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I have physical disabilities and the government treatment schema I am under continues pushing psychotherapeutic treatments on me because of a disgustingly poorly done study with blatant conflict of interest and absurd definitions of success. The effective treatments I have gotten come from neurologists, rheumatologists and other doctors of medicine.

The problem is it's hard to find a Dr that isn't focused on the profit driven system. Some Drs don't have a choice, as many work for corporations that put pressure on them. Because of this, things get misunderstood sometimes. The same happens with chronic illness like BP and diabetes. Patients don't really want to change their diets and exercise, so a pill is the only thing that will help them. The problem with psych meds is nobody knows if the pill is the cause of side effects or the disease. This is dangerous. DR Robert Sapolsky advises meds should be a last resort. Unfortunately it's the first line of defense. Fear of being sued for not doing enough gets saved by doing something ( prescribing meds). The whole system is a mess.

I am with the anti-psychology movement, personally. I have escaped the trauma cult.

I am 49 years old and I have had ADHD and Generalized Anxiety disorder my whole life. I have never medicated either, though I have been prescribed antidepressants. I never took them beyond the first week because one, I was never fully on board with the idea that I needed antidepressants when I had never been depressed, I was anxious, and two, they made me feel dulled, and apathetic. The only time that I think psychiatry had a useful role to play was in managing the acute onset of panic attacks in my early 30s. But as anyone who has had an actual panic attack knows, it is not generally a psychiatrist or therapist who gets you through that horrific experience. It is almost always an ER doc and ER nurses who give you a valium injection and reassure you bout 100 times that you are not actively dying of a heart attack, and yes they would be able to tell if you were. The valium is definitely a game changer in that instance but it's not a long-term fix. I mean, I'm not going to lie, Valium, and Ativan are wonderful and if it were possible to just take one of those liittle pills every day and feel that blissful peace and confidence all the time, I totally would, but I know it doesn't work that way. My main problem with psychiatry is the ADHD thing. I realized somewhere in my 30s that I don't suffer from ADHD, what I suffer from is rigid authoritarian people who believe that there is only one way to do something and that obedience is a virtue. I subscribe to neither of those beliefs. I learned that other people with ADHD have no problem following my train of thought and manner of speaking and they don't think that I talk too fast. When I am around like-minded people (and there are LOTS of us) who all talk fast and leap from idea to idea I feel great. So, if I only "suffer" from this supposed disorder because a specific subset of people want me to be someone different, then how do we determine which one of us has the disorder. I am not the one who can't follow the conversation, so why am I the one labeled as having a disorder. I think we have different personalities and different strengths and weaknesses and if we quit creating rigid rules that that strive to make everyone talk and think the same way...the right way... disorders like ADHD would not exist.

This is actually something I've been meaning to look into for some time and keep putting off. I have read a book about placebos by Dylan Evans that argued that talk therapies are essentially nothing more than a placebo. Some of the studies it sites seem damning, but without looking at the research myself or digging into the other side defending psychotherapy and psychiatry I don't want to jump to any firm conclusions. Emotionally I very much want to believe that someone out there really knows what's going on when we become our own worst enemies and can talk us through the process of getting out of our own way, but I'm very much afraid that it might all just be nonsense. The replication crisis in psychology demonstrated that a lot of the "science" that guided people in creating these therapies was certainly not science and very likely not true either. I'm afraid that therapies developed under these baseless "theories" might themselves be as untrustworthy as medical practices developed under the "theory" of the four humors. With the horrifying exception of the methods for "recovering" repressed memories I do not think they are as harmful as those old medical practices could sometimes be, but I worry that they might be as useless. I understand that people generally get better results from therapy than from being put on a waitlist, but that doesn't prove much. It would be true if being told you were sick enough to require therapy but not important enough to get it right now 'please wait' was harmful. Even assuming that being put on a waitlist is harmless a convincing placebo could outperform them. Evans's book argues just that. It supports this case with a meta-study. It also discusses a study in which some college professors from other fields were able to fake their way through being a therapist and apparently had no worse outcomes than actual trained therapists. This as well as the claim that Many modern therapies do no better than Freudian approaches give me reason to be suspicious. Say what you will about the rest of psychology you cannot persuade me that Freudian psychology or Freudian psychotherapy are anything but absolute garbage. I guess I haven't said much about psychiatry yet which going by your title will be the main emphasis of the video. All I can say there is that some medications such as lithium for bipolar disorder have remarkable effects in people who were clearly too far gone for talk therapy alone, but I still feel that as a nation we are overmedicated and psychiatrists could stand to show a bit more restraint with the prescription pad. Also Dr. should not accept gifts from pharmaceutical salesman, but that probably affects which drug of the same class, with similar active ingredients, is prescribed rather than whether a prescription is written. At least I hope it doesn't affect whether a patient gets a prescription.

