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00:00That makes no sense whatsoever. This is garbage. I don't know what is going on with this guy.
00:08It's loaded up with a lot of nonsense, fake data, fake words, fake numbers.
00:14I'm psychiatrist and therapist Dr. Eric Bender. Let's fact check some AI slob.
00:21All right, let's watch this first video. Psychology facts number one. If you don't dream,
00:26you might have a personality disorder. Studies show everybody dreams. The difference is not
00:31everybody can recall their dreams. In fact, some people with personality disorders, borderline
00:36personality disorder for example, they do dream and in fact it's often nightmares. If a baby stares
00:41at you for a long time, it means you are attractive. Babies are looking at certain things because
00:47they're finding them interesting. Not a psychology fact. Enough of this. Next. One of the best mental
00:54health tips I've ever read. If you feel like you hate everyone, eat. That makes no sense whatsoever.
01:01If you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. If we could all sleep on demand, that would be amazing.
01:06This is weird. If you feel overwhelmed by your thoughts, write them down. That's actually not
01:11bad. There's something about getting them out of your head, getting them onto paper. I often tell
01:15patients who have insomnia, write down everything that's on your mind before bed. Sometimes that can
01:20really help. If you feel like you're not enough, list your achievements. I don't think achievements
01:25being listed are going to help necessarily. That's actually a big problem when people feel that all
01:30they are is their achievements. That they only deserve to be thought of or loved when they've accomplished
01:34things. If you feel unloved, do something kind for yourself. This sounds more like trade information
01:39that got off of Hallmark cards as opposed to working through something. If you feel invisible,
01:44help someone in need. If you feel too much pressure, do a simple task. I don't know how you're going
01:50to
01:50get up and do all these things. It sounds miserable. And honestly, that is when I start to see people.
01:54They come to therapy because they feel like they can't do any of these things that they're being told
01:58in this video to do. Next.
02:10This is supposed to be Sigmund Freud talking to his student Carl Jung back in the day. When
02:15Freud and Jung finally met after a much correspondence, they said that they spoke for 13 hours straight.
02:20They sat together and just talked. And so there was this incredible bond right away. Freud considered
02:24Jung his pupil, you know, his disciple in a way. And then there was a split later on,
02:30as the ideas developed in different directions.
02:37I imagine someone fed into AI images of Freud and images of Jung and came up with
02:42these images and the glasses and the beard. That's kind of the classic trope of the psychiatrist,
02:46because Freud did have a beard and wore glasses. Freud had these ideas that there were developmental stages
02:51as you grew up, starting at a young age. There was the oral phase. Then there was the anal phase.
02:57And then later there's a latency phase. And it was all about libido and sexual drive. Jung said,
03:02no, there's more than just sexual drive in libido. There's also psychological energy. There's a universal energy.
03:08Freud said it was very personal, unconscious, individual. And Jung said, well, we do have an individual unconscious,
03:15but there's also a collective unconscious. Freud wanted Jung to really espouse his ideas and to bring
03:21them forward, particularly in the psychoanalytic community. And when Jung didn't, that was really
03:27a break from the two of them. Next video. Let's learn SSRIs, because half of you are swallowing
03:34brain-altering chemicals daily and don't even know why your orgasms disappeared.
03:38I don't know what is going on with this guy. If I walked into his office and this is the
03:42way
03:42he treated me, I would not want to hang out with him. What usually happens with these medications is
03:46it can affect libido, meaning someone's desire for sexual activity. These medications can affect
03:52orgasm in the sense they can delay orgasm. And sometimes for some people they can't climax.
03:56You don't know this until you're going to try. But again, everybody is an individual.
04:00Not everyone gets side effects. Basic ones are fluoxetine, sertraline,
04:03escitalopram, citalopram, paroxetine, fluvoxamine. Oh, and don't forget them
04:07because I'm going to pimp the out of you at the end of this video. This AI character's use of
04:11pimping is
04:12actually appropriate. In the medical education system, the word pimping means that people,
04:17senior to you, so if you're a med student, it might be residents, might be attending doctors.
04:21If you're a resident, it might be some of your senior residents. They're asking you questions
04:24about the topics you're discussing. It's called pimping. And that is often done in front of the
04:28group of people you're walking around with. But serotonin is an instant happiness,
04:32you depressed, lazy, good for nothing. He's using the voice of somebody who's depressed.
