That’s when I’d tempted to say, “I’m not shy, I just don’t like you” lol 😂 I haven’t been called shy to my face though, like wtf that’s really rude 😵💫
I have spent a lifetime with varying degrees of depression and melancholy. (65 yrs old) It has often seemed to me that only an insane person could celebrate life in this messed up and frightening world. However, I'm coming to understand that the world is what it is and no amount of hating this reality will make it better....so one must simply make the best of it. I can't see myself ever being the loud and raucous partier but I can see myself more contented with a somewhat melancholy serenity.
Charles, kepp remaining inside of your serenity. Life creates no junk, mankind have that honor at times, for man. It is said to "stop, and smell the roses" nicely put, will do when the time comes. I believe one may love to observe and learn of the rose' coming into existence, its growth through the trials and storms of its life. I'd smell at this point. Doing this i hope one comes away 'smelling like a rose'! Peace.
Dear Daniel, excellent video. During my training to become an occupational therapist, during a seminar, another student commented how all the abused people were locked up in psychiatric hospitals labelled as being sick, while their abusers were walking around in society seen as being sane. It was a life-changing comment. I believe in a trauma-based model of mental health. Also, I personally think people talk about there being 'many realities' as an externalisation/projection/reflection/explanation of and for their own internal fagmentation.
OT this was me!!! I am 43, and currently (finally in a trauma based therapy) that was my total 20-30 something experience. Smoking pot, and talking about how there were multiple realities. Now, looking back, i was just trying to make sense of my fucked up past. I am grateful for the hope of integration and living in reality.
To me you’re an example of a person who has achieved a high level of sanity and insight Daniel. But society probably won’t like the fact that you’re not materialistic, that you don’t want to get married and have kids and all these other aberrations. I love your dedication to the truth - thank you ❤️
Sadly I feel so lonely in this world, like no one can understand and what you’re saying here resonate so much and explains a lot of what I’m feeling and going through Thank you 🙏
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!". I have dissociative identity disorder and I'm usually the sanest and most rational person in any room. So, yeah, I'm pretty crazy and the sanest person in the room wherever I go. I also feel the most accepted, normal, and least lonely in a mental hospital while my family thinks I must be at my sickest. Where else on the planet except a mental hospital are people with multiple personalities not stigmatized? (Nowhere) I could go on with the ironies of mental health for days. But Daniel is SO right. Walk into a mental hospital and the staff pathologizes everyone and everything while the patients slowly realize that they are quite sane in spite of the place they now find themselves. I've met some of the most wonderful people in my life among those wanting to die. Irony. Irony. Irony.
“Human sickness is so severe that few can bare to look at it...but those who do will become well." - Vernon Howard "It's no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
yeah at the hospital I was at I saw a few times nurses will tie patients just for crying, I saw one youtuber from the US shared that when patients cried at her ward they will inject them. I think this is crazy, psychiatry in itself is crazy.
Interesting. My mother and sister both blocked out family stuff. My sister still dissociates but calls it shutting down. The capacity for denial is stunning. I had a psych prof who said family violence can be cultural. I disagreed. If it's sick it's sick. It may occur more frequently in some cultures, or be more acceptable, but it's still wrong. Nothing healthy comes out of it.
If by cultural, he means they have no laws against it, then I agree that it's cultural. Doesn't make it healthy. Doesn't mean they wouldn't benefit from progress. Some cultural shifts are overdue.
The difference between crazy and not crazy depends on the therapist, researcher, professor, or narrator at any given time. It also depends on current psychological fashion. And many people ha e crazy moments or irrational moods.
It can also be healthy to be crazy in certain situations. By that, I mean the person is reacting normally. This Kavenaugh situation is making millions of women relive their sexual assaults. It's all over twitter. Reliving it is common.
How people define "crazy" is arbitrary (outside of going on shooting sprees) and, if we're lucky enough to grow in to old age having wandered into many different villages, crazy happens.
@ Rosanne No, being crazy is not relative to other peoples' opinions. It is not in the eye of the beholder. The social, cultural norm of sanity/craziness, however, is relative in this sense, but actual sanity is not. Over the years I have matured and grown much more open. This maturation is essentially due to a lot of meditation, healing work and psychotherapy. As a result I have become wiser, believe it or not. It is perfectly clear to me that sanity is a matter of the objective degree of an individuals emotional openness and how well integrated the individuals actions and thoughts are with her emotional world. This is difficult to measure, but the degree of sanity is nevertheless essentially an objective feature of reality. Perhaps you were focusing on the cultural norm of sanity in your comment, in which case I agree totally. However, sanity is such an important issue that a brief comment perhaps was called for. Best regards
reminds me of when i was so confused because my extreme grief over capitalism and the education system and inequality was pathologized as clinical depression with a lot of emphasis on chemical imbalance when i knew it didnt feel like that. what i needed was to grieve, learn to manage my real and valid feelings, and frankly the adoption of a little bit of denial. and i wondered why the antidepressants never worked!
That reminds me of when I went to a therapist because I was so depressed to find out all my friends and families in South Carolina really were straight up racists. For years, I had tried to convince myself that their love of NASCAR, football, country music and the confederate flag was just a matter of taste; and their lack of intellectual curiosity was simply a matter of temperament. Then after a few years of listening to what they had to say about Obama, it became plain to me they believe they are part of a master race that needs to be protected from obliteration! Damn! Imagine my surprise. By the time I started seeing Trump signs in people's yards, I felt like I was going to lose my mind.
@@jedwardsish It helps me to understand that confirmation bias is a real thing. I don't believe we have much control over what we think is "true". Our brains fool us all the time. Whatever belief we start with snowballs because of confirmation bias and we can't do much about it unless we somehow become aware of it and examine our thinking. How else can one explain people with opposite ideas and both are CERTAIN that THEY possess the "truth"? Everybody wants the same things, we just have different ideas on how to get there depending on our lifetime perceptions. Also, consider the idea the free will is an illusion. It can lead to more compassionate feelings about both others and yourself. Cheers!
I wonder if antidepressants' real goal is to make victims of abuse shut up. I mean the pills don't make the abuse stop but they make the victim numb and uninterested in talking about their experience.
@@tinet7056 yes 100% it’s only goal. If you look at any clinical trials success isn’t considered actually working through the trauma or grief. It’s based on does this chemical hide the symptoms enough for you to go to work or function. It never actually addresses the problem just masks it! Holy Shit.....
@@jedwardsish So you figured out your family are idiots! :D I feel you. It took me years to understand that my parents were not showing me love not because I was a bad child...but because they are idiots incapable of expressing love.
I am experiencing this right now. I finally told the truth last night and the response I got from the person who is supposed to love and protect me was absolutely insane and subversive. I expected a degree of denial but this was illuminating as to the depth of sickness that's there. Luckily I have friends who are able to affirm my reality. But wow.