Couldn't watch the whole video😑

My life has been saved by the right combination of therapy, meds, and family support. I had bad experiences with both therapists and medication but once they “got it right”, it got me through hell.

They're both positive and negative tbh. Negative because a psychiatrist in a psych ward misdiagnosed me with Bipolar NOS first and then Bipolar one and also put me on two antipsychotics (which interacted with each other, like no duh 🙄) and I was also blamed for it interacting by his stupid nurse practitioner (as if it was my fucking fault, when you and the doctor are the ones who put me on two antipsychotics) and then took me off Prozac and put me on Latuda (which was supposed to be the "substitute" for Prozac) and Trileptal. When in reality, I actually have Intermittent Explosive Disorder, ADHD, Autism (first diagnosed when I was in high school), and Major Depressive Disorder (first diagnosed when I was 18 in a psych ward). Positive because another psychiatrist listened to me and took me off Depakote and put me back on Prozac (which is what I wanted - and the only reason I was put on Depakote was because I was taking Sulindac and Tamoxifen, due to having Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, which could've make me more likely to develop desmoid tumors). Also I stopped seeing my oncologist because I was tired of taking Tamoxifen and Sulindac because it meant that I couldn't take Prozac (which, to be honest, was one of the only medications that really worked for me). Negative because some of my former psychiatrists haven't listened to me when I asked to be taken off Depakote (after I stopped seeing my oncologist) and put back on Prozac. Negative because my current psychiatrist didn't believe me when I said I didn't have bipolar. I've had positive experiences with all of my therapists though. Sorry if this is long and all over the place.

I have severe ocd and bpd. Whilst I hate being on medication (ruminating on it triggers me a lot) I know and remember how miserable and unable to function I am without medication. If it weren’t for medication I would still take take 2 hours to leave my room. And be unable to leave my house.

I just automatically assume they're fake if its from tiktok, there are more healthy spaces on youtube and reddit

Look at that hysteria like factitious disorder, insisting that other people's pain going untreated causes him pain. Can't you see how much it hurts him to talk about the pain that other people can't wrap their heads around? In real life, it we had a choice as a society between training a brain surgeon and a shrink, the brain surgeon is the better choice. Diseases that the world has are more important than making ourselves sick for attention. Make no mistake, that's why I'm anti-psychiatry. Because videos like this demonstrate how delusional psychiatry is.

Answering to the “personal opinions” question from the beginning of the video: The anti-psychology mouvement feels, at times, to me... elitist? for the lack of a better term. Compare it to Neurology, and you’ll just how wobbly-wiggly psychology is. It’s not cold, hard, mechanical facts but abstract concepts and systems of understanding. It’s understood as being a science only for the few scientifically proven notions it brings. As for the rest, it’s a sham, a phony masquerading of an art into a science. And what’s wrong with psychology being an art or a humanities? Do all these distinctions even apply here? As for the medicalized elephant in the room, I don’t think meds are inherently bad, they just are sometimes misused. It’s, therefore, essential that the psychiatrist in question follow-up many times with the patient, to make sure that the prescription is right for them. It’s all about the psychiatrist going about their job correctly.

Hi there, someone who was diagnosed professionally with DID in mid '23 here.. My current therapist has been working in her field for over 30 years and I'm her first client to actually have DID.. She told me that she didn't really understand the disorder until I entered her office and told her about my suspicions after having symptoms for over 5 years at that point (I refused to believe it for 4 years, but started really thinking about it early '23).. She has seen my alters and has had conversations with them, fully believing that they exist due to how dramatically different we are; for example, I never make eye contact and fidget quite a lot while an alter of mine can sit still and can easily look people in the eye when talking to them. I honestly feel like more research and discussions need to be done about DID rather than reclassifying it.. It just makes things more complicated as well as devalues the experiences people with DID have and go through on the daily.. I once had a therapist (before the one I have now who I also brought up the possibility of having DID) tell me that she saw why DID is commonly misdiagnosed as BPD due to how dramatically different one of my alters was from me, but said that I showed no other symptoms.. BPD and DID are not the same, nor is PTSD and DID the same.. It's like saying Autism Spectrum Disorder is the same as ADHD or OCD.. They're not the same.. It's been proven and shown that they are distinctly different despite having some symptom similarities. I feel you should have conversations with people who are diagnosed with DID to truly see what it's like.. Maybe reach out to colleagues who have DID patients and hear what they have to say.. All I'm saying is that, just because you've never seen someone or treated someone with a disorder listed in the DSM-5, does NOT mean that it doesn't exist or needs to be reclassified.