04:37It often uses this negative voice towards themselves. So that language is really sharp
04:42and harsh, and that's actually how people who are depressed often feel.
04:45SSRIs treat depression, anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, PTSD, social anxiety, and more.
04:50That is correct that SSRIs treat all those things. It doesn't mean that it's a panacea. It's not going
04:55to cure you of everything. Oftentimes, combinations of medication and therapy work really well,
05:00particularly for anxiety. Serotonin can increase BDNF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor. That's what
05:06actually helps nerve cells repair and sustain their lives. The big SSRI side effects with
05:11the three S's. Stomach, sex, and serotonin syndrome. Serotonin syndrome is when there's a flood of
05:17serotonin that actually causes people to have a pretty severe reaction. You might find high fevers
05:22and sweating and muscle rigidity. You do need to go to the emergency room or call 9-1-1 if
05:26that ever
05:26happens. Again, I'm not prescribing something where the risk of something terrible happening is outweighing
05:31the risk of something good. Next video. Ever wondered why some people can't stop overthinking?
05:37Psychology says it's actually a side effect of high intelligence. Maybe it's a side effect of high
05:42intelligence. Maybe it's anxiety, but there is no evidence to say that somebody overthinking means
05:46they have a high intelligence quotient. Every decision triggers dozens of mental simulations.
05:52What if I do this? What if it goes wrong? What if they think I'm weird? This actually sounds a
05:57lot
05:57more like anxiety than it does someone having high intelligence. You can have anxiety no matter
06:02what your intelligence level is. It's your prefrontal cortex working overtime, analyzing outcomes faster
06:08than your emotions can process. The prefrontal cortex is a part of your brain right here above your orbital
06:13area, above your eyes. It helps us with organization of things. It's very normal for anybody to think about
06:18events in their lives, to go back to conversations they had in the day. It's when you get stuck, when
06:23you
06:23can't sleep, when you keep going over something again and again and again and again. That's called
06:27a rumination. People are very anxious, have a lot of ruminations, and it's because they're actually
06:32really lonely. Sometimes that ruminative language, it's almost keeping them company. The same mind that
06:38overthinks everything is also the one that understands the world the deepest. I don't see any evidence for
06:44that. I'd love to see studies that suggest that. So next time you catch yourself lost in thought,
06:48don't say, I'm broken. Say, my brain is just doing its job. That actually is pretty good advice. I tell
06:57patients all the time, the way we talk to ourselves is really important. If you can be kind to yourself,
07:02you're more likely to be confident and to try different things. Next video. Did you know trauma
07:07survivors develop what scientists call supernatural pattern recognition abilities? Okay. Unfortunately,
07:13trauma survivors have a lot going on in their lives and it is not supernatural. It comes from having
07:19been through a pretty awful experience and they want to make sure it doesn't happen again. Chronic
07:23hypervigilance rewires neural pathways to process micro expressions. The chronic hypervigilance is
07:29being described here like it's a gift. It's actually incredibly difficult for somebody who is chronically
07:35hypervigilant. They're looking at everything as if it is threatening. They have to keep their eyes peeled.
07:39They're looking over their shoulders. You see this sometimes with people who have been at war.
07:44Hypervigilance is actually one of the criteria to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder. They can
07:49detect threats others completely miss. They're not seeing dangers other people don't see. They're
07:54actually seeing dangers that maybe other people don't see because they're not necessarily dangerous.
07:58People who have been traumatized are really concerned about being hurt again,
08:01even in situations where there's not a need to worry. They can instantly sense when someone is lying,
08:06predict relationship outcomes within minutes of meeting people. This is garbage. You can't predict
08:11relationships within minutes of meeting somebody. And also in terms of knowing whether someone is
08:16lying or not, in some of the worst cases of traumatized individuals, meaning there's a complex
08:21post-traumatic stress disorder where they've been repeatedly traumatized, they don't necessarily assume
08:26everyone's lying, but they can't trust other people. Threat detection systems have been neurologically
08:31enhanced through peer survival necessity. Neurologically enhanced is way overstating this.
08:36Neurologically affected? Yes. I don't know one person who's been traumatized that says,
08:40I have these amazing abilities now. Next video. Anxiety is nothing more than your mind traveling to a
08:46future that hasn't happened yet and sounding an alarm in a body that is perfectly safe. I don't know if
08:53I
08:53agree with that. You're not necessarily perfectly safe when you have anxiety. Anxiety is what helped us
08:58evolve when we were out hunting for food and we didn't want to get eaten by a saber-toothed cat.