Several years ago I went to what was for me an important meeting, whether I would be accepted onto a training course. This was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, I wanted to help others after my own horrible experiences. But, just before I left the house, I had the sad news that a good friend of mine had suddenly died from the cancer she'd only been recently diagnosed with. I loved that woman like my sister. I was really upset, so my mother offered to drive me to my interview. I couldn't stop crying. However, I managed to stop the tears before I walked in the building. There were two of them interviewing me and I felt like I was being analysed the whole time...oh, your glasses are green!, you write with a green pen! Staring at my tear-stained face. I explained to them about my friend. Soon, after the interview I had a letter saying they would NOT accept me on their training course as a therapist because of my own trauma... That was so unfair. I later learned they had too many applicants and that was their inhuman response. I think NOT crying when a best friend has suddenly died young would be a REAL cause of concern, wouldn't it?!
Watching your videos is like listening to myself talk, the shared experiences and world view are uncannily similar. I never studied psych though, just thought about it.
Hi Dan, thanks for this insightful video. ~ Two stories come to mind, that I feel inclined to share., one day I was speaking with my therapist & was feeling frustrated with the feeling of not getting anywhere with the bi-weekly sessions, I tell him a story. “ imagine a guy comes to NYC, and he has a fight with a person on the subway. He is under attack , and he defends himself & in the process kills the man, then cuts off his ear & eats it. He would be arrested & locked up as criminally insane ! ~ My therapist balked, & looked at me. “What are you trying to say ? “ ~ “ but wait, “ I say, “ there’s more to the story . What if I told you that the guy is from Papua New Guinea, and in his indigenous tribe, the warrior men kill & eat their enemies. It’s a tribal thing.” ~ Would you still classify him as insane ? ~ CSW, is still in a panic thinking I was trying to tell him I was in the mood to kill somebody ! Ok, obviously he was just a body in the room where I went in & talked to the walls. ~ A few years later, getting bored with my many sessions & group meetings at a local clinic, I asked my doctor, she was the top doc in the psych clinic, very professional, and always treated me nice. ~ One day, I asked her, “ do people ever get well?” She askes, “ what do you mean?” So I rephrase it, “ ~ have you ever met a person without symptoms of imbalance or abnormalities ? “ She laughed & said, “~ no, everybody has glitches. Even me. “ ~ I ask her again, to be sure I heard her correctly. Yep. Everybody has glitches. There is no such thing as a perfect person ! So I said, “ then why am I coming here ? “ ~ She didn’t answer. ~ I never went back. ~ In my recent years, I found out, I was going to therapy to get some help, with moving thru painful past experiences, and I needed help learning some processes to continue to develop myself as an individual. ~ Unfortunately, most of my seasons consisted of me talking about what went wrong .. today, last week, etc. The counselors do not give advice or lead.. 🤔🙄😎 I am happy to say, I figured out that LIFE itself hurt me, but LIFE itself, can help me get well. And, it did !!!
It's interesting how most if not all therapists want to keep you in the story but never give real methods to navigate out and find peace. Last one told me to just not think about it anymore. She was a CBT person. It was a total waste. I the decided I'm done. No more I'm perfect the way I am. I'm good I'm decent I'm sensitive than others. That's just they baseline of my perceptions. It truly is time to move on.
I think it is bipolar who will most tend to be "healthier than society". You can even find lowered dynorphin during the manic phase, and dynorphin is linked to the suffering states, I believe psychosis and depression both stem from dynorphin activity. Dynorphin causes dysphoria, dissociation, etc. I believe mania is the state that psychedelics induce.
One of the biggest obstacles to warding off society's craziness is when anti-social traits are exemplified as a society's top virtues, whether due to attaining wealth, "purity," or popularity in a given society. Another huge obstacle, as Daniel has pointed out, are traditions that we carry over that are fundamentally toxic to our mental and public health, simply because many of them helped us survive in a more brutal past (such as traditional gender roles). While women have made great leaps and strides in this area due to women's rights advocacy, the push-back is much greater for men to stay in their traditional roles or face ridicule and scorn from many different parts of society, including from folks who would advocate for women's rights.
Daniel, did you hear for those "primitive" people, in Africa, who surround their neighbor-citizen who make something bad or wrong, and talk to him, all together, few days without brake, that he/she is gorgeous, that they all love him so much and that all society is so sad and need him to feel better :-) How "primitive", ha? Only Soul can heal soul..
I had 2 psychotic episodes. I spoke a lot of words in my episodes, but no one could understand anything I was saying. Individual parts of my sentences could make sense, but the entire sentence made no sense. I also couldn't understand other people, as any reply I made was completely unrelated or on some mad tangent. Many times in these experiences I was pinned down and had some sort of tranquilliser injected into me. I wasn't being violent, but I was probably being loud and appeared angry. I was very deluded and had many crazy thoughts so I'm pretty sure it's fair to have called me crazy. But I understand how deluded I was, now that I am healthy. Luckily I managed to not get stuck on psychiatric drugs, I don't think they help - at best they zombify you, a bit like getting a lobotomy but not so bad and more over long term. My anti-psychotics were making me feel very strange, but since I was ill I did not realise it was the drugs, I thought it was part of me being ill/crazy, but when I just decided to stop taking them, and then after a month start taking them again, these weird feelings started coming back, so I stopped and now the weird feelings are gone. I still have a bit of jaw clenching, but no way near as much as when I was taking anti-psychotic drugs. I think medicine has a long way to come to get anywhere near solving mental illness. Medicine has come so far in so many other areas, but I believe mental illness is the last area that has yet to be substantially solved. I think it will take a good 200 years before decent progress is made. In the mean time, simple yet powerful drugs will be prescribed for complex problems, and psychiatrists will still believe it is all about 'chemical imbalance', when actually these crazy states of consciousness are much more complex - we don't understand consciousness so how can they explain away different states of consciousness as 'chemical imbalance' ? And there is very little understanding of how these drugs actually fix the mental illness, instead they seem to mostly zombify people and take their personality away - yeah they won't go "crazy" because they are zombies on these brutal drugs.
I have had very similar thoughts and observations of a long time now. I wrote about this in a draft for a book a few years ago. Good video, Daniel. Cheers! -Darius
I love that you make it clear that often a person is pathologized simply because that's what society is taught to do with every person. I can't say I always agree with you, but I really appreciate you. Your voice is strong and informative. Thank you.
Once again..bless you one million times Daniel..your bright insight always offers new prdcious updated perspectives..you are coming to the new path if psychology even if you left your profession.Bless you..thanks God your intelligence is still going on working in this field. You are really helping many to understand much more..THANK YOU FOR THIS WORK!!
