PSYCHOLOGY of House M.D. : PAIN and FEAR

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  • @Saurles
    @Saurles 6 місяців тому +150

    I still can't believe that Laurie never got an Emmy for this role.

    • @aljoharahalsheikh9385
      @aljoharahalsheikh9385 Місяць тому +5

      I don't think he even got a nomination. its actually wild because dr house was popular and one of the best shows in the 2000s and Hugh Laurie's acting was impeccable Ive never seen a scene in house where I though that Hugh could do better.

  • @BG12sofia
    @BG12sofia Рік тому +251

    It's paradoxical. On one hand, yes, House is afraid of pain. On the other, he seems to believe pain and misery are what makes him an extraordinary doctor. It's a complicated mix.

    • @14reasons58
      @14reasons58 6 місяців тому +4

      Pain patients...if everyday is pain.
      You wake up in pain, you go to work in pain and you sleep in pain,not so difficult to become a bit of a sado masochist you see.
      Chronic pain is profoundly unnatural and unfortunate.
      Some believe pain patients lives are cut shorter by about 10 years compared to the normal person.
      Pleasure, pain. Synergy, duality .
      One without the other ?
      Light without darkness ?
      Coin of this and that .
      Yes, as pain patients after potentially decades of being in significant amounts of pain,it becomes part of our identity.
      Who we are.
      We cannot separate one or the other.
      It's who we are. Who we've become.
      Like a depressed man who doesn't want to stop being depresssd because it's part of him.
      Why?
      Perhaps habit.
      I don't think there is a logical explanation for this.
      But there is something inside me that tells me I would be less objective if I wasn't in pain.
      Theoretically it can make someone more snappy.
      To the point. Blatant and objective...interesting enough.
      None the less, if depends on intensity.
      Too much pain and you Wont function and offing yourself seems like the only logical option.
      Luckily enough, there is treatments for pain these days.
      Interesting enough, still profoundly limited. Pharmacologically primarily.
      For all this time of modern Western medicine, there is only one drug class that's really effective for significant enough pain.
      Those who desire a high tend to taint it for those who need it.
      Then again, why should the irresponsible few negatively alter the life of millions of pain patients eh?
      And why are politicians with zero medical experience making medical policy ?
      The more you know.
      We are not ruled By honorable men.
      Everything is falling apart in the West .

    • @QuiK075
      @QuiK075 5 місяців тому

      He was narcissistic and antisocial. That’s the reason of his whole antagonist and selfish ways.

    • @kamakazeyt
      @kamakazeyt 3 місяці тому +1

      I'm probably wrong but after living through these past 3 Years and experiencing a traumatic event, then over time feel endless guilt due to how that has effected family, loosing friends as a result of my bitter and depressing personality and well... eventually no longer trusting anybody really even my own mother due to certain reasons. All of these events happened over these past 3 Years, all of them caused by the self destructive changes I made and morally grey paths I began going down... all of those things I did though were to move on from that night originally and live a normal life however, despite eventually doing that I instead still let the events of one night haunt me like a ghost. I have been telling myself that... well basically if I don't change myself in every possible way this will all happen again, despite it being over already, and in a way I suppose changing myself did the opposite as instead of preventing this from happening it happened again after one year, which then led to the situation socially and mentally effecting me more and more... which well led to all the things I described above... God.
      I know I've probably explained this horribly but, well idk. I suppose, it's sometimes better to face your demons head on sometimes yes however, in some situations facing certain things may cause more pain rather than cure it. As well as this though, it goes the other way with the methods you choose to avoid pain possibly just ultimately causing more pain, trauma and suffering. House is wrong about everything in life being miserable, I do believe there is always a light at the end of the tunnel yes however, somebody like House constantly makes his journey towards it take longer... and ironically it's all in an attempt to make his journey faster and reduce the pain he fears.

    • @14reasons58
      @14reasons58 3 місяці тому

      @@kamakazeyt that's something

    • @kamakazeyt
      @kamakazeyt 3 місяці тому

      @@14reasons58 Well, House is so utterly terrified of emotional pain and so desperate to avoid it as a result, it’s possible that he endures his daily physical pain willingly as just another attempt to avoid emotional pain.
      The physical pain inflicted upon Gregory House cannot be cured, there is no escape for him and no light at the end of the tunnel waiting. So as a result, he will do absolutely anything as an attempt to reduce this pain. We see this all throughout the show, his abuse of Vicodin for starters, his joy seeking behaviour doing things such as gambling or drinking, hell he even electrocuted himself willingly risking possible death attempting to feel the joy a patient described to him after doing the same thing… and also dying himself.

