The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

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00:00:30.000 It's been a while since I've taken a hatchet to the legacy of a highly unlikable, crusty feminist icon, but today, Virginia Woolf's time has come.

00:00:39.520 For reasons that will become clear in a moment, she's actually a useful foil for talking about one of the biggest issues facing this country right now,

00:00:47.160 which is the never-ending expansion of psychology and psychiatry.

00:00:52.340 These are fields that have done more damage to the United States than any other branch of medicine.

00:00:58.040 Mental health treatment is, in very many cases, the modern-day lobotomy.

00:01:02.740 And before any more lives are destroyed, we need to radically rethink our approach to so-called mental illness.

00:01:10.240 The mainstream approach to these issues over the past several decades has not worked.

00:01:14.760 It has made everything worse, as I will demonstrate.

00:01:18.200 And it's time for people to think critically and deeply and take seriously some arguments that challenge their fundamental assumptions.

00:01:25.840 So that's what we're going to do today. But for now, back to Virginia Woolf. In case you're not familiar, she was a British novelist who in modern times has been retroactively diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

00:01:37.560 She was a miserable person in every respect. She would often refuse to eat or sleep. She claimed that she heard birds singing in Greek. 0.77

00:01:45.440 And she even threw herself out of a window at one point. Now, all this naturally has made Woolf a hero to feminists everywhere.

00:01:53.680 Wolf's family and friends described her as being mad or manic depressive or afflicted with a case of nerves owing to her regular mental breakdowns. 0.75

00:02:02.600 And as part of her treatment, Wolf was force fed a lot of cream and beef in order to make her fat on the theory that her behavior was the result of some kind of nutritional deficit within her body. 1.00

00:02:13.760 Although we've since learned that, you know, making feminists fat doesn't make them any less crazy, clearly. 0.99

00:02:18.280 She was also isolated as much as possible because doctors believed that her delirium was the result of overstimulation. 0.89

00:02:24.440 In the end, none of the treatment worked.

00:02:27.060 Virginia Woolf left her home on the morning of March 28, 1941, walked down to a nearby river, put a large stone in her pocket, and drowned herself.

00:02:36.240 Now, the narrative of Virginia Woolf's life was mostly unchallenged until a psychiatrist named Thomas Soss published a book called My Madness Saved Me, The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf, decades after her death.

00:02:52.180 Soss's argument was that everybody misunderstood what Virginia Woolf was actually doing.

00:02:56.900 She wasn't suffering from any kind of mental disease or disorder.

00:03:00.240 Instead, Soss wrote, Wolf was engaging in a pattern of behavior that, conveniently enough, managed to solve many of the problems in her life.

00:03:08.920 For one thing, she was married to a man, even though she was attracted to women.

00:03:13.580 So her mental illness allowed her to sidestep that whole issue and keep her husband at arm's length.

00:03:19.300 Additionally, Wolfe's alleged disorder allowed her to avoid most normal day-to-day obligations

00:03:23.840 that she was not interested in, like social commitments or interacting with her staff.

00:03:28.840 She had a ready-made excuse to spend time alone where she could write in peace without any interruptions.

00:03:34.460 Now, Thomas Sasse, as you might imagine, was not particularly popular with feminists or with his fellow psychiatrists.

00:03:41.280 He was not simply claiming that Virginia Wolfe was faking her mental illness.

00:03:45.420 He was going much farther than that.

00:03:47.680 Thomas Soss, for his entire career, was intent on arguing that the whole idea of mental illness as a category does not exist.

00:03:56.360 His point was not that the conditions we categorize as mental illness don't exist.

00:04:00.420 His point was that the category itself, the term, is nonsensical.

00:04:05.560 It's a category error.

00:04:07.780 Now, in his book, The Myth of Mental Illness, which everybody should read at the very least,

00:04:11.560 because intelligent and thoughtful arguments challenging our most basic assumptions

00:04:15.560 are always worth listening to if you're a smart and intellectually curious person.

00:04:21.220 And in that book, Sass demonstrates that for much of the world's history,

00:04:24.220 diseases have been understood as measurable, observable, physical phenomenon.

00:04:30.920 As Rene Lerich, the founder of Modern Vascular Surgery, put it,

00:04:35.160 quote, if one wants to define disease, it must be dehumanized.

00:04:39.060 in disease, when all is said and done, the least important thing is man. Now, by contrast, the field

00:04:45.580 of psychiatry and psychology is focused entirely on the man. They're not looking at blood tests or

00:04:53.180 CT scans or any objective metrics at all. Instead, psychiatrists are interested in your feelings and

00:04:59.440 your thoughts, which are impossible to measure by any objective standard. As Sass notes, quote,

00:05:05.880 Until the middle of the 19th century and beyond, illness meant a bodily disorder whose typical manifestation was an alteration of bodily structure, that is, a visible deformity, disease, or lesion, such as misshapen extremity, ulcerated skin, or a fracture or wound.

00:05:21.980 Physicians distinguished diseases from non-diseases according to whether or not they could detect an abnormal change in the structure of a person's body.

00:05:29.280 now this is one of those observations that when you hear it read out loud

00:05:33.720 is genuinely shocking to most people and most people had no idea that the idea of mental illness

00:05:40.680 as we understand it today simply did not exist for basically the entirety of human history

00:05:46.780 up till about the mid-1800s nobody placed any faith in psychoanalysis either certainly going

00:05:52.460 back to ancient times people recognized you know conditions like depression and mania but

00:05:56.880 they weren't considered physical illnesses on par with physical ailments the way we do today

00:06:04.620 until very recently. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, for example, when Lady Macbeth is going insane,

00:06:10.740 the doctor basically throws up his hands and says she has to figure it out on her own. He says the

00:06:14.960 patient must minister to himself. In other words, there's no role for a physician here. There's

00:06:19.680 nothing for a doctor to do with this particular problem, which doesn't mean the problem isn't

00:06:25.680 real. It just means that it's not the kind of problem that a doctor can fix. Especially since

00:06:32.200 the 90s, though, politicians in the United States have relentlessly pushed the exact opposite

00:06:37.760 position. One after another, prominent politicians, particular Democrats, have declared that mental

00:06:42.780 illnesses are just like cancer or a broken limb. Bill Clinton said, quote, mental illness can be

00:06:47.800 accurately diagnosed, successfully treated, just as physical illness. Michelle Obama said, quote,

00:06:52.360 whether an illness affects your heart, your leg, or your brain, it's still an illness, and there

00:06:56.260 should be no distinction. Joe Biden said, quote, addiction is a neurobiological disease, not a

00:07:00.920 lifestyle choice. It's about time we start treating it as such, and on and on and on.

