Its not really "reaction content" if you're turning a 20minute piece into nearly 2 hours of your own. At that point it's just a completely original video essay about a topic.
@@SmashCentralOfficial i- no you're right, the word "react" is more like immediate response rather than something well-thought out. saying "x reacts to y" in title brings more clicks tho (and i support it) :D
This is a fantastic breakdown of the show and how the mind gets caught in the loop of addiction. Please go into how abusive parents can set their kids up for drug use just to cope with the constant spikes of adrenaline, the drops in dopamine, and the shame/self loathing that brings you back to using.
The Rue special that occurs between seasons 1 & 2 is among the most powerful episodes of the series when it comes to the topics Dr. K discusses in this video.
i feel like the special has too much expository dialogue but it's def very powerful when it comes to understanding addiction and especially rue's addiction
It seems that mine are not. I managed to convince my last therapist of this. Then, since she didn't know what to do with that, she told me I was just passionate and that I probably don't need mental help.
"I cannot tolerate this" thats a good way to put it. After my car wreck it was impossible to tolerate anything. The childhood trauma mixed with intense physical trauma. It was a nightmare for a while. Still hard but at the same time ive come a ways. If youre struggling right now DrK is the right place to get some help
Zendaya is amazing. The way she portrays stress when she has her breakdowns chokes me up every time. I have been that. I have walked around the room in panic and hit doors just trying to explain to someone the anxiety and panic I am feeling at that moment. That GOT TO GET OUT feeling. I never kicked a door in but I have had MANY talks like that with my mother about why I am depressed or stressed or having panic attacks. I have went from rage to crying my eyes out to saying i'm sorry in a matter of minutes more times then I would like to admit. Never done drugs thank God. I know deep down if I started my life would be over. But God trust me. I have been tempted. So i think in seeing this show and how Rue is just a mess knocked me straight and showed me HEY this is what others see when you have those attacks. Talk to someone man. That diner talk was deep. Her in her room dancing by herself thinking of her dad killed me. Lost my dad in 2019 and there is nothing more I want just to talk to him again. I couldn't imagine kids in this world not knowing or have lost their dads at such a young age.
This is super insightful for me. I've battled with most of these ideas and so did my mother. Though nothing with drug addiction, but now I want to see the show.
I’ve never done drugs but I have felt like crap most of my life and throughout this time I thought it was me being weak, so watching this makes me feel better.
I think biopsychosocial approaches to mental health are growing in relevance these days because they seem to take into account the different layers behind the patient's experience
Harvard trusts this man with patients. I trust his understanding. He learned this when being a monk. He can explain complicated science in monk language. Monk language is the best language because it is all said with intent. Love this man
@@medicalchalupa9928 I couldn't really say how involved harvard is in the program, I just know he didn't go directly to Harvard Medical School, which is kinda what it seems like what most people think.
@@bhopstraining Yeah he did not go to harvard medical school. He went to tufts medical school then matched into harvard residency, and was an instructor at harvard. he worked in harvard associated hospitals.
Therapists can't help you fix climate change, but they can definitely help you to handle your feelings and thoughts about climate change. Even rational fears and concerns are workable. That's what they did with me. My fears and worries were about problems that existed in my life. I got an online treatment based on mindfulness and ACT. Worked very well.
This is amazing, i really like euphoria cus of how unfiltered and relatable the show is despite of a bunch of criticism, and the way Dr K has explained this very well is so beautiful. Drugs is not the problem and is not the only addiction that existed in the show, there's a lot more that every characters are addicted to, a lot of self validation whether in person or online, toxic relationship, in addition to all the other substances as a result to a lot of unsolved upbringings within the family and a lot more than just anything in the surface level. Thank you Dr K and mod for all this, I can't thank yal enough for being able to really make us understand all these complexities within ourselves and others, and it has helped us in so many ways
Made me think of how I've gotten multiple diagnoses attached to my issues and now I say I just have a growing list of things wrong with me, and like what Dr.K was saying also being a writer helps me channel my pain and suffering and it's a large part of my creativity and it's something I don't want to lose. I used LSD for a bit, and that feeling of nothingness and everything else that goes with a trip made everything FANTASTIC. I stopped using it after I had a bad trip, but wow. I miss that feeling and it's hard not to chase it.
@Red Da Glad to see someone else who also enjoys writing! :) Hope you keep writing! (And yep! Trying to channel Dr.K as he says don't do drugs kids LOL.)
Bipolar type Ii person here. Euphoria doesn’t present often with me but when it does I am in for a very strong hypomania episode. Honestly, my euphoric hypomanic episodes are TERRIFYING. I feel like everything is a good idea…
@@ohatrid not necessarily. Bipolar is surprising complex. My hypomanic episodes mainly come in 3 forms: Mild, high anxiety and euphoric. Sometimes I get a mix of the anxiety and euphoria. When I am mild, I am “up” and feel pretty good overall. More confidence and just in general feel more “expanded” sense of self. It isn’t bad and my mind isn’t trying to take off either. The anxious ones are pretty bad. I feel like a taught string ready to snap. Like I am going to suddenly explode in anger. Everything is intense. I want to scream at everyone and go 100+ mph on the highway then ram everyone off the road (I won’t do this but is how I feel). I feel like my body is vibrating in place. I can go 5 days on 6 hours of sleep. My mind is going a mile a minute and eventually it all tops off with everything boiling over into a panic attack. My anxiety goes through the roof and I break down crying. Then I crash and crash hard right into depression. My euphoric episodes are rare. In the 2 years I have been aware of my bipolar disorder I can count maybe 3 euphoric episodes I have had. Where my anxious modes are numerous. During my euphoria my sense of self is greatly expanded. I have a chaotic flight of ideas and I think everyone one of them are good. I spend money like it is water. My mind wants to go fast and think in all directions. Additionally I am far more reckless and can be easily influenced. I also am very confident on what I am doing. Regardless of what it is. What is scary is how easily I am willing to do one of my “ideas”. Then I crash back to reality 2-7 days later. If I wasn’t aware that it was hypomania I have no idea what I could have done.
That same feeling is also the enemy of creative design projects, like engineering. At some point you have enough stuff work out in series that it creates this sense of euphoria. I have learned that when I feel that, to put the project away and come back later with a fresh mindset or I'm going to make a lot of bad decisions that undo what was already accomplished.
My mom is bipolar (unsure the type tbh) and her manic episodes would scare me the most. Even though she just comes across to most as just highly enthusiastic and excited, she would have this gleam in her eye, and would do very reckless things. A common one would be her using me to steal from stores. I hate when people call themselves bipolar because they have mood changes (i.e. have normal human emotions). They have NO clue what its like to be/see someone going from spending literally a week in their room in bed not wanting to live or do things to going out shoplifting for fun, driving way too fast down residential streets.
@@OwnedByTheState I am sorry you had to go through that. It sounds like to me she had bipolar type 1 maybe? Idk. Type 1 can cause people to do some wild shit. I have heard of a man who has bp1 who while having a manic episode with psychosis bought a boat, sails across the Atlantic to Paris, spent days in Paris doing who knows what. Then, came back back down only to realize: 1) he bought a boat with money him and his wife don’t have. 2) had been gone for over a week. 3) he didn’t tell his wife where he was. That must have been an interesting phone call. Luckily I have type 2 which is much more mild in regards to mania. I get hypomania. Still sucks but no psychosis thankfully. Don’t get me wrong I can have some pretty intense highs.
Then the question becomes, if I am a child of an addict whose parents came from a lineage of addicts, (I myself chose to stay away from EVERYTHING), how do I address these issues with my kids? They are tiny at the moment, but because they won't be seeing my husband or I even DRINK, I feel like it may close the door on what our personal experiences are and what we experienced watching our parents succumb to addiction. Knowing that there is a genetic predisposition for my kids to become addicts, how (when they are older obviously) do I explain all this?
I personally would open the conversation with experiences and reasons why you stay away from it, what may happen if they fall into addiction, and help educate them on safety or let them know that you are a safe person to talk to in worst case scenarios (cause teaching abstinence alone isnt enough info).
