"The Myth of Normal": Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2022
- In an extended interview, acclaimed physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, just out, called "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture." "The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people," says Maté, who argues in his book that "psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call disease." He says healing requires a reconnection between the mind and the body, which can be achieved through cultivating a sense of community, meaning, belonging and purpose. Maté also discusses how the healthcare system has harmfully promoted the "mechanization of birth," how the lack of social services for parents has led to "a massive abandonment of infants," and how capitalism has fueled addiction and the rise of youth suicide rates.
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"Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine."
One of the best sayings I have ever heard.
" Normality is not something to aspire too , but something too get away from ' is another silly saying. WHAT is normal ? is a question asked by people that don't fit in . Another word for normal is regular ( used by Americans ) people know full well what it means . Nothing wrong with being different , or abnormal . Get on with it , leave normal alone.
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" -- J. Krishnamurti
According to the Krishnamurti foundation they have confirmed he never said this phrase. You can look this up! This was said by someone else, allegedly the guy that wrote the open doors of perception.
" What people need is Community, Compassion, Contact and Safety. That's what allows people to work through their traumas. And unfortunately, that's not readily available."
- Gabor Maté MD
I have released ¹on the way
Little children shouldn't get traumatized to begin with.
@@lunaridge4510everyone knows that,but it's not how things are.
One of the few academics that stood up for Palestinians. Respect.
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Gabor was actually born jewish in nazi occupied Hungary if I remember right.
Correct. It’s shown in the Wisdom of Trauma I have the clips saved. He’s one of the few OGs who understands that Israel is just a Zionist genocidal state system just like the US and AIPAC is the linkage for their war profiteering against Palestine.
Not so much.
Don't forget Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, etc.
Gabor Mate's work is essential to healing this world. Thank you for bringing him on!
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Meh, Erich Fromm didn't go into medicalized explanations but he said what needed to be said back in the 60s.
@@frankstared So what are you doing here?
@@chasinglighttoo I'll tell you but will you reciprocate? I came to see if he is embracing equity...yet.
@@frankstared he spent 12 years working with drug addicts. Wtf are you talking about?
This was profoundly heavy to listen to, thank goodness that we still have people the likes of Dr. Gabor Maté with us in this world
Yes, I’ve watched soooo many of his vids since I discovered him a few years ago…I think it was pre pandemic but I spent many months watching and re watching his videos. I so concur with his findings and statements. I haven’t yet bought any of his books but I’ve done a lot of therapy and consciousness-raising activities pretty much my whole life to heal childhood traumas, so I’m quite familiar with these concepts. That said, I am still on a journey of exploration and healing and watching his videos have really helped me connect more dots.
This response about shrooms above just shows you the problem here in America.
Has nothing to do with what is being spoken about.
@@tommiebrooks8573 one should seek or create an understanding indigenous environment to use indigenous means of healing..
@@neovxr I agree 👍
My mother is Cherokee from the South.
She and my elder family members use plants for healing.
What's your community? Go visit the homeless shelter(s) where you live: you'll find the very best people there.
Struggling 3 months after my suicide attempt, glad I stuck around because I wouldn’t be able to read this book.
i'm glad you stuck around too 💖
The Law of Nature is Change. Stay Blessed Love.
hold on. :) there’s plenty of great books to discover :)
Glad to hear you are still here, you are worth fighting for 💕
We need you here, thank you for staying. There are so many good books.
I tell people who push "Strength is everything", the majority of the mentality of the U.S., Strength without compassion is cruelty.
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@@Thanksabunch the opposite of love is hate. If you reject power because you want to love, then you will not use the power of your love.
@tomsenft7434 the opposite of love is indifference. Hate is love turned rotten
"It is no measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society"
Dr Gabor Maté has been one of the most consistent advocates for the intentionally marginalized and stigmatized, the most vulnerable, and has been the most vocal critic of the popular treatment modalities as they actually create the very problems they claim to be wanting to heal.
Thank you so much for this beautiful segment Amy.
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Quotation from Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1966
Yet, he does not advocate for equity. He says almost everything else but that. And that is inexcusable.
