THERAPIST REACTS to Joyner Lucas - Best For Me (ft. Jelly Roll)

One day, Tom will be sending all of us bills for all the wisdom and life advice he spits our way lol

“If you get lost then everyone loses”. That hurts deep.

The co star in this music video is Mic DeVine. He wrote a song called "Way Down We Go". He dedicated it to his and Joyner's friend Dave who they lost to a OD. Ppl said "WDWG" was the inspiration for this song. Mic didn't have to force emotions to come out for this music video. He just allowed himself to feel that pain and loss.

I never leave comments but I have to say thank you. I'm 20 years clean and recently lost my little brother to self ending due to drug addiction. I have fought with the guilt of "walking away" from him because it was bringing my memories of being addicted. Our last message to each other was not good and I felt with that message it pushed him over. In his own words he told me that I was the last one who hadn't givin up on him. After watching your reaction to this I really was able to let that guilt/burden go. So again thank you from the bottom of my heart.

As a recovering addict the way jelly rolls chorus hits two different ways when saying the exact same words is crazy to me.

Joyner and Jelly are both in recovery and as someone who has gone in and out of sobriety, its stuff like this that keeps me going. Wasn't going to but this inspired me to hit a meeting today ✊️

From someone that was fighting addiction not that long ago and now over a year sober, I can say this song hits me deeply. If you're fighting addiction do not be afraid to get the help you need!

Joyner is so good at seeing it from both sides.

This is painful..i used to chase my mother around various drug houses around the bay area in Oakland Cali thinking i could save her..many of days i would beat on doors knowing she was behind them but dudes with guns would run me off..i had no power at the age of 15 to protect her. Just typing this made me cry and im now the age of 48 and though i placed those memories in the back of my head never to be remembered this video placed me back in that time. Jelly Roll verse is literally what i had to do.This song is a gift and a curse. Shout out from west monroe la. I thought i had escaped those memories... but clearly i have not... via this song.

It’s the people you least expect to be heroes. The way Jelly Roll has taken to being a voice for help is amazing. I can’t name 3 of his songs, but I absolutely love the guy

What a great collaboration. I have lost family to addiction and I can relate to everything he said 😢

I also feel like calling it a disease gives SOME people an excuse to say "I have a disease, I can't help myself". My fiance was an alcoholic, and she used that as an excuse to not even bother TRYING to stop drinking. Alcoholism runs in my family as well. My father and three of his brothers were alcoholic, and my grandmother on my mother's side. I feel like maybe there should be another category created, besides disease, that describes it better, without making it seem there's nothing they can do about it because they caught a disease, like they have cancer or something.

When you love someone and have to let them go as not to enable them and for your own mental wellbeing it’s hard. The PTSD from the phone calls from the ER or the police makes hearing the phone ring and the dropping feeling in your stomach. The depression and anxiety from knowing you can’t help them till they are ready for the help. Hopefully before it’s too late. My daughter has been clean and sober for over a year now but our relationship is not the same. I don’t know if it ever will be but I hope in time it will be.

It's treatable, 9 yrs clean, much love and appreciation from Kentucky ❤️🙏❤️

I just got out of recovery. 52 days sober. Three of my rehab buddies have reached out and relapsed. One thing you learn about support in recovery..you have to put your oxygen mask first, then help the next person. However if they do not take the help, you pray they make it back. It's the sick cycle of addiction. If you are newly recovering addict, you have to send your friend who relapses to someone with long term sobriety who can offer tools and resources.

The line " if you don't believe in yourself then you can't believe someone believes in you"

This was me and my brothers dynamic when i was addicted to pills and dope. Gets me choked up listening to this, thankfully i got clean about 5 years ago and we have a great relationship now

been waiting for this one thank you for your perspective

This song speaks to my soul, my mother is struggling with addiction, and hearing joyners verse from the outside looking in is literally me. And then the switch up he did in the second verse, flipping the perspective, made me think that she feels that way towards me. I never try to preach to her, I just want my mama back…

Ty for your advice here, my mom relapsed again recently and it was helpful to hear. But I want to push back just a little on the disease part. I dont argue that its a disease or not, I dont care, in the end I don't think it matters. Im a type 1 diabetic and thats the only reason I was an unsuccessful alcoholic, but thats a disease unequivocally. Its also a stigmatized disease that people aren't super educated on and I have been treated most my life unsympathetically, as if I did it to myself and deserved the consequences, just like people treat addicts. T1D is a disease entirely out of my control, like addiction is. But I still have to take care of myself, make the better choices, to keep picking up my insulin and feeling worthy of life, like they need to choose NOT to pick up the substance killing them. I cant complain about my poor hand while also turning a blind eye to my solutions, to the things that will help and improve how I feel and live. It just doesn't matter if it's a disease or not, the answers still the same. "It is not the disease, but *neglect of the remedy*, that generally destroys life."