 Hello all of my beautiful euphoria fans out there. Did you miss me? So yeah, I finished watching episode seven. So in this video we're going to be talking about what was going on with Rue and kind of her manic and depressive episodes as well as relationships because we learned quite a bit about Cassie too. 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 take different topics from movies, tv shows, the youtube community and try 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 all of you people who have been subscribed you know that I'm a little bit behind on the euphoria breakdown videos. By the way like it warms my heart when you guys are like oh Chris did you see the episode I want you to break it down. So anyways I didn't upload a video for five or six but I'm going to so we're gonna backtrack a little bit a little bit later this week but anyways the reason why I didn't make videos on that is because I've been so busy lately writing my new book which is out now and it's free and it's called Canceled Inside YouTube Cancel Culture. So please please please I put my heart and soul into this book and I really hope it helps a lot of people out there like I understand the problem with cancel culture. So check out the description check out the pinned comment it's up on my website you can download it for free it'd be amazing if you checked it out. So yeah anyways let's jump into episode seven which revolved around Cassie kind of. So although I'm going to make a video recapping episode six and both these episodes just kind of like real quick opinion right it's kind of interesting because you know each episode they kind of like focus on one character and these last two episodes they didn't do too much with that character right like you saw like the intro where they kind of built up their storyline so anyways we learned a little bit about Cassie and her relationship with her father and I could definitely feel for her and any of you out there who are the child of a drug addict or an alcoholic like you probably fell for her too because we saw that Cassie's father turned into a drug addict here's something too like the situation that happened in the show with Cassie's father is extremely common right like where somebody goes to the hospital for an injury or a surgery and they get hooked on these narcotic pain medications like I'm a recovering opioid addict was seven years clean I just became addicted to those drugs because I wanted drugs right but I knew a lot of people who developed their addiction because they were given such strong medications while they were in the hospital so this is something that happens way too often so anyways we learn more about Cassie and I don't think what a lot of people are going to recognize is our relationships with our parents can kind of mold us and train us into who we fall for right so when you look at Cassie like I can definitely relate to it right but anyways she's looking for a man right she's looking for a man who's going to show her the love and attention that her dad did not show her right because even before he became addicted to drugs as soon as he left like he wasn't really in her life all that much right so she's looking for somebody she's constantly looking for someone to be there and like kind of like when Ru is narrating it and she discusses like how she does things you know sexually with her partners like letting them record it like even though she doesn't want to she lets them you know what I mean so this is this is something that we all need to recognize about ourselves me personally this is something that happened to me because my mother was an alcoholic until I was 20 years old and I kept looking for love I kept looking for broken women who I could try to fix and I didn't know it until years later and I was able to repair that behavior but I was trying to find a woman I could fix because I could never fix my mom one of the reasons that I was not comfortable being single and always needed somebody was there because I was never getting the love and affection from the woman in my life but from my mom right so I was trying to use you know women you know in dating to be that person you see what I mean so I'm gonna link up in the info card right here if any of you want to check it out I made a video a long time ago called why you date who you date all right this is an exercise that I've done with a lot of people when I was working at the addiction treatment center it will help you understand why you keep picking the people that you keep picking all right so if you're somebody who notices that you keep going after the wrong type of person like make sure you check that video out so next let's talk about Rue okay so obviously in this episode Rue is dealing with depression but she's also dealing with manic states as well they bring up bipolar disorder even though she's not diagnosed with it and she starts like googling stuff so first let's talk about that real quick don't do that okay see a damn doctor do not google it especially when it comes to something like bipolar disorder bipolar disorder is so difficult to diagnose for some people it can take years to properly diagnose bipolar disorder all right so you're not going to get your answers just by googling it okay but anyways I think you know the the writers of this show like when Rue was explaining depression and how like depression kind of starts getting rid of every joyful memory that you've had and then eventually it gets to the point where you can't even remember a time when you weren't depressed like yes that is what depression does to you okay so the next things that I want to talk about is just how realistic is this that's something I like to do