There is no excuse for any this, and the fact that you're trying to relativize might suggest you would do that same in their place.

Such a bad take. Easing involuntary commitment laws would be strongly opposed by disability rights groups. The greater need is for better mental health care, not more folks being locked up..💉💉💉

psychiatry and psychology are offshoots of philology, for scholars wanting to emulate the advances in the empriical sciences. All these diagnoses describes behaviors and experiences but have no causal explanation, nor is it ever explained who or what is demonstrably "sane" and "normal".

My gf was misdiagnosed by psychiatrists when her cognitive symptoms were the result of life-long undiagnosed health conditions: celiac disease and epilepsy. Jumping to conclusions when someone has psychosis does ruin lives.

I actually tried Lithium but it didn't work for me.

It's a really complicated issue considering the every patient, every doctor and every medication is different.

Psychiatry has a lot to answer for with its misuse of SSRIs, stimulants, and antipsychotic meds. Evaluating root causes of mental concerns instead of being symptom focused, would help to move mental health care out of the darkness..💉💉💉

Though I wouldn't ever claim to be "anti-psychiatry", I have no issue being open about the countless issues of the field both in theory and in practice. Where I'm from, you could get free health care for a cronic somatic decease free of charge at the time of care, acknowledging we pay for our care in the taxes. Students pay a single low fee once a year for student health services. The primary care available for students struggling with mental health is to direct them for government subsidized youth psychotherapy. In practice, you pay everything out of pocket that goes over a certain percentage of the therapist's fee. While we live on benefits and a loan and study for free (again, noting we pay for it in taxes), you could be living on +/-200 euros a month less than your peers just because you are being treated for mental health issues, depending how lucky you had been seeking the therapist and whether or not you even had the chance to compare fees. Most people don't. While I'm fully aware the situation is way better than for people in a lot of the world, in context this is an outrageous inequality. The financial pressure often does mare harm than one benefits from the therapy itself. Any occupational/rehabilitational/functional support you would need to realize to seek out yourself. It's a single solution system for a variety of issues and needs with a considerable financial burden during a critical time of your life while you live for the most part on a loan. I regret going to the three scheduled years of psychotherapy ending in the summer of 2022. I'm resentful for the system that puts the entire effort of seeking out a therapist and applying for subsidies on a person in massive amount of struggles with executive dysfunction. I know I'm lucky, but I'm disappointed I had to settle for the first therapist I could contact due to not being able to pay multiple introduction meatings out of pocket. I'm sad I didn't know my full rights at the time and that I was never fully informed about my options. If I could choose now, I would've seeked out social services first and gone to therapy around now that I'm over the worst of it, in a clear headspace and well, past the pandemic. Online therapy in living conditions with less than optimal privacy, all the technical issues I still payed every minute for, and the overall strain of the global situation were a massive blow for the success of the treatment in the end. At times I feel like I completely wasted those three years, trying to study through the constantly unstable headspace, studies progressing being the sole guarantee for the government continuing to subsidize it. This is just the tip of the iceberg in my personal experience of all of it, I could keep going for hours. Going all the way back to middle and high school being belittled and misinterpreted, even accused of seeking attention and being constantly compared to a friend with a prior diagnosis, to the present day being denied additional exams due to the public medical services considering me healthy enough to not need active care outside of being medicated. I've been at home for a year now, paused my studies and been waiting for unemployment services to begin. So much wasted time, so much normal life experiences been on hold through it all. I can only imagine how much it'll affect me in the future how misunderstood I felt throughout the care with little to no options to change course and start over. The waiting times in acute phases, the way the system practically waits for you to breakdown before you're even on the list, the fact that the sole goal of care is for you to maintain your capacity for studying or working and your wellbeing being measured by just that, ability to work/study. Depression is a public health concern nation vide, yet we measure high on happiness indexes year after year. It's a disgrace. I remain hopeful though, because public pressure is increasing and the stigma is drastically losing hold trough public awareness, education and especially the rising concern for the health of teens and young adults. I simply don't want my experience, however lucky compared to anything even slightly worse, to be the experience of ever more people. I'd never wish hardship onto the younger than me just because I had it as difficult as I did.

