 We got way too many YouTubers on the platform talking about the problem and offering no solutions. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. Have you ever wondered why I said that? If you're a subscriber to this channel, have you ever wondered why I always say we talk about the problem but focus on the solution? I have a laundry list. I might do a whole series about the numerous reasons why I say this but anyways before I get into this rant, if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health. Helping you out with your mental health, helping decrease the stigma, increase awareness and all that kind of good stuff. So I just got done watching the new Bobby Burns video and like I want to start off by saying like I like Bobby. I hope the best for him. I hope things get well. Like he if you don't know who he is, he was handed the golden ticket by Shane Dawson. His channel exploded. He tried to do some videos. They didn't really work. He took a little hiatus. He made a video about his mental health and just all this anxiety and like I do appreciate that Bobby is taking time to talk more about mental health and talk about these things but again we're talking about the problem and that is an issue. So I do appreciate that he's doing that and like here's the reason why I think it's a good thing. There's so many people, so many people who are like I want to be a YouTuber. I want to be a YouTuber and things like that and like a lot of people don't understand what it's like to be at the top. Okay. Once you start getting to the top of that mountain, like it gets more stressful. You get more anxiety and everything like that. But in this new video we talked about anxiety on YouTube and here's the thing. Here's the reason why I got a rant about this you guys. All right. So not only am I an advocate for mental health but I also work in a mental health treatment center. Okay. This is for people with mental illness as well as addictions. Now I am a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. When I got clean six years ago I had no money, no insurance, nothing. I was not able to get any type of treatment unless it was state funded and state funded treatment isn't all that great and I had to bust my butt in order to get clean and sober and fix my mental health, my anxiety, my depression, my childhood traumas, all that stuff. I had to do that on my own without the help of professionals. On a day to day basis I talk to so many people who are trying to go to a rehab because they can't overcome their addiction. They think they need rehab and they don't have any money. They don't have any insurance. I have other people who tell me that they need to see a therapist. They need to see a psychiatrist. They need to do these things but they don't have any money. They don't have any insurance and for me it is just this huge slap in the face when I see these big YouTubers who are just constantly talking about the problem and I never once see them say I'm seeing a therapist now. I got a therapist. Like I've watched Bobby Burns for a while and he has videos of him. He's like we're getting two new MacBooks or here's us spending a thousand dollars to show what it's like to be a YouTuber and like he's had like two different places in Los Angeles and he's traveled back and forth from Los Angeles to Tennessee. Dude's got money. The dude has money. I don't know if it's his money. I don't know if it's parents money. I'm sure that some of his videos like the one where he spent a thousand dollars that might have been a sponsorship deal so that might have been their money that he was using for the purpose of the video but the point I'm getting at is he's got money and then the other guy Johnny that he did the video with the dude has almost a million subscribers. Dude has money and it's like I like I said I just it breaks my heart knowing how many people would just kill to have the resources to have the resources to get help whenever my clients in my treatment center are acting very entitled or ungrateful. I'm like you guys need to think about this. There are thousands of people outside of these walls who would give their leg to have the opportunity to be in here. So that's my issue. Okay. Like there's this really bad false narrative over on YouTube. Like whenever a YouTuber talks about mental health people are like we don't talk about mental health enough on YouTube. Okay. Let me tell you this as a mental health channel who looks into SEO searching to engine optimization and which keywords to target and things like that when I look at them like literally every major YouTuber has talked about anxiety depression or mental health as a whole. They all have when they get bored they're like you know what I'm going to talk about mental health. Let me rephrase that not when they get bored but when they're going through it like every YouTuber has done it. I don't know what this myth is. I don't know what rock everybody's living under where they're like YouTubers never talk about mental health like all of them do all of them do. Okay. Now one of the reasons I respect Philip DeFranco. So Philip DeFranco works works with better help just like I do. So he provides an affiliate link down below. So if you want to try better help it's down below. Anyways like Philip DeFranco he talked about like on the H3H3 podcast about how he was dealing with a lot of mental health issues and emotional struggles and he started seeing a therapist. He started meditating. He was talking about the solution. So whenever he pitches better help on his videos he talks about how he uses better help. He sees a therapist. You know why because he has the money and funds to do so. So it kills me when I see these YouTubers who are just like yeah this is really stressful and I have a lot of anxiety but I'm not doing anything about it. I'm like what what are you doing and now I don't want to project anything. I don't want to assume anything but in Bobby's new music videos things like that. Like he shows like weed right and I don't know if he's using that for his anxiety or self-medicating. I won't get into my opinions on that but like my main point is is like if you got the resources if you got the money like just think about that for a second. I know it's hard to ask for help. I know it's hard to go get help but like we can only complain about the problem so much until we do something okay. Like even though I'm all about mental health awareness like talking about it doesn't do anything. Like it makes you feel a little bit more connected. It helps you realize that you're not alone but there's still issues that you got to deal with and a lot of times that comes in the form of help and if Bobby just simply said like you know what I don't want to do therapy but I've been meditating every day or I don't want to meditate but I've been reading these books about anxiety and learning different coping skills and like just do something brother. But anyways like this isn't just about Bobby and other YouTubers. Like it's about all of you too. Like don't take for granted the opportunities that you have. Like like I said maybe it's just because I work with underprivileged people all the time or people who have destroyed their lives because of their mental health issues. They don't have those opportunities so like I want to be a voice for them like they wish they can do this stuff. So if you have the opportunity like if you even have five dollars go buy a book on mental health. Like I do as much as I can here on YouTube. I'm at about 400 videos so I try to provide all of you with as many tools as possible but I don't want you watching my videos passively. I want you to start practicing the things that I am telling you. Alright because there comes a point where we start to get even more depressed. We're like why doesn't anybody want to talk to me anymore and the reality is and I had to realize this about my own mental health. Like nobody wants to hear me just sit around wanting and complaining about my mental health issues until I'm doing some work. Until they see me actually trying. Like if I said hey like you know my depression has been really bad. I don't know what's going on. I've been meditating and it's not working. You know what I mean? At least people see an effort there but if I'm just sitting there talking about it I don't get the kind of sympathy that I'm looking for and I really hope that clicks for you. I was thinking about making a video this weekend about all the excuses we make not to help ourselves and I know it's tough. I know it's hard. I've been in the lowest pits of depression but we gotta do something. We gotta take one step forward one day at a time and do something. But anyways this isn't a malicious video at Bobby even though like I get really passionate about this stuff. Like Bobby I think is doing better. I appreciate what he's doing with his channel. I'm not a fan of his music but I think he's finding himself again and being a little bit more artistic and things like that. Like I actually tweeted out something the other day that I really thought he made a really good video. So I know he is getting a little bit better and like I said at the beginning of this video I appreciate that he's trying to bring other YouTubers on and talk about this stuff. Like for me mostly that's just for anybody or any children out there who are like I want to be a YouTube star someday. Like they kind of see like there's some stuff. There's some stuff that comes along with it. Alright so my suggestion if I have a young audience out there anybody who's trying to become a YouTuber start working on your mental health now. The more resilient you become when you get to that point where you blow up when it happens because you're going to do the hard work to get there. When you get to that point at the top of the mountain your mental health will be stable enough so you can deal with all of the added pressures that come. Alright but never ever ever think that some number on YouTube or Instagram or Twitter is ever going to make you feel whole inside it might just make things worse. Alright but anyways uh yeah I don't know I just really felt like I had to make this video so if you like it give it a thumbs up and if you are new here I'm always making videos about mental health so feel free to subscribe hit the notification bell and again a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon and if you want to check out some of my other mental health videos you can click the top on one of those thumbnails right there. Alright see you next time.