Es ist okay, nicht zu wissen, was du tust

0:00It's normal to not know what you're doing. If you did, it wouldn't be called growth. High five your fear, uncertainty, and doubt, and carry on. Do you get tired, stressed, sad, hungry, frustrated, unfocused? Do you feel misunderstood? Great. You're human. You don't need medication. >> [snorts] >> I have a a huge vehement distaste for uh mental medication. And I think one is cuz it's over-prescribed, two because people over WebMD themselves, and fundamentally people find a problem with being human.

0:37And I think a lot of that is because of the social norm that we should be never hungry, never sad, never angry, never frustrated, never feel like we're misunderstood. And those are the those are the troughs and peaks of humanity. And we can't only wish for sunny days, cuz otherwise we'd have droughts and no one would ever would die. And so, it's wishing for something that isn't true and will never happen.

1:05It's wanting a lie, which is why I'm so against it. Now, are there people who they can test their neurology and whatever? Maybe, but like, honestly, 100 years ago, this [ __ ] didn't exist. And people just dealt with life. And I think people were happier then than they are now. And so, clearly this solution hasn't been much of a solution at all. And so, I if I I you know, I try to have I don't have that many extreme stance. Well, maybe I do. But one of my extreme stances is that there is nothing wrong with you. Because even if there is something wrong with you, how do you benefit by saying there is something wrong with you, and then accepting that label onto yourself?

1:46Because the alternative to that is accepting your current existence as maybe this is better than everyone else's, and I'm just choosing to believe that it's wrong. And all of this is around some big mighty should that we think and that we worship that it should that we should be a certain way that we're not. And I think that discrepancy, that word, I've tried to eliminate it as much as humanly possible from my vocabulary because like I shouldn't what? I should nothing. According to whom? Why should I be happier? Why should I be have less anxiety? Why should I feel more understood?

2:14And so like pretty much the beginning of every ad for like Levitra or whatever, you know, whatever the new serotonin, you know, SSRI thing is is like they describe humanity. They just say like, are you hungry? Are you tired? Are you horny? Are you like are you dissatisfied in any way? Well, the cure of that is a pill which I wholeheartedly decry anything that gives it if-then statement for happiness.

2:42So like you will own nothing and be happy. Like you want to say that you're going to change my external condition to change how I feel. I just I just reject it as a as any kind of if-then I will be happy. But like the pill, the over-medication part, I am I've had too many people too close to me ruin their lives hopping from SSRI SSRI and getting on cocktails of pills and un- and they've got a sleep med and they've got a wake up med and they're just they're just a a walking pharmacy. It's crazy for people who aren't American to look at the way that America deals with this.

3:21I remember so in the UK, just for context, you can't get prescribed melatonin. You can't buy it over the counter. >> Right. You can't buy it on Amazon. My video guy when he flies over here takes it back like some like he's [ __ ] smuggle he like he's like Pablo Escobar but with melatonin tablets instead. Like going into CVS, am I am I allowed to get this? Uh that's the degree of difficulty that it is to get prescribed anything.

3:50And in America, the first place that people turn when they have a problem is the pill bottle. I mean, I have two physician parents. So, like and I would say Western, you know, for the most part, Western medicine through the just belief in all pharmaceuticals and all that kind of stuff. And so, I've I grew up really close to it. My grandfather is a physician. So, like just lots of medic- medicine in the family in general. And I um I just hate it. I really do. I don't hate a lot of things, but I really I really I hate I hate what it does to people. And more the underlying thing is that they reject being human.

4:26And they think there's something wrong with them. And so many people waste all of their time trying to solve a problem that is life rather than living it. And it drives me nuts. Like they they they they search for the medication rather than confronting the problem. Like you don't have an anxiety problem. You need to deal with whatever the thing you're worried about is.

4:51Like I I mean, man, I have too many of controversial beliefs. I'm getting into too much of it. Like you drink a lot because you're stressed. If you deal with the thing that stresses you, that's the trigger for you drinking. So, yes, there's addictive properties to drinking. I'm not going to I'm not denying that. But the thing that leads to drinking, the condition that creates that, that's something that you can attack.

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