I was forcibly hospitalized for suicidal ideation. The reason for the depression was severe chronic illness that due to the hospitalization was pathologized as mental illness delaying my care by over a year with likely lifelong consequences of delayed treatment. The abuse of power by hospital staff left me with long term trauma and I have been in therapy ever since, a significant proportion of which would never have been necessary if I had not been hospitalized. I have been on and off antidepressants. They have not helped me and coming off was extremely difficult. I am a strong proponent of treating all mental illness but I am also deeply against the imbalance of power given to psychiatrists and psychologists. I will never forget being told, as a priviledged white rich college student with a perfect GPA and no history of mental illness besides telling 1 school psychologist I felt suicidal, "I can make it so that you never see your boyfriend or family again. I can take away your freedom. I can do whatever I like. You will not tell me how to proceed with your treatment." All in response to asking that I be allowed to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family. I will never forget my first time passing out being because of innapropriate overmedication. Mental health treatment is important but mental health practicioners must first do no harm. Even if a hospitalization is relatively benign simply imprisoning someone with no legal recourse is a terrifying reality with the potential to traumatize. Especially for somone like myself who is high functioning autistic and stuggles to present myself "correctly." The way institutionalization is used to this day, and the threat of it, terrifies me more than anything else. I used to have a needle phobia, the more I engaged with medicine for my chronic illness the less phobia of needles and medical settings I have. The more I have engaged with psychiatry the more it terrifies me. I still encourage many people to seek help because I understand mental illness kills and there are evidence based treatments that work. But I also tell all those same people to never ever fully trust someone with so much power over you. Psychiatry is not your friend. It is a tool that sometimes we have no other alternative but to use. Someday I hope psychiatrists will truely stop doing harm and work with clients on equal footing. I also think that for the vast majority of mental illness there is a much larger social aspect better supported by peer support networks than by traditional psychiatry. In the same way that lung cancer needed to be first adressed by adressing smoking and air quality and then treating those for whom that is not enough. We should fix societal problems first and then only medicate and mentally treat those whose problems can't be fixed with stable housing or help making friends.

In my opinion EFT & TFT are better for PTSD and Trauma. TRE is also great, and synergizes amazingly.

Emdr is good in my opinion, but TFT and EFT equally as efficient, if not more and also safer.

Dont know where this is going yet, but I like the interactive style🔥

We really need to bring back asylums. It will help people with mental illness, and also giving jobs to the community. The world is so scary right now, sick people everywhere. And mental illness does not discriminate. I’m watching this video after seeing a news video after a woman unprovoked, stabbed a baby in a grocery parking lot.

The thing is that one of the most important evolutionary adaptation of the human brain is that it's, well, highly adaptable compared to other animals. Like we cannot survive without adapting our behavior and tools to ways that may be very different to what our ancestors did. Most other animals are finely tuned to their environment and just need to follow their instinct to survive, but we have to strategize. Would make much more sense that human behavior is mostly nurture built on top of a moderate nature base. There are things like the need to socialize that are innate, as well as other drives, but the drives act more as motivators and not something very mindlessly obey