@@frankstared 🤦♂️ life must be horrible being you.
thats why NPD and all sort of cognitive dissonances in masses, psychopaths thrive in a sick society, yet they make sure that people get trauma regularly
I’m 61 oct 7, and at my lowest, childhood was mayhem. Perfect timing. Thank you
I'll be 69, Dec. 23, shutting the door on disallusion seems to bring higher B/P.
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The sun 🌞 always comes up another day 💗
@@robertrichard6107 can you explain what you mean?
With you ❤️🌹keep going 🤗
In the Indian subcontinent culture parents pick up the baby when he/she cries. I used to get shocked when I saw western parents not reacting to their baby crying. I also never liked the western idea of separating babies and toddlers from their parents at night. The warmth and comfort that babies and toddlers get from the mother cannot be compared to anything. I’m really glad I didn’t listen to those theories and let my kids sleep with me until they got much older.
Yes I ignored my native Western culture and followed my friends from South regions, kids fine thanks god
Oh the things I could say about abuse in all cultures, but what I have learned of prevalent trauma in India is heart breaking... no one culture is innocent of trauma cycling (authoritarian parenting, deifying parents, childhood prostitution, human trafficking, child labor, forced marriages, honor killings = but we cuddled our babies when they cry, but drop them on the ground and throw them under the bus when the start to grow up 🙄)
@@pragmaticpoet The Indians remain right on this point. It is better to comfort crying babies and let the kids sleep with their parents until older. Save your whataboutism for the next video.
@@tarmynastyr the superoriy complex of sssuming that western parents do not comfort their children when crying is interesting propaganda for a nation with a predominant culture of authoritarian parenting = that on average doesn't even respect their childrens autonomy by raising them to have the confidence to choose for themselves the most important aspects of life - 1.) career, and 2.) spouse / oh wow, you comforted them when they cried as an infant (which many western parents do) but than gaslite them their whole lives so they have no sense of personal identity = wow, impressive parenting tips
@@pragmaticpoet It is not assumption when many of your scholars promote that course of action. Look up Jordan Peterson, one of the main advocates for leaving crying children by themselves.
I'm not even Indian and I would definitely not live in India. However, on the account of what the Indian lady said, she is on point.
Do you have a Western superiority complex so big that you cannot accept valid criticism?
I am a Vietnamese born Canadian and let me tell you that very rare are the Vietnamese born Canadians who do not succeed in life here, on account of good parenting. You do not see them in the streets, suffering from drug and alcohol addiction.
Thank you so much for this interveiw- Dr. Maté is a true Canadian heroe.
Hero?
@Maas Misspelled. Hero, not heroe.
36:04 - "What people need is community, contact, compassion, safety... that's what allows people to work through their traumas." On point.
Good stuff; thanks for sharing this, DN.
The social fabric is totally destroyed in western countries due to hyper individualism
Mate and DemocracyNow!?!? It's like peanut butter and jelly for me. Perfect. I love his insight and his openess.
(his son Aaron Mate used to work @ democracy now)
@@wuhaninstituteofvirology Thank you, I had no idea :)
@@wuhaninstituteofvirology Aaron Mate is probably the best journalist out there right now. No corporate BS.
I will be purchasing this book. I really believe our society could BE and raise healthier children if they studied under this insightful Dr.
I second that. He has three books in audible , assumingly - any other online book store.
Or maybe we should value women the primary caregiver for children
@@goldmother2238 yes! yes! yes! For families, towns, and countries!
A large number of American men are afflicted with the envy of children. They would prefer that ALL the love, acceptance and attention should be theirs alone. They do deliberate harm to children and mothers. It's a selfish pathology.
I just got the book too and looking forward to what he has to say
Everyone needs to listen to this.
I'm near 70 and am a white female. I cannot believe how in my lifetime I have been abused, used, and left for dead. Sadly our families are often what kills us, or at least they kill what we might have become. Jealously, greed, fear can turn people into living monsters. No matter how good we are, the devil lives and kills us while we breathe.
I'm right there with you. If I could go back in time I would have gone no contact with any family at 17. It's bad enough that Society takes advantage of us and our vulnerability but to have your family members backstab you and undermine you is the worst part. They have access.
I recommend the channels crappy childhood fairy and Josiah Trenham.
So you actually met my mother?
That is what our systems engineer.
