I was referred to a psychiatrist 6 weeks ago for insomnia. Diagnosed as bipolar. WTF?! I spent 6 weeks in bed drugged out of my mind on meds, totaled my car, bought and drank a gallon of vodka, spent 2 days in ICU... I don't remember most of it but I have the bills and consequences to prove it. I took myself off of the meds and somehow....magically...went into "spontaneous remission". As a last ditch effort to convince me that I'm bipolar, I was warned that I might have another "episode" in 1...5...or 20 years. The doctor totally bypassed the fact that I wasn't sleeping because the gyms were closed and healthy food was not readily available during Covid lockdown. My life had become work and staring at my four walls while eating what I could get my hands on. My brain didn't know how to function like that. Psychiatry and medications have caused irreparable damage iny life....all in 6 weeks.....for simple insomnia. The really sad thing is....I've worked in the medical field for the past 30 years. Anyone can fall prey to these charlatans!
I was getting B's and C's in college and working a part time college job for 3 years and overeating to cope with sadness and stress when my dad said I should go on meds to get my grades and mood up and control my weight so they put me on Ritalin, Adderall, and Prozac and I flunked out of college and had to be hospitalized for having a manic episode and they slapped a Bipolar 2 label on me and I struggled to work or think clearly or read ever since and the worst panic attacks now even though I have touched any meds for 10 years.
Honestly, I think the odds of getting a poorly trained and experienced one is 4x more likely. Only seek help from a referral from a friend who has worked with the doctor.
I was put on an antidepressant to fight my burn out for a few months and quit as soon as I could bc of side effects. The pill was 300$ a month: for that price, any depressive person can afford a weekly cleaning service, a nutrition coach and/or take a yoga class that would do as much good as the pill. :/
lol that totally did sound like that reading it again ! I meant that meds should NOT be used for JUST burnout. And that yes there are many things you can do to get healthy aside from meds. Medical treatment can be life saving for some too.
I met this girl on halidol when I was in county jail for a few weeks. She was special needs and did have some problems before her arrest, but basically she overheard her nieces talking about being molested by their uncle and freaked out, stole a car, and drove them to her house in another state. The parents didn't know what happened, called 911, and she got arrested for kidnapping over state lines. She had been in the jail for 3 years awaiting trial, and her mental state had slowly deteriorated into nothing (this is not prison, this is three years in a freezing cold, tiny room with no view of the outside world or sunlight.) She began assaulting other inmates at random and had to be given daily injections of the stuff. They were still waiting for her to "adjust" to her medications in order to be deemed competent to stand trial. It was really depressing, and I could do nothing to help her.
@@DavidLoveMore Other than that, what we can do is use this wisdom to try to help prevent more of this from happening, in whatever small ways we can individually do within our own "small corner of the world" as Daniel says.
As a brother to a real pathologic narcissist sister, which is now practicing as a child-therapist in Switzerland - I can just approve that. I don't have contact with her anymore since a while, but her understanding of psychology is so advanced as her own understanding of herself. It's not existing. My experience with psychologists and therapists and psychiatrists is a quite bad one - they never listened to what I actually said and invalidated myself. No one understood, that I'm autistic, just because I'm good looking and was able to mask all my not accepted behaviors in public. Needed years to find someone, who really understood autism and was able to diagnose me officially.
@@bxnny0374 yes, you're actually me - you must know since you're me and you do know about it since I know about it, so it's a clear case. I'm you. Nah, just kidding and waiting for a client call that early in the morning. Good to know I'm not alone with having a crazy sister in Switzerland, being autistic and having experienced a narcissistic family and bad experiences with psychologists. High five.
I left the medical research field because I was getting so disillusioned with how so many people in it seemed either oblivious and naive to systemic issues within it, or were themselves corrupt - or at least had questionable motivations. It sucks, but I realized that I was just becoming frustrated, anxious, cynical and bitter. I could write a lot more but I'd probably end up rambling a lot.
Yes, forced psyquackery is a living hell on earth and it needs to be banned immediately!!!!!!! Wait, we've all been saying this for decades now............????????!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😔😱😡💀
Many years ago during an appointment with a psychiatrist at an inpatient rehab, I tried to persuade the shrink to take me off the antidepressant. She said, "you're desire to get off this medication is proof you need still need it." I shook my head in disgust. I wondered how in the hell she could get through all that schooling and yet be so dumb.
Me too, always. I just thinking i living in a circus, its crazy. But if you talk parents they laughing but still do nothing to you to care. its really bad, sometimes I dont know why I am still living...people are just so crazy...dont care at all, even dont understand or know anything!
I had dreams of becoming a clinical psychologist to try to help people, but working in the field opened my eyes that it was more politics than actually helping people. This video just makes me glad I didn't waste more of my time.
I've seen people inpatient at hospitals misdiagnosed bipolar so many times after a 10 minute or less interview it scares me. They come out of the office scared, confused, and looking for answers. After spending time with them (which the docs never do) I can see how criminal this should be. I always tell people to get a second, third and fourth opinion from docs who will spend time getting to know them rather than the McDoc's who give a McDiagnosis and have a drive-thru instead of office "hours". ("Can I get some Zyprexa, a couple Xanax, and some Adderall to go, please? Oh, do I get fries with that?"). I rarely see true bipolar in a hospital setting. Rarely. Most are misdiagnosed cases of childhood neglect and trauma that is causing issues now they are adults. Anyway, I could keep commenting on here all night about all I've seen inpatient and outpatient over the last 16 years but I'll stop. I'm now med free!!!! It's better than being debt free...
i was misdiagnosed with bipolar II when i was 13 years old in exactly this scenario. i have an avoidant personality. although neither my therapist nor my psychiatrist endorsed the "diagnosis", my abusive mother loved it.
It feels very much like a mean game that everyone is playing and getting away with. Meanwhile it’s someone’s life in their hands. The name of the game, how to make as much money from someone’s misfortune as possible.
I will never forget the psychiatrist who told me I was 'setting myself up for failure' by ceasing and refusing to commence any new mind-altering drugs. She can go to Hell with her colleagues.
Tsk tsk. With my new psychiatry degree, I hereby diagnose you with Borderline Personality Disorder. It's very clear due to your anti-psychiatry attitude. (Well, at least now I know why I keep getting that diagnosis. Like when I point out that BPD has overlapping symptoms with Complex PTSD, which actually makes SENSE,.and get told that that doesn't mean I don't have BOTH! Oh, while I'm at it, let me add a professional psychiatric eyeroll for practice.) Seriously, ALL of this is SO familiar!!! I also saw all MY mind-altering drugs scroll by, including the benzodiazepines I've been permanently addicted to and told that the dependence is all in my mind (because the doctor knows my body better than I do; he's been prescribing them for 30 YEARS!), eyeroll, facial tic, formications. Oh, and the next person who tells me, "I know someone who got off of benzodiazepines; it's not that hard," is going to get strangled.
It’s sad that psychiatrists like that exist! As an aspiring psychiatrist I will be patient with my clients no matter how mentally ill they are. It’s literally an honor to be a psychiatrist because people are trusting you with their lives, and, ya, sometimes you get crazy patients, but you gotta be patient with them, that’s literally your job!
Omg the accuracy of this!! After years of dealing with 2 psychiatrists and 2 psychologists and a few clueless primary doctors only 1 person helped me out of major depression and that was my female psychologist. She taught me healthy coping mechanisms, educated me and treated me with compassion and now I’m doing amazing. I had experienced everything in this video. It’s terrifying what we don’t realize is going on. I was lucky to crawl my way out to freedom. Thank you for making this video!!
A friend of mine, who is a prominent psychiatrist of a moderately sized American city, told me I'd make a good psychiatrist, that I shouldn't feel nervous about the medical school part of the training. I took it as a compliment...until now.
I haven't written her off as evil. I have lawyer friends, too, and a friend who is a legit mobster. And to really stretch things, I even have a republican friend. Fortunately there is more to my friends than their titles.
and a friend who is a legit mobster yep, you sound cool, something I would also be proud of telling others for a mixture of birging/attempt at alpha status but then again, my moral compass isn't fucked up
Oh, don't worry about me being cool, beta-boy(girl?). If you live in an unprotected world you come across different people, the histories about many of whom you don't know, and by not knowing, you don't necessarily dismiss them. I wouldn't choose to be friends with someone based on his or her vocation, though "mobsters" I'd probably avoid, if I know. You're probably a prig and I'm just incredibly cool.
@@toddboothbee1361 , isn't that the way it always is? I am friends with someone who did something terrible, and I never thought I could ever want to be around someone who committed such an act. But sometimes you really do have to read the book, even if the outer cover is unattractive, or the reviews were generally bad, You never know. People are multi-faceted. I understand what you're saying.
What I have noticed with my records is they always put several diagnosis. I went off all psych meds and don’t regret it. The doctor had me on 2 milligram bar of Xanax 6 times a day and anti depressant and other drugs which are actually even more dangerous. Told that I needed to stay on these the rest of my life and been on nerve and anxiety pills since early childhood. Been off benzodiazepines for four years almost and lost all trust in shrinks. All I needed was a good psychologist and treat the actual issues instead of drugging me up all those years.
You used to have 12mg of Alprazolam per day? OMW! Those drugs are full of nasty side effects, true, especially the SSRIs and the tricyclic antidepressants, not to mention the benzos, but sometimes they are needed. At least short term. I wouldn't have been able to function without them at one point of my life due to my GAD. It caused severe physical symptoms and health anxiety and I though I was dying and would be in and out of the EAs all the time. I reached a point where I felt like my legs are going to stop working altogether, and I'll end up in a wheelchair, I had oscillating blood pressure (up and down, and then all around again all the time), myalgias, fasciculations, blurred vision, indigestion... Mental symptoms aside, as I'm used to living with those sadly. I went to one specialist after another, got all sort of tests done, from the blood tests to an MRI... and it was only when I started taking a SSRI ( Paroxetine ) and a antypsychotic (Sulpiride, a smaller dose, one intended for GAD and Depressive disorders) that I've found some peace, and could function again. No amount of psychotherapy, or breathing exercises could've helped. What I'm trying to say is: most people who are anti-psychiatric-drugs haven't experienced many or any somatic symptoms of mental illness, which can be downright crippling, and are probably only suffering from mild to moderate form of the condition anyway. Maybe that was your case and you simply had an overzealous "shrink", or an unethical one. But the drugs (Xanax included lol) can be lifesavers that give you a chance, some time and opportunity to pull yourself together and get some control back, which would otherwise be unattainable. Anyhow, hope you're doing much much better now, and that you'll keep getting better. G'd bless!
@@miloradvlaovic I agree that benzodiazipines like xanax can be very helpful for calming somebody down enough to be able to engage with talk therapy and just give their nerves a much needed break for a while, a couple of weeks on these can really get somebody through when they have been stuck in a cycle of bad anxiety and to leave them in that state is just cruel and effects their physical health too. As long as benzodiazipines are only given short term and are tapered down correctly they are literally lifesavers because they work and they work fast. Antidepressants and antipsychotics on the other hand are notorious for bad side-effects that exasperate a person's condition either that or they don't work at all (or both)..the thing is that it takes about 6 weeks to see if they are working for the person and by that time they are established enough in the system to cause withdrawals when stopped. Also very very few people are ever put on them shortterm' - the usual practice (with antipsychotics anyway) is to increase dosage and keep increasing it and more often than not add more drugs- they love to prescribe cocktails of psychiatric drugs ( polypharmacy).. I'm convinced this is for experimentation( that's what they do) .. the more cynical side of me though is thinking they also do this so that the patient will not be able to tell which drugs are giving which side-effects and so they can't say which one they need to stop and then resign themselves to staying on all of them .it really appears that they want you on as many of their drugs as possible for as long as possible . And why wouldn't they when they get nicely rewarded by the pharmaceutical companies for doing just this. They are basically on commission!