Be aware that when they get older, they may want to explore alcohol use, despite whatever information you share with them. Second hand experiences won't strike as profoundly as something experienced directly. You won't be able to control their desire to explore alcohol, and trying to control it may have the opposite effect. The best you can do is give them a safe, judgement free environment in which they can healthily share and process their emotions about the world and their experience in it. Not judging them, I image, may be something you may find difficult, because you've experienced a trauma around it and that may distort your own perception of alcohol use around you - it is likely triggering. If you haven't already, do the work to process your own emotions around your experiences so that when the day comes, you will hopefully be able to see it without the fog of cognitive distortions. As others mentioned before, when you talk with them about this history, make sure to give them space to tell you what they think about it (and not just in that fishing-for-answers kind of way - all genuine responses must be respected). This, like most things, will be an ongoing conversation. The worst thing you can do for your children is to tarnish your relationship with them. As Dr. K said, people turn to drugs because their realities are something worse than what is provided for by the drugs. You won't be able to control everything in their environment, the only thing you can control is how you react and respond. A parent's love must be unconditional. Thinking of it through the lens of another scenario, imagine that you have a history of cancer running in your family. You've been lucky thus far and not had it, but you saw the severe and horrible impact it had on your parents and on your relationship with them. Despite this, you still choose to have children, knowing that there is a genetic component. You can do everything in your power of course to protect them from it; make sure they eat vegetables, antioxidants, wear sun screen, all of that good stuff. But despite your best efforts, they may yet succumb to it. You must be prepared to love them through all of it. Whatever part of it falls out of your control, you must accept, and give them the best life possible within the hand that fate dealt them - and by the best life, I don't mean one filled with material things, presuming you've already provided a stable baseline; I mean one of time, attention, listening, genuine connection, and love above all. With all that said, have a dose of confidence in yourself that when the time comes to start having these conversations, you'll be able to handle it. I'm sure you'll do great :) You're clearly already making an effort to think about it.
Dr. K has had a video about addictions not so long ago in which he said that if someone is an addict it's no use to only treat either the cause or addiction, but both have to be treated simultaniously. Even if you've got a genetic predisposition you will still have a reason to become an addict. I'd tell my children exactly that: "If you try to self medicate with drugs and/or alcohol you will have two problems instead of one".
I’m kind of similar to you but I think the strongest thing that keeps me away entirely from substances is knowing how it hurts others. I think if you share to them your pain in an honest way from dealing with an addict and the lack of help those addicts got from substances, they might understand. I think it is important that you do tell them that they are not like everyone else, in that substances are more likely to mess them up. I know that I have a higher risk of schizophrenia and because of that I know that even if it’s ‘normal’ to do marijuana or get drunk everyday, my normal should not be the same as others. Other than that, the most important thing should be to teach them to follow through on their own decisions, to trust themselves in the face of peer pressure - and to provide a non-judgemental place if they do make a mistake. I’m sorry if this is bad advice, I’m really not an expert.
Thank you so much for this episode, I relate a lot to the characters in Euphoria, especially Rue (her addiction issues, codependent relationship with Jules) and I'm so glad that someone with so much psychological knowledge and wisdom is doing an analysis of the show, I think it paints an exaggerated but very realistic picture of growing up in this day and age with all the different traumas and dysfunctional families that we can all have
Hi, Dr.K. I've been keeping up and watching all your content for almost a year now and I've been finding it all very helpful and enlightening. I was wondering if you'd ever be open to getting your videos transcripted to other languages so your viewers are able to share this with their non-English-speaking family/friends. Thanks for all your hard work!
I really want this too, this would be helpful with my parents, for them and for my brother. This is by no means a replacement for some type of family therapy but I hope this will make them consider things about their mental health
Omg, yes!! That's a great idea. I would love to translate these videos into my native language. It's kinda sad that not everyone has access to Dr. K's videos just beacause of some stupid language barrier
You should relaly react to a movie called, "A Silent Voice". It takes really heavy subject matter like conformity, depression, social anxiety, bullying and suicide through the anime medium, and its beautifully done. Everytime I watch it I always end up with tears in my eyes, partly because of how sad it is, but partly because of how I and so many other people I know can relate to some of the things in it
This was great, reminded me of Dr. Mate's addiction work. Dr. Gabor Mate does an incredible job of explaining addiction in humans. His perspective is one well worth learning about.
Not gonna lie, the music in the beginning made me tear up little. I don't remember the last time I teared up. Thanks Dr. K. will check out the rest of the video later!
I realized that I haven’t been living my life because I think that there is a secret on the internet that I just haven’t found yet. It feels like when I find it then I’ll be ready but I know that’s not true. My therapist told me that you change your life by doing things. But that is the hard part
I love the point you make about the cognitive distortions (you have to turn a light switch on & off 15 times or a meteorite it going to kill your family) vs. real life problems that your psychiatrist or therapist can't fix. I think this is my big problem with therapy being dished out to everyone (just to be clear, I don't think you suggest that it should, and I always appreciate your very rational and measured takes in all of your videos) as if we all have INTERNAL problems to work out, when many of our problems are EXTERNAL (economic, systemic, environmental, etc.). I was seeing a therapist for about 2 months for my panic attacks, and he did diagnose me with Generalized Anxiety, but he was very practical when he just laid it out for me - ALL of my anxiety issues related back to money. I was staying up all night thinking about how I was gonna pay my bills. I was exhausting myself working multiple jobs and trying to plan all of these "side hustles" just to tread water and keep myself from drowning. There was no cognitive distortion, he would say "your fears are rational, and I can't make them go away", all he could do was give me tools (like breathwork exercises, EFT, etc) to recognize when I could use those feelings to help motivate me to make more money, and when I had to just relax and sleep for the next 8 hours because there's nothing I can do in the next 8 hours to make more money. Basically to practice being present. But the root of my problem is inflation, unaffordable housing, the rising cost of food, stagnant wages, etc. and almost all of those are out of my control. TL;DR the breathwork and the meditation and the EFT did not stop my panic attacks. What stopped my panic attacks was quitting my entrepreneurial dreams that I had been working so hard towards for 3 years, and getting a 9-5 job on salary for a stable company with health benefits.
I am going to check out this show. Sounds really interesting and profound. I will probably also recommend to a friend whose dealing with someone close to them who i think is addicted to alcohol. Thanks for this!
Oh my god! I swear my brain is doing funky things to me. When I look at the word “Therapist Review” on the thumbnail, my brain somehow turns these two words in to three words, and my heart skipped a beat.
Today is the day I confirmed I want kids from what you said about going back in the womb and the picture that shows the baby inside. The way that baby is positioned is exactly how my ex would fall asleep in my arms with her head on my chest and my arms around her. We broke up and I learned how to position my pillows and weighted blankets to replace her and I just hold them now but it still feels like I'm cradling something. It's like my new comfort position Thank you for your videos. They've taught me a lot about myself and the people I know.
There is a lot here that I found incredibly comforting to hear from a clinician. I came to these conclusions through the crystalized comprehension of information I've learned as a student of developmental psychology, as a patient, in my activism and advocacy for addicts' rights. On a personal level though, your perspective as a clinician on "the artistic temperament" was incredibly comforting to me. As artists, we have so many conflicting narratives thrown our way. Our struggles make it incredibly difficult to nurture meaningful connections with other people, so we turn to art to exorcise the unexpressed emotions. Then through our work, we're being praised for an expression of the very experiences that isolate us to begin with! We're told that we're broken and intolerable in one hand, and in the other we're told that if we fix it we will be robbed of the one thing we can bring to the table. You've taken these, crafted a dialectic, and found the wisdom of truth. "... build a life that is worth living." Thank you.
THAT IS WHY THIS SHOW IS SO GOOD. They have people behind the scenes that HAVE struggled with drug addiction and depression and anxiety. Why Rue is so well written. Hell it could be the writer just telling their own story through Rue.
great video! love the way dr. K shares his own insights and even though some topics can be dark somehow his videos usually end up inspiring too (to other insights, or ways to work on/improve own mental health). I was wondering if dr. K ever talked about EMDR therapy?
I listened almost all your videos and most are fabulous but this one takes the prize as probably one of the most powerful and helpful and informative videos… Dr. K you are a blessing and a gift to this world
@Nightlash Ahh I see, there are some men who have that other 'Euphoria', man I must say that shit was disgusting, it literally took me 3 weeks to move on from that scum, how were you able to move on after watching that shit 😂??
