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This Insane New Therapy Trend Is DESTROYING Families · The Matt Walsh Show

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  Speaker 2: We learned late last night that Shiloh Hendricks was convicted
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  Speaker 2: of one count of disorderly conduct for the crime of
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  Speaker 2: being robbed by a Somali child and then saying unkind
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  Speaker 2: things to a Somali man who berated her. She received
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  Speaker 2: a jail sentence of 90 days, which was stayed, along
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  Speaker 2: with a $ 1, 000 fine and an order to perform 200
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  Speaker 2: hours of community service, all because she used words that
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  Speaker 2: offended a Somali invader in her state, which is apparently
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  Speaker 2: now a crime.
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  Speaker 3: Now, she didn't hit the man. She didn't assault him.
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  Speaker 3: She didn't threaten him.
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  Speaker 2: She verbalized her frustration with the fact that Somalis have
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  Speaker 2: taken over Minnesota, which they have, to the point that
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  Speaker 2: they're terrorizing her and her.
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  Speaker 3: Child in public parks.
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  Speaker 2: She defended her child from a hostile foreigner who was
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  Speaker 2: clearly antagonizing her. Yes, she used a naughty word, God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: but this is not North Korea or Canada. We're allowed
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  Speaker 2: to say naughty words, or at least we used to
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  Speaker 2: be in this country, because we understand that words are
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  Speaker 2: not tantamount to violence. No harm of any kind will
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  Speaker 2: befall anyone. because they heard someone say a word, especially
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  Speaker 2: a word that the very community claiming to be offended
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  Speaker 2: by it uses themselves with significant frequency. So for now,
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  Speaker 2: unless this verdict is immediately overturned, we could say definitively
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  Speaker 2: that the First Amendment, in every relevant respect, has been
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  Speaker 2: suspended in the state of Minnesota. If this is not
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  Speaker 2: a First Amendment violation, then nothing is. Really, that is
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  Speaker 2: that simple. This is a case that raises many issues
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  Speaker 2: that we will be delving into next week. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to mention it at the top because it's an important story.
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  Speaker 2: In many ways, a landmark free speech case that just
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  Speaker 2: broke late last night. In fact, I believe the verdict
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  Speaker 2: came in at like 10 o'clock last night, which is weird, too.
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  Speaker 2: When's the last time you heard of a verdict coming
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  Speaker 2: in in a case at 10 o'clock at night? So
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  Speaker 2: we'll have to look at that as well. But also
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  Speaker 2: in a somewhat circuitous way, you could also see a
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  Speaker 2: connection to the topic we had planned for the show today,
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  Speaker 2: in which we're still going to talk about, as it
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  Speaker 2: indirectly highlights a broader issue, which is that the leftist
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  Speaker 2: mission of destroying American families, of punishing parents who defend
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  Speaker 2: their children, has not gone anywhere since the BLM mania
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  Speaker 2: of 2020. If you remember in 2020, we heard again
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  Speaker 2: and again that the nuclear family is a racist vestige
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  Speaker 2: of white supremacy and that students should effectively be raised
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  Speaker 2: by the school system rather than their parents. Now, this
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  Speaker 2: is nothing new for communists, as we discussed in our
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  Speaker 2: most recent episode of Real History, but it would be
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  Speaker 2: naive to think that the left has abandoned the same
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  Speaker 2: objective in this country.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't. They're not backing down at all.
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  Speaker 2: In all aspects of civil society, their goal is to
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  Speaker 2: drive a wedge between parents and their children. And today
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  Speaker 2: we're going to focus on one front in this war,
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  Speaker 2: which we've talked about many times in the past for
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  Speaker 2: good reason. It is the field of psychiatry, a discipline
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  Speaker 2: that demands to be taken seriously, even though it has
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  Speaker 2: achieved precisely nothing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, think of it this way.
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  Speaker 2: Over the past 100 years, cardiologists have invented open heart surgery.
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  Speaker 2: Infectious disease doctors have started prescribing penicillin. Dentists have developed
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of new and effective ways to advance dental
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  Speaker 2: health and hygiene. Neurologists have come up with new treatments
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  Speaker 2: for Alzheimer's. dermatologists have made many advances in tackling acne
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  Speaker 2: and other skin conditions. Eye doctors learned how to perform
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  Speaker 2: surgery on the cornea, mostly by accident. It's actually a
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  Speaker 2: remarkable story. As a side note, in the 70s, a
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  Speaker 2: kid in Russia got into a fistfight in which he
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  Speaker 2: was punched in the face and pieces of his glasses
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  Speaker 2: ended up in his eye. And after removing the glass,
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  Speaker 2: the Soviet eye doctor realized that the child's vision had
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  Speaker 2: actually improved. So the doctor got the idea of cutting
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  Speaker 2: the cornea to improve people's vision.
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  Speaker 3: And a few decades later, LASIK was born.
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  Speaker 2: So in short, Some of the major, most of the
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  Speaker 2: major medical specialties have done something new and noteworthy within
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  Speaker 2: the past century. There are marked improvements in their areas
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  Speaker 2: of health, which can be directly tied to these advances.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of these, many medical specialties have also done
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  Speaker 2: horrible things over the last 100 years, but there have
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  Speaker 2: been advances. So if you ask the typical doctor, what
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  Speaker 2: has your particular branch of medicine accomplished since the early 1900s?
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  Speaker 2: you'd get a laundry list of accomplishments that have impacted
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  Speaker 2: millions of lives. But there is at least one notable exception,
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  Speaker 2: and that is the field of psychiatry. Psychiatrists, therapists, mental
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  Speaker 2: health professionals are the only doctors who cannot point to
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  Speaker 2: a single quantifiable achievement in their entire field since its inception.
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  Speaker 2: There has never been a documented, verifiable moment in which
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  Speaker 2: psychiatrists have ever made a true measurable advancement. They haven't
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  Speaker 2: stumbled into any major discoveries. All of their alleged breakthroughs,
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  Speaker 2: particularly the discovery of ADHD, the closure of the asylums,
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  Speaker 2: all the gender derangement, the rapidly increasing list of mental health,
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  Speaker 2: of mental illnesses that they're constantly inventing as the DSM
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  Speaker 2: expands and expands and expands, the mass prescription of SSRIs
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  Speaker 2: and hormones and speed. These have all turned out to
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  Speaker 2: be counterproductive, to put it mildly, and dangerous, particularly for children.
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  Speaker 2: They told us that depression was caused by a lack
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  Speaker 2: of serotonin in the brain, only to admit decades later
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  Speaker 2: that they had no idea what they were talking about.
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  Speaker 2: But by the way, they still prescribe SSRIs, which have
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  Speaker 2: an effect but aren't going to solve the problem. Their
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  Speaker 2: primary achievement is not finding new ways to cure or
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  Speaker 2: treat diseases, but inventing new diseases that cannot be cured
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  Speaker 2: or treated at all. And most importantly, as we will discuss,
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  Speaker 2: by every measure, their area of health, mental health, has
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  Speaker 2: declined rapidly and catastrophically as the field has become more powerful,
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  Speaker 2: more pervasive, and better funded. So as the mental health
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  Speaker 2: industry has expanded, mental health in our society has plummeted.
