Dr. Gabor Maté: Rising Depression, SSRI Lies, & Spiritual Disease | SYSTEM UPDATE
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We lost our trade unions, our communities, our financial security, and everything else that gave us a sense of home and family, it’s no wonder that we are in despair.
Atomisation & Deracination - who'd have guessed
organizations became too big and too impersonal
I don't think anyone ever felt financial security.
@@petebigner151 Back in the day, a good union job meant a decent pension. Today, we get nothing.
Also religon
Glen, amazing interview. Dr. Gabor Maté is a legend. Your interviews are fantastic.
Gabor is a wise and humane man. Also, he has a wonderful son who is one of the great modern young journalists, Aaron Mate
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” 🤔
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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if you were aware you would know Krishnamurti said that 75 years ago@@vv7299
I went to my doctor for an annual physical and, as we were finishing up, he went through a series of questions about my general well-being and I happened to mention that I was feeling really tired at work. He immediately diagnosed it as depression and prescribed an antidepressant. This was before COVID so I still trusted the medical profession and said, "Ok. If the doctor says so, it must be true." I took that drug for maybe six months at most and decided one day to question the logic of: TIRED = DEPRESSION. That seemed like a giant leap of nonsense. So, I decided to stop taking this drug. It was extremely difficult. I won't go into what it felt like but just to say I could not believe the negative effects of coming off this drug. I later found out this doctor expected me to take that drug for the rest of my life. Today, in my mind, that doctor is a quack, no more worthy of trust than a street vendor of some magical elixir said to give you infinite energy.
Well, SSRIs have withdrawal symptoms, and withdrawal symptoms remind depression.
SSRIs have never demonstrated long term efficacy in a well designed trial. In fact, they have always been found inferior to placebo long term. There is some evidence for short term efficacy but the side effects are extreme and unpredictable. There is always a better treatment than SSRIs. @@definitelymaybe97
Doctors get kickbacks from the psychiatric industry
They hand it out like candy. Lucky you got off when you did, before it ruined your health, life, or relationships. It took 5 yrs to get my husband off, after it effectively trashed our relationship.
I am pleased that I never trusted doctors so much that if I said I was tired I would accept a drug for depression, but I certainly have trusted them for other things that I should not have trusted them for.
Listening to Dr. Gabor was where I found the key to unlocking my lifelong chronic depression.
may I know what you found? I've got mdd and I'm fearing of relapsing rn
The entire Mate family is talented❗❗❗❗❗
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Aaron Maté is smart and brilliant
Glenn, all your shows are just excellent. Thanks for what you do.
Glen, this was a great commercial for never moving to NY or the east coast. The Midwest and the South are much better in terms of community but Covid dealt a blow to community connections nationwide.
It was a compassionate harm reduction doctor who saved my life 9 years ago.
wow, glad to hear that, god bless the one that helped you and glad you are with us.
Thank you for sharing this on here.
They called it Hysteria in 19th century, depression in 20th and now we are all just sick
Now it's long covid
They did hysterectomies for post-partum depression in young women, calling it hysteria...
This is the first time I've really taken in. What Gabor has to say. And this is massively important for our societal well-being. I'm referring to the whole approach of looking at causes and really helping people.
My antidote: ADHD Meds are the ‘Blue Pills’- creative, smart athlete until college, then finally settled into a creative discipline (industrial design), a field/study that has changing projects/brainstorming/questioning.
Made it to my terminal limit with a Master’s degree and went to work.
First year all good, second year my boss pulls me aside and says, “you have to stop interrupting in meetings and ‘others’ are being effected.
This is how I had always been, went to doc, was diagnosed adult ADHD…
What I had was a creative mind that didn’t fit the Matrix. Spent 10 years on meds being a robot workaholic, lost a girlfriend of 6 years because I thought “ I was doing what we needed to get ahead, instead of just being with her”. 🤔🤙🏼
It took 3.5 years to completely get off meds, only was able to when I left my career to start a small plant nursery. 😊 I’m able to freelance and have peace, but I will never be a “manufactured billionaire”. Ironically, my experience is manufacturing.