Love this. I’ve always been that person that I feel is on the “healthier side of crazy” whose been labeled crazy(by family members). I’m an empath that also tends to attract people with narcissistic traits and feel incredibly lonely most of the time. Every time I’ve seen a therapist though they all tell me that I’m very intelligent(not trying to come across as arrogant), and they will even go as far to say as I don’t seem like I should have a mental illness because I’m so aware. But that awareness is why I suffer. I’ve always been the scapegoat of my family trying to address issues, but I’m “bad” because I do. For example, my mom will smoke in front of my son or nephew, I get angry and cut her off, but according to her she “didn’t do it” even though I saw her while she was doing it and I’m “crazy.” It’s 2018, everyone knows smoking is terrible and you don’t do it in front of children. I got mad when my parents kept letting my senior dog out by the pool because she could drown. What happened within a week of me moving out, she drowned in the pool. I was so angry at my fathers pure recklessness, but what could I do? My dog was dead and he wouldn’t care what I thought. I’m surrounded by carelessness and negligence and tend to attract those people, so I often feel “crazy” for trying to cope or make sense out of fucked up situations. Most of the time I just have to let things go, and keep people at a distance until I can address it. I’ve recently joined lots of meet ups with like minded and healthy people and having the validation from others that these situations are fucked up(and even more so than I’m aware of at times) and I’m not “crazy” has helped me. I suggest anyone going through something similar to find any groups regarding growth and healing, I promise it will help.
i still havent been able to really put my finger on why narcissists are attracted to me (as an "empath"). like i get it intellectually but it still doesnt really make sense to me.
OMG!! Everything you said is exactly me too. For years i thought i was 'the crazy' one. Finally at 55 i'm realizing the same thing. THEY were the crazy ones. I get the loneliness too. I've locked myself away in my home for years now, to keep myself safe from toxic people and narcissists. I needed to hear what you wrote today and i will try your meet up suggestion. I need to surround myself with people, healthy people. The problem is they are so hard to find.
Hey Daniel, the best 10 min post ever!!! I resonate with all you say, keep the videos coming.....you’re an inspiration that is changing many people’s thoughts....and thought is everything 👍🏻🙏🏻
🙏 ‘s truth traveler. Over and over again, video after video I can relate positively to your views. I remember the video in witch you said a good friend could replace a therapist and it’s so true. 💗 💗 💗 💗
Purff I love the way he talks with his hands! I'll tell ya Jews and Italians(which i am) r so similar characteristically. He's like balm so sweet and soothing :-) :-) Or maybe im just CRAAAAAAAAAAAZY!!!!!!! 😊🎅☺😂💝🎃🎆🎊🎉🎵🎼🎤🎶
Thank you for this. I’ve grown up outside of my parents’ country aka third culture kid. And I’ve been think a lot about the relationship between culture and mental illness and where I fit in. Your video really helped in giving me courage in living my truth.
This video explains why people are afraid of me. I advocate for people with disability and since the disability sector attracts a lot of nasty parasitical type of people who relish the opportunity to abuse those less fortunate than themselves or to simply exploit them, I have a tendency to speak up about the injustice that is perpetrated. This always leads me to having many companies (care or support work providers) refuse me service because I’m not afraid to call them out on their bullshit thus making me an enemy. I’ve become accustomed to being a loner but there was a time when I felt very isolated. What keeps me going is the fact that I have purpose. Looking out for people with disability, especially intellectually disabled people who wouldn’t hurt a fly, gives me a tremendous sense of purpose and I find it to be rewarding even if people don’t like me or gang up on me. That’s when I know I’m really doing my job!
A great example of this is veganism. People like to condemn and label vegans as militant and religious and on and on when in reality they don't have any protests with the intent to destroy property and attack people and such or believe in a higher being. All they say is to stop using animals unnecessarily, such as eating them for every meal. The amount of health and environmental issue this causes is insane, not to mention the conditions of the places they keep those animals in while labeling them "free range" "organic" "pasture raised"... all labels are basically meaningless with terrible laws protecting those statements, an easily abused system. Also those slaughter houses and the workers are sick. Tons of psychopathic junkies that punch and kick and stab those animals before slitting their throats. It's an absolute disgrace that we allow such places to exist.
This is so fucking true. Also here's an alternative way of looking on the word 'crazy': Maybe it is just a word that people created to refer to a psychological and behavioral state of a person that makes them afraid of them and is used to judge them so that 'crazy people' will hide these parts of themselves and judge themselves so that tge others don't have to deal with what makes tgem afraid and why.
Totally makes sense, from start to finish. I can't believe I missed those videos in 2018. I was scanning psychological videos from 2015 - I never stumbled upon Daniel. And that is partly due to topic of this video. It is only in 2020 that I discovered term Complex Trauma - by reading random DK book about general health. It was not even mentioned on you tube videos which I watched weekly since 2015 for 5 years. As soon as I discovered concept of CPTSD I got exposed to much deeper and healthier videos on you tube, such as this one.
reality is subjective. Reality for somebody very rich vs very poor. Reality for girl versus a boy. Reality can only be described through experience. If I decided to sit in meditate / fast for a month would I be considered out of touch with reality. Let's not even get started on all the different religions and their realities. What should we do just vote on reality? Is flat Earth a reality? Are black holes and antimatter reality? Or do we just take the word a people who tell us they live in a much realler reality than the common Folk.
"Projection: seeing unresolved, unconscious, split off parts of ourselves in somebody else." "It's very painful for society to change. It's very painful for people to change." Great insights!
I have so often wondered if I was crazy. Or..if the world around me was. Perhaps I was actually quite sane and the workings and processes of society were crazy, as well as cruel and greedy instead. How do we justify the state of our earth, oceans and beautiful animal kingdom, if not by concluding that most of humanity is crazy? Why are we destroying what is the most wonderous gift and vital to our sutvival? Turn on the TV and surely you shake your head at what's entertainning the masses...me crazy? Because I cry at a dead roo on the road, because I can't help more, because I see and hear the loneliness and fear of others...me crazy because my parents hurt each other so much and I still, at 60, feel so hurt by that time. .... I choose to live alone, isolated with my dogs and garden and part time carer work. I long for connection with another human that understands. Daniel thank heavens I've stumbled upon your work! You say what I'm thinking with such clarity and humour, oh I could hug you for being out there amongst all the craziness!!! Thank you. Please continue.
Well said. Describes the following: in the subway a young black guy says something ab’t my sneakers. Then threatens me with a dental pick. I say, what’s that? He says “it’s for your teeth.” I ignored him. Later I find out ab’t a nasty tooth infection I had for years. Strange stuff like that has been going on forever. Too crazy to think about. Average MD or P-doc? If other anomalous stuff comes up they’d likely refer me elsewhere or whip out the prescription pad. I took the whole prescription menu 17 years ago. Made everything worse. I stay away from prescriptions, OTC & street drugs.
Incredible what you say about childhood. I am remembering things from my childhood every day. My childhood has been very good overall and for that I am thankful. Still, there have been a few "odd" days. I ask myself if I downplay them, or overrate them. Thanks for your great videos. I will read at least one of your books too.
you speaks so much common sense and truth. when you talk about healthy people it reminds me of shamanism, shamans were healers who had experienced a level of pain and trauma but though they are/were healers, they were often feared and shunned.
Perfect timing Daniel!! Today I am connecting with deep emotions from childhood and I have this "am I becoming crazy?". I know I am not but I think the fear has to do with experiencing these "inaproppiated" emotions. This is a fantastic video, it reminds me of your first series of videos here on TY.