  • @Gabrilos505
    @Gabrilos505 7 місяців тому +86

    “Why do you try so hard to not be human, House?”
    Quote probably sums the character up quite nicely.

    • @Donovan-qo5bl
      @Donovan-qo5bl Місяць тому

      Being human makes you food. Being a monster keeps the bitch ass mufuckas who are trying to cause you harm tf away from you

    • @MrD_2112
      @MrD_2112 Місяць тому

      The most complete human is the most complex human. House is the most complex human mankind has ever seen on a TV screen.

  • @lululu5113
    @lululu5113 3 місяці тому +32

    I think he knows exactly what he's doing. The entire time. There's comfort in familiarity and he's familiar with being in pain. I know this feeling very well.

    • @Alberthoward3right9up
      @Alberthoward3right9up Місяць тому +2

      Thanks. I was hoping somone else had been thru it an understood it properly. I don't think house is scared of it. Enough is enough when you don't ever get a break. I suffer from chronic pain too. And to have a life makes my pain worse. You will never know until you know. And I hope most never do now. I used to crave understanding. I don't expect anything anymore tho. I have a small circle tho.

  • @Skywaskie
    @Skywaskie Місяць тому +5

    I am currently 33 and have had juvenile rheumatoid arthritis since I was 10. I have always related to House in many ways and absolutely love the show. In a way, it gave me the goal to create a community where individuals suffering from similar issues can discuss their problems. Even those who don’t suffer from these issues but want to understand are welcome to join the conversation.

  • @galefray
    @galefray Рік тому +47

    Absolutely cried the whole way through. Everything you said was so precise and astute. Seems like all of life is about loss. I suppose the bright side is that by that same virtue, eventually, you also lose your pain.
    Thank you for putting into several mins what I felt connect with me so deeply for several years during and after finishing House.

  • @RedactedATS
    @RedactedATS Рік тому +20

    Very interesting take, well presented. House remains my all time favourite TV show. It dealt with a topic rarely tackled and as someone who has suffered excruciating daily pain which is now much less but nonetheless will be lifelong, i can concur that the fear of the pain reaching the levels i know it can is very real. I know that had my pain not been reduced thru surgery and long years of recovery, I would be just like House, if i was still here at all. The fear of pain also includes that fear of the level you would ultimately go to to just make it stop.

  • @House12th
    @House12th 6 місяців тому +13

    This explains him so good. I love this show and relate to house on so many levels. Chronic pain sucks, emotional pain sucks, you try to run away from it, stay isolated, but in the end it'll just destroy you more. House is so relatable as someone who has chronic pain..

  • @kongspeaks4778
    @kongspeaks4778 Рік тому +42

    People complain about the medical inaccuracy of House but the themes are why I love the show.
    I like to believe that by the end of the show, House does accept his fear of loss and grow. That's better than all the dark shit I read about how he'll probably relapse again after Wilson dies

    • @VioBlack77
      @VioBlack77 10 місяців тому +10

      House is back on Vicodin since season 7 Bombshells! That's why he won't relapse after Wilson dies.
      Hugh Laurie said that House won't be long for this world after Wilson's death. So he might commit suicide shortly after this or stays alive just long enough to fulfil the promise that he once gave to 13.

    • @drstrangelove4925
      @drstrangelove4925 5 місяців тому +1

      @@VioBlack77I think that’s what he meant with not living long after wilson dies he’s going to wait until he kills thirteen he promised to he still has that one purpose to live a little while longer

  • @CapiEtheriel
    @CapiEtheriel Рік тому +33

    This was a great video. I wholeheartedly disagree with your take, but it was a pleasure to watch it to the end.
    My take is Dr House is aware life is pain. And yet, contrary to everyone else who just live in pain, he wants to overcome it, apotheotically. He is a smug genius, he believes he can do what no one else can: live without pain. There is a moment in S4 where House briefly questions whether there's another (hopefully painless) life after this one. He immediately proceeds to put a knife in the socket to check for himself. That is House at its core: obsessed with the possibility of living without pain.