Right there with you. ADHD is medicalization of a personality type and people accept it because they desperately want to fit in and lack the information to realize that's a bad trait to overindulge.
@@jonnovak6856 It’s all a mess, I’m just glad I have a clear head for whatever the hell is coming next…ha!
Have a great day Jon!😊
The other sinister aspect of this Pharma scam is something unique to the US. We have no NHS, so if you loose/change jobs you will loose/lapse you access the therapy and medication. I had no physical addiction to the meds (took weekends off usually, if not working) luckily…however way more addictive things like benzos/SSRI’s I hear can kill you if abruptly quit. This is way more dire/gross situation for those folks in my opinion.
*Just wanted to add that if anyone from other countries may read!
@@brandonb5075 - We all need to know the EMBEZZLING SCAM that the corrupt sociopaths in power have been doing, and which also enriches Pharma (and vax companies, and more). It is my stance now that almost every billionaire became that rich with the help of this massive embezzling scam.
Since you have a creative mind, I hope you will read the info and overview below, and will help share and EXPOSE the embezzling scam so we can end the reign of inhumane greedy sociopaths who are totally derelict in their duty and unfit to govern.
US corrupt sociopaths have been taking over countries since at least WW2 so they could EMBEZZLE from more and more governments.
They took over the UK, Australia, Canada and NZ in the 70s-80s. Wars are not always needed, threats and coups are often done - the CIA helped oust PM Gough Whitlam in 1975, who obviously said NO to their corruption plans - and even election rigging (for example, Macron in France).
The corrupt liars know that government money IS NOT OUR TAXES, and that we have no actual "national debt", etc, but they lie to us endlessly to keep us duped about their massive and endless and INCREASING embezzling scam, which they call "privatization", and give us a huge con job about to make the public accept it.
So - war companies were privatized long ago, then always more government systems and services: pharma companies/vax companies, also prisons, more and more of the Post Office, the healthcare "insurance" industry in the US, etc. And the sociopathic money ADDICTS doing the embezzling scam have been taking chunks of the healthcare system in all countries they took over that provided good NATIONALIZED healthcare, so Oz and the UK and Canada and NZ and even Italy, Germany and other countries coopted by the US greedy liars have been seeing "problems" the liars made with their embezzling and privatization.
The US even took over Russia and Ukraine in the 90s under puppet Yeltsin and privatized everything they could, embezzling and creating the "Russian oligarchs" Western propaganda tells us about now. Putin ended much of that embezzling in Russia when he got in, but the US and their corrupt criminal buddies always manipulate against any leader who resists US corruption plans and plundering. So in 2014 the US funded the neo-Nazis in Ukraine to overthrow the elected Ukraine president and to kill tens of thousands of Russian Ukrainians for several years until Putin finally felt he had to defend the people and try to stop the greedy murderers.
Now we must be aware that the lying sociopaths have set up as PRIVATIZED all the entities to subjugate us under the guise of "protecting our health" and "saving the climate" - vax databases, digital IDs, ESG, social credit, carbon tracking,15-minute cities, etc. The scheme is to get insanely richer, embezzling TRILLIONS FOREVER from many governments in the corruption cartel the US built, while ensuring we are squashed and controlled so we can't rise up to stop their inhumanity, corruption and tyranny. Clever, but diabolical and EVIL.
We must end the reign of lunatic sociopathic money ADDICTS in power who are totally derelict in their duty and unfit to govern!
ADHD meds are uniquE to the individual AND are NOT a "holy grail" solution. You still have to be present and conscious. ADHD meds help me slow down. It makes NON-ADHD people speed up. A tool is only as good as the user's ability to utilize and maximize the benefits. There are MANY tools, a lot of which are NOT meds. I, as an adult diagnosed too late in life, attend classes that teach other skills that help me connect to those around me and achieve shared understanding in a positive way. I do empathise with your struggle and would not presume to know more than you have shared.