I appreciate this content and your insight. I was recently tricked into going to rehab for 6 months (my doctor was not notified or consulted with). I was financially and emotionally stuck there. My 2 main take-aways were - 1.) I am not an addict. I take adderall and xanax as prescribed by a psychiatrist. 2.) Everybody else was absolutely an addict and would have died if they didn't enter treatment. They have no off switch when it comes to substances and will drive that car until the wheels come off. They all had trouble with the law and were on probation. They would do whatever it took to get more of whatever they were (lying/stealing from everybody in their life). It is far more serious than the functional user you describe. The only thing I had in common with everybody there was that we needed better and more therapy.
watching euphoria made me stop taking adderall. when i was on adderall i had to drink and smoke weed (and or) take a benzo to calm down, waking up extremely tired, having to take adderall to start the cycle again. it was vicious. now that i've stopped taking adderall, i have no need to drink and all the rest. i'm finally starting to take care of myself again, landed a new job (which i'll be starting soon) and overall slowly increasing the quality of my life. sure it's boring sometimes and i do miss the rush but it's replaced by a true sense of direction and stability that will still be there tomorrow.
Preach! Thank you for speaking the truth. The most vindicating things are accepting reality and truth. As a former addict and abuser the only, and I mean it, thing that worked out in a significant way was admitting and accepting the truth. And I tried literally hundreds of things and thousands of thoughts that went through nothing had a more powerful and imifiate effect.
Yes, there is nothing, because humans know enough to know that We don't know anything about how consciousness works or how life truly came to be yetnwe know for certain that death is blackness. Especially knowing we dream, and that DMT alters time perception, and at death you get blasted with DMT. Knowing all these things that don't make sense to us, knowing we don't understand any of it, we absolutely know for certain that death is nothingness. We totally would remember or know what it was like before life, too, so we really know how death works. Especially coanidering your brain works with gaps between neurons. Synapses. Pits are where our memories and everything is stored. We absolutely know that those just go kapoof when we die. There can't be any form of afterlife, none at all.
@@Afroofthenight I'm not. I love it. Not literal fights, I'm one for peace. I love discussions though. I get bored and choose to be annoying in youtube comments for fun.
This has made me really excited for my psychiatry rotation…. I just find following these logical chains of thought inside the minds of others so exciting -incoming Year 1 med student
34:25 "If you take someone to a doctor, that doctor will diagnose them with something." Exactly! I've been diagnosed with so much crap depending on which specialist I go to.
It really made me distrust doctors. Specifically psychiatrists but if I would ever be diagnosed with a physical illness I would get a second opinion. I am lucky to have one that takes times, listens and tries to help but his options are limited. I was diagnosed with so many different personality disorders and whatnot and honestly all made some sense especially during the time but you shouldn't put too much weight on it. I resonate with so much Dr K has said and it's really reassuring that my feelings and thoughts are valid... more often I feel really invalidated when I talk to experts. I think it's incredibly important to stand up for yourself and be annoying if you have to. I've met people that went to doctors like I did, were set on multiple medications and still struggled, the side effects became more problematic and it all made things worse for them. I wish the academic approach would be completely reevaluated. Our current system doesn't do well enough... and we desperately need to do better
we must actually WANT to live in the world and not chase after addictive substances or shallow goals. That's what is most important to defeat addiction(apart from getting as much genuine help as possible). That's what I learned from this video. Also, I'm torrenting that show now.
I'm one of those people who spends a lot of time thinking about making changes instead of actually making changes. I've tried making steps multiple times and once I feel like I'm getting somewhere, the Universe steps in and is like "op, you're making too much progress, I'm taking that away from you. YOINK!"
Fuck. I quit drugs the other day. Ive been doing it for like 17 years. Today is the 2nd day and I feel awful. I FEEL this waves... or walls of pressure coming at me from all angle. Ah yes, it's the anxiety rolling back in. My body is screaming at me to refuel. Your videos have been helpful. But this one is particularly hard to watch. Cuz now alls im thinking is man.... I need some right now. The 57:37 hit me pretty hard. I guess what I'm seeking is oblivion.
It's funny cause I'm xNTP and I'm a nihilist since I was like 11 y/o and when I started to see that things are not as great as they appeared to be thru children's eyes... I jump into philosophy (I'm an atheist) to find answers and, well, Schopenhauer's philosophy resonated with me very deeply and so I walk the path of nihilism since then... some could even say I have depression and whatnot and it maybe true or it maybe the manifestation of my nihilism, idk ...but when comes to "internal suffering", I f*ckin own it... part of my subconsciousness almost revels in all those feelings that cause others to take drugs... it's still "suffering", headaches and stressing out from time to time but with a zen-like silver lining... I can't explain it, the feeling just feels weirdly great... it's like that feeling right before death when you just accepted your fate and let go... I'm usually emotionally passive (cause I simply suppressed most of the "unwanted" feelings) but when I feel "depressed" or I just feel it's too much for me to handle, I just go and listen to some "sad emotional music" or go watch movies like LotR and I just cry... it always gets me into "that mood" when I feel like I'm in a dream and nothing matters... I just let things and thoughts flow without caring about them... and it almost feels like being drugged... I feel internally, almost cathartically, contented... ...and I know that I can always somehow exist IRL because I will always be able to daydream myself into oblivion... and if the things will get completely into shitter or living will simply become even less worth it... suicide is always an option... I wouldn't feel ashamed of it, I would be scared that people wouldn't understand the true reason and would attribute it to some mental illness... for me, it would be a matter of pride... the final line is already drawn... now it's all about whether or when it will be crossed
Anyone else is really uncomfortable with the "artists need to experience suicidality and mania to create good art, it's the price to pay" thing? I understand what Dr K meant, but the sentence itself sounds hella toxic to me. I agree that medication isn't always the solution, but like... I bet if van gogh had the choice to not be batshit insane and cut his hear off and randomnly chase someone around town with a razor blade, he probably would have chosen this... and still would have made cool art. Almost all my friends and aquaintances are artists and none of them make "greater art" because of suicidality. If anything the best ones are those with stable lives and healthy minds because it doesn't get in the way of their art.
Well most creative people are different. And the world hurts people that are different. That's why they pay a price for being artists. Also very few artists make money from their art.
What exactly do you want to come out of this comment? I mesn, it’s a reality for alot of great artists. What are you suggesting, that they’re doing things wrong the whole time? Be clear next time.
@@ClaireLoprensa the way dr k explain it seemed like he was idealising it also he is slightly wrong from my personal point of view. suicidality doesnt mean "better art" it just leads to using art more as a coping mechanism. dr K seemed like he was romanticising it.
@@manumusicmist everyone is different and everyone has the capacity to be creative. i dont really see your point. it still doesnt exlplain the inherent problem of dr K romanticising a harmful stereotype
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid and when I was reassessed during high school graduation. I was super nervous about entering my adult life because I didn't feel I would succeed. I was worried I was convinced that I was less capable than others and didn't know what I wanted to do with my career. The doctor added anxiety disorder to my diagnosis. I o ly found this out years later and don't remember if I was ever told that I was diagnosed with anxiety. I don't think I have Anxoety because I don't have any symptoms of it and now understand that those worries were relates to an ADHD fueled struggle through school as a child. As an MFT student, I am now learning why the clinician would have diagnosed me this way but also understand that I don't actually have anxiety. People think that Rhee diagnoses follow them through their entire life and yes, that is the case for many people, but sometimes the diagnosis is only a snapshot if a certain time in their life and isn't permanent. It is sometimes only a label to give them access to care and insurance.
huh weirdly enough maybe i have genetic vulnerability for alcohol and that is why I used to drink so much and still kinda miss how much better everything felt when drinking especially when you managed to control and limit your drinking to make it efficient without having to go through so much of the negative effects, but after gallbladder removal after getting stones, stuff like alcohol makes my body hurt to point of making life hell, so i think i might be just annoyed by how much less i can do sober and trying to navigate how to do everything that was so easy while drunk is hard to do legit.
As a former addict I'm telling you it's not hard. Doing things sober is more enjoyable but why you don't find them enjoyable it's because you're not willing to accept and embrace the truth. You're momentarily stuck in the past in your mind. Set yourself free, brother.
When my parents brought me to a psychiatrist for the first time, he said "OK, you have substance abuse issues, I can't help you. I can recommend an addictions counselor." I have been passed off to the next guy over and over. After finding my own way to be sober for 12 years, I started to have a lot of trouble again, and found even more issues with finding mental help: A psychiatrist who seemed to be slowly helping, but I had reached the maximum allowed 20 sessions, and would have to go through the 1-2 year waiting list to sign up again if I felt I needed more. A psychologist that started off telling me that my anxiety is so high, that I find regular life extra hard. Said that she expected to help me in 6-7 sessions max. By session 3, she told me that she thinks I don't really need mental help and that I am just passionate. She then ghosted me. So yeah, not going so well.