@Luna Ridge. .Thanks for that laugh. Same same.
He brings tears to my heart... I see too Dr. Mate !!!
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Years ago I spent a couple of days in a simple Mexican home where I often saw the mother picking up her baby and holding him close whenever he cried out. I had never seen such love in any of my US family, friends or relatives. We could learn a lot from such people.
Look at what American mother's let happen to their baby boys, they amputate the foreskin without anesthesia!
Yes, then they grow up and cut people's heads off and become the cartel..lmao you've never seen a mom, loving a baby in the USA?wow. 👍 👌
I'm pretty sure american mothers also hold their crying baby's🤨
Look. Okay look. I'm Mexican and im just saying. Im just throwing it out there. My mom literally has said multiple times, and i quote "kids don't cry blood" when talking about dealing with tantrums. 😬
Those are the facts, do with it what you will
@@Ainttrippin for way over a century, they have been told not to "spoil" them by picking them up when they cry and leave them alone at night. In traditional cultures, babies sleep with their mothers and breastfeed on demand. It was the Christian clergy that fought this normal behaviour in Europe to establish their supremacy in all things connected to family life; they originated those poisonous rumors that a mother would accidentally smother her baby during sleep, which could never happen of course. Your sleep changes completely after you give birth, you wake up after a single stir and feel your baby's body as a part of your own. Babies don't need to cry at all, mine never did.
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So true and Social media doesn't help!
Probably the most accurate and poignant comment here haha.
So nice of Gabor to be on your show. He is a truly compassionate human being.
I’m a Gabor fan, but he’s promoting his work and latest book. He’s not doing it to be nice.
I agree Jordan Peterson seeks so much attention but he has trauma and addiction issues he has not remedied holistically either. Needs therapy too and is stubborn no one said he is not intelligent but that does not mean empathetic or emotional intelligence.
@@annalisavajda252 you are so right Anna….
@@annalisavajda252 don’t know who you’re replying too but I like your comment about him…he is so popular and has such a following but every time I listen to his talks it doesn’t speak to me. I think it’s the lack of emotional intelligence
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i hear you, however, for me, this man is more grounded in emotional intelligence than just about anyone i know.
he doesn't give fake smiles. he doesn't act any certain way just because he has been trained in "proper" social responses.
he is his own person, staying grounded and on point with the knowledge/wisdom/perspective he has to offer.
a perspective which involves holding the dike - as it were - against the veritable tsunami of a deeply scarred and dysfunctional society.
from my perspective, your comment involves something about how our culture doesn't even know what emotional intelligence looks like.
to me, it looks like this.
also, i don't think he's "popular" enough - the area of healing trauma is, imho, thee area where our society/culture must go. as uncomfortable as it will have to be, our fullness of being waits on the other side of clearing traumas and abuses (even subtle ones.
best of luck on your own healing journey.
Dr. Garbo Mate huge Respect. True it's not what happens outside but inside Your Body.
Dr. Maté has hit the nail on the head on how society makes us feel inadequate, lacking. It took me until I was 65 to realized I was worthy. That I was useful and did not need others to verify this fact. I am an fine artist and my parents never understood how to deal with these attributes in a child. I understand them better now, but suffered because I never felt worthy in my ability to be creative. Art was considered a waste of time. They wanted “ more” from me. Who I was, was not enough or accepted in my family.
Over 49 years ago I said,”I could have been somebody ( if I wasn’t abused”) and today I know better but sometimes still struggle with it
Dr Mate is one of the few men that actually see and treat women… as human. Just like men.
DN is where I first heard of Gabor mate 11 years ago… and I’ve been listening and reading his work ever since. He’s a boon to humanity. I feel so lucky to watch his work unfold as I work on my own healing. Words can’t express my gratitude for him 🙏🏾✨❤️
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“It’s not that they’re trying to kill you, they just don’t care if you die” 😞27:45
Gabor Mate, you changed my world and opened my eyes! Im a young mum and Im so greatful I have the power to make a better world ❤
Gabor is the best!
What we call civilization demands the denial of human needs. What a wise frase.
I'm a Mexican cardiologist. Many of the medicine school professors talk to us about psychosomatic ailments.