Gabor's views on ADHD meds are abhorent. He is a "no meds" advocate. An extreme position, no less troubling than a possition promoting big pharma rhetoric of "everyone needs meds". Its pseudo science in BOTH cases.
You may be creative and a quick thinker. Its because your brian is skipping a step. In some cases it helps you get to a correct solution faster (but people don't listen because you did not make them feel listened to and understood). In other cases it hurts (you are only adept at focusing on ONE thing at a time) because you get to an answer faster... but its WRONG because you didn't pay attention to detail as you rushed ahead. ADHD meds don't help you with that if you are not conscious of it. I.e. slowing down does not matter if you don't use that time to make people around you feel LISTENED TO and UNDERSTOOD. I can tell muself to slow down on meds and I interupt FAR less (a normal amount for a non-adhd person). I do not have the ability to do that with much success off meds... even caffeen helps but it is not consistent like a slow release adhd med.
Hang in there. Finding support of others who struggle with 1st ballot hall of fame ADHD as well, is an important part of my growth to manage my ADHD, while maximizing the super powers that also come with it... creativity, hyper focus, abundance of energy.
After a long internal struggle and years of being battered by the world, I gave in to taking an antidepressant in Jan 2020.
About a month after lockdowns started in March 2020, I realized I had completely forgotten to take them. I was so happy to be out of the world, I was no longer “depressed “. Felt so great until we had to rejoin the world. Now I’m “depressed “ but know why and I’m working to fix my world, not myself
It's awesome listening to 2 of my favorite people have a conversation!
S tier humans.
SSRI's are also incredibly difficult to quit for many people.
Vitamin D / 5-htp and a UV light might help.
I almost killed myself from the horrible withdrawal symptoms of getting off SSRIs. Never experienced such discomfort.
Why quit if they work!
My daughter wean herself off of an SSRI and it was extremely hard because they wanted her to go off faster than you really should. She had to go back on it and then wean herself off as very slowly because if you go off to fast it'll make you crazy She's now off of it having to confront her anxiety on her own which I believe is making her be a stronger person. Sometimes I see where she doesn't want to be strong because it takes work but she's doing it. Self-introspection is so extremely valuable, as a person with bipolar disorder who hates being on medication I rely on self-introspection to deal with life challenges rather than more medication.
You must be so proud of her. She did great.
Maybe she could help herself with essential oils to feel better. It is just smelling, not eating those oils.
Not the artificial scents from chemicals that give us a headache and allergies. Please buy them good essential oils for yourself.
Just some drops of essential orange and essential rosemary in a cup of hot water is good for concentration.
Just smell the scent in the room. For relaxing there is lavender and other flowery scents.
Everybody can find some personal oils to lift up their spirits.
Maybe try Dr Bach rescue remedy for help in difficult times. Google it.
Of course it doesn't substitute a big hug in difficult times but it may help to get over the first hours after a bad event.
Your daughter needs to note a calendar for her menstruation cycles. Some moods swings are just hormones. She will find out at what time she feels bad.
Mostly it is the three days before period is there. Hormones can drive everybody crazy.
The contraceptive pill is a very dangerous hormone combination and causes severe mood changes in lots of girls and women.
Your daughter might have a lack of vitamins to balance out those hormones.
Omega 3 oil, vitamin D with K2 and Selenium are very important.
Vitamin B group is very important as well.
So many mental issues could be solved very easily.
Just eat healthy oils and healthy fish. Eat as little sugar as possible.
They did studies and even aggression in prisons got better for thirty percent when the inmates had healthy oils in their food every day. Just eat Omega 3 and vitamin D.
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Some girls get depressed because they eat lunch and dinner without fat and oil. Horrible mistake.
Our brains need good oil for nutrition and we just need oil and vitamins for our health.
All the best for you and your daughter
Some SSRI's have components to help sleep which gives you sleep deprivation & stress when you get off it. Horrible. Sun, exercise, and a chiropractor/masseuse are needed the whole way through.
just be careful thinking going it alone makes you stronger....