09:02So not all anxiety is just made up. When you catch yourself worrying, you are leaving the present
09:08moment. I imagine this video has 7 million views because people think, oh, a monk, he's got it
09:13figured out. He knows how not to be anxious. And a lot of people suffer from anxiety. A lot of
09:17these
09:17AI-generated videos, aside from the really bad cartoonish ones, generate these images that look
09:22like humans. So we see these images and it sounds like real advice and we really want that advice.
09:27Sometimes we're too afraid to ask for it. So we might just take the advice of the AI,
09:31just because it looks like a human being. You are wandering into the what ifs,
09:36letting your thoughts spin until they become a storm that pulls you out of control.
09:41That's a good description of anxiety. A lot of times people do have the what if,
09:45what if this happens? What if that happens? What I try to help people do is think if this happens,
09:49then you would do what? If that happens, then what would you do? When the mind begins to race,
09:54count backward. That's one way people can try to tame their anxiety when they start to feel it.
10:00There are a few other things I talk to people about. One is having them inhale for a count of,
10:04say, three seconds through your nose, and then exhaling for twice as long through your mouth.
10:11If you're in the moment and you're really stuck and you're panicking, there is the 3-3-3 rule where
10:17you
10:17can name three things you see, name three things you hear, and move three body parts. I move my hand,
10:23I move my whole arm, I'm turning my head. And being aware of those things, it just brings you out
10:28of
10:28the moment that you're stuck in to a place where you're grounded. Instead of asking, what if it fails,
10:34ask yourself, what if it all works out? That is something I ask people when they're focused very
10:39much on the negative and they're really anxious. I say, wait, what happens if you actually do the things
10:45you want to do? What if it goes well? Sometimes it can jar people to say, oh, I haven't really
10:49thought about that. And for everyone who has been following this journey, my new book, The Way Back...
10:55You always have to be aware of any video that's just trying to sell you a product.
10:59There can be some good advice, but it sounds like in the end, this AI generated monk wants you to
11:03buy
11:03his AI generated book. Next video. If you were born in 2008, you grew up during constant change.
11:10You learned early to stay alert instead of relaxed. You often understand what someone feels before
11:15they explain it. This is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. There's nothing distinct about 2008. I think
11:21what they're talking about is what's called the cohort effect. That means that a group of people
11:25who were born in a certain time have had certain experiences that maybe other people have not.
11:30People born before the depression, the great depression, the way they dealt with money or
11:35saw money is different than people who did not go through that. Your mind replays moments,
11:40analyzes reactions, and searches for meaning long after others have moved on. Psychologically...
11:45That could be anybody. And also, that was really weird with this dude's head exploding.
11:49The cohort effect might be happening for someone who was born in 2008 in the sense that they were
11:54around 11 or 12 when COVID happened. And that was really impacting lots of people, not just those born
11:59in 2008. We're still learning the effects of what it was like to grow up as a kid during the
12:03COVID era.
12:04We do know that some kids are behind in academics and reading and writing. But again,
12:09it's not distinct for just people born in this year.
12:13Hey, Kyle. My name's Will. I'm going to be your nurse today. How are you feeling?
12:17Oh, great. Another idiot trying to poison me with meds. Listen, Will, can you please just get this over
12:22with? This seems to be a training video for people in nursing school. How do you deescalate a situation?
12:28This patient, this mock patient, is supposed to have, per the video, schizophrenia. A lot of times with
12:32schizophrenia, there is, in fact, a feeling of persecution or a feeling of paranoia. And I
12:38think they do get that right. I'm just used to, in emergency rooms, seeing people who have
12:43positive symptoms of schizophrenia. That means things that other people don't experience. So
12:46they might have the hallucinations, or they might have voices that they're hearing. Typically,
12:51patients have more auditory hallucinations than visual hallucinations. And visual hallucinations are not
12:56very distinct. Sometimes they can be blurs. Sometimes they can be in the background. But
13:00auditory hallucinations are way more common. And all these stupid meds you keep trying to
13:04shove down my throat. I know what you're trying to do. So this is something we can see with patients
13:09who are schizophrenic or patients who have psychosis, is this paranoia, people trying to do something to
13:14them, people trying to give them medication, trying to take them over. One thing that's noticeable here,
13:19and I think it's actually more an artifact of the video, there's that pause between when the student
13:23says something and when the patient says something. What exactly do you think we're trying to do?