00:07:05.640 It's the same message for the media and Hollywood and schools and everybody.

00:07:10.380 Now, the root of this rhetoric, Soss points out, was the middle of the 19th century when doctors

00:07:16.120 in Vienna were besieged with patients who were hysterical, which is to say they had no illness

00:07:21.720 of any kind, but they seem to be in distress. And this was a problem because, as you probably know,

00:07:28.020 doctors are mostly specialized. They follow a specific course of treatment based on observable

00:07:33.400 symptoms and established data. But patients who are hysterical are a black box. Many of them have

00:07:40.120 personal problems that a doctor can't even address. And therefore, the doctors in Vienna didn't know

00:07:45.300 what to do with these patients, and they weren't particularly interested in treating them.

00:07:48.320 so uh they sent them off to freud here's sauce in a question and answer session shortly before he

00:07:54.600 died explaining what happened listen this is what modern medicine from you know since the 19th

00:08:01.960 century what was how did psychiatry how did psychoanalysis come into being so viennese

00:08:07.760 doctors had a lot of patients who were hysterical meaning that they went to doctors and there was

00:08:13.340 nothing wrong with them the doctor knew it and the patient often knew it but wouldn't admit it

00:08:17.440 So in order to say, Mrs. Jones, I don't want to see your face again, I think you should

00:08:24.260 see to Dr. X, called Freud or Jung or somebody else.

00:08:30.140 In America, again, forgive me for being very down to earth, psychiatry and psychiatrists

00:08:38.000 have often been called the sewers of society.

00:08:43.200 expresses this idea it deals with a subject and with people that most doctors don't want to deal

00:08:49.200 with so this is how modern psychiatry began there was no grand discovery or some laboratory finding

00:08:56.960 that's what's important to understand there was never any point where psychiatrists like

00:09:01.440 discovered something about people that nobody knew before patients simply began showing up

00:09:07.920 and the doctors decided they had to go somewhere but even at this point the field didn't have any

00:09:12.800 kind of uniform objective rules. There was a significant distinction in how exactly doctors

00:09:20.560 practice psychiatry in different countries. And it's a pretty big clue that the discipline is in

00:09:24.660 fact political in nature, not scientific. I mean, you'd think that if this was a real discipline

00:09:28.880 like cardiology or anything like that, that doctors in different countries would generally

00:09:34.500 handle patients the same way. But that's not what happened with psychiatry. Consider the Soviet

00:09:39.280 Union, for example, there was no psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union. There was no confidential

00:09:43.400 one-on-one psychotherapy either. And that's odd when you think about it. Surely if these diseases

00:09:48.180 of the mind were real, the Soviets would have treated the victims of these diseases just like

00:09:51.840 they treated patients who walked in the door for any number of reasons, cardiology, oncology,

00:09:56.200 pediatrics, et cetera. But they didn't. Instead, the Soviets exclusively used coercive psychiatry.

00:10:01.900 They would throw people in mental asylums if they disagree with the ruling party as a way of 0.63

00:10:07.320 cementing their political control. They would diagnose people with mental disorders as a way 0.60

00:10:12.540 of getting rid of them. Meanwhile, in the West, psychiatry expanded exponentially, and since

00:10:17.700 there's no way to actually discover a new ailment in psychiatry, doctors could simply invent them.

00:10:23.820 You don't need to point to any particular physical marker of disease. Believe it or not,

00:10:28.960 it's extremely easy to just come up with new disorders to treat, and that's exactly what

00:10:35.100 they did. As Sasse puts it, quote, this reclassification of non-illnesses as illnesses

00:10:40.100 has, of course, been of special value to physicians and psychiatrists' profession and social

00:10:44.340 institution. The prestige and power of psychiatrists have been inflated by defining evermore

00:10:49.440 phenomena as falling within the purview of their discipline. Mortimer Adler had noted

00:10:55.500 long ago that psychoanalysts are trying to swallow everything in psychoanalysis. It's

00:11:00.380 difficult to see why we should permit, much less encourage, such an expansionism in a

00:11:04.240 profession, and so-called science. In international relations, we are no longer treasure the

00:11:09.280 Napoleonic ideal of national expansion at the expense of the integrity of neighboring peoples.

00:11:13.360 Why then do we not consider psychiatric expansionism, even though it might be aided

00:11:18.420 and abetted from many sides, that is by patients, medical organizations, lawyers, and so forth,

00:11:23.700 equally undesirable? Now, whatever the explanation is, and we'll talk about some of the theories in

00:11:28.800 a second, there's no question that the field of psychiatry quickly devolved into absurdity.

00:11:34.240 this happened very quickly after it came into being the field of modern psychiatry

00:11:40.200 almost immediately just collapsed into total nonsense during world war ii it became fashionable

00:11:47.760 for psychiatrists in america to talk about malingering as if it was a real disorder and

00:11:52.820 even today there are some psychiatrists who buy this and be clear malingering means that you walk

00:11:58.300 into the doctor's office and claim to have a disorder that you don't actually have but even

00:12:02.600 in this situation, psychiatrists concluded there must be a mental illness at work. After all,

00:12:07.280 who would go through the trouble of pretending to be sick? Only a sick person would do that. So in

00:12:11.020 other words, it is logically impossible to pretend to be sick. That's the idea. Anyone who claims to

00:12:17.660 be sick is sick by definition. Everything is a disease, in other words. And for decades, there's

00:12:25.220 been a gold rush in psychiatry. These quacks are realizing that there's no limit to the number of 1.00

00:12:30.960 disorders they can make up. So every year they come up with more. All they have to do is invent 1.00

00:12:36.840 some new criteria. And that's why in the past few years, the following disorders have been added to

00:12:41.360 the DSM. And this is just a very short list. This is not exhaustive. Prolonged grief disorder.

00:12:50.700 That's when you're really sad when someone dies. That's a disorder now. You're mentally ill.