We took 5 years to safely get my husband off his med. I opened capsules and removed contents to make custom doses.
Panic Attacks is exactly the reason I was on & off of ssri's since Zoloft was brand new.
Getting off sux. I was somehow able to tell myself before I stopped, that no matter how bad i felt,
it was only temporary until my body learns to produce the correct amounts again.
Been about 3 - 4 years without drugs, or panic, or anxiety at all.
I had gone close to 10 years without either before. And out of nowhere, (from my perspective) the attacks came back.
When that starts happening, it happens 2 to 7? times a week, and I cannot function, and any help, kind people offer makes it worse, because we're now talking about it, and forgetting that I have them, is where the peace is at.
I Will take anything there is the will make it stop.
Excellent interview! Dr. Maté is full of insights about the societal causes of mental illness. One area I'd like to see more discussion on is the way that the public education system contributes to the problem of depression and anxiety among young people
Discussions are important, but evidence is crucial. Being in mental heath for over 25 years, I've observed that most widely accepted psychological and psychiatric approaches fall short more often than not. One problem (among many) is that research is often quite shoddy in these areas. I don't mean outright malevolent manipulation of data, but there appears to be manipulation of the questions asked, the parameters within which the research is conducted. Counter assertions can be made, but without significant change in how research is conducted and reviewed, assertions without evidence they remain.
Intermittently I have struggled with depression throughout my life. I can't speak for everyone but for me, these episodes have ALWAYS been issue-related. There might be some truth to the "brain chemical imbalance" theory but I never really believed it applied to me. My last episode of depression was terrible, but once the issue involved was resolved, my chronic case of the blues went bye-bye.
Dr. Mate understands depression and addiction better than anyone.
I wish that were my case but I cannot identify a reason for mine.
If i had only ONE physician to listen to, it would be Dr. Gabor Mate MD PhD ❤
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The reason drug use went up so drastically between 1996 and 2005 is because in 1997 they made it legal for the drug companies to advertise on television. That is a huge problem.
Thanks for the important reminder
I appreciate Dr. Mate's thoughts but also think we need to know more about the impact of chemicals, pharmaceuticals,
even the effects of electro magnietic fields on young people. RFK, Jr. addresses this persuasively. These toxins have
increased continuously in last decades along with many other stresses.
The extremely poor Western diet is often ignored, and that's probably the most important reason why so many people are getting sick. I mean, people aren't dying of obesity, heart attacks and auto-immune disorders because of electro magnetic fields. It's clearly the goddamn food!
But RFK is a nutcase so there’s that.
@@ledaswan5990uh huh, sure Jan.
The most impressive aspect of thisan is his honesty. He admits that he took SSRIs and he admits that he fell for the chemical imbalance theory. Wonderful man that I would trust as a friend and as a physician.
I had to lay low and have limited environmental stimuli to heal and get through things without drama
Yeah, I'm just exiting my cave as we speak. I was in there for 7 years. The only difference is that environmental stimuli was good for me, but the people in my life weren't.
I'd imagine that you'd have had things far worse than I if you had to limit environmental stimuli. I wish you all the best.
Just started reading this book. I’ve read his hungry ghosts one. Very good.❤
the rise in suicide is also linked to the massive over prescribing of 'antidepressants' they can cause emotional blunting and or intense agitation, akathesia etc and this leads to suicide
So they can cause Karen behavior? 🤔 Didn't know that.
It all started in WUHAN CHINA. @@Cuplex1
@@Cuplex1the fuck
Blessings. Go truckers and railway workers. Cleveland
Great guest and interview. I hope Dr Mate's message reaches the far corners of our broken communities healing our society.
Thank you for this enlightened discussion. Observing others for 75 yrs. has led me to the conclusion that 'most' people will do *anything* to avoid feeling the "stuffed" feelings they weren't allowed to experience in childhood. How to pierce that veil is a great mystery. The rewards from piercing my own are extraordinary .💖
Thank you, Glenn.
