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 right now I'm taking a little bit of a break from the stuff going on in the YouTube community to talk about something I'm very passionate about which is mental health. So if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell So before I jump into this story, this is going to come from a story where I was working at a rehab a drug and alcohol treatment center Where we specialize in dual diagnosis for people who have mental illness alongside an addiction to drugs or alcohol All right, so couple quick things first one is I am not a licensed therapist or psychologist my Actual job title for this addiction treatment center was lead alumni coordinator and throughout this story I'll help you understand a little bit more of what that was about But the second thing is when you work in any kind of medical setting like a hospital or a rehab like we We did inpatient detox and we had doctors and everything like that But we are bound by something called HIPAA laws These are basically Confidentially confidentiality laws where I cannot give you the names of any clients that I worked with but After talking with some colleagues and other people in the profession like I Decided that I'm gonna start sharing some of the stories on here, but in a HIPAA compliant way So throughout this story, I am going to be talking about interactions with some people that I've worked with but for the sake of anonymity and not getting my butt sued I am going to leave them completely anonymous. All right, so anyways, yes, you know in the drug and alcohol Recovery world there's often a suggestion that you should say single for a year All right, this is for a million reasons and when I was working in the treatment center I would do groups and I would also do one-on-one conversations with people because I'm a person in long-term recovery Next month on June 23rd. I will be celebrating seven years sober. I'll be turning 34 years old with but anyways So yeah, I would do groups. I'll talk to people and something I was adamant about was you know staying single and Sometimes what I would do to help solidify this fact or the suggestion was I would share with them stories that I had seen in my years of recovery or or Just even experiences from the treatment center and obviously what I would share these stories I would have to leave people anonymous as well because they're still hit the laws and that and I would mostly share these When I would do groups at our outpatient treatment center because an inpatient It was although men and women were in the same building all the groups are completely separate and for very good reason And in the outpatient setting like women had their own sober living men had their own sober living but during groups They would have it was co-ed. All right, so what you would find would be rehab romances Okay, this is very common in rehab settings Like one of the things is when you take drugs or alcohol away from somebody they their mind their brain It wants dopamine and one of the best ways to get dopamine is love affection Somebody complimenting you and people can quickly replace drugs and alcohol for a relationship or sex or whatever it is Right, and this is why you see a lot of rehab romance I have to tell them like listen if you think that you're meeting your soulmate in a mental health treatment center You need to take a step back and look at the situation and the story I'm gonna share is a perfect example why so when I first started working there I was already three years sober and I started working there and I was an alumni coordinator I hadn't been promoted to lead alumni coordinator helping with the other treatment centers around the country, but anyways So I was doing groups and there was a young woman who was actually local here in Las Vegas and the other one came from a different part of the state and While they're in treatment like I was always keeping an eye on people like if a dude and a girl were like, you know Like I don't know mingling a little too much like I'd like talk to him like yeah Do you really think this is a good idea or whatever and This guy and girl they were they were friendly, but it didn't seem like anything crazy was going on Well, anyways after our treatment center a lot of people would go to sober living in Florida Okay, Florida has a ton a ton of sober living facilities outpatient facilities Insurance policies are a little bit different out there So it's a lot easier for people to get sober living an outpatient covered out in Florida. Unfortunately here in Las Vegas Um, I don't know if that's changed recently But we didn't have any sober livings that insurance would cover but going out to Florida You could and then some treatment centers would um, you know Helping that like get on the feet get a job and everything like that But anyways, we send a lot of clients out there. We refer a lot of clients out there Like so this wasn't anything new so when this guy and this girl went out there It wasn't like anything like they would decided to go together like we would send like every time we did like discharges Like every month there'd be like it was a big facility, but there'd be 20 or 30 people who would go out there So nothing too crazy So part of my job is the alumni coordinator not just talking with people while they were in treatment But one of my primary jobs was to talk with them and provide them with recovery support after they left Call them, you know every couple weeks to a month check in say yo has everything been since you left treatment You know you need to talk to you need to vent, you know, whatever it is So I follow up with people and you know if people didn't have sponsors or they weren't going to meetings or if they weren't following up with their Discharge plan like going to therapy or taking their beds. I would talk to them be like listen like Do the stuff that we told you to do and you should be fine Well, anyways when I would call this young woman in this young man and like I also had a social media account Um, I found out that they were dating. I'm like Ah, right, this is a touch of subject like this is like a difficult subject, right? But things were working out between them. It was working out amazingly The only time that I've seen relationships and early recovery like this workout is when both people both people And this is like I'm telling you there's like three out of maybe a thousand couples that I've seen three couples have actually worked Okay, this is one of the reasons I'm so passionate about this and in the instances where it's worked It's because both people Are working very hard on their recovery. They both have their own therapists. They both have their own meetings They both have their own sponsors. They're both working their own steps, right?  