How depressing 😔 I remember being cut off by a psychologist when I started mentioning 'the state of the world' in an intake session. She cut me off and labeled it borderline.. this video made me think of that. It felt like a continuation of bad things I've been through.
Diagnostic interviews seem like the ultimate case of gaslighting, except they're gaslighting your entire lived experience. It's so fucked. I'm lucky to be far away from this stuff despite my mom's attempts to medicate me with Ritalin as a kid (I fought them off so much they gave up, thank God little me was wise and strong). Sadly though my sister fell full victim from early childhood and was a psychiatric drug lab rat of sorts since 3. There was one drug that gave her *HORRIFIC* nightmares which can't even be compared to typical nightmares according to her. She's been on antidepressants, anti-psychotics, diabetic meds, benzos, and others I haven't been told about for as long as I know/remember. But on the bright side, she's finally listening to reason when I try to share my understanding of this stuff and starting to question her own history and reliance on diagnoses, as well as pull back on trusting medical "pros" unconditionally. She is doing so in search of "a more accurate diagnosis" but she's definitely gotten herself on a better path.
I thought I had severe ADHD and anxiety for a while, and possibly even autism. I got "diagnosed" by multiple psychs/therapists, and they each just gave me a sheet of paper to fill out, and took my word for it. All the meds I tried made me feel so lifeless, adderall I was especially freaked out by. Not to mention adderall worsened my body image issues and unhealthy relationship with food. Now I'm healing by cutting out toxic people, listening to myself, doing things I love, and all of the brain fog and confusion that I associated with ADHD prior, has largely gone away. Since I'm dedicating most of my time to things I actually love doing, I don't even have to worry about the roadblocks that I associated with ADHD before. I've also figured out that I'm extremely sensitive and empathic, and because of this, I require a lot of boundaries and quiet time to myself. Before, I was around people and places that were constantly overwhelming and overstimulating me, which made me anxious, depressed, and unfocused. But now that I live alone with my cat, and I spend a lot of my free time by myself or in nature, I feel a lot more at peace. And it makes me a lot more able to accomplish and learn about things.
LOVE THIS GUY!! He confirms all the suspicions i ever had about psychiatry. If my parents had it their way I would have been medicated from 14 when there was nothing wrong with me but normal teenage angst and a stressful home life. Hate to think were Id be now if Id taken that trajectory or been on board.
i love this, i left the field of psychology after i felt such disgust of the level of deception, ignorance, ego and bullshit from colleagues and the field, it damages people everyday
I can't stop giggling haha! I have recently been licensed as a clinical psychologist and that's pretty much what I have seen during my internships in mental health institutions. Not to mention a lot of psychiatrists with personality disorders.
It's sickening and sad to see how people's issues are treated with such disrespect. These people need real help, and being drugged and scammed and betrayed by trusted "experts" in mental health only makes things worse for them. The whole mental treatment industry seems designed to A) make money B) keep people's serious complaints and traumas isolated and not shared with society as a whole, so that society never has to face its issues. Instead they give drugs to make people with issues even worse than before, so that society can dismiss them as crazy.
Insightful and accurate I'm afraid. Most of these supposed (fraudulently-claimed) brain diseases are nothing but social problems causing reactions in people that you should always expect to happen in a certain percentage of the population who are living in terrible conditions, or who have been otherwise been severely traumatized and emotionally damaged. Psycho drugs are basically like a giant payday loan. At first you are able to deny the problem is there, but once pay day comes you are fucked, because you are now addicted to the drugs, and when you withdraw the scam artist looking you over tells you that your withdrawal is your "illness" coming back, for which you are given more dangerous pills. That is to say nothing about the routine violation of the most basic medical ethics. Psychiatrists are by far the least compassionate and most criminal doctors out there. They either don't know what their real purpose is or they sense it and just don't care because Psych is low hours and obscenely high pay and little chance of accountability. The more drugs you prescribe the more money you make no matter how many lives you destroy.
@Vicky Mae Cayago There is no 'god'. You may want to help people. That is a good thing to aspire to. Being 'rich' is not a bad thing. But, getting rich thru psychiatry by harming people (like I was) is something that I must condemn. First of all, --- get REAL. Do not live your life under a cloud of religious delusion. 2. Study something, - anything --- also lucrative, but not something that would cause you to be a glorified carnival barker/snake-oil salesman. Uphold your personal integrity, --- by not hurting other people. Use your imagination, and find a better path. Peace out.
@@Turtleproof ikr i always comment “please talk about what are the good ones in psychiatry.” Just to change mood and things up. Lol i think he barely notice
It's nice seeing someone criticize psychiatrists my experience with them has been nothing but hell. Constantly labeling me as this or that, putting me on all this crazy medication. And none of it was working but they kept adding more and more and more. And they convince you that you need this stuff to be happy that it's just a matter of finding the right combo and it'll all be better. The final straw for me was when they started putting me on bipolar meds (despite not being bipolar) and I had a psychotic break because of it. There was a freeze and I couldn't get my meds and I went from a high dose to nothing. I saw online apparently this was a common side effect. And then insanely enough they started trying to convince me I had psychosis and started putting me on anti psychotics which was pure hell on earth. I feel so sorry for schizophrenics that are on that stuff it's terrible the way it makes you feel. I'm off all that crap now and only take an extremely low dose of latuda for my aspergers. And that's it. I'm never letting another psychiatrist boss me around like that again. Those two years on meds were the worst of my life. I know medication helps some people but I really think it should be tried last not first because of all the harmful side effects and how most psychiatrists are. All those shitheads care about is the money.
You have them sussed. This is one of many comments I'd love to show to family/ friends who pushed me to go to psychiatric services but I know they wouldn't pay any attention In their view, these are the qualified experts and they expect me to keep trying toxic drug cocktails until I find the right ones ( until I'm zombifed and shut tf up morelike it) I'd love to them to be in our shoes and experience what we go through in the hands of these psychopaths before preaching like they do.
Thank you so much for your honesty. For so many years I thought I was living with a crazy mind after I see my doctor for the depression. By the second years with an antidepressant, my mental health and health declined so badly to the point where I am deeply convinced that I am the crazy person and ready to leave this planet almost two years ago. The sad thing is that I got really scared of my family doctor. I think my soul was convinced that the pills are poisoning me, and it appeared to be. Pretty much like any kind of chemicals, a small dose that nobody noticed the difference until it becomes too late. Lucky I have guardian angels helping me getting through this hell with an antidepressant. Right now I am no longer taking an antidepressant, Cymbalta for a month and I am feeling much better, feeling almost normal. Many symptoms such as IBS, ME/CFS, confusion, paranoid and many more are now gone. The real cure is to eat healthy food and living an almost stress-free lifestyle. Impossible to do while we support this crazy economy where everyone demand to work harder and harder. Good luck to everyone because more of your children will suffer mental health more than we do...... Really good luck.
The work ethic of America is nothing short of insanity. You're told when to wake up, when to work and praised for doing more than your peers because you're productive and valuable until you aren't because you've burnt yourself out and possibly develop any number of mental or physical problems from constantly stressing yourself out. It's a vicious circle and if you can, you're best bet is to get out.from the rat race before it kills you.
You nailed it. Love the multiple choice questions. Was laughing out loud. Thanks for helping me see some humor in what they do--made me feel better even empowered. The best kind of medicine.
Being bitter and cynical about the psychiatric world is natural, if you have been a victim of it, either as a patient, or as a good therapist like Daniel (10 years' experience) or me as a licensed mental health counselor in New York State (14 years for me, grand total.) Regarding the world in general, if we can turn our bitterness and cynicism into something good (Daniel's excellent videos and his helping clients before that; my helping clients in my practice and in agencies, and directing them to medical specialists dedicated to treating them like human beings and bringing them off of psych meds) then, God willing, we are helping the world in general, and specifically exposing the criminal fraud that the psychiatric world is. We are then helping ourselves by rebelling against a profit-driven system that routinely poisons and murders the very people it pledges itself to help. We need more Daniel Macklers, Robert Whittakers, and Peter Breggins in this world. I hope this answers your good question. Thank you.
I was once told to try not to think about the scary thoughts.. that really helped a lot o.o Oh and another therapist started crying.. o.o there is more.
I aspire to become a psychiatrist or anything in the psychology field, but it's not specific since I have a long future ahead. I've been looking through videos to see what it's like. All the comments about really terrible psychiatrists is quite frightening, so I'll do my best and take all the comments into consideration. This video was also well-made and I appreciate it. Thank you!
I think a lot of shrinks start out with good intentions, then they get programmed in medschool with an education formulated with heavy influence and input from the pharmaceutical moguls..then they start practice where their hardened superiors teach them how to be cold and ruthless and basically bully but at the same time not see it as abuse and believe this is the only way to treat these "faulty "humans..
I'm back to watch this video again, love it! This is one of my favorite Daniel videos. Love the truth and honesty, wisdom and intelligence, delivered in a humorous way as well. Daniel is such a wonderful refreshing breath of fresh air of TRUTH. Love it!!!! 👏👏👏👏
“Off-label”. I had forgotten that one. That must be the laziest, most irresponsible prescribing of all which clearly shows that psychiatrists have no idea what any of those drugs do, if anything. F
Yeah when they tried to get me on meds for depression, they literally said "we dont know which one will work for you so we will just keep trying different meds till we find one that works, ok?" like mf i aint gonna be no guini pig
@@TheMabes69 Me too. And it got to the point where I couldn't sleep without it. I tapered myself off of it over the course of late summer/early fall of this year and am finally getting the natural healthy sleep deprived from me for so many years.
I recently went to a psychiatrist because I have ADHD and am positive I have Sensory Processing Disorder or even Autism, but right off the psychiatrist roller her eyes at the mention of autism. She is convinced my parent's never loved me and I don't love my bf, and that I have BPD in the first visit. It would be nice to be taken seriously. Seems like a very easy fit, to just diagnose someone with BPD and not look into their concerns about sensory issues. Especially for almost $200 an hr. Then I was told that this is the process to get you to react, buy tryign to upset you. This seems messed up to me. Why can't it be straightforward? Why does there have to be tricks? I also told her I do not want medication because I already have serious health issues, which wasn't taken seriously at all. Psychiatry is a joke isn't it? I was told that it was better to be an Ativan and Ritalin which makes me incapable of working and highly anxious because it will fix my "dysfunctional brain" and that that "would be better." All I want is insight into SPD and how to deal with it and coping mechanisms.
Oh my gosh , Daniel, you so brilliantly and articulately nailed this!!!! Every video I've seen of yours on the fox of psychotherapy and psychiatry has been like a drink of cool water for me. I don't feel alone. Thank you. Exactly what I saw and experienced as an LCSW. It just makes my stomach clench. I'm so grateful for you!!!! What a relief to hear someone talk about this!!!! ❤
I'm afraid this is mostly true. But the thing is, a lot of people don't get in trouble for doing their job bad. Psychiatry may be just one of them... You shouldn't trust a psychiatrist. You should use them as a tool. I don't let psychiatrists prescribe me medicine. I just take advice from them, and if they are cocky, I change my doctor. Same with psychologists. I don't trust them. I go to them with my own therapy plan. Your psychology is too valuable and delicate to give to the hands of a stranger. And no matter how "qualified" someone is, be it a doctor or a therapist, they are a stranger.
A wise approach, Hüseyin and possible for some people in some countries. Most people make the reasonable assumption that a medical professional shouldn't be so poorly informed, and their methods so potentially harmful to patients. The scary thing is that, in the USA, sometimes the patient doesn't have the option of refusing medication. If someone refuses, their medical insurance won't pay for their treatment or they may lose their insurance policy completely. Additionally, if a psychiatrist suspects the patient isn't taking the meds, the patient can be forced to take them, or be threatened with hospitalisation. If the medication is for your child and you can see it is harming them, you may have your children taken away and forcibly drugged. See, "Overpill" the RT documentary: ua-cam.com/video/5722_XclQkY/v-deo.htmlm44s As this video rightly illustrates, the system is completely broken and does not have the interests of the patient as its first priority. "First do no harm."
