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You and your daughters sickness is a diseminated dymorphic fungal infection. Doctors won't diagnose it. You need a mycologist like myself. Amphetecerin B for a couple weeks to remove it from your gut, then protocanozole, which will help remove it your bone linings , for a year.
I made a comment on here looking for help , I got a message from you ,, but it wasn’t you ,, my grandson said it was a scam saying it was from you , i am illiterate when it comes to computers , thank you to my 12 year old grandson who saved me from getting scammed ❤️
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I think that this has a lot to do with bad parenting, as well. When you neglect your children they find other avenues for support and help. My daughter had a friend with whom got a concussion from falling off of the equivalent of a one story building because she was trying to create a Tiktok. It has severely alter her world. This mother left her 10 year to her own devices long enough to have her build something, set up the camera to film this act, and perform it. This was clearly neglect. 🙄 I give my children space and autonomy, but social media influences are not parenting my children. Our society has a lack of responsibility problem 😕 Social media is capitalizing on it!
Mental contagion is the right term. Back when I was in high school anorexia spread between girls like crazy. Now it seems transgenderism is doing the same thing amongst confused teens.
When I was in school it was self harm. Girls always have stuff to deal with, but the difference now is this is being encouraged by the teachers, parents and state.
@@combativeThinker That is true, BUT you can get on the cover of Time magazine for having the courage to get your penis cut off. So you can get some social media fame or other kind of special attention for the self harm (and for having the courage to do it to yourself). If people would just think of their body as a vehicle that their soul is inhabiting, perhaps they wouldn't feel so compelled to torture themselves with endless surgeries just because they think they just might have been put into the wrong body/vehicle. If I woke up and didn't like the make of car I had I wouldn't pay a body shop $30,000 to have all the body panels re-contoured and new badges and nameplates put on to turn it into another make that I preferred. Especially if I had to be sedated and experience pain each time! Why is who you THINK like to screw such an integral part of an identity anyway? I can't even remember the last time I had sex and I don't have a problem with my identity... what the hell is the difference? What is the big frigging deal? It's like children are bred to feel disadvantaged and "done to". Social media has taught children to be snowflake narcissists who are on high-alert for any possible thing they might be able to interpret as offensive as a method to feel like they are powerful and important... possibly to compensate for bad feelings they have since their parents don't show them any love (since their parents are addicted to facebook).
@@autumnasbridge8691 you think cosmetic surgery is not without its risks and complications? Do you also think taking exogenous hormones is healthy, let alone ones for the opposite sex? Did you know that transgender suicide rates pre and post transition are higher than any other demographic category? Society is more accepting than ever before, but the suicide rate is the same is was decades ago, only now there's exponentially more trans people, so aggregate suicide is up. If you don't think this isn't as serious anorexia then I'm afraid you are mistaken.
One of the most challenging and heartbreaking aspects of being a therapist--in my opinion--is working with teenagers experiencing gender dysphoria. It is unbelievably difficult to navigate because of misinformation/propaganda/armchair experts on the internet; biased experts in fields outside of mental health weighing in on the topic and using their authority to influence others; stubbornness/know-it-all mentality + sensitivity of teenagers; peer influence; other clinicians (or anyone) validating what's invalid; access to resources that provide hormones to young people before they're fully developed, especially mentally, and without proper evaluation; judgment from Leftist clinicians; the general hostility that comes with it; etc. Adolescents don't want their gender dysphoria to be assessed, and they don't want any aspect of it addressed with therapy; they just want to be affirmed. And the reality is, if they feel uncomfortable and/or don't like what you have to say, they can easily find another therapist who will tell them exactly what they want to hear.
Thank you for putting this so well. If a therapist is telling you things that are hard to hear, that means they’re a good therapist. No therapist should ever affirm everything you think, because that would imply there are no issues with your thought, in which case you shouldn’t need a therapist in the first place.
It’s getting even worse for psychologists, psychiatrists and doctors in my country as last year it was passed a federal bill that unable therapists, psychiatrists and surgeons to “deny” gender affirming treatment to children and teens. This gotta be the only disease where the patient auto diagnose themselves and the health care professionals must bow down in obedience to their patients auto diagnosis. Unbelievable and scary
Gender dysphoria isn't a problem, it's the individuals perspective on gender. Many people these days simply don't understand the definition or words they are using. When you break it down and make it simple it's easier for the patient to understand. Also, you as a therapist can never tell another person what is or is not truth. That is actually concerning to me if I was to hear a therapist trying to tell a patient how to think. We don't even do this with people with delusions. We can give them our observations, but we don't tell them it's "not true". We can't tell people how to think, that's simply unethical and hypocritical.
This is the number one fear I have going into psychology, since how do you tell them the truth that is the opposite of what the media and social platforms are telling them?
It is heartbreaking and it's heartbreaking to hear about this as a mother myself and a grandmother. I remember when my kids were teenagers and my son went through such horrible heartbreak because his dad never came to see him or his sister except on birthdays and Christmas and I was doing everything I could as a single mom with a paralegal career and a girl broke his heart so he started cutting on himself. I had to hide every night and every pair of scissors in the house and I took him to a child's psychiatrist who put him on abilify. He stopped doing that on his own the minute he got in the high school the following year and actually no longer had that same girlfriend and it shows just how an association with one person can do so much harm to a person.. My daughter went from a straight A student and an athlete who was totally against any kind of drug use and marijuana to somebody who actually became infatuated with a boy two and a half years older than her which led to her become very sexually active at the age of 15 and got into smoking marijuana.. this guy she was so in love with broke her heart and it let her down a horrible path of doing much worse and getting into other kinds of drugs.. I don't think she ever used methamphetamine or I would have noticed her teeth and what methamphetamine does to your skin and I never saw that in her but I saw every other thing about her. 4 months before her 18th birthday her stepmother and I both ganged up on her dad and made him help her because she would end up in jail or dead. Today that girl is an LCSW & her dad worked as a physician's assistant in orthopedic surgery at first and then psychiatry, so you would think the man would know how to better treat his kids and spend time with them.. no he did not but he certainly did manage to finally listen to his wife and help Susanne. I told God I didn't care she hated me for the rest of her life as long as she lived and she was able to go to college and make something of herself and not staying in trouble and get killed or kill someone else, or heaven forbid overdose.. just that one boy started it all on top of other things our family had already been through that she managed to survive. The girl lived through me getting diagnosed with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis when I was at the peak of my law career in 2001 and 2002, and being in so much pain (agony is more like it-physically and emotionally and mentally) and then my brother committing suicide in 2002. I had to hide my heart break from them because I had to stay strong for my parents and my kids.. God knows I have the ability to do that and then when I get a moment to myself I would lose it and just cry my eyes out...(every night I would lay in my bed and pray and talk to God because nobody else could help & I sincerely believed that whatever I couldn't do myself and God couldn't do couldn't be done).. When the Stepmom made my ex-husband realized he needed to help her she went through straight complete detox in a matter of probably 30 days or more. I don't know how long it takes to get that stuff out of your system completely but I'm guessing 30 days is the worst. The only places she could go were with him to the gym and to church. He lived out in the country and she told me years later that if she really really didn't want to change herself that she could have left his house and walked and easy 10 or 15 miles to get to the city to get drugs.. I told her I was very aware that she could do such a thing... Oh I knew she could because she was very persevere like her mother and damn well determined to do whatever she wanted to do.. once she started using that perseverance and self-discipline into something good like going to school and getting her bachelors and then her master's degree, she was unstoppable. She worked with behaviorally Disturbed kids when she was getting her master's degree. She was honest and told them flat up in junior high in high school that there's nothing they have done or thought about doing that she hadn't already done and was aware they were thinking or doing what she already knew they were thinking about doing..😆 it was like she could see it in their eyes or be able to perceive it in the way they talked and their body language.. she works with the veterans administration now. I'm very proud of everything that she's had to go through and my son as well. My daughter is a social worker and a counselor believes that despite the fact that transgender ism and everything else with which I'm not as knowledgeable is in the dsm-4 and DSM-5 maybe classified as such but a lot of it starts out with many people like a fad and their insecure and they want to fit in..
Three years ago, I and 7 other strangers aged 17-23 entered a group on Twitter. We're all from Pakistan, a very very conservative, traditional society, so we never even heard the term non binary or gender fluid before. Everyone considered themselves straight and cisgender when they joined the gc. Twitter was so Americanized, we were all exposed to these new ideas about gender, sexuality and western politics. Over the course of three years, 4 out of 8 of us decided they were non binary transgender and asked to be referred to by different pronouns, and 6 out of 8 of us decided they were bisexual. I want to mention again, there are no such concepts in my country. Twitter gave half of us gender dysphoria and made most of us doubt our sexuality.
I'd say that was a test of your mental well-being and maturity, to be exposed to radical new ideas and to be influenced/hypnotized in such a manner as to allow them to dominate your thinking. The problem with young people is that they're increasingly unable to confront these ideas and fall back on their foundation of what is true, right and sensible. That foundation is not there like it was in times past, due to the dissolution of the family and integration of strong moral values. Children are not having their needs met on a larger and larger scale and thus are becoming ill far easier than ever.
People think I'm mad for coming out woth this shit!! Told a family member not to let her children at all ever!!! Go on tiktok Tiktok has been raising her son for the last 2 years :(
"The smallest number of people creating extreme amount of havoc" Well said! Those people remind me of our class bullies in school. Whole class bent to cater their loud mouths because even teachers didn't want to always get mixed in. Now those same people are in positions of power and it shows.
Reminds me of when I heard that just a few hundred drug addicts were committing hundreds of thousands of property crimes a year in my city-shoplifting, breaking into cars, breaking into houses. Seriously: hundreds of thousands. 400 people x 3 thefts a day x 365 days a year is 438,500.
A big source of that problem (and Claire alluded to it) is how we have developed these large institutions that have so much control over our lives. They were created with good intentions, to stop bad things from happening and foster the good, but their sheer size and influence over so much of society meant they were vulnerable to abuse, and that is indeed what has happened. And therefore, I am convinced one of our top goals must be to shift towards smaller units: smaller government, smaller business, smaller social institutions, smaller professional organizations, smaller social media, etc. "Big" has its benefits and that's why we've ended up with them, but we now have seen the serious dangers with "big" and therefore it's worthwhile to go "small".
You have no idea how much I appreciate what your doing for society Jordan. You and a hand full of others are going to be responsible for the positive readjust of society and truth.
I plan to take his work and show it to my children. I will never let his work leave my family , we will add him to the list of Saints that tried to save all of man kind with their minds. This man is someone we need to share for generations to come
A girl walked into my medical place of work last week. Staff were confused because the id says male with a male name but the reason for visit was a female’s medical issue, and the person looked like a female. After meeting with her, out of respect we asked how should we address her and what would she like to be documented under, male or female, she started sobbing. She said when she was 14, an older friend encouraged and helped her to transform into a male, and now that she’s older she realized she likes to be a girl more, that she likes men. She found a male partner and they’re both happy but she was sobbing that she lost her breast in the surgery to become a male when she was younger and now, if she has kids, she will never be able to breastfeed them and that idea made her very sad. I personally believe it is a crime, to coerce someone to do something that is irreversible such as a medical procedure. I’m all for being open minded, but don’t do something that you cannot reverse in case you change your mind.
Omg! It should be illegal to do these gender change surgeries for anyone under 25 years of age. I mean it is almost always going to be a regrettable decision for someone to make as a teen or in early adult years while still in the process of self discovery and actualization. I can't believe this is actually happening in the world right now 😢
Hello, Dr. Peterson, my friends and I were at your lecture at the Fillmore last night, and it was such an amazing experience! I also loved what you had to say about social media during the lecture. Thank you so much for all the effort you put in to trying to help others and advancing our society as we know it!
This is SO important. These kids have pathologized themselves with so much and each other. Not just gender but also they all think they have ptsd, borderline. OCD, clinical anxiety and depression … the list goes on.
It used to be Christians had their ‘identity in Christ’ as the teaching goes. They also had 2,000 years worth of practical teaching on how to get through life fairy well w/in the Christian identity, e.g. My parents raised us w/out any religion in the 80’s and 90’s when that was still rare in America. I converted at the age of 20 after exploring all kinds of religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, pagan, Confucianism, etc.). All my questions were answered, I had community, faith, meaning, purpose, goals, etc. almost all of my mental health issues disappeared. The loss of religion in the west isn’t a great thing. We don’t have a healthy replacement. I actually left 7 years ago having become somewhat dissatisfied. I explored it all again as an adult (nihilism, materialism, a bit of old fashioned hedonism), Christianity is still absolutely the best personal and communal framework for optimal living in my opinion.