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". Psychoanalysis is a futile exercise because it changes nothing: it does not create a new man, it does not bring peace to you. In fact even the founders of psychoanalysis like Sigmund Freud were so much afraid of death that you cannot believe it. No normal being is so afraid of death. The founder of psychoanalysis was so afraid that even the word “death” was not to be pronounced in front of him - it was taboo. It was not to be talked about. Three times it had happened that somebody mentioned death and Sigmund Freud fell in a swoon, in a fit, became unconscious. He was so afraid of death that he avoided going to any cemetery, he avoided going to anybody who was dying, even a friend or disciple. Wherever there was anything concerning death he was absolutely panicked - and this man gives you psychoanalysis! His problems are not solved. He gets angry just like anybody else. He is jealous, more jealous than anybody else. He is greedy. He wants to monopolize, he wants to dominate people. He creates almost an empire of psychoanalysts around the world, but everybody has to repeat like parrots whatever he says. Anybody who says anything different is immediately expelled. It seems it is not science but a political party or a fanatic religion - not scientific research. And the same is true about Jung. Jung came to India to meet someone… because in the East people have been working on the mind for thousands of years. But they have never developed anything like psychoanalysis; they developed meditation - a totally different approach. What is the use of analyzing the rubbish of the mind? - sorting it out… it takes years. There are people who have been in psychoanalysis for fifteen years and they have reached nowhere. They have changed their psychoanalyst in the hope that perhaps somebody else will help, but they have not reached anywhere else. They cannot, because all that psychoanalysis does - all the schools, whether Adlerian or Jungian or Freudian - is to sort out the rubbish of your mind, interpret it according to their minds. And what is the point of it all? In the East we have not developed psychoanalysis, we have developed meditation. Meditation simply takes you away from the garbage, takes you beyond the garbage - it is not worth bothering about. And if you want to bother about it you can go on bothering for lives. You will not come to an end. But just being a witness to your mind, without doing anything to the mind - just being aloof, just seeing it as if thoughts are moving on a screen and simply watching it without any judgment of good and bad - a strange experience happens: thoughts slowly start disappearing. Soon a moment comes when there is only an empty screen - no thoughts. And when there is no object, no thought for your consciousness, it turns back upon itself because there is nothing preventing it; that is exactly the meaning of the word ‘object’ - it prevents, it objects. When there is no object the consciousness goes… and just as everything moves in circles in existence, consciousness also moves in a circle. It comes back upon its own source. And the meeting of the consciousness with its own source is the explosion of light, the greatest celebration that a man is capable of, the greatest orgasmic experience. And it is not something that happens and is finished. No, once it has happened, it continues. It remains with you. It becomes almost like your breathing. You live in it twenty-four hours a day. Jung had come to India in search of someone, to find out what the East has done to create so many people like Gautam Buddha - not one but hundreds who have gone beyond mind and all its troubles and problems, worries, anxieties. What is the secret? He was going to universities, meeting psychoanalysts, and everywhere he was told, “You are wasting your time. These people are not the right people. These people have gone to the West to learn psychoanalysis and they are teaching psychoanalysis in the universities. You have come to search and seek somebody who is absolutely untouched by the West. And there is a man.” And there was a man - Shri Raman Maharshi. Wherever Jung went - and he was there for three months - everywhere the same name was given to him. “Go to Arunachal in South India and meet this man who is uneducated, who knows nothing of psychoanalysis; he is the man the East has been able to produce. Just go and sit with him and talk with him and listen to him. If you have some questions, ask him.” But you will be surprised: Jung never went there. And later on, feeling that he will be criticized, Jung wrote, “I consideredly did not go to Raman Maharshi because the East has its own way, the West has its own way, and they should not be mixed” - just to protect himself from criticism. Then why did he go to India at all? He was told again and again to go to a man who was available, which is rare, and he did not go there, although he went up to Madras, from where it was only a two hour journey to Arunachal! Jung did not go to the man, whom just by meeting he would have seen how a clear man is, how a man is who has cleaned his mind completely - his eyes, his gestures, his words, his authority. He does not quote scriptures, he knows himself. Jung did not go there, and he himself felt guilty. To defend himself he started writing that the East and the West have different ways. This is nonsense, because man - whether in the East or in the West - is the same. And it is strange that he was teaching Eastern students Western psychology. He should have refused because this is mixing East and West. If he was really honest then he should have said, “You go back to the East.” He was teaching Eastern students Western psychology, but he was not ready to go to an Eastern meditator, just to meet him. What is the fear? The fear is that Jung is as normal a person as you are - just knowledgeable. He has gathered from books, but he has no authentic experience of his own. Western psychoanalysis is just a business. It is cheating people. It is simply exploiting people without any help, and because there is no other alternative people have to go to it. The psychoanalysts themselves go to other psychoanalysts. And psychoanalysts go mad more than any other profession! They commit suicide more than any other profession; they are more perverted in every way than any other profession."

I would love to know what you think about the book Neurotribes

came to comments looking for something about ava's accumulator, (from the quest animal magnetism in runescape), was disappointed. Good video though!