    • @yagnikmanhas2071
      @yagnikmanhas2071 Рік тому +2

      So correct

    • @mourningstars
      @mourningstars 11 місяців тому +1

      This is SUCH a good comment because despite disagreeing, you come to the exact same conclusion as the video!
      House is dedicated wholly to overcoming pain, to living without it. It’s just that rather than only ego, this obsession is spawned BY the fear. House kills himself - or tries to, socket-knife - in the obsessive and desperate pursuit of a life without pain. Is that not fear?

    • @onuraagdas8051
      @onuraagdas8051 8 місяців тому

      That's exactly what I thought. His obsession with the possibility of living without pain is the source of it. Contrary to everyone else who accept that pain is a part of life, you can only accept it and deal with it, he believes that he can alleviate it. His arrogance may form a part of his belief but the foundation of it has got to be the emotional and physical trauma he has experienced his entire life. @@mourningstars

    • @Truthshallsety0ufree
      @Truthshallsety0ufree 5 місяців тому +2

      Feels like you're actually agreeing but your analysis of House is not at the character wound level. Rather at the character LIE/rationality level. In writing terms, one level up or one step after the defining event for character.
      The wound has created the fear which has created the false belief and it is the false belief or the coping mechanism (survival technique), which you are describing.
      The Wound, however is 'Rock bottom' for the character and the nucleus for all behaviour and beliefs which manifests there after.

  • @valval101entertainment2
    @valval101entertainment2 Рік тому +4

    This was a great analysis of House, I'm looking forward to see you make some more analysis video.

  • @jimmy2k4o
    @jimmy2k4o 8 місяців тому +4

    Great essay, I think the source of house’s personality is based around his mantra “everybody lies”
    I think he was hurt by a lie.

  • @gazthebomb
    @gazthebomb 2 дні тому

    All I can say, is well done. And thank you.

  • @kamakazeyt
    @kamakazeyt 3 місяці тому

    Thank you, this video has made me see House as a show very differently, it's made me appreciate and care so much more for all the characters, the personal relationships and events which took place during side-stories. After seeing this video, God the scene where Cuddy broke up with House just hit me so differently. Well done, this analysis of House, his pain, his addiction and his descent throughout the series slowly becoming more and more bitter. It's sad when you realise how much he did actually try to change though looking back... but I mean in the end, despite his best efforts his fear of pain won and sent him down a spiral ruining all the progress he ever made.
    House was a Medical Drama on the surface, but in reality it was really a tragedy about a man unable to escape an endless prison of pain. House said that life is pain, something he himself knew wasn't true for everyone. Despite telling everybody that life was just endless pain... he also confessed in one episode that in reality "Pain Changed Him" which as you said made him fear it more than anything else, eventually fearing it to the point he would rather be alone being bitter and cynical, instead of feel pain.

  • @TheSLK66
    @TheSLK66 5 місяців тому +5

    I can answer this seemingly paradoxical situation. Unfortunately, I am very much like House. I'm smart but not a genius, that would be a difference. I am however, the most rational person I know, and that will probably not change. The defining moment is when House is talking to his psychiatrist and says: "I want to get better, whatever the hell that means".
    It's not that House doesn't try, he knows how to, he just disagrees. House understands people build these comfortable ideas and routines that are rationally flawed. He well knows that if he points out the flaws people will fight him. But he also knows that if he is soft-spoken and gentle, people don't really get the message and don't change. And so he comes across as blunt, annoying and insolent. House is miserable because he holds everyone accountable for their thoughts and actions.
    House would rather live in misery than to accept false or comforting ideas. In fact the very idea of a comforting thought seems dangerous because House feels he might be deceiving himself or accepting mediocrity or stupidity. You can see this when he and Cuddy are happy but his medical skills seemingly worsen. And so he considers leaving Cuddy for this very reason. He is not miserable because he chooses to. He is miserable because every other source of happiness is either illogical, fake, shallow, hedonistic or negative. And so he is only left with temporary hedonistic because at the very least he understands pleasure at the biological level. With or without leg pain, I can guarantee House would not be happy.