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  Speaker 2: And yet the industry is never held accountable for this.
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  Speaker 2: These dots are rarely connected. We never stop and say
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  Speaker 2: to these people, hey, what exactly have you people done
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  Speaker 2: for us?
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  Speaker 3: What have you done?
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  Speaker 2: Certainly the drugs have been a total bust, and therefore
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  Speaker 2: the only tool that's left in their arsenal, the only
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  Speaker 2: way for a mental health professional to discover a breakthrough
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  Speaker 2: in the field, aside from coming up with a new
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  Speaker 2: drug for a new fake mental health condition, which they
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  Speaker 2: do all the time, is to experiment with new methods
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  Speaker 2: of talk therapy. And that's really all they can attempt
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  Speaker 2: to do, just talk to people in different ways and
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  Speaker 2: say different things in the hopes that they'll somehow fix
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  Speaker 2: their patient's problems. Now, in other areas of medicine, finding
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  Speaker 2: a major breakthrough means conducting lab experiments and high stakes procedures.
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  Speaker 2: In the field of psychiatry, finding a major breakthrough means
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  Speaker 2: having a different kind of conversation with your patient and
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  Speaker 2: sort of hoping for the best. And unlike the legitimate
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  Speaker 2: fields of medicine, the breakthrough is not measured in any
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  Speaker 2: kind of objective, verifiable way. There's no subjectivity to the
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  Speaker 2: question of whether or not your heart medication is working.
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  Speaker 2: It's either working or it isn't. But the success of
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  Speaker 2: psychiatric treatments is entirely measured by, first of all, the
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  Speaker 2: subjective judgment of the patient who is in the treatment
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  Speaker 2: in the first place because they're troubled and mentally unwell,
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  Speaker 2: and therefore perhaps unreliable narrators about their own mental health,
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  Speaker 2: and by the psychiatrists or therapists who are, of course,
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  Speaker 2: very incentivized to count their own methods as successful. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you read the Wall Street Journal recently, if you
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  Speaker 2: have read it recently, you might be aware of the
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  Speaker 2: latest conversation that therapists are pushing increasingly. Therapists are telling
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  Speaker 2: their patients to cut off contact with their own family
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  Speaker 2: members as a way of, quote, protecting their health and, quote,
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  Speaker 2: allowing for emotional growth. And the numbers here, as the
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  Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal tabulates, are pretty staggering.
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  Speaker 3: Quote, about 25% of the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Population is estranged from or has cut ties with a
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  Speaker 2: close relative at any given time, and 10% is estranged
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  Speaker 2: from a parent or child, according to research by Carl Pillemer,
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  Speaker 2: a family sociologist professor of human development at Cornell. Among some, 7,000
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  Speaker 2: estranged parents surveyed in April. A third believed their adult
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  Speaker 2: child's therapist had influenced or recommended the decision to end
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  Speaker 2: the relationship. So yes, one third of estranged parents believe
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  Speaker 2: that a therapist convinced their adult child to cut them off.
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  Speaker 2: And a quarter of the population is now estranged from
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  Speaker 2: somebody in their family. Now, this is what they call
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  Speaker 2: going no contact, which is a phrase you've probably heard.
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  Speaker 2: It's become increasingly popular. I never even heard that phrase
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  Speaker 2: until a few years ago, and now it's everywhere. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you'll go on TikTok or, you know, you'll find Instagram,
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  Speaker 2: you'll find Gen Z and millennials constantly talking about, well,
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  Speaker 2: I decided to go no contact. Have you gone no
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  Speaker 2: contact yet? It sounds like a coming of age ritual
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  Speaker 2: for Gen Z and millennials. The day when they decide
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  Speaker 2: to go no contact, which is cut off their own family,
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  Speaker 2: isolate themselves even more. And a huge number of them,
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  Speaker 2: as the Wall Street Journal has found, have decided to
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  Speaker 2: go no contact from their parents. And, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: have the mental health industry largely to thank for that. Now, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: there are certain situations before people jump down my throat.
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  Speaker 2: There are certain situations that would justify cutting off a
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  Speaker 2: family member. No one is claiming that it's always wrong
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  Speaker 2: to cut off family. If your parents are actually abusive monsters,
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  Speaker 2: I mean actually, who are destroying your life in some
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  Speaker 2: tangible way, then cutting them off is totally justified. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say that people have an obligation
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  Speaker 2: to endure relentless abuse just because they're related to the abuser,
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  Speaker 2: or they have an obligation to maintain a relationship with
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  Speaker 2: a parent who abused them as a child. But that's
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  Speaker 2: not what we're talking about here. You know, we're not
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  Speaker 2: talking just about parents who were legitimately, genuinely abusive and
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  Speaker 2: were rightly cut off. What's happening in these cases very
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  Speaker 2: often is quite different. Therapists have their clients icing out
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  Speaker 2: family members, cutting them off completely, essentially disowning them for
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  Speaker 2: reasons that often have nothing to do with actual abuse. Now,
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  Speaker 2: in many cases, therapists are simply affirming whatever their client
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  Speaker 2: tells them without questioning whether that person is telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, instead of functioning as an independent advisor,
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  Speaker 2: therapists are acting like yes-men.
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  Speaker 3: Which is what they usually do.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the fundamental problems in the entire industry.
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  Speaker 2: It's the affirmative model of therapy, which has been a
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  Speaker 2: catastrophic disaster across the board, where they will just basically
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  Speaker 2: agree with whatever the person... They will affirm their feelings.
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  Speaker 2: If the person sits down and says, I feel this way,
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  Speaker 2: this is how I feel.
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  Speaker 3: About my parents....
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  Speaker 2: Well, then for a lot of therapists, God forbid, they're
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  Speaker 2: not going to tell, they're not going to suggest that, well.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe your feelings are wrong. Maybe you're wrong.
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  Speaker 2: You ever think about that? You have this feeling about
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  Speaker 2: your family member. Maybe you're the jerk here. Have you
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  Speaker 2: ever considered that? It might be you. That should be
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  Speaker 2: like the first thing a therapist says. First thing should be, okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's look at this and find out if maybe you're
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  Speaker 2: the problem. And very often that just doesn't happen. So
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  Speaker 2: if a client is delusional or self-centered and wants to
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  Speaker 2: cut off his family for a dumb reason, the therapist
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  Speaker 2: isn't going to stand in the way. Quote, going back
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  Speaker 2: to the article, a lot of therapists are taught to
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  Speaker 2: believe whatever the client is saying at face value, says
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  Speaker 2: Peter Anderson, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Beverly, Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 2: who helps families with estrangements and conducted the surveys. They're
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  Speaker 2: forming conclusions based on one person's account. People are coming
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  Speaker 2: into a therapist's office and parroting what they hear on
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  Speaker 2: social media, Anderson says.
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  Speaker 3: They're looking for.
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  Speaker 2: Affirmation for a decision they've already made. Now, there are also,
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  Speaker 2: which by the way, that's another problem. That's a problem
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  Speaker 2: that even real doctors across every medical field deal with now.