Actually. A lot of them do. The data is showing that social media itself causes depression etc. And the exposure to electromagnetic frequencies are also suspect in this as well, so a double whammy right off the bat. Add to that early school times for teens which is proven to cause more depression, suiciede, lower grades, and more in school fights. Then add on how many children have absent or no fathers which is also proven to have the same side effects -depression, higher suicide rates and higher drug use and addiction rates. Kids these days face more challenges than you ever had to. Don’t shame them when they are fighting a legitimate group of invisible enemies they don’t even know exist.
Over stimulation of the mind and not enough of the body , toxic mentality plague the media and effects kids who don’t have the necessary structure in their lives.
A few days ago my spirit felt so uneasy and led me to delete my social media. I just watched /the social dilemma on Netflix and then the 1st video I see on YT is this one...a lot of people are not thinking for themselves and are so confused and confusing others and this is the society our kids are raised in...confused leading the confused, creating a ton more confusion
Be skeptical with the "social dilemma". It makes a lot of good points, but its conclusions are suspiciously inline with what Zuckerbergs was saying at the time it came out. If I remember correctly, it ignores all the biggest issues, like censorship.
Social media platforms like Facebook, twitter, tik tok etc are a huge mistake. They have done way more harm than good. If you want to improve your mental wellbeing either delete them from your life, or at least drastically limit how much you use them.
That’s a sweeping generalisation, ringing with the sound, or silence more accurately, of inadequate thought. Just a note, their are a Billion people on fb, a billion. Don’t fall prey to the irrational and blow things out of proportion.
@@Nixontheman there's a mental health crisis going on through the 1st world. Social media is a big factor in that. Studies have proven that it has negative effects on peoples mental health. If anything the issue is being underplayed.
Like guns, social media is just a technology. It is humans who distort them into lethal things. Socially transmitted hysterias are as old as humans. Look up “mass psychogenic illness” or “mass hysteria”. The real difference with social media is, through algorithms created by Silicon Valley companies, one can zero in on AN INDIVIDUAL’S weakness and exploit it. In that sense it’s much more diabolically efficient. Humans created it and they could stop it but that capacity for micro- targeting was developed to sell things thus will be very hard to walk back.
THIS. Truly and really - *such* a massive mistake. Permit me to dismiss the officiousness of the other reply here with a rather irrefutable sed contra: I am nothing if not grossly overeducated, I've been thinking long and hard about this for many years, and I fully agree with both your assessment and your advice. In my case, it was impossible to miss - or indeed overstate - how much my life changed for the better after I left social media (specifically Facebook) ten years ago. I did it for utterly pragmatic and quite concrete safety reasons that were very specific to my circumstances: at the time I had no substantial concerns over the trajectory, value or safety of social media - I considered such concerns paranoid and/or gratuitously negative: things were very different ten years ago. AND YET: the difference I saw in myself after giving it up was still *that* incredible. Moreover, what became even more impossible to ignore was how this left me standing on the banks next to a roaring river of social insanity, churning ever wilder, leaving me to wonder what on EARTH had gotten into everyone. There's just no other way to see this question, IMHO, if you're an honest person with enough distance to see the forest for the trees. Social media is a raging dumpster fire of failed experimentation: as a grandmillenial, I shall forever beat my breast for so naively ushering it into our society in the way that I did. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
I quit Facebook years ago, it was bad for my soul. What happened to accomplishments through brawn or brain? This $hit must stop. So many narcissists. No substance, no personality, they are just impressed with the image of themselves, hence, the all day selfie taker.
To me facebook is just like an old address book, I spend about 10 minutes on it once a month, but yeah I can't tolerate much more than that. Good for forming special interest groups I guess.
Had this trans craze been going around when I was a child they'd have ruined my life. My brother died in a freak accident when I was not quite three years old, leaving my parents with two daughters when my mother by far preferred sons in the first place. Then my younger sister was born instead of a replacement son. I knew that my parents were crushed to have surplus girls while they'd lost the boy. I never lost the sense that the wrong child had died -- that it was supposed to have been me -- until after undergoing therapy in my late 20s. I thought as a child that if I became a boy, my parents would be happy and my mother would love me the way she'd loved my brother. They'd have packed me off to the "gender affirmation clinic" as soon as I drew a boy rather than a girl in the "draw a person" test. Never mind that as an adult I relish being a woman and consider grandmother to be my predominant role in life -- second only to mother. I'd have never gotten the chance. They'd have sterilized me and turned me into an unhappy pseudo male. I probably would have killed myself due to despair when becoming a boy didn't lead me to replacing my dead brother in my mother's affections.
@@anaone7923 Its a cognitive test done with children. The school had me tested in first grade because my teacher thought I was retarded and barely educable because I talked to myself.
I'm not sure which I find more sickening: 1. That companies will fire you because someone complains about your religious or political views; some banks will even freeze your accounts. 2. The fact that people find it virtuous and take pleasure in ruining the lives of other people, to the fullest extent possible, over opinions or words.
@@quietprofessional4557 this is off topic, but pertains to evil. I live on a farm, Bill Gates is buying up all the land that he can, clear cutting it to plant GMOs (which is driving out wild animals like deer that get hit crossing the highway), and currently I'm watching his properties being aerial sprayed with Roundup. Feed the world? More like feed the livestock and make ethanol. Sickening.
One of the most impactful things I learned when I was school studying Graphic Design and the great art movements of the 20th century, was that many of the art movements that impacted society encapsulated the notion of, 'radicals fighting institutions who once were radicals fighting institutions and the cycle goes on and on constantly pressuring society and mankind as a whole to decide whether to evolve or devolve.
I was, as I always seem to do, sitting in my car near the pier yesterday with my wife and I was watching all the Gen Z and Young Millennials that were out and about. All of them were on their phones constantly. Never taking in the beautiful surroundings, the sounds of nature, and probably their own thoughts on what it means to be alive on this planet. I'm constantly in amazement how these younger generations are able to function and then I see the possible mental disorder's they're creating for themselves in this behaviour that's been normalized. I digress. Self introspection is quite important and I'm worried for the next generation.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but rather putting another point here: where are these kids parents? Honestly, I know this generation is insane, but the parents have failed their children. All I see is parents throwing cellphone/television onto their babies to shut them up while they go do something else.
When I was a kid I had a very masculine personality, I liked boys clothes, boys toys, playing boys sports, I hated anything feminine, if someone would have told me that transgenderism existed I would have beeeeeg to get that operation and be a boy, I truly believe I would ha e done it, and what a mistake that would have been because discovering my femininity and the feeling of being wanted for my female attractiveness has been the affair of my life with myself I am so proud of me, I am so much more than what I ever though I was...
I kinda hated/didn’t care much for girly stuff when I was a kid too. now that I went through the awkward phase of puberty etc and love my body i’m super feminine lol. I love being a girl 💅🏻 and real male attention makes me feel even more feminine
I wasn’t so extreme but I was a ‘tomboy’ and in a society like now I would have jumped in the bandwagon and at least have been very confused. Instead, I had no confusion, I was simply a tomboy, until I wasn’t.
@@SpiralMystic exactly! There's no reason to rush a kid towards an expensive and dangerous surgery to make permanent change that usually results in more depression when it fixes itself most of the time.
@@sagegallagher no idea. I was talking to someone earlier that went on hormones at 4th grade and thinks because they did plenty of therapy sessions and researched themselves they were more than qualified and kids should choose themselves. I pointed out that there's not really good long term data on that and you can't be smart about what's not there for you to read. I don't think I got anywhere.
I would like to expand on a situation from centuries ago. In the United States we had the Salem Witch Trials. A tragedy born of moral panic and hysteria. It was not the ergot or the need for these people's survival by eating the bread that killed anyone. It was the moral panic and hysteria that they encountered-to be fair in an isolated environment-that the people took what was misunderstood and kept a child in jail for months, pressed a man to death, and the other atrocities associated with this. It was the people who killed and outcasted others based on misunderstanding. To be clear, ergot poisoning was given a name by the churches long before this event. It was called "holy fire" or "saint anthony's fire", but that knowledge was either unknown or ignored as they watched children acting in extremely questioning ways. Moral Panic. We can excuse their behavior since it was almost 400 years ago, but why this event is not a precedent for the things we argue about today is an extension of that tragedy.
I just diagnosed myself with OCD. I am an oil painter, so looking at all of those crooked hanging frames not organized in threes behind Claire's head whilst she talks, is really hard for me. haha. Great discussion. Thank you for posting it.
It's weird, but hearing someone thinking while talking, and hesitating while giving an argument gives me confidence they don't just repeat something they heard somewhere else
2:35 Thank you! I completely agree. If I may put in even more simpler terms, Boys who rather cooking than hunting and girls that rather working on cars than knitting sweaters, doesn't mean they need to "transition". Those that do are feeling pressure of those who are looking for affirmation for their decision to transition. Instead however people should embrace how they were created and that the diversity of talents and abilities, likes and dislikes, contained in the DNA programing of the individual should be celebrated. I believe there is a lot to say about self-control or lack there of in our culture and allowing others dictate another's choices is simply acquiescing to that control. The social media problem has compounded the allowing peers to influence exponentially .
Thank you! I have been saying many of the same things, as having struggled with gender dysmorphia my self, and coming to terms, and to appreciate the body God gave me. I’m so grateful these extreme options, and encouragement were not provided when I was a youth. Tolerance of my expression was enough. What a horror of a mistake it would have been for me.
This is something I've faced myself. I think social media is a breeding ground for localizing and amplyifiyng ones own existing anxiety, depression, narcissism and etc. It's ironic because it connects people and also makes them feel disconnected
The phenomenon on social contagion in mental health isn't exactly new and occored without social media platforms . 'A Time to dance, A Time to die: (The extraordinary story the dancing plague of 1518)' gives a theoretical perspective as to why a mass type of hysteria occurs and is quite engaging for anyone interested in this particular subject.
I thought that was suspected to be a virus. I remember on mystery diagnosis a boy had a compulsion to fidget all of the sudden and it turned out he had a virus or something attacking his brain.
@@Bixnood69 True, but there was a lot of mass hysteria involved as well : ergot fungus doesn't affect people with the same symptoms at the same time. There have been many videos aboutthis phenomenon. Maybe the first people impacted were contaminated with ergot fungus, but it went out of control after that. Therefore, ergot fungus tends to turn the flour into a red color, so people would know if the flour was bad or not. Edited because of typos.
"So it is a very, very courageous thing to do to gain your freedom. You do not live in a free world, and you are not a free person. Not really. So Steps to Knowledge really is the road to freedom, real freedom-freedom to be inner directed, freedom to have real integrity, freedom to be able to think freely, to think creatively, to think spontaneously. Before that happens, everyone thinks according to patterns. They think according to prescriptions. And they generally think what they are told to think through their social and family programming. That is why there is so little original thinking out there. There is so little originality. There is so little real creativity. There is a whole lot of imitation. There is a whole lot of imagination. But it all begins to look the same, doesn’t it? People are really copying each other. Where is the real originality? Where is the real dynamic thinking? Where is the breakthrough? You might as well be on a chain gang out building the road. Everyone is doing what everyone else is doing. When you look behind and beyond the appearance of personal freedom, it looks like a chain gang. When you look at where people really are in their thinking and their evaluations of themselves, and you see how little originality there is, and you see how people really are just simply going along with everything else, it looks like a chain gang. The man or woman of Knowledge will see this so clearly once they are able to see clearly. They will not be deceived by appearances. They will not look at beauty and see real beauty. They will not look at wealth and power and glamour and all these things and be swayed by them because they will be able to see through them because their minds have been freed enough to do this. Because Steps to Knowledge is a gift from God, it is a really mysterious process. It is happening at a deeper level, really." A quote from *Taking the Steps to Knowledge* - a teaching received by Marshall Vian Summers. Check it out online, or his free book of spiritual preparation - *Steps to Knowledge, The book of Inner Knowing*
I recall an incident at university years ago where over 30 students were treated by EMS for extreme nausea. Maintenance people shut down the building over fears that there was some kind of gas leak. After extensive investigation, they found absolutely nothing. What's interesting, is that despite there being more males than females in the building at the time, the students experiencing nausea were all female. The conclusion was that the students had experienced some kind of mass delusion of a shared condition. Sound familiar??
Imagine how many problems fall away when your real problem is finding food and staying warm. Only an overly comfortable society gets create fantastical confusion out of boredom.
Maybe social media is one of the worst things that has ever happened to political divisions and mental health, but if we didn't have it you wouldn't be watching this video or leaving that comment. Cell phones are just a gateway to social media, they aren't the cause of issues they just make it easier to access them. Making it easier to connect with other people quickly from anywhere has likely benefited the world overall. It has made is easier for the average person to access the collective knowledge of humanity, but also allowing the quick spread of misinformation. I think people need to be trained how to interact online. A potentially good system is in place, but it's being used by inexperienced and gullible people who quickly spread toxic ideas to one another. If I have kids I want to introduce them to the internet and social media early on and guide them through it so that they can benefit from it while avoiding the toxicity it reeks of.