Whatever I'm doing I interrupt it when I see you posted a new video and watch immediately. Enlightening material, thank you. And often the timing for my life is perfect, too.
To consider that "my crazy" could actually be the result of having to adhere to a false narrative of reality (societies' mass denial), is eye opening and empowering. Raised in a dysfunctional family, I used to see myself as the invisible child. Recently, I learned children from narcissistic families, exhibit another set of character traits. In my case, I am a Truth Teller. So, if I add what I know to what you know Daniel, kids who expose the truth are GAS LIT to believe they are "crazy". Good to know. Thanks.
This is a super educational and awesome video! Such a great n passionate communicator! I’d love to see one about how if you are authentic and trying to work thru stuff like that... and... the jail system and society... and gaslighting people who are honest n real. Because they already admitted they’re a little crazy soooo it’s easy to blame them for everything cuz they already offered up the escape route. It’s their fault! Haha
Certainly there are aspects of American society, which as an Australian, just look wacko jacko out of this galaxy. Like children saying the pledge every day and flag worship. One sees this and think WTF is this cult called the good old US of A! Sometimes there is mention that Yahweh should not be in the pledge and I think "What are you blabbering on about? The whole pledge with or without a god is religious mania and why have ANY pledge at all". There are penalties for children who not want any part of that flag worship, and shunning. Americans can not see it the mania, beyond the inclusion of Yahweh bit.
Dave Chappelle would agree with agreed with your first 2 minutes you correctly asserted. The rest of it is spot on, strong language. R-rated for those have multiple realities. Call me crazy, I remain quiet, they will take their rage, anger elsewhere everytime. … It’s more about the sick situation. “Society is……
I go through these phases of hating your videos then loving them, then hating them and then finding something really useful that I only really understood once I reached a certain point/situation in my life. Has to be my favorite channel. Wish we had a MacklerAI we could pump questions into.
im a very young adult from europe and i have listened to your videos and felt so validated. Truly, thank you Daniel. You really alleviate my doubts a lot. Could you explore the question of how one gets closer to split of parts of themselves? If you did that would be wonderful and id be grateful to be able to liste. If not, im still going to listen to whatever you put out. Have a great day/week/month/season/year!
Cheering at the stroke of midnight on New Years Eve is an act of cultural insanity in my opinion. The entire realm of professional sports is also insane - cheering for your team's players, while hating the other team's players for example. Or claiming it as some sort of victory for yourself when your team wins the World Series or the Superbowl. Just plain nuts is what that is.
Sports figures are idols...religious idols. I know people who base so much of their mental well being onto the performance of their favorite sports athlete or team that they will be depressed for days if they lose a game. The true reality is that sports is about making money and politics and has very little to do with ability.
Pathologising normal healthy people is cruel …..I don’t do or believe in many things that society tells me to do ….I also come from a European country where people speak truth and don’t deceive others …..I call this one thing real crazy ….overspending is real crazy , normalizing porn is crazy ,normalizing violence is crazy , always being in competition with others instead of collaborating with others is crazy , men marring for wealth and not for love is crazy and the list is huge unfortunately ………..
Yep. The people don’t like to see themselves, and will call you crazy if you call them out. Big society is just like little society (family). Well 🤔 thank you 🙏
Maybe it's healthier in some sense being less delusional, but getting rejected by society is going to twist you somehow. Either you'll join a subculture and take on their alternative delusions and standards (like most people who think they're more enlightened than the mainstream), or else be sad, isolated, vulnerable to being victim of circumstances without enough support from others, probably bitter and misanthropic. Either way you'll have trouble getting what you need in life. Seem like unhealthy outcomes to me.
OMG!!!!Thank you! I love you for doing this video I stumbled upon today! Today I feel justified and feels good! Thanks for just getting it.For REAL.TKS AGAIN,PEACE.
People are often BOTH more and less crazy than is socially typical. Everyone needs to sort out very carefully unusual or unconventional truths that we may have uncovered from delusions of our own that involve a sizable amount of personal denial, distortion, and projection.
We have unknown craft flying all around the sky breaking all the laws of physics and you actually think you get to define anything by the microscopic amount you know about the universe? Sounds pretty crazy.
good had me scared ... haha. what mental health did to me .. your crazy for being normal. haha. normal of them to fudge paper work to they will and control . had me fooled and scared dan in beginning. lol.
To say that there is only one reality is .. a theory at best. An idea we can casually state, though have no idea of the scope of or metaphysical influences to reality. We can have a general consensus on basic aspects of shared human existence that are within a set 'normal' range based on average experience, but we cannot say with authority that there is one overarching reality when unexplained cosmic and even quantum events occur constantly that defy laws of physics as we understand.
This is some Mr Robot level shit, being critical against the system is in-humanely exhausting, but is also the next step to take to not make a big dump on everything great that people can do.
The best is when people call you "shy" because you clearly don't want to interact with them but are trying to be polite about it
Right? Lol
True
That’s when I’d tempted to say, “I’m not shy, I just don’t like you” lol 😂
I haven’t been called shy to my face though, like wtf that’s really rude 😵💫
The same when girls are called sluts when they say no to some intrusive dude.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Jidu Krishnamurti
I have spent a lifetime with varying degrees of depression and melancholy. (65 yrs old) It has often seemed to me that only an insane person could celebrate life in this messed up and frightening world. However, I'm coming to understand that the world is what it is and no amount of hating this reality will make it better....so one must simply make the best of it. I can't see myself ever being the loud and raucous partier but I can see myself more contented with a somewhat melancholy serenity.
Charles, kepp remaining inside of your serenity. Life creates no junk, mankind have that honor at times, for man. It is said to "stop, and smell the roses" nicely put, will do when the time comes. I believe one may love to observe and learn of the rose' coming into existence, its growth through the trials and storms of its life. I'd smell at this point. Doing this i hope one comes away 'smelling like a rose'!
Peace.
Oh fantastic!!
This is my favorite quote!
Thank you
Dear Daniel, excellent video. During my training to become an occupational therapist, during a seminar, another student commented how all the abused people were locked up in psychiatric hospitals labelled as being sick, while their abusers were walking around in society seen as being sane. It was a life-changing comment. I believe in a trauma-based model of mental health.
Also, I personally think people talk about there being 'many realities' as an externalisation/projection/reflection/explanation of and for their own internal fagmentation.
OT this was me!!! I am 43, and currently (finally in a trauma based therapy) that was my total 20-30 something experience. Smoking pot, and talking about how there were multiple realities. Now, looking back, i was just trying to make sense of my fucked up past. I am grateful for the hope of integration and living in reality.
Makes you wonder who established the institution and how sane were those folks!
I love this thank you
I’m four years too late to say you probably meant fragmentation, but fagmentation works too.