So you’d get on a plane and let stranger pilot fly you? Or drive a car that a stranger has designed? Or eat food that a stranger has prepared? All these decisions place your ‘delicate psychology’ at risk. All this, but you wouldn’t go to a psychologist and have them set out a health and well-being plan for you? Delicate psychology indeed.
And the goodies from the pharmaceutical companies, legal drug dealer bonuses from their supplier, no conflict of interest declaration required. These people are criminals, its time we stopped enabling them. Thanks for your honesty. Powerful stuff.
I actually saw a picture on my psychiatrists desk of him and his family with a boxer dog. I tried to have a conversation with him about how I work with an animal rescue and a young boxer came in that would be perfect for him and his family. At first he seemed interested but then... oh, no psychiatrist can take a "patient" at face value... so he ignored it all and just played "doctor/patient" with me! Oh, i'm not a human... I must be a case! That was MANY years ago and i'm well off that route!
Michelle Wei I once made a remark in front of my psychiatrist about his clean and stylish office, and compared it to my "messed up life". He immediately "put down his shades".
I'm a nutrition counselor and I see patients on these drugs too. I feel like the patients on meds are worse off than the ones without because they aren't getting proper treatment
Absolutely amazing. I've gone to several mental health clinics and seen a few psychiatrists for months at a time. I think they would have lowered my dosage if I'd asked because I am an educated, articulate person, and I know my rights. One treated his patients disrespectfully. If it was time for my appointment and he was just shooting the breeze with a drug rep he would get very indignant and angry if the scheduled patient knocked on his closed office door. at their appointed time. When I did it, he just got annoyed (he spoke to me through the closed door if I remember) and told me to wait in the lobby, he wasn't ready. I had listened at the door, so I knew they were just chit-chatting, not even about meds, just social stuff One or two psychiatrists I've encountered also had the odd, quite rude habit of not acknowledging me if they encountered me at the clinic front door or in a corridor. When I said "Hi" to them, usually they didn't answer, but looked straight ahead. One, I see every now and then out on the street when I guess he's out on his lunch hour, and I stopped saying hello to him because I never got a hello back. I understand about patient confidentiality and HIPA, but acting this rudely when a patient, or a patient not yours but whom you've interacted with at the clinic initiates the greeting. Another one who I happened to run into at a bookstore/coffee house/music venue very obviously rebuffed my "Hello Dr. so and so", and made it clear that he didn't want to talk to me, I assume because he wasn't wearing his "psychiatrist" hat, and just wanted to be in his music lover persona. My last (and final! I now get my meds from my primary care physician - no psychiatrists, no therapists) psychiatrist, I personally liked very much, even though he seemed a terrible mental health practitioner, when it came to verbal interactions, and on more than one occasion he made me feel just awful about myself for days after I'd seen him. Therapeutically, he was toxic. But he was very earnest, a nice person and extremely ethical - he was just terrible at interacting. I think every mental health clinic by law should be required to post a notice showing the Patients Bill of Rights. Thank you for this video, it is very, very enlightening.
And don't forget sneaky seroquel.. they dish that stuff out like candy for everything from insomnia to mild depression. It's a gateway drug to zyprexa and worse and boy don't the filthy scoundrels know it!
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this! What you described was my experience, from a patient point of view, to a T! At one point during my four years of treatment with the same psychiatrist, he said that I was one of the most medication resistant patients he had ever seen. Later in treatment, he said he was frustrated, and concluded that I was, indeed, the most medication resistant patient he had ever worked with - and I took it as a compliment, although I felt very alone and not helped. It got to the point where I chose to go to the hospital, and that changed everything for me. He happened to be the lead psychiatrist - basically the guy over everybody else in the psych ward where I stayed. I got to see him for one hour each morning, and he was very relaxed. He even let me leave for a good part of a day to spend time with my daughter for her 10th birthday. It made all the difference and meant the world to her. I didn’t even have to get a special pass or anything - he just said to keep it low-key and come back in the evening. Of course I was there as a voluntary patient, but you probably know how hard it is to get in the hospital - when you want to be there! He told me how much he hated his day job, seeing a bunch of people for 15 minutes each. He thought it was a joke. It turned out he had an amazing side to him - something I have come to learn about almost everybody, including some people who have hurt me (I do not choose to live with them - but that is another story). The story that is relevant happened to get published five years ago on Madinamerica.com - I’ll include the link: www.madinamerica.com/2013/04/my-place-in-the-crisis/ Since I wrote that piece, I have not gone back to an actual psychiatrist - even though the last thing he said to me was, “Oh, you’ll be back.” Thinking back on it, I wonder if he was kind of joking. I always take myself so seriously, but we did sort of have this humorous side to our rapport. I eventually went to some naturopaths and to an APRN and my gp to see if medication might still be an option - but nope, turns out that it is still a bad idea. I do have hope, however in a few things right now. In Utah, my boss and some of us (we are licensed psychotherapists/social workers with various titles) helped start a non-profit to increase trauma-informed care in our state. We are working our asses off sometimes just to get doctors and mental health professionals and clients all kind of on the same page with how to work together and cut down on some of the bull shit - especially helping people to not go the hospital and not be medicated as first-line and only-alternative solutions.. It’s quite the task, but I have seen some good changes! For one, when I did want to try medication again - being pretty desperate in 2015 - my general practitioner would not just give me Adderall to try out for my recently diagnosed “ADHD.” She wanted me to either go to a provider and report back to her, or to communicate with my APRN and make sure we were on the same page. It’s not all bad out there, Mr. Daniel, I mean in the “mental health” field. But that said, i’m considering embracing the whole problem - as I interpret it - with my arts emphasis instead of always feeling battle weary!
Daniel, your insights are fantastic. I really enjoy all of your videos. You are speaking a truth which is very necessary. I think we are the same age and have similar outlook. Are you ever in Ireland? Fergus.
I have seen this, and it is I feel a horrible process of assessing patients and changing their chemistry to suit the purse of the physician and pharmaceutical companies. Hiking, fresh air, conscious hydration, mindful hygienic routines, daily exercise before even getting out of bed, reading are therapeutic.
I just love you dude!!! You are my favorite channel in the whole world!!! Can’t get enough... hahaha... I think you’re totaling nailing this comedy routine!😂😂😂👏👏👏BRAVISSIMO !!!!
Wow, I've seen so many psychiatrists over the years who appropriately did ALL the things you described and got 100% on your exam! (In fact, I went straight to "all of the above" by the time you got to the second choice on the multiple-choice section!) So since I'm now such a highly qualified psychiatrist (and studied a statistically significant number of psychiatrists in action), does that also qualify me for the bonus God Complex degree? :D
I was always guilted over refusing psych drugs for my fibromyalgia. They think that a physical illness can be cured by these magical brain drugs. The only reason I refused is my mom has the same diagnosis and went through the whole process, including a stay in the psych ward on suicide hold because they put her on multiple meds including psych meds, and each one created it’s own set of horrific side effects both mental and physically painful, as well as interacting with eachother. They didn’t ever tell her but I think she had serotonin syndrome and almost died. You know Daniel, your channel has helped me to realize how my chronic pain is affected by mental health and that by childhood trauma. My parents never dealt with their trauma, and are very emotionally unintelligent and immature. This is the norm it seems! I don’t dislike my parents but my years and years of “depression”, “anxiety”, and even the chronic pain has something to do with how I was and am still treated by the people around me, including them. I live with them and am still in the system, but I have been setting boundaries and disengaging, and it’s actually helping them improve. If you read this, I’d love to hear a video on your thoughts of staying in the family system or trying to set boundaries and seeing how things go? Obviously you can’t change others, but for someone like me changing my behavior had a positive effect that did affect them.
I watched most of your videos. I have no idea how I missed this one absolutely brilliant. I really appreciate it coming from someone who was polydrugged in the psych ward and have spent the last four years trying to put my life back together and get off these drugs it’s truly been a nightmare but it’s absolutely doable. Healing is absolutely possible.! I appreciate you, Daniel. You have so much emotional intelligence, which is very rare in this world. Thank you for sharing your healing journey with us❤
I've never met a psychiatrist that I haven't clashed with ( mostly almost instantly) and I've met quite a few. Not surprised I got labelled borderline.. I met my brother's psychiatrist to talk about his treatment hoping that I could explain more about him, as I lived with him, witnessed behaviour that they didn't and basically knew him much better than they ever would... Well she was rude and insulting, said she didn't need my interference that she was the expert and could barely conceal her animosity when I questioned her method of dealing with him.. ( he was bullied and tortured with drugs that didn't suit him but that's another story) When a few yrs later after his suicide, I sought help from the only place available to me( that one) guess who I got - herself - I had no choice..and after one 15 minute meeting where she coldly laid down the law to me, her assistant filled in a questionnaire with me and the diagnosis was borderline personality.. I do not fit the criteria except for having 3 of the traits ( sometimes) but ofcourse they were having none of anything I had to say... Every personal experience with the psychiatric services since then has been very much the same.. you would think I would have learned to stay well away but my anxiety and depression has made me so desperate for help and that is all that's available to me.. the waiting list is so long for non-drug therapy and they cannot even give you an approximate timescale but you have to keep going to their appointments to be kept on the list. Appointments where they do their damnedest to medicate.
Oh god, I'm sorry for the loss of your brother to psychiatry. 😢 I lost people, too, though they were not that close. You know, everybody has bdp traits and most of them develop due to narcissistic abuse (psychiatry does this per design - if you analyze the system). There are plenty of resources online where you can get information about this form of abuse and how to heal from it. Maybe it helps you to better understand yourself and people you may be dealing with and develop a foundation based on knowledge against your anxiety. This diagnosis is for the rubbish bin, too.
Watching this vid and reading all the comments makes me want to become a psychiatrist even more. Unsurprisingly, the people that lust after greed have no actual empathy for their patients. All of this is proof of that. The world needs true empaths and helpers now more than ever. Mental health is no joke, and for a professional to take advantage of someone's mental health and likely make it worse while also draining them of their savings is CRUEL. It breaks my heart reading all of these comments. How hypocritical that a profession meant for great listeners seems to attract the exact opposite, and seems to dismiss patients and push selfish motives. I'm sorry for everyone that has been brave enough to seek help/guidance and has been taken advantage of/made to feel less than. When I reach that step, please come to me. I will be a psychiatrist who cares and I will publicly condone any of my peers who don't. Mental health is scary; it slowly absorbs you from within and it is near impossible to understand why without training to find the cause. This video and the comments made me so upset that it strengthened my own motivations. I have been grateful to be helped by an amazing psychiatrist who believes in minimal drug therapy. The deep understanding and spot-on assessments he offered me is something I hope everyone can experience. Please stay strong and don't give up hope. There are people that care.
Yes, the tone of the video is funny, and I laughed just like everyone else probably did. But sadly, this is all true. Once you're labeled as having a "mental illness", no doctor and especially no psychiatrist will listen to what you have to say about side effects. Or anything else. They just pressure (or in some cases, force) people to take psych meds, add more to the mix, and it doesn't matter what it is or how dangerous or debilitating the med can be. Insurance companies force people to have a "treatment plan" so the patients who don't want to take any more meds have a lot of stress on their shoulders. Plus, getting told by multiple "health professionals" that you don't want to help yourself, that everything is only in your head, etc. affects the sanity of the patient in the long run. Been there. I decided to tell my insurance company to stop paying me because of this. My stress level has gone down drastically ever since. Yes, we're short on money but at least I don't have to argue endlessly with doctors and nurses and insurance people about meds. It's worth it.