JESUS KNOCKS ON YOUR HEART AND LONGS FOR YOU TO ANSWER! HE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE ANYONE PERISH INTO HELL. GOD LOVES YOU SO HE GIVES YOU FREE WILL AND A CHOICE TO ACCEPT HIM OR REJECT HIM. TO LOVE HIM OR TO LOVE SIN/THIS WORLD. CALL UPON JESUS & ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS! SURRENDER YOUR WILL & YOUR LIFE TO HIM & HE WILL GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN! PICTURE YOUR BEST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HEAVEN! NOW PICTURE YOUR WORST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HELL! HE WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT SO IF YOU REJECT HIM YOU WILL BE SEPARATED FROM HIM & HIS BLESSINGS (LOVE, PEACE, JOY, HOPE, REST, ETC). IN HELL YOU WILL BE ALONE WITHOUT GOD OR PEOPLE... YOU WILL BE HOPELESS, IN DESPAIR & AGONY FOREVER! GOD'S STANDARD FOR HEAVEN IS PERFECTION AND ONLY JESUS (THE SON OF GOD/GOD IN THE FLESH) LIVED THAT PERFECT LIFE! HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE & TOOK THE WRATH OF THE FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS! GOD IS JUST SO HE MUST PUNISH SIN & HE IS HOLY SO NO SIN CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY GOD WILL SEE YOU AS HIS PERFECT SON (SINLESS SINCE YOUR SINS ARE COVERED BY JESUS' OFFERING). YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS' GIFT/SACRIFICE & PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN WITH DEATH (HELL) BUT THAT SEEMS PRETTY FOOLISH! GOD SEES & HEARS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID & DONE. YOU WONT WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIM & YOU CANT DEFEND ANY OF YOUR SINS TO HIM. YOU'RE NOT A GOOD PERSON, I'M NOT A GOOD PERSON... ONLY GOD IS GOOD! WE'RE ALL GUILTY WITHOUT ACCEPTING JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS! MUHAMMAD DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, BUDDHA DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO PASTOR/NO PRIEST/NO SAINT/NO ANCESTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, MARY DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO IDOLS OR FALSE gods DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO MUSICIAN OR CELEBRITY DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO INFLUENCER OR UA-cam STAR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO SCIENTIST OR POLITICIAN DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ATHLETE OR ACTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS! STOP WORSHIPING THESE PEOPLE! JESUS CHRIST ALONE DIED FOR YOUR SINS & WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE GRAVE! HE IS ALIVE & COMING BACK VERY SOON WITH JUDGEMENT (THESE ARE END TIMES)! PREPARE YOURSELVES, TURN FROM SIN & RUN TO JESUS! HE KNOWS YOUR PAIN & TROUBLES, HE WANTS TO HEAL & RESTORE YOU! TALK TO HIM LIKE A BEST FRIEND! ASK HIM TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU & HELP YOU TO BELIEVE IF YOU DOUBT! DON'T WAIT TO CRY OUT! NO ONE IS PROMISED TOMORROW! HE LONGS FOR YOU TO INVITE HIM IN, HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY PERSON EVER COULD, HE CREATED YOU! Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6 "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33 “For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23
It’s a double edged sword…the proof is that I’m watching this on social media along with many other helpful videos…like in life, we need to teach individuals to seek out the good and avoid the bad…unfortunately, the trash is much more appealing to the immature mind…this should be an area where schools and parents could work together, but schools are now part of the problem, unfortunately
I need my daughters to have their phones while at school for location services and to coordinate pickups and drop offs. I noticed a considerable behavioral change with my middle child the more she integrated with social media. Primarily TicTok, but her social groups as well. When I had her delete TicTok and social media apps her attitude and behavior changed, and she seemed less tense with lower anxiety. Honestly, it’s hard to compete with social media, educational “systems,” advertising, and peers as a parent. I can see how all the messaging leads to mental pressure and behavioral issues.
I so agree with the "contagion" concept. There are always people at the margins of any attempt at classification of psychological disturbances. So when diagnoses become "popular", there will be mis-classifications. This is why I find the large pressure groups regarding gender, from woke Hollywood to Florida Legislatures, to be so harmful. Figuring out the proper course of action or therapy is incredibly difficult. Self interested pressure groups are not helpful.
I think there's a couple of issues going on. For example, it's pretty obvious that sociopaths have discovered they gain a tactical advantage in their manipulative efforts by claiming to be some extra special gender. Anyone who doesn't go along with their manipulation gets called a this-phobe or a that-phobe, and surrounded by a mob of zombies.
I'm glad androgynous personality was brought up. Cultivated intelligence has both masculine and feminine qualities. The problem is the predominance of one in the opposite gender, which leads to imbalance. Sadly, as Dr. Peterson says, insecure individuals become prey to distorted thinking.
The imbalance of gender isnt the issue. The issue is the perception of gender physiology as a cure all for the intolerance of gender personality fluctuations.
@@autumnasbridge8691 while i do think there is confusion in the correlation between "amounts of (man or woman) in one gender"...sigh... I also hope you accept that you arent fighting for anything when you insult someone directly for a speculative comment. Even when you have much more knowledge about something, the other parties can't get to the knowledge if their own discomfort with your "side" of a debate is governing their affiliations. People need context. Educate without attack. It will move many miles more in the desired direction direction
This is such a good message. Claire's point about being a tomboy and other commenters' sentiments made me realize now that the reason I wanted to be a boy when I was younger was because of the lack of female support I had going through puberty. I physically matured very quickly and also had (and still have) menstrual issues, and didn't have much help in those regards other than to try to figure things out for myself online. Even when my menstrual issues were causing me to lose sleep and impacting my day-to-day life, I was shrugged off as if I were being overdramatic. That really stung, coming from my own mom who knows I'm not a dramatic type. I did eventually get medical help, and that's still an ongoing journey in itself, but it makes sense to me now why I hated all things that made me female and tried to hide them in my youth - not due to abuse, but due to that being the area in which I received little to no support growing up.
Thank you Dr. Peterson for bluntly and with zero trepidation addressing such a controversial subject. I agree 1000% with you and your guest perspective on “transgender” young children. It sickens me to see parents encouraging their young children to embrace this life without thinking of the long term repercussions.
5:10 Regarding doing something so important early, it's interesting to notice parallels between hormonal and surgical procedures and getting married and having kids while still being relatively young. On the one hand, youth can really multiply success IF the right decisions are made. But on the other hand, youth can really multiply failure if the wrong decisions are made. High stakes like these underscore the need for good representation in politics, medicine and society more generally. But even more importantly, we need a culture that supports free speech and free thought so that we can evaluate the competence and trustworthiness of the few we rely on to represent our interests with their expertise.
My child identified as trans for around three years. I believethat I know my child quite well, and I Kew it was a matter of an idea presented fro the putside world rather a realisation from their inner self, and that they embraced it as the answer to to the confusion and I security they felt about who they are in the wider world and how to feel safer and more important in the eyes of others. Its a delicate path to tred as a parent. A really delicate path. Validating your child's emotions while protecting them.... are not always one and the same thing. My child and I had a number of genuinely honest and respectful conversations. Thankfully they understood and valued my ultimate feelings and concerns... much like I valued theirs. They can be anything they choose, but I can not in good conscience as an adult and a perent, agree to any form of medical intervention, given that they are still a child and have an immense amount of physical and mental development to experience before such decisions can be made, and by them alone. I can not commit to reasignment in the knowledge that it might o e day be recognised as butchering. I couldn't sign that off on anyone, regardless of my technical/legal authority to do so. I am lucky that my child valued my thought as much as I valued hers, and I am deeply pleased for her that she found a peace, a recognition and a connection to her feminine biology and psychology again, in a worl that constantly throwing craziness at her.. I worry that many children do not have the absolute freedom and confidence to turn back to their true gender once out as trans. I personally experienced a huge sigh of relief that I trusted myself and got it right for my child. I worry for others. I truly do. I am not against transgender. Adults cannot as they please, whatever their reason is. I am against harmi g children, and can not apologise for that.
I think it should be 18+ type of thing.... You shouldn't be thinking of your new gender at 13 .... At 13 playing with your school friends should be your priority, not hyper sexuality. Make it 18 + and yet it is very complicated it shouldn't just be available to anybody who doesn't fit the criteria of body dismorphia....Protect the children.🤝👊✌️
I used to have a tumblr blog about urban planning because starting a blog is what you are supposed to do when you don't have a job, and I followed some other blogs/photostreams about architecture. Starting in about 2014 I started getting feeds I never subscribed to about social justice and LGTB issues, and the content just kept getting more and more extreme. I also developed a severe case of depression relating to my employment situation; and I don't think the two things are unrelated.
I love Jordon, his mind works at a million miles an hour, he’s extremely well read on the topics discussed and many of us here know his thoughts on these. That being said, I would have liked to hear more from his guest. I feel he interjected a fair bit throughout this discussion, without letting her complete her point.
there was a girl in school that while a teacher was asking a question she answered it yet not what the teacher wanted her to ask, she got slandered by the teacher and the students started to do the same, she realized that she didn't have to think what others thought of her, she could think anything she wanted about herself, what you think is where you will go and become.
Serious conversations definitely need to be had regarding the fact that technology/social media influence is now raising kids more so than stable families/parental influence. The rise of narcissistic personality disorders and the virtue signallers who defend them is frightening, too.
Body dysphoria is common among young people and it totally normal. It goes away in time. I recommend no one transition before 25. Love and Peace, Mandy
I quit social media during the trucker convoy due to Facebook's censorship and i stopped watching mainstream news propaganda and i haven't been this happy in years, ever since. I'm since been practicing meditation and yoga and i feel so good. Looking within to find happiness and peace rather than looking outward. Also learning Qi Gong thanks to you Jordan. Love you brother.💗✌
I am a fifteen year old and I am constantly going through phases. I might slightly change my appearance for each "phase" but afterwards I always feel shame and embarrassment. Kids are not allowed to get tattoos for this exact reason. I can't imagine making an irreplaceable change to my body. Hormone genetic treatments should be treated like tattoos. I understand gender dysphoria is a real thing but for confused teens that have no idea what gender dysphoria is outside what they saw on social media; this mistake could affect them permanently. To sum it up I believe that people should be allowed to have genetic treatments but they have to be an adult.
My buddy's 2 nephews had some dude-ette visit their school to talk about all this and for a year they wanted to be girls and were talking in "weird voices" it became a huge issue in the family.
How though? I fail to understand how it is an issue. Regardless of whether or not the two nephews transition into women, they can still be functional human beings within society. They can still contribute to society and the economy, can someone explain to me why it is an issue?
@@JD-hx7yd Have you looked at the mental health issues and suicide rate within the trans community, even post transition? Did you know that the hormonal treatments that people are seeking to have their children undergo can both cause infertility and cancer? Why would you want to introduce this sort of a social contagion to an otherwise healthy child?
@@JD-hx7yd Like it or not, you are largely viewed within our social dynamic by how you act and present yourself. Not hiring somebody for an open position because they have obvious social anxiety would be a good example. If somebody doing the hiring notices that you act like a woman by putting on strange girlish voices and acting overtly flamboyant, that could seriously effect your chances in the job market. Whether or not that's fair is up for debate, but it is a very real situation they could be in. Additionally your children are substantially more likely to end up with mental issues, and destroyed future prospects by entering into the trans-space. There are hundreds of negatives to self-identifying as transgender and essentially only one positive, which rarely turns out to be positive in the end regardless.
i understand this was about a specific subject but he said something that applies across the board. the lack of full disclosure causes bad decisions because you dont have all the information. this applies to anything and everything.
I have been a huge Dr.Peterson’s fan. And I still am. But I would like to express my astonishment in regards to the coverage of the Ukrainian war. Yes, I know, there were 2 episodes a month ago, but so much have changed since then. I always thought that Mr.Peterson would be on the frontline in such a situation. The blend of communism and nazism, which were extensively covered by Dr.Peterson, is ravaging my country. This is the time we need intellectuals like him the most. To influence , to predict, to call for action. Dr. Peterson, if you somehow come across this comment, know that we need your support now more than ever.
You can say that again. I had this nightmarish experience as an art student. Dum dum me left an ordered and organized well paying job to go to a weird, undisciplined wacko art school where good art was determined by how mentally ill you could claim to be from any source of abuse real or perceived. It was a competition to act weird. It seems like social media has a tendency toward this goal of the crazy competition. No thanks AI. Level up art.
Thanks for shedding lights on a very complex subject while most including polarized influencers seek for an easy solution to swell their rank. Individuals are weak, but strongly identify with a group identity only further diminishing their personal character and strength.