@@ryanlipple6854 well I have to say that that comment was worth every moment of the four year wait. That made me laugh. Alot 🙂
To me you’re an example of a person who has achieved a high level of sanity and insight Daniel. But society probably won’t like the fact that you’re not materialistic, that you don’t want to get married and have kids and all these other aberrations. I love your dedication to the truth - thank you ❤️
Agree with your comment.
Sadly I feel so lonely in this world, like no one can understand and what you’re saying here resonate so much and explains a lot of what I’m feeling and going through
Thank you 🙏
Me too. So you’re not completely alone!
Same here too
You are not alone
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!". I have dissociative identity disorder and I'm usually the sanest and most rational person in any room. So, yeah, I'm pretty crazy and the sanest person in the room wherever I go. I also feel the most accepted, normal, and least lonely in a mental hospital while my family thinks I must be at my sickest. Where else on the planet except a mental hospital are people with multiple personalities not stigmatized? (Nowhere) I could go on with the ironies of mental health for days. But Daniel is SO right. Walk into a mental hospital and the staff pathologizes everyone and everything while the patients slowly realize that they are quite sane in spite of the place they now find themselves. I've met some of the most wonderful people in my life among those wanting to die. Irony. Irony. Irony.
“Human sickness is so severe that few can bare to look at it...but those who do will become well." - Vernon Howard
"It's no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
You're on a good path. I love people who speak truth and reality, regardless of societies' "norms". You are not crazy. Sending you lots of love.
My clients have a habit of asking “am I crazy?” so this video has helped me.
When i was put in a mental hospital at 15 i had at least two staff members ask me what the hell i was doing there... This video really hit home😢😢💚💚💚
yeah at the hospital I was at I saw a few times nurses will tie patients just for crying, I saw one youtuber from the US shared that when patients cried at her ward they will inject them. I think this is crazy, psychiatry in itself is crazy.
Interesting. My mother and sister both blocked out family stuff. My sister still dissociates but calls it shutting down. The capacity for denial is stunning. I had a psych prof who said family violence can be cultural. I disagreed. If it's sick it's sick. It may occur more frequently in some cultures, or be more acceptable, but it's still wrong. Nothing healthy comes out of it.
do most cultures tolerate familial abuse? seems like it though some cultures are worse than others
If by cultural, he means they have no laws against it, then I agree that it's cultural. Doesn't make it healthy. Doesn't mean they wouldn't benefit from progress. Some cultural shifts are overdue.
Another wonderful video. How can we support you best?
The difference between crazy and not crazy depends on the therapist, researcher, professor, or narrator at any given time. It also depends on current psychological fashion. And many people ha e crazy moments or irrational moods.
It can also be healthy to be crazy in certain situations. By that, I mean the person is reacting normally. This Kavenaugh situation is making millions of women relive their sexual assaults. It's all over twitter. Reliving it is common.
How people define "crazy" is arbitrary (outside of going on shooting sprees) and, if we're lucky enough to grow in to old age having wandered into many different villages, crazy happens.
@ Rosanne No, being crazy is not relative to other peoples' opinions. It is not in the eye of the beholder. The social, cultural norm of sanity/craziness, however, is relative in this sense, but actual sanity is not. Over the years I have matured and grown much more open. This maturation is essentially due to a lot of meditation, healing work and psychotherapy. As a result I have become wiser, believe it or not. It is perfectly clear to me that sanity is a matter of the objective degree of an individuals emotional openness and how well integrated the individuals actions and thoughts are with her emotional world. This is difficult to measure, but the degree of sanity is nevertheless essentially an objective feature of reality. Perhaps you were focusing on the cultural norm of sanity in your comment, in which case I agree totally. However, sanity is such an important issue that a brief comment perhaps was called for. Best regards
reminds me of when i was so confused because my extreme grief over capitalism and the education system and inequality was pathologized as clinical depression with a lot of emphasis on chemical imbalance when i knew it didnt feel like that. what i needed was to grieve, learn to manage my real and valid feelings, and frankly the adoption of a little bit of denial. and i wondered why the antidepressants never worked!
That reminds me of when I went to a therapist because I was so depressed to find out all my friends and families in South Carolina really were straight up racists. For years, I had tried to convince myself that their love of NASCAR, football, country music and the confederate flag was just a matter of taste; and their lack of intellectual curiosity was simply a matter of temperament. Then after a few years of listening to what they had to say about Obama, it became plain to me they believe they are part of a master race that needs to be protected from obliteration! Damn! Imagine my surprise. By the time I started seeing Trump signs in people's yards, I felt like I was going to lose my mind.
@@jedwardsish It helps me to understand that confirmation bias is a real thing. I don't believe we have much control over what we think is "true". Our brains fool us all the time. Whatever belief we start with snowballs because of confirmation bias and we can't do much about it unless we somehow become aware of it and examine our thinking. How else can one explain people with opposite ideas and both are CERTAIN that THEY possess the "truth"? Everybody wants the same things, we just have different ideas on how to get there depending on our lifetime perceptions. Also, consider the idea the free will is an illusion. It can lead to more compassionate feelings about both others and yourself. Cheers!
I wonder if antidepressants' real goal is to make victims of abuse shut up. I mean the pills don't make the abuse stop but they make the victim numb and uninterested in talking about their experience.
@@tinet7056 yes 100% it’s only goal.
If you look at any clinical trials success isn’t considered actually working through the trauma or grief.
It’s based on does this chemical hide the symptoms enough for you to go to work or function. It never actually addresses the problem just masks it!
Holy Shit.....
@@jedwardsish So you figured out your family are idiots! :D I feel you. It took me years to understand that my parents were not showing me love not because I was a bad child...but because they are idiots incapable of expressing love.
I am experiencing this right now. I finally told the truth last night and the response I got from the person who is supposed to love and protect me was absolutely insane and subversive. I expected a degree of denial but this was illuminating as to the depth of sickness that's there. Luckily I have friends who are able to affirm my reality. But wow.
Several years ago I went to what was for me an important meeting, whether I would be accepted onto a training course. This was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, I wanted to help others after my own horrible experiences. But, just before I left the house, I had the sad news that a good friend of mine had suddenly died from the cancer she'd only been recently diagnosed with. I loved that woman like my sister. I was really upset, so my mother offered to drive me to my interview. I couldn't stop crying. However, I managed to stop the tears before I walked in the building. There were two of them interviewing me and I felt like I was being analysed the whole time...oh, your glasses are green!, you write with a green pen! Staring at my tear-stained face. I explained to them about my friend. Soon, after the interview I had a letter saying they would NOT accept me on their training course as a therapist because of my own trauma... That was so unfair. I later learned they had too many applicants and that was their inhuman response.
I think NOT crying when a best friend has suddenly died young would be a REAL cause of concern, wouldn't it?!
If they stopped accepting people with their own trauma into therapist training programs, there would be no therapists in this world.
Yes. People are deranged.
Watching your videos is like listening to myself talk, the shared experiences and world view are uncannily similar.
I never studied psych though, just thought about it.