00:12:54.800 disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, skin picking disorder, 1.00

00:13:01.720 disinhibited social engagement disorder, binge eating disorder, and avoidant restrictive food

00:13:07.100 intake disorder. They're also considering even more disorders, including internet gaming disorder

00:13:13.040 and caffeine use disorder. The upshot is that virtually every human behavior is now a medical

00:13:21.160 disorder. Even Alan Francis, who oversaw the revision to the DSM, warned that doctors were

00:13:28.620 turning everyday life into a pathology. In the 1980s and 1990s, we were told that we'd eventually

00:13:33.860 have a blood test for disorders like schizophrenia and depression, that we'd be able to prove

00:13:39.200 definitively where these disorders originate in the brain. But we don't have any such blood test

00:13:45.520 in 2026. And while it's true that a very small number of patients who suffer from mental health

00:13:50.840 disorders are later shown after an autopsy to have some form of brain damage, the vast majority

00:13:55.660 of psychiatric patients have no biological marker of their disorder whatsoever. You know, the

00:14:00.820 psychiatric industry simply kept growing despite the fact that none of their promises actually

00:14:04.980 panned out. And at any rate, as Sass would argue, if a mental illness is indeed the result of a

00:14:12.420 physical disorder of the brain, which it would stand to reason is the case with something like

00:14:16.220 schizophrenia, then it is a neurological disease, not a mental illness. Neurological diseases are

00:14:23.140 obviously real. You can see them in brain scans. Mental illness as a category exists to diagnose

00:14:29.560 diseases that cannot be found in the physical brain. They are not diseases of the physical brain,

00:14:35.320 but of the mind. And this distinction is extremely important, but it's something that most people

00:14:40.020 don't think about at all, including most of the doctors who hand out psychiatric drugs like

00:14:45.080 Pez dispensers. Meanwhile, anyone who criticized the industry, like Saas, was cast aside. New York

00:14:52.840 tried to revoke his teaching license. They wrote him out of every psychiatric textbook.

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00:17:09.860 So let's start with SSRIs.

00:17:11.900 There's been a lot of conversation this week about them, which is what got me thinking about all this.

00:17:17.420 I think about it all the time.

00:17:20.060 The pharmaceutical industry now makes more than $20 billion a year on SSRIs alone.

00:17:26.520 One in eight American adults are on antidepressants.

00:17:30.820 One in eight.

00:17:32.260 We're talking about tens of millions of people.

00:17:34.580 From 2016 to 2022, antidepressant use among Americans aged 12 to 25 increased by more than 60%.

00:17:41.280 And unsurprisingly, women are twice as likely as men to be prescribed an SSRI.

00:17:48.060 Around 23 million women use SSRIs compared to about 11 million men.

00:17:54.240 And this is just one form of psychiatric drugs, by the way.

00:17:58.460 Now, why might that be?

00:17:59.640 why is there such a massive gender disparity with this medication?

00:18:05.440 I mean, if depression is just a physical illness, like diabetes or cancer,

00:18:12.960 then why do we find this enormous difference between men and women?

00:18:19.880 How do you explain that?

00:18:22.320 Nobody in the psychiatric industry will answer that question.

00:18:26.400 They have no answer for it.

00:18:28.500 It's like long COVID.

00:18:30.040 We're just supposed to conclude that for some reason, it affects women far more than men.

00:18:34.440 It can't possibly have anything to do with the fact that women are anxious and miserable

00:18:40.500 because for the past 50 years, they've been told to murder their own children, 0.84

00:18:44.240 work 40 hours a week in a soulless office building instead of raising a family,

00:18:47.600 and pretend that men can transform into women by saying a few magic words,

00:18:51.760 all while their brains are being fried by social media. 0.79

00:18:56.140 Can't be that. 0.98

00:18:58.100 Instead, the psychiatric industry will tell you that women must have some sort of unusual chemical imbalance in their brain for whatever reason, even though there's no data to support that theory whatsoever.

00:19:08.800 And even though the concept makes no logical sense.

00:19:11.600 If so many women have this chemical imbalance, then how do we even know that it is an imbalance? 1.00

00:19:17.700 I mean, what is the right balance? 1.00

00:19:19.300 What is the correct chemical balance that all of these other chemical imbalances are being judged against?

00:19:29.800 Nobody knows.

00:19:31.220 When a doctor says, oh, you have a chemical imbalance.

00:19:33.960 Oh, so what's the right balance?

00:19:38.100 Where are you looking at the right balance and then you're judging that my balance is not balanced?

00:19:42.400 Where is that coming from?

00:19:45.420 Nobody knows.

00:19:46.340 Nobody can answer that question.

00:19:47.340 and there's never been any evidence to back any of this up. This is from a paper that was published

00:19:53.960 in Nature from researchers at University College London, and I'm going to read it at some length

00:19:58.960 because it remains one of the most extraordinary passages that's ever been published in a medical

00:20:02.560 journal, at least in recent times. It was published in the summer of 2022, and in this article,

00:20:07.280 leading researchers admit that actually there is no basis whatsoever to think that serotonin has

00:20:13.520 anything to do with depression. That's kind of a big deal since we've been told for more than 30

00:20:18.240 years, a lot longer than that, that depression is caused by a lack of serotonin in the brain.

00:20:24.380 That's why they told people to take SSRIs, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors.

00:20:29.400 After all that, we learn it's a lie. Quote,

00:20:32.300 Our comprehensive review of the major strands of research on serotonin shows that there is

00:20:36.440 no convincing evidence that depression is associated with or caused by lower serotonin

00:20:40.680 concentrations or activity. Most studies found no evidence of reduced serotonin activity in people

00:20:45.880 with depression compared to people without, and methods to reduce serotonin availability do not

00:20:50.020 consistently lower mood in volunteers. High-quality, well-powered genetic studies effectively exclude

00:20:55.120 an association between genotypes related to the serotonin system and depression, including a

00:21:00.060 proposed interaction with stress. The chemical imbalance theory of depression is still put

00:21:04.540 forward by professionals, and the serotonin theory in particular has formed the basis of a considerable

00:21:08.620 research effort over the last few decades.