They're like, okay I don't need I don't need all this other stuff You are going to keep me sober and if you're a drug addict or alcohol You really like you know people can't keep us sober, right? So they were doing well and I'll follow up with them for months and months and everything was going great and Then it came time to for them to discharge from that outpatient That outpatient actually helped set them up with jobs and everything. So a lot of people would get on their feet. Well What worried me was they decided to move in together Like typically somebody will get their own place or with some other women or you know a man will get a Home with some other men like when I first got sober when I got a sober living I Became roommates with two of my best friends from the sober living. So it was like a sober living but not a sober living But anyways, these two decided to work moving together. I'm like, that might be dangerous, right? Well, what ended up happening now, it's important to realize She came in for an alcohol addiction.  You never even got to try heroin, right? And like with nobody else around them to like say, yo, like this is not a good conversation Like she just kind of looks at him. She's like, yeah, you know what? I've never tried heroin Okay, so this is after these two have like six to nine months sober He talks her in to trying heroin for the first time Okay, so they get heroin and I am not exaggerating this within two weeks. They lost Everything they lost their jobs. They sold everything they had including a car to get more dope Okay, it went down very quickly. Okay, and that's typically how relapses are and What ended up happening was this love of her life this guy, right? He ended up ditching her in Florida because his parents flew him back home to this other city here in Nevada And he went into treatment. So now she's stranded in Florida with nothing So anyways her mom ends up driving cross-country from Nevada to Florida to pick her up and bring her back to Las Vegas and she comes back into treatment and Like she's like, Chris, I should have listened to you guys when you said don't get in a relationship All these things and I'm like listen lesson learned grow from this learn from this, you know Get back on track with your recovery She was an awesome young woman really passionate about her recovery and getting clean So she saved in treatment another 30 to 45 days. She ended up getting out and I believe I believe her family like started paying for her apartment when she Went to outpatient and she got a new job. So she had her own place And I used to run weekly meetings at the treatment center For the alumni and she comes in she's like Chris. I need to talk to you. I'm like, okay, let's talk and she's like Chris He he just got a hold of me. He's getting he he's getting out of treatment and He says like he misses me and he wants to try this again. He wants to come down here and move in with me. I'm like Absolutely not. Okay, but I'm a realist. Okay, I know that I'm not going to keep two people from not dating each other Right. So I tell her I said listen Okay My suggestion is do not let him move in with you. Here's what I would recommend you have your own place He moves back to Las Vegas. He goes into a sober living you guys start dating and see how things go All right, and then revisit this conversation later And I also told her to talk to her sponsor about it and things like that like when I give people suggestions I give more suggestions than just mine like when I talk to other people in recovery because a lot of people come To me for advice just because I've been sober for you know a little while But what I tell people is my my opinion my suggestions are not the end all be all Typically I will say like that's your sponsor like if your sponsor tells you to do something that contradicts what my suggestion was Do what your sponsor says they know much more about you because addicts and alcoholics though They'll kind of we fit a little you know what I mean. So anyways, we had that conversation. Next thing I know This fool moves in with her so she disregarded everybody suggestions and let this guy move in with her So he moves in with her and things go well for like a week or two, right? Like she comes back to my Weekly meeting she brings him. I'm nice to him. I'm like, hey man, you know, glad to see that you're doing all right Okay, you know, whatever well then like that was the first week the second week She comes and he doesn't and I'm talking to him like hey, what's going on? Where's he at and everything? She's like, oh, he doesn't think he needs meetings and things like that. I'm like This isn't going too well next thing, you know, she stops showing up but she keeps talking to me and He convinced her that she's she's not really an alcoholic and she can drink a little bit, right? so she starts having some wine at night and This guy starts doing drugs again And she's telling me about this. I'm like, this is a very slippery slope Like you're gonna have to set up some boundaries, right and you're drinking and everything like this is not good Well anyways, he started bringing drugs back over. She ends up doing heroin some more and everything like that and What ends up happening is she calls me?  I'm like, hey, what what's going on? What what's happening and she just has no idea what to do? Well, what happened was was one night she was at home and he left to go over to a neighbor's house to do some drugs. I Don't know what drugs they were. I don't know if it was meth. I don't know if there were psychedelics I don't know if he just had a bad a bad reaction to some weed if I'm being honest But the dude went completely psychotic So he comes back home And she's telling me this story while just balling her eyes out.  