Hi Dan, thanks for this insightful video. ~ Two stories come to mind, that I feel inclined to share., one day I was speaking with my therapist & was feeling frustrated with the feeling of not getting anywhere with the bi-weekly sessions, I tell him a story. “ imagine a guy comes to NYC, and he has a fight with a person on the subway. He is under attack , and he defends himself & in the process kills the man, then cuts off his ear & eats it. He would be arrested & locked up as criminally insane ! ~ My therapist balked, & looked at me. “What are you trying to say ? “ ~ “ but wait, “ I say, “ there’s more to the story . What if I told you that the guy is from Papua New Guinea, and in his indigenous tribe, the warrior men kill & eat their enemies. It’s a tribal thing.” ~ Would you still classify him as insane ? ~ CSW, is still in a panic thinking I was trying to tell him I was in the mood to kill somebody ! Ok, obviously he was just a body in the room where I went in & talked to the walls. ~ A few years later, getting bored with my many sessions & group meetings at a local clinic, I asked my doctor, she was the top doc in the psych clinic, very professional, and always treated me nice. ~ One day, I asked her, “ do people ever get well?” She askes, “ what do you mean?” So I rephrase it, “ ~ have you ever met a person without symptoms of imbalance or abnormalities ? “ She laughed & said, “~ no, everybody has glitches. Even me. “ ~ I ask her again, to be sure I heard her correctly. Yep. Everybody has glitches. There is no such thing as a perfect person ! So I said, “ then why am I coming here ? “ ~ She didn’t answer. ~ I never went back. ~ In my recent years, I found out, I was going to therapy to get some help, with moving thru painful past experiences, and I needed help learning some processes to continue to develop myself as an individual. ~ Unfortunately, most of my seasons consisted of me talking about what went wrong .. today, last week, etc. The counselors do not give advice or lead.. 🤔🙄😎 I am happy to say, I figured out that LIFE itself hurt me, but LIFE itself, can help me get well. And, it did !!!
Yay!
Thank you for sharing this.
Merry Graphix
Awesome! Been there, done that. Not the killing part!
It's interesting how most if not all therapists want to keep you in the story but never give real methods to navigate out and find peace. Last one told me to just not think about it anymore. She was a CBT person. It was a total waste. I the decided I'm done. No more I'm perfect the way I am. I'm good I'm decent I'm sensitive than others. That's just they baseline of my perceptions. It truly is time to move on.
I think it is bipolar who will most tend to be "healthier than society". You can even find lowered dynorphin during the manic phase, and dynorphin is linked to the suffering states, I believe psychosis and depression both stem from dynorphin activity. Dynorphin causes dysphoria, dissociation, etc. I believe mania is the state that psychedelics induce.
One of the biggest obstacles to warding off society's craziness is when anti-social traits are exemplified as a society's top virtues, whether due to attaining wealth, "purity," or popularity in a given society.
Another huge obstacle, as Daniel has pointed out, are traditions that we carry over that are fundamentally toxic to our mental and public health, simply because many of them helped us survive in a more brutal past (such as traditional gender roles). While women have made great leaps and strides in this area due to women's rights advocacy, the push-back is much greater for men to stay in their traditional roles or face ridicule and scorn from many different parts of society, including from folks who would advocate for women's rights.
Sadness comes to.all in time
Feeling sad is not a crime
Release those tears; let them flow
You will see it will help you grow.
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Daniel, did you hear for those "primitive" people, in Africa, who surround their neighbor-citizen who make something bad or wrong, and talk to him, all together, few days without brake, that he/she is gorgeous, that they all love him so much and that all society is so sad and need him to feel better :-) How "primitive", ha? Only Soul can heal soul..
That's wonderful, we should learn from them.
Your videos inspire me and make me feel less alone. Thank you!
I had 2 psychotic episodes. I spoke a lot of words in my episodes, but no one could understand anything I was saying. Individual parts of my sentences could make sense, but the entire sentence made no sense. I also couldn't understand other people, as any reply I made was completely unrelated or on some mad tangent. Many times in these experiences I was pinned down and had some sort of tranquilliser injected into me. I wasn't being violent, but I was probably being loud and appeared angry. I was very deluded and had many crazy thoughts so I'm pretty sure it's fair to have called me crazy. But I understand how deluded I was, now that I am healthy. Luckily I managed to not get stuck on psychiatric drugs, I don't think they help - at best they zombify you, a bit like getting a lobotomy but not so bad and more over long term. My anti-psychotics were making me feel very strange, but since I was ill I did not realise it was the drugs, I thought it was part of me being ill/crazy, but when I just decided to stop taking them, and then after a month start taking them again, these weird feelings started coming back, so I stopped and now the weird feelings are gone. I still have a bit of jaw clenching, but no way near as much as when I was taking anti-psychotic drugs.
I think medicine has a long way to come to get anywhere near solving mental illness. Medicine has come so far in so many other areas, but I believe mental illness is the last area that has yet to be substantially solved. I think it will take a good 200 years before decent progress is made. In the mean time, simple yet powerful drugs will be prescribed for complex problems, and psychiatrists will still believe it is all about 'chemical imbalance', when actually these crazy states of consciousness are much more complex - we don't understand consciousness so how can they explain away different states of consciousness as 'chemical imbalance' ? And there is very little understanding of how these drugs actually fix the mental illness, instead they seem to mostly zombify people and take their personality away - yeah they won't go "crazy" because they are zombies on these brutal drugs.
This is really great work you're doing now, DM. The Human Cognosphere is improving as you talk!
Cognoshpere?what does this mean
I have had very similar thoughts and observations of a long time now. I wrote about this in a draft for a book a few years ago. Good video, Daniel.
Cheers!
-Darius
So hard to wake up thanks for the encouragement and validation on moving forward!
I love that you make it clear that often a person is pathologized simply because that's what society is taught to do with every person. I can't say I always agree with you, but I really appreciate you. Your voice is strong and informative. Thank you.
Once again..bless you one million times Daniel..your bright insight always offers new prdcious updated perspectives..you are coming to the new path if psychology even if you left your profession.Bless you..thanks God your intelligence is still going on working in this field. You are really helping many to understand much more..THANK YOU FOR THIS WORK!!