One of the brilliant things about JP is that his opinions are informed by both vast personal observation and exhaustive research. Anyone who labels his perspectives as politically motivated is both self and externally deceptive. Every one of his analyses of the dysfunctions he wants to reduce, acknowledge the complicated nuances of the problems. While he states that there are simple solutions that the sufferer can employ he readily admits that simple does not mean easy ... particularly if the subject is unwilling to be honest with themselves and do the work that leads to healing.
Our youth, our world, need a formal Peterson lecture/talk covering this issue. The type that is informative, covers the important points, is hard-hitting and goes viral.
I thought, this contagion must be a thing, but I didn't believe it actually had any merit. Only anecdotal. Seems like it's cool to have a depression, dysphoria or perceived mental disorders nowadays. Positive energy seems scarce. Perhaps I look the wrong places or I'm just brooding too much.
Part of it might be where you are, but algorithms try to put you in specific places so you have to be very clear and try to force it to show you positive things. On the other hand kids are struggling more because of a lot of reasons, absent fathers, early start times at school, and social media are all proven to cause depression and more.
We have become SO polite - so unwilling to confront insanity out of fear of "hurting feelings" - that we are now ENABLING the mentally ill, instead of helping them to heal.
Literally almost all of my friends talk about how school is damaging there mental health, it probably is but I told them that the primary reason is most likely social media. Most of them for some reason get visibly upset when I tell them that, it’s as if they know it subconsciously. I can’t say I’m much better, I watch quite a lot of UA-cam.
UA-cam is called social media but it's not facebook / instagram etc UA-cam has extreme diversity of content - it could be classed as harmful or helpful or anything in between. I prefer video sharing platform to describe it.
Thank you for tackling this very controversial topic in brief. I've been told that the walls people have to climb in order to get a sex change operation are immense already and so discouraging them by redirecting them back to psychology is adding insult to injury. That may be so. But your question, how many people is it harming to add this question to the popular conversation to further confuse gender and sexual identity is important. Do we make our culture more hospitable for the minority of children who feel "in the wrong body" to the possible detriment of the majority who thereby are more confused about sexuality? And some of these people get gender-reassignment surgery only to later regret it or commit suicide at the same rate as those who don't get it. This is a concern that shouldn't be swept under the rug in a kind of "don't ask don't tell" policy, but perhaps there are better ways to educate our children about these topics. I enjoyed hearing about certain Native American cultures that named a 3rd gender for men who felt more akin to women and were honored for their insights into the lives of both men and women and were often tasked with couples counseling.
I've broke free from the dogmas, and became ostracized. Life is beautiful, and most real world problems dissolve, and when we get to solve them is not through anxiety and rage, such solutions have proven to be temporary (i.e. the Spanish revolution). Anyway, the best way to go is with a calm mind aiming always up; in a sense, a Jungian radical acceptance of evil, to overcome the same. Personally, I am androgynous, schizophrenic and mixed race (German and African); tho I have no reason to play the game of menticide, to go hating my neighbors in favor of a demagogue, or hating myself in the misleading disinformation highway.
I'm glad I'm not easily controllable by the social media. Feels good to have a working brain capable of critical thinking and scepticism. Feels good to have common sense in this day and age of people clinging to their delusions and succumbing to the delusions of others.
“Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.” -Carl Jung
I don't know if it's luck or what, but I ended up an author. so yeah, I've got fuckloads of personalities in my head. But I still know my primary self. I know the rest are characters. And, in the same way your dreams can make people who feel real and distinct, it's possible sometimes to get characters who feel so real they feel apart from you. I can see why someone without a strong sense of their core self could think, 'I have multiple personalities! They talk to me! How wonderful! I'm special!'
As someone dealing with a few actual mental disorders, i really want to see a truthful psychologist who can properly diagnose me further with what issues i have. Issues i actually have are ocd, anxiety and depression and dissociation, because ive been homebound for so long due to my state ive been on the internet 24/7 and now i suspect i might also have autism, Bpd, gender/sexual identity crisis. I wish someone genuine can pull me out of this endless engagement i am in. Its difficult
My daughter's problems began once she bought her first cell phone at 18. We kept her from having a phone until then. She had access to social media but the family computer is in the living room on the flat screen so, it was harder for her to get trapped in it.
There are studies that suggested letting negative emotions like anger out by practicing them on elsewhere such as punching bags actually intensifies these emotions. While you think you're letting them out, you're actually reinforcing them by indulging yourself to embrace them. The same with smiling - even if you're not feeling good, the very act of it makes you happier. Likewise, CBT is a pretty effective method of therapy, because it forces you to think in different ways from the one that's led you to neuroses. I think most of social media (at least a lot of Instagram and Tiktok) encourages people to prime themselves to think and act in dysfunctional/bizarre/OTT/maladaptive ways. It's not just a few influencers consciously conspiring to corrupt people or whatever; social media is the internet equivalent of a reality TV show, so it passes itself off as real while users are ready to embrace and assimilate anything from it. It's also been observed that racist comments on social media significantly encourage racism, and fake news spread more quickly than real ones. I tend to believe in freedom of speech and expression, but if it seems that bad content spreads so quickly and goes on to influence the masses, maybe unlimited freedom on social media happens at the expense of too much. It's different for stuff like violent video games, because you're aware that they're obviously fiction, even subconsciously.
The last paragraph loses everything. The bad guys use a deliberately false definition of racism where you're racist by default, and only institutional racism can fix that.
It ought to be noted that the push for these ideologies isn’t coming from the victims, but rather from a nefarious group much further up the hierarchy, and it can be argued that there is a great deal of profit to be made from disrupting society in these ways. This, in my opinion, is the same thing that has been done since Cain slew his brother for gain.
Trying to become a boy didn’t solve my cousin’s problems. She was 20 and had been sexually assaulted when she was 11 and again by a different man when she was 14. The online groups encouraged her to become a boy as if this would stop any future sexual advances from young men. Of course it didn’t. It seemed to be the last straw for her when she realised this. And there is so much suicide ideation in these groups. She went to her doctor and asked to be referred to a clinic for hormones/surgery. They told her there was a five year wait. They did not question her mental health at all. They just sent her away, saying she had to wait. We had her funeral on Monday. She took her own life. She left a note saying that death was the only way she could be who she wanted to be. Obviously I wish she had never gone through the assaults but I also just wish she had never found these online groups that purport to be supporting and helpful but are in fact insidious and emotionally cannibalistic. They stopped her from accessing real help, in my opinion.
Jordan with all talk about sex assignments and gender assignments, could you address male infantile circumcision? In my opinion, it's a form of gender assignment performed on an unwilling minor who not only can't give consent but aren't given any opportunity to reject the entire thing itself. Not to mention that it's a blatant violation to Article Seven of our Canadian Charter Rights: Life, Liberty, Security of the Person.
' It is arrogance in us [men] to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them [women] to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine.' But also what poor, warped fragments of humanity most mere men and mere women must be to make the implications of that arrogance plausible.’ C.S. Lewis - A Grief Observed
I'd be concerned about kids trying to act like a transgender , because many are very animated like a cartoon looking character who they like on you tube and then thinking they are one. Kids are extremely impressionable.
I mean... we could just pass legislation that restricts minors from having internet access during the formative years of their lives. Especially when taking into consideration it's addictive potency on par with that of drug abuse. If I were a benevolent dictator who could just make up whatever rules I wanted my people to follow, that would be one of the first laws I would want to enact.
I’m feeling a struggle with the unfairness, and social engineering manipulation of media, I think I may have to pull away altogether. The more I know about human nature the worse it gets. There is pain when positive Illusions dissolve, it’s called loss. xx love to all.
Gregg Braden talks about the HeartMath Institute and its finding that people with very regular heart beats, are more rigid than people with more variable heart rates. People with variable heart rates are more flexible and open to new possibilities. I wonder if the people who think sex and gender should be closely aligned have non-variable heart rates? Gender roles were established long ago, based on the environment and physical abilities. Men typically being stronger, did the heavy lifting, and they were the initiators. Women as nurturers kept the home and maintained or supported what the man started (gross generalizations, I know). With the advent of industrialization, along with the information age, stereotypical roles are no longer biologically determined. In fact, they're getting stale. This flexibility in who plays what role can be unnerving, especially for those with real regular heart beats. But the idea that men don't have to constantly go off to battle any more, means they don't have to prepare for it either. They don't have to be John Wayne anymore. [Even John Wayne himself couldn't live up to his image.] Yes, having a sex change is extreme. A miracle of modern science. Having never been there, I don't understand it myself. But I did spend a lot of time in the Men's Liberation Movement and know a lot about the male psychology. But as society has so many character traits associated with each gender, effeminate boys or masculine girls naturally want to fit in as best as possible, given their internal biology and psychology, thus the change, since it's now available. (One suspects that there have been people throughout history/herstory that wished they could be the other sex but were unable to be.)
"You would say "how are you doing" to a man working the docks in the 1930's, and he would say "Huh, what? I don't know." His whole existence was predicted on is his wife happy, are his kids feed. He never talked about himself." - Gavin Mcginnis
With all respect to both of you, Their are deeper reasons for gender disorder or confusion. Past , present, future, food, karma, people like you are blessing for the ones that fights with it.... others just want them to go with it.... what's life with out a fight to overcome man made illusions.....
In the west, as increasingly we are herded and led by media, academia, governments, their many activists and even institutions, to ignore our traditional approaches to life and living, particularly on sexual norms, I think people like Jordan Peterson have been very helpful to many in seeing the gravity and danger of all this and to think again, to look at and explore the traditional mores and understand them at a deeper level.
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You and your daughters sickness is a diseminated dymorphic fungal infection. Doctors won't diagnose it. You need a mycologist like myself.
Amphetecerin B for a couple weeks to remove it from your gut, then protocanozole, which will help remove it your bone linings , for a year.
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Many social media platforms are being misused to promote insanity. Tik-tok is one of those insanities.
the world would be a better place if tiktok, twitter and tumblr all got memory holed
We just need to be 100% accountable for what’s on our screens. McDonald’s is not to blame for obesity.
The psychosis of DID has taken off due to TikTok
We live in a time where standard of living is increasing, while happiness is decreasing. Maybe, money isn't everything.
I think that this has a lot to do with bad parenting, as well. When you neglect your children they find other avenues for support and help.
My daughter had a friend with whom got a concussion from falling off of the equivalent of a one story building because she was trying to create a Tiktok. It has severely alter her world. This mother left her 10 year to her own devices long enough to have her build something, set up the camera to film this act, and perform it. This was clearly neglect. 🙄
I give my children space and autonomy, but social media influences are not parenting my children.
Our society has a lack of responsibility problem 😕 Social media is capitalizing on it!
Mental contagion is the right term. Back when I was in high school anorexia spread between girls like crazy. Now it seems transgenderism is doing the same thing amongst confused teens.
When I was in school it was self harm. Girls always have stuff to deal with, but the difference now is this is being encouraged by the teachers, parents and state.
@@expressionofwill5307 exactly! Nuts
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It’s still self-harm, lol. Only of the genitals and endocrine system.
@@combativeThinker That is true, BUT you can get on the cover of Time magazine for having the courage to get your penis cut off. So you can get some social media fame or other kind of special attention for the self harm (and for having the courage to do it to yourself).
If people would just think of their body as a vehicle that their soul is inhabiting, perhaps they wouldn't feel so compelled to torture themselves with endless surgeries just because they think they just might have been put into the wrong body/vehicle.
If I woke up and didn't like the make of car I had I wouldn't pay a body shop $30,000 to have all the body panels re-contoured and new badges and nameplates put on to turn it into another make that I preferred. Especially if I had to be sedated and experience pain each time!
Why is who you THINK like to screw such an integral part of an identity anyway?
I can't even remember the last time I had sex and I don't have a problem with my identity... what the hell is the difference? What is the big frigging deal?
It's like children are bred to feel disadvantaged and "done to".
Social media has taught children to be snowflake narcissists who are on high-alert for any possible thing they might be able to interpret as offensive as a method to feel like they are powerful and important... possibly to compensate for bad feelings they have since their parents don't show them any love (since their parents are addicted to facebook).
@@autumnasbridge8691 you think cosmetic surgery is not without its risks and complications? Do you also think taking exogenous hormones is healthy, let alone ones for the opposite sex? Did you know that transgender suicide rates pre and post transition are higher than any other demographic category? Society is more accepting than ever before, but the suicide rate is the same is was decades ago, only now there's exponentially more trans people, so aggregate suicide is up. If you don't think this isn't as serious anorexia then I'm afraid you are mistaken.