13:29Don't play dumb, Will. Sometimes in real life, someone with schizophrenia or psychosis does
13:34pause because they're responding to internal stimuli. They might be hearing things inside
13:39or voices, and it takes them a while to focus on your voice because they're hearing something else.
13:44Next video.
13:50This video is incorporating sounds that about 20% of the population would find soothing or relaxing
13:56or pleasurable. This is called ASMR, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. The people who hear
14:03this, they start to feel this feeling, starts their scalp, it's a little bit of a tingling, might go down
14:07to their neck, and they feel pleasure or calmness or relaxation, just hearing that noise. About 80% of the
14:13people, they either don't find it pleasurable, that they can take it or leave it, or they find it kind
14:18of gross, and I'm in that category. So the ADHD one had all these colorful things, but not everybody
14:26with ADHD feels like they're bouncing off the walls. A lot of times people feel like they have inattentive
14:32type ADHD where they can't pay attention. This is a pretty common stereotype of OCD that everybody with OCD,
14:41obsessive compulsive disorder, is organized. There are lots of different kinds of OCD, and there are
14:46plenty of people who are disorganized that have OCD. Obsessive compulsive disorder means you have an
14:50obsession, there's a thought, and you have discomfort from the thought. The compulsion is the behavior,
14:55or what you do to try to get rid of the discomfort from the obsession. Sometimes people have obsessive
15:00thoughts, and the compulsion is not something that's external. The classic example is people feel dirty
15:05and contaminated, that's the obsession. Compulsion is they wash their hands. Sometimes you don't see people
15:10doing the compulsive behavior. It could be a checking in their head. It could be ruminating
15:14on the same thing. It could be that they have to count to a certain number. So it's not all
15:18about
15:19organization. Next video. Scientists discovered that chronic sadness triggers a chemical war inside
15:25you that can kill you decades early. This is really crazy. Yes, being sad for too long, it doesn't feel
15:30good. It doesn't necessarily mean it's something horrible. When people lose a loved one, for instance,
15:36they're grieving. They're going to be sad for a long time. There are reasons people are sad. It's being
15:41human. When you're depressed, your brain floods your bloodstream with cortisol, a stress hormone
15:46designed to save your life in emergencies. But when it stays elevated for months, it becomes poison.
15:51This is not the complete picture. In some cases, depression, cortisol is very high. In other cases
15:56of depression, cortisol is very low. This hormone destroys your immune system from the inside,
16:01making you 62% more likely to end up hospitalized with severe infections.
16:06Let's take a closer look. I see 62% of something. I see a lot of numbers that don't mean
16:11anything,
16:11and I see a whole bunch of razzles in these columns here. This number 4016z looks like a percent sign.
16:1976% 1. This makes no sense. It's loaded up with a lot of nonsense, fake data, fake words, fake
16:24numbers.
16:25The danger in giving information like this is that people start to feel like,
16:29oh, this is important. I better learn what's going on here. But there's nothing of value here.
16:34This video feels more like a scare tactic to try to make sure, don't be sad. And that's really
16:38impossible. Next video. The way a narcissist starts the day can tell you a lot. Because for them,
16:45mornings are not always about peace. You can't necessarily tell a narcissist because of the way
16:49they get up and grumpily look at their phone. They make their mood everyone's problem. If they are
16:54irritated, the whole house feels it. Some of this can be true. It's not every day, but narcissistic,
16:59individuals can sometimes make people feel like it's their job to take care of that person.
17:04A lot of narcissists have an underlying vulnerability or fragility and people around
17:08them sense it and feel like, oh, we need to make sure dad's okay. Mom's okay. We need to make
17:13sure
17:13everything's okay. Otherwise things could turn horribly wrong. All of a sudden they act normal
17:18after a cruel night. You are still hurting. They are making coffee like nothing happened. This video to
17:24me is depicting more of what's called malignant narcissism. It's someone who's narcissistic and
17:28shows a lot of the traits almost on that end of lack of empathy and not caring about other people,
17:33more towards the psychopathic end. So this is not all narcissists. Next video.