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  Speaker 2: That's part of the consequence of allowing direct consumer advertisement
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  Speaker 2: with pharmaceuticals. And now AI and Google diagnosing people, WebMD,
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  Speaker 2: people go into the doctor already having decided what their
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  Speaker 2: problem is. And they're just looking for a doctor to
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  Speaker 2: affirm it and give them a drug. And again, a
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  Speaker 2: real doctor, a good doctor is not going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: But in the therapy field, most of them, that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what they'll do. Now, there are also many cases in
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  Speaker 2: which therapists take a more direct role and try to
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  Speaker 2: plant memories of abuse or trauma, quote unquote, in their
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  Speaker 2: client's head.
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  Speaker 3: And if that.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds implausible, You should know that there's a long history
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  Speaker 2: of therapists and psychiatrists doing exactly that, convincing people they
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  Speaker 2: were abused when in fact they were not. You could
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  Speaker 2: go all the way back to, you might remember, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe not, the repressed memory scam of the 80s and 90s,
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  Speaker 2: when it became fashionable for people to concoct narratives long
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  Speaker 2: after the fact, often with the help of their therapist.
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  Speaker 2: This became a epidemic where people were going to therapists
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  Speaker 2: for some problem. And then in therapy, discovering, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: actually I was abused. I never remembered that until this
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  Speaker 2: very moment. Lots of lives were destroyed because of that.
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  Speaker 2: For these memories, it ended up being false memories.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't really happen.
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  Speaker 2: You just convinced yourself of it or your therapist helped
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  Speaker 2: to convince you of it. There are notable cases of this,
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  Speaker 2: famous cases. Probably the most famous case involved a woman
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  Speaker 2: named Eileen Franklin Lipsker, who became something of a Eileen
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  Speaker 2: alleged that she had suddenly recovered a repressed memory of
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  Speaker 2: seeing her father, 51-year-old retired firefighter George Franklin, sexually assault
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  Speaker 2: and murder an eight-year-old named Susan, who lived next door.
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  Speaker 2: And the alleged memory was more than 20 years old
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  Speaker 2: by that point. The killing had happened in 1969. But
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  Speaker 2: the media took Eileen's claim seriously, and so did the prosecutors.
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  Speaker 4: Watch.
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  Speaker 5: In California, Eileen Franklin says just one look from her
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  Speaker 5: six-year-old daughter jarred a memory so terrible she repressed.
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  Speaker 3: It for 20 years.
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  Speaker 5: All right, listen to this one.
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  Speaker 3: Meet Eileen Franklin.
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  Speaker 6: Eileen Franklin was the center of a very important landmark case.
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  Speaker 2: The murder she witnessed happened 20 years.
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  Speaker 5: Ago, and the murderer was her father.
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  Speaker 3: Reporters literally fell over each other.
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  Speaker 5: The story Eileen Franklin told in court in 1990 happened
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  Speaker 5: when she was a child.
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  Speaker 7: The way I remember it is that I was eight
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  Speaker 7: years old and I was in my father's Volkswagen van
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  Speaker 7: with him. And we drove around the corner from my
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  Speaker 7: house and I saw Susan playing outside. And I got
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  Speaker 7: really excited and I asked my dad if Susan could
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  Speaker 7: get in the van with us. And so we stopped
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  Speaker 7: and Susan got in. And in the back of the
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  Speaker 7: van there was a bed. And Susan and I were
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  Speaker 7: bouncing up and down on the bed. And my dad
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  Speaker 7: drove us out to an area that's wooded. And he
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  Speaker 7: pulled over to the side of the road. And Susan
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  Speaker 7: and I were playing on the bed. And he came
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  Speaker 7: back into the back. And he... I went up into
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  Speaker 7: the front and when I looked back, he had Susan's
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  Speaker 7: arms pinned above her head and he was on top
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  Speaker 7: of her.
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  Speaker 2: Horrible details you hear there that were entirely made up.
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  Speaker 2: One of the details that Eileen provided as part of
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  Speaker 2: her newfound recollection of events was that a ring had
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  Speaker 2: been smashed at the crime scene. The authorities took that
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  Speaker 2: claim as proof that Eileen's memory was accurate since a
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  Speaker 2: ring had indeed been recovered. In the investigation, defense lawyers
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  Speaker 2: attempted to point out that several media organizations had reported
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  Speaker 2: on the ring back in 1969, meaning it's possible that
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  Speaker 2: Eileen was simply remembering news coverage that she had seen. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the judge didn't let the defense lawyers make that argument
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  Speaker 2: in front of the jury. Not that it would have mattered.
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  Speaker 2: By all accounts, the jury had fully bought into the
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  Speaker 2: idea of repressed memories.
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  Speaker 3: As the L.A.
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  Speaker 2: Times reported, quote, Frank Lipsker's story shifted and changed. In
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  Speaker 2: one account, her sister Janice had been in the van
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  Speaker 2: and another she wasn't. The murder was in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: then in the late afternoon, but the contradictions did not
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  Speaker 2: cause jurors to disbelieve her, said Harry McLean, who wrote
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  Speaker 2: about the case in the book Once Upon a Time,
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  Speaker 2: A True Story of Memory, Murder, and the Law. The
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  Speaker 2: problem was the jury sat there and took that as
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  Speaker 2: evidence of how damaged she was from having George Franklin
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  Speaker 2: as a father, McLean said.
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  Speaker 3: It was making her more sympathetic. Now, the prosecution was.
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  Speaker 2: Also assisted by quack experts who went on national TV
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  Speaker 2: to push this narrative of repressed memories.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Watch.
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  Speaker 7: Why did she wait 20 years to report it?
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: She had repressed it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: So why is it that some people can remember beginning
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: at an age when you do remember things, you.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Know, seven, eight, nine, and other people absolutely do not.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: In psychiatry, we call these things dissociation, which is to
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: separate yourself from what's going on, to feel unreal.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Dr.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Lenore Ter, a psychiatrist and expert witness for the prosecution,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: explained on television what she presented to the jury. a
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: theory of repressed memory that would be further popularized in
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: a television movie about the case. Do you know what
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: that would cost her? This whole case depends on proving
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: repressed memory. According to Dr.
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: Ter, traumatic repression is substantiated by repeated violence in childhood.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: But in order to fit Dr. Ter's theory that repressed
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: memories involved repeated violence in childhood, Eileen had to come
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: up with other violent experiences that she had repressed.
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: And then my father held me down.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: On this table. She recalled repressed memories of sexual abuse
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: by her father. At least, she said so.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Traumatic repression. One of the reasons why we're kind of
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: harping on this.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: A little bit is because this is the pattern for
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the psychiatric industry. They've been doing this for decades. They
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: just make things up. Just, you know, you have some
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: weird guy who's sitting around and you know what?