One of the most challenging and heartbreaking aspects of being a therapist--in my opinion--is working with teenagers experiencing gender dysphoria. It is unbelievably difficult to navigate because of misinformation/propaganda/armchair experts on the internet; biased experts in fields outside of mental health weighing in on the topic and using their authority to influence others; stubbornness/know-it-all mentality + sensitivity of teenagers; peer influence; other clinicians (or anyone) validating what's invalid; access to resources that provide hormones to young people before they're fully developed, especially mentally, and without proper evaluation; judgment from Leftist clinicians; the general hostility that comes with it; etc.
Adolescents don't want their gender dysphoria to be assessed, and they don't want any aspect of it addressed with therapy; they just want to be affirmed. And the reality is, if they feel uncomfortable and/or don't like what you have to say, they can easily find another therapist who will tell them exactly what they want to hear.
Thank you for putting this so well. If a therapist is telling you things that are hard to hear, that means they’re a good therapist. No therapist should ever affirm everything you think, because that would imply there are no issues with your thought, in which case you shouldn’t need a therapist in the first place.
It’s getting even worse for psychologists, psychiatrists and doctors in my country as last year it was passed a federal bill that unable therapists, psychiatrists and surgeons to “deny” gender affirming treatment to children and teens.
This gotta be the only disease where the patient auto diagnose themselves and the health care professionals must bow down in obedience to their patients auto diagnosis. Unbelievable and scary
Gender dysphoria isn't a problem, it's the individuals perspective on gender. Many people these days simply don't understand the definition or words they are using. When you break it down and make it simple it's easier for the patient to understand. Also, you as a therapist can never tell another person what is or is not truth. That is actually concerning to me if I was to hear a therapist trying to tell a patient how to think. We don't even do this with people with delusions. We can give them our observations, but we don't tell them it's "not true". We can't tell people how to think, that's simply unethical and hypocritical.
This is the number one fear I have going into psychology, since how do you tell them the truth that is the opposite of what the media and social platforms are telling them?
It is heartbreaking and it's heartbreaking to hear about this as a mother myself and a grandmother. I remember when my kids were teenagers and my son went through such horrible heartbreak because his dad never came to see him or his sister except on birthdays and Christmas and I was doing everything I could as a single mom with a paralegal career and a girl broke his heart so he started cutting on himself. I had to hide every night and every pair of scissors in the house and I took him to a child's psychiatrist who put him on abilify. He stopped doing that on his own the minute he got in the high school the following year and actually no longer had that same girlfriend and it shows just how an association with one person can do so much harm to a person..
My daughter went from a straight A student and an athlete who was totally against any kind of drug use and marijuana to somebody who actually became infatuated with a boy two and a half years older than her which led to her become very sexually active at the age of 15 and got into smoking marijuana.. this guy she was so in love with broke her heart and it let her down a horrible path of doing much worse and getting into other kinds of drugs.. I don't think she ever used methamphetamine or I would have noticed her teeth and what methamphetamine does to your skin and I never saw that in her but I saw every other thing about her. 4 months before her 18th birthday her stepmother and I both ganged up on her dad and made him help her because she would end up in jail or dead. Today that girl is an LCSW & her dad worked as a physician's assistant in orthopedic surgery at first and then psychiatry, so you would think the man would know how to better treat his kids and spend time with them.. no he did not but he certainly did manage to finally listen to his wife and help Susanne. I told God I didn't care she hated me for the rest of her life as long as she lived and she was able to go to college and make something of herself and not staying in trouble and get killed or kill someone else, or heaven forbid overdose.. just that one boy started it all on top of other things our family had already been through that she managed to survive. The girl lived through me getting diagnosed with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis when I was at the peak of my law career in 2001 and 2002, and being in so much pain (agony is more like it-physically and emotionally and mentally) and then my brother committing suicide in 2002. I had to hide my heart break from them because I had to stay strong for my parents and my kids.. God knows I have the ability to do that and then when I get a moment to myself I would lose it and just cry my eyes out...(every night I would lay in my bed and pray and talk to God because nobody else could help & I sincerely believed that whatever I couldn't do myself and God couldn't do couldn't be done)..
When the Stepmom made my ex-husband realized he needed to help her she went through straight complete detox in a matter of probably 30 days or more. I don't know how long it takes to get that stuff out of your system completely but I'm guessing 30 days is the worst. The only places she could go were with him to the gym and to church. He lived out in the country and she told me years later that if she really really didn't want to change herself that she could have left his house and walked and easy 10 or 15 miles to get to the city to get drugs.. I told her I was very aware that she could do such a thing... Oh I knew she could because she was very persevere like her mother and damn well determined to do whatever she wanted to do.. once she started using that perseverance and self-discipline into something good like going to school and getting her bachelors and then her master's degree, she was unstoppable.
She worked with behaviorally Disturbed kids when she was getting her master's degree. She was honest and told them flat up in junior high in high school that there's nothing they have done or thought about doing that she hadn't already done and was aware they were thinking or doing what she already knew they were thinking about doing..😆 it was like she could see it in their eyes or be able to perceive it in the way they talked and their body language.. she works with the veterans administration now. I'm very proud of everything that she's had to go through and my son as well.
My daughter is a social worker and a counselor believes that despite the fact that transgender ism and everything else with which I'm not as knowledgeable is in the dsm-4 and DSM-5 maybe classified as such but a lot of it starts out with many people like a fad and their insecure and they want to fit in..
Three years ago, I and 7 other strangers aged 17-23 entered a group on Twitter. We're all from Pakistan, a very very conservative, traditional society, so we never even heard the term non binary or gender fluid before. Everyone considered themselves straight and cisgender when they joined the gc.
Twitter was so Americanized, we were all exposed to these new ideas about gender, sexuality and western politics. Over the course of three years, 4 out of 8 of us decided they were non binary transgender and asked to be referred to by different pronouns, and 6 out of 8 of us decided they were bisexual.
I want to mention again, there are no such concepts in my country. Twitter gave half of us gender dysphoria and made most of us doubt our sexuality.
Good lord that’s horrifying.
I'd say that was a test of your mental well-being and maturity, to be exposed to radical new ideas and to be influenced/hypnotized in such a manner as to allow them to dominate your thinking. The problem with young people is that they're increasingly unable to confront these ideas and fall back on their foundation of what is true, right and sensible. That foundation is not there like it was in times past, due to the dissolution of the family and integration of strong moral values. Children are not having their needs met on a larger and larger scale and thus are becoming ill far easier than ever.
Hold on to your hat its gonna be a bumpy ride
That’s horrible
People think I'm mad for coming out woth this shit!!
Told a family member not to let her children at all ever!!!
Go on tiktok
Tiktok has been raising her son for the last 2 years :(
"The smallest number of people creating extreme amount of havoc" Well said! Those people remind me of our class bullies in school. Whole class bent to cater their loud mouths because even teachers didn't want to always get mixed in. Now those same people are in positions of power and it shows.
Reminds me of when I heard that just a few hundred drug addicts were committing hundreds of thousands of property crimes a year in my city-shoplifting, breaking into cars, breaking into houses. Seriously: hundreds of thousands. 400 people x 3 thefts a day x 365 days a year is 438,500.
@@dixonpinfold2582 I fucking love numbers!!!
That is insane!!
It's the authority myth.
A big source of that problem (and Claire alluded to it) is how we have developed these large institutions that have so much control over our lives. They were created with good intentions, to stop bad things from happening and foster the good, but their sheer size and influence over so much of society meant they were vulnerable to abuse, and that is indeed what has happened.
And therefore, I am convinced one of our top goals must be to shift towards smaller units: smaller government, smaller business, smaller social institutions, smaller professional organizations, smaller social media, etc. "Big" has its benefits and that's why we've ended up with them, but we now have seen the serious dangers with "big" and therefore it's worthwhile to go "small".
@@DonTruman Every system corrupts over time.
You have no idea how much I appreciate what your doing for society Jordan. You and a hand full of others are going to be responsible for the positive readjust of society and truth.
Absolutely agree with this.
I plan to take his work and show it to my children. I will never let his work leave my family , we will add him to the list of Saints that tried to save all of man kind with their minds. This man is someone we need to share for generations to come
@@hairydude1950 you sound fun.
@@hairydude1950 do you consider debating strangers in the comment section of a UA-cam video to be a worthy use of your time?
He does NOTHING for society, Jake. Peterson only cares about himself.
Fellow clinical psychologist here - thanks for making this video - it’s wonderful to hear people speak rationally and openly about this topic 😊
A girl walked into my medical place of work last week. Staff were confused because the id says male with a male name but the reason for visit was a female’s medical issue, and the person looked like a female. After meeting with her, out of respect we asked how should we address her and what would she like to be documented under, male or female, she started sobbing. She said when she was 14, an older friend encouraged and helped her to transform into a male, and now that she’s older she realized she likes to be a girl more, that she likes men. She found a male partner and they’re both happy but she was sobbing that she lost her breast in the surgery to become a male when she was younger and now, if she has kids, she will never be able to breastfeed them and that idea made her very sad. I personally believe it is a crime, to coerce someone to do something that is irreversible such as a medical procedure. I’m all for being open minded, but don’t do something that you cannot reverse in case you change your mind.
Completely agree. 100%
OMG, how can a 14 year old be allowed to make such big decisions. This is child abuse.
@@prashanthb6521 12 years or older can consent on their own.
The cult cannibalises another youngling.
Omg! It should be illegal to do these gender change surgeries for anyone under 25 years of age. I mean it is almost always going to be a regrettable decision for someone to make as a teen or in early adult years while still in the process of self discovery and actualization. I can't believe this is actually happening in the world right now 😢
Hello, Dr. Peterson, my friends and I were at your lecture at the Fillmore last night, and it was such an amazing experience! I also loved what you had to say about social media during the lecture. Thank you so much for all the effort you put in to trying to help others and advancing our society as we know it!
This is SO important. These kids have pathologized themselves with so much and each other. Not just gender but also they all think they have ptsd, borderline. OCD, clinical anxiety and depression … the list goes on.
Do you ever think about why they might think they have these things?
Borderline is huge. That used to be such an extreme and rare diagnosis. Now everyone claims to have it
It used to be Christians had their ‘identity in Christ’ as the teaching goes. They also had 2,000 years worth of practical teaching on how to get through life fairy well w/in the Christian identity, e.g.
My parents raised us w/out any religion in the 80’s and 90’s when that was still rare in America. I converted at the age of 20 after exploring all kinds of religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, pagan, Confucianism, etc.). All my questions were answered, I had community, faith, meaning, purpose, goals, etc. almost all of my mental health issues disappeared.
The loss of religion in the west isn’t a great thing. We don’t have a healthy replacement. I actually left 7 years ago having become somewhat dissatisfied. I explored it all again as an adult (nihilism, materialism, a bit of old fashioned hedonism), Christianity is still absolutely the best personal and communal framework for optimal living in my opinion.
Actually. A lot of them do. The data is showing that social media itself causes depression etc. And the exposure to electromagnetic frequencies are also suspect in this as well, so a double whammy right off the bat.
Add to that early school times for teens which is proven to cause more depression, suiciede, lower grades, and more in school fights.
Then add on how many children have absent or no fathers which is also proven to have the same side effects -depression, higher suicide rates and higher drug use and addiction rates.
Kids these days face more challenges than you ever had to.
Don’t shame them when they are fighting a legitimate group of invisible enemies they don’t even know exist.
Over stimulation of the mind and not enough of the body , toxic mentality plague the media and effects kids who don’t have the necessary structure in their lives.
A few days ago my spirit felt so uneasy and led me to delete my social media. I just watched /the social dilemma on Netflix and then the 1st video I see on YT is this one...a lot of people are not thinking for themselves and are so confused and confusing others and this is the society our kids are raised in...confused leading the confused, creating a ton more confusion
Be skeptical with the "social dilemma". It makes a lot of good points, but its conclusions are suspiciously inline with what Zuckerbergs was saying at the time it came out. If I remember correctly, it ignores all the biggest issues, like censorship.
Social media platforms like Facebook, twitter, tik tok etc are a huge mistake. They have done way more harm than good.
If you want to improve your mental wellbeing either delete them from your life, or at least drastically limit how much you use them.
That’s a sweeping generalisation, ringing with the sound, or silence more accurately, of inadequate thought. Just a note, their are a Billion people on fb, a billion. Don’t fall prey to the irrational and blow things out of proportion.
@@Nixontheman there's a mental health crisis going on through the 1st world. Social media is a big factor in that. Studies have proven that it has negative effects on peoples mental health. If anything the issue is being underplayed.
Like guns, social media is just a technology. It is humans who distort them into lethal things. Socially transmitted hysterias are as old as humans. Look up “mass psychogenic illness” or “mass hysteria”. The real difference with social media is, through algorithms created by Silicon Valley companies, one can zero in on AN INDIVIDUAL’S weakness and exploit it. In that sense it’s much more diabolically efficient. Humans created it and they could stop it but that capacity for micro- targeting was developed to sell things thus will be very hard to walk back.