When I became a cardiology professor, I talked to my students about the relationship of anxiety and cardiovascular diseases.
I always told them that mind and body are one identity and that we have to take in account the social factors that affect health.
Thanks, Amy for this excellent video.
Thank you, Amy Goodman, for bringing us such an important and insightful story that is desperately needed during these challenging times.
For what lol. This channel's fanbase is at least 80% crystal healers. Weird as spiritual sht
A great lady
@@erica.7231 Nah, just cos your nan liked them doesn't mean the rest of us do.
Everything Dr Maté says ought to be obvious to everyone but that kind of thinking is driven out of us from kindergarten as Chomsky would put it
@@nejuw Ok you are spirit crystal adjacent then wtf lol Like an old bunch of grunging hippies. Most ended up becoming right-wing anyway but some crust was left over. Just some weirdos that think they fall on the left but really aren't
Thank you, Amy ‼️ I appreciate all your work over the years...
Hi 👋 from Texas 🤠 USA 🇺🇲
THANK YOU, dude, Dr. Mate, for acknowledging how our societal and historic wrongs have had huge consequences to certain people that MUST be admitted to and NOT ignored or denied. People, colonization and slavery and racism and injustice EFFED people up!
Gabor is a pioneer of new medicine, where healing actually happens
And Has been for decades.
It is ancient medicine newly discovered by white men. Some of us have been working (in the margins) this way for decades, based on traditional medicine cultures from around the world.
NO he is not a pioneer, this has been known for a very, very long time, he is only Publishing it ..
"These are the people our society rewards with power..." DEEP
I know right that's what I've been saying!
As an observation, in watching this thought-provoking, honest interview, it is safe to say that there is no more of a lonely feeling in the world for being needed or taken for granted for what you can provide, and being rejected or unwanted for who you are.
Indeed, an awful feeling one can have, especially when empathy and compassion are on short supply for too long.
David, your post reveals you as a compassionate, loving man. But I must tell you an anecdote. To your assertion, " there is no more of a lonely feeling in the world for being needed or taken for granted for what you can provide," I remember a cop's wife* who said she wanted her kids to love her for herself, not for what she could provide. How, tell me, can a baby love its mother apart from its receiving life support from its mother's breast?
I agree, however, that taking Mom for granted years later can lead her to feelings of solitude & despair.
* I mention cop's wife bc her kids in my English class were very uptight & ridiculed by their classmates. Plus other awful stuff.
Sorry you have felt that way David. It is awful. Sending love to you.
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Thank you. But I am not really speaking of myself. I was just making an observation on this interview and based on what I've been seeing over time.
Thanks for your thoughts though.
Take care.
Dr. Gabor Mate is amazing! His approach to trauma has really helped me and still does. Can't wait to read his next book.
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And THANK YOU for pointing out the issues of pushing through. That's another one of those dramas with us Black women. We're made to feel so proud of how we "push through" that we just tolerate and ignore our nonsense and don't actually deal with it. And we have done this for entirely too long
"There is a taboo against knowing who you are in the West"- Alan Watts
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Big fan of his.
Been a huge fan of Gabor's work in the past 5 years. So happy to see him getting more air-time. We need more truth-sayers like Gabor in our lives ❤️
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"To be sane in an insane society is INSANE." Thus spake Ezra Pound
My husband experienced severe physical and emotional abuse since infancy. He has been in and out of therapy for years, but after hearing Dr. Maté, I'm going to be looking for someone more specialized in trauma and help him establish a regular therapy practice. He was at risk for colon cancer last year - a colonoscopy revealed a 1.5 inch polyp. It breaks my heart to think that because of what his parents did to him, our family might lose him.... This was a very difficult video to watch. Thank you, Dr. Maté, for everything you do and teach.
Hey Dr. Daniel Amen is a neuroscientist that does brain scans. He can help
Take care, both of you🌺
My thoughts of healing, happiness ....🌻💛🙂💛🌻
❤️ & prayers to your Husband & you, too. I know the various problem, pain & low self-esteem as a result of being being victimized physically, mentally, emotionally & sexually as a young child, adolescent & onward as a young adult. I had been a Counselor and Advocate for Abuse Survivors.