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: That sounds right. I bet there's traumatic repression.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I bet your mind is like a box and you
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: store in it like things that are really bad that
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: happened to you that you can't remember. And then you
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: got to go to a therapist and they'll give you
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: the secret key to unlock the box. That sounds right.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: This is never based on any data, anything. Just this
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: guy thought of this. And then it takes over the
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: entire psychiatric industry and lives are destroyed. And we've seen
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: this same pattern is played out with the gender stuff.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: with depression, SSRIs, ADHD. It's just them inventing things with
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: no data. And then lives are ruined. And then eventually
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: they say, yeah, maybe we were wrong about that. And
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: they just kind of move on. There's no accountability. Now,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: in the end, despite the total lack of physical evidence
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: tying him to the murder, George Franken was convicted and
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: sentenced to life in prison. The judge said he regretted
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: that he couldn't hand down a death sentence in the case.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: And after he served more than six years in prison,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Franklin was released. A federal judge overturned his conviction, saying
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: the trial court had made several errors. And shortly afterwards,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Eileen's sister admitted that Eileen's repressed memory had been unearthed
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: via hypnosis. It wasn't really a memory at all. It
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: was suggested to her, that's what hypnosis is, that Eileen
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: torpedoed her credibility further when she announced that she had
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: yet another repressed memory of her father committing a separate murder.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: But that claim didn't go anywhere because DNA evidence proved
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: her father was nowhere near the murder scene at the time. Now,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the saga of this particular fake repressed memory led a
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: memory scientist named Elizabeth Loftus to conduct an experiment, which
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: was published in 1995 in the journal Psychiatric Annals. In
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: this experiment, researchers assembled a pool of test subjects and
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: then interviewed their family members to learn about three real
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: events from their childhoods. Then the researchers told the test
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: subjects about four events from their childhood, three real and
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: one that was made up. In every case, the made-up
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: event was the same. The subjects were told that they
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: had been lost in the mall when they were young
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: and were rescued by an elderly woman. Now, in the experiment,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: 25% of participants said they developed partial or complete memories
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: of the fake event that never happened. In later experiments,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: test subjects became convinced of other events in their childhood
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: that never took place, from dog attacks to near drownings.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: 25%, that's an incredible number.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: It just shows you how kind of naturally malleable and
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: gullible people are, especially when they're going into therapy. These
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: are extreme examples, but there's no reason to believe that
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: the psychiatric industry has changed to any significant degree. These
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: are people who will happily tell children they're born in
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: the wrong body, sign them up for a lifetime of
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: hormones and chemical castration, if not outright mutilation. To this day,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: all over the internet, you'll find videos from alleged experts
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: about how repressed memories are supposedly real. even though it's
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: been debunked for decades. For example, here's licensed therapist Elizabeth
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Cappelletti on this point.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Watch.
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: Repressed memories are a real thing. And basically what that is,
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: is we've had things happen in our life, usually pretty traumatic,
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: that our brain just, it buries. It's like it never happened.
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: And if you look at that, you can realize like
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: the benefit of that. So I don't have to keep
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: thinking about this thing all the time, but it doesn't
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: mean it's not affecting us. And the crazy part is,
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: is we can have these memories laying dormant, like totally
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: out of our awareness for years, decades. And sometimes they
• 23:05
  Speaker 10: stay buried and sometimes they don't. Sometimes what will happen
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: is something will trigger us and all of a sudden
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: some of these memories start popping up. This can obviously
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: be very disturbing, very distressing.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Very difficult.
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: And I just want to say to you that you
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: are not alone if that's something that's happening for you.
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: Sometimes if we have kids, when our kids hit a
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: certain age, maybe about the age where we experience that,
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: that can be part of what triggers it. I mean,
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: there could be umpteen reasons of why that might be.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, so this is a current licensed marriage and family
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: therapist with junk science.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: This is a woman who gets paid. People pay her
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: a lot of money. I don't know how much.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: To solve their problems and their marriage problems. And what
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: she's saying is junk science.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: It's debunked. It's not true. Nothing she said is true.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: It's actually not, this is, it's not real. Okay.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Now you can certainly be reminded of things that you
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: haven't thought of in a while after encountering some kind
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: of relevant cue that happens all the time.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: That's just called remembering something. Okay. That can happen.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: But the idea that you can have a deeply repressed
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: memory of a highly traumatic event for decades that you
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: don't remember at all, like it never happened. And then
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: one day it's triggered and comes rushing back or your
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: therapist figures out the secret key to unlock the hidden
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: memory and the hidden memory compartment in your brain is
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: complete nonsense. I mean, if you suddenly remember something awful
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: that happened to you 30 years ago, it's much more
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: likely that the thing didn't happen and you're imagining it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: If you never remembered this thing for 30 years, let's say,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: and now one day you're 37, you're like, oh yeah,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: oh that much. The much more likely scenario is that
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: you're imagining that you got that from a combination of suggestion,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: a movie you saw, a dream you had, whatever. Now,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: if anything, based on all the people who say they
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: have PTSD, the problem with traumatic memories normally is that
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: they don't go away. It's not that they're buried for
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: 20 years in some kind of secret compartment in your
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: consciousness that no one can identify.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: They stick with you.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: And that becomes the whole problem is that you think
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: about them too much, not that you're not thinking about
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: them at all. And the point is, this woman is
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: not an outlier. She's very representative of the therapy industry
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: in that her job is to mislead her.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Clients with fake science and voodoo.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: If you go into her office and conjure up a
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: repressed memory of your father doing something horrible 30 years ago,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: She's not going to tell you that you're making it
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: up or that it seems dubious. She apparently won't even say,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: you know, okay, it's possible you're just imagining this if
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: you just remembered it now, 30 years later.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: That's a possibility, at least. Let's look at all the possibilities.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: She won't even do that.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Well, it popped into your head now. It must have happened.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: It must be true. It must be real. She'll affirm it,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: and she'll encourage you to cut your.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Father out of your life. That's how this works.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons why this no contact thing
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: is becoming so popular. Even though the repressed memory idea
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: has been thoroughly discredited and debunked for years now, still,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: this again is a theme in the psychiatric industry. The
• 26:12
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• 26:16
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  Speaker 2: This is the more common scenario. You know, it's more
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  Speaker 2: often rather than someone going to a therapist and inventing
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  Speaker 2: some memory of being abused from 30 years ago. What
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  Speaker 2: more often happens is like they just have a litany
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  Speaker 2: and all of them from many years ago. And and
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  Speaker 2: to them anymore. And the therapist will from the therapist's perspective,
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  Speaker 2: if you feel that way, if you you feel like
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  Speaker 2: life entirely, then it must be. The very fact that
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  Speaker 11: If your kids no longer want to speak to you
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  Speaker 11: when they become adults, that's 100% your fault as the parent.
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  Speaker 11: What most parents don't seem to understand is that the
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  Speaker 3: The adult-to-adult relationship.
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  Speaker 9: So if you raised your kids and you think, well,
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  Speaker 9: I put a roof over your head, I paid for
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  Speaker 9: you to have food, and I provided for you, that's
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  Speaker 9: the bare minimum. And if that wasn't enough for them
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  Speaker 9: to want to continue a relationship with you as an adult,
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  Speaker 9: chances are there were some significant problems within the household.