  • @elisamariacavalcantijordao4883

    Fabulous video, and a very very acurate aproach to the deep dynimic of House's complex personsloty

  • @sonicpuffs3106
    @sonicpuffs3106 Рік тому +3

    cried during watching the show, cried some more while watching this

    • @lucius5109
      @lucius5109 Місяць тому

      Take care
      All fans of this series let's unite
      Where are you from ?
      I from Poland

  • @justinmckay4068
    @justinmckay4068 Рік тому +2

    Very underrated video! Great job!

  • @motocross2127
    @motocross2127 3 місяці тому +2

    Genius and insanity are a common combo

  • @warrick3w881
    @warrick3w881 7 місяців тому

    One of my all time favorite show.

  • @MaximusOfTheMeadow
    @MaximusOfTheMeadow 25 днів тому +1

    It's my life

  • @wyattd8423
    @wyattd8423 2 місяці тому

    Hey man. Nice video Essay. I love the format.

  • @universalistsnape8584
    @universalistsnape8584 4 місяці тому +1

    “How far can I go from my pain before it takes my life?” -Euphoria by Motopony, which I discovered watching House.

  • @jellyrcw12
    @jellyrcw12 3 місяці тому

    this was so beautifully written and expressed

  • @nightvolt614
    @nightvolt614 2 місяці тому

    Such a quality video thank you I love this show and have for a long time

  • @donaholleman5344
    @donaholleman5344 Місяць тому +2

    I find this video of House too dark , nobody is that onesided. In everybody is light and dark. He had a lot of compassioned moments and no mention is made that in the end he sacriced everything to help Wilson. I don't know who would do that.

    • @meowhisd4546
      @meowhisd4546 Місяць тому

      It's focusing on the negatives of House as a character. He has his moments, but overall his behavior is anti social and has caused more negative consequences than positive.

  • @mxvseq
    @mxvseq 3 місяці тому

    when you said he throws tantrums i was thinking exactly of "YOU CANT STOP OUR LOVE" glad to see we are on the same brainwave

  • @vmin95z__
    @vmin95z__ 5 місяців тому

    Amazing video. 👏🏻
    This is too deep and really moved me

  • @the300rulers7
    @the300rulers7 Місяць тому

    I would say i have something similar in concept. I have severe flat feet, i would run for 50 feet and be in a ton of pain. So i fix this by walking or just sitting, the only issue is the linger i do this the more pain i will feel the next time i try. This is only fixed by running through the pain til it gets more manageable. It is a sad reality but the truth is that no matter how much it hurts just keep going. As someone once told me “embrace the suck”

  • @sumairamansoor8289
    @sumairamansoor8289 2 місяці тому

    Hugh is THE BEST no ine can change my mind

  • @markgoggin2014
    @markgoggin2014 2 місяці тому +1

    House is always in pain, even with the drugs. Trust me, I’m on way more and it barely takes the edge off. The pain makes you bitter

  • @oliviabell9691
    @oliviabell9691 2 місяці тому +2

    You're focusing on the symptom and not the cause.
    It drives me crazy how even the writers basically treated House's extreme childhood abuse by his stepdad as a *blip.
    And his Mom's complicity in his childhood abuse is ignored entirely.
    She's just this "nice lady".
    yeah.
    A "nice lady" who ignored her husband's torturing of her son throughout her son's childhood.
    His stepdad-who he thought for most of his life was his real Dad, and respected-abused TF out of House.
    He made him sleep outside, made him take ice baths for the sadistic fun of it, and more.
    The foundation of House's pain, is the pain of utter heartbreak and devastation.
    Being intentionally tortured by someone you love and respect, your Dad, when you're just a little boy.
    The leg is incidental.
    No one ever protected him.
    The wound is his parents' abuse & neglect.
    But who cares, right?

  • @sharpaycutie2
    @sharpaycutie2 9 місяців тому +15

    House holds a lot of pain in his life from his childhood, his leg and that he carries with him all through his life and affected his lenses on how he sees the world and deals with people but he’s also a man in search of answers as well.