And After he cuts himself, which I'm guessing wasn't too deep He goes and he attacks her with a knife so they can die together All right, and he cuts her up and thank God she's able to call 911 Think she got out of the apartment the cops show it up. He ends up getting arrested She doesn't press charges against him, but she's crying a bowling her eyes out of my girl Let let's figure this out. We get her back into treatment everything like that this guy ends up going to like a psych hospital for a bit and Like the the second half of this story like it's just pretty quick like basically what happened was He he got out of treatment. He sweet talked her again She asked me if I if I think that she should let it move in, you know, because she feels bad for him She wants to help him like this savior this captain save an addict, right? I feel bad and I'm the only person he has and all right and she lets him move back in next thing You know, they relapse again and everything just happens over and over and over again I'm like I tell this story to people because there is a reason why we tell people in early recovery That you should stay single for a year. Okay, like one of the reasons is Addicts are often attracted to other addicts because we see somebody's finally like getting me Nobody understands what it's like to be me But you meet another drug addict who you think is kind of cute too You think that this is the first person the only person in the world who understands you like you guys This is what the whole basis of 12 step programs is based off of all right like one addict helping another addict is Extremely therapeutic because they understand each other not everybody you meet is your soulmate But like this story you get caught up in terrible situations awful situations because people are extremely vulnerable Relapse rates are extremely high in the first year the longer you stay sober the more relapse rates go down All right, and what ended up happening with them Was after multiple times of them relapsing together. I don't think he attacked her again But anyway, she she kept calling me and would be back and forth about coming back into treatment and everything like that and Like just every week like she she like was how it getting in trouble at work because of her drinking even with this guy moved away because Relapses are difficult man. You never know when they're going to end like my last relapse started with one pill and took a year and a half You know what I mean? So like she was stuck in it and she'd call me like once a week crying and saying she wanted to help But she didn't know what to do and everything so finally finally I talked her into coming back into treatment and she came back in and The last I know about her was she started dating a guy in rehab Like when she was in treatment, she just started dating a guy in rehab. This guy Was so similar to the last guy that she just had this issue with and he would like come and talk to me about How like she's sending a mixed signals and stuff.  I've seen Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of different situations Working in treatment being in 12-step programs just knowing a lot of people who struggle with addiction trying to get sober Like I don't want these types of stories to deter anybody from getting sober like getting sober as possible I'm living proof like I was somebody who was hopeless and suicidal at the end of my addiction So if I can do it anybody can do it But the problem is is that a lot of people don't take suggestions They want to do what they want to do and especially when it comes to relationships everybody's like, okay All right, so 99 out of a hundred relationships fail. I'm gonna be the one All right, like what I would always tell them is like I guarantee you can find a story about someone jumping out of an airplane And their parachute not working and them surviving but that doesn't mean you should jump out of an airplane and not pull open Your shoot thinking you're gonna be one of the the select few who survived this So if you're in early recovery think long and hard about getting into a relationship And when I first got sober I didn't believe it either But the people in my life were living proof I watched my friends drop off like flies because all of them started to date in early recovery and in most Situations either one person would relapse or both people would relapse. All right, I'm very very Not even me one of my best friends is very fortunate because he got into a relationship in early recovery He got his heart broken after they like they started dating within the first three months He got his heart broken by her and thank God he was able to stay sober and he's celebrating seven years this year, too All right, but anyways, I'm thinking about doing more rehab story times and just like share my experience about that So if you like this, please make sure you give it a thumbs up Let me know down in the comments below your experience on this or if you'd like me to make more videos about this It's kind of stuff and just my experience, you know without breaking any HIPAA laws and keeping things pretty anonymous I think I did a pretty good job. Well, yeah, I've done this a million times Anyways, that's all I got for this video again Please like this video to let me know that I should do more videos like this And if you're new here make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge Huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon You're all amazing and if you'd like to support what I'm doing here get your name on the credits get involved in our monthly Q&A And all that good stuff click or top right there. All right. Thanks again so so much for watching. I'll see you next time


Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast. We are coming to you live from DCD Connect, Virginia We just grabbed Sean off the Expo floor and he is president at Redivider Sean. Thank you so much for joining us Thanks for having me of course So I got a little bit ahead of it by saying your title there, but you have a new role. Congratulations are in order You want to tell us a little bit about that? Yeah, I'm excited. It's an honor to be the president of Redivider It's a company that's focused on innovation and disruption in today's technology of data centers It's the next exciting position We have a lot of demand in this space Pre-fab modular units are something I think the industry as a whole is looking forward to It's it's not your traditional brick-and-mortar data centers but it actually is meeting the demands of what clients need today and Easily replaceable for future designs of the IT architecture of heading forward. We're meeting those demands That's what everyone wants, right? And I got just in time Just in time and I got to talk to the team a little bit last night. Everyone is thrilled to have you so congratulations again Awesome. Thank you. And with you know, we're talking trends. We're already talking 2024 Where do you see the market going and how does Redivider play into that? Yeah, so there's this This is word that's out a lot. It's probably overused now, but it's called AI I've heard it a couple times this week. It's especially here, right? Yeah, so what what the demand of AI is outpacing what happened with hyperscale when it was growing and The problem is we were out of power. We're out of space the demand For data centers is out of this world, but the supply isn't able to keep up with the demand so what we're doing is Offering up a solution to meet the demand with multi-tier solutions So it doesn't have to be a tier 3 concurrently maintainable data center. It can be multi design multi use IT architecture continues to change. So air cool solutions are what most data centers have today What happens when the IT architecture changes to liquid cooling? Well, I can replace that module with Identity air cool solutions 90kw a cabinet per cabinet. This is unheard of in our right I can replace that with a liquid cool solution for cold play technology when that's readily available I can do immersion cooling when that needs to be happening So having the option and flexibility is where modular is really going to play a key part in today's industry Absolutely, like everything you just said flexibility is key there and for our viewers that want to learn more about Redivider Connect with you and get to talk a little bit more about your new role Where can they go to learn more to reach out to you? Yeah, so find us at redivider.co Redivider.co And please feel free to reach out my email Sean at redivider.co I look forward to working with everyone out there. All right Well, thank you so much for joining us and congratulations again and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV Happy networking. Bye


I'm with Samuel Pressgraves in the QD Laser booth and he's got a small Sony camera with something hooked to it and a pair of goggle sort of things and I got to ask what are we looking at here? So what we're looking at is technology from QD Laser. We're a Japanese based company and we focus on assistive eyewear technologies. What specifically you're looking at here for the example of the Sony digital camera is we have an attachment that allows people with low vision or potentially no vision according to a doctor and I will get to an actual story from yesterday that kind of hits on that but it attaches to a digital camera and allows them to actually see the image that they wanted to be taken a picture of. This is to take a photo or to be able to see? This is to be able to see. When you said the wearable I'll also transition to that in a moment but this allows someone that might have been a photographer before or had those childhood images of my hometown and we actually have a demo video is playing right now. This gentleman is from Okinawa. He lost his sight when he was a child and his mother was devastated. He'll never be able to see again. So when he found our technology he took a trip on his own back to Okinawa to see his childhood sight. Okay let's move away from the anecdotes to how is it possible if you can't see that this allows you to see? Absolutely. This is the in-house developed Sugawara Sauna as our president, wonderful engineer. He came up with a technology using a laser, a wide beam, wide field laser directly projected onto the retina. So you require a healthy retina but you could have what kind of damage? It doesn't have to be an entirely healthy retina. We do need a healthy optical nerve and at least a portion of the retina is still functional. So if we look at it if it was a rectangle you could say the top half could be completely gone but the bottom half is still functional. What about the center like with a macular degeneration? That works perfectly with the digital camera attachment here because we can take advantage of the optical zoom. So even if the dead center is blurred out you can zoom out and you'll still see everything that was originally in your center of focus. Oh interesting, okay. Also with this camera for someone like me I have 20-20 vision so I'm not a low vision person but how do I know that this works? When I look through this my peripherals are now in focus when a typical healthy eye your focus is what's in focus, your peripherals are always kind of hazy or blurry. It's got a deep depth of field. Absolutely. Right now this model has a 60 degree field of view and in that entire 60 degrees we are in focus. So basically there's no bokeh like I'm looking at you right now you're in focus but everything in the background is out of focus. With this everything would be in focus. That is absolutely correct. And then if part of the retina is damaged like you said if the bottom left quadrant was damaged it's going to focus it all on all of the information on the other three quarters. Correct. So we don't know what in the retina is what's damaged. We project over the entire surface area 100% even if it's damaged. So by getting that entire image constantly using the mem scanner it's going to constantly be drawing that picture over the entire surface filling in all of those gaps for you. Real thanks shooting a laser into your eye is a bad idea. Absolutely. When I first heard that I said the same thing. I said wait, wait, wait. Every