THIS. Truly and really - *such* a massive mistake. Permit me to dismiss the officiousness of the other reply here with a rather irrefutable sed contra: I am nothing if not grossly overeducated, I've been thinking long and hard about this for many years, and I fully agree with both your assessment and your advice. In my case, it was impossible to miss - or indeed overstate - how much my life changed for the better after I left social media (specifically Facebook) ten years ago. I did it for utterly pragmatic and quite concrete safety reasons that were very specific to my circumstances: at the time I had no substantial concerns over the trajectory, value or safety of social media - I considered such concerns paranoid and/or gratuitously negative: things were very different ten years ago. AND YET: the difference I saw in myself after giving it up was still *that* incredible. Moreover, what became even more impossible to ignore was how this left me standing on the banks next to a roaring river of social insanity, churning ever wilder, leaving me to wonder what on EARTH had gotten into everyone. There's just no other way to see this question, IMHO, if you're an honest person with enough distance to see the forest for the trees. Social media is a raging dumpster fire of failed experimentation: as a grandmillenial, I shall forever beat my breast for so naively ushering it into our society in the way that I did. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Just like alcohol, kids shouldn't be allowed on it until age 21 if not 25
I quit Facebook years ago, it was bad for my soul.
What happened to accomplishments through brawn or brain?
This $hit must stop.
So many narcissists. No substance, no personality, they are just impressed with the image of themselves, hence, the all day selfie taker.
To me facebook is just like an old address book, I spend about 10 minutes on it once a month, but yeah I can't tolerate much more than that. Good for forming special interest groups I guess.
Had this trans craze been going around when I was a child they'd have ruined my life. My brother died in a freak accident when I was not quite three years old, leaving my parents with two daughters when my mother by far preferred sons in the first place. Then my younger sister was born instead of a replacement son. I knew that my parents were crushed to have surplus girls while they'd lost the boy. I never lost the sense that the wrong child had died -- that it was supposed to have been me -- until after undergoing therapy in my late 20s. I thought as a child that if I became a boy, my parents would be happy and my mother would love me the way she'd loved my brother. They'd have packed me off to the "gender affirmation clinic" as soon as I drew a boy rather than a girl in the "draw a person" test. Never mind that as an adult I relish being a woman and consider grandmother to be my predominant role in life -- second only to mother. I'd have never gotten the chance. They'd have sterilized me and turned me into an unhappy pseudo male. I probably would have killed myself due to despair when becoming a boy didn't lead me to replacing my dead brother in my mother's affections.
Stories like your's should be heard more, thanks for sharing
Dear Lord, I’m so sorry! What on earth is a draw a person test?
@@anaone7923 Its a cognitive test done with children. The school had me tested in first grade because my teacher thought I was retarded and barely educable because I talked to myself.
I'm not sure which I find more sickening:
1. That companies will fire you because someone complains about your religious or political views; some banks will even freeze your accounts.
2. The fact that people find it virtuous and take pleasure in ruining the lives of other people, to the fullest extent possible, over opinions or words.
Shows how false people really are. Plenty of people are happy to comply and perform both acts you have stated.
@@quietprofessional4557 this is off topic, but pertains to evil.
I live on a farm, Bill Gates is buying up all the land that he can, clear cutting it to plant GMOs (which is driving out wild animals like deer that get hit crossing the highway), and currently I'm watching his properties being aerial sprayed with Roundup.
Feed the world? More like feed the livestock and make ethanol. Sickening.
One of the most impactful things I learned when I was school studying Graphic Design and the great art movements of the 20th century, was that many of the art movements that impacted society encapsulated the notion of, 'radicals fighting institutions who once were radicals fighting institutions and the cycle goes on and on constantly pressuring society and mankind as a whole to decide whether to evolve or devolve.
Protect your children, ditch the social media.
I was, as I always seem to do, sitting in my car near the pier yesterday with my wife and I was watching all the Gen Z and Young Millennials that were out and about. All of them were on their phones constantly. Never taking in the beautiful surroundings, the sounds of nature, and probably their own thoughts on what it means to be alive on this planet. I'm constantly in amazement how these younger generations are able to function and then I see the possible mental disorder's they're creating for themselves in this behaviour that's been normalized. I digress. Self introspection is quite important and I'm worried for the next generation.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but rather putting another point here: where are these kids parents? Honestly, I know this generation is insane, but the parents have failed their children. All I see is parents throwing cellphone/television onto their babies to shut them up while they go do something else.
When I was a kid I had a very masculine personality, I liked boys clothes, boys toys, playing boys sports, I hated anything feminine, if someone would have told me that transgenderism existed I would have beeeeeg to get that operation and be a boy, I truly believe I would ha e done it, and what a mistake that would have been because discovering my femininity and the feeling of being wanted for my female attractiveness has been the affair of my life with myself I am so proud of me, I am so much more than what I ever though I was...
I kinda hated/didn’t care much for girly stuff when I was a kid too. now that I went through the awkward phase of puberty etc and love my body i’m super feminine lol. I love being a girl 💅🏻 and real male attention makes me feel even more feminine
I wasn’t so extreme but I was a ‘tomboy’ and in a society like now I would have jumped in the bandwagon and at least have been very confused. Instead, I had no confusion, I was simply a tomboy, until I wasn’t.
@@SpiralMystic exactly! There's no reason to rush a kid towards an expensive and dangerous surgery to make permanent change that usually results in more depression when it fixes itself most of the time.
How do we stop these poor kids?
@@sagegallagher no idea. I was talking to someone earlier that went on hormones at 4th grade and thinks because they did plenty of therapy sessions and researched themselves they were more than qualified and kids should choose themselves. I pointed out that there's not really good long term data on that and you can't be smart about what's not there for you to read. I don't think I got anywhere.
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I would like to expand on a situation from centuries ago. In the United States we had the Salem Witch Trials. A tragedy born of moral panic and hysteria. It was not the ergot or the need for these people's survival by eating the bread that killed anyone. It was the moral panic and hysteria that they encountered-to be fair in an isolated environment-that the people took what was misunderstood and kept a child in jail for months, pressed a man to death, and the other atrocities associated with this. It was the people who killed and outcasted others based on misunderstanding. To be clear, ergot poisoning was given a name by the churches long before this event. It was called "holy fire" or "saint anthony's fire", but that knowledge was either unknown or ignored as they watched children acting in extremely questioning ways. Moral Panic. We can excuse their behavior since it was almost 400 years ago, but why this event is not a precedent for the things we argue about today is an extension of that tragedy.
I just diagnosed myself with OCD. I am an oil painter, so looking at all of those crooked hanging frames not organized in threes behind Claire's head whilst she talks, is really hard for me. haha. Great discussion. Thank you for posting it.
Uh what
@@Stringz I’m pretty sure it’s a joke :)
@@Jnow-yg1rd I just play one on the internet. :)
Look up James Scotmore
It's weird, but hearing someone thinking while talking, and hesitating while giving an argument gives me confidence they don't just repeat something they heard somewhere else
2:35 Thank you! I completely agree. If I may put in even more simpler terms, Boys who rather cooking than hunting and girls that rather working on cars than knitting sweaters, doesn't mean they need to "transition". Those that do are feeling pressure of those who are looking for affirmation for their decision to transition. Instead however people should embrace how they were created and that the diversity of talents and abilities, likes and dislikes, contained in the DNA programing of the individual should be celebrated. I believe there is a lot to say about self-control or lack there of in our culture and allowing others dictate another's choices is simply acquiescing to that control. The social media problem has compounded the allowing peers to influence exponentially .
Thank you! I have been saying many of the same things, as having struggled with gender dysmorphia my self, and coming to terms, and to appreciate the body God gave me. I’m so grateful these extreme options, and encouragement were not provided when I was a youth. Tolerance of my expression was enough. What a horror of a mistake it would have been for me.
This is something I've faced myself. I think social media is a breeding ground for localizing and amplyifiyng ones own existing anxiety, depression, narcissism and etc. It's ironic because it connects people and also makes them feel disconnected
The phenomenon on social contagion in mental health isn't exactly new and occored without social media platforms . 'A Time to dance, A Time to die: (The extraordinary story the dancing plague of 1518)' gives a theoretical perspective as to why a mass type of hysteria occurs and is quite engaging for anyone interested in this particular subject.
A scratch!? Your arms off!
You have to go no further than COVID to realized the power of mass hysteria and social contagion .
I thought that was suspected to be a virus. I remember on mystery diagnosis a boy had a compulsion to fidget all of the sudden and it turned out he had a virus or something attacking his brain.
Dancing plague was caused by exposure to ergot fungus in rye.
@@Bixnood69 True, but there was a lot of mass hysteria involved as well : ergot fungus doesn't affect people with the same symptoms at the same time. There have been many videos aboutthis phenomenon. Maybe the first people impacted were contaminated with ergot fungus, but it went out of control after that. Therefore, ergot fungus tends to turn the flour into a red color, so people would know if the flour was bad or not.
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"So it is a very, very courageous thing to do to gain your freedom. You do not live in a free world, and you are not a free person. Not really. So Steps to Knowledge really is the road to freedom, real freedom-freedom to be inner directed, freedom to have real integrity, freedom to be able to think freely, to think creatively, to think spontaneously.
Before that happens, everyone thinks according to patterns. They think according to prescriptions. And they generally think what they are told to think through their social and family programming. That is why there is so little original thinking out there. There is so little originality. There is so little real creativity. There is a whole lot of imitation. There is a whole lot of imagination. But it all begins to look the same, doesn’t it?
People are really copying each other. Where is the real originality? Where is the real dynamic thinking? Where is the breakthrough? You might as well be on a chain gang out building the road. Everyone is doing what everyone else is doing. When you look behind and beyond the appearance of personal freedom, it looks like a chain gang. When you look at where people really are in their thinking and their evaluations of themselves, and you see how little originality there is, and you see how people really are just simply going along with everything else, it looks like a chain gang.
The man or woman of Knowledge will see this so clearly once they are able to see clearly. They will not be deceived by appearances. They will not look at beauty and see real beauty. They will not look at wealth and power and glamour and all these things and be swayed by them because they will be able to see through them because their minds have been freed enough to do this.
Because Steps to Knowledge is a gift from God, it is a really mysterious process. It is happening at a deeper level, really."
A quote from *Taking the Steps to Knowledge* - a teaching received by Marshall Vian Summers. Check it out online, or his free book of spiritual preparation - *Steps to Knowledge, The book of Inner Knowing*
ᴛʜᴀɴᴋs ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴛ, ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ᴀ ɴᴏᴛᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴋᴀᴛʜʀʏɴ ʟɪɴᴄᴋ ʀᴇɢᴀʀᴅɪɴɢ ʙᴛᴄ/ ᴇᴛʜ ɪɴᴠᴇsᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ ɪᴅᴇᴀs
𝚃ᵉ𝚇ţ𝄍𝑾𝒉𝔮τ𝑠𝑨𝑝𝑝
±𝟭𝟲𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟯𝟲𝟭𝟵𝟬𝟳
ʟᴇᴛ ʜᴇʀ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ɪ ʀᴇғᴇʀʀᴇᴅ ʏᴏᴜ....
Exactly this, thanks for posting. To me, lack of true self-knowledge and introspection is behind the mental health epidemic in all of society
Thank you, Ivan.
Thank you for sharing this
Look up James Scotmore
I recall an incident at university years ago where over 30 students were treated by EMS for extreme nausea. Maintenance people shut down the building over fears that there was some kind of gas leak. After extensive investigation, they found absolutely nothing.
What's interesting, is that despite there being more males than females in the building at the time, the students experiencing nausea were all female. The conclusion was that the students had experienced some kind of mass delusion of a shared condition.
Sound familiar??
Thank you Jordan for all your great work and for helping so many people.
'You know penises are actually quite complex it's not that easy to take your arm and turn it into one'. This guy is special in so many ways.
Imagine how many problems fall away when your real problem is finding food and staying warm. Only an overly comfortable society gets create fantastical confusion out of boredom.
When people have little or no problems, they make them up.
One of the worst things that ever happened to this world is cell phones and social media.
And television
@@smokingcrab2290
Television was more than enough for an entertainment. It was an overkill.
Maybe social media is one of the worst things that has ever happened to political divisions and mental health, but if we didn't have it you wouldn't be watching this video or leaving that comment.
Cell phones are just a gateway to social media, they aren't the cause of issues they just make it easier to access them.
Making it easier to connect with other people quickly from anywhere has likely benefited the world overall. It has made is easier for the average person to access the collective knowledge of humanity, but also allowing the quick spread of misinformation.
I think people need to be trained how to interact online. A potentially good system is in place, but it's being used by inexperienced and gullible people who quickly spread toxic ideas to one another.
