just mean you have a list I made a full
along let's yeah everything right we're
gonna go through turning into a drama
channel I'm about to take Jake Paul to
teach you about why anxiety is awesome
as well as some neuroscience this is
Chris from the rewired soul where we
talk about the problem let's focus on
the solution and if you're new to my
channel my channel is all about mental
health so what I like to do is pull
things from the YouTube community I've
made a ton of videos to teach you how to
improve your mental health because I
have a ton of videos so this is about
you know we those of us who struggle
with anxiety actually some benefits to
having anxiety
neuroscience first and kind of explain
Jake Paul's reckless behavior okay now
something I always say is I'm gonna give
you a reason I'm not gonna give you an
excuse I don't think that this is a good
excuse for is the Martinez twins they
came out the videos you were destroying
that room we were you know chaining them
to things subscribers the other day was
the prefrontal cortex and how some of
Jake's behaviors can be explained by the
prefrontal cortex so real quick recap of
the prefrontal cortex prefrontal cortex
is a part of the brain that separates us
from the animals the prefrontal cortex
is responsible
like self-awareness emotional regulation
impulse control all of that
well the prefilter cortex doesn't fully
develop until your mid to late 20s some
journals say that it doesn't fully
develop in men until your early 30s okay
so when you look at this when you look
at somebody like Jake Paul who's had all
this reckless behavior lighting beds on
fire jumping off these is pain this pain
man now this is Pedro legal drinking is
there they can legally join the military
their brain is still not fully developed
so the one function of the prefrontal
cortex that I want to talk about
specifically is fear modulation okay
fear modulation what does that mean fear
modulation is the brain's ability to
tell you what you should and should it
be afraid of right so one of the reasons
that young people are so reckless is
because they don't process fear in the
same way this is something that drug
addicts and alcoholics also struggle
with science has proven that drug
addicts and alcoholics have a prefrontal
cortex that is not functioning properly
so they don't get scared the way they
should so for example drug it's an
alcoholic they don't think that they're
gonna get in a whack while driving drunk
they don't think they're gonna overdose
but with young people such as Jake Paul
and other reckless young people they
don't think that speeding around is
gonna involve a car accident they don't
think the jumping off a roof is a bad
idea they're not afraid young people
think they're invincible like this isn't
just a cliche thing it's actually how
the brain works so again these are
reasons but they're not excuses
something that came up in this video
which was interested Goods my last video
I talked about how Shane Dawson kept calling
Jake out on different things over and
over and over again
Shane talked about how one of his
friends was pregnant like a couple years
prior one of Shane's friends was
pregnant okay and in a parking lot and
Jake Paul and his friends they weren't
even vlogging or anything but they were
speeding through the parking lot and
like she's food like hit em up and said
yo Jake Paul almost killed me right and
she was like that Jake Paul can
literally kill me my baby I'm so pissed
like what do I do like I don't know I
was just like whoa so I think it's one
of those things where I don't think you
would do that stuff now from what I saw
yesterday but why do you think you were
do
stuff like that that's right so
immediately like Shane's office is like
what the heck and this this is an issue
this is an issue and by the way this is
one of the reasons why young people need
to meditate I've been teaching my son
meditation since he was like five or six
years old because meditation actually
helps strengthen their prefrontal cortex
every time you meditate from anywhere to
five to ten minutes it's like doing a
bicep curl
for your prefrontal cortex so a lot of
Shane's not change but Jake's behaviors
can be explained due to the lack of
what's the word I'm looking for is that
what's the word I'm looking for
of maturity of the prefrontal cortex
again it's a reason it's not an excuse
but like I think this is a good thing to
talk about we need to understand how the
brain works like I made a video a long
time ago called the brain mechanic the
more you understand how the brain works
the better your mental health will be
it's the same thing as a mechanic a
mechanic doesn't get as nervous when
their car breaks down because they
understand the vehicle you will not be
so stressed about your mental health
when you understand how the machine
works that is one of the reasons we'll
have such a big neuroscience nerd I want
to know how this thing works so I can
work on ok should I be freaking out
about this should i well I can say oh
this is just my prefrontal cortex not