Absolute Sense Enlightens Absolutely - The Doctor and I are the same age. I too grew up in post WW2 Europe as a coal miner's son (half Catholic, half Protestant) in a Protestant land.
I believe trauma begins in the womb, and as the family size increases the stress and trauma become, in a sense "congenital".
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Our indigenous elders have told us we carry generational trauma, the wounds from our ancestors…that anger is literally imbedded in our DNA . When we embark on our healing ..the wise ones remind us lovingly and with compassion. “ The longest journey you will take is from the mind to the heart”. When one is ready to confront the ghosts and the wounds the transformation awaits . When we individually heal we inspire and support our families and communities.
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What a wonderful talk. Thank you for having Gabor Mate on your show. This man is helping so many people. God bless him and keep him.
I saw my first Democracy Now video twelve years ago when you brought Dr. Gabor Maté on to talk about "In the Realm of Hungry Ghost". I've been a fan of his and the show ever since. Here's to 12 + more years of excellent media!
"The spectrum of woundedness".... Compassion, transparency, integrity and accountability for all!
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This episode shows how we address trauma we spend more time talking about traumas and less time on how to heal.
Look at our inter-trainment media, movies, music, books, news etc.
even the so called spiritual sanctuary of a church is beyond traumatic.
I look forward to democracy now next episode that gives the whole time to the healing remedies.
Buy the book
I was always distracted and had a hard time in school. I liked learning, I just had a hard time managing my time and staying focused, and I didn’t know how to ask for help. My parents struggled with addiction and mental illness and there was a lot chaos when I was young. I knew what was wrong with me but I never knew who could help me with that. Most doctors will just prescribe you meds. I wish someone could tap the root problem that’s at the source of this
Smiles 😃
I know right
Hope you are having a blessed day there?😊
Well YOU'RE not the root problem, so that's a start 😚
Have you been assessed for adhd x
🎯indeed. This cannot be overemphasized in the state of the world today.
They have - its called complex post traumatic stress disorder (cptsd) and has symptoms that are similar to having adhd. Look up Richard Grannon he is amazing.
Admirations...respect.. incredible love for this humanitarians work!!!
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Gabor Mate is a treasure. He oozes wisdom. Another great piece from Democracy Now.
I’m glad he spoke about the connection between mental health and the atomization capitalism creates. We need an economic system built on compassion and meeting everyone’s needs, not hierarchal competition and greed.
Powerful closure with quote from Author James Baldwin.
When you are mentally sick than going to be physically sick !!!! healthy mind is in healthy body !!!!
A healthy forest cannot have rotten tree roots.
Not only a talented phisician and psychologist but a incredibly brave human being sharing what he shared!
thank you amy, dr.mate and the DN crew
I am 80 now, and loving living in Queretaro.
Sharing is caring. I love your excellent videos, and a little more about me, before I check out:
I am American, born in Chicago in 1942, educated and learned to work, travel, and to help non beggars. I am in my 79th year, but had Chicago been as deadly, as it is here, I would not be here. I gave God the glory for the protection and safety of my life.
I started learning Spanish at age 14 at DuSable high, with Mrs. Lemon, who was an excellent teacher.
I was 20 , when I started to travel in 1962, and I never allowed evil demons to stop me from enjoying life.
I never worked in any country, but USA.
I always watch in depth all countries, especially the countries, that your friends visited. I married my own brown American at 27, and had our only daughter at 37. I gave her the love of travel, and she teaches English around the world, currently in Bali. I am a widow, who speaks several languages, I speak Spanish fluently. Acapulco and Singapore are my favorite places to live as a second home.
I have donated my body, and my family knows to open the door, and allow who they invite to carry out my stuff, after they close the bank account.
My travel has been limited to virtual, but I have enjoyed traveling from age 20-73.
I missed grits in Acapulco, and my daughter mail me a box, and some mustard greens seeds. I am Muslim, so I do not eat pork.
Most people in my travels felt I was African, but my DNA is African, First Nation, and Scotland, but I am USA to the bone.
I know God will stop the genocide in Chicago, that has been going on for over 60 years, and I had to leave. I have kept written, , audio and video journals since age 15.
Computers and education is how I earned my income from 7-70. I was raised never beg or steal from anyone, and I was not better than anyone, nor were they better than me. RESPECT is the name of the game.