Yeah honestly to anyone looking into rehab as a parent, make sure the rehab is near you, I live on the east coast and my brother went to rehab in Cali (ironic right) and overdosed while he was in rehab so, it doesn't always help, and sometimes could even be worse. Everyone using drugs reading this, please be careful, it's not worth it. Especially opiate users. Stay alive friends
I survived opioid he'll, after more than 10 years of abuse. I only stopped because my health was getting bad and panick attacks were out of this world.
I love what you do and you generally provide accurate information, but I feel obligated to point out that vaping *can* have higher nicotine concentrations, however it can also have significantly lower nicotine concentrations as well. The user chooses what nicotine concentration to use and it goes all the way down to 0mg, personally the amount I vape is significantly less than from a cigarette and also doesn't have as many negative aspects like tar/chemicals that when burning is terrible for you. There has been a lot of negative press around vaping and it's been mostly driven by big tobacco lobbyists and people with political agendas to the point where law-abiding adults using vaping products to quit smoking cannot legally purchase those products because of it.
In regards to her being diagnosed with OCD, reviewer is not being shown all the struggles that she might have related to it, they are just showing her compulsion because people know that as what OCD is. But she could be going through a lot of inner turmoil and it isn’t just counting if she is so anxious but if she doesn’t count something really terrible what happened and stuff like that.
How much of an addiction is on the actual person? Like in Rue's case. I suffer with depression. I have anxiety, low self esteem, no personal respect. But I have never turned to drugs. But I am a video game addict I use them to get away from life and my thoughts but never touched drugs because deep down I know if I did I would be dead. This is insane like Rue with her 2 seconds. I was talking to a friend today about my anxiety and I just told him I just want like 30 minutes of just nothing. Just my brain stops and I just...lie and nothing. Peace. That is all I want in my head. "If I could be a different person I promise you I would". That hits so close. I am 34 and I have never talked to a shrink I have never been on mood medications. But I have struggled with this since childhood as well. I feel Rue on a deep level. Middle School and High School was hell for me. I couldn't I was depressed cause I moved my freshman year and was just bullied daily. I was a punk kid that moved to the country and was just rough. I wonder often what my life would have been if I was on meds when I was young. Would I be okay now? Or would I be in Rue's shoes? I have tried self help books and self affirmation talk over and over and over again but at the core if you don't believe it HOW is it going to help? At the end of the day Rue can't help what happens to her but she can help how it effects her but at the same time she states over and over SHE DOESN'T want to get clean. It would be worse if she WANTED to get clean but just kept relapsing. She on the other hand has no desire to get clean because she in her own head wants to die. BUT often when she is she begs god NOT to let her die. She also blames others. YOU did this to me! SHE is why I relapsed! Should a person trying to recover and get better look for things like a relationships? In the end does it all come down to self accountability? In my case it is like. No matter what others say or tell me I CANNOT get this distorted horrible self image of myself out of my head. That I am a failure that I always will be a failure. I am ugly. I am unwanted. I am unneeded. I will just die and my whole life meant nor will it ever mean anything. Just like Rue said in the diner. I don't plan on being around long. Which is also ironic when he mention the Christian ideology being helpful because even in that episode he tells her she has to believe in something greater even if its making up her own god Also Damn Zendaya can act lol
6:16 Imagine being strapped to a board and having your most sensitive part sliced off without any anesthetics or pain control in addition to already going through your very first trauma. Who can guess it?
Jesus, how to be rich kind of motivational books and "how to do this in a few steps/minutes" that are in your channel is exactly the kind of easy external solution redflags (if you want it you can get it blah blah) that Dr.K is against and warn us. Watch his interwiews with incels and it'll be familiar with "life and finance"
Yeah, like I realized whenever my parents asked me what I wanted I never trusted them because many times I would tell them what I wanted, I'd not get it, like that time I asked santa for a lot of lego and I didn't get it. Being human is getting traumatized by that unfortunately. I'd also ask for things sometimes and they'd also turn it into what they wanted sometimes aswell.
I heard my experience being mentioned. I don't remember if it was through meditation or a dream, but it was complete darkness and utter silence. But at the same i heard EVERYTHING and everything was there. Seeing how i was pretty sound sensitive at the time, it felt utterly weird. I heard everything, but it was fine. Maybe because of the utter silence. It just doesn't make sense.
My theory has always been that - a person either is an addictive "type" or is not. To be clear, I'm not referring to any specific kind of addictive resources, I believe it could be anything if you are this "type". And when some turn themselves toward a rehab center of any kind, many choose the "holy book" to rely on. This is the paradox/hypocrisy that is so ironic to me, you're only swapping one addiction with another!!! The addict (person) is still an addict and could just as easily fall into an even worse addiction later on when they're outside of their new addiction group. The cure for addicts should be immense schooling in what they actually are and not a cheap trade for a new addiction.
small correction on the solar panels and electric cars. they require ores from africa extracted in terrible conditions for the environnement and for the worker, then transported to china to be manufactured with the same issues to then being not recycled. the energy-intensive (drug ?) anthropogenic system is not viable.
This is how to make "reaction" content. Turning 20 minutes into nearly 2 hours of unique and thoughtful reflection/teaching.
I came expecting the usual, typical, reaction video. Definitely did not expect the lecture and most definitely did not disappoint 😂
Its not really "reaction content" if you're turning a 20minute piece into nearly 2 hours of your own. At that point it's just a completely original video essay about a topic.
And then there's hasan
@@SmashCentralOfficial i-
no you're right, the word "react" is more like immediate response rather than something well-thought out. saying "x reacts to y" in title brings more clicks tho (and i support it) :D
I think commentary and reaction content are two very different things.
This is a fantastic breakdown of the show and how the mind gets caught in the loop of addiction. Please go into how abusive parents can set their kids up for drug use just to cope with the constant spikes of adrenaline, the drops in dopamine, and the shame/self loathing that brings you back to using.
Pretty sure I have seen him cover that subject a lot in other videos as one of the compounding factors that play into addiction.
Addiction is a nasty thing. It can destroy you and everyone around you. Personally the worst I have ever done is smoke cigs.
I'd really like to see this video, could someone tell me what it's called.
@@eideticex Can you link the video? I don't recall watching that one.
a lot of parents are setting kids up for addiction by taking them to psychiatrists way too young, for normal behaviors.
The Rue special that occurs between seasons 1 & 2 is among the most powerful episodes of the series when it comes to the topics Dr. K discusses in this video.
right, honestly the two special episodes are some of the best TV i've seen in a while
i feel like the special has too much expository dialogue but it's def very powerful when it comes to understanding addiction and especially rue's addiction
I have watched that so many times. It is like the guy is talking to me about my depression.
I didn't know I needed Dr K asking "are you alright little baby?" but I'm glad it happened
“The anxieties that you have may not be distortions.”
Well said; & often overlooked for 1 reason or another.
It seems that mine are not. I managed to convince my last therapist of this. Then, since she didn't know what to do with that, she told me I was just passionate and that I probably don't need mental help.
“Resentment can last forever but the happiness never does.”
🔥🔥🔥
"I cannot tolerate this" thats a good way to put it. After my car wreck it was impossible to tolerate anything. The childhood trauma mixed with intense physical trauma. It was a nightmare for a while. Still hard but at the same time ive come a ways.
If youre struggling right now DrK is the right place to get some help
Zendaya is amazing. The way she portrays stress when she has her breakdowns chokes me up every time. I have been that. I have walked around the room in panic and hit doors just trying to explain to someone the anxiety and panic I am feeling at that moment. That GOT TO GET OUT feeling. I never kicked a door in but I have had MANY talks like that with my mother about why I am depressed or stressed or having panic attacks. I have went from rage to crying my eyes out to saying i'm sorry in a matter of minutes more times then I would like to admit. Never done drugs thank God. I know deep down if I started my life would be over. But God trust me. I have been tempted. So i think in seeing this show and how Rue is just a mess knocked me straight and showed me HEY this is what others see when you have those attacks. Talk to someone man.
That diner talk was deep.