Thank you, Dr Maté
We are like fish living in a dirty aquarium. Who could be happy and healthy like that? The question is, did our aquarium become dirty by random chance, or was it done deliberately?
Move to the country, recon nect with Nature, plant trees, take care of animals.
Have you tried that? Farming is a tough work without a vacation.
@@definitelymaybe97 beats prescription or illicit drugs; being immersed in nature is vacation every day.
Yes, spot on Dr Gabor. As Socratis once said 'know your self'. Thank you Glenn. To add, Freud, Marx, Kazanzakis, Stanislavsky and even Baudrillard would be the best anti-depressants that I ever used and I am 70. O K I do roll up a now 'expensive' tobacco cigarette and enjoy an alcohol drink, but I also walk a lot, exercise and talk with a large range of diverse people. Stimulating the brain is the best tonic.
Great! Good advice.
The more hours parents have to work to be able to afford a family the less healthily raised and socialized their children will be.
Gabor's book In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts changed my thinking on addiction. Very important piece of work.
Its an amazing book. Was very helpful for me as a trauma survivor.
Trauma is impossible as an adult, only as a child can suffering/trauma occur
Always great to hear Gabor 👍
It is interesting that even Gabor went against himself in going along with isolation in the early stages of Covid. What a psy-op that was. I love his humility.
Do you have any links to any interviews about that?
We are ran by junkies, "profit junkies"
Which is why of 'The Top ten Jobs that Attract Psychopaths' (article) CEO is number one.
Actually, the most attractive job for a psychopath is to be the one who makes the laws. If you are smart and in control of yourself, you can easily work your way up the ladders of party politics or bureaucracy and become part of the DC establishment. If not, you can check on people's code violations and torture them in small ways.
The problem with getting to the underlying symptoms is that a huge part of people suffering from depression 1) can't afford the antidepressents, much less the cost of analysis. And often, even if they CAN afford the analysis, they can't afford the time.
Mental health : never under estimate the role of structure and function - how the musculoskeletal system and central nervous system interface. Neurosurgeons Hansasuta, Tubbs, Oakes published years ago that 3 out of 27 ‘ normal ‘ cadavers had an off midline fusion of the spinal cord in the sacrum. Why is this important ? It puts a torque in the entire neural tube. Changing CSF flow and pressures in the CNS. Changing the balance of sympathetic/ parasympathetic. Causing scoliosis. Often small posterior fossa is part of this. These people are vulnerable and more likely to have pain and anxiety and depression. Craniosacral therapy and acupuncture can help. Old biologist here - Spent 25 years working on this.
Ty.
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The hardest thing to learn is how to live, and yet it is what we spend the least amount of time trying to learn. - Seneca in The shortness of life.
I remember reading an article by Thomas Szaz about schizophrenia, and he believed that it was a reaction to a very faulty, mentally disturbing society. I think that was his controversial theory, Dr Mate will know more than I do about it than I do.
Thomas Szasz was good; Mate I somehow cannot swallow; except for the mate tea.
@@iga279 Mate has his theory and I think he’s got some really good ideas, but I had a hard childhood and I still am dealing with memories, I don’t have any anger, or hatred or resentment like some people might entertain but to their own hurt and sadness. Why focus on the negative aspects of your life, when there is a faith that will lift me out of any pit that I might put myself in, if I focus on every bad thing that happened. This is why I said that God never gives us more than we can handle, if we have faith in His promise to be loving, then we can overcome any adversity or obstacles that might arise in our lives. It is not ridiculing anyone who is suffering, or saying that I am better, just that I have FAITH in my loving God.
High-dose niacin (B3) has also proven beneficial in some cases. If there’s any “chemical imbalance”, it’s with nutrients not being absorbed due to various health/genetic conditions causing deficiency states.
The woke doctor needs to visit downtown LA and San Fran.