00:21:11.300 The general public widely

00:21:12.520 believes that depression has been convincingly

00:21:14.420 demonstrated to be the result of serotonin or other chemical

00:21:16.480 abnormalities. This belief shapes how

00:21:18.480 people understand their moods. This review

00:21:20.460 suggests that the huge research effort based

00:21:22.500 on the serotonin hypothesis has

00:21:24.420 not produced convincing evidence of a

00:21:26.220 biochemical basis to depression.

00:21:28.380 This is consistent with research on many other

00:21:30.260 biological markers. We suggest it is

00:21:32.320 time to acknowledge that the serotonin

00:21:34.420 theory of depression is not empirically

00:21:36.440 substantiated.

00:21:38.620 That's, in the psychiatric world and the medical industry generally, that is like a nuclear bomb exploding, or it should be.

00:21:50.620 The whole basis for all these drugs that we're putting millions of people on, almost everything we've said about depression, our whole basis for even claiming it's a physical disease in the first place, is wrong.

00:22:03.940 There's no evidence for it.

00:22:05.180 but what's happened since this paper was published in 2022 nothing nothing has happened

00:22:13.400 the rate of ssri prescriptions has not slowed down at all according to all the data i've seen

00:22:19.620 there has not been a drop in ssri prescriptions at all people are still taking them even though

00:22:26.880 doctors admit they have no idea what these drugs are doing to the brain let me state that again

00:22:32.180 because it's important you understand this. The entire medical basis for prescribing SSRIs

00:22:36.120 has been debunked, and yet doctors are still prescribing them at the same or even maybe

00:22:42.900 higher rates. Now, does that mean that SSRIs are totally ineffective? No, actually, it's worse than

00:22:49.760 that. They do have an effect. It's just that the effect is often quite negative. Indeed, there are

00:22:55.680 quite a few indications that SSRIs are making people more violent. And for one thing, pretty

00:23:00.440 much every mass shooter was on an SSRI. That includes the trans-identifying Covenant school

00:23:05.460 shooter who killed three adults and three nine-year-old children, Dylan Roof, who shot up

00:23:09.360 the Black Church in Charleston, Jesse Strain, the trans-identifying Tumblr Ridge school shooter in

00:23:16.580 Canada who killed eight people, including several children, Eric Harris, Columbine shooter,

00:23:20.860 Kip Kinkle, who killed two of his classmates and his parents, Jeff Weiss killed nine people at an

00:23:26.960 Indian Reservation. Aaron Alexis, the Navy Yard shooter. James Holmes, the movie theater

00:23:32.060 shooter in Colorado. Christopher Pittman, who killed his grandparents. Joseph Westbecker

00:23:36.840 killed eight coworkers at a printing plant. And on and on and on and on. I could go on listing

00:23:42.740 examples. And keep in mind, there are plenty more mass shooters who are taking SSRIs that we don't

00:23:48.180 officially know about. These are just the ones that we know. Now, in response, you might try to

00:23:56.260 argue that, well, the SSRIs may not have caused the violence. After all, mentally troubled people 1.00

00:24:00.460 are more likely to take the drugs. They're also more likely to commit mass shootings.

00:24:06.120 There's actual data to suggest that indeed SSRIs could be directly contributing to the problem.

00:24:10.980 This is from a study published in 2016 in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Quote,

00:24:15.860 the century-old belief that patients with depression are at a heightened risk of suicide

00:24:19.040 as they begin to recover and their energy and motivation return is being propagated everywhere.

00:24:23.440 Because of this deeply ingrained idea, many psychiatrists believe that when patients become suicidal on an antidepressant drug,

00:24:29.380 it is not an adverse effect of the drug, but a positive sign that the drug starts working.

00:24:34.020 However, a systematic review from 2009 showed that the research that has been carried out contradicts this belief,

00:24:39.940 and our review also suggests that it is wrong.

00:24:42.220 We found that antidepressants double the risk of suicidality and violence,

00:24:46.420 and it's particularly interesting that the volunteers in the studies we reviewed were healthy adults with no signs of a mental disorder.

00:24:52.460 While it is now generally accepted that antidepressants increase the risk of suicide and violence in children and adolescents, although many psychiatrists still deny this, most people believe that these drugs are not dangerous for adults.

00:25:02.460 This is a potentially lethal misconception. Antidepressants double the occurrence of events in adult, healthy volunteers that can lead to suicide and violence.

00:25:10.440 now to be clear about what they found when looking at healthy volunteers people no mental

00:25:17.860 health issues ssris made them far more suicidal and violent now nobody can explain exactly why

00:25:26.080 this happens because again nobody knows how ssris work at all and nobody under how and how exactly

00:25:35.660 is it? I mean, what does it mean to be suicidal? It means that you have a thought, you have the

00:25:41.080 thought of taking your own life. Well, how is it that a drug could put a thought in somebody's head?

00:25:47.240 How can you take someone who's healthy and has never had any suicidal thoughts, and then you

00:25:50.520 start making them think these thoughts? The drug puts these thoughts, not just any thoughts, but

00:25:55.760 thoughts of self-destruction in their head. How does that work? I mean, how does it actually work?

00:26:01.600 well you can ask any doctor who prescribes this stuff and they will not be able to answer because

00:26:07.320 they don't know but by itself this finding is obviously extremely alarming considering how

00:26:13.880 widely diagnosed these medications are psychiatrists are handing out ssris like candy despite the fact

00:26:19.740 that according to the study they drastically increase the risk that normal people will commit

00:26:23.080 suicide or kill someone now what other effects might these drugs have it's a very good question

00:26:28.840 And recently, the stepdaughter of Kamala Harris posted the following video on YouTube where she describes SSRI withdrawal symptoms.

00:26:37.980 Apparently, these withdrawal symptoms are so severe that she's been taking these drugs for 15 years.

00:26:44.220 Watch.

00:26:46.780 I'm just sitting here crocheting, waiting for a friend.