If I have kids I want to introduce them to the internet and social media early on and guide them through it so that they can benefit from it while avoiding the toxicity it reeks of.
JESUS KNOCKS ON YOUR HEART AND LONGS FOR YOU TO ANSWER! HE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE ANYONE PERISH INTO HELL. GOD LOVES YOU SO HE GIVES YOU FREE WILL AND A CHOICE TO ACCEPT HIM OR REJECT HIM. TO LOVE HIM OR TO LOVE SIN/THIS WORLD. CALL UPON JESUS & ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS! SURRENDER YOUR WILL & YOUR LIFE TO HIM & HE WILL GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN! PICTURE YOUR BEST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HEAVEN! NOW PICTURE YOUR WORST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HELL! HE WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT SO IF YOU REJECT HIM YOU WILL BE SEPARATED FROM HIM & HIS BLESSINGS (LOVE, PEACE, JOY, HOPE, REST, ETC). IN HELL YOU WILL BE ALONE WITHOUT GOD OR PEOPLE... YOU WILL BE HOPELESS, IN DESPAIR & AGONY FOREVER!
GOD'S STANDARD FOR HEAVEN IS PERFECTION AND ONLY JESUS (THE SON OF GOD/GOD IN THE FLESH) LIVED THAT PERFECT LIFE! HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE & TOOK THE WRATH OF THE FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS! GOD IS JUST SO HE MUST PUNISH SIN & HE IS HOLY SO NO SIN CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY GOD WILL SEE YOU AS HIS PERFECT SON (SINLESS SINCE YOUR SINS ARE COVERED BY JESUS' OFFERING). YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS' GIFT/SACRIFICE & PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN WITH DEATH (HELL) BUT THAT SEEMS PRETTY FOOLISH! GOD SEES & HEARS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID & DONE. YOU WONT WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIM & YOU CANT DEFEND ANY OF YOUR SINS TO HIM. YOU'RE NOT A GOOD PERSON, I'M NOT A GOOD PERSON... ONLY GOD IS GOOD! WE'RE ALL GUILTY WITHOUT ACCEPTING JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS!
MUHAMMAD DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, BUDDHA DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO PASTOR/NO PRIEST/NO SAINT/NO ANCESTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, MARY DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO IDOLS OR FALSE gods DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO MUSICIAN OR CELEBRITY DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO INFLUENCER OR UA-cam STAR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO SCIENTIST OR POLITICIAN DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ATHLETE OR ACTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS! STOP WORSHIPING THESE PEOPLE!
JESUS CHRIST ALONE DIED FOR YOUR SINS & WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE GRAVE! HE IS ALIVE & COMING BACK VERY SOON WITH JUDGEMENT (THESE ARE END TIMES)! PREPARE YOURSELVES, TURN FROM SIN & RUN TO JESUS! HE KNOWS YOUR PAIN & TROUBLES, HE WANTS TO HEAL & RESTORE YOU! TALK TO HIM LIKE A BEST FRIEND! ASK HIM TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU & HELP YOU TO BELIEVE IF YOU DOUBT! DON'T WAIT TO CRY OUT! NO ONE IS PROMISED TOMORROW! HE LONGS FOR YOU TO INVITE HIM IN, HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY PERSON EVER COULD, HE CREATED YOU!
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6
"But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33
“For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23
@@Spyblox007 I agree. Good comment.
It’s a double edged sword…the proof is that I’m watching this on social media along with many other helpful videos…like in life, we need to teach individuals to seek out the good and avoid the bad…unfortunately, the trash is much more appealing to the immature mind…this should be an area where schools and parents could work together, but schools are now part of the problem, unfortunately
I need my daughters to have their phones while at school for location services and to coordinate pickups and drop offs.
I noticed a considerable behavioral change with my middle child the more she integrated with social media. Primarily TicTok, but her social groups as well.
When I had her delete TicTok and social media apps her attitude and behavior changed, and she seemed less tense with lower anxiety. Honestly, it’s hard to compete with social media, educational “systems,” advertising, and peers as a parent.
I can see how all the messaging leads to mental pressure and behavioral issues.
ᴛᵉˣţ𝄍✉𝑾𝒉𝔮ᴛᵗ𝑠𝑨𝑝𝑝 ✚𝟏𝟔𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟑𝟔𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟕✔
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ᴛʜᴀɴᴋs ғᴏʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜɪɴɢ ◦◦.
Great conversation and good to see two sane and positive psychologist telling the truth, uplifting!
I so agree with the "contagion" concept. There are always people at the margins of any attempt at classification of psychological disturbances. So when diagnoses become "popular", there will be mis-classifications. This is why I find the large pressure groups regarding gender, from woke Hollywood to Florida Legislatures, to be so harmful. Figuring out the proper course of action or therapy is incredibly difficult. Self interested pressure groups are not helpful.
I think there's a couple of issues going on. For example, it's pretty obvious that sociopaths have discovered they gain a tactical advantage in their manipulative efforts by claiming to be some extra special gender. Anyone who doesn't go along with their manipulation gets called a this-phobe or a that-phobe, and surrounded by a mob of zombies.
I'm glad androgynous personality was brought up. Cultivated intelligence has both masculine and feminine qualities. The problem is the predominance of one in the opposite gender, which leads to imbalance. Sadly, as Dr. Peterson says, insecure individuals become prey to distorted thinking.
The imbalance of gender isnt the issue. The issue is the perception of gender physiology as a cure all for the intolerance of gender personality fluctuations.
@@autumnasbridge8691 while i do think there is confusion in the correlation between "amounts of (man or woman) in one gender"...sigh... I also hope you accept that you arent fighting for anything when you insult someone directly for a speculative comment. Even when you have much more knowledge about something, the other parties can't get to the knowledge if their own discomfort with your "side" of a debate is governing their affiliations. People need context. Educate without attack. It will move many miles more in the desired direction direction
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This is such a good message. Claire's point about being a tomboy and other commenters' sentiments made me realize now that the reason I wanted to be a boy when I was younger was because of the lack of female support I had going through puberty. I physically matured very quickly and also had (and still have) menstrual issues, and didn't have much help in those regards other than to try to figure things out for myself online. Even when my menstrual issues were causing me to lose sleep and impacting my day-to-day life, I was shrugged off as if I were being overdramatic. That really stung, coming from my own mom who knows I'm not a dramatic type.
I did eventually get medical help, and that's still an ongoing journey in itself, but it makes sense to me now why I hated all things that made me female and tried to hide them in my youth - not due to abuse, but due to that being the area in which I received little to no support growing up.
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Thank you Dr. Peterson for bluntly and with zero trepidation addressing such a controversial subject. I agree 1000% with you and your guest perspective on “transgender” young children. It sickens me to see parents encouraging their young children to embrace this life without thinking of the long term repercussions.
5:10 Regarding doing something so important early, it's interesting to notice parallels between hormonal and surgical procedures and getting married and having kids while still being relatively young. On the one hand, youth can really multiply success IF the right decisions are made. But on the other hand, youth can really multiply failure if the wrong decisions are made.
High stakes like these underscore the need for good representation in politics, medicine and society more generally. But even more importantly, we need a culture that supports free speech and free thought so that we can evaluate the competence and trustworthiness of the few we rely on to represent our interests with their expertise.
Agreed
Spot on
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My child identified as trans for around three years. I believethat I know my child quite well, and I Kew it was a matter of an idea presented fro the putside world rather a realisation from their inner self, and that they embraced it as the answer to to the confusion and I security they felt about who they are in the wider world and how to feel safer and more important in the eyes of others. Its a delicate path to tred as a parent. A really delicate path. Validating your child's emotions while protecting them.... are not always one and the same thing. My child and I had a number of genuinely honest and respectful conversations. Thankfully they understood and valued my ultimate feelings and concerns... much like I valued theirs. They can be anything they choose, but I can not in good conscience as an adult and a perent, agree to any form of medical intervention, given that they are still a child and have an immense amount of physical and mental development to experience before such decisions can be made, and by them alone. I can not commit to reasignment in the knowledge that it might o e day be recognised as butchering. I couldn't sign that off on anyone, regardless of my technical/legal authority to do so. I am lucky that my child valued my thought as much as I valued hers, and I am deeply pleased for her that she found a peace, a recognition and a connection to her feminine biology and psychology again, in a worl that constantly throwing craziness at her..
I worry that many children do not have the absolute freedom and confidence to turn back to their true gender once out as trans. I personally experienced a huge sigh of relief that I trusted myself and got it right for my child. I worry for others. I truly do. I am not against transgender. Adults cannot as they please, whatever their reason is. I am against harmi g children, and can not apologise for that.
I think it should be 18+ type of thing.... You shouldn't be thinking of your new gender at 13 .... At 13 playing with your school friends should be your priority, not hyper sexuality. Make it 18 + and yet it is very complicated it shouldn't just be available to anybody who doesn't fit the criteria of body dismorphia....Protect the children.🤝👊✌️
It should just be fucking illegal. It shouldn't be available to anybody at all.
I used to have a tumblr blog about urban planning because starting a blog is what you are supposed to do when you don't have a job, and I followed some other blogs/photostreams about architecture. Starting in about 2014 I started getting feeds I never subscribed to about social justice and LGTB issues, and the content just kept getting more and more extreme. I also developed a severe case of depression relating to my employment situation; and I don't think the two things are unrelated.
I love Jordon, his mind works at a million miles an hour, he’s extremely well read on the topics discussed and many of us here know his thoughts on these. That being said, I would have liked to hear more from his guest. I feel he interjected a fair bit throughout this discussion, without letting her complete her point.
Thanks Dr. Peterson for speaking your truth and for doing the very hard work to find out what the truth is.
there was a girl in school that while a teacher was asking a question she answered it yet not what the teacher wanted her to ask, she got slandered by the teacher and the students started to do the same, she realized that she didn't have to think what others thought of her, she could think anything she wanted about herself, what you think is where you will go and become.
Thank you dr. Peterson for all you do.
The way JP explains stuff is just so EASILY digestible. He’s the GOAT
We should not use the Newspeak word "activist". We should speak English and call them the word they have always been known by - "agitators".
Serious conversations definitely need to be had regarding the fact that technology/social media influence is now raising kids more so than stable families/parental influence. The rise of narcissistic personality disorders and the virtue signallers who defend them is frightening, too.
ᴛᵉˣţ𝄍✉𝑾𝒉𝔮ᴛᵗ𝑠𝑨𝑝𝑝 ✚𝟏𝟔𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟑𝟔𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟕✔
ʀᴇɢᴀʀᴅɪɴɢ ʙᴛᴄ/ ᴇᴛʜ ɪɴᴠᴇsᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ ɪᴅᴇᴀs
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ᴛʜᴀɴᴋs ғᴏʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜɪɴɢ ◦◦
Her last few points on this clip are spot on. It's unacceptable.
Body dysphoria is common among young people and it totally normal. It goes away in time.
I recommend no one transition before 25.
Love and Peace,
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ʀᴇɢᴀʀᴅɪɴɢ ʙᴛᴄ/ ᴇᴛʜ ɪɴᴠᴇsᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ ɪᴅᴇᴀs
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ᴛʜᴀɴᴋs ғᴏʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜɪɴɢ ◦◦..
I quit social media during the trucker convoy due to Facebook's censorship and i stopped watching mainstream news propaganda and i haven't been this happy in years, ever since. I'm since been practicing meditation and yoga and i feel so good. Looking within to find happiness and peace rather than looking outward. Also learning Qi Gong thanks to you Jordan. Love you brother.💗✌
I am a fifteen year old and I am constantly going through phases. I might slightly change my appearance for each "phase" but afterwards I always feel shame and embarrassment. Kids are not allowed to get tattoos for this exact reason. I can't imagine making an irreplaceable change to my body. Hormone genetic treatments should be treated like tattoos. I understand gender dysphoria is a real thing but for confused teens that have no idea what gender dysphoria is outside what they saw on social media; this mistake could affect them permanently. To sum it up I believe that people should be allowed to have genetic treatments but they have to be an adult.
My buddy's 2 nephews had some dude-ette visit their school to talk about all this and for a year they wanted to be girls and were talking in "weird voices" it became a huge issue in the family.
I would rage is somebody do that to my son
How though? I fail to understand how it is an issue. Regardless of whether or not the two nephews transition into women, they can still be functional human beings within society. They can still contribute to society and the economy, can someone explain to me why it is an issue?
@@JD-hx7yd Have you looked at the mental health issues and suicide rate within the trans community, even post transition? Did you know that the hormonal treatments that people are seeking to have their children undergo can both cause infertility and cancer? Why would you want to introduce this sort of a social contagion to an otherwise healthy child?
@@JD-hx7yd You did not watch the video?
@@JD-hx7yd Like it or not, you are largely viewed within our social dynamic by how you act and present yourself. Not hiring somebody for an open position because they have obvious social anxiety would be a good example. If somebody doing the hiring notices that you act like a woman by putting on strange girlish voices and acting overtly flamboyant, that could seriously effect your chances in the job market.
Whether or not that's fair is up for debate, but it is a very real situation they could be in. Additionally your children are substantially more likely to end up with mental issues, and destroyed future prospects by entering into the trans-space. There are hundreds of negatives to self-identifying as transgender and essentially only one positive, which rarely turns out to be positive in the end regardless.
i understand this was about a specific subject but he said something that applies across the board. the lack of full disclosure causes bad decisions because you dont have all the information. this applies to anything and everything.
Haven't had time to listen to the full talk but this was a great tidbit. I'll try to set aside time for the whole thing!
I have been a huge Dr.Peterson’s fan. And I still am. But I would like to express my astonishment in regards to the coverage of the Ukrainian war. Yes, I know, there were 2 episodes a month ago, but so much have changed since then. I always thought that Mr.Peterson would be on the frontline in such a situation. The blend of communism and nazism, which were extensively covered by Dr.Peterson, is ravaging my country. This is the time we need intellectuals like him the most. To influence , to predict, to call for action.
Dr. Peterson, if you somehow come across this comment, know that we need your support now more than ever.
You can say that again. I had this nightmarish experience as an art student. Dum dum me left an ordered and organized well paying job to go to a weird, undisciplined wacko art school where good art was determined by how mentally ill you could claim to be from any source of abuse real or perceived. It was a competition to act weird. It seems like social media has a tendency toward this goal of the crazy competition. No thanks AI. Level up art.
Thanks for shedding lights on a very complex subject while most including polarized influencers seek for an easy solution to swell their rank. Individuals are weak, but strongly identify with a group identity only further diminishing their personal character and strength.
One of the brilliant things about JP is that his opinions are informed by both vast personal observation and exhaustive research. Anyone who labels his perspectives as politically motivated is both self and externally deceptive. Every one of his analyses of the dysfunctions he wants to reduce, acknowledge the complicated nuances of the problems. While he states that there are simple solutions that the sufferer can employ he readily admits that simple does not mean easy ... particularly if the subject is unwilling to be honest with themselves and do the work that leads to healing.
Our youth, our world, need a formal Peterson lecture/talk covering this issue. The type that is informative, covers the important points, is hard-hitting and goes viral.
I thought, this contagion must be a thing, but I didn't believe it actually had any merit. Only anecdotal.
Seems like it's cool to have a depression, dysphoria or perceived mental disorders nowadays. Positive energy seems scarce.
Perhaps I look the wrong places or I'm just brooding too much.
Part of it might be where you are, but algorithms try to put you in specific places so you have to be very clear and try to force it to show you positive things.
On the other hand kids are struggling more because of a lot of reasons, absent fathers, early start times at school, and social media are all proven to cause depression and more.
I'm really glad he let her speak by the end of the end. I'll have to watch the full video to learn more about social contagion.
We have become SO polite - so unwilling to confront insanity out of fear of "hurting feelings" - that we are now ENABLING the mentally ill, instead of helping them to heal.
It's cool to be a fly on the wall with a conversation between such well informed people
Literally almost all of my friends talk about how school is damaging there mental health, it probably is but I told them that the primary reason is most likely social media. Most of them for some reason get visibly upset when I tell them that, it’s as if they know it subconsciously. I can’t say I’m much better, I watch quite a lot of UA-cam.
ᴛᵉˣţ𝄍✉𝑾𝒉𝔮ᴛᵗ𝑠𝑨𝑝𝑝 ✚𝟏𝟔𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟑𝟔𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟕✔
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ᴛʜᴀɴᴋs ғᴏʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜɪɴɢ ◦◦
UA-cam is called social media but it's not facebook / instagram etc
UA-cam has extreme diversity of content - it could be classed as harmful or helpful or anything in between. I prefer video sharing platform to describe it.
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Thank you for tackling this very controversial topic in brief. I've been told that the walls people have to climb in order to get a sex change operation are immense already and so discouraging them by redirecting them back to psychology is adding insult to injury. That may be so. But your question, how many people is it harming to add this question to the popular conversation to further confuse gender and sexual identity is important. Do we make our culture more hospitable for the minority of children who feel "in the wrong body" to the possible detriment of the majority who thereby are more confused about sexuality? And some of these people get gender-reassignment surgery only to later regret it or commit suicide at the same rate as those who don't get it. This is a concern that shouldn't be swept under the rug in a kind of "don't ask don't tell" policy, but perhaps there are better ways to educate our children about these topics. I enjoyed hearing about certain Native American cultures that named a 3rd gender for men who felt more akin to women and were honored for their insights into the lives of both men and women and were often tasked with couples counseling.
Dr. Peterson, i just wanted to say that i bought Beyond Order and it’s great! Thank you very much for your work. God bless you!
I just hope that at some point of history (and I hope it will come soon) humanity will find its balance and move away from extremities of any sorts
I've broke free from the dogmas, and became ostracized. Life is beautiful, and most real world problems dissolve, and when we get to solve them is not through anxiety and rage, such solutions have proven to be temporary (i.e. the Spanish revolution). Anyway, the best way to go is with a calm mind aiming always up; in a sense, a Jungian radical acceptance of evil, to overcome the same.
Personally, I am androgynous, schizophrenic and mixed race (German and African); tho I have no reason to play the game of menticide, to go hating my neighbors in favor of a demagogue, or hating myself in the misleading disinformation highway.
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I'm glad I'm not easily controllable by the social media. Feels good to have a working brain capable of critical thinking and scepticism. Feels good to have common sense in this day and age of people clinging to their delusions and succumbing to the delusions of others.
'Contagion of Confusion', another great term. Use it!
“Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.” -Carl Jung
I don't know if it's luck or what, but I ended up an author. so yeah, I've got fuckloads of personalities in my head. But I still know my primary self. I know the rest are characters. And, in the same way your dreams can make people who feel real and distinct, it's possible sometimes to get characters who feel so real they feel apart from you. I can see why someone without a strong sense of their core self could think, 'I have multiple personalities! They talk to me! How wonderful! I'm special!'
Jesus is risen, Hallelujah
Indeed He is risen!
In all of just like Jesus said. Become Christ like as compassion and forgiveness.
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Great talk, and Quillette is appreciated.
As someone dealing with a few actual mental disorders, i really want to see a truthful psychologist who can properly diagnose me further with what issues i have.
Issues i actually have are ocd, anxiety and depression and dissociation, because ive been homebound for so long due to my state ive been on the internet 24/7 and now i suspect i might also have autism, Bpd, gender/sexual identity crisis. I wish someone genuine can pull me out of this endless engagement i am in. Its difficult
My daughter's problems began once she bought her first cell phone at 18. We kept her from having a phone until then. She had access to social media but the family computer is in the living room on the flat screen so, it was harder for her to get trapped in it.
I am watching this coming to life in my child through not only msm but also coming from his teachers at government run schools
Get J.K. Rowling to speak to. She deserves to be heard.
There are studies that suggested letting negative emotions like anger out by practicing them on elsewhere such as punching bags actually intensifies these emotions. While you think you're letting them out, you're actually reinforcing them by indulging yourself to embrace them. The same with smiling - even if you're not feeling good, the very act of it makes you happier. Likewise, CBT is a pretty effective method of therapy, because it forces you to think in different ways from the one that's led you to neuroses.
I think most of social media (at least a lot of Instagram and Tiktok) encourages people to prime themselves to think and act in dysfunctional/bizarre/OTT/maladaptive ways. It's not just a few influencers consciously conspiring to corrupt people or whatever; social media is the internet equivalent of a reality TV show, so it passes itself off as real while users are ready to embrace and assimilate anything from it.
It's also been observed that racist comments on social media significantly encourage racism, and fake news spread more quickly than real ones. I tend to believe in freedom of speech and expression, but if it seems that bad content spreads so quickly and goes on to influence the masses, maybe unlimited freedom on social media happens at the expense of too much. It's different for stuff like violent video games, because you're aware that they're obviously fiction, even subconsciously.
The last paragraph loses everything. The bad guys use a deliberately false definition of racism where you're racist by default, and only institutional racism can fix that.
It ought to be noted that the push for these ideologies isn’t coming from the victims, but rather from a nefarious group much further up the hierarchy, and it can be argued that there is a great deal of profit to be made from disrupting society in these ways. This, in my opinion, is the same thing that has been done since Cain slew his brother for gain.
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Trying to become a boy didn’t solve my cousin’s problems. She was 20 and had been sexually assaulted when she was 11 and again by a different man when she was 14. The online groups encouraged her to become a boy as if this would stop any future sexual advances from young men. Of course it didn’t. It seemed to be the last straw for her when she realised this. And there is so much suicide ideation in these groups. She went to her doctor and asked to be referred to a clinic for hormones/surgery. They told her there was a five year wait. They did not question her mental health at all. They just sent her away, saying she had to wait. We had her funeral on Monday. She took her own life. She left a note saying that death was the only way she could be who she wanted to be. Obviously I wish she had never gone through the assaults but I also just wish she had never found these online groups that purport to be supporting and helpful but are in fact insidious and emotionally cannibalistic. They stopped her from accessing real help, in my opinion.
The good doctor has thrown his gloves off and I love it. We must no longer see leftists as dumb, but instead incredibly calculated.
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Jordan with all talk about sex assignments and gender assignments, could you address male infantile circumcision?
In my opinion, it's a form of gender assignment performed on an unwilling minor who not only can't give consent but aren't given any opportunity to reject the entire thing itself. Not to mention that it's a blatant violation to Article Seven of our Canadian Charter Rights: Life, Liberty, Security of the Person.
' It is arrogance in us [men] to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them [women] to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine.' But also what poor, warped fragments of humanity most mere men and mere women must be to make the implications of that arrogance plausible.’ C.S. Lewis - A Grief Observed
I'd be concerned about kids trying to act like a transgender , because many are very animated like a cartoon looking character who they like on you tube and then thinking they are one. Kids are extremely impressionable.
I mean... we could just pass legislation that restricts minors from having internet access during the formative years of their lives. Especially when taking into consideration it's addictive potency on par with that of drug abuse. If I were a benevolent dictator who could just make up whatever rules I wanted my people to follow, that would be one of the first laws I would want to enact.
Should be responsibility of the parents, not the government.
I’m feeling a struggle with the unfairness, and social engineering manipulation of media, I think I may have to pull away altogether.
The more I know about human nature the worse it gets. There is pain when positive Illusions dissolve, it’s called loss. xx love to all.
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I've been watching a lot of videos about this! I'm glad you're talking about it
Gregg Braden talks about the HeartMath Institute and its finding that people with very regular heart beats, are more rigid than people with more variable heart rates. People with variable heart rates are more flexible and open to new possibilities. I wonder if the people who think sex and gender should be closely aligned have non-variable heart rates?
Gender roles were established long ago, based on the environment and physical abilities. Men typically being stronger, did the heavy lifting, and they were the initiators. Women as nurturers kept the home and maintained or supported what the man started (gross generalizations, I know).
With the advent of industrialization, along with the information age, stereotypical roles are no longer biologically determined. In fact, they're getting stale. This flexibility in who plays what role can be unnerving, especially for those with real regular heart beats. But the idea that men don't have to constantly go off to battle any more, means they don't have to prepare for it either. They don't have to be John Wayne anymore. [Even John Wayne himself couldn't live up to his image.]
Yes, having a sex change is extreme. A miracle of modern science. Having never been there, I don't understand it myself. But I did spend a lot of time in the Men's Liberation Movement and know a lot about the male psychology. But as society has so many character traits associated with each gender, effeminate boys or masculine girls naturally want to fit in as best as possible, given their internal biology and psychology, thus the change, since it's now available. (One suspects that there have been people throughout history/herstory that wished they could be the other sex but were unable to be.)
"You would say "how are you doing" to a man working the docks in the 1930's, and he would say "Huh, what? I don't know." His whole existence was predicted on is his wife happy, are his kids feed. He never talked about himself." - Gavin Mcginnis
With all respect to both of you, Their are deeper reasons for gender disorder or confusion. Past , present, future, food, karma, people like you are blessing for the ones that fights with it.... others just want them to go with it.... what's life with out a fight to overcome man made illusions.....
Great discussion on an issue that needs to get far more attention.
In the west, as increasingly we are herded and led by media, academia, governments, their many activists and even institutions, to ignore our traditional approaches to life and living, particularly on sexual norms, I think people like Jordan Peterson have been very helpful to many in seeing the gravity and danger of all this and to think again, to look at and explore the traditional mores and understand them at a deeper level.
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I've never learned so much whilst being yelled at before. Thank you Dr. Peterson!!