The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1810 - This Insane New Therapy Trend Is DESTROYING Families

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00:00:57.240 We learned late last night that Shiloh Hendricks was convicted of one count of disorderly conduct for the crime of being robbed by a Somali child and then saying unkind things to a Somali man who berated her.

00:01:09.860 She received a jail sentence of 90 days, which was stayed, along with a $1,000 fine and in order to perform 200 hours of community service, all because she used words that offended a Somali invader in her state, which is apparently now a crime.

00:01:23.680 Now, she didn't hit the man. She didn't assault him. She didn't threaten him. She verbalized her frustration with the fact that Somalis have taken over Minnesota, which they have, to the point that they're terrorizing her and her child in public parks. She defended her child from a hostile foreigner who was clearly antagonizing her. Yes, she used a naughty word, God forbid, but this is not North Korea or Canada.

00:01:45.940 We're allowed to say naughty words, or at least we used to be in this country, because we understand that words are not tantamount to violence.

00:01:52.940 No harm of any kind will befall anyone because they heard someone say a word, especially a word that the very community claiming to be offended by it uses themselves with significant frequency.

00:02:05.780 So for now, unless this verdict is immediately overturned, we could say definitively that the First Amendment, in every relevant respect, has been suspended in the state of Minnesota.

00:02:16.580 If this is not a First Amendment violation, then nothing is. Really, that is that simple.

00:02:21.300 This is a case that raises many issues that we will be delving into next week.

00:02:25.400 I wanted to mention it at the top because it's an important story, in many ways a landmark free speech case that just broke late last night.

00:02:34.240 In fact, I believe the verdict came in at like 10 o'clock last night, which is weird, too.

00:02:39.440 When's the last time you heard of a verdict coming in in a case at 10 o'clock at night?

00:02:44.160 So we'll have to look at that as well.

00:02:45.880 But also in a somewhat circuitous way, you could also see a connection to the topic we had planned for the show today,

00:02:52.960 in which we're still going to talk about, as it indirectly highlights a broader issue,

00:02:57.340 which is that the leftist mission of destroying American families, of punishing parents who defend

00:03:03.160 their children, has not gone anywhere since the BLM mania of 2020. If you remember in 2020, 0.53

00:03:08.580 we heard again and again that the nuclear family is a racist vestige of white supremacy and that

00:03:14.960 students should effectively be raised by the school system rather than their parents. Now,

00:03:19.720 this is nothing new for communists, as we discussed in our most recent episode of Real History, but

00:03:23.300 it would be naive to think that the left has abandoned the same objective in this country.

00:03:28.360 They haven't. They're not backing down at all. In all aspects of civil society, their goal is to

00:03:33.000 drive a wedge between parents and their children. And today we're going to focus on one front in

00:03:38.440 this war, which we've talked about many times in the past for good reason. It is the field

00:03:42.920 of psychiatry, a discipline that demands to be taken seriously, even though it has achieved

00:03:48.540 precisely nothing. I mean, think of it this way. Over the past 100 years, cardiologists have

00:03:54.640 invented open heart surgery. Infectious disease doctors have started prescribing penicillin.

00:04:00.620 Dentists have developed all kinds of new and effective ways to advance dental health and

00:04:04.600 hygiene. Neurologists have come up with new treatments for Alzheimer's. Dermatologists have

00:04:09.400 made many advances in tackling acne and other skin conditions. Eye doctors learned how to perform

00:04:14.900 arm surgery on the cornea, mostly by accident. It's actually a remarkable story. As a side note,

00:04:20.300 in the 70s, a kid in Russia got into a fistfight in which he was punched in the face and pieces

00:04:24.120 of his glasses ended up in his eye. And after removing the glass, the Soviet eye doctor realized

00:04:29.120 that the child's vision had actually improved. So the