00:26:49.500 and I was just listening to this podcast that the Wall Street Journal put out about SSRIs and

00:26:55.320 anti-anxiety meds and kind of the over-prescription of them in America and it was making me think a

00:27:02.600 lot because I've been on SSRIs for over a decade, almost 15 years probably, and they were calling

00:27:10.440 out the lack of research on long-term use of these things they were calling out the lack of

00:27:20.360 information that doctors give about coming off of these meds and kind of the psychological effects

00:27:26.960 they can have and it really got me thinking how little I've thought about that naively obviously

00:27:33.520 but I've noticed that every time I've gone off of it for a week or missed it or for whatever reason

00:27:40.060 like it has been really hard for me and i've had a really hard time and i guess this is just

00:27:47.500 something i was wondering if you guys have thought about or relate to or kind of consider when you're

00:27:54.060 thinking about going on meds like that because i don't know if this is something that i feel like

00:27:58.620 is being talked about enough because i feel like so many of us are on these meds and this is like

00:28:07.020 actually happening like people get off of them and they kind of break down and it could be really bad

00:28:13.160 so yeah i guess i just want your general thoughts now i have every reason to believe she's telling

00:28:19.200 the truth here because if the drug wasn't extremely addictive then in all likelihood

00:28:22.740 she'd have given it up at some point in the last 15 years after all it's obviously not working

00:28:27.160 she doesn't seem to be a happy person despite all the serotonin that's circulating in her system

00:28:32.700 And instead of showing any positive emotion whatsoever, she's constantly uploading videos like this one where she complains about her climate anxiety.

00:28:40.960 Watch.

00:28:42.260 I feel disgust at what's going on in the world around genocides, the loss of rights, the loss of health care, the just general fear that everyone has surrounding affordability, their lives, their livelihood.

00:29:02.000 like everything. It's just, it feels so big. Um, I think everything with the environment

00:29:09.240 is really threatening to me. And it is one, I experienced a lot of climate anxiety. Like

00:29:20.080 a lot of us do. It's not funny. I, uh, it's just like, it's one of those things. It's

00:29:26.500 not funny, but, um, you just like nervous laugh about it because it's scary. It is.

00:29:31.220 It's all of these things are happening. And like, what are what besides the small things we can do and pushing for change and fighting and protesting?

00:29:42.260 And it's really hard not to sit in those moments where it just feels so heavy.

00:29:49.240 So very miserable. She's just looking for things to be miserable about.

00:29:52.640 Just going down the list. All things that have no impact on her life whatsoever.

00:29:56.400 I mean, she's very comfortable. She's perfectly safe. She lives a very comfortable life. Just looking for things. Running down the list. This is what she does every morning when she wakes up. Just run down. Go through the checklist. Have it on a sticky note. Have it on your bathroom mirror. A checklist of all the things to be upset about and worry about. Oh, genocide, climate change.

00:30:22.360 Now, it's like watching somebody who's been on ZepBound for 15 years and they're still 800 pounds.

00:30:27.360 At some point, you just have to give it up.

00:30:29.540 It's not doing the trick.

00:30:30.300 In the case of Kamala Harris's stepdaughter, the SSRIs, if anything, are probably making her anxiety even worse.

00:30:35.360 Truly hard to watch, but again, it only serves to underscore how addictive these drugs are.

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00:31:40.300 except he says that SSRI withdrawal is even worse. Watch.

00:31:45.620 I happen to be an actual expert on this because I was addicted to heroin for 14 years.

00:31:53.520 I never wanted to be.

00:31:55.360 So I was constantly getting off of it and then getting back on.

00:31:59.360 And I went through cold turkey withdrawal probably over 100 times.

00:32:03.780 And so I know what it's like.

00:32:05.400 And it's not fun, but it is limited.

00:32:10.440 It is finite in time.

00:32:12.480 After 72 hours, it's over.

00:32:15.120 So you just have to steal yourself for 72 bad hours.

00:32:19.160 But I've watched people come off of SSRIs, and it is not even comparable.

00:32:26.280 And I watched a family member get off of them after a couple of years.

00:32:31.040 on them. And she was suicidal literally every day. She woke up every morning and said, I

00:32:38.700 don't want to live. And she said, the only reason I'm staying alive is for you guys,

00:32:44.500 for the family. And that's heartbreaking to hear from a family member. And I've heard

00:32:53.380 that from hundreds and hundreds of people. The same story again and again. It can be

00:32:59.760 prolonged. And for many patients, it's completely unexpected. And the physicians handle this by

00:33:06.560 saying, oh, this is your original symptom. Reasserting yourself, you need to get back on

00:33:12.900 the SSRIs. And they get locked in a lifetime cycle that is, that for many patients is absolutely

00:33:21.140 cataclysmic. So it's not just the withdrawal symptoms that aren't discussed when it comes

00:33:28.260 SSRIs, their possible effects on sexual dysfunction are hardly mentioned at all. This is from a

00:33:35.220 recent panel in Washington featuring a Vanderbilt student who says that SSRIs chemically castrated

00:33:40.160 her. They don't really tell you about this side effect. Watch. Yeah, so I'm living with a condition

00:33:47.300 called post-SSRI sexual dysfunction. Sexual dysfunction is one of the most common and

00:33:52.200 reliable side effects of SSRIs. In fact, 50 to 70 percent of all patients taking these will have

00:33:57.360 sexual side effects. What patients are not warned about is that these side effects can be permanent

00:34:01.920 long after you stop the last drug dose. And PSSD is not just low libido. It is a full nervous system

00:34:08.600 injury in which you lose total sexual function neurologically through essentially nervous system

00:34:14.660 damage. So the hallmark symptom of PSSD is genital numbness. Yes, like complete loss of sensation in

00:34:21.040 your genitals. For me, I clearly hate to talk about this, but my clitoris is completely numb 0.99

00:34:26.700 as if it's the back of my elbow.

00:34:28.420 I have no sensation internally.

00:34:30.080 I'm 23 years old.

00:34:32.560 Sufferers also lose the ability to orgasm permanently

00:34:34.740 for the rest of their lives, 0.52

00:34:36.240 and their libido entirely,

00:34:37.720 which for me and what a lot of other people experience

00:34:39.840 is a sudden onset chemical asexuality

00:34:44.060 that just never goes away.

00:34:46.780 And in my opinion, I don't think it's sensational

00:34:48.580 to say that this is a form of chemical castration,

00:34:50.660 that it is permanent.

00:34:53.320 But beyond that,

00:34:54.580 PSSD is not just a loss of sexual function,

00:34:56.980 but a loss for some people of emotional function as well.

00:34:59.660 That has been the case for me.

00:35:01.540 Before this, I was a super emotional,

00:35:05.840 empathetic, loving, caring,

00:35:08.180 like Sylvia Plath reading and resonating girl.