Fair play to you.. people have got to start fighting back and spreading awareness.. These professional thugs have no accountability for the lives they destroy everyday.. they need to be exposed but the best way to hurt them is for folks to just avoid them like the plague.. the only way that will happen is if they hear enough of the terrible experiences of others.
Love your truthful videos, Daniel! The only 'psychiatrist' I am aware of that works for the good of the patient is Dr. Peter Breggin. He has spoken about & written books on the dangers of psychotropic drugs, fought in court for many people, helps them get OFF SSRI's, etc! He does not promote drugs unless it's absolutely necessary. I have never been interested in psychiatrists & have read many times over that they have a very high suicidal rate as well!
Peter Breggin is a gem. He's in my first film, Take These Broken Wings (which is on this channel). He's excellent in that film, gave a great interview. There are, however, lots of other psychiatrists out there who are decent human beings. I know quite a few. Sadly, though, they are a SMALL minority as far as psychiatrists in general... Probably like 1 in 10,000...ah! Daniel
hhahhaaa...I am so glad I caught up to you for the "Why I Quit.... half an hour ago, you're one special guy and you've blown the lid off another box of well kept BS.
No, he doesn't. I'm not sure about 9, but psychiatrists need a minimum of four years in medical school and then they specialize which is at least another two. If undergrad is four years, then that would put bring studies to ten + years. Then again, there are always the people that put on a lab coat and walk through the back door.
No he doesn't. Nor does he care to fairly admit the huge amount of neuroscientific discoveries, physiology, ethics and all the evidence based information that form the basis of modern psychiatry. Psychiatry is of course not perfect just like other medical specialties, but to reject it totally would cause greater harm than good.
Stephanie Sto I think there’s a stigma or false perception of what mental health treatment can do for someone. People assume most therapists are competent which most aren’t. They assume all sorts of different things about how therapy can sort your problems out but in 5 years of therapy it did nothing for me. I’m not completely anti-mental health treatment or anti therapist or anti medication but I think psychiatry is corrupt and presented as a hard science when it’s the furthest thing from it. I could probably go on for hours about this topic but it’s really a shame that mental health treatment is so shitty in the US
1 2 I agree with the false perception at times. It's not a panacea, it doesn't address everyone not all your problems. When used inadequately it can create more. I think there's many ways of improving one's life and a lot has to do with increasing social support, systems of meaning etc. I also don't appreciate someone shitting all over what I do with misinformation because I've seen suicidal people get better when their depressions and completely organic, or when an old lady that was going to get a PEG in the hospital starts eating because our intervention, or when a manic patient because of uncontrolled sugars gets stabilized, or psychosis 2/2 tumor gets resolved by exicion. You have to sometimes acknowledge the good and keep trying to improve the bad. And use discernment for when to use meds or a medical approach and when not to.
This is exactly my experience with psychiatry. It took me a while to wise up, and I was able to slowly withdraw from my medication. It wasn't through the help of the psychiatrist. It was actually against his recommendation, but he didn't punish me by refusing to supply my needed meds so I could slowly taper.
I have experienced that many doctors think very highly of themselves and their edu. Everyone believing in that self confidence will reinforce that and they will feel even more certain about themselves. That's why they became psychiatrist in the first place some of them? Not just doctors its about the same everywhere. Isn't that some sort of collective and partly structural gaslighting? Or "how to create a psychiatrist". It's true what you say. For some people it's very easy to see through the fasad whereas some people believe everything the doctors say. Just like a higher power. And they feel they need to believe that.
Psychiatrists are the equivalent of medieval doctors, pretending to know what they are doing but really knowing very little about the human brain at all and yet projecting this air of authority despite our understanding of the brain still being very basic. I'm a chemist and when I first heard people talk in terms of a "chemical imbalance" I thought it was an absurd oversimplification, how could the extreme complexity of the brain be reduced to a container with different chemical concentrations? Also, if chemical concentrations affect your thoughts, then thoughts affect your chemical concentrations. Medical science can do all sorts of very impressive things but fixing the body is much easier, you can see the physical problem of a broken leg or blood clot right in front of you. The psychiatrists are just riding on the success of medicine while having achieved very little at all themselves (most advances in knowledge of the brain's function have been in other fields than psychiatry)
You forgot the part where you steal drugs and sell them to drug addicts for lots of money too. Especially Ritalin to College students right before finals.
I was falsely diagnosed with ADHD, because I had difficulty to concentrate at school because of the severe history of school bullying I haven't ever been able to get therapy for. I got described ADHD drugs (methylphenidate) and I got really addicted to them. I dropped them by myself (with no help available here) because they were making me a lot worse, soulless and didn't help my symptoms at all. That nearly killed me, because I got suddenly so depressed thinking and planning suicide daily. I didn't know what was going on, because depression hit weeks later. (again no withdrawal help available, drugs are the cheapest to describe with no regular check ins and no control) I got psychosis because of the quitting and I still experience remnants of that. But my psychosis at least prevented to kill myself. Too bad it was just fantasy, I had somebody very real character in my head to take care of me, which wasn't real. But I did a lot of soul searching with my messed up brains. But It is very hard to live with reality now with no help. I had also severe paranoia and still have and severe mood swings. No drug has ever helped me, making all my symptoms worse. Worst psychosis periods has always been because of the drugs.. Last time it was because of the antidepression pills. That time was even worse. I got into lot of trouble.
I worked with dozens of psychiatrists and psychologists... I can tell you they DON'T do this! 😆 It is not worth it to put their license and whole livelihood on the line just to make a few bucks per pill! 😱 Patients are typically the ones who "push or get pushed to sell." 🔹 It's a moral character. For example, I myself have a dozen bottles of different narcotic meds, almost full Vyvance, Adderal, Ritalin, Concerta, Provigil, narcotic pain meds... I know they're worth 💲 thousands!!! I got 'em "for free" through insurance prescribed for me, I was going thru trial and error which one would work... but I didn't sell the pills even if I have 2 kids now in college who could sell them. We DO NOT need the hassle {prison sentence/shame/life sentence of unemployability} nor the $$$ that go with it. We have ENOUGH 💵 money, by God's grace. 😭 Ps. I stopped taking the pills altogether and went "holistic" natural healing by taking massive doses of Iodine, as in "Iodine CRISIS" book by Lynne Farrow. 😂
I am working in a psychiatric hospital as an MD and must say everything is true. there is nothing else you need to know, maybe the addiction disorders 10.2 for alcohol and 11.2 for heroin addiction.
I yelled at a psychiatrist because he tried to diagnose me with borderline personality disorder within 5 minutes of talking because I self harm. I've seen so many professionals that have misdiagnosed me and not taken me seriously so I lost my crap. You can't diagnose somebody based off of one symptom, and especially not the most highly debated symptom on the checklist. I made sure to tell him so, and he didn't take kindly to a patient actually having knowledge on the subject because he's the "expert." Well, I'm the expert on myself and my own brain and I wasn't going to let another mental health professional stomp all over me within 5 minutes of a first meeting. All I have ever wanted was to be heard. He asked me to leave and my outburst probably just confirmed to him his quack diagnosis. I didn't care, I felt so much better finally calling out a BS psychiatrist instead of just sitting there and keeping mouth shut. I hope he got off his high horse and thought about what I had said for a minute, but he probably didn't and keeps using these ridiculous and harmful methodologies.
When i became a psychiatrist,I literally break all this and give them the treatments that they need...Like bruh I choose medicine to help people not to add burden....plus i dont care bout money i care about their mental healths...cause I'm also one of those person who suffered so much mental problems and i don't want them to suffer too...Wish me luck everyone 💜
I was referred to a psychiatrist 6 weeks ago for insomnia. Diagnosed as bipolar. WTF?! I spent 6 weeks in bed drugged out of my mind on meds, totaled my car, bought and drank a gallon of vodka, spent 2 days in ICU... I don't remember most of it but I have the bills and consequences to prove it. I took myself off of the meds and somehow....magically...went into "spontaneous remission". As a last ditch effort to convince me that I'm bipolar, I was warned that I might have another "episode" in 1...5...or 20 years. The doctor totally bypassed the fact that I wasn't sleeping because the gyms were closed and healthy food was not readily available during Covid lockdown. My life had become work and staring at my four walls while eating what I could get my hands on. My brain didn't know how to function like that. Psychiatry and medications have caused irreparable damage iny life....all in 6 weeks.....for simple insomnia. The really sad thing is....I've worked in the medical field for the past 30 years. Anyone can fall prey to these charlatans!
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👍👍👍👍👍👍 At least you didn't fall for it, almost everyone does.
Thank you for sharing and I hope you're doing better.
I was getting B's and C's in college and working a part time college job for 3 years and overeating to cope with sadness and stress when my dad said I should go on meds to get my grades and mood up and control my weight so they put me on Ritalin, Adderall, and Prozac and I flunked out of college and had to be hospitalized for having a manic episode and they slapped a Bipolar 2 label on me and I struggled to work or think clearly or read ever since and the worst panic attacks now even though I have touched any meds for 10 years.
Honestly, I think the odds of getting a poorly trained and experienced one is 4x more likely. Only seek help from a referral from a friend who has worked with the doctor.
I was put on an antidepressant to fight my burn out for a few months and quit as soon as I could bc of side effects. The pill was 300$ a month: for that price, any depressive person can afford a weekly cleaning service, a nutrition coach and/or take a yoga class that would do as much good as the pill. :/
yes, agreed.
I personally like to go thrift shopping. I find it very therapeutic.
There are many paths to health and medication can be life saving for some people who have serious mental illness, not just burnout.
this is clearly from the drug company
lol that totally did sound like that reading it again
! I meant that meds should NOT be used for JUST burnout. And that yes there are many things you can do to get healthy aside from meds. Medical treatment can be life saving for some too.
What is a cleaning service?
I met this girl on halidol when I was in county jail for a few weeks. She was special needs and did have some problems before her arrest, but basically she overheard her nieces talking about being molested by their uncle and freaked out, stole a car, and drove them to her house in another state. The parents didn't know what happened, called 911, and she got arrested for kidnapping over state lines. She had been in the jail for 3 years awaiting trial, and her mental state had slowly deteriorated into nothing (this is not prison, this is three years in a freezing cold, tiny room with no view of the outside world or sunlight.) She began assaulting other inmates at random and had to be given daily injections of the stuff. They were still waiting for her to "adjust" to her medications in order to be deemed competent to stand trial. It was really depressing, and I could do nothing to help her.
Pray, dude, pray.
@@DavidLoveMore David : Truth !
That’s really sad to hear but thanks a lot for sharing
@@DavidLoveMore Other than that, what we can do is use this wisdom to try to help prevent more of this from happening, in whatever small ways we can individually do within our own "small corner of the world" as Daniel says.
Oh my god.
When do I receive my diploma?
Do you own a printer?
Excellent
Hahahahaha. Yup.
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As a brother to a real pathologic narcissist sister, which is now practicing as a child-therapist in Switzerland - I can just approve that.
I don't have contact with her anymore since a while, but her understanding of psychology is so advanced as her own understanding of herself. It's not existing.
My experience with psychologists and therapists and psychiatrists is a quite bad one - they never listened to what I actually said and invalidated myself. No one understood, that I'm autistic, just because I'm good looking and was able to mask all my not accepted behaviors in public.
Needed years to find someone, who really understood autism and was able to diagnose me officially.
holy shit, did i write this comment?? everything you wrote here is EXACTLY my life
@@bxnny0374 yes, you're actually me - you must know since you're me and you do know about it since I know about it, so it's a clear case. I'm you.
Nah, just kidding and waiting for a client call that early in the morning.
Good to know I'm not alone with having a crazy sister in Switzerland, being autistic and having experienced a narcissistic family and bad experiences with psychologists.
High five.