17:38The most dangerous thing that can happen in home is not a fight. It's a husband who has to beg
17:43for
17:44affection. Okay, right now I get a little bit of a red pill vibe from this. The woman might also
17:49feel
17:49pretty terrible if she has to beg for affection. Anybody would feel terrible. Affection is not a
17:53reward you hand out when he gets everything right. It is the oxygen that keeps a marriage alive. When
17:59there's no room for affection, there is something that needs to be worked on. When I do couples therapy
18:04with people, I'll talk to couples about, imagine you have a child. If you do have a kid, you need
18:09to
18:09give that kid attention. You need to see that child. You also have to imagine yourself, your couple,
18:13as a child. Are you giving that child enough attention? When a man loses hope and closeness,
18:18he stops fighting for connection. So this is getting a little ridiculous. This video feels
18:23like it fell out of the manosphere a little bit. The important point is that both people
18:28need affection. It needs to go both ways. Let's move on. If I'm going to exercise, I should eat first.
18:34If I'm going to cook, I should have coffee first so I can have energy to cook. If I'm going
18:37to make
18:38coffee, I should clean the coffee maker. So right away, I will say that I have had patients tell me
18:42this is how their brain works. Certain patients with ADHD, they feel like they start thinking about one thing
18:46and it goes to another and it goes to another and it goes to another. If I'm going to clean
18:49the
18:49coffee maker, I should clean the kitchen. If I'm going to clean the kitchen, I should clean the
18:52apartment. If I'm going to clean the apartment, I should put some music. This could also be someone
18:56who's quite anxious. There's often a presentation of somebody that can look like anxiety or it can
19:01look like ADHD and you have to sort through that. Is there an underlying sense of worry or is someone
19:08actually having just ADHD symptoms, which can be either hyperactive, impulsive type? You think
19:12about that classic picture of a kid bouncing off the walls, seeming like they're driven by a motor,
19:16or is it someone who's predominantly inattentive, meaning they can't focus on what's going on in
19:21front of them? Some people have asked me, is there an uptick in the diagnosis of ADHD? We have looked
19:26for it more. We've now included women more, girls more, because it used to be thought that, wait,
19:32girls don't present with this hyperactive picture. So we're including more people.
19:36We dropped the number of requirements from, say, six criteria to five. And also the language in
19:42the DSM changed from severely impaired to having your functioning impaired. That change sometimes
19:48incorporates more people. So maybe we're catching people that have always had these symptoms,
19:52but now we're just aware of it. Let's move on. I am Sertuline. I am an SSRI,
19:58a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. I increase serotonin levels inside your brain.
20:02That is an important thing to correct. Serotonin is a neurochemical, it's made in your brain,
20:07and it does have an implication in mood. These medications affect the way serotonin
20:12is transported, affects the way the receptors react with serotonin. It used to be taught,
20:17and this was picked up largely because of the pharmaceutical industry,
20:21that these medications increase the level of serotonin in the brain. It's much more complicated.
20:25I am considered a first-line treatment for depression and many anxiety disorders.
20:29That is true. SSRIs are the first-line treatment for this, if you're using medication. Sertuline
20:35is the generic name. The brand name of this medication is Zoloft. Other medications in this
20:39category, you might recognize brand names, Prozac, Lexapro, and Taxil. I do not work overnight.
20:46It usually takes two to four weeks to notice improvement. That is true. Anywhere from two to six weeks
20:52from a dose increase, that's when you start to see a change. Possible side effects include nausea,
20:57headache, sleep changes, and reduced sexual desire. Not everybody gets side effects. Sometimes patients
21:02will say to me, wait a minute, I don't want to take the medication because of the side effect list.
21:06I understand that. As a psychiatrist, I would never recommend something that I didn't think
21:10had benefits that could outweigh the negative. But sometimes people do have side effects that make
21:14them want to stop the medication. And in that case, I'll work with them to say, okay, let's figure out
21:18what's going on. We'll try a different medication. Stopping abruptly can cause withdrawal symptoms.
21:23Withdrawal symptoms from stopping your medication are really uncomfortable.
21:26They can be flu-like symptoms. You might have a headache, a stomach ache. Some people describe
21:30feeling that their head is in a tunnel. So you want to taper these down the same way you want
21:34to
21:34taper them up. Next video. I'm Adderall. I boost dopamine to help your brain focus. You use that to
21:41deep clean your keyboard. I'm Ritalin. I sharpen your focus fast. I also leave fast.