00:35:11.080 And the day I woke up with this injury,

00:35:13.420 I quite literally felt my soul leave my body.

00:35:16.260 Like I'm so serious.

00:35:18.200 It was the most unbelievable,

00:35:20.400 inorganic thing I've ever experienced.

00:35:22.000 and it's a common symptom of people who have this condition.

00:35:26.220 To this day, it's been years for me. I'm 23 now.

00:35:29.080 I can't feel love for my own mother, which is the hardest thing on earth.

00:35:34.820 I can't feel connection or love for my friends,

00:35:38.220 or even pleasure in music, which was the bane of my existence.

00:35:41.980 I was a songwriter since I was a child. It was my outlet.

00:35:45.940 And it's been completely neurologically severed from these medications.

00:35:52.000 now when i looked into this i mean it's a totally tragic story and there are many many like this

00:35:59.160 and it's absolutely infuriating um that doctors are just recklessly dosing millions of young

00:36:10.120 people in particular young women especially with these drugs um and then when they have these kinds

00:36:16.100 of side effects that as she says can be permanent the response to the medical industry is well

00:36:20.780 tough luck nothing we do for you now or or you know more appropriately the response is well

00:36:29.280 here's another drug oh our drug caused this life-altering life-destroying problem well

00:36:35.900 good news we got another drug that'll help solve that problem now when i looked into this i came

00:36:42.240 across this paper from researchers in canada at mcmaster university this was published two years

00:36:46.700 ago. They wrote, quote, while sexual dysfunction is a well-known side effect of taking SSRIs in an

00:36:52.020 undetermined number of patients, sexual function does not return to pre-drug baseline after stopping

00:36:56.700 SSRIs. The condition is known as post-SSRI sexual dysfunction, PSSD, characterized most commonly by

00:37:03.640 genital numbness, pleasureless or weak orgasm, loss of libido, and erectile dysfunction. A number of

00:37:09.640 obstacles to quantifying the occurrence of PSSD include difficulty in designing a suitable study

00:37:13.760 method. Other obstacles include patient embarrassment at raising sexual concerns,

00:37:18.320 the response of healthcare professionals' inability to stop an antidepressant due to

00:37:21.580 withdrawal issues in a proportion of patients, and patient unawareness that their sexual

00:37:25.340 difficulties are linked to prior medication compounded by variability of online information

00:37:29.240 and a lack of information aimed at public education. In other words,

00:37:35.000 they're acknowledging that SSRIs can cause long-lasting effects on people even after they

00:37:39.880 stop taking the drug, but there's no way to determine how many people are suffering these

00:37:44.060 side effects, in part because their doctors make fun of them when they bring it up. Quote,

00:37:48.020 it is not uncommon for patients to have difficult experiences with healthcare professionals who

00:37:51.540 try to seek help for symptoms they suspect are PSSD. Reports of unhelpful, dismissive,

00:37:56.520 and hostile responses have been documented in the medical literature. These include patients

00:38:00.520 having their suspicions ridiculed, being advised to find a different sexual partner,

00:38:04.400 or having their symptoms attributed to some kind of ongoing mental health condition.

00:38:09.880 And you can see why that would happen, by the way, because when a doctor prescribes you a medication and then you go back to that doctor sometime later and say, hey, doc, I think the medication you gave me destroyed my life.

00:38:21.100 They're going to be very unlikely to say, yeah, you know what?

00:38:23.220 You might be right about that.

00:38:24.800 I might have just screwed your life up.

00:38:26.200 Sorry about that.

00:38:27.860 They're very unlikely to say that.

00:38:30.900 And additionally, because no one in the media ever brings up this topic, people don't even consider the fact that their SSRI might be causing their problem.

00:38:37.220 So this is one of those problems that no one wants to talk about.

00:38:39.740 even though it's obviously happening.

00:38:41.920 And behind the scenes over the years,

00:38:43.000 various regulators have tried to get more information on this point.

00:38:46.680 A group called the PSSD Network assembled a timeline

00:38:49.500 that catalogs all these requests for information.

00:38:52.140 It turns out that in April 2011,

00:38:54.920 Eli Lilly sent a letter to the FDA which stated

00:38:57.420 that they had observed, quote,

00:38:58.500 the occasional persistence of sexual dysfunction

00:39:00.420 following discontinuation of SSRI treatment in trials.

00:39:03.760 2008, the Swedish Medical Products Agency, quote,

00:39:06.440 raised concerns about the clinical relevance

00:39:08.660 of observed testicular toxicity and reproductive effects,

00:39:12.880 saying it was premature to dismiss safety concerns.

00:39:15.620 They requested a more detailed analysis.

00:39:17.200 In 2006, the European Medicines Agency, or EMA,

00:39:20.880 voiced concern about evidence from animal studies

00:39:23.040 that show SSRIs cause testicular toxicity.

00:39:26.240 The EMA requested further studies from Eli Lilly

00:39:28.640 over concerns that the drugs might affect fertility.

00:39:32.120 None of these requests for information

00:39:33.420 produced a comprehensive study on the topic

00:39:35.240 because, again, nobody can figure out

00:39:37.400 how to conduct a study like this. Or at least that's the excuse. I think a better reason might

00:39:43.780 be they just don't want to know the answer. Nevertheless, Canada added warnings about

00:39:47.720 persistent sexual dysfunction to SSRI labels in 2021. Australia followed suit in 2024. But in

00:39:53.660 America, the FDA to this day does not require any warning labels about persistent sexual dysfunction

00:39:59.100 on these medications. So SSRIs are potentially causing serious lifelong side effects,

00:40:05.900 Most of which are not disclosed to patients as a potential risk.

00:40:12.280 Now, the same is true for a lot of psychiatric meds, including ADHD medicine like Ritalin.

00:40:18.120 Last year, we discussed how even the experts who initially promoted ADHD medications are now admitting that it's all a giant scam.

00:40:25.540 More than 21% of 14-year-old boys in the United States supposedly suffer from ADHD.

00:40:31.560 Many of them are taking drugs like Ritalin and Adderall as a result.

00:40:34.460 But as the New York Times admits, quote, that ever-expanding mountain of pills rests on certain assumptions, that ADHD is a medical disorder that demands a medical solution, that it is caused by inherent deficits in children's brains, that medications we give them repair those deficits.