too like how realistic is what's happening in the show okay and I guess it could be realistic but I'm just going to let you know how typically like addiction treatment and addiction recovery works so those of you who don't know the addiction treatment center that I was working at for a little over three years it was a dual diagnosis treatment facility all right so we specialize in addiction as well as mental health most addicts and alcoholics also have a mental illness so when we look at Rue if you remember back to episode one she talks about how she was diagnosed with some various disorders like OCD and I think she might have been diagnosed with bipolar at some point or another so in the real world we know that Rue went to rehab and in the real world at that rehab they probably would have medicated her if she in fact had bipolar disorder all right there are many many many drug addicts and alcoholics out there who self-medicate because of their bipolar disorder all right so she would have received treatment for that in the the drug rehab but there also would have been an aftercare plan so this is what I'm saying like it's kind of realistic but kind of not because before you leave treatment they give you an aftercare plan all right they're like listen you got mental health issues you're on medications you're going to need therapy data about all these things here's what you're going to do to continue your recovery right so a lot of times too that's like go to 12 step meetings which Rue is doing but we haven't seen her follow up with a doctor we haven't seen her follow up with a therapist so I can tell you from my own experience I've seen many people leave treatment and not follow through with their aftercare plan so it's possible it's possible I'm not sure if the writer is meant to do that it's possible that Rue did have an aftercare plan but she just didn't follow through with it all right but that's something even more important that I want to talk about if you are a drug addict okay make sure you are following up with doctors with therapists and everything like that like rehab is not the fix all rehab is not an auto repair shop okay you don't just come in fix you up like it takes work and continuous effort to maintain our sobriety and our mental health so follow up with your damn doctor okay but anyways something even more important for all of you non addicts out there like through my previous videos I know how many young people are watching this show listen to me very carefully okay if you start to have thoughts feelings emotions kind of like we saw what was happening with Rue like that are confusing or scary please talk to an adult okay you should first talk to your parents let them know what's going on like when I was growing up and I started experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety I get it I was I was afraid to talk to him about it but had I done that I may have never become a drug addict because I would have gotten help okay so don't keep that to yourself if you are worried about talking to your parents about it find another adult that you can you can trust maybe it's an aunt or an uncle or an older sibling maybe it's somebody at school talk to a school counselor some people have school therapists or psychologists at the time I'm recording this in summer vacation right but anyways like during the school year if this is happening like even if it's not a counselor like find your favorite teacher just please talk to an adult about this no child should be battling this on their own because we start to make really dumb decisions like oh I'm just going to drink alcohol or use drugs to try to cope with this and all it does is it starts to make your problems even worse okay so do not be afraid to talk to somebody and get help the last thing that I'll talk about is something that Rue kind of explains in this episode is that she loves the manic states right and this is something that a lot of people with bipolar disorder struggle with they love the mania but they hate the depression right but some people go untreated for their bipolar disorder because they don't want to lose that all right Kanye West is a great example of this he stopped taking his medications and we know what happened with that I think maybe just from an outside perspective he might be back on him because he hasn't done anything you know too wacky in a while but anyways creative people especially don't like taking medications and treating their bipolar disorder because they feel even more creative when they're going through those manic states but on the other end like you saw with Rue that depression is brutal all right so the higher the high means the lower the low okay don't be afraid to at least give medications a try all right and continue to work with your doctor to find the right balance of medications don't ever think in a million years and this is something I talk about in my book rewire your anxiety don't think that because one medication didn't work well for you that no medication will work well for you okay like we have to talk to our doctors follow up get adjustments sometimes switch and things like that all right because you don't have to go through that depression the way Rue was going through all right there are things that can help okay but anyways I hope you enjoyed this episode recap and don't forget please check out the description and the pin comment down below go get your free copy of my brand new book cancelled inside youtube cancel culture the audiobook will be out within the next week after I upload this video I'm gonna go back to recording the audiobook Zach's editing it all right so make 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