Death can come at anytime, but I enjoy every day, until the final day. I am happy that I help non beggars help themselves.
Thank you for your EXCELLENT videos.
JUDI
The cure for everything, every time, is necessarily comprized of a big dose of Loving kindness and compassionate understanding. 💖🙏
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Including necessarily toward oneself.
@@josephtein3835 Agreed.💜
Mind blowing! Thank you for this interview! Sharing with everyone💜
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I watch Dr. Gabor Mate in the Zeitgeist movie. His comments on Gene expression and how the social environment affects those were extremely interesting.
Really enjoyed this interview. I am completely disillusioned as to how this country treats its people starting with the lack of maternity leave and lack of universal healthcare. People are being traumatized and brutalized here every day, treated like expendable resource/consumer, no more. I cannot comprehend it.😢
This is the most sane person
When hearing information like this, I feel compelled to share with everyone I know, because in some way it can help every single human recalibrate and heal, if they believe and take action on it.
For myself, there were plenty of traumatic events in my childhood that were obvious and I have spent years working to address the effects. But listening, I realize there’s even more I haven’t considered. Due to the circumstances around my conception, my mother was experiencing trauma during her pregnancy. She also had a traumatic childhood. The work to be done is like peeling away the layers of an onion.
I think the most powerful and efficient way as an adult to reconcile and take action,without having to dig through all the what’s and why’s is to acknowledge the truth of how we’ve been effected, work towards change while exploring the origins instead of trying to figure out what happened before taking positive action and learning new ways to apply meaning to daily events. It’s like triage. You see the symptoms, and treat the most critical without seeking the source of the damage BEFORE treatment.
I see this work as not just Dr. Mate’s mission, but also the duty to those who hear, to share and spread the word. In this way, perhaps the message of compassion and acceptance will spread more quickly,and we can begin to see a shift in the state of people living in this toxic environment.
GOD Bless you Dr. Gabor.
I'm so excited to see him on here. His work has helped me so much for the last few years as a parent with PTSD, past postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety, this past several months as a single mom of two young kids, and other issues on a personal level; but also as a sociologist I love his perspectives, particularly because I've always felt there's never enough discussion and research on the impact of external, sociocultural forces on people's mental and physical health, and a great deal of existing research on parenting or any kind of field of health is extremely androsexist and racist among other things. The discourse on issues in that regard have improved tremendously in the past several years, but in large part thanks to people like Gabor Mate, and he just seems like such a genuine, compassionate soul, on top of being mind-blowingly insightful. Thank you so much for having him on here. This really just made my day.
@Celeste Jones I hope you are able to locate more supports, and are able to take some comfort in knowing that you are not alone.
May all of your needs, and your children's needs, be easily met.
I think this is the most important interview I've ever seen. I'm so happy for the positive message this brings in this time of negativity.
the most common tools to soothe the effects of trauma tend to be really bad for health, from too much TV to opiate abuse. Basically all living things will sacrafice long term health for short term safety.
@@sheldonbodryn1003 I couldn't really get a positive message from this-could you be more specific? Thanks.
@@joantendler6518 It's the important connection between stress and related mental experiences, and how he's researched how so much of physical illness is caused or exacerbated by our emotional experiences as we go through life. It's been the usual practice to keep these medical fields separate.
Love to hear his thoughts on healing narcissism and other cluster B personality disorders .
This guy gets to the root cause of alot of it ! 👏👏
You just heard it. The social systems need to be healed, rather than focusing on “the brain or the personality of the individual.”
Just purchased the book.
Sounds very helpfull, for the whole family. Thank you
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Bless him, Dr. Gabor Maté is a true gift.
I will definitely buy his book!Thank you for this Interview very very interesting and important. We are not well and we need to really priorotize it.Climate and (mental) health.Without those two functioning well everything else is obsolete because it literally means death for us!
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100 percent agree Mary Jane…
Thank you for bringing this to me, found his books and downloaded my first read. I dance with me/cfs & Fibro, my life as I knew ended 32 months ago. My experience with mental health is only a buzz word in our medical care system. 💚
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I fully resonate with what Gabor Mate is saying. What a breath of fresh air!!!
