Waching daily Oct 4 2018

I just recently made a video about mental health ethics so with all this

better help online therapy scam stuff going around it's time for me to get

really honest with you about these services 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 my channel is all about mental health so

I try to help you out with your mental health I try to educate and increase

awareness and decrease the stigma so if you're any that kind of stuff make sure

you subscribe and ring that notification bell so I should be getting ready to go

to sleep this is video those of you who know me

you know that once I get this idea in my head it's like I just gotta do it but I

saw some stuff about better hope the other day I was like what's this dumb

stuff so there's a small Channel me Balaji

and I saw one of his videos I think was about age three age three and that was

kind of ridiculous in and of itself there's somebody linked me another video

by Andrew something I just watched that by the way by the way people people

talking about Shane being true to dramatic in his Jay Paul series watch

this guy Andrews video god damn I have to expose this and also I need to tell

people that have promoted this site that they need to speak up immediately like

now because this is sketchy and if they know what I know but now are being

hush-hush come on now you're gonna have to speak

up you can't just pretend that this didn't exist

because what this website is is disgusting the best way possible full

disclosure so you might see some fire bias but like here's here's the thing I

have always prided myself with being extremely honest I've been in the mental

health field for over three years now I worked at a mental health treatment

center with specialized in dual diagnosis so people who have addictions

as well as a mental illness and a compliment that I would receive is that

people like that I was real with them like I have no problem I have absolutely

no problem saying like hey this is messed up like that's just me I have a

lot of new subscribers so some of you you're gonna have to build your trust

with me and I get that but I had to speak up about this better hope stuff

because it is so ridiculous when it comes like I'm so passionate about

mental health and people getting help like this just kind of infuriates me

when people detour others from getting the help that they need and I should

have written down some notes but there's gonna be kind of rant style so the first

thing like I mentioned like what PewDiePie said the other day like one

thing I take issue with is when like as a mental health advocate I take issue

with people making this like idea that way oh you're taking advantage of the

mentally ill oh by charging them from services like trust me there are a ton

of people that take advantage of people with mental illnesses but like like wow

I give these people some credit like give us some credit I am somebody who

struggles with mental illness I'm not this helpless little baby who can't make

decisions on my own like we have to pay for services so something that this guy

brought up was how expensive better help is I almost rolled over

laughing just so hard so let me tell you this

I don't promote anything that I don't believe in that's a fact

my girlfriend uses better help one of my other really good friends uses better

help and why would I have these people these

people very close to me in my life use this if it was awful right like my I've

mentioned it before my girlfriend has an absolutely amazing therapist and has

made leaps and strides in her mental health and she was already doing pretty

well but like this has helped tremendously so like but saying that

it's expensive like are you nuts like go I think one of the issues is is

the lack of awareness about mental illness like if any of you have ever

seen a therapist leave comments down below if you would

like about how much it is okay like like therapist charge insane amounts of money

like a ton of money that's one of the reasons I advocate for better health

because it's cheap and affordable some therapists charge what better help is or

more there's some therapists are charging 100 150 200 plus dollars per

hour so this Andrew guy who's talking about like how expensive it is you are

out of your damn mind all right so okay here's the thing so some people

are trying to point out like let's take a look at the fine print shall we we

make no representation or warranty whatsoever as to whether you will find

the counselor services relevant useful correct relevant they say relevant twice

satisfactory or suitable to your text broker calm okay the description

basically it's for freelancers I actually used to work with this for this

company before I started working at the treatment center but now I just

freelance right for them okay I make a decent amount of money every month just

freelance writing so basically what text broker is they are the middleman they

are they middle person okay so you have clients and then you have authors so you

have clients who have websites or social media accounts and they need stuff

written because people don't know how to write so what tech smoker does is it

links the clients up with authors who can write and supply the service better

help is the same exact thing better help is just a middle middleman they are

linking therapists up with people therapists with people now they do a

vetting process so like for example just to just to go even deeper on this um my

girlfriend's experience so they leave you I don't know how this works in other

countries so I'm just gonna talk about the United States they link you up with

a licensed therapist in your state because licensure is a big deal so my

girlfriend was actually very fortunate the therapist that she was linked up

with not only she from our state she's from Las Vegas and my girlfriend has

been able to meet with the therapist in person alright so so yeah this guy says

you know we tried to point out that they can't guarantee like yeah because a lot

of that is like subjective you know what I mean it's subjective about linking you

up with the right person but most the time yes like there are therapists who

specialize in trauma or addiction or you know borderline personality disorder or

depression or anxiety or certain therapies like dialectical behavioral

therapy or cognitive behavioral therapy so this special this makes that person

specialize in that area so they try to match you up the best as they can but in

order to cover their but they say like we can't guarantee it so they try their

best they try their absolute best - now the other thing is I've read some

comments like I think in my last video about Katie morning as people leave

comments down below about bad therapists or unethical therapists and I remember

this one coming I'm gonna put it on the screen if I can but she talked about

like she found a great psychiatrist and then she went through like eight

therapists like yeah I've been meaning to make a video I really do any of you

watch that show a typical on Netflix it's an amazing show but there's one

episode I want to kind of talk about where you go through the process of

finding the right therapist like sometimes you just don't click with

somebody like that's that's it but like this like exposing better hope

thing it is just bananas like so one thing I will say and this is gonna come

off like extremely biased but like you for a 7-day trial and there's like

things coming out like oh they bill you and like this guy said they build them

before they had a chance to cancel like did they build them at five days did

they bail him at six days mala jeez but like I don't know for me that's personal

responsibility do you know how many free trials I sign up for I take my phone

this little phone right here and I've set a reminder for like three or four

days before to remind me to cancel the services that's on me like I don't know

I take responsibility for all of the free trials that I sign up for like

that's just me I don't know like I don't know why they're trying to say this

place is a scam but again like man deterring people from getting mental

health help I don't know for any of you who've watched my videos I always say

like I really don't care I don't care if you use better help because I don't like