@@Gandalf_the_quantum_G I hope you feel better now 🙏🏻...and your spiritual cousin or so @bxnny0374 , too! 🙏🏻😊
I left the medical research field because I was getting so disillusioned with how so many people in it seemed either oblivious and naive to systemic issues within it, or were themselves corrupt - or at least had questionable motivations. It sucks, but I realized that I was just becoming frustrated, anxious, cynical and bitter. I could write a lot more but I'd probably end up rambling a lot.
Do not forget that there is also forced psychiatry. There, victims cannot refuse “drugs.” They have no choice at all.
OMG! I wonder how these poor souls are diagnosed. Murderers perhaps, or out of control? Does anyone here know?
Yes, forced psyquackery is a living hell on earth and it needs to be banned immediately!!!!!!! Wait, we've all been saying this for decades now............????????!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😔😱😡💀
Many years ago during an appointment with a psychiatrist at an inpatient rehab, I tried to persuade the shrink to take me off the antidepressant. She said, "you're desire to get off this medication is proof you need still need it." I shook my head in disgust. I wondered how in the hell she could get through all that schooling and yet be so dumb.
Me too, always. I just thinking i living in a circus, its crazy. But if you talk parents they laughing but still do nothing to you to care. its really bad, sometimes I dont know why I am still living...people are just so crazy...dont care at all, even dont understand or know anything!
$$$ The pharmaceutical industry provides their exorbitant salaries.
Indeed, psychiatry is often a Kafka trap.
I had dreams of becoming a clinical psychologist to try to help people, but working in the field opened my eyes that it was more politics than actually helping people. This video just makes me glad I didn't waste more of my time.
As a man who has experienced his own share of dehumanization at the hands of the mental health guild, I can't tell you how awesome this video is.
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Well at least now we can quickly diagnose them! 😂 But who do we bill?
I've seen people inpatient at hospitals misdiagnosed bipolar so many times after a 10 minute or less interview it scares me. They come out of the office scared, confused, and looking for answers. After spending time with them (which the docs never do) I can see how criminal this should be. I always tell people to get a second, third and fourth opinion from docs who will spend time getting to know them rather than the McDoc's who give a McDiagnosis and have a drive-thru instead of office "hours". ("Can I get some Zyprexa, a couple Xanax, and some Adderall to go, please? Oh, do I get fries with that?"). I rarely see true bipolar in a hospital setting. Rarely. Most are misdiagnosed cases of childhood neglect and trauma that is causing issues now they are adults. Anyway, I could keep commenting on here all night about all I've seen inpatient and outpatient over the last 16 years but I'll stop. I'm now med free!!!! It's better than being debt free...
i was misdiagnosed with bipolar II when i was 13 years old in exactly this scenario. i have an avoidant personality. although neither my therapist nor my psychiatrist endorsed the "diagnosis", my abusive mother loved it.
It feels very much like a mean game that everyone is playing and getting away with. Meanwhile it’s someone’s life in their hands. The name of the game, how to make as much money from someone’s misfortune as possible.
Totally agree 👍
Same thing goes on in the medical field as well
I will never forget the psychiatrist who told me I was 'setting myself up for failure' by ceasing and refusing to commence any new mind-altering drugs. She can go to Hell with her colleagues.
Passed time yeah I was told I’m playing with fire.
That’s so sad): I wanna be a psychiatrist someday and I wanna be a good one not like those jerks
Tsk tsk. With my new psychiatry degree, I hereby diagnose you with Borderline Personality Disorder. It's very clear due to your anti-psychiatry attitude. (Well, at least now I know why I keep getting that diagnosis. Like when I point out that BPD has overlapping symptoms with Complex PTSD, which actually makes SENSE,.and get told that that doesn't mean I don't have BOTH! Oh, while I'm at it, let me add a professional psychiatric eyeroll for practice.) Seriously, ALL of this is SO familiar!!! I also saw all MY mind-altering drugs scroll by, including the benzodiazepines I've been permanently addicted to and told that the dependence is all in my mind (because the doctor knows my body better than I do; he's been prescribing them for 30 YEARS!), eyeroll, facial tic, formications. Oh, and the next person who tells me, "I know someone who got off of benzodiazepines; it's not that hard," is going to get strangled.
It’s sad that psychiatrists like that exist! As an aspiring psychiatrist I will be patient with my clients no matter how mentally ill they are. It’s literally an honor to be a psychiatrist because people are trusting you with their lives, and, ya, sometimes you get crazy patients, but you gotta be patient with them, that’s literally your job!
@@cr0issants If you end up being a psychiatrist, I trust you'll be a great one.
Omg the accuracy of this!! After years of dealing with 2 psychiatrists and 2 psychologists and a few clueless primary doctors only 1 person helped me out of major depression and that was my female psychologist. She taught me healthy coping mechanisms, educated me and treated me with compassion and now I’m doing amazing. I had experienced everything in this video. It’s terrifying what we don’t realize is going on. I was lucky to crawl my way out to freedom. Thank you for making this video!!
A friend of mine, who is a prominent psychiatrist of a moderately sized American city, told me I'd make a good psychiatrist, that I shouldn't feel nervous about the medical school part of the training. I took it as a compliment...until now.
Todd Boothbee A former* friend
I haven't written her off as evil. I have lawyer friends, too, and a friend who is a legit mobster. And to really stretch things, I even have a republican friend. Fortunately there is more to my friends than their titles.
and a friend who is a legit mobster
yep, you sound cool, something I would also be proud of telling others for a mixture of birging/attempt at alpha status
but then again, my moral compass isn't fucked up
Oh, don't worry about me being cool, beta-boy(girl?). If you live in an unprotected world you come across different people, the histories about many of whom you don't know, and by not knowing, you don't necessarily dismiss them. I wouldn't choose to be friends with someone based on his or her vocation, though "mobsters" I'd probably avoid, if I know. You're probably a prig and I'm just incredibly cool.
@@toddboothbee1361 , isn't that the way it always is? I am friends with someone who did something terrible, and I never thought I could ever want to be around someone who committed such an act. But sometimes you really do have to read the book, even if the outer cover is unattractive, or the reviews were generally bad, You never know. People are multi-faceted. I understand what you're saying.
What I have noticed with my records is they always put several diagnosis. I went off all psych meds and don’t regret it. The doctor had me on 2 milligram bar of Xanax 6 times a day and anti depressant and other drugs which are actually even more dangerous. Told that I needed to stay on these the rest of my life and been on nerve and anxiety pills since early childhood. Been off benzodiazepines for four years almost and lost all trust in shrinks. All I needed was a good psychologist and treat the actual issues instead of drugging me up all those years.
You used to have 12mg of Alprazolam per day? OMW!
Those drugs are full of nasty side effects, true, especially the SSRIs and the tricyclic antidepressants, not to mention the benzos, but sometimes they are needed. At least short term. I wouldn't have been able to function without them at one point of my life due to my GAD. It caused severe physical symptoms and health anxiety and I though I was dying and would be in and out of the EAs all the time. I reached a point where I felt like my legs are going to stop working altogether, and I'll end up in a wheelchair, I had oscillating blood pressure (up and down, and then all around again all the time), myalgias, fasciculations, blurred vision, indigestion... Mental symptoms aside, as I'm used to living with those sadly.
I went to one specialist after another, got all sort of tests done, from the blood tests to an MRI... and it was only when I started taking a SSRI ( Paroxetine ) and a antypsychotic (Sulpiride, a smaller dose, one intended for GAD and Depressive disorders) that I've found some peace, and could function again.
No amount of psychotherapy, or breathing exercises could've helped.
What I'm trying to say is: most people who are anti-psychiatric-drugs haven't experienced many or any somatic symptoms of mental illness, which can be downright crippling, and are probably only suffering from mild to moderate form of the condition anyway. Maybe that was your case and you simply had an overzealous "shrink", or an unethical one.
But the drugs (Xanax included lol) can be lifesavers that give you a chance, some time and opportunity to pull yourself together and get some control back, which would otherwise be unattainable.
Anyhow, hope you're doing much much better now, and that you'll keep getting better. G'd bless!
I think it’s only docs in corporate U.S. that are prescribing like this. Like I got shivers reading ur comment. Xanax, all ur life, drugs to a kid
@@miloradvlaovic I agree that benzodiazipines like xanax can be very helpful for calming somebody down enough to be able to engage with talk therapy and just give their nerves a much needed break for a while, a couple of weeks on these can really get somebody through when they have been stuck in a cycle of bad anxiety and to leave them in that state is just cruel and effects their physical health too.
As long as benzodiazipines are only given short term and are tapered down correctly they are literally lifesavers because they work and they work fast.
Antidepressants and antipsychotics on the other hand are notorious for bad side-effects that exasperate a person's condition either that or they don't work at all (or both)..the thing is that it takes about 6 weeks to see if they are working for the person and by that time they are established enough in the system to cause withdrawals when stopped. Also very very few people are ever put on them shortterm' - the usual practice (with antipsychotics anyway) is to increase dosage and keep increasing it and more often than not add more drugs- they love to prescribe cocktails of psychiatric drugs ( polypharmacy).. I'm convinced this is for experimentation( that's what they do) .. the more cynical side of me though is thinking they also do this so that the patient will not be able to tell which drugs are giving which side-effects and so they can't say which one they need to stop and then resign themselves to staying on all of them
.it really appears that they want you on as many of their drugs as possible for as long as possible . And why wouldn't they when they get nicely rewarded by the pharmaceutical companies for doing just this. They are basically on commission!
How depressing 😔 I remember being cut off by a psychologist when I started mentioning 'the state of the world' in an intake session. She cut me off and labeled it borderline.. this video made me think of that. It felt like a continuation of bad things I've been through.
Diagnostic interviews seem like the ultimate case of gaslighting, except they're gaslighting your entire lived experience. It's so fucked.
I'm lucky to be far away from this stuff despite my mom's attempts to medicate me with Ritalin as a kid (I fought them off so much they gave up, thank God little me was wise and strong).
Sadly though my sister fell full victim from early childhood and was a psychiatric drug lab rat of sorts since 3. There was one drug that gave her *HORRIFIC* nightmares which can't even be compared to typical nightmares according to her.
She's been on antidepressants, anti-psychotics, diabetic meds, benzos, and others I haven't been told about for as long as I know/remember. But on the bright side, she's finally listening to reason when I try to share my understanding of this stuff and starting to question her own history and reliance on diagnoses, as well as pull back on trusting medical "pros" unconditionally. She is doing so in search of "a more accurate diagnosis" but she's definitely gotten herself on a better path.
@@mikeexits totally. Thankfully I'm with a therapist now that looks at things a lot more gentle and understanding
@@MAzurburg I'm glad to hear that. Much love.
I thought I had severe ADHD and anxiety for a while, and possibly even autism. I got "diagnosed" by multiple psychs/therapists, and they each just gave me a sheet of paper to fill out, and took my word for it. All the meds I tried made me feel so lifeless, adderall I was especially freaked out by. Not to mention adderall worsened my body image issues and unhealthy relationship with food.
Now I'm healing by cutting out toxic people, listening to myself, doing things I love, and all of the brain fog and confusion that I associated with ADHD prior, has largely gone away. Since I'm dedicating most of my time to things I actually love doing, I don't even have to worry about the roadblocks that I associated with ADHD before. I've also figured out that I'm extremely sensitive and empathic, and because of this, I require a lot of boundaries and quiet time to myself. Before, I was around people and places that were constantly overwhelming and overstimulating me, which made me anxious, depressed, and unfocused. But now that I live alone with my cat, and I spend a lot of my free time by myself or in nature, I feel a lot more at peace. And it makes me a lot more able to accomplish and learn about things.
LOVE THIS GUY!! He confirms all the suspicions i ever had about psychiatry. If my parents had it their way I would have been medicated from 14 when there was nothing wrong with me but normal teenage angst and a stressful home life. Hate to think were Id be now if Id taken that trajectory or been on board.
So nice of you to be open and honest with us. What a wonderful person you are... Thank you... Peace and Love be with you...