Man wow. Wow. Wow. I dont understand why so less people care about this kinda stuff. Why doesnt everyome care about society and individuals in it.
agreed 100%---truth is soooo refreshing
This made me feel validated thank you I’m around a bunch of crazy people who aren’t in touch with themselves it’s aad
Love this. I’ve always been that person that I feel is on the “healthier side of crazy” whose been labeled crazy(by family members). I’m an empath that also tends to attract people with narcissistic traits and feel incredibly lonely most of the time. Every time I’ve seen a therapist though they all tell me that I’m very intelligent(not trying to come across as arrogant), and they will even go as far to say as I don’t seem like I should have a mental illness because I’m so aware. But that awareness is why I suffer. I’ve always been the scapegoat of my family trying to address issues, but I’m “bad” because I do. For example, my mom will smoke in front of my son or nephew, I get angry and cut her off, but according to her she “didn’t do it” even though I saw her while she was doing it and I’m “crazy.” It’s 2018, everyone knows smoking is terrible and you don’t do it in front of children. I got mad when my parents kept letting my senior dog out by the pool because she could drown. What happened within a week of me moving out, she drowned in the pool. I was so angry at my fathers pure recklessness, but what could I do? My dog was dead and he wouldn’t care what I thought. I’m surrounded by carelessness and negligence and tend to attract those people, so I often feel “crazy” for trying to cope or make sense out of fucked up situations. Most of the time I just have to let things go, and keep people at a distance until I can address it. I’ve recently joined lots of meet ups with like minded and healthy people and having the validation from others that these situations are fucked up(and even more so than I’m aware of at times) and I’m not “crazy” has helped me. I suggest anyone going through something similar to find any groups regarding growth and healing, I promise it will help.
i still havent been able to really put my finger on why narcissists are attracted to me (as an "empath"). like i get it intellectually but it still doesnt really make sense to me.
OMG!! Everything you said is exactly me too. For years i thought i was 'the crazy' one. Finally at 55 i'm realizing the same thing. THEY were the crazy ones. I get the loneliness too. I've locked myself away in my home for years now, to keep myself safe from toxic people and narcissists. I needed to hear what you wrote today and i will try your meet up suggestion. I need to surround myself with people, healthy people. The problem is they are so hard to find.
@@rishaa682 i get that.
Hey Daniel, the best 10 min post ever!!! I resonate with all you say, keep the videos coming.....you’re an inspiration that is changing many people’s thoughts....and thought is everything 👍🏻🙏🏻
Depending who I'm around, I sometimes hear myself say 'let's look at reality.. what's right in front of us' over & over 😥
🙏 ‘s truth traveler. Over and over again, video after video I can relate positively to your views. I remember the video in witch you said a good friend could replace a therapist and it’s so true. 💗 💗 💗 💗
You have a gift explaining this stuff. Thank you for making videos.
Purff I love the way he talks with his hands! I'll tell ya Jews and Italians(which i am) r so similar characteristically. He's like balm so sweet and soothing :-) :-) Or maybe im just CRAAAAAAAAAAAZY!!!!!!! 😊🎅☺😂💝🎃🎆🎊🎉🎵🎼🎤🎶
Daniel, you are just phenomenal, thank you man :-)
Bradshaw calls it "shared focus" & "shared denial". The Emporer has no Clothes, fairytale.
Thank you for this. I’ve grown up outside of my parents’ country aka third culture kid. And I’ve been think a lot about the relationship between culture and mental illness and where I fit in. Your video really helped in giving me courage in living my truth.
This video explains why people are afraid of me. I advocate for people with disability and since the disability sector attracts a lot of nasty parasitical type of people who relish the opportunity to abuse those less fortunate than themselves or to simply exploit them, I have a tendency to speak up about the injustice that is perpetrated.
This always leads me to having many companies (care or support work providers) refuse me service because I’m not afraid to call them out on their bullshit thus making me an enemy. I’ve become accustomed to being a loner but there was a time when I felt very isolated. What keeps me going is the fact that I have purpose. Looking out for people with disability, especially intellectually disabled people who wouldn’t hurt a fly, gives me a tremendous sense of purpose and I find it to be rewarding even if people don’t like me or gang up on me.
That’s when I know I’m really doing my job!
Yes SOCIETY IS DELUSIONAL. I am the antithesis of SOCIETY AND hated for not going along. I’ve had to get used to being alone. Love ❤️ u Daniel.
Love this.
The world needs more people like you.
A great example of this is veganism. People like to condemn and label vegans as militant and religious and on and on when in reality they don't have any protests with the intent to destroy property and attack people and such or believe in a higher being.
All they say is to stop using animals unnecessarily, such as eating them for every meal. The amount of health and environmental issue this causes is insane, not to mention the conditions of the places they keep those animals in while labeling them "free range" "organic" "pasture raised"... all labels are basically meaningless with terrible laws protecting those statements, an easily abused system. Also those slaughter houses and the workers are sick. Tons of psychopathic junkies that punch and kick and stab those animals before slitting their throats. It's an absolute disgrace that we allow such places to exist.
I am fond of this series
Only small amount of people who are really crazy. People just love to use the "crazy" word.
Brilliant as always keep it coming!
I wish I were less sensitive. I'm tired of hurting. I have exoskeleton envy.
"exoskeleton envy" -- good term!!
As usual Daniel you are the sanest person I’ve ever listened to. Much love ❤️ to you.
This is so fucking true. Also here's an alternative way of looking on the word 'crazy': Maybe it is just a word that people created to refer to a psychological and behavioral state of a person that makes them afraid of them and is used to judge them so that 'crazy people' will hide these parts of themselves and judge themselves so that tge others don't have to deal with what makes tgem afraid and why.
AGREE!!! Rock on!!!
I love your videos please keep making them!
This is one of the best podcast ever.
Totally makes sense, from start to finish. I can't believe I missed those videos in 2018.
I was scanning psychological videos from 2015 - I never stumbled upon Daniel.
And that is partly due to topic of this video. It is only in 2020 that I discovered term Complex Trauma - by reading random DK book about general health. It was not even mentioned on you tube videos which I watched weekly since 2015 for 5 years.
As soon as I discovered concept of CPTSD I got exposed to much deeper and healthier videos on you tube, such as this one.
reality is subjective. Reality for somebody very rich vs very poor. Reality for girl versus a boy. Reality can only be described through experience. If I decided to sit in meditate / fast for a month would I be considered out of touch with reality. Let's not even get started on all the different religions and their realities. What should we do just vote on reality? Is flat Earth a reality? Are black holes and antimatter reality? Or do we just take the word a people who tell us they live in a much realler reality than the common Folk.
"Projection: seeing unresolved, unconscious, split off parts of ourselves in somebody else."
"It's very painful for society to change. It's very painful for people to change."
Great insights!
I enjoyed the wording used to explain things. Thank you
So well articulated Daniel so well articulated!!!!!!
I have so often wondered if I was crazy. Or..if the world around me was. Perhaps I was actually quite sane and the workings and processes of society were crazy, as well as cruel and greedy instead. How do we justify the state of our earth, oceans and beautiful animal kingdom, if not by concluding that most of humanity is crazy? Why are we destroying what is the most wonderous gift and vital to our sutvival?
Turn on the TV and surely you shake your head at what's entertainning the masses...me crazy? Because I cry at a dead roo on the road, because I can't help more, because I see and hear the loneliness and fear of others...me crazy because my parents hurt each other so much and I still, at 60, feel so hurt by that time. .... I choose to live alone, isolated with my dogs and garden and part time carer work. I long for connection with another human that understands. Daniel thank heavens I've stumbled upon your work! You say what I'm thinking with such clarity and humour, oh I could hug you for being out there amongst all the craziness!!! Thank you. Please continue.