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  Speaker 9: How you treated that kid, what your expectations were of
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  Speaker 9: that kid, or what they are of them as an
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  Speaker 6: The person through making them parentify by watching a bunch
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  Speaker 6: of other children, forcing them to work, turnover part or
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: all of their paycheck. You tried to force your political
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  Speaker 6: and religious opinions on them. Whatever it happens to be,
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  Speaker 6: there is a break in there somewhere that you have
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: responsibility for. And if you think to yourself, oh, I
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: have no responsibility for this, I guarantee you're the problem.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: So if you're a little bit more.
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: On the side of common sense and you go, You know,
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: there was probably some things that I really didn't do
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: right that I may need to apologize for and tell
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  Speaker 6: them I did the.
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  Speaker 3: Best I could with this. That's enough of this guy bloviating. Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: If you force your kid to do some work. Oh, no.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: You force them to, like, contribute. Boy, you're a bad parent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're an adult child at the age of 32...
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  Speaker 2: wants to cut you off because when you were 16,
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  Speaker 2: you made him get a job.
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  Speaker 3: It must be your fault.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not that that 32-year-old is like a spoiled
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  Speaker 2: little punk.
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  Speaker 3: That needs to get over it. It can't be that.
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  Speaker 2: It can't be that the 32-year-old is an egotistical, arrogant, ridiculous,
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  Speaker 2: petulant brat that needs to grow up.
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  Speaker 3: That can't be it. That can't be it.
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  Speaker 2: It's got to be, no, no, no, because he's in therapy.
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  Speaker 3: So whatever he, everything he feels is good. Everything he
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: feels is valid.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, and God forbid you force your religious opinions on
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: your child, otherwise known as raising them in the faith,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: in your faith, which is what, I don't know, every
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: generation of humans have done since the beginning of human civilization.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: But by this guy's telling, and according to many other people,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: especially therapists, if you were raised in a way that
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: is totally consistent with how billions of other people have
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: been raised, then you're a victim. You are now morally
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: justified in disowning your family. You have suffered undue trauma.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: You experienced something, the same thing that, you know, that
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: 8 billion other people have experienced, but for you, but no, no,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: you're a victim.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: You're a victim because you feel that way.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: This again is a very common idea. It's one of
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: the main reasons why so many people have cut off
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: their family members at the urging of mental health professionals. But,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: you know, a few things are lost in this way
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: of thinking beyond just basic logic and common sense. And
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: first of all, If you are an adult, again, putting
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: aside cases of actual real abuse, putting aside those cases,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: if you are an adult, and this is what your
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: therapist should be saying to you, but they won't because
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: most of them are terrible, it's time for you to
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: grow the hell up and get over whatever complaints you
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: have about the way you were raised. Maybe your dad
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: didn't attend your dance recital. Maybe your mom had a
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: little bit of a temper. Maybe she yelled sometimes. Maybe
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: your parents made a whole laundry list of mistakes. Maybe
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: horror of horrors, they forced you to go to church
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: with them or get a job. Maybe they even made
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: you do chores around the house. Maybe they didn't take
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: you to Disney World, okay? Maybe you drew them a
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: picture and they didn't seem excited enough about it or something.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Whatever your complaints are, you are an adult now, okay?
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: It's time to move on. It's time to get over it.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: The fact that there are people in their 30s and 40s,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: grownups with kids of their own, still obsessing over minor
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: offenses committed by their parents when they were 11 is
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: pathetic and insane.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, yes, your parents made mistakes. They did.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: You don't need a therapist to tell you that. Your
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: parents were human. You know what your parents were doing?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: They were doing what you're doing. They're stumbling along, fumbling around,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: trying to figure things out as they go, just like
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: you are. Age and perspective should make you more understanding,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: more forgiving of your parents' faults, not less. If you
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: are wise, if there's any wisdom in you, then as
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: you get older, you look back at your parents, again,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: unless they were actually really abusive, You look back on
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: your parents with more forgiveness because you realize that, oh, yeah, like.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of figuring this stuff out as I go along.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: I'm not perfect.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: I'm making mistakes. You know, all those kinds of things.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I can be selfish sometimes. I can have a temper sometimes. So, yeah,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: apparently it was the same for my parents. Oh, apparently
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: I'm a human and so were they. This is what
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: your therapist should do when you sit down in their office.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: The second that you go, And then when I was seven,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: they should just cut you off right there and say, oh,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: why are you?
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: How old are you? How old are you? Forty three.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Why are you telling me what happened when you were seven?
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Was it like some horrible, actually horrible thing like a
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: crime was committed against you?
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: No. OK, then shut up. Like, don't even start. I
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: don't want to hear about it.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: And the second point is that your family is your family.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: OK, you have an obligation to them.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Any mental health professional who encourages you to go no
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: contact from your parents is encouraging you to shirk one
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: of your most fundamental responsibilities as a human.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: That's why cutting off your.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Parents should be an extreme measure and a last resort,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: but that's not what's happening. And if you think I'm
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: cherry picking here, if you're under the impression that most
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: therapists are actually useful, then you have to zoom out
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: just like a little bit And this chart shows the
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: number of adults, as I referenced earlier, in the United
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: States who receive mental health treatment of some kind, whether
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: it's therapy or medications or both. And as you can see,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: as of 2024, the number is around 60 million people,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: roughly one in five adults. That's a huge number. In 2002,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: the number was just 27 million. It's been going up
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: and up and up and up every single year, just about.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: And you can see there was a massive spike during
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: the COVID lockdowns for obvious reasons, and it's been increasing
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: ever since then. Now, if we look at talk therapy alone,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: the numbers are still hard to believe. From 2018 to 2021,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: the number of American adults receiving outpatient talk therapy alone
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: grew from 6.5% to 8.5%. According to a study from
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Columbia University, that's a jump from 16 million people to
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: nearly 22 million people. And more recent data from 2024
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: shows that at least 14% of Americans had received counseling
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: or therapy in the past year. I mean, you look
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: closely at the demographics, as you'd expect, the vast majority
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: of those patients are young people. something like 42% of
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Gen Z is currently in therapy. That's staggering, which marks
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: a 22% increase in just the past four years. So
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: talk therapy is becoming significantly more common and people who
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: start talk therapy are more likely to continue in it
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: for a long time, maybe forever. And they're also younger
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: than ever when they start this. These again are staggering numbers.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: And they mean that virtually every American is either in
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: therapy or knows someone who is. And yet, despite all
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: of this therapy, there is no evidence that mental health
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: is improving in this country at all. In fact, it's
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: getting worse by every available metric. The CDC found that
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: the prevalence of depression rose by roughly 60% from 8%
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: in 2013 to 13% in 2022 among Americans age 12
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: and older. And Gallup surveys found that 29% of Americans
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: report that they've been diagnosed with depression at some point
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: in their life, which is a significant increase from 2015
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: when only 20% of adults have made that claim. Nearly
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: 48 million Americans, 18% of the adult population, claim that
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: they're being treated for depression. And depression among young adults
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: aged 18 to 29 more than doubled from 13% in
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: 2017 to 27% as of last year.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: As a therapist, Jonathan Alpert.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Writes, quote, Today, 30% of people between 18 and 29
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: and 24% of those age 30 to 39 are affected
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: by anxiety or depression, statistics that are nothing short of alarming.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: So the problem is pretty clear.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: We have more therapy than ever, but people are more
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: depressed and anxious than ever. And if therapy worked, you
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: would think that the lines would be moving in opposite directions.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: If therapy generally helps people to become less depressed and anxious,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Then as therapy becomes more mainstream and commonplace and goes
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: this way, you would think that depression and anxiety would
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: go that way. That's the kind of inverse relationship we
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: should see if the thing works. But instead, the depression
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: and anxiety line is shooting up, skyrocketing at the same
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: pace as the therapy line. Something is seriously wrong here.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: An obvious question then is raised. Are these two facts related?