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i love this, i left the field of psychology after i felt such disgust of the level of deception, ignorance, ego and bullshit from colleagues and the field, it damages people everyday
Wow.
I was a psych major in the early '80s.
I'm glad my life took a different path. I would hate to keep people in *SLAVERY* .
amen.
Yassss
psychiatry is not a major, though
I can't stop giggling haha! I have recently been licensed as a clinical psychologist and that's pretty much what I have seen during my internships in mental health institutions. Not to mention a lot of psychiatrists with personality disorders.
Same.
My favourite part was when ‘Malpractice Insurance’ started flashing.
He's a hoot, huh? Love the bold honesty & sarcasm. He should be on his own sitcom. 👍
;)
This video should be seen by every student thinking about entering psychiatry field
YES.
It's sickening and sad to see how people's issues are treated with such disrespect. These people need real help, and being drugged and scammed and betrayed by trusted "experts" in mental health only makes things worse for them.
The whole mental treatment industry seems designed to A) make money B) keep people's serious complaints and traumas isolated and not shared with society as a whole, so that society never has to face its issues. Instead they give drugs to make people with issues even worse than before, so that society can dismiss them as crazy.
This is very true, I'm afraid...
Exactly my thoughts, always!
Insightful and accurate I'm afraid. Most of these supposed (fraudulently-claimed) brain diseases are nothing but social problems causing reactions in people that you should always expect to happen in a certain percentage of the population who are living in terrible conditions, or who have been otherwise been severely traumatized and emotionally damaged. Psycho drugs are basically like a giant payday loan. At first you are able to deny the problem is there, but once pay day comes you are fucked, because you are now addicted to the drugs, and when you withdraw the scam artist looking you over tells you that your withdrawal is your "illness" coming back, for which you are given more dangerous pills. That is to say nothing about the routine violation of the most basic medical ethics. Psychiatrists are by far the least compassionate and most criminal doctors out there. They either don't know what their real purpose is or they sense it and just don't care because Psych is low hours and obscenely high pay and little chance of accountability. The more drugs you prescribe the more money you make no matter how many lives you destroy.
@Vk Cayago if you want to really help people you better thing to study something else, psych meds does not help people at all.
@Vicky Mae Cayago There is no 'god'. You may want to help people. That is a good thing to aspire to. Being 'rich' is not a bad thing. But, getting rich thru psychiatry by harming people (like I was) is something that I must condemn. First of all, --- get REAL. Do not live your life under a cloud of religious delusion. 2. Study something, - anything --- also lucrative, but not something that would cause you to be a glorified carnival barker/snake-oil salesman. Uphold your personal integrity, --- by not hurting other people. Use your imagination, and find a better path. Peace out.
i love how u always roast the psychiatry field lol! hilarious
The only one he's roasting is himself, does he even have a GED?
@@Turtleproof He's college educated.
@@Turtleproof ikr i always comment “please talk about what are the good ones in psychiatry.” Just to change mood and things up. Lol i think he barely notice
@@Turtleproof Do you ? It sounds like you are jealous of his informative, intelligent and witty prose.
@@Turtleproof He's a former psychotherapist who now wants people to be informed about some of its practices.
It's nice seeing someone criticize psychiatrists my experience with them has been nothing but hell. Constantly labeling me as this or that, putting me on all this crazy medication. And none of it was working but they kept adding more and more and more. And they convince you that you need this stuff to be happy that it's just a matter of finding the right combo and it'll all be better. The final straw for me was when they started putting me on bipolar meds (despite not being bipolar) and I had a psychotic break because of it. There was a freeze and I couldn't get my meds and I went from a high dose to nothing. I saw online apparently this was a common side effect. And then insanely enough they started trying to convince me I had psychosis and started putting me on anti psychotics which was pure hell on earth. I feel so sorry for schizophrenics that are on that stuff it's terrible the way it makes you feel. I'm off all that crap now and only take an extremely low dose of latuda for my aspergers. And that's it. I'm never letting another psychiatrist boss me around like that again. Those two years on meds were the worst of my life. I know medication helps some people but I really think it should be tried last not first because of all the harmful side effects and how most psychiatrists are. All those shitheads care about is the money.
I'm so sorry for your experience, may I ask what is your ' real diagnosis '? You said you had aspergers
Yep. Drugs should never be the first line of treatment considering how damaging they can be. Also, they almost always end up crapping out over time.
You have them sussed.
This is one of many comments I'd love to show to family/ friends who pushed me to go to psychiatric services but I know they wouldn't pay any attention
In their view, these are the qualified experts and they expect me to keep trying toxic drug cocktails until I find the right ones ( until I'm zombifed and shut tf up morelike it)
I'd love to them to be in our shoes and experience what we go through in the hands of these psychopaths before preaching like they do.
Thank you so much for your honesty.
For so many years I thought I was living with a crazy mind after I see my doctor for the depression. By the second years with an antidepressant, my mental health and health declined so badly to the point where I am deeply convinced that I am the crazy person and ready to leave this planet almost two years ago. The sad thing is that I got really scared of my family doctor. I think my soul was convinced that the pills are poisoning me, and it appeared to be. Pretty much like any kind of chemicals, a small dose that nobody noticed the difference until it becomes too late. Lucky I have guardian angels helping me getting through this hell with an antidepressant. Right now I am no longer taking an antidepressant, Cymbalta for a month and I am feeling much better, feeling almost normal. Many symptoms such as IBS, ME/CFS, confusion, paranoid and many more are now gone. The real cure is to eat healthy food and living an almost stress-free lifestyle. Impossible to do while we support this crazy economy where everyone demand to work harder and harder.
Good luck to everyone because more of your children will suffer mental health more than we do...... Really good luck.
The work ethic of America is nothing short of insanity. You're told when to wake up, when to work and praised for doing more than your peers because you're productive and valuable until you aren't because you've burnt yourself out and possibly develop any number of mental or physical problems from constantly stressing yourself out. It's a vicious circle and if you can, you're best bet is to get out.from the rat race before it kills you.
God bless you, thank you for your comment
I watched this about 3-4 years ago and after rewatching it this is pure gold😂
I am surprised it is still up on youtube
Shots fired
You nailed it. Love the multiple choice questions. Was laughing out loud. Thanks for helping me see some humor in what they do--made me feel better even empowered. The best kind of medicine.
Rightfully bitter and cynical about the psych world, just as I am. Well-Said! Keep up your good work, Daniel.
Being bitter and cynical about the psychiatric world is natural, if you have been a victim of it, either as a patient, or as a good therapist like Daniel (10 years' experience) or me as a licensed mental health counselor in New York State (14 years for me, grand total.) Regarding the world in general, if we can turn our bitterness and cynicism into something good (Daniel's excellent videos and his helping clients before that; my helping clients in my practice and in agencies, and directing them to medical specialists dedicated to treating them like human beings and bringing them off of psych meds) then, God willing, we are helping the world in general, and specifically exposing the criminal fraud that the psychiatric world is. We are then helping ourselves by rebelling against a profit-driven system that routinely poisons and murders the very people it pledges itself to help. We need more Daniel Macklers, Robert Whittakers, and Peter Breggins in this world. I hope this answers your good question. Thank you.
I'm more worried about people who AREN'T bitter and cynical about the snake pit/ cesspit that is psychiatry!
LMFAO!!!! literally all of these things happened to me in my years looking for help!
I hope u finally found it.
I was once told to try not to think about the scary thoughts.. that really helped a lot o.o
Oh and another therapist started crying.. o.o there is more.
Wow. Grats on laughing about that! It made me utterly furious!
Same. Idk why I bother considering going back. I'm just desperate
Well, same here.
I aspire to become a psychiatrist or anything in the psychology field, but it's not specific since I have a long future ahead. I've been looking through videos to see what it's like. All the comments about really terrible psychiatrists is quite frightening, so I'll do my best and take all the comments into consideration. This video was also well-made and I appreciate it. Thank you!
I think a lot of shrinks start out with good intentions, then they get programmed in medschool with an education formulated with heavy influence and input from the pharmaceutical moguls..then they start practice where their hardened superiors teach them how to be cold and ruthless and basically bully but at the same time not see it as abuse and believe this is the only way to treat these "faulty "humans..
I'm back to watch this video again, love it! This is one of my favorite Daniel videos. Love the truth and honesty, wisdom and intelligence, delivered in a humorous way as well. Daniel is such a wonderful refreshing breath of fresh air of TRUTH. Love it!!!! 👏👏👏👏
“Off-label”. I had forgotten that one. That must be the laziest, most irresponsible prescribing of all which clearly shows that psychiatrists have no idea what any of those drugs do, if anything. F
there are docs giving pts SEROQUEL FOR MILD SLEEP ISSUES. SEROQUEL!!!
@@TheMabes69 they used to prescribe heroin for a toothache.
Yeah when they tried to get me on meds for depression, they literally said "we dont know which one will work for you so we will just keep trying different meds till we find one that works, ok?" like mf i aint gonna be no guini pig
@@TheMabes69 Me too. And it got to the point where I couldn't sleep without it. I tapered myself off of it over the course of late summer/early fall of this year and am finally getting the natural healthy sleep deprived from me for so many years.
It also demonstrates the insatiable greed of the pharmaceutical companies who promote it to doctors ( with bribes too)
Going to universities for a degree is like a scam now to make a lot of tuition.
I recently went to a psychiatrist because I have ADHD and am positive I have Sensory Processing Disorder or even Autism, but right off the psychiatrist roller her eyes at the mention of autism. She is convinced my parent's never loved me and I don't love my bf, and that I have BPD in the first visit. It would be nice to be taken seriously. Seems like a very easy fit, to just diagnose someone with BPD and not look into their concerns about sensory issues. Especially for almost $200 an hr. Then I was told that this is the process to get you to react, buy tryign to upset you. This seems messed up to me. Why can't it be straightforward? Why does there have to be tricks? I also told her I do not want medication because I already have serious health issues, which wasn't taken seriously at all. Psychiatry is a joke isn't it? I was told that it was better to be an Ativan and Ritalin which makes me incapable of working and highly anxious because it will fix my "dysfunctional brain" and that that "would be better." All I want is insight into SPD and how to deal with it and coping mechanisms.
Bro you need to narc on that therapist, she seems mentally unwell and like shes guinea pig playing with her patients
Oh my gosh , Daniel, you so brilliantly and articulately nailed this!!!! Every video I've seen of yours on the fox of psychotherapy and psychiatry has been like a drink of cool water for me.
I don't feel alone. Thank you.
Exactly what I saw and experienced as an LCSW.
It just makes my stomach clench.
I'm so grateful for you!!!!
What a relief to hear someone talk about this!!!! ❤
I'm afraid this is mostly true. But the thing is, a lot of people don't get in trouble for doing their job bad. Psychiatry may be just one of them... You shouldn't trust a psychiatrist. You should use them as a tool. I don't let psychiatrists prescribe me medicine. I just take advice from them, and if they are cocky, I change my doctor. Same with psychologists. I don't trust them. I go to them with my own therapy plan.
Your psychology is too valuable and delicate to give to the hands of a stranger. And no matter how "qualified" someone is, be it a doctor or a therapist, they are a stranger.
"Your psychology is too valuable and delicate to give to the hands of a stranger." Wow, that's a deep quote...I'm so quoting you on my blog.
Then why even go to one with your precious plan?
@@Thedirtylittletruth Because sometimes you know what you need, and need help with it.
A wise approach, Hüseyin and possible for some people in some countries. Most people make the reasonable assumption that a medical professional shouldn't be so poorly informed, and their methods so potentially harmful to patients. The scary thing is that, in the USA, sometimes the patient doesn't have the option of refusing medication. If someone refuses, their medical insurance won't pay for their treatment or they may lose their insurance policy completely. Additionally, if a psychiatrist suspects the patient isn't taking the meds, the patient can be forced to take them, or be threatened with hospitalisation. If the medication is for your child and you can see it is harming them, you may have your children taken away and forcibly drugged. See, "Overpill" the RT documentary: ua-cam.com/video/5722_XclQkY/v-deo.htmlm44s
As this video rightly illustrates, the system is completely broken and does not have the interests of the patient as its first priority. "First do no harm."