Well said. Describes the following: in the subway a young black guy says something ab’t my sneakers. Then threatens me with a dental pick. I say, what’s that? He says “it’s for your teeth.” I ignored him. Later I find out ab’t a nasty tooth infection I had for years. Strange stuff like that has been going on forever. Too crazy to think about.
Average MD or P-doc? If other anomalous stuff comes up they’d likely refer me elsewhere or whip out the prescription pad.
I took the whole prescription menu 17 years ago. Made everything worse. I stay away from prescriptions, OTC & street drugs.
Incredible what you say about childhood. I am remembering things from my childhood every day. My childhood has been very good overall and for that I am thankful. Still, there have been a few "odd" days. I ask myself if I downplay them, or overrate them. Thanks for your great videos. I will read at least one of your books too.
This was great! Thank you!
Fantastic share! Thanks for content. Just bought your book on breaking with parents. Looking forward to reading :)
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you speaks so much common sense and truth. when you talk about healthy people it reminds me of shamanism, shamans were healers who had experienced a level of pain and trauma but though they are/were healers, they were often feared and shunned.
So spot on. Daniel speaks the truth! Thank you Daniel!
Perfect timing Daniel!! Today I am connecting with deep emotions from childhood and I have this "am I becoming crazy?". I know I am not but I think the fear has to do with experiencing these "inaproppiated" emotions. This is a fantastic video, it reminds me of your first series of videos here on TY.
Why aren't your channel bigger, your content is amazing.
I love your videos. You make me think.
Marla Robinson i love his vids because hes so damn cute!! :-) :-) CRAZY NO??? :-) :-)
türkçe alt yazı istiyoruz videolarınıza lütfen, please türkish
Thank you. These talks breathe life into me. Thank you for sharing your experience and great wisdom. 🙏
Whatever I'm doing I interrupt it when I see you posted a new video and watch immediately. Enlightening material, thank you. And often the timing for my life is perfect, too.
To consider that "my crazy" could actually be the result of having to adhere to a false narrative of reality (societies' mass denial), is eye opening and empowering. Raised in a dysfunctional family, I used to see myself as the invisible child. Recently, I learned children from narcissistic families, exhibit another set of character traits. In my case, I am a Truth Teller. So, if I add what I know to what you know Daniel, kids who expose the truth are GAS LIT to believe they are "crazy". Good to know. Thanks.
This is a super educational and awesome video! Such a great n passionate communicator! I’d love to see one about how if you are authentic and trying to work thru stuff like that... and... the jail system and society... and gaslighting people who are honest n real. Because they already admitted they’re a little crazy soooo it’s easy to blame them for everything cuz they already offered up the escape route. It’s their fault! Haha
Certainly there are aspects of American society, which as an Australian, just look wacko jacko out of this galaxy. Like children saying the pledge every day and flag worship. One sees this and think WTF is this cult called the good old US of A! Sometimes there is mention that Yahweh should not be in the pledge and I think "What are you blabbering on about? The whole pledge with or without a god is religious mania and why have ANY pledge at all". There are penalties for children who not want any part of that flag worship, and shunning. Americans can not see it the mania, beyond the inclusion of Yahweh bit.
Dave Chappelle would agree with agreed with your first 2 minutes you correctly asserted. The rest of it is spot on, strong language. R-rated for those have multiple realities.
Call me crazy, I remain quiet, they will take their rage, anger elsewhere everytime. …
It’s more about the sick situation. “Society is……
I go through these phases of hating your videos then loving them, then hating them and then finding something really useful that I only really understood once I reached a certain point/situation in my life. Has to be my favorite channel. Wish we had a MacklerAI we could pump questions into.
im a very young adult from europe and i have listened to your videos and felt so validated. Truly, thank you Daniel. You really alleviate my doubts a lot. Could you explore the question of how one gets closer to split of parts of themselves? If you did that would be wonderful and id be grateful to be able to liste. If not, im still going to listen to whatever you put out. Have a great day/week/month/season/year!
Cheering at the stroke of midnight on New Years Eve is an act of cultural insanity in my opinion. The entire realm of professional sports is also insane - cheering for your team's players, while hating the other team's players for example. Or claiming it as some sort of victory for yourself when your team wins the World Series or the Superbowl. Just plain nuts is what that is.
Sports figures are idols...religious idols. I know people who base so much of their mental well being onto the performance of their favorite sports athlete or team that they will be depressed for days if they lose a game. The true reality is that sports is about making money and politics and has very little to do with ability.
I love your channel. I appreciate your openness. Thanks for sharing your perspective on the psychotherapy field.
Pathologising normal healthy people is cruel …..I don’t do or believe in many things that society tells me to do ….I also come from a European country where people speak truth and don’t deceive others …..I call this one thing real crazy ….overspending is real crazy , normalizing porn is crazy ,normalizing violence is crazy , always being in competition with others instead of collaborating with others is crazy , men marring for wealth and not for love is crazy and the list is huge unfortunately ………..
Yep. The people don’t like to see themselves, and will call you crazy if you call them out. Big society is just like little society (family). Well 🤔 thank you 🙏
Maybe it's healthier in some sense being less delusional, but getting rejected by society is going to twist you somehow. Either you'll join a subculture and take on their alternative delusions and standards (like most people who think they're more enlightened than the mainstream), or else be sad, isolated, vulnerable to being victim of circumstances without enough support from others, probably bitter and misanthropic. Either way you'll have trouble getting what you need in life. Seem like unhealthy outcomes to me.
OMG!!!!Thank you! I love you for doing this video I stumbled upon today! Today I feel justified and feels good! Thanks for just getting it.For REAL.TKS AGAIN,PEACE.
People are often BOTH more and less crazy than is socially typical. Everyone needs to sort out very carefully unusual or unconventional truths that we may have uncovered from delusions of our own that involve a sizable amount of personal denial, distortion, and projection.
We have unknown craft flying all around the sky breaking all the laws of physics and you actually think you get to define anything by the microscopic amount you know about the universe? Sounds pretty crazy.
good had me scared ... haha. what mental health did to me .. your crazy for being normal. haha. normal of them to fudge paper work to they will and control . had me fooled and scared dan in beginning. lol.
To say that there is only one reality is .. a theory at best. An idea we can casually state, though have no idea of the scope of or metaphysical influences to reality. We can have a general consensus on basic aspects of shared human existence that are within a set 'normal' range based on average experience, but we cannot say with authority that there is one overarching reality when unexplained cosmic and even quantum events occur constantly that defy laws of physics as we understand.
This is really crazy to think about
That's right - there are not multiple realities. There is just one reality, with multiple nuances that make the picture complex.
Man you're such a Genius I learn so much from you thank you so much
If only someone like you could be my mentor as a beginning psychologist.
This is some Mr Robot level shit, being critical against the system is in-humanely exhausting, but is also the next step to take to not make a big dump on everything great that people can do.
well said. well thought out. thanks again.
Thank you for making this video it is much appreciated.
What is reality? That's the main question.
Fuck I’m full blown crazy
YES! YOU'RE A GODSEND!
Put this on my favourites - totally agree with this - thank you