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: And if so, how exactly are they related? Are people
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: seeking out therapy because they're more depressed and anxious? Or
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: is the psychiatric industry, which is very well funded, if
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: you haven't noticed, convincing people that they're suffering from some
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: kind of mental distress or causing them to suffer from
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: a mental distress as a way of securing lifelong patients
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: who can be medicated and billed for life? A therapist
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I just mentioned, Jonathan Alpert, became something of a pariah
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: in the industry for sharing his thoughts on this question.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: He was essentially banished from the industry for writing a
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: New York Times op-ed in 2012, which admitted that people
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: are spending too much time in therapy and it's not
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: helping them. And he pointed out that therapists have a
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: perverse incentive in this relationship. He wrote, quote, research shows
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: that in many cases, the longer therapy lasts, the less
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: likely it is to be effective. Still, therapists are often
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: reluctant to admit defeat. According to research conducted at the
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: University of Pennsylvania, therapists who practice more traditional psychotherapy are
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: treat patients for an average of 22 sessions before concluding
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: that progress isn't being made. Just 12% of those therapists
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: choose to refer their stagnant patients to another practitioner. The
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: bottom line, even though extended therapy is not always beneficial,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: many therapists persist in leading patients on an open-ended, potentially
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: endless therapeutic course. Now think of what this means about
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: the industry as a whole. Only 12% of therapists having
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: realized the therapy is not working would tell their patients
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: to go somewhere else.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: 12%. They could see a patient 22 times with no progress.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: And after all that, they still will not admit that
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: it's not working because in doing so, they sacrifice a
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: regular payout. That's why psychiatry is the least regarded, least
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: competitive medical specialty. It's a very cynical business and a
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: cyclical business. It's patients get trapped in a recurring cycle
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: and never escape. And all of that is by design. Now,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: in cases like this, the therapist is more like a
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: friend who's being paid to talk to you. And he
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: has no reason to end the relationship because as long
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: as you keep showing up, he's making money. In other words,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: the relationship between a patient and a therapist is a
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: lot like the relationship between you and the local termite guy.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: You might not have a termite problem at all, but
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: if you ask the termite guy, he's going to tell
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: you that you should sign up for his termite protection
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: plan just in case. And then he'll stop by your
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: house at some regular interval collecting a paycheck every time.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Same idea applies when it comes to antivirus software on
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: your computer. Your antivirus company has a clear incentive to
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: make you terrified of computer viruses. They never tell you
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: that actually their software is often unnecessary.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: They want you afraid.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: And to that end, they'll bombard you with pop-ups and
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: emails and cybersecurity threats that don't actually amount to anything.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: They'll do whatever it takes to keep you from unsubscribing.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: And you can find analogies like this across the board
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: in like every, a car mechanic, okay? If you go
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: to stop by some random car mechanic and ask them
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: to take a look at your engine, it's very unlikely
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: that they're not going to find some kind of problem.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: They're going to find some kind of problem because if
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: they don't find any problem, then they're not going to
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: get paid. So, you know, these are the incentives. And
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: when the incentives are applied to things like your car engine,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: your house because of termites or your computer, then, you know,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: the dangers are relatively minimal and you just know that
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: you kind of have to navigate that. But when we're
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: talking about your mind, okay, when we're talking about you
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: as a person and somebody being incentivized to convince you
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: that you have problems in your mind or to make
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: sure that if you do have problems, they're never solved, well,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: that becomes a much bigger problem. And part of the
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: problem here is that therapists themselves are often, not always,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: but often, incompetent, dysfunctional, mentally unwell women with degrees in
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: social work and other fields that don't give them any
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: relevant expertise at all.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: And the gender dynamics are very important.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, roughly 75 to
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: 80% of therapists are women. Now, even if you just
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: look at psychiatrists who have MDs, you're still over 55% female.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Women regularly comprise more than 80% of the graduates in
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: counseling and clinical psychology programs. And these women, generally speaking,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: are very often not remotely impressive or qualified.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: To give anyone advice about anything.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: And if you're a man seeking therapy, which is likely
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: a huge mistake on your part, well, your options are
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: going to be almost all women. And there's something quite
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: absurd about that. Like how can a grown adult man
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: with his grown adult man problems and anxieties, sit in
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: a room with a 29-year-old female with a social work
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: degree and expect to get any advice that's useful or
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: relevant to his life? What could that woman possibly have
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: to say to you? What wisdom could she possibly have
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: that you don't already know? What could she tell you
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: about your life or your mind that you don't already know?