So you’d get on a plane and let stranger pilot fly you? Or drive a car that a stranger has designed? Or eat food that a stranger has prepared? All these decisions place your ‘delicate psychology’ at risk. All this, but you wouldn’t go to a psychologist and have them set out a health and well-being plan for you?
Delicate psychology indeed.
And the goodies from the pharmaceutical companies, legal drug dealer bonuses from their supplier, no conflict of interest declaration required. These people are criminals, its time we stopped enabling them. Thanks for your honesty. Powerful stuff.
Spot on! People need to made aware of this
I actually saw a picture on my psychiatrists desk of him and his family with a boxer dog. I tried to have a conversation with him about how I work with an animal rescue and a young boxer came in that would be perfect for him and his family. At first he seemed interested but then... oh, no psychiatrist can take a "patient" at face value... so he ignored it all and just played "doctor/patient" with me! Oh, i'm not a human... I must be a case! That was MANY years ago and i'm well off that route!
Michelle Wei you’re nuts
I KNOW RIGHT YOU ARE BETTER OFF W/O EM!
I know what you mean. You go in and it's like you are no longer human and your own knowledge of yourself is now invalid.
Michelle Wei I once made a remark in front of my psychiatrist about his clean and stylish office, and compared it to my "messed up life". He immediately "put down his shades".
he simply din't want to discuss it with you. they are told not to become ''friend'' keep it patient /doctor.
I really love your subtle humor! Not bold, but effective.
Hilarious, brutally honest and deadly accurate. 🐯
Daniel, I’m so grateful I discovered your UA-cam channel. I’m learning so much. Thank you 🙏
Abilify has to be the STUPIDEST name for a drug ever!
Actually, it's a Harry Potter spell.
I'm a nutrition counselor and I see patients on these drugs too. I feel like the patients on meds are worse off than the ones without because they aren't getting proper treatment
m0L3ify so funny that you say that! YeArs and years ago when my doctor prescribed that he remarked that it was a catchy name!
Placebo is a hell of a drug.
@@karamlevi Placebo is at least harmless. Abilify, on the other hand...
Dude, I’m totally ready to start practicing now - thanks!
(Really good video, BTW)
Absolutely amazing. I've gone to several mental health clinics and seen a few psychiatrists for months at a time. I think they would have lowered my dosage if I'd asked because I am an educated, articulate person, and I know my rights. One treated his patients disrespectfully. If it was time for my appointment and he was just shooting the breeze with a drug rep he would get very indignant and angry if the scheduled patient knocked on his closed office door. at their appointed time. When I did it, he just got annoyed (he spoke to me through the closed door if I remember) and told me to wait in the lobby, he wasn't ready. I had listened at the door, so I knew they were just chit-chatting, not even about meds, just social stuff
One or two psychiatrists I've encountered also had the odd, quite rude habit of not acknowledging me if they encountered me at the clinic front door or in a corridor. When I said "Hi" to them, usually they didn't answer, but looked straight ahead. One, I see every now and then out on the street when I guess he's out on his lunch hour, and I stopped saying hello to him because I never got a hello back. I understand about patient confidentiality and HIPA, but acting this rudely when a patient, or a patient not yours but whom you've interacted with at the clinic initiates the greeting. Another one who I happened to run into at a bookstore/coffee house/music venue very obviously rebuffed my "Hello Dr. so and so", and made it clear that he didn't want to talk to me, I assume because he wasn't wearing his "psychiatrist" hat, and just wanted to be in his music lover persona.
My last (and final! I now get my meds from my primary care physician - no psychiatrists, no therapists) psychiatrist, I personally liked very much, even though he seemed a terrible mental health practitioner, when it came to verbal interactions, and on more than one occasion he made me feel just awful about myself for days after I'd seen him. Therapeutically, he was toxic. But he was very earnest, a nice person and extremely ethical - he was just terrible at interacting.
I think every mental health clinic by law should be required to post a notice showing the Patients Bill of Rights. Thank you for this video, it is very, very enlightening.
Zyprexa-- The Holy Grail of Modern Psychiatry
And don't forget sneaky seroquel.. they dish that stuff out like candy for everything from insomnia to mild depression. It's a gateway drug to zyprexa and worse and boy don't the filthy scoundrels know it!
Love it. This is so very true. Been there, experienced it. I finally saw it for what it is...BOVINE SCUTTLE. Never returned, never looked back
What's bovine scuttle?
@@supermelodia It MAY be a reference to Bull - Sh#*.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this! What you described was my experience, from a patient point of view, to a T!
At one point during my four years of treatment with the same psychiatrist, he said that I was one of the most medication resistant patients he had ever seen. Later in treatment, he said he was frustrated, and concluded that I was, indeed, the most medication resistant patient he had ever worked with - and I took it as a compliment, although I felt very alone and not helped. It got to the point where I chose to go to the hospital, and that changed everything for me. He happened to be the lead psychiatrist - basically the guy over everybody else in the psych ward where I stayed. I got to see him for one hour each morning, and he was very relaxed. He even let me leave for a good part of a day to spend time with my daughter for her 10th birthday. It made all the difference and meant the world to her. I didn’t even have to get a special pass or anything - he just said to keep it low-key and come back in the evening. Of course I was there as a voluntary patient, but you probably know how hard it is to get in the hospital - when you want to be there! He told me how much he hated his day job, seeing a bunch of people for 15 minutes each. He thought it was a joke. It turned out he had an amazing side to him - something I have come to learn about almost everybody, including some people who have hurt me (I do not choose to live with them - but that is another story).
The story that is relevant happened to get published five years ago on Madinamerica.com - I’ll include the link:
www.madinamerica.com/2013/04/my-place-in-the-crisis/
Since I wrote that piece, I have not gone back to an actual psychiatrist - even though the last thing he said to me was, “Oh, you’ll be back.” Thinking back on it, I wonder if he was kind of joking. I always take myself so seriously, but we did sort of have this humorous side to our rapport.
I eventually went to some naturopaths and to an APRN and my gp to see if medication might still be an option - but nope, turns out that it is still a bad idea.
I do have hope, however in a few things right now. In Utah, my boss and some of us (we are licensed psychotherapists/social workers with various titles) helped start a non-profit to increase trauma-informed care in our state. We are working our asses off sometimes just to get doctors and mental health professionals and clients all kind of on the same page with how to work together and cut down on some of the bull shit - especially helping people to not go the hospital and not be medicated as first-line and only-alternative solutions.. It’s quite the task, but I have seen some good changes! For one, when I did want to try medication again - being pretty desperate in 2015 - my general practitioner would not just give me Adderall to try out for my recently diagnosed “ADHD.” She wanted me to either go to a provider and report back to her, or to communicate with my APRN and make sure we were on the same page.
It’s not all bad out there, Mr. Daniel, I mean in the “mental health” field. But that said, i’m considering embracing the whole problem - as I interpret it - with my arts emphasis instead of always feeling battle weary!
Mary Anne yes it's not all bad! And sometimes psych care can be life saving. Let's destigmatize mental ilness so that people don't feel so alone!
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one of your best!
Daniel, your insights are fantastic. I really enjoy all of your videos. You are speaking a truth which is very necessary. I think we are the same age and have similar outlook. Are you ever in Ireland? Fergus.
The comment section is gold!!
I have seen this, and it is I feel a horrible process of assessing patients and changing their chemistry to suit the purse of the physician and pharmaceutical companies. Hiking, fresh air, conscious hydration, mindful hygienic routines, daily exercise before even getting out of bed, reading are therapeutic.
You got psychiatry down pat! When someone experiences Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR's) to neuroleptics - their answer is to up the dose!
Thank you. Been there, done that as a patient. Came to the same conclusion. Went common sense but spiritual now!
I just love you dude!!! You are my favorite channel in the whole world!!! Can’t get enough... hahaha... I think you’re totaling nailing this comedy routine!😂😂😂👏👏👏BRAVISSIMO !!!!
Wow, I've seen so many psychiatrists over the years who appropriately did ALL the things you described and got 100% on your exam! (In fact, I went straight to "all of the above" by the time you got to the second choice on the multiple-choice section!) So since I'm now such a highly qualified psychiatrist (and studied a statistically significant number of psychiatrists in action), does that also qualify me for the bonus God Complex degree? :D
Yep , basically anyone can be a psychiatrist but you've got to be a major C**T to WANT to be one...😉
I was always guilted over refusing psych drugs for my fibromyalgia. They think that a physical illness can be cured by these magical brain drugs. The only reason I refused is my mom has the same diagnosis and went through the whole process, including a stay in the psych ward on suicide hold because they put her on multiple meds including psych meds, and each one created it’s own set of horrific side effects both mental and physically painful, as well as interacting with eachother. They didn’t ever tell her but I think she had serotonin syndrome and almost died. You know Daniel, your channel has helped me to realize how my chronic pain is affected by mental health and that by childhood trauma. My parents never dealt with their trauma, and are very emotionally unintelligent and immature. This is the norm it seems! I don’t dislike my parents but my years and years of “depression”, “anxiety”, and even the chronic pain has something to do with how I was and am still treated by the people around me, including them. I live with them and am still in the system, but I have been setting boundaries and disengaging, and it’s actually helping them improve. If you read this, I’d love to hear a video on your thoughts of staying in the family system or trying to set boundaries and seeing how things go? Obviously you can’t change others, but for someone like me changing my behavior had a positive effect that did affect them.
I watched most of your videos. I have no idea how I missed this one absolutely brilliant. I really appreciate it coming from someone who was polydrugged in the psych ward and have spent the last four years trying to put my life back together and get off these drugs it’s truly been a nightmare but it’s absolutely doable. Healing is absolutely possible.! I appreciate you, Daniel. You have so much emotional intelligence, which is very rare in this world. Thank you for sharing your healing journey with us❤
How I wish this was only sarcastic and didn't describe my experience as a patient like a high school book synopsis
So the take away message is "If you are mad don't go to a psychiatrist, become a psychiatrist".
Thank you, once again.
Love hearing your perspectives, looking forward to many more vids.
20 years ago I tried a therapy. After a couple sessions I was given a list of drugs and told to choose. lol. I chose to leave and not return.
I'm betting a spliff or a pipeful of crack weren't on the menu? Lol
I've never met a psychiatrist that I haven't clashed with ( mostly almost instantly) and I've met quite a few.
Not surprised I got labelled borderline..
I met my brother's psychiatrist to talk about his treatment hoping that I could explain more about him, as I lived with him, witnessed behaviour that they didn't and basically knew him much better than they ever would...
Well she was rude and insulting, said she didn't need my interference that she was the expert and could barely conceal her animosity when I questioned her method of dealing with him..
( he was bullied and tortured with drugs that didn't suit him but that's another story)
When a few yrs later after his suicide, I sought help from the only place available to me( that one) guess who I got - herself - I had no choice..and after one 15 minute meeting where she coldly laid down the law to me, her assistant filled in a questionnaire with me and the diagnosis was borderline personality..
I do not fit the criteria except for having 3 of the traits ( sometimes) but ofcourse they were having none of anything I had to say...
Every personal experience with the psychiatric services since then has been very much the same.. you would think I would have learned to stay well away but my anxiety and depression has made me so desperate for help and that is all that's available to me.. the waiting list is so long for non-drug therapy and they cannot even give you an approximate timescale but you have to keep going to their appointments to be kept on the list.
Appointments where they do their damnedest to medicate.
Oh god, I'm sorry for the loss of your brother to psychiatry. 😢 I lost people, too, though they were not that close.