All world leaders must listen to this beautiful man !
What is really bad on top of the fact of living in a toxic culture which we are in is the fact that our culture is getting more toxic every day. We are being governed by psychologically and emotionally damaged ppl who reward toxicity and undealt with trauma. Our society rewards and encourages ppl to shut up and not speak of these things calling us weak and ridiculous if we do so. This attitude contributes to us isolating ourselves from people and consistently being gaslit by unaware and ignorant people.
What a legend. Thank you for all you do Dr.Mate.
This really was an excellent speech and he is so incredibly right that the mind, our sense of self, and our physical health are interconnected. So very right that so many people suffer from trauma, and the problem with capitalism is that people are encouraged into the delusion that it doesn't exist. So wonderful to see him talk so openly from his own life, was incredibly eye-opening as always.
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In my Psychology of personality in college we did a questionnaire on stress that caused trauma and I scored nearly 100% (parent dying after they separated, moving, new troubled relationship, etc). We live in trauma, we need awareness and support to recover.
True, but you won't get it!!
@@normski262 Is that your trauma talking?
@@globalheartwarming NO they are external forces. If I beat you with stick. do you say, I and the stick have done no harm, you are only suffering YOUR or pain or trauma have allowed on yourself /
@@normski262 I don't. And if you were beaten, I care about your pain and anger. I want you and all of us to have trust, empathy, and understanding to recover.
@@globalheartwarming he’s just a troll, don’t waste time trying to help him, his joy comes from messing around with people on the internet as he sits in his mom’s basement wallowing I’m the trauma that causes him to troll comments on UA-cam and vote for a rather obvious conman.
Amazing information and this interview. Thank you for your book and sharing this wisdom.
We are all on a spectrum of adjustment to a sick society, which is no "measure of health"- J.D. Krishnamurti
Thank you, thank you ,thank you Mrs. Goodman, Nermeen and Dr. Maté for this beautiful and informative interview. It brought tears to my eyes learning about trauma from Dr. Maté especially when he linked being forgotten at the airport to an early childhood abandonment trauma. I realize I am not alone. There's a lot of suffering in this world. Healing is possible and it starts with recognizing the trauma(s). We need more education around mental healthcare and a new generation of educators, healers, counselors to help us all.
Agreed!
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No, you are definitely not alone!❤
Part of the problem is our for-profit medical system. When there are billions of dollars to be made by selling pills, actually healing people isn't going to be a priority. 🤬
This is the most important issue of our times.
It's about time we talk about the damage done to children by mechanized childbirth and then the lack of parental leave for BOTH parents because bottom line take priority over supporting families during this precious time in a families life. And then high cost of childcare and as he said babies spending more time away from parents. It's all so sick and no wonder our children are depressed, angry, violent, suicidal, addicted. Chasing the dollar for our corporate masters is literally killing us and our children. We have to create families where children are the center. Too many put career and prestige over caring and raising their kids. It's all so tragic. Government can't or won't solve this problem. We as parents must organize our family life to benefit our kids. Want less. Kids don't care about big house, 2 cars, etc. They need presence, love, structure, guidance. Parents need to step up.
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Amy, thank you so much for this interview of Dr Mate,
I have been following Him for a few years, and he has totally changed my viewpoint of how Dr’s should understand and treat patients.
This man is a true gem.
A voice of compassion, truth and courage. I cried
Hard Cover or Audible, this book is absolutely necessary. Makes the Best gift. Thank you Mate Gabor.
I’m so glad that the psycho-emotional causes of illness are finally being spoken about more widely. Those of us who have been working with this understanding for decades and who were mocked and shunned as a result are finally able to work openly and (almost) without fear of derision. The problem with health and healing in modern society is that a woman’s voice carries no authority. Something is only widely considered valid if a white man in a white lab coat says it is, regardless of validity. It’s a slow, steep climb but we must persist!
Thank you Dr Maté and Democracy Now. You further human civilization. I reply my trauma of ~70 years ago and the "get over it" repeat traumas since then.
Thank you Amy & Democracy Now for airing this Dr. & Wonderful insightful human being. Love this man!
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Brilliant! I’m so grateful for this segment.