Her in her room dancing by herself thinking of her dad killed me.
Lost my dad in 2019 and there is nothing more I want just to talk to him again. I couldn't imagine kids in this world not knowing or have lost their dads at such a young age.
This is super insightful for me. I've battled with most of these ideas and so did my mother. Though nothing with drug addiction, but now I want to see the show.
I’ve never done drugs but I have felt like crap most of my life and throughout this time I thought it was me being weak, so watching this makes me feel better.
you should try them
I think biopsychosocial approaches to mental health are growing in relevance these days because they seem to take into account the different layers behind the patient's experience
Love this.
Harvard trusts this man with patients. I trust his understanding. He learned this when being a monk. He can explain complicated science in monk language. Monk language is the best language because it is all said with intent. Love this man
He didn't goto hardvard, he was just in a training program that was partnered with them in some way or another.
@@bhopstraining Doesn't Harvard trust that program to pick qualified participants?
@@medicalchalupa9928 I couldn't really say how involved harvard is in the program, I just know he didn't go directly to Harvard Medical School, which is kinda what it seems like what most people think.
@@bhopstraining pretty sure he taught psychiatry at harvard medical school
@@bhopstraining Yeah he did not go to harvard medical school. He went to tufts medical school then matched into harvard residency, and was an instructor at harvard. he worked in harvard associated hospitals.
Therapists can't help you fix climate change, but they can definitely help you to handle your feelings and thoughts about climate change. Even rational fears and concerns are workable. That's what they did with me. My fears and worries were about problems that existed in my life. I got an online treatment based on mindfulness and ACT. Worked very well.
This is amazing, i really like euphoria cus of how unfiltered and relatable the show is despite of a bunch of criticism, and the way Dr K has explained this very well is so beautiful. Drugs is not the problem and is not the only addiction that existed in the show, there's a lot more that every characters are addicted to, a lot of self validation whether in person or online, toxic relationship, in addition to all the other substances as a result to a lot of unsolved upbringings within the family and a lot more than just anything in the surface level. Thank you Dr K and mod for all this, I can't thank yal enough for being able to really make us understand all these complexities within ourselves and others, and it has helped us in so many ways
Made me think of how I've gotten multiple diagnoses attached to my issues and now I say I just have a growing list of things wrong with me, and like what Dr.K was saying also being a writer helps me channel my pain and suffering and it's a large part of my creativity and it's something I don't want to lose.
I used LSD for a bit, and that feeling of nothingness and everything else that goes with a trip made everything FANTASTIC. I stopped using it after I had a bad trip, but wow. I miss that feeling and it's hard not to chase it.
@Red Da Glad to see someone else who also enjoys writing! :) Hope you keep writing! (And yep! Trying to channel Dr.K as he says don't do drugs kids LOL.)
Bipolar type Ii person here. Euphoria doesn’t present often with me but when it does I am in for a very strong hypomania episode. Honestly, my euphoric hypomanic episodes are TERRIFYING. I feel like everything is a good idea…
Is that what that is? Ive been havin those type of thoughts on and off for a while now
@@ohatrid not necessarily. Bipolar is surprising complex. My hypomanic episodes mainly come in 3 forms:
Mild, high anxiety and euphoric. Sometimes I get a mix of the anxiety and euphoria.
When I am mild, I am “up” and feel pretty good overall. More confidence and just in general feel more “expanded” sense of self. It isn’t bad and my mind isn’t trying to take off either.
The anxious ones are pretty bad. I feel like a taught string ready to snap. Like I am going to suddenly explode in anger. Everything is intense. I want to scream at everyone and go 100+ mph on the highway then ram everyone off the road (I won’t do this but is how I feel). I feel like my body is vibrating in place. I can go 5 days on 6 hours of sleep. My mind is going a mile a minute and eventually it all tops off with everything boiling over into a panic attack. My anxiety goes through the roof and I break down crying.
Then I crash and crash hard right into depression.
My euphoric episodes are rare. In the 2 years I have been aware of my bipolar disorder I can count maybe 3 euphoric episodes I have had. Where my anxious modes are numerous.
During my euphoria my sense of self is greatly expanded. I have a chaotic flight of ideas and I think everyone one of them are good. I spend money like it is water. My mind wants to go fast and think in all directions. Additionally I am far more reckless and can be easily influenced. I also am very confident on what I am doing. Regardless of what it is. What is scary is how easily I am willing to do one of my “ideas”. Then I crash back to reality 2-7 days later. If I wasn’t aware that it was hypomania I have no idea what I could have done.
That same feeling is also the enemy of creative design projects, like engineering. At some point you have enough stuff work out in series that it creates this sense of euphoria. I have learned that when I feel that, to put the project away and come back later with a fresh mindset or I'm going to make a lot of bad decisions that undo what was already accomplished.
My mom is bipolar (unsure the type tbh) and her manic episodes would scare me the most. Even though she just comes across to most as just highly enthusiastic and excited, she would have this gleam in her eye, and would do very reckless things. A common one would be her using me to steal from stores. I hate when people call themselves bipolar because they have mood changes (i.e. have normal human emotions). They have NO clue what its like to be/see someone going from spending literally a week in their room in bed not wanting to live or do things to going out shoplifting for fun, driving way too fast down residential streets.
@@OwnedByTheState I am sorry you had to go through that. It sounds like to me she had bipolar type 1 maybe? Idk. Type 1 can cause people to do some wild shit. I have heard of a man who has bp1 who while having a manic episode with psychosis bought a boat, sails across the Atlantic to Paris, spent days in Paris doing who knows what. Then, came back back down only to realize: 1) he bought a boat with money him and his wife don’t have. 2) had been gone for over a week. 3) he didn’t tell his wife where he was. That must have been an interesting phone call.
Luckily I have type 2 which is much more mild in regards to mania. I get hypomania. Still sucks but no psychosis thankfully. Don’t get me wrong I can have some pretty intense highs.
This content is so what I need to hear. I am addicted to TH-cam and it is destroying my life. thank you so much
Then the question becomes, if I am a child of an addict whose parents came from a lineage of addicts, (I myself chose to stay away from EVERYTHING), how do I address these issues with my kids? They are tiny at the moment, but because they won't be seeing my husband or I even DRINK, I feel like it may close the door on what our personal experiences are and what we experienced watching our parents succumb to addiction. Knowing that there is a genetic predisposition for my kids to become addicts, how (when they are older obviously) do I explain all this?
I personally would open the conversation with experiences and reasons why you stay away from it, what may happen if they fall into addiction, and help educate them on safety or let them know that you are a safe person to talk to in worst case scenarios (cause teaching abstinence alone isnt enough info).
Be aware that when they get older, they may want to explore alcohol use, despite whatever information you share with them. Second hand experiences won't strike as profoundly as something experienced directly. You won't be able to control their desire to explore alcohol, and trying to control it may have the opposite effect. The best you can do is give them a safe, judgement free environment in which they can healthily share and process their emotions about the world and their experience in it. Not judging them, I image, may be something you may find difficult, because you've experienced a trauma around it and that may distort your own perception of alcohol use around you - it is likely triggering. If you haven't already, do the work to process your own emotions around your experiences so that when the day comes, you will hopefully be able to see it without the fog of cognitive distortions.
As others mentioned before, when you talk with them about this history, make sure to give them space to tell you what they think about it (and not just in that fishing-for-answers kind of way - all genuine responses must be respected). This, like most things, will be an ongoing conversation. The worst thing you can do for your children is to tarnish your relationship with them. As Dr. K said, people turn to drugs because their realities are something worse than what is provided for by the drugs. You won't be able to control everything in their environment, the only thing you can control is how you react and respond. A parent's love must be unconditional.
Thinking of it through the lens of another scenario, imagine that you have a history of cancer running in your family. You've been lucky thus far and not had it, but you saw the severe and horrible impact it had on your parents and on your relationship with them. Despite this, you still choose to have children, knowing that there is a genetic component. You can do everything in your power of course to protect them from it; make sure they eat vegetables, antioxidants, wear sun screen, all of that good stuff. But despite your best efforts, they may yet succumb to it. You must be prepared to love them through all of it. Whatever part of it falls out of your control, you must accept, and give them the best life possible within the hand that fate dealt them - and by the best life, I don't mean one filled with material things, presuming you've already provided a stable baseline; I mean one of time, attention, listening, genuine connection, and love above all.