00:40:49.620 Scientists who study ADHD are now challenging each one of those assumptions.

00:40:55.820 Oh, you think?

00:40:56.800 i mean this is one of those the the many times where i i look at you know when the when the

00:41:03.420 scientists and doctors finally get around to saying yeah there might be an issue here

00:41:06.540 and i think well how is it that i noticed that 15 years ago just using my own common sense

00:41:13.180 and you guys are just now getting around to yeah well maybe i don't know

00:41:16.780 like it was i'm not a very smart person if it was obvious to me it was obvious to you

00:41:23.040 basic common sense questions about the whole concept of adhd should have been asked a long

00:41:30.300 time ago and they weren't and in particular scientists are now admitting that ritalin does

00:41:36.480 not improve academic performance at all the alleged behavioral benefits to the extent they exist at

00:41:41.540 all fade to nothing within a couple of years and meanwhile children are suffering permanent

00:41:46.060 lifelong consequences quote there was another distressing result they noticed in their data

00:41:51.460 the children who took Ritalin for an extended period grew less quickly than the non-medicated

00:41:56.280 children did. By the end of those 36 months, subjects who had consistently taken stimulant

00:41:59.740 medication were on average more than an inch shorter than the ones who had never received

00:42:04.060 medication. Many of the scientists in the study group assumed that this height suppression in

00:42:08.120 childhood would be temporary, that the shorter children would catch up during adolescence,

00:42:12.200 but when data was collected again nine years after the initial experiment, the height gap remained.

00:42:16.760 In 2017, the study group published yet another follow-up, this time tracking the subject until

00:42:20.420 age 25, the ones who had consistently taken stimulant medication remained about an inch

00:42:24.460 shorter than their peers. Their ADHD symptoms, meanwhile, were no better than those who had

00:42:28.920 stopped taking the medication or who had never started. Additionally, last year, a study in

00:42:33.040 the American Journal of Psychiatry found that even a medium-strength daily dose of Adderall

00:42:36.700 more than tripled a patient's likelihood of developing psychosis or mania. A high-dose

00:42:42.240 risk, high-dose increased the risk by a factor of five. So these are just drugs that they should

00:42:49.660 just never give to anybody. Okay. You're giving the drugs for a disorder that doesn't exist and

00:42:56.080 has never been proven. It makes no sense. Uh, the, the potential side effects are myriad

00:43:02.640 and they include psychosis and stunting your growth. By the way, if you're taking a drug

00:43:10.000 that can make you be shorter, that already is a massive side effect. Okay. It's affected your

00:43:15.680 physical growth, but that's just the start of it. If it's doing that to you physiologically,

00:43:21.520 it's doing a lot more than that. So to recap, the drugs don't even work,

00:43:27.140 but they do make it much more likely that your child will become psychotic, and they also stand

00:43:31.320 a good chance of permanently stunting his growth as well. Of course, none of this information was

00:43:36.080 communicated to the millions of parents who gave these drugs, which are essentially speed to their

00:43:40.740 children. Certainly there's been no attempt by the medical establishment to grapple with the

00:43:47.020 fundamental incoherence of ADHD as a concept. What the hell does it actually mean for a child

00:43:53.040 to have a deficit of attention? Doesn't this again require us to have some baseline standard

00:44:00.100 of how much attention a child should have? When a doctor tells you that, oh, your child suffers

00:44:05.760 from a deficit of attention. Shouldn't your first question be, well, but how much attention should

00:44:12.120 he have? What do you mean? Like a deficit, that's a quantifiable term. It's a term of quantity,

00:44:20.060 a deficit. That means that there's less of this thing than there should be. Well,

00:44:25.080 how much should there be? And what are you basing that on, doc? Nobody asks that,

00:44:32.280 or very few people asked it. Every parent knows that young kids, boys in particular,

00:44:37.320 have a baseline attention span of like 10 seconds anyway. And if you put them in a very boring

00:44:41.780 environment like public school, or you surround them with distractions like TVs and phones and

00:44:46.640 tablets and all the rest of it, then they'll have even more trouble paying attention. This is why

00:44:50.720 kids today seem so distracted. The first reason is that they're kids. The second reason is that

00:44:55.040 they are surrounded by distractions. If you surround your kid with noises and lights and

00:45:02.660 screens and sounds and everything all the time, and then you notice that they're distracted,

00:45:09.720 you don't need to come up with any mental illness theory to explain it.

00:45:15.560 So before a nine-year-old boy is diagnosed as mentally ill and a victim of ADHD,

00:45:20.040 have his doctors and his parents controlled for it and accounted for the plethora of distractions

00:45:26.980 in his life and the fact that he's in school seven hours a day, which is really boring.

00:45:31.120 And the fact that he's a young boy and young boys since the beginning of time have been

00:45:35.120 rebunctious, energetic, and distractible. Have these factors been positively and absolutely

00:45:41.040 eliminated as explanations before the drugs are prescribed? The answer is no, never.

00:45:49.240 Not in a single case.

00:45:51.400 These factors are not even seriously considered ever.

00:45:55.640 We take easily distracted young kids.

00:45:58.260 We surround them by distractions.

00:45:59.560 We plop them at a desk in a classroom with 30 other kids five days a week.

00:46:03.560 And then when they respond to all of that in a normal way, we pump them full of drugs to sedate them and make them compliant.

00:46:12.560 Which later stunts their growth and makes them psychotic.

00:46:14.860 That's what's happening.

00:46:15.620 It's a moral crime.

00:46:16.700 and it should be a literal crime.

00:46:20.480 And by the way, sometimes children as young as five years old

00:46:22.720 are being prescribed drugs like Zoloft and similar medications

00:46:26.760 and this is how that turns out.

00:46:29.840 At five years old, I was given this stuff

00:46:32.020 and around the same time, starting at elementary school,

00:46:36.280 I started having adverse side effects,

00:46:38.520 mainly uncontrollable twitches that I'm still dealing with today

00:46:41.420 and I'm probably going to deal with forever.

00:46:43.600 Again, I don't think this was told to my parents at all.

00:46:46.700 But after seeing this, instead of getting me off the drugs,

00:46:50.900 they were, because they thought this was the only option for me,

00:46:53.780 they just tried therapy.

00:46:55.220 That didn't work.