I just want you to get help that's it so if better hopes the right option for you

cool if not go see your own doctor or therapist or psychologist like it really

doesn't matter I just want people to get help but I also just want the right

information to be out there so my girlfriend mentioned that Phillip

DeFranco had tweeted about this so he did release some tweets I don't know if

you can comment down below like I'm not a thousand percent clear on Philip

defranco's because I'll say this if you don't trust me trust Philip DeFranco

like Philip DeFranco is like the only news source like what are the only news

sources that I trust and he uses this service I know Philip DeFranco would not

promote something that he doesn't believe in so when he says he uses it I

trust him now I will say this I don't I won't even say I don't think but like I

wouldn't be surprised if some of the youtubers promoting this don't actually

use it right full disclosure I don't my girlfriend does one of my other friends

does okay but I don't use it but so Philip DeFranco he put a pause on his

sponsorship with better help until they fix something in their terms of service

but again I'm not entirely sure what the issue is so let me read what he what he

put here okay he says we have a whole team that makes sure every provider we

bring to the platform is fully licensed and in good standing providers who

a required to provide proper license your documentation proof of identity and

references from other licensed practitioners who have worked with them

week we then cross-check their licensure information with their respective state

licensing board not only that our vetting process for each provider which

typically takes four to five weeks goes well beyond checking credentials for

example each potential provider needs to go through a case study exam by a

licensed clinician and a video interview the results of this rigorous process is

that only about 50% of the therapists who apply to work through better help

are being accepted to the platform the terms of use document typically provides

the legal the legalize that's were too weird the legalize that defines the

extent of liability and mitigate legal risks associated with such platforms we

recommend every user to make their own due diligence and we provide the full

licensing information for each provider so it's easy to do so we will look into

revising the terms of use document so it more closely matches the vetting process

we currently conduct all right so this is what Philip got and like so I guess

oh okay now it's I think the wheels are turning so I think what Philips saying

he's got this in an email and maybe it's not on their actual website which would

make sense process is legit if that's what they're doing now I don't know I'm

just somebody who's always tried to make sure I don't get sued or fired like I

used to work in the car service industry then I worked in the mental health field

like there's a lot of legal stuff that can go down like there's a lot like

especially in California like there are a lot of laws to make sure that people

don't get scammed on car repair services in the mental health field there's

something called HIPAA well that's in you know just the health field in

general so like I'm really about covering my own butt so like I get

language like for example I've seen some people get mad about like medications

and the side effects like they have to put that there to cover there but even

if there's like a 1% chance that you might get explosive diarrhea they have

to say that they have to tell you that so anyways the last thing I'll touch on

is in one of the videos I watched they talked about like the reviews and things

like that I don't know I don't know about that I'll just maybe like maybe

there is but I don't think every person that's like smiling with a McDonald's

cheeseburger like really things McDonald's is the best place on earth I

don't know it's just I really want to get on here and just air some things out

because I'm all about people getting mental health help and like here's the

thing I'll let you know a little bit about the last job I had for for the

treatment center alright part of my job was to get reviews okay so I worked at I

worked at a drug and alcohol rehab so if you could imagine drug alcohol it's

right and people sneaking in you know drugs or alcohol getting kicked out or

not getting do--we you know because there's a lot of guidelines for being in

a treatment center I've seen people leave the treatment center who got

kicked out for bringing things like heroin in and then go on and leave a

terrible review so part of what I did was I tried to get reviews now I never

tried to get positive reviews the way I told people that says just leave an

honest review I do not care if you hated the place I don't care if it's good bad

or indifferent that's what I would tell them I said just leave an honest review

so for example if you think the food sucked but your therapist was great put

that in a review or vice-versa whatever you think it is right and I

just wanted people to be honest so like I don't know like when it comes to

reviews and customer service I just hope that people aren't deterred from this

like again just get help somewhere just get help somewhere but I hope I hated

you a little bit about I don't know how the real world works and how some

companies work therapy works like one more thing I'm sorry this is a rant

video but the guy mentioned like the owners of better health also owned other

companies also run many other websites that range from other mental health

websites to big sites they even offered to pay me once

in Bitcoin or etherium oh my god are you telling me that people are entrepreneurs

and investors what a scam like what are you doing what I don't know no I'm done

with this video I'm not gonna do my whole outro and stuff like I'm just

thoroughly irritated like this is just some drama that people are trying to

stir up and you know what team star team stars dumb to so yeah that's pretty bad

but on top of that where does this company get all these counselors to deal

with all the people that sign up this video was like he he put so much

misinformation like why did he even include it why did he even include it in

the drama report like he he said that he did not have all the information this is

what I'm hearing allegedly he said that like multiple

times but he tries to say like oh they're trying to take advantage of

their depressed audience and stuff like keemstar you you I don't like you I

don't like you that much I don't know anyways if you liked this video give it

a thumbs up if you want to learn more about mental health and helping yourself

out make sure you subscribe to win that notification bill and you know leave

comments down below if there's any if there's any topics or videos you want me

to do about therapy and finding the right therapist and all that like cool I

am I am transparent as possible like I will never lie to any of you like I just

thought you honestly way too much so feel free to ask me anything maybe I'll

do a whole Q&A like let's do it if you want to put me to the test if you want

to put me to the test ask me anything again in the comments

below maybe that'll make for a good video alright but I'm gonna shut my face

go to sleep love you all see you later