  • @subhamkoushik200
    @subhamkoushik200 Місяць тому +1

    He was suffering from Dissociation or Serialization

  • @vocabrealety4846
    @vocabrealety4846 Місяць тому

    „Pain and fear are in the same boat as death and taxes“ 😂😂😂

  • @Chocominzu
    @Chocominzu 3 місяці тому

    17k views, good amount of likes, and only 90 subscribers? SO UNFAIR.
    I AM SUBSCRIBING.

  • @peacockvision551
    @peacockvision551 2 місяці тому

    Fantastic video.
    Please continue

  • @Camino_Daze
    @Camino_Daze  Рік тому +4

    Any feedback is appreciated!

    • @GhoshA
      @GhoshA Місяць тому

      I liked your voice. Really touched my mind.

  • @sumairamansoor8289
    @sumairamansoor8289 2 місяці тому +1

    Season 3 was the perfect life for him, after that, it was doenhill

  • @RonHarrisMe
    @RonHarrisMe 2 дні тому

    House MD is played by an actor, portraying someone in pain. I have spinal stenosis, I am in pain 24/7. The strongest narcotics available simply allow me, if I do not move, to lie down and not be in pain. Any movement, or standing, sitting, walking is enough pain to almost cause me to black out, over the years, I have learned not to do allow that to happen.
    I used to be afraid of the pain, before it got so bad, but pain and I have been together over 30 years, we are friends. A companion who consistently lets me know, it's there and will never leave me. The narcotics I take, serve one purpose, they are there to simply stop me from crying. They don't always work, I often cry when I can get some time, away from my wife, so she won't see. I don't want her to worry about something she can do nothing about.
    Modern medicine can only do so much. I can tell you this, while yes, sometimes HOUSE acts in a certain way, as someone in pain would, but I assure you that behavior goes away in a few months, it has too. You can't be mad at the world forever. You can only curse GOD for so long. Eventually, you have to accept your fate, be as strong as you can, and take life one day at a time.

  • @crackedegg1746
    @crackedegg1746 Рік тому +4

    My friend just finished he made me watch a few episodes it was a cracking show with the finales he showed me. If only it wasn’t taken off prime video in the uk I would’ve watched it the whole way through

    • @Chadmlad
      @Chadmlad 8 місяців тому

      It's on Netflix now!

    • @crackedegg1746
      @crackedegg1746 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Chadmlad not in the uk unfortunately

    • @shamba4406
      @shamba4406 8 місяців тому

      @@crackedegg1746house is on prime video in the UK

    • @jackbrown4236
      @jackbrown4236 5 місяців тому

      Just be a pirate lol

  • @raystanley9263
    @raystanley9263 Місяць тому

    Very good content

  • @luizbertoneto
    @luizbertoneto 4 місяці тому

    Nobody likes pain, but I think the fact that he endured phisical pain when he failed as a child, maybe that's why he was so hell bent on solving difficult saves. Maybe he was kind of hoping his punishment would stop if he got more success

  • @HenryCasillas
    @HenryCasillas Рік тому +2

    🌻

  • @pep9077
    @pep9077 7 місяців тому

    please make more of these oh my god

  • @FreshPotatoes1116428
    @FreshPotatoes1116428 11 місяців тому

    Very noice👌👌🕴🏼

  • @Huhwhat9237
    @Huhwhat9237 10 місяців тому

    Dope video

  • @Raymond.D99
    @Raymond.D99 Рік тому +7

    The music is not needed. This was an excellent video, but there is this common belief that background music is always necessary. For analysis videos or videos where you want to get your message across. Your voice is enough.

    • @aymenboussouar1880
      @aymenboussouar1880 7 місяців тому +6

      No i think the music sets u to understand and dive into video

    • @StrawberryShortcake155
      @StrawberryShortcake155 6 місяців тому

      i think there's a place for background music but it's too loud in this video for sure

    • @Blu-Meanie
      @Blu-Meanie 4 місяці тому

      On the other hand, why not have it

  • @davidcheater8709
    @davidcheater8709 7 місяців тому

    Another video please?

  • @PitaBorges
    @PitaBorges 2 місяці тому

    💔❤️‍🩹❤️

  • @papi5377
    @papi5377 2 місяці тому +1

    Warto jest zaprzyjaźnić, zaznajomić ze swoim nawykiem....