Haven't read his book, but I've been watching his interviews and parts of his lectures. Definitely taking some good general life-lessons away from it--mostly in the area of avoiding being a useless manchild. Lol. :)
Beyond that, it's just nice to hear a rational and intelligent take on some of the insane ideological positions of the day. He has a nice way of summing things up, and alternating between eloquence and terseness to make his points stick.
I just recently came across the first position of his that I really can't support. The prescription of antidepressants came up in an interview, and he seemed concerningly devout about their merits. He even said (I'm paraphrasing) "much of my time spent with clients is months or years of convincing them to try an antidepressant". He also went on to make it sound like there are no risks, and everyone considering medicating should just try it for a month to see if it works.
I'm sure psychological meds are helpful for some people, but I also think their overuse is a major and understated problem in the west today. And I'm very skeptical about anyone minimizing their potential side effects. There's a lot of data out there suggesting a strong link between antidepressants and suicide; but I realize deconflating correlation from causation can be tricky.
Personally I think the combination of ADHD medication and antidepressants could be at least part of the reason we see more mass shootings these days. But I have no research to back that up.
Haven't read his book, but I've been watching his interviews and parts of his lectures. Definitely taking some good general life-lessons away from it--mostly in the area of avoiding being a useless manchild. Lol. :)
Beyond that, it's just nice to hear a rational and intelligent take on some of the insane ideological positions of the day. He has a nice way of summing things up, and alternating between eloquence and terseness to make his points stick.
I just recently came across the first position of his that I really can't support. The prescription of antidepressants came up in an interview, and he seemed concerningly devout about their merits. He even said (I'm paraphrasing) "much of my time spent with clients is months or years of convincing them to try an antidepressant". He also went on to make it sound like there are no risks, and everyone considering medicating should just try it for a month to see if it works.
I'm sure psychological meds are helpful for some people, but I also think their overuse is a major and understated problem in the west today. And I'm very skeptical about anyone minimizing their potential side effects. There's a lot of data out there suggesting a strong link between antidepressants and suicide; but I realize deconflating correlation from causation can be tricky.
Personally I think the combination of ADHD medication and antidepressants could be at least part of the reason we see more mass shootings these days. But I have no research to back that up.
What do you think would be a better (if that is the right word) way to treat depression if you were to go the non-medicated route?