Great guest. That would be "Buzzsaw" Aaron Mate! Right on target with drugs vs. talk therapy. There was a study awhile back concluding talk therapy statistically has a much longer effect in treating depression than the short term effects of pharmaceutical prescriptions - for many people.
problem here is that talk therapy is very expensive and it's probably a safe Guess that most people are simply priced out
@@user-gr8qy9hb9q Agree. And it doesn't make a whole lot of money for Big Pharma.
@@user-gr8qy9hb9qtrue, I had to turn to books to get a lot of my therapy, particularly those by Alice Miller who is a genius in my opinion and probably provided a better quality of therapy through her books than I could have found in person. As far as psychology gurus, Alice Miller is at #1 for me and Gabor Maté is at #2. I was also helped a lot by a very interesting modality I was able to do for cheap for a little while called family or identity constellations. (In case other people out there are wondering what to do in lieu of expensive psychotherapy.)
I remember when I started meds and talking to a therapist, feeling worse when I left than when I went in. Ultimately, they said there was nothing else they could do for me, so they quit the therapy sessions and just pumped me full of meds.
@@ghenuloThat's crazy bc counselors are overwhelmingly taught (both formally and through experience) that unveiling trauma always makes things feel worse before they get better. For your therapist to not know this means they had to be among the most incompetent in the entire world.
Amazing Glenn! My ex GF used to call you my bf in disguise.....Keep kicking ass. RIP Miranda. Thank you So much Dr. that was was deep heart felt discussion.
Glenn is right on at 24:00. People are meant to live in communities, not beehives
Interesting conversation, thank you Glenn.
"don't ask why the addiction, ask why the pain." Radical.
The SSRIs and possibly other drugs are highly addictive also
diet , exercise and social interactions are the keys to a happy life.
Not really. It’s primarily about how we were parented in our early years and the effect that has had on our self-esteem, confidence, sense of security, abundance, and well-being, sense of identity, physical health, the list goes on. I get absolutely no exercise these days and yet I’m doing significantly better than I was a few years ago because I have healed some of my larger childhood traumas. The whole “diet and exercise” mantra is shallow.
You should have specified that those are your particular keys, not universal keys. I happen to agree with the first two, but social interactions are not only a very low priority for me and others like me, they can be very draining and reduce the quality of one's life, not enhance it.
Some of us prefer social interactions with species other than humans, of which there are many.
@@TerriblePerfectioneven the most introverted people need at least one friend that they can talk to. The amount of interaction you need can vary but you DO need some social interaction. I'm happier with non human animals too but a couple of human friends with whom I can share ideas have been invaluable to me.
LOL! Social interactions is the key to an unhappy life.
I like Carl Jung’s statement, “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” God never gives more than we can handle, I have had faith in that promise and it keeps me semi-sane at times. lol
Ya sure to choose after figuring out the soil and light you where raised created the person....your goal of spiritual discovery is figuring out where it went wrong an then "I choose to become"
"God never gives more than we can handle" has got to be one of the most stupid platitudes I've ever heard in my life. Tell that to every poor soul who took their own life, or everyone who has died in war, or survived trauma with permanent harm. Utterly naive.
@@jams9705 I am not sure what you mean. Of course there where things in my life that where unpleasant and sad at times. Who has been raised to be an adult who doesn’t have some kind of bad memory from their childhood, if you just focus on the negative things that happened to you, then no wonder you would be depressed.
God doesn’t want us to forget about the bad experiences, they are a part of who we are. Life isn’t about having an easy time, it is about suffering, pain, joy, happiness, love, kindness, caring, and peace that is sometimes beyond understanding why you have it.
@@eurapeon if you do not believe in God and have faith in His promises, then you will “never” understand what the promises of God can do for you. I am willing to remain a fool. Ciao
All gods are fiction.
It’s also the food people eat. Many people are seeing symptoms of severe depression cease with a carnivore diet. I did in the first week of stopping the inflammation caused by eating plants. Bipolar syndrome sufferers are seeing their issues resolve eating carnivore. Just look it up here.