With all that said, have a dose of confidence in yourself that when the time comes to start having these conversations, you'll be able to handle it. I'm sure you'll do great :) You're clearly already making an effort to think about it.
Dr. K has had a video about addictions not so long ago in which he said that if someone is an addict it's no use to only treat either the cause or addiction, but both have to be treated simultaniously. Even if you've got a genetic predisposition you will still have a reason to become an addict. I'd tell my children exactly that: "If you try to self medicate with drugs and/or alcohol you will have two problems instead of one".
I’m kind of similar to you but I think the strongest thing that keeps me away entirely from substances is knowing how it hurts others. I think if you share to them your pain in an honest way from dealing with an addict and the lack of help those addicts got from substances, they might understand. I think it is important that you do tell them that they are not like everyone else, in that substances are more likely to mess them up. I know that I have a higher risk of schizophrenia and because of that I know that even if it’s ‘normal’ to do marijuana or get drunk everyday, my normal should not be the same as others.
Other than that, the most important thing should be to teach them to follow through on their own decisions, to trust themselves in the face of peer pressure - and to provide a non-judgemental place if they do make a mistake.
I’m sorry if this is bad advice, I’m really not an expert.
Maybe when they get to that age you could show them what it's done to your parents
Thank you so much for this episode, I relate a lot to the characters in Euphoria, especially Rue (her addiction issues, codependent relationship with Jules) and I'm so glad that someone with so much psychological knowledge and wisdom is doing an analysis of the show, I think it paints an exaggerated but very realistic picture of growing up in this day and age with all the different traumas and dysfunctional families that we can all have
Omg finally someone who understands Euphoria isn't just a nudity show with drugs and glitter 😻😻😻
Welp, glad I'm watching this video instead of the show. Lol
I'm soooo glad I came across your page!
This was an amazing analysis. Went into amazing depth. Loved this. So helpful.
damn i wanted him to do a character analysis on euphoria like he did with squid game. that would be dope.
ye, so dope, nevet said better
Hi, Dr.K. I've been keeping up and watching all your content for almost a year now and I've been finding it all very helpful and enlightening. I was wondering if you'd ever be open to getting your videos transcripted to other languages so your viewers are able to share this with their non-English-speaking family/friends. Thanks for all your hard work!
I really want this too, this would be helpful with my parents, for them and for my brother. This is by no means a replacement for some type of family therapy but I hope this will make them consider things about their mental health
Same, wanna translate this to my main language
Same
I'd love it too! My mother would really benefit from the videos about burn out but she only understands french
Omg, yes!! That's a great idea. I would love to translate these videos into my native language. It's kinda sad that not everyone has access to Dr. K's videos just beacause of some stupid language barrier
You should relaly react to a movie called, "A Silent Voice". It takes really heavy subject matter like conformity, depression, social anxiety, bullying and suicide through the anime medium, and its beautifully done. Everytime I watch it I always end up with tears in my eyes, partly because of how sad it is, but partly because of how I and so many other people I know can relate to some of the things in it
This was great, reminded me of Dr. Mate's addiction work. Dr. Gabor Mate does an incredible job of explaining addiction in humans. His perspective is one well worth learning about.
Dr. K is always doing great work. Thanks for what you do.
Not gonna lie, the music in the beginning made me tear up little. I don't remember the last time I teared up.
Thanks Dr. K. will check out the rest of the video later!
I realized that I haven’t been living my life because I think that there is a secret on the internet that I just haven’t found yet. It feels like when I find it then I’ll be ready but I know that’s not true. My therapist told me that you change your life by doing things. But that is the hard part
I remember seeing a decent amount of this, and it got me especially inspired even further than I'd like to be a psychologist one day.
I love the point you make about the cognitive distortions (you have to turn a light switch on & off 15 times or a meteorite it going to kill your family) vs. real life problems that your psychiatrist or therapist can't fix. I think this is my big problem with therapy being dished out to everyone (just to be clear, I don't think you suggest that it should, and I always appreciate your very rational and measured takes in all of your videos) as if we all have INTERNAL problems to work out, when many of our problems are EXTERNAL (economic, systemic, environmental, etc.). I was seeing a therapist for about 2 months for my panic attacks, and he did diagnose me with Generalized Anxiety, but he was very practical when he just laid it out for me - ALL of my anxiety issues related back to money. I was staying up all night thinking about how I was gonna pay my bills. I was exhausting myself working multiple jobs and trying to plan all of these "side hustles" just to tread water and keep myself from drowning. There was no cognitive distortion, he would say "your fears are rational, and I can't make them go away", all he could do was give me tools (like breathwork exercises, EFT, etc) to recognize when I could use those feelings to help motivate me to make more money, and when I had to just relax and sleep for the next 8 hours because there's nothing I can do in the next 8 hours to make more money. Basically to practice being present. But the root of my problem is inflation, unaffordable housing, the rising cost of food, stagnant wages, etc. and almost all of those are out of my control.
TL;DR the breathwork and the meditation and the EFT did not stop my panic attacks. What stopped my panic attacks was quitting my entrepreneurial dreams that I had been working so hard towards for 3 years, and getting a 9-5 job on salary for a stable company with health benefits.
i wish drK would do this for all episodes, i watched euphoria after seeing this and man there’s so much for him to dig into
I am going to check out this show. Sounds really interesting and profound. I will probably also recommend to a friend whose dealing with someone close to them who i think is addicted to alcohol. Thanks for this!
This came just in time to understand what is going on in my family. Thank you from the heart.
Oh my god! I swear my brain is doing funky things to me. When I look at the word “Therapist Review” on the thumbnail, my brain somehow turns these two words in to three words, and my heart skipped a beat.
Some hard R review are there if you catch my driff
Holy fuck LMFAO
@redwill17 heheh
Today is the day I confirmed I want kids from what you said about going back in the womb and the picture that shows the baby inside. The way that baby is positioned is exactly how my ex would fall asleep in my arms with her head on my chest and my arms around her. We broke up and I learned how to position my pillows and weighted blankets to replace her and I just hold them now but it still feels like I'm cradling something. It's like my new comfort position
Thank you for your videos. They've taught me a lot about myself and the people I know.
I wish he would give an analysis on better call saul and whether chuck's illness is real or not
There is a lot here that I found incredibly comforting to hear from a clinician. I came to these conclusions through the crystalized comprehension of information I've learned as a student of developmental psychology, as a patient, in my activism and advocacy for addicts' rights.
On a personal level though, your perspective as a clinician on "the artistic temperament" was incredibly comforting to me. As artists, we have so many conflicting narratives thrown our way. Our struggles make it incredibly difficult to nurture meaningful connections with other people, so we turn to art to exorcise the unexpressed emotions. Then through our work, we're being praised for an expression of the very experiences that isolate us to begin with! We're told that we're broken and intolerable in one hand, and in the other we're told that if we fix it we will be robbed of the one thing we can bring to the table. You've taken these, crafted a dialectic, and found the wisdom of truth.
"... build a life that is worth living."
Thank you.
THAT IS WHY THIS SHOW IS SO GOOD. They have people behind the scenes that HAVE struggled with drug addiction and depression and anxiety. Why Rue is so well written. Hell it could be the writer just telling their own story through Rue.
Sam Levinson was a former addict and hes definitely channeling his story through Rue
great video! love the way dr. K shares his own insights and even though some topics can be dark somehow his videos usually end up inspiring too (to other insights, or ways to work on/improve own mental health). I was wondering if dr. K ever talked about EMDR therapy?
As someone that just quit a 6 month bout with weed almost every day, this was very helpful to listen to. Thanks Dr. K
The merge of two things I never thought I needed but I need it.
This reminded me of what I went trough when I was like 10 and it all just makes so much sense now.
Damn man I never leave comments on any videos but this was a fasntastic summary of addiction, powerful stuff. pog champ
my gift is my ability to choose pain over pleasure but my curse is that I can't appreciate it currently.
This really helped me to understand the traumatic POV of people who suffer wirh addictions.
I listened almost all your videos and most are fabulous but this one takes the prize as probably one of the most powerful and helpful and informative videos… Dr. K you are a blessing and a gift to this world
That reminds me of Squidward lol
"It all started... when I was born"
Thank God you didn't talk about the "other" Euphoria.
😂
There is another Euphoria?