working the way it should oh this is my
amygdala making me anxious
oh my default mode network is going nuts
right now you know what I mean like I
can understand what my brain is doing so
I don't get anxious about what my brain
is doing and that transitions smoothly
transitions smoothly over to the topic
of why anxiety is awesome so did you
know did you know that on average people
with anxiety like moderate anxiety I'm
not talking severe anxiety but but
moderate anxiety
these people are statistically more
likely to live longer alright and and
the reason why remember we're talking
about fear modulation well anxiety is a
fear-based
mental illness so this is what anxiety
is good because when we have anxiety we
don't do stupid stuff like Jake Paul
we're afraid we're afraid we are the
people who always put our seatbelts on
we're the people who are defensive
drivers out on the road we are the
people who make sure our doors are
locked you know what I'm saying like
anxiety is saving their life a little
background and evolution science for you
is if you look at our brains and how
they've been evolving for all of these
years right and there's something called
natural selection right so if you
imagine I make this video a long time
ago but real quick if you imagine two
cavemen walking past a cave right
they're walking past a cave and one of
those like hey let's go inside that cave
and explore it well the other one with a
more active amygdala what triggers
anxiety the other one is like nah man
there might be some lion or something in
there right well the other cave man who
doesn't overly he's gonna walk into that
cave and he gets eaten by a lion so a
lot of us our ancestors actually anxiety
because it helped them survive you see
what I mean so those of us who have
anxiety to this day anxiety is something
that's actually help keeping us alive I
think it's important to understand this
like I'm all about empowering people who
struggle with mental illness like I get
it I get it mental illness sucks mental
illness sucks at certain points but we
also benefit in ways that other people
don't for example people with depression
are much more kind and empathetic than
other people people with bipolar
disorder are known to be more creative
people with an ADHD they're more of a
go-getter and they get stuff done
because their attention gets locked in
on something so I think it's a very very
important subject for us to like sit
back and look at like okay like what is
my mental illness doing is it all bad or
is some of it good like what what are
the pros what are the benefits like a
good example is my addiction I used to
think that having an addiction was a
curse you know even when I got clean I'm
like this is a curse like man you know
we get into that pity party we go to a
pity party of like man what can I drink
like everybody else what can't I use
drugs recreationally right and like all
I think is poor me poor me poor me but
like the way I have to look at it had I
never developed an addiction what I have
never made this channel if I ever
recovered from my addiction in started
working on my mental health would I have
this channel where I'm able to reach
thousands and thousands of people all
over the world to help them right if I
didn't recover from addiction like what
I have ever when I've ever had to
reflect on myself I tell people like at
the treatment center I was working out I
was oh tell my groups I said you are
some of the luckiest people on the
planet I'm like there are so many people
out there who are just forever going to
be oblivious about their problems
because it didn't manifest into an
addiction like a life-threatening thing
so there are people who are going to go
to the grave still miserable because
they never they never woke up to the
fact that they had these issues are
their struggles in their lives
so I want to end this video by saying
you know I hope you're all proud of
yourself like the fact that you're
watching this video whether you're
subscribed or not but I hope you
subscribe the fact you're watching this
video the fact that you're watching my
content the fact that you even care
slightly about your mental health even
if you came here for Shane Dawson or Jay
Paul caring about your mental health
even this much is leaps and bounds ahead
of the rest of the world and you should
always always be proud of that
okay and that's why I try to make these
videos and reach as many people as
possible because we
more people to care about their mental
health okay anyways did I tell you did I
tell you in that intro all of you who
thought this was a drama channel we just
talked about anxiety as well as
neuroscience mic drop anyways anyways I
want to hear from you guys down in the
comments below okay let's do this how do
you think your anxiety has kept you safe
alright down in the comments let me know
how you think your anxiety has kept you
safe in certain situations maybe you
didn't walk down a dark alley or maybe
you didn't do something else risky I
can't wait to see what you guys say
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