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, think about it.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, if this is an older, like if you're
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: a guy in your 30s and you're sitting down with
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: some like old, you know, some 72 year old man
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: with a lot of wisdom and a.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: Lot of life experience.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: And, you know, the guy's been married for 40 years
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: and he has four kids and they're grown and he
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: has grandkids, like whatever. Then in that case, that might
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: be a guy that has some relevant advice to you.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: But the thing about that is that doesn't need to
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: be a therapist. Like that's what grandfathers are for. That's
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: what that's what the elders in the village used to
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: be for. It is possible to sit down and get
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: wisdom from someone. It is possible that there could be
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: someone out there who you could benefit from talking to.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: But very often, those people are not going to be
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: licensed therapists. Now, to give just one example of what
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: the sorts of people who are populating this industry, here's one.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: This is a morbidly obese, tattooed, pink-haired therapist with a
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: nose ring who posted a video attacking me for a
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: previous monologue I did on therapy. And she posted a
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago. I just came across it the
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: other day. I want you to listen to her argument,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: but also just look at this remarkable specimen and take
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: it all in.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Here it is.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: I think the other thing about this that's really important
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: for us to acknowledge is something we've talked about on
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: the channel before also, which is that there is a
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: lot of hubbub about like, for example, ADHD diagnoses. This
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: happened in the early 2000s. It's happening now with autism
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: as well, where people are like, people are being diagnosed
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: more often than they were. So clearly we're making it up.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: I'm like, no, no, that's literally not the case. What's
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: happening is that we as a culture have gained a
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: collective language and awareness for something that has been happening
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: for like the entirety of time. We just didn't know
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: how to describe that. We didn't understand what the warning
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: signs were. We had no idea what the symptoms looked like.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: And we especially did not have an understanding of how
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: those symptoms presented themselves in marginalized populations because those populations
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: historically have been silenced. And so now what we're seeing,
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: especially like in regards to autism, for example, is that
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: we as a psychological community have developed a greater awareness
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: and a better understanding for like symptomatology as it relates
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: to femme presenting people, right? Like femme, AFAB, people who
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: are like, you know, receiving misogyny, we understand now more
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: what autism looks like and how it presents in that population.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: So diagnosis numbers have gone up. It's not that we as,
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: mental health professionals are cooking the books and we're just
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: like have a specific desire for there to be lots
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: of femme autistic people. It's just that we, imagine that,
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: over the course of our profession have learned more. We
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: learn things over time. So that's meant that we're better
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: at doing our f * * * ing jobs. I
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: know that that's a concept that's probably foreign to somebody
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: who doesn't have a college degree to rub together between
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: his meaty little hands.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Don't have a.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Well, the fact that this woman can get a college
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: degree tells you everything you need to know. Like, if
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: you didn't already realize that college degrees are meaningless because
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: they will give them to the dumbest, most unimpressive people
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: who have ever lived on the planet, well, there you go. Now,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: there's no conspiracy, she says. There's no one cooking the books.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: That's all crazy. It's the kind of thing that idiots
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: like Matt Walsh believe because they don't have college degrees.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: They're not. They don't have college degrees. They're not sophisticated.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: They're not sophisticated like me, like a morbidly obese woman
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: with pink hair.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: They lack the sophistication.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: The real reason autism diagnoses are skyrocketing, she says, is
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: because there's a lot of femme-presenting people these days who
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: are receiving misogyny. She goes on to beat this point
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: to the ground, saying that I'm crazy for implying that
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: there's a deep state that's submitting fake autism claims or whatever.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: This is a take that, suffice it to say, has
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: not aged. particularly well, especially after Nick Shirley's videos from
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Little Somalia in Minneapolis. Everyone now realizes beyond a shadow
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: of a doubt that indeed the therapists are cooking the books.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: This is reporting from the Cato Institute, for example, quote,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: across eight states with publicly available data, combined Medicaid spending
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: on autism therapy grew from $ 347 million to over $ 2. 2
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: billion in recent years. The national total is certainly much larger.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Minnesota spending alone went from $ 671, 000 in 2018 to 342
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: million by 2024. During those years, the number of Minnesota
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Medicaid autism therapy recipients rose from 400 to more than 5,700,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: but per recipient spending rose even more dramatically from less
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: than 1,700 to more than 60,000 annually. The federal inspector
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: general has now audited Medicaid ABA payments in Colorado, Indiana, Maine,
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: and Wisconsin. In each state, 100% of sampled claims contained
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: at least one improper or potentially improper payment. Confirmed improper
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: payments totaled $ 198 million or 31% of the $ 638 million reviewed.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: One Colorado recipient was reimbursed for 200 hours of therapy
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: in a single month, or more than eight hours per day,
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: assuming a five-day workweek, the vast majority of which were undocumented.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: In some facilities, notes were signed before the session had
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: even concluded. Session notes were photocopied across dates with identical
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: texts and signatures, and some files contained the wrong child's name. So,
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: this is obvious, flagrant, malicious fraud. These are numerical increases that,
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: on their face, cannot be explained by a surge in
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: femme-presenting people receiving.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: Misogyny, whatever that gibberish is supposed to mean.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: What's happening is that autism treatment centers and daycares hire
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: therapists who look like this revolting person and These therapists
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: don't need any credentials whatsoever. The therapists then sit in
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: a room eating pizza and billing Medicaid all day. Are
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: they actually talking to any children at any point?
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: Who knows?
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Even if there are children in the center, they're often
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: part of the scheme because the parents are getting kickbacks
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: from the autism treatment center for enrolling them. And to
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: make matters worse, as we discussed before, the insurance companies
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: are often party to the scam as well. Insurance companies
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: often manage Medicaid programs on behalf of the state.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: That's how it works in Minnesota.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: The insurance companies get reimbursed by the state for any
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: claims they pay out, plus a premium for their services.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: So the insurance companies have no reason to complain here.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: They want to keep paying out claims without any concern
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: for fraud because they know that the state will eventually
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: make them whole with interest. So all this to say
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: that the obese woman was wrong.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: I was right.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: I wasn't just right about this one point. I was
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: right about all of my points. And to prove that,
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: here's some more of her video where she splices in
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: some footage from my show.
• 51:02
  Speaker 8: Watch.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Yesterday on the on the members block, we watched this
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: video of a twice divorced woman explaining why none of
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: the bad things in her life are her fault.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: Let's watch that again.
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: Things I stopped with after my divorce. People who judge
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: me based off of my choices. Oh, you would never
• 51:15
  Speaker 8: get a divorce no matter what.
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: Cool.
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: Well, I've had to be well. Also stopped with the
• 51:19
  Speaker 8: narrative that something was wrong with me. Nothing's wrong with me.
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: Things happened to me that made me the person that
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: I was and have the struggles that I had. You
• 51:26
  Speaker 8: can fix that. Anything that you don't like, anything that
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: is no longer serving you, change it.
• 51:32
  Speaker 11: Change it.
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: Go to therapy. Do the journaling. Practice meditation. Do the
• 51:34
  Speaker 8: things that you need to do to be the person
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: you want to be.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: Go to therapy, she says.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: If we can assume that she's taken her own advice,
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: we see again how therapy has not helped this truly
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: awful person be any less awful. If anything, it seems
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: to have reinforced all of her worst attitudes and beliefs.
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: Like what?
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: By the way, this woman, Leah Marie is her name.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: She is a life coach who specializes in helping coach
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: women through their own divorces. The About Me on her
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: website says this. My second divorce was the ugliest wake-up
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: call ever. That's when I knew I needed to do
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: things differently if I was going to find the happiness
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: I really wanted. So I did all the things. Therapy, journaling, meditation,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: reading books, listening to podcasts. I wanted to learn as
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: much as I could about rebuilding my self-esteem, loving myself,
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  Speaker 2: taking better care.
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  Speaker 3: Of myself, and knowing my worth.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: What a sin.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: She went to therapy, apparently, and discovered that nothing is
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: her fault, that everything is everyone else's fault, that she's
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: been divorced twice, and yet it was something that happened
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  Speaker 2: to her each time, not something that she did, or
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: is at fault for.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: Sorry, did we watch the same video?
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: Did I just hallucinate?
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: This woman literally made a TikTok saying, I've been divorced twice,
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: I decided that I wanted to work on myself, and
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: so therefore I took personal responsibility to go to therapy,
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: to listen to podcasts, to read self-help books, to do journaling,
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: and to participate in all of these essentially health-promoting behaviors.
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: But She apparently is like, this is like the boomer
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: entitlement thing. They just want stuff for themselves. Like, literally, no.
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: This woman literally took responsibility for her own shortcomings and
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: worked to improve them.
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  Speaker 3: Now, before we get to the substance, such as it is,
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: of what she's saying.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: And not to belabor the point, but just look at
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: this person.
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: Listen to her.
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  Speaker 2: The tone of voice, the TikTok lingo. This is a
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: deeply unimpressive, not particularly bright and obviously unwell human. Somebody
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: who can't get a handle on her own diet, much
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: less anything else in her life. And yet she's a therapist.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: She sits in rooms with other unwell people and offers
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: them guidance. How could a person who is clearly unhappy
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: and dysfunctional possibly help anyone else be happy and functional?