I had not heard of Dr. Maté before but I am profoundly moved by his wisdom and attunement to the way things are. This is a moving and necessary and beautiful talk.
Thank you for bringing Dr. Maté to DN!
Cannot wait to get this book.
The applications of this illuminated mindset are boundless. Bravo Dr. Gabor Mate'!
The guy's a national treasure. Thanks for having him on.
Dr Mate is so extremely bright. What insight, into our current human condition! I have read two books of his, they were just amazing. Truly.
I love Gabor Maté, such a caring guy. But I think the diabetes and other diseases associated with metabolic syndrome are more complex than simply due to trauma. I believe it's the trauma that is causing the addiction to unhealthy foods, in conjunction with a government and food industry that have no concern about people's health. Profiy comes first. Cynically it also means that the pharmaceutical industry also makes a packet selling medications for all these mostly totally unnecessary diseases
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Yeah I like this guy but diabetes is due to refined carbohydrates and excess calories. Gerald Reaven coined the term "metabolic syndrome" and said as much
Chronic stress can create the conditions for insulin disruption that can set the scene for becoming a Type 2 diabetic.
Dr. Mate makes a connection between stress overload in our society/lives and disease in his book When the Body Says No. A must read.
@@marytrichilo7475 Agree 100%. My type 2 diabetes may very well be one (of many, including suicidal wishes) consequences of the stress of 30 years' living in a village (urged on by cops & justice system) bent on chasing me out. As a (white) US expatriate in a small European village, I can more than ever understand US African-Americans' lifelong stress & resulting physical & mental health problems.
BUT: We may understand the problem(s), but … Where do we go from here?
@@edwardjones2202 Disease does not happen in a biological vacuum. What drives that biology? Why do we not have healthy food to eat? Why do some people develop eating disorders? Why are more than 50% of type 2 diabetics on the African continent thin and malnourished if this disease is " caused" by overeating? The relationship between obesity and diabetes is correlational, not causal. There is currently no biological evidence that shows the exact molecular or cellular mechanism that could lead us to confidently assert causation. Correlation is NOT causation. As Mate discussed, we have ample biological evidence to explain how racism, poverty, trauma and discrimination cause allostatic changes that disrupt metabolic and endocrine dysfunction. I recommend looking at the uncontested, cutting edge work of Bruce McEwen, Peter Stirling, and reading recent papers regarding the Carbohydrate- Insulin model and the Obesogen Model and momentarily set aside the hegemonic American Western Biomedicine narrative that all of us healthcare providers have been, uncritically, taught.
AMAZING DR. GABOR MATE! Simply, brilliant! Thank you for existing!
35:35 resilience as a communal endeavour and a communal attribute ... this part of the conversation is outstanding, every single adult in North America should hear this. The whole thing as great, though, thank you Democracy Now!
That man helped me understand myself.
Children have a gateway to a different world. Only through being bound and broken by society does it go away.
It lays dormant though, in most regards they can feel that something around them is wrong.
You can tap back into that realm at any time, but knowing that everything around them is fake causes a lot of these things.
Through spirituality and reconnecting to nature you can tap back in, but be prepared to be called crazy by all of those around you once you tap back into it.
Be prepared to isolate a lot because you'll see the fakeness even more extensively. You'll have a hard time reconnecting to people who are enveloped in this worlds fakeness.
It's affluent in both demographics of protection and right.
In honesty, that's the most controlled dynamic of all.
We the people(media, government, classism, left right paradigm, ect.)
Create an enemy as a distraction, so many get caught up in one camp or another seeing the other as an enemy by design.
Trumpism, biedenism, we truly needed Webster, or Jorgensen.
Yet pharmaceutical America had another plan.
If you look at the financial compensation through campaign contributions given to all sides, you'll see that covid,was in fact a conspiracy.
Not a theory.
We got what they paid for.
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This may be the most important topic that Amy Goodman will cover this year. This is an extremely important interview. There are few things more important than the mother-child relationship. We need to take back our mental space.
Gabor Mate is great thinker and voice with huge evidence to back up his arguments. I am sure of this and intend to investigate his work further. I think he is becoming more mainstream. Although I was told this week by an organisation working with people with addictions that they were the only organisation in the UK taking his approach to the support of their clients.