm just using this as an example because other people think of it and the reason i'm addressing this too is because a lot of creators are going to be making videos about this all right and it's important that we talk about this when we raise awareness but somebody you know they tweeted at me and they said it's too soon to be talking about this it's too soon to be talking about the loss of etiquette i'm like are you serious right now like are you kidding me all right like that that kind of ridiculousness reminds me of when we have yet another mass shooting in the united states and people are like yo yo yo yo yo yo yo it is way too soon to be talking about gun control like what we need to talk about this stuff now while it's fresh on everybody's mind so we can hopefully do something about it so hopefully people will reach out to a friend and talk to them about it so hopefully if other people are watching this happen and they're in a dark place they know that there's help available all right like this stuff cannot wait we need to talk about it all the time not just now we need to talk about it all the time so it's absolutely ridiculous when people are saying it's too soon to be talking about this we need to be talking about this more all right and clearly clearly every single time we lose a life we need to talk about it more i was actually on twitter earlier and i saw um i think i'm alex made uh a little twitter video about it and he mentioned in there you know like nobody's talking about this stuff right and it's true like this is something that one of the reasons why my channel exists right like nobody talks about these things until something happens when something happens then everybody wants to talk about it when something happens like today was like anthony bourdain day and you know raising awareness and everything like people only want to talk about this stuff when things happen we need to talk about this all the time we need to be there for one another all the time we need to let people know that there are resources available we need to let people know that there is hope all right but to anybody out there like i i empathize greatly like i had another twitter comment again from a loyal subscriber so i love you but this is just not the only one so i'm using this as an example that was saying like oh that you you shouldn't be monetizing this i'm like did you even watch the video like it's not monetized like the video is not monetized all right but there were some other comments and most of the comments were good most of the people thanked me but the goal of that video was to answer some questions because i still see it on twitter people being angry upset like and that's that's normal like whenever there's a loss of life like we get upset we want somebody to blame we want to blame somebody for this right and we want to blame you know the people who were like egging him on on twitter or in his live streams we want to blame you know people who are interviewing him or we want to blame the people who were like making fun of him on twitter we want to blame the people who thought you know this was a joke when he first released that video we want to blame people but like i wanted to make that video to explain like how serious this thing is and we can try to point fingers all we want but at the end of the day here's here's the real issue here is the real problem all right although we have more people talking about mental health and mental illness more than ever before a lot of people don't like talking about it most people who are struggling with a mental illness severe depression anxiety whatever it is they are not getting help you know why in fear that people are going to judge them in fear that people are going to think they're weak right and i'm here to let you know right now if you're struggling you are not weak okay there is nothing to be embarrassed about all right if you got diagnosed with some kind of physical disease you would get help so why not if you have a mental illness but again like one of the other reasons i want to make this video is like if you're somebody reading the ridiculous comments that people are leaving because i guarantee they're not just leaving them on my videos they're gonna be leaving on other people's videos like just just don't let this prevent you from spreading awareness and talking about this like i'm good i'm gonna keep doing my thing baby because i have lost over 70 people all right in the last few years working at a drug and alcohol treatment center many people died after they left treatment from overdoses or suicides i've also had people in my life who weren't just clients who have passed away and i'm going to keep talking about this there's something that we do not talk about enough all right but again like do me a favor and reach out to somebody like be there for other people and the other thing is too like i guess i want to talk about this real quick because i left it out of my last video is don't don't blame yourself all right like i could have never worked in the drug and alcohol treatment center as long as i did if i took personal responsibility for every person that we lost and i i was so passionate about my job i'm so passionate about what i do here and the only thing that we can do is do the best thing that we can do which is help people as best as possible every time we lose somebody it motivates me more to help everybody else out there right but we have to realize like we cannot save everybody the most we can do is be proactive and talk to people and be there for people and try to understand people try to direct them towards getting help like you guys like something that you can do if you have a friend who's struggling like you can't get better for them but if you can help by finding them resources do it okay like the united states mental health system is absolutely screwed up all right it is fucked up okay but there are resources out there okay like man i i don't i don't know really what to say because here's here's the thing here's here's what bothers me as somebody who tries to advocate for mental health and increase awareness about mental health what's going to happen in the next week in the next month right this story is going to you know go away and people are going to stop caring about mental health again until the next one and then until the next one and until the next one this is something that we need to care about every single day you know what i mean we need to be there for one another we need to recognize that mental health is something that we need to take very seriously and i cannot express enough that we need to be proactive about our mental health we need to treat our mental health when it's at like a two so we're not getting to the place where it's at a 10 okay something i try to teach people all the time is you don't practice a fire drill when a fire is happening all right you practice a fire drill so when the fire happens you know what to do there are things that i do on a daily basis for my mental health because when i get in that dark space i need to have tools at my disposal that will help me and this includes my support group first and foremost my therapist i have 12 step meetings i have meditation i have workbooks i have journals i have so many things and we all need that so to anybody out there saying it's too soon to talk about this it's never too soon and it's something that we need to be talking about all the damn time all right and again down in the description below there will be resources if you're struggling please get help please talk to somebody okay i as well as many others are living proof that even if life doesn't seem like it's worth living things can get better okay one of the biggest things that i realized through my mental health struggles is that i struggle with patience i want things to be better now okay and as a recovering drug addict and alcoholic it took me years to get to a better place but i look back at those dark times and i can't even believe that i was almost going to miss out on how amazing my life is today so please never lose hope all right anyways thanks for watching you guys be kind to each other talk about mental health don't be embarrassed don't be ashamed help one another out all right thanks again i'll see you next time