laser pointer I pick up says do not point at eyes. Our laser is actually lower power than the lights that we're standing under right now. We are classified as a class one not a dangerous device. And we've been rated through a clinical trial in the EU that took place over almost an entire year where they said this is safe for everyday use and its intended purpose. Okay great. I think the gentleman here Eric quoted the how many watts or millow of micro watts. It's less than 1.6 micro watts of power. And that's considered safe for straight in the eye. Okay great. Because we've had a lot of people I'm going to actually move to our wearable because this kind of fits into a better scenario. The camera is great for portability you know you can take those images, take the pictures. Actually taking photos. Be a photographer even if a doctor declared you blind. Actually a case of yesterday we had a disabled war veteran came in his doctor said you'll never see out of your left eye again. His right eye was at about 40% and he said can I try it? Absolutely that's why we're here. So he holds the camera up to his right eye and he goes oh my god I can see everything. He could actually see the entire room he was sitting and playing with a zoom and he goes but I wonder. And he put it over his left eye and he goes oh my god I can actually see something. Do you know what kind of damage he had? It was I believe it was a brain damage that caused actual like to his visionary center. Interesting. So he was in a war he got hit with a concussion blast. So I just don't want to promise everybody you'll be able to see him magically. And that's what we kind of get to when we interview people as well. First questions we're asking is what is the disability or the impairment you have because complete blindness is not something we can just fix. And this isn't a corrective technology it's an assistive. So we're trying to assist low vision. So what you have making it actually work to actually bring images. Okay let's take a look at the headset here. Sure. And you're going to have to put let me put this on you know. Absolutely. So it's a much tighter beam but a lot of people will assume. Let's describe it because remember it's an audio podcast as well.  Correct. And we do have an attachment that goes in here to make it look like sunglasses if that's what you like. Just to have that appearance level so it doesn't have quite the Google glass or smart glasses.  So any of those smart glasses usually have this but this is not a smart glass technology. It is a low vision assistive technology.  Okay that I can do. And I will hold this battery pack for you.  So I'm holding something about the size of maybe a big thick iPhone. Yeah. It's got a battery pack in it and it's got a USB controller there. So it's kind of everything the laser drivers and everything kind of power through what you're looking at. I will tell you one thing you haven't given it to people who have eyelashes. My eyelashes are hitting on the inside. It's very precise so we are working on a way to try and make it so when you just stick it on your face it's right there where it needs to be. Right now you kind of notice you have a little adjustment. We've got the adjustment screws up on the top to kind of get the angle perfect for your eye. So each person would have that custom ability. So this is much more high contrast than looking through the camera. Correct. Like dark things are super dark. Bright is super bright. Yes. And so the intent for this is take the example of being in a classroom or even here in a seminar. You want to take notes and you want to be able to see at the same time. Well if you have low vision it's going to be hard to if you have glasses or some other technology you normally have to hold that and then put it down to write your note. Good point. Yeah. Yeah. Having this as a wearable you could now just look up and look down between a person's face a notepad that you're writing on or your other you know a cell phone tablet. It's zoomed up quite a bit as well. So right here on the side you have a zoom wheel. You just click up and click down for your different zoom in and out. Let me try this. Okay I'm trying it. I don't know if I'm doing it right but that's what you should be. So it's for audio. It's set for just down down down. So it's one click. Back. Okay. Oh I see. I see. All right. There we go. Is it going? Yeah. Okay. It's also interesting to be seeing that out of one eye and my regular vision out of it. It is. And we do have this available for both eyes. Right now we just have a single eye configuration but you would just have a second device on the left side if you needed both eyes assisted. All right. You just got to adjust for those eyelashes and I think you've got a real product here. Noted. Great for guys not so much for women long lashes or maybe even a guy like myself long eyelashes. There you go. Yeah. See I didn't do a gender specific there. All right. This is really cool. So if people wanted to learn more about QD Laser where would they go Samuel? So we have QDLaser.com. Kept it nice and simple for you guys. We do have a QR code which I can give you this if they want to do a screenshot during the video feed or something but please take that information. One of the best things if you really want something moving that is a real life testimonial we did a campaign in Japan called With My Eyes. Highly recommend look at that on YouTube. It's a about a half an hour presentation of different people who have used our technology to take actual photos and these are people who had less than .03 vision and just oh my God I'm now taking panoramic photos that are in art museums. That's amazing. Yeah. So how much is the QD Laser that attaches to the camera? So right now the camera attachment is not available for sale. We're going to be opening up the pre-orders and registrations this summer and we'll be shipping within six months of that closing. Okay. All right. The wearable technology is available now. We just launched our e-commerce web store so on QDLaser.com you'll find the information to order the wearables now. Great. Well this has been very interesting. Thank you very much Samuel. Absolutely. Thank you.