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My kids are not allowed to play football, soccer, rugby, wrestling, hockey or lacrosse . I am a former D1 football player....used to love the the sport...not anymore. I dont want my kids to have cte...
Words to describe the kind of person who seeks therapy? Sure: Rich, Wealthy, heir/heiress, privileged, white, college educated, probably has a trust fund, etc. etc. ETA: Wow! We are way, way off from who we picture as seeking therapy. I see people in the Gwyneth Paltrow class as the types who would seek therapy. Mentally ill drug addicts? Yeah, not so much. They usually get treatment in jail, unfortunately.
I feel like psychiatry in general has been an underappreciated field. I myself was against therapy and psychiatry, but after trying it, I’ve found that it truly helps. I feel so much more comfortable in my brain I think however that doctors need annual check ins. I went through a lot of bad psychiatrist and therapist before I found a good one.
This was really helpful. Thanks Alie, and all guests. I'm starting a Psychology degree a bit later than most, but I know I want to get into neuroscience. Looks like I'll be spending the majority of my 30's in school. Heh. I hope to be able to do some good research at the end of it and make important contributions to the body of knowledge. I've also been told that I'm good at explaining things and communicating (despite my feelings to the contrary), so maybe teaching or writing would be options too.
I did 2 sessions a couple years ago, it was 800$, the eye movements gave me headaches, it had absolutely no effect on my mental health and the total fb who took my money breached our confidentiality agreement and I had to get a lawyer involved. ☠️
Go to your primary care doctor and ask them to diagnose you with colon cancer without running any test or having any physical symptoms. It's impossible, yet doctors are making mental health diagnoses every day without any running any tests (because none exist) or, in many cases, any physical symptoms being present. The other aspect that doesn't get focused on enough is the thousands of physical health conditions that can cause mental illness. It's like putting a bandaid over a open wound that's gushing blood without stitching it up first. 40 years from now we are going to look back on these days the same way we look back now at things like lobotomies.
My biggest complaint against psychiatry, is that patient go to gain relief from how they feel on the inside. While psychiatry is 100% focused on lessening only the outward expression of those feelings. The visible actions. So the result is the patient feels even worse, because their last great hope has failed or worse, made them sicker. And psychiatrists feel they have succeeded when all they have donen s shut down the outward expression. Effectively making sure that the onlynones who benefit are the general public who no longer have to deal with seeing how much pain some of us are in. This of course helps to continue the sad cycle psychiatry has become. The real cause and solution ( societal problems and pressures leading to unbeable stress ) are completely ignored.
I paused to comment that from my decades long "treament", everyone of those worries is in fact the reality of so called "treatment". It has been literal hell.
I believe we would be all pro-psychiatry if it were done properly and humanely. Too many have been burned by malpractice or lack of empathy towards ppl with neurodivergent tendencies. I was denied adhd help bc the psychiatrists saw my traumatic past more than my actual struggles with finishing tasks ( which lead to anxiety then social withdrawal entirely) Now, not only I have childhood trauma, I have trauma in relation to learning environments and developed social anxiety. The only person I fully feel safe with to be myself is my husband. I was a big advocate for myself to get knowledge about my condition ( adhd with autistic tendencies), I won my fight against parents who infantalized me so I could live independently and overseas. I now live in a country that takes care of their citizens and I have better access to healthcare. I hope to bring more awareness of neurodivergency and encourage empathy towards others who think differently than them.
I think she was actually having a dissociative experience. She probably suffered from a few undiagnosed mental illnesses. I have the jerky like eye movement when I dissociate.
Yes please I think I speak for plenty of other folks when I say a video on punitive psychiatry would be particularly Jermaine to our contemporary ethos
I think to a large degree we need to stop diagnosing symptoms & start looking at the whole person & their whole life & geting to the root of problems & solving them, rather than just funding big pharma to provide bandaid solutions for people who are genuinely suffering
Emdr is just exposure therapy but with the human understanding they r safe and bringing them back to this reality and trying to keep them here as they travel back in time. Over time the emotional aspect lessens.
My grandmother was one of those who abused the system. I was so frustrated when she would bring in her PUG everywhere and it was a menace. So when I knew I needed an ESA after my health declined, I was very careful. I got to a therapist for over a year before I knew I needed one for sure. So my mom helped me get a cat and I emailed my doctor to ask for the letter since she knew me for a long time. Having a cat significantly helped me. However, she is not a service animal. She is not trained for tasks. It's been important to me that service animals get the space to do their job without being impeded without ESA causing them problems.