@@badass6300 always has been
@Nightlash Ahh I see, there are some men who have that other 'Euphoria', man I must say that shit was disgusting, it literally took me 3 weeks to move on from that scum, how were you able to move on after watching that shit 😂??
@@gameteamsk6892 What a useless comment
I appreciate this content and your insight. I was recently tricked into going to rehab for 6 months (my doctor was not notified or consulted with). I was financially and emotionally stuck there. My 2 main take-aways were - 1.) I am not an addict. I take adderall and xanax as prescribed by a psychiatrist. 2.) Everybody else was absolutely an addict and would have died if they didn't enter treatment.
They have no off switch when it comes to substances and will drive that car until the wheels come off. They all had trouble with the law and were on probation. They would do whatever it took to get more of whatever they were (lying/stealing from everybody in their life). It is far more serious than the functional user you describe. The only thing I had in common with everybody there was that we needed better and more therapy.
watching euphoria made me stop taking adderall. when i was on adderall i had to drink and smoke weed (and or) take a benzo to calm down, waking up extremely tired, having to take adderall to start the cycle again. it was vicious. now that i've stopped taking adderall, i have no need to drink and all the rest. i'm finally starting to take care of myself again, landed a new job (which i'll be starting soon) and overall slowly increasing the quality of my life. sure it's boring sometimes and i do miss the rush but it's replaced by a true sense of direction and stability that will still be there tomorrow.
Preach! Thank you for speaking the truth. The most vindicating things are accepting reality and truth. As a former addict and abuser the only, and I mean it, thing that worked out in a significant way was admitting and accepting the truth. And I tried literally hundreds of things and thousands of thoughts that went through nothing had a more powerful and imifiate effect.
There is nothing, only a warm primordial blackness. Your conscience sticks to it, no larger than the single grain of malt.
what single malt ? yeah my man
Yes, there is nothing, because humans know enough to know that
We don't know anything about how consciousness works or how life truly came to be yetnwe know for certain that death is blackness.
Especially knowing we dream, and that DMT alters time perception, and at death you get blasted with DMT.
Knowing all these things that don't make sense to us, knowing we don't understand any of it, we absolutely know for certain that death is nothingness. We totally would remember or know what it was like before life, too, so we really know how death works.
Especially coanidering your brain works with gaps between neurons. Synapses. Pits are where our memories and everything is stored. We absolutely know that those just go kapoof when we die. There can't be any form of afterlife, none at all.
Thanks for understanding the things none of humanity understands homie. You're truly blessed, a real genius.
I'm tired of fighting these tiny apes on this massive ball
@@Afroofthenight I'm not. I love it. Not literal fights, I'm one for peace. I love discussions though. I get bored and choose to be annoying in youtube comments for fun.
44:00 Dr. K is triggering my PTSD with that. Makes me shudder
Idk why I thought it was funny
Anybody else thought that he reacts to the anime euphoria? That would be a f-ing blast.
I don't think he'd last through ep2
Yoooooo it's finally time for my favourite VN to get it's well-deserved time in the spotlight!?
bruhman
This joke will never get old
This has made me really excited for my psychiatry rotation…. I just find following these logical chains of thought inside the minds of others so exciting -incoming Year 1 med student
34:25 "If you take someone to a doctor, that doctor will diagnose them with something." Exactly! I've been diagnosed with so much crap depending on which specialist I go to.
It really made me distrust doctors. Specifically psychiatrists but if I would ever be diagnosed with a physical illness I would get a second opinion. I am lucky to have one that takes times, listens and tries to help but his options are limited. I was diagnosed with so many different personality disorders and whatnot and honestly all made some sense especially during the time but you shouldn't put too much weight on it. I resonate with so much Dr K has said and it's really reassuring that my feelings and thoughts are valid... more often I feel really invalidated when I talk to experts.
I think it's incredibly important to stand up for yourself and be annoying if you have to. I've met people that went to doctors like I did, were set on multiple medications and still struggled, the side effects became more problematic and it all made things worse for them.
I wish the academic approach would be completely reevaluated. Our current system doesn't do well enough... and we desperately need to do better
we must actually WANT to live in the world and not chase after addictive substances or shallow goals. That's what is most important to defeat addiction(apart from getting as much genuine help as possible). That's what I learned from this video.
Also, I'm torrenting that show now.
the glowing guys will go after you
Id love to see you react to "the other" euphoria
I'm one of those people who spends a lot of time thinking about making changes instead of actually making changes. I've tried making steps multiple times and once I feel like I'm getting somewhere, the Universe steps in and is like "op, you're making too much progress, I'm taking that away from you. YOINK!"
Damn, really got called out when Dr. K talked at the end about using HG videos as procrastination for making real change, oof
Fuck. I quit drugs the other day. Ive been doing it for like 17 years. Today is the 2nd day and I feel awful. I FEEL this waves... or walls of pressure coming at me from all angle. Ah yes, it's the anxiety rolling back in. My body is screaming at me to refuel. Your videos have been helpful. But this one is particularly hard to watch. Cuz now alls im thinking is man.... I need some right now. The 57:37 hit me pretty hard. I guess what I'm seeking is oblivion.
It's funny cause I'm xNTP and I'm a nihilist since I was like 11 y/o and when I started to see that things are not as great as they appeared to be thru children's eyes... I jump into philosophy (I'm an atheist) to find answers and, well, Schopenhauer's philosophy resonated with me very deeply and so I walk the path of nihilism since then... some could even say I have depression and whatnot and it maybe true or it maybe the manifestation of my nihilism, idk
...but when comes to "internal suffering", I f*ckin own it... part of my subconsciousness almost revels in all those feelings that cause others to take drugs... it's still "suffering", headaches and stressing out from time to time but with a zen-like silver lining... I can't explain it, the feeling just feels weirdly great... it's like that feeling right before death when you just accepted your fate and let go...
I'm usually emotionally passive (cause I simply suppressed most of the "unwanted" feelings) but when I feel "depressed" or I just feel it's too much for me to handle, I just go and listen to some "sad emotional music" or go watch movies like LotR and I just cry... it always gets me into "that mood" when I feel like I'm in a dream and nothing matters... I just let things and thoughts flow without caring about them... and it almost feels like being drugged... I feel internally, almost cathartically, contented...
...and I know that I can always somehow exist IRL because I will always be able to daydream myself into oblivion... and if the things will get completely into shitter or living will simply become even less worth it... suicide is always an option... I wouldn't feel ashamed of it, I would be scared that people wouldn't understand the true reason and would attribute it to some mental illness... for me, it would be a matter of pride... the final line is already drawn... now it's all about whether or when it will be crossed
Anyone else is really uncomfortable with the "artists need to experience suicidality and mania to create good art, it's the price to pay" thing? I understand what Dr K meant, but the sentence itself sounds hella toxic to me. I agree that medication isn't always the solution, but like... I bet if van gogh had the choice to not be batshit insane and cut his hear off and randomnly chase someone around town with a razor blade, he probably would have chosen this... and still would have made cool art. Almost all my friends and aquaintances are artists and none of them make "greater art" because of suicidality. If anything the best ones are those with stable lives and healthy minds because it doesn't get in the way of their art.
Well most creative people are different. And the world hurts people that are different. That's why they pay a price for being artists. Also very few artists make money from their art.
I guess a better way to put it is „Pain can be a catalyst for great art“
What exactly do you want to come out of this comment? I mesn, it’s a reality for alot of great artists. What are you suggesting, that they’re doing things wrong the whole time? Be clear next time.
@@ClaireLoprensa the way dr k explain it seemed like he was idealising it also he is slightly wrong from my personal point of view. suicidality doesnt mean "better art" it just leads to using art more as a coping mechanism. dr K seemed like he was romanticising it.
@@manumusicmist everyone is different and everyone has the capacity to be creative. i dont really see your point. it still doesnt exlplain the inherent problem of dr K romanticising a harmful stereotype
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid and when I was reassessed during high school graduation. I was super nervous about entering my adult life because I didn't feel I would succeed. I was worried I was convinced that I was less capable than others and didn't know what I wanted to do with my career. The doctor added anxiety disorder to my diagnosis. I o ly found this out years later and don't remember if I was ever told that I was diagnosed with anxiety. I don't think I have Anxoety because I don't have any symptoms of it and now understand that those worries were relates to an ADHD fueled struggle through school as a child. As an MFT student, I am now learning why the clinician would have diagnosed me this way but also understand that I don't actually have anxiety. People think that Rhee diagnoses follow them through their entire life and yes, that is the case for many people, but sometimes the diagnosis is only a snapshot if a certain time in their life and isn't permanent. It is sometimes only a label to give them access to care and insurance.