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: It's like hiring a scuba diving instructor who can't swim.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: All that will happen is that you'll both end up
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: helplessly sinking into the depths of the sea. Or, you know,
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: more precisely, you will sink and she'll stay up on
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: the boat eating a snack and waving to you as
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: you descend goodbye, never to be seen again. This is
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: essentially how therapy works much of the time because a
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: huge number of therapists are only in the field to
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: begin with because they're trying to figure out how to
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: understand and grapple with their own mental problems. That's the
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: dirty little secret about this industry. The thing that drives
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of these people to it is because they're
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: interested in mental health problems because they have so many
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: of those problems themselves. Now, the other major problem with
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: therapy is that it encourages people to spend even more
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: time thinking and talking about themselves, which is the whole
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: appeal of therapy in many cases. And that is more
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: likely to breed narcissism.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: Than it is to cure it.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: You know, the truth is that most of your complaints,
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: just like most of my complaints, are petty and not interesting,
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: and not important. There's a reason why you can't find
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: anyone in your real life who will sit down and
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: listen to you drone on for an hour about these issues.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: It's not because everyone's being mean to you. It's not
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: because nobody cares about you, boo-hoo. It's because nobody wants
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: to be a sounding board for your navel-gazing rants about yourself.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Therapy provides that sounding board, which is exactly the problem.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: There's a thrill that certain people, a lot of people
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: get from talking about themselves.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: That's why a lot of people like to go to therapy.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: That is why it's so popular because people have a
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: desire to just sit there and they get to tell
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: the story of themselves.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: They get to talk about themselves and they can't do that.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: As I said, anywhere else in their life, Because anywhere
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: else in your life, if you try to just sit
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: there for an hour and talk about yourself and your problems,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: in any other context, that makes you a narcissist. That
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: makes you an antisocial weirdo. That makes you the kind
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: of person nobody wants to talk to. And you can
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: do it in the context of a therapist's office, and
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: suddenly it's brave. Suddenly it's, oh, it's a healthy practice.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: You're a healthy person. You know, a good therapist would
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: identify that their client is engaged in a pointless narcissistic
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: exercise of self-obsessive monologuing and cut them off and tell
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: them to get over themselves and inform them that therapy
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: is actually the last thing they need right now. A
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: good therapist would identify when someone's only there because they
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: want to talk about themselves and say to them, you
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: don't need to come back here.
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: I don't want your money. This is not what this
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: is about. How many therapists would actually say that? Very
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: few therapists would ever say that.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: In my life, I've heard stories of a few therapists
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: who maybe would tell a client to shut up and
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: get over themselves and go get a hobby or go
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: for a walk instead of sitting in their office whining
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: about petty bull crap. I'm willing to concede that those
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: therapists would be the good ones, but they are increasingly
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: few and far between, and they're wildly out of step
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: in a good way with the mainstream of their profession. Now,
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: in that video, the therapist who is in step with
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: the mainstream of her profession, unfortunately, praises this woman for
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: saying that nothing is her fault and that all of
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: her frustrations are the results of things that happened to her.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: This is called having an external locus of control, and
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: it's one of the worst attitudes you could possibly have.
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: It's one of the most debilitating attitudes you can have.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: The fact that she's going out and doing all these things,
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: like listening to podcasts, going to therapy, does not change
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: the fact that she fundamentally believes that all of her
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: problems are the fault of other people, especially since, as
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: we all know, The role of these podcasts and therapy is.
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: To affirm her narcissism even more.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: Every generation inherits a world shaped by the decisions made
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: before them, and the question is always the same. Are
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: we giving young people the tools they need to build
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: something better? Well, a good education isn't just about memorizing
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: facts or checking a box. It's about developing discipline, learning
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: how to think, discovering your strengths, and gaining the skills
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: needed to make a meaningful contribution. That's why I'm glad
• 57:48
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  Speaker 2: a different approach to higher education. They believe students should
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  Speaker 2: be challenged academically, also being supported in their personal growth
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  Speaker 2: and spiritual development. The programs are designed to prepare students
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  Speaker 2: for real careers and real responsibilities, not just the next
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: test or assignment. At a time when many universities continue
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: raising costs, GCU has held tuition rates steady on a
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  Speaker 2: traditional campus for 17 years. They've also continued investing in
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  Speaker 2: their students with 75% of their programs and facilities built
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  Speaker 2: within the last decade. Whether you're pursuing a degree on
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  Speaker 2: If you're thinking about your future or helping someone you
• 58:31
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• 58:38
  Speaker 3: That's gcu.edu. Now, most of the time, the actual.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Way to overcome your depression, your anxieties, your insecurities, your
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: quote unquote traumas, is to stop obsessing over it.
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: Stop thinking about it and live your life.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: The chances are very high that you're better off going
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: to the gym or going for a jog than talking
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: to a therapist. Now, there may be exceptions in extreme cases,
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: but most people are not extreme cases. I know this
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: is hard for people in our culture to understand, but
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: talking it out is actually not the way to solve
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: your problems most of the time. There's a reason why
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: most people are in therapy forever, because it creates repeat customers,
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: because that's intentional, because it's a symbiotic relationship. The therapist
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: needs her clients to come back so the business is viable.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: The clients want to come back because they have a
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: narcissistic desire to talk about themselves.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: And navel gaze in lieu of actually doing anything to
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: take charge of their own lives.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Now, unless we break this cycle, the leftist machine will
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: achieve what it sought for a very long time. Families
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: will be torn apart, local communities will collapse, and the
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: state will inevitably become more powerful as a result. They
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: want nothing more than to turn as many people as
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: possible into resentful, overweight, narcissistic slobs, and to bring it
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: back to the beginning, to imprison anybody like Shiloh Hendricks
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: who resists. No matter what issues you may have with
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: your own family, Ignore the paid activists and fake therapists
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: who insist that you can't fix those issues. Look at
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: your own life, take personal responsibility, make your own decisions.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: You'll find that nothing enrages a bad therapist more than
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: telling her you've resolved your problem on your own, which,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: of course, is pretty good evidence that you never needed
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: her in the first place. That'll do it for the
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: show today and this week. Have a great weekend.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: Talk to you on Monday.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: Once upon a time, there was a country. Not just
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: a country, but a big one, an empire. And in
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: that empire, there was an upper middle class family where
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: two boys were raised by their mother, loved books, Uncle
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Tom's cabin, and the Bible. Their father admired the country's leaders,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: were patriotic and happy.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: Both sons went to universities where they were radicalized.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: One of the brothers read a book and convinced him
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: to try to shoot the country's leader.
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  Speaker 3: He was hanged.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: The other brother In the same books, they decided to
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: lead a movement. First they came from universities, no one
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  Speaker 2: seemed to care.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: Then they took over the unions, and again, no one
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: seemed to care.
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  Speaker 2: Then they created their own media organizations and took over
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: the cities.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: And again, most people just ignored it. Change, after all,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: was something they could believe in. Until it was too late.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: Sound familiar? This is the real history of communism, the
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: Russian Revolution.