21:47These are stimulant medications. Stimulants are the first-line treatment for ADHD. In ADHD,
21:53dopamine in your brain isn't functioning the way it would in a brain of somebody who doesn't have
21:58ADHD. The stimulants raise the level of dopamine in different ways. How someone reacts to these
22:02stimulants is very individual. It doesn't mean that everybody's going to have Ritalin go in their body
22:05fast and leave fast. What I think it's trying to say is these short-acting medications, they usually
22:10last for three to four hours. And you might feel a spike and then a decrease. Adderall and Ritalin help
22:15dopamine function in the brain better. What dopamine does is it allows you to put the brakes
22:19on things so that you can actually focus on one thing at a time. People often think if they're
22:24going to take a stimulant, they're going to be all sped up. But if it's a prescribed dose that is
22:28right
22:28for you if you have ADHD, it slows things down so that you can focus. In fact, when you want
22:33too
22:33much stimulant, you can feel like a robot. A lot of times people take Adderall or Ritalin
22:37not prescribed. I do not recommend that. These medications have side effects. They can increase
22:41your heart rate. They can make you feel nauseated and give you bad headaches. So it's really important
22:48to only take this medication if it is prescribed by your doctor. Next video.
22:57I don't know why they're turning mental illness into bedrooms. First of all, this doesn't tell me
23:01that this person has any particular disorder. They've labeled it at the bottom, dissociative
23:05identity disorder. That's what used to be called multiple personality disorder. Maybe this bedroom is
23:09showing that someone has a lot of different sides to themselves. We all have different sides to
23:13ourselves. I don't know what this is. The complex PTSD bedroom looks really lonely. A lot of times
23:18people with complex PTSD do suffer from loneliness. Depersonalization is when you have the experience
23:23of living outside of your life. You're not in touch with yourself. It feels like they're watching a movie,
23:28not experiencing life themselves. Sometimes depersonalization is used as a way to cope
23:32through trauma. If someone is getting repeatedly abused, they almost dissociate to the point of not
23:39experiencing their life because it's so terrible. People with anti-social personality disorder
23:44break the law sometimes. Maybe this is supposed to imply that this is stolen items. I don't know
23:49exactly what's going on. I've had enough of this video. Next. Why is your gut called a second brain?
23:55Because it literally has one. Your gut doesn't literally have a brain. There are a lot of neurons in
23:59your gut and they do send messages to your brain. I think that's what this is getting to. Around 90
24:04% of the
24:05fibers in that nerve carry signals going up. So your gut is talking to your brain way more than
24:11your brain is talking back. That is true that there are a lot of signals going from your gut to
24:15your
24:15brain and it can impact mood. In fact, about 95% of your body's serotonin is made down there. It
24:23is
24:23true that the gut makes a lot of serotonin. That serotonin doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier,
24:28so it's not as if your gut is directly connected to your mood. It's giving signals that impact your mood,
24:34it's not a direct communication here. What can cross are precursors to serotonin. Something like
24:39tryptophan. Tryptophan is a precursor, a building block for serotonin. If that is low and if a lot
24:44of the short chain fatty acids needed to build certain molecules, if you don't have enough of
24:49them, then that can affect how much serotonin is in your brain. Perhaps that impacts mood. Take a look
24:54at this last video. Option one, put your pointer finger and your thumb together and take an inhale.
25:01Notice how it's a little higher. That's going to help you activate. I'm not sure exactly that this
25:06is super helpful. As I've said before, getting to that place where you're really anxious and
25:09remembering how to breathe and put your fingers in certain places, that's really hard. Also, when
25:13it comes to breathing, it's the exhale and people often forget that. It's the exhale through your mouth
25:17that helps you calm down. Breathing though, to have somebody just lead you through something,
25:22to feel like someone's there, that can also help. So if this furry animal creature can be present when
25:26someone's really anxious, that might help them. Option number two, go ahead and take your thumb
25:30and your middle finger. Inhale. Notice how that enters into your ribs. That's going to help you
25:36calm down. The finger stuff might actually help somebody just focus on something else other than
25:40their anxiety in the moment. So that's why that might be helpful. I think a lot of people are leaning
25:44on AI for their mental health, in part because not everyone has access to mental health. In reality,
25:50it's really expensive. It's time consuming. Not everybody has coverage for it for their insurance.
25:56People don't know how to get a therapist. They don't know who to trust. They don't know whether
25:59they're getting good therapy. So AI is a quick, easy way to try to get some kind of emotional release
26:05or
26:06some kind of guidance.
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