Thank you glen for this✌️❤️
I'm 59 & i can tell you, humanity hasn't advanced, it has recessed & declined mentally & socially. Definitely in the US. Not sure of the rest of the world. Govt policies, social media, & mainstream media is mainly to blame.
Thank you.
The only way to not sometimes be depressed in this world is to be on drugs, whether recreational or medical. In the end the drug will stop working anyway. If you’re depressed for a month, too bad. If you’re depressed for a year, you’re probably going to have to change your life seriously. As for the toxic environment, what can you do? I make things, and that helps. Seek, and you shall find….
Mate's entire theory is really just common sense. Our egos love to blame individuals for their problems, even though we are products of our environment. His outlook is the conclusion people come to when they *think.*
When he was discussing the underlying causes of psychic pathologies in our dysfunctional societies, I thought he might bring up cogntive dissonance, where people have imposed upon them norms and vlalues, and supposed "facts" which go contrary to their innner reality and even physical observation.
The most effective treatment I've used has been .3g psilocybin (in capsules) every 3 days. I've had over 30yrs of talk therapy; it helps, but microdosing has been the most effective.
It's not placebo?
At one time the medical profess though lobotomies was a cure for depression.
Sort of like having all their patients get injected with cancer, in response to a genetically engineered head cold.
They decided that chemical lobotomies were more humane.
the government's social constructionist have a big stake in fostering confusion, divines, and depression. There is a lot of propheteering money in the jail industry and injustice industry
We live in an era of comparative suffering, and of social media ego. So many people walk around feeling like their trauma or hurt is the pinnacle. This makes empathy really hard to find, sometimes. This was a great conversation. Glad to see people at least attempting to cope with the epidemics of addiction and depression in a compassionate way. I’ve buried dozens of friends, family, and lovers… one friend just a few weeks back. This affects every strata and demographic, and concerns everyone. It’s important
Placebo's work really well in many populations. So, anything will work on many.
I grew up in utter deprivation... utter deprivation... my father is alcoholic... I didn't have sometimes enough food as a child... I am astonished that I am alive... I did cognitive behavioral therapy for three years .. plus antidepressants... It is because of my therapist that I am perhaps alive...
I think Glenn does miss a couple points: SSRI's were meant to replace the older, dangerous meds available to the depressed. Tricyclic antidepressants were considered the most dangerous class of drugs given to patients, and giving easily toxic meds to suicidal people creates an inherently dangerous dynamic. MAOI's aren't much better. Both also create dependence issues. Plus, the fairy tale of chemical imbalance relabeled the whining, weak, or malingering neurotics as being ill, victims of a treatable disease. It's almost a direct analogy to the treatment of addicts many want, to stop treating them as criminals and start seeing them as humans in need of care.
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@@ped0ph1LeUA-cam Took me too long to get it, but you really nailed that voice. Disturbing...
You start watching and you have to finish, Dr Mate is an excellent speaker.
Thank you, Glenn for sharing this interivew. Every time I listen to Dr. Mate, I learn something.
I read his book, and I found it beneficial. However, it's short on remedies.
And once youve been on SSRIs for a long period of time, you can’t get off them without major detrimental psychological side effects.
Or you would need major therapy the whole time you’re getting them out of your system?
I was on them for a few months. A medic in the Army told me to F*** the psychiatric and just get off them. It was one of the best decisions I made in my life.
True. I got off and I experienced harsh brain damage.
@@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns Based medic. I wish I had him in my life.
I haven't double checked this personally but I trust my daughter who worked in the state children's services as a social worker. She maintains that over 95% of the young male mass shooters had been on SSRi medications.
SSRI's def work on me. I've been on and off and a BIG difference.
Great to have doctors like Dr Mate that really care about people and not just about making money by profiting from writing prescriptions!
the medical establishments see the issues as primarily a profitable issue.
I learned this from Dr. Kelly Brogan in 2017. I read her book and I was shocked to learn this
Outstanding work Glenn! I grew so much listening. What a fantastic guest Dr Maté, fearless leader, the most important subject and relevant conversation. Words were weaved in synch. My deep appreciation and respect to both of you.