As a fierce advocate of both therapy and medication, as relevant, it’s actually a little jarring that “anti-psychiatry” includes anyone with any criticism of the field. I have a background in bio and chem, not psych, but if you approach science as a static thing that’s 100% right and has no issues, then you are a *bad scientist.* While psychology has a clinical aspect, it’s also very much a science and will always need improvement. Nuance exists, and it’s frustrating to watch the baby get thrown out with the bathwater

EMDR has helped me and others tremendously. What was once said about all therapy (in the past) was what you're trying to say now: that therapy (overall) doesn't work. That's dangerous rhetoric, and it promotes clients to not seek treatment services. It's sad, everyone thinks they always know what's best for others, even at the clients expense. You might as well say antidepressants don't work either, and for some, they do not. For some others, antidepressants do work. Just because it doesn't work out for you or what you believe/perceive, doesn't mean the technique doesn't work for others. SMH

Omg……forgetting names of people …..totally!

I think dreams are a reflection of what we last thought about, or are related to the events, emotions, etc that occurred right before we fell asleep, or even of that day. I think they can be interpreted in the sense that if we are worried about something, we might have a stressful dream. However, I don't think this is always the case.

I have mixed feelings on it... When I was younger, my parents decided to take the approach of "shove meds in your face and address nothing". Medication did nothing for me because my problems were absolutely caused by my environment and societal issues. Of course someone being treated like shit is going to feel like shit. That's a normal reaction. Some people, it helps, but they hand out SSRIs etc. like candy.

Regarding your question on how I feel about psychology: MIXED I recently took a course in personality psychology and found it lacking a lot of rigor about different ideas of how to describe personality and categorize it. This is such a fundamental part to also understanding when personality becomes disorder. Though I do understand that it's such a tricky thing, that also has so many social factors weighing in. At the same time I have a large amount of trust in that psychology does help a lot of people and that it has genuinely good research backing up a lot of it. Nothing is perfect as with everything. Improvement is all that matters. Regardless though, I think it is critical for all of the society including politicians to acknowledge society's impact on the general psyche and actively try to improve it all. But for me both are needed.

Went to therapy for a few sessions along time ago, and I was moving away after a few weeks. After the final session, the therapist offered me a card for Angel healing. Thanks, but no thanks.

Thank you for commenting on how this issue affects you personally. I struggle with this as well. Being defensive with a person who has not been helped by mental health treatment or, even worse been harmed by it, is not helpful to either the former client or the practioner who just wants everyone to get better. I think that when people say things like, "my therapist didn't care about helping me. He or she just wanted me to stop being disruptive" stings the most. When someone is seen as being the cause of a family's problems or disrupting school or society or whatever, then it almost doesn't matter if it's true, at least at first. This is what stigma is and it's incredibly harmful. How can you help someone without first helping them find a way to protect themselves from a world that is making them so much worse? It's like saying you don't need a bunker because you can just repair the bomb damage. People really think we don't care and just want them to stop complaining? Also, I agree that most mental heath treatment wouldn't be needed if we had a gentler society. But my ability to change public policy is pretty minimal because stomping out forest fires and handing out bandaids takes all my time. If I go back to school to learn public policy, who is going to hand out bandaids while I'm out trying to change the world? I would never say this to a client, but here I will say that I'm a victim of capitalism too. Yes, I have more power than most of my clients, but not much more. I can either give up my privelege or try to use it to help others. I think that psychologists and psychiatrists have both promised too much and allowed others to promise too much on their behalf. I can't decide whether I should watch more of these videos or stop watching them altogether. But thank you for this video. It was thoughtful and humble, which I still think are two of the most important qualities that mental health clinicians can bring to the table.

I would love to know how schizophrenia became a black disease in the 1950's

My mother went for hypnosis after an accident left her full of anxiety over being put in the same situation. She's self-proclaimed never had mental-health issues and had never suffered with depression or anxiety or anything similar, so this was a new thing to her. For her, the hypnosis worked incredibly well, and she was given thought exercises to manage when she felt rising anxiety. However, I have to wonder if there's other factors at play; she never talks about her thoughts or feelings, and so I can't be sure the anxiety doesn't still linger but its something she can more easily overcome now (which is still a success in its own right) she'd never interacted with therapy or mental health in any sense, and again wasn't someone to ever discuss her inner thoughts. my vague suspicion is that just being in a space where she could discuss her anxiety and be given ideas to work around it was potentially the help she needed. I'm not discounting hypnosis or my mum's experiences. Whatever happened helped her. I just sometimes wonder if it was merely the act of seeking out help and being given space to process her feelings that might have actually been the real help here.