As a kid I thought tall towers where parking spots for planes
i didnt watch the questions part but this was a good video. thanks
He should react to the other EUPHORIA next.
more euphoria reactions please
OH I DIDNT SEE THIS COMING😂this finna be some heatttt
Iv struggled with addiction for a few years it does hijack your power. I’m getting better but still relapse. I know I’ll get there
peace to you
For a second I thought EUPHORIA the manga when I read the title
huh weirdly enough maybe i have genetic vulnerability for alcohol and that is why I used to drink so much and still kinda miss how much better everything felt when drinking especially when you managed to control and limit your drinking to make it efficient without having to go through so much of the negative effects, but after gallbladder removal after getting stones, stuff like alcohol makes my body hurt to point of making life hell, so i think i might be just annoyed by how much less i can do sober and trying to navigate how to do everything that was so easy while drunk is hard to do legit.
As a former addict I'm telling you it's not hard. Doing things sober is more enjoyable but why you don't find them enjoyable it's because you're not willing to accept and embrace the truth. You're momentarily stuck in the past in your mind. Set yourself free, brother.
When my parents brought me to a psychiatrist for the first time, he said "OK, you have substance abuse issues, I can't help you. I can recommend an addictions counselor." I have been passed off to the next guy over and over. After finding my own way to be sober for 12 years, I started to have a lot of trouble again, and found even more issues with finding mental help: A psychiatrist who seemed to be slowly helping, but I had reached the maximum allowed 20 sessions, and would have to go through the 1-2 year waiting list to sign up again if I felt I needed more. A psychologist that started off telling me that my anxiety is so high, that I find regular life extra hard. Said that she expected to help me in 6-7 sessions max. By session 3, she told me that she thinks I don't really need mental help and that I am just passionate. She then ghosted me. So yeah, not going so well.
57:20 Honestly, that makes so much sense.
This was not the euphoria I was thinking of.
lol I thought this was about the other Euphoria...
As soon as he started talking about artistic temperament I knew he was telling the truth. I know because I do those things that he says.
Yeah honestly to anyone looking into rehab as a parent, make sure the rehab is near you, I live on the east coast and my brother went to rehab in Cali (ironic right) and overdosed while he was in rehab so, it doesn't always help, and sometimes could even be worse. Everyone using drugs reading this, please be careful, it's not worth it. Especially opiate users.
Stay alive friends
I survived opioid he'll, after more than 10 years of abuse. I only stopped because my health was getting bad and panick attacks were out of this world.
I love what you do and you generally provide accurate information, but I feel obligated to point out that vaping *can* have higher nicotine concentrations, however it can also have significantly lower nicotine concentrations as well. The user chooses what nicotine concentration to use and it goes all the way down to 0mg, personally the amount I vape is significantly less than from a cigarette and also doesn't have as many negative aspects like tar/chemicals that when burning is terrible for you. There has been a lot of negative press around vaping and it's been mostly driven by big tobacco lobbyists and people with political agendas to the point where law-abiding adults using vaping products to quit smoking cannot legally purchase those products because of it.
We have been called out chat, procrastinating our life by watching Dr. K.
Also almost 1 mil subs!! Poggers
In regards to her being diagnosed with OCD, reviewer is not being shown all the struggles that she might have related to it, they are just showing her compulsion because people know that as what OCD is. But she could be going through a lot of inner turmoil and it isn’t just counting if she is so anxious but if she doesn’t count something really terrible what happened and stuff like that.
I Loved this, I want doctor K to react to Johnny dep and Amber's trial, specifically the part where doctor Shannon and Hughes testified for.
I... was expecting the other Euphoria 🤣🤣🤣
That... would be an interesting case to say the least
Good job man keep up the good work!
I've been trying to fight my porn addiction for years now. Its only when i submitted to an higher power, that I was able to beat my porn addiction.
Have not watched the vid full yet, but from what I’ve heard is that this show has caused many people to want to try drugs specifically psychedelics
How much of an addiction is on the actual person? Like in Rue's case. I suffer with depression. I have anxiety, low self esteem, no personal respect. But I have never turned to drugs. But I am a video game addict I use them to get away from life and my thoughts but never touched drugs because deep down I know if I did I would be dead.
This is insane like Rue with her 2 seconds. I was talking to a friend today about my anxiety and I just told him I just want like 30 minutes of just nothing. Just my brain stops and I just...lie and nothing. Peace. That is all I want in my head.
"If I could be a different person I promise you I would". That hits so close. I am 34 and I have never talked to a shrink I have never been on mood medications. But I have struggled with this since childhood as well. I feel Rue on a deep level. Middle School and High School was hell for me. I couldn't I was depressed cause I moved my freshman year and was just bullied daily. I was a punk kid that moved to the country and was just rough. I wonder often what my life would have been if I was on meds when I was young. Would I be okay now? Or would I be in Rue's shoes?
I have tried self help books and self affirmation talk over and over and over again but at the core if you don't believe it HOW is it going to help?
At the end of the day Rue can't help what happens to her but she can help how it effects her but at the same time she states over and over SHE DOESN'T want to get clean. It would be worse if she WANTED to get clean but just kept relapsing. She on the other hand has no desire to get clean because she in her own head wants to die. BUT often when she is she begs god NOT to let her die. She also blames others. YOU did this to me! SHE is why I relapsed!
Should a person trying to recover and get better look for things like a relationships?
In the end does it all come down to self accountability?
In my case it is like. No matter what others say or tell me I CANNOT get this distorted horrible self image of myself out of my head. That I am a failure that I always will be a failure. I am ugly. I am unwanted. I am unneeded. I will just die and my whole life meant nor will it ever mean anything.
Just like Rue said in the diner. I don't plan on being around long.
Which is also ironic when he mention the Christian ideology being helpful because even in that episode he tells her she has to believe in something greater even if its making up her own god
Also Damn Zendaya can act lol
let's get dr k to 1 mill!
So this is not about the Visual Novel?
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Imagine being strapped to a board and having your most sensitive part sliced off without any anesthetics or pain control in addition to already going through your very first trauma. Who can guess it?
The US and the cultures that practice masculine g3nital mutilation are barbarians. Men should unite against that.
Amazing, thoughtful vid
Write down 3 things you are grateful for at the start of each day. Small things can lead to big impacts.
thats a good idea im going to start trying that
Jesus, how to be rich kind of motivational books and "how to do this in a few steps/minutes" that are in your channel is exactly the kind of easy external solution redflags (if you want it you can get it blah blah) that Dr.K is against and warn us. Watch his interwiews with incels and it'll be familiar with "life and finance"
That doesn’t work
@@Darkloid21
Nothing works
@@honkhonk5181 Not nothing, just “being grateful” doesn’t really work.
Yeah, like I realized whenever my parents asked me what I wanted I never trusted them because many times I would tell them what I wanted, I'd not get it, like that time I asked santa for a lot of lego and I didn't get it. Being human is getting traumatized by that unfortunately. I'd also ask for things sometimes and they'd also turn it into what they wanted sometimes aswell.
“I’m just counting’, yo!”
1:41:58 Resentment can last forever, but the happiness never does
I heard my experience being mentioned. I don't remember if it was through meditation or a dream, but it was complete darkness and utter silence. But at the same i heard EVERYTHING and everything was there. Seeing how i was pretty sound sensitive at the time, it felt utterly weird. I heard everything, but it was fine. Maybe because of the utter silence. It just doesn't make sense.
My theory has always been that - a person either is an addictive "type" or is not. To be clear, I'm not referring to any specific kind of addictive resources, I believe it could be anything if you are this "type". And when some turn themselves toward a rehab center of any kind, many choose the "holy book" to rely on. This is the paradox/hypocrisy that is so ironic to me, you're only swapping one addiction with another!!! The addict (person) is still an addict and could just as easily fall into an even worse addiction later on when they're outside of their new addiction group.
The cure for addicts should be immense schooling in what they actually are and not a cheap trade for a new addiction.
small correction on the solar panels and electric cars. they require ores from africa extracted in terrible conditions for the environnement and for the worker, then transported to china to be manufactured with the same issues to then being not recycled. the energy-intensive (drug ?) anthropogenic system is not viable.