00:46:56.500 And a few years later, when I was 12 years old,

00:46:59.080 I was actually tested for prolactin after I'd been on Risperdal for so long.

00:47:05.760 And prolactin is basically the lactation hormone. 0.91

00:47:09.000 So I could have developed women's breasts.

00:47:11.500 And not only that, I could have also developed lactation from being on Risperdal.

00:47:16.100 and this was at a time before I even knew trans existed. 1.00

00:47:19.500 So imagine being a boy, getting female parts on your chest 0.89

00:47:23.500 without even knowing that trans exists. 0.99

00:47:26.280 And yet that was a possibility. 1.00

00:47:27.960 Thank God they didn't find anything.

00:47:29.760 But what they did find was elevated cholesterol

00:47:32.600 comparable to that of an old man.

00:47:34.680 So that's a problem and they had to change my dosage.

00:47:37.000 Well, at least they did,

00:47:37.800 but they should have gotten me off completely.

00:47:39.940 But this isn't even really my parents' fault

00:47:42.000 because doctors coerced them

00:47:43.380 into thinking it was the only option.

00:47:45.540 I have to wonder how long it's going to take for these scientists to tell us the truth about GLP-1s or the COVID shot or so-called gender transition medications or marijuana.

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00:50:31.900 slash Walsh, code Walsh to unlock 15% off. Exclusions apply. What's gone wrong here is

00:50:39.020 that sometime in the 1970s, the medical community decided that their primary goal wasn't to make

00:50:43.580 people healthier. Their primary goal was to play God, to fix aspects of the human condition that

00:50:49.040 they found unappealing. So if a child is fidgety, as all children are, doctors decided they could

00:50:53.620 change that behavior. If a mother doesn't actually want her child, doctors decided that she didn't

00:50:58.140 need to have one. They could just abort the child. And on and on. In 1993, there was a study showing 1.00

00:51:03.220 that medical schools had mostly stopped mentioning a deity in their oaths. These are oaths that

00:51:08.440 graduating students have to take where they say they're not going to do any harm. Quote,

00:51:12.100 147 of 98% of responding schools administered a professional oath. The oath was typically taken

00:51:17.760 in graduation, while 49% of schools claimed to use the Hippocratic Oath. Just one school used

00:51:22.660 the original. Only 11 schools limited abortion, 20 forbade euthanasia, and five prescribed

00:51:27.800 sexual misconduct, while 63 invoked external witnesses. Only 16 invoked a deity using the

00:51:35.240 phrase, whatever I hold sacred as a substitute. So less than 11% of medical schools referenced a

00:51:42.720 deity in their oaths. Instead, they allowed the med students to determine what's sacred and what's

00:51:50.180 not. A century earlier, pretty much every medical school oath mentioned God. And that gives you a

00:51:57.140 pretty good idea of what's going on here. Doctors are now destroying people's lives, including the

00:52:01.040 lives of children, because they're driven by an overwhelming narcissistic desire to play God.

00:52:07.280 Not every doctor, of course, has that desire, obviously, but this is the general trend in the

00:52:11.440 medical industry, in particular among in the psychiatric industry. And we all know where

00:52:17.300 this is going. In Canada, they're now planning to euthanize people with these so-called mental

00:52:21.080 health conditions to save money for the healthcare system. Watch. Section four of module seven on

00:52:31.640 made and mental illness entitled specific mental disorders and made assessments features, quote,

00:52:37.160 the most common disorders associated with made requests. Common disorders featured in this

00:52:44.080 section include major depression, personality disorders, trauma-related disorders such as

00:52:50.520 PTSD, substance use disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. So to be clear, anyone with these

00:53:00.020 disorders and others, including autism spectrum disorder or substance use disorder or someone

00:53:07.540 with PTSD could qualify for MAID in the context of having his sole underlying mental health

00:53:13.040 disorder, correct? Yes, that's correct. Okay, thank you for that. Now, CAMAP is, and just be

00:53:21.120 clear, could be anything in the DSM-5? As long as it meets all of the criteria related to a grievous

00:53:27.760 near irremediable medical condition. Right, so that would include things like anxiety,

00:53:33.060 schizophrenia, etc., correct? It's entirely possible. Okay. So the expansion of mental

00:53:38.680 health disorders is going to continue indefinitely to increasingly horrific ends unless we take

00:53:43.300 a cue from Thomas Sass and start questioning the fundamental premise that all of this is

00:53:50.260 built on.

00:53:51.980 You know, it's finally and very recently become acceptable to express skepticism about SSRIs

00:53:57.020 and ADHD medication.

00:53:58.680 That's why you have articles in the New York Times about it.

00:54:00.840 It's why that video of Kamala Harris's stepdaughter went viral.

00:54:04.420 So a lot of these kinds of videos are going viral just even in the last couple of weeks.

00:54:08.680 Now, I'm old enough to remember when offering any criticism of antidepressants and ADHD medication

00:54:13.620 was enough to get you screamed at and shouted down as some kind of anti-science lunatic.

00:54:19.260 That seems to finally be changing.

00:54:21.760 People and masks are thinking critically about these issues for the first time in a long time, maybe ever.

00:54:27.300 But if you're going to think critically, think critically about the entire issue.

00:54:32.460 And the problem is not just that SSRIs are over-prescribed.

00:54:35.740 It's that they are prescribed at all.

00:54:37.800 The problem is not just that too many kids are being diagnosed with ADHD.

00:54:41.640 It's that any are ever diagnosed with ADHD.

00:54:46.200 Now, whether you want to go full sauce is up to you.

00:54:49.200 I'm not saying that even I buy all of his arguments entirely.

00:54:53.740 But I do know that doctors are not gods.

00:54:58.660 The human condition is not a disease that needs to be or can be cured with a pill.

00:55:04.200 If you also recognize that truth, then in at least one important respect, you know more than a lot of medical professionals do.

00:55:14.580 The fact is that life is complicated and hard.

00:55:19.140 It's not easy.

00:55:20.640 We suffer.

00:55:22.080 We feel despair.

00:55:23.520 We have anxiety.

00:55:24.660 We get distracted.

00:55:26.880 That doesn't make us sick.

00:55:29.180 It doesn't make us disordered.

00:55:31.580 It just makes us human.

00:55:34.200 I'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 07, 2026

Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

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