Love you Glenn.
Excellent interview, Dr Maté is so right in so many issues
I feel a deep love for Gabor Maté: nagyon szépen köszönjük & toda raba.
A major part of the explosion in ssri use is increased awareness and destigmatization of depression
false. a small component at best
No. It's massive marketing and bs data.
I have been talking anti depressants for around 20+ years. I think any benefit of those drugs, many varieties and combinations, is more than likely the placebo affect. I am ok with that. Blessings. Go truckers and railway workers. Cleveland
So have I. I think I'm fine now that college is twenty years behind me, but my doctor insists that I continue taking my Prozac. It seems to be so long ago, that she doesn't even remember why I'm on it. Not too long ago, she suggested that I go to college and I felt like saying, "Why do you think I'm on Prozac to begin with?". I know it's certainly an experience I wouldn't want to repeat (or wish upon anyone), but eh, if I hadn't lived through it, I might be tempted to make that mistake now.
You are still on it but could go off it, but your Dr makes money out of you being on it
Gabor mate is so great
Omg my two favorite people❤️❤️❤️
Although I'm not on board 100% with Glenn's takes, I trust his journalism more than anybody else's...maybe Matt Taibbi is on the short list. I hope he will be shared far and wide.
So glad to see this interview just after having finished the Myth of Normal for our bookclub. My first 500 page book, well worth taking the time to read it!
All drugs and even food can b overused or abused but that is no reason to prevent those using these life changing psych medies sensibly to be chastised for or prevented from surviving.
I’m Linda Mc Gregor,, one of the founders of the ADHD support group of 🇿🇦
My point of view is based on decades of observations of people I supplied Nutritional information to, to assist in handling neurological problems.
*Two amazing human beings having a highly important conversation! Wow!*
Harm reduction sounds compassionate. We have tried it (several renditions of it). While we flood our addicts with love and attention we forget that crime to keep habits going happens to innocent people. That makes addicts a safety problem. We cannot wait to love them out of their addiction and also love their innocent victims.
If you can behold the sad state of the world these days without getting depressed, you're a sick puppy, probably a psycho or a narcissist. Those guys are doing just fine, because they're running the whole world and shaping it in their own sick image.
The people that swear by them are not being entirely truthful about their experience. My sister swore by them but in the end they weren't helping her but she still took them being afraid to stop them.
Great interview Glenn, and a great guest. Dr Mate is a legend. I greatly value the work you do Glenn. Thanks.
For around 100,000 years we mostly all believed in a greater power beyond us. Be it in Congo, India, Tibet, Sicily, Okinawa or wherever. That gave us perspective and hope. With hope, belief and faith you don't need drugs (except for rare circumstances). 100,000 years....compared to the last 70 years. Think about it.
Adderall has changed my life for the better
Thank you Glenn..
Really glad I watched this. Will share link
Thanks for this.
Wonderful conversation ❤
Isolation can be good. The only people who think working from home was any kind of a bad thing are people who have never worked in an office with football obsessed coworkers.
I get that bad behaviors are trauma responses, and I get that behaviors can be changed through awareness and action, and there is help to do that. But the help with confronting past trauma s seems hard to find.
I disagree about stigmas. I feel there are no end of consequences in either direction because of stigmas. Very well constructed question Glenn. You got me on rumble! Tx for what you do.
I am commenting from mental health issues experience. The doctors won’t help properly. I had to do my own research to heal myself.
I researched this. The amygdala part of the brain. Brain waves and how they affect our daily lives.
Subconscious programming of which we live 95% of our day in. And how emotions create chemicals in our brains. So I learnt the more emotional charged thoughts I had the more depressed i was.
I come to learn that emotionally charged thoughts to the positive made my life better than negative charged thoughts
wonderful interview!
April 2024. I watched this by another of my favorite doctors on the topic of stress/depression:
Robert Sapolsky: The Biology and Psychology of Depression
It's a newer version and only one month old.