These are the most boring people existing on earth, gosh!

I need to know. What's up with the windows xp computer with some aol thing going?

I'm extremely supportive of folks getting the help they need and won't discount anyones experiences with their own mental health. However I'm kinda... mid-psychiatry. I'm not anti, but like you mentioned in this video, I feel like there's a lot of valid concerns raised about the field. Inacessibility is naturally a huge one; at one poiint I had to stop going to a therapist as the cost of going was giving me such extreme money anxiety that I was feeling worse rather than better. However the few times I've had access to free help, they've always been with caveats of time restrictions (aka "we can only help for 3months"), or just weren't able to provide as much support over all. I also find there does perhaps need to be more combining of mental and bodily health overall and communication between professions. I'm not one of those folks who tries to claim "sort your diet out and it'll solve all your issues", but as an exmaple; I went to my GP several times over a decade for aid with depression/s* thoughts. The solution was ALWAYS anti-depressant medication, which didn't ever seem to help me, and tended to just give me migraines. There was never any attempt from GP to delve deeper. I eventually found out from randomly hearing an account on the radio, that perhaps I had PMDD. Went to my GP again, got hormone pills, almost instantly improved. (Obvioussly my thought processes aren't 'solved' but it instantly did away with my heavy dips and spikes.) I realise a GP isn't a psych, but not a single mental health professional I also saw during those 15 odd years mentioned the possibility of hormonal imbalances either. Also after many professionals seen, it's only now, nearing my 40s, that I was finally diagnosed with ADHD, again only after doing my own research. Not a SINGLE professional explored other options beyond "welp symptoms of anixety and depression? have some ssris i guess. they're not working? well. shrug." I spent decades feeling hopeless and alone because any time I reached for help, it felt like no one really knew what to do with me. Even now, I often feel dismissed because despite my consistent s* thoughts, I come across as a very upbeat, cheerful and optimistic person. My most recent free therapy ditched me after 2 months claiming I'd "come so far" when nothing had changed.

When I was 9 years old a psychiatrist convinced my parents to force feed me amphetamines for 7 years, essentially stealing my childhood by making me tweaked out of my mind the whole 7 years. The same thing happened to many of my friends and some had it even worse. On top of them amphetamines they were experimented on with antidepressants and mood stabilizers that almost always made their moods worse and more erratic.

Visiting mental health care providers has been the single worst decision I've ever made. I'll never do it again.

From a young age I suffered from depression and it got worse when I hit puberty (thoughts of offing myself). I was against going to the psyc or taking meds until one day I did and it was like I crawled out of a hole in the ground and saw sunlight for the first time in my life. Now I'm a mental health worker, just like you, and I work with children who have mental health issues just like I did. I am bipolar and have not had any thoughts about hurting myself for about 4 years since finding the right combo. Medication saved my life (in more ways than one--I've also been chronically ill since birth).

Overall, I’m glad they caught the ADHD at a young age, but I wish my parents had stuck with the non-medication interventions more, like positive reinforcement. I recall them being very effective-my grades really turned around. They even got my peers involved. In 2nd grade everyone wrote their name on a card congratulating me on good grades. I still remember that feeling! But then I remember that all went away in 3rd grade and they went to medication alone. I also changed schools. And that’s when the trouble began. The meds made me not want to eat, which made my already poor emotional regulation skills useless, and my parents didn’t understand that Ritalin has a crash that can affect your mood. In middle and high school, I acquired a handful of different diagnoses, but what I think was going on was the poor emotional regulation typical of ADHD, plus major depression, plus medication side effects, and possibly undiagnosed autism. I’ve been on autism TikTok and have been working with autistic children for the past year, and it turns out I have a crapton of traits that I didn’t even realize were abnormal let alone associated with autism. So anyway, I was heavily over-medicated in high school. Now, as an adult, I am actually pretty happy with what I’m on now, and with the treatment I’m getting! It makes a big difference to be an adult because it’s a more equal situation. You have more agency. I’ve been through programs and have had overwhelmingly good experiences.

Is it just me, or does anyone else find someone trying to hypnotize then extremely unsettling? Like, I get this buzzing anger and I almost get like an urge to violence if I let it go on too long. For context, I’m autistic with a PDA profile, so. That might have something to do with it. Lol. Would love to hear if anyone else feels the same way though!

"Bad therapist" is redundant. They are ALL rat shit.