You know, everybody has bdp traits and most of them develop due to narcissistic abuse (psychiatry does this per design - if you analyze the system). There are plenty of resources online where you can get information about this form of abuse and how to heal from it. Maybe it helps you to better understand yourself and people you may be dealing with and develop a foundation based on knowledge against your anxiety.
This diagnosis is for the rubbish bin, too.
I never thought there is someone outside there that thinks like me.... and there he is spreading the bitter and sad reality. thanks for it.
Watching this vid and reading all the comments makes me want to become a psychiatrist even more. Unsurprisingly, the people that lust after greed have no actual empathy for their patients. All of this is proof of that. The world needs true empaths and helpers now more than ever. Mental health is no joke, and for a professional to take advantage of someone's mental health and likely make it worse while also draining them of their savings is CRUEL. It breaks my heart reading all of these comments. How hypocritical that a profession meant for great listeners seems to attract the exact opposite, and seems to dismiss patients and push selfish motives. I'm sorry for everyone that has been brave enough to seek help/guidance and has been taken advantage of/made to feel less than. When I reach that step, please come to me. I will be a psychiatrist who cares and I will publicly condone any of my peers who don't. Mental health is scary; it slowly absorbs you from within and it is near impossible to understand why without training to find the cause. This video and the comments made me so upset that it strengthened my own motivations. I have been grateful to be helped by an amazing psychiatrist who believes in minimal drug therapy. The deep understanding and spot-on assessments he offered me is something I hope everyone can experience. Please stay strong and don't give up hope. There are people that care.
This is poetry. Thank you.
[6 years housebound and disabled from taking psych meds as prescribed. Being tortured everyday by adverse effects]
Yes, the tone of the video is funny, and I laughed just like everyone else probably did. But sadly, this is all true. Once you're labeled as having a "mental illness", no doctor and especially no psychiatrist will listen to what you have to say about side effects. Or anything else. They just pressure (or in some cases, force) people to take psych meds, add more to the mix, and it doesn't matter what it is or how dangerous or debilitating the med can be. Insurance companies force people to have a "treatment plan" so the patients who don't want to take any more meds have a lot of stress on their shoulders. Plus, getting told by multiple "health professionals" that you don't want to help yourself, that everything is only in your head, etc. affects the sanity of the patient in the long run. Been there. I decided to tell my insurance company to stop paying me because of this. My stress level has gone down drastically ever since. Yes, we're short on money but at least I don't have to argue endlessly with doctors and nurses and insurance people about meds. It's worth it.
Fair play to you.. people have got to start fighting back and spreading awareness..
These professional thugs have no accountability for the lives they destroy everyday.. they need to be exposed but the best way to hurt them is for folks to just avoid them like the plague.. the only way that will happen is if they hear enough of the terrible experiences of others.
Thank you Daniel Mackler for your contributions to humanity.
very good video. brilliantly explained.
Love your truthful videos, Daniel! The only 'psychiatrist' I am aware of that works for the good of the patient is Dr. Peter Breggin. He has spoken about & written books on the dangers of psychotropic drugs, fought in court for many people, helps them get OFF SSRI's, etc! He does not promote drugs unless it's absolutely necessary. I have never been interested in psychiatrists & have read many times over that they have a very high suicidal rate as well!
Peter Breggin is a gem. He's in my first film, Take These Broken Wings (which is on this channel). He's excellent in that film, gave a great interview. There are, however, lots of other psychiatrists out there who are decent human beings. I know quite a few. Sadly, though, they are a SMALL minority as far as psychiatrists in general... Probably like 1 in 10,000...ah! Daniel
hhahhaaa...I am so glad I caught up to you for the "Why I Quit.... half an hour ago, you're one special guy and you've blown the lid off another box of well kept BS.
Daniel really went all-out with this one. Love it! xDDDDD
Do you include 4 years of general undergrad studies in the 9 years?
No, he doesn't. I'm not sure about 9, but psychiatrists need a minimum of four years in medical school and then they specialize which is at least another two. If undergrad is four years, then that would put bring studies to ten + years. Then again, there are always the people that put on a lab coat and walk through the back door.
@@laturley7445 Penn State offers a 2-year undergrad and 4 year Medical School totaling 6 years. I don't think they officially get a bachelor's degree.
No he doesn't. Nor does he care to fairly admit the huge amount of neuroscientific discoveries, physiology, ethics and all the evidence based information that form the basis of modern psychiatry. Psychiatry is of course not perfect just like other medical specialties, but to reject it totally would cause greater harm than good.
Now this will throw you into depression, and anxiety, if you aren't already there!
You’re doing good work man
1 2 I think anything that stigmatizes mental health options can be problematic if it disuades people from getting help
Stephanie Sto I think there’s a stigma or false perception of what mental health treatment can do for someone. People assume most therapists are competent which most aren’t. They assume all sorts of different things about how therapy can sort your problems out but in 5 years of therapy it did nothing for me. I’m not completely anti-mental health treatment or anti therapist or anti medication but I think psychiatry is corrupt and presented as a hard science when it’s the furthest thing from it. I could probably go on for hours about this topic but it’s really a shame that mental health treatment is so shitty in the US
1 2 I agree with the false perception at times. It's not a panacea, it doesn't address everyone not all your problems. When used inadequately it can create more. I think there's many ways of improving one's life and a lot has to do with increasing social support, systems of meaning etc. I also don't appreciate someone shitting all over what I do with misinformation because I've seen suicidal people get better when their depressions and completely organic, or when an old lady that was going to get a PEG in the hospital starts eating because our intervention, or when a manic patient because of uncontrolled sugars gets stabilized, or psychosis 2/2 tumor gets resolved by exicion. You have to sometimes acknowledge the good and keep trying to improve the bad. And use discernment for when to use meds or a medical approach and when not to.
Dear Daniel i dont know what exactly to write to you. I just want to say this. Dont stop making videos. I feel calm and warm every time i watch you.
you are a very honest human being Daniel, greetings from Argentina
This is exactly my experience with psychiatry. It took me a while to wise up, and I was able to slowly withdraw from my medication. It wasn't through the help of the psychiatrist. It was actually against his recommendation, but he didn't punish me by refusing to supply my needed meds so I could slowly taper.
Than You Daniel Mackler for your contributions to humanity.
I have experienced that many doctors think very highly of themselves and their edu. Everyone believing in that self confidence will reinforce that and they will feel even more certain about themselves. That's why they became psychiatrist in the first place some of them? Not just doctors its about the same everywhere. Isn't that some sort of collective and partly structural gaslighting? Or "how to create a psychiatrist". It's true what you say. For some people it's very easy to see through the fasad whereas some people believe everything the doctors say. Just like a higher power. And they feel they need to believe that.
How I hate the pseudo science of psych-anything. Thanks for your channel
Psychiatrists are the equivalent of medieval doctors, pretending to know what they are doing but really knowing very little about the human brain at all and yet projecting this air of authority despite our understanding of the brain still being very basic. I'm a chemist and when I first heard people talk in terms of a "chemical imbalance" I thought it was an absurd oversimplification, how could the extreme complexity of the brain be reduced to a container with different chemical concentrations? Also, if chemical concentrations affect your thoughts, then thoughts affect your chemical concentrations.
Medical science can do all sorts of very impressive things but fixing the body is much easier, you can see the physical problem of a broken leg or blood clot right in front of you. The psychiatrists are just riding on the success of medicine while having achieved very little at all themselves (most advances in knowledge of the brain's function have been in other fields than psychiatry)
Totally agree with this!
This is beyond spot on!
You forgot the part where you steal drugs and sell them to drug addicts for lots of money too. Especially Ritalin to College students right before finals.
I was falsely diagnosed with ADHD, because I had difficulty to concentrate at school because of the severe history of school bullying I haven't ever been able to get therapy for. I got described ADHD drugs (methylphenidate) and I got really addicted to them. I dropped them by myself (with no help available here) because they were making me a lot worse, soulless and didn't help my symptoms at all.
That nearly killed me, because I got suddenly so depressed thinking and planning suicide daily. I didn't know what was going on, because depression hit weeks later. (again no withdrawal help available, drugs are the cheapest to describe with no regular check ins and no control) I got psychosis because of the quitting and I still experience remnants of that.
But my psychosis at least prevented to kill myself. Too bad it was just fantasy, I had somebody very real character in my head to take care of me, which wasn't real. But I did a lot of soul searching with my messed up brains. But It is very hard to live with reality now with no help. I had also severe paranoia and still have and severe mood swings.
No drug has ever helped me, making all my symptoms worse. Worst psychosis periods has always been because of the drugs.. Last time it was because of the antidepression pills. That time was even worse. I got into lot of trouble.
I can't handle ritilan wither and a current psychiatrist is trying to get me on it again, even tho I know it makes me feel awful.
Amy D Maybe stop seeing psychiatrist, and try psychologist, or some other therapist that won't slap a label on you or throw pills at you.
I worked with dozens of psychiatrists and psychologists... I can tell you they DON'T do this! 😆 It is not worth it to put their license and whole livelihood on the line just to make a few bucks per pill! 😱 Patients are typically the ones who "push or get pushed to sell." 🔹 It's a moral character. For example, I myself have a dozen bottles of different narcotic meds, almost full Vyvance, Adderal, Ritalin, Concerta, Provigil, narcotic pain meds... I know they're worth 💲 thousands!!! I got 'em "for free" through insurance prescribed for me, I was going thru trial and error which one would work... but I didn't sell the pills even if I have 2 kids now in college who could sell them. We DO NOT need the hassle {prison sentence/shame/life sentence of unemployability} nor the $$$ that go with it. We have ENOUGH 💵 money, by God's grace. 😭 Ps. I stopped taking the pills altogether and went "holistic" natural healing by taking massive doses of Iodine, as in "Iodine CRISIS" book by Lynne Farrow. 😂
Is this a joke? This video was basically: How to choose the easy way on work even if that doesnt help the patient.
Its actually the truth how psychiatrists work.
This reminds me of an SNL sketch for the Norman Bates School of Motel Management. Answer C was always, "hack her to death with a kitchen knife".
hahaha!
I am working in a psychiatric hospital as an MD and must say everything is true. there is nothing else you need to know, maybe the addiction disorders 10.2 for alcohol and 11.2 for heroin addiction.
Psychiatry is a field that creates a lot of victims..
They are criminals destroying many lives. Never believe a word they say they are a dangerous pseudoscience.
I yelled at a psychiatrist because he tried to diagnose me with borderline personality disorder within 5 minutes of talking because I self harm. I've seen so many professionals that have misdiagnosed me and not taken me seriously so I lost my crap. You can't diagnose somebody based off of one symptom, and especially not the most highly debated symptom on the checklist. I made sure to tell him so, and he didn't take kindly to a patient actually having knowledge on the subject because he's the "expert." Well, I'm the expert on myself and my own brain and I wasn't going to let another mental health professional stomp all over me within 5 minutes of a first meeting. All I have ever wanted was to be heard. He asked me to leave and my outburst probably just confirmed to him his quack diagnosis. I didn't care, I felt so much better finally calling out a BS psychiatrist instead of just sitting there and keeping mouth shut. I hope he got off his high horse and thought about what I had said for a minute, but he probably didn't and keeps using these ridiculous and harmful methodologies.
Good on you
Thank you for clarifying how the mental health industry functions.
Tragic yet hilarious. You are a great teacher. I would like to take a class with you on any subject.
When i became a psychiatrist,I literally break all this and give them the treatments that they need...Like bruh I choose medicine to help people not to add burden....plus i dont care bout money i care about their mental healths...cause I'm also one of those person who suffered so much mental problems and i don't want them to suffer too...Wish me luck everyone 💜
lol I just have to support this message (based upon a decade of personal empiric findings) You pretty much nailed it here Daniel
I an a psychiatrist now! I listened closely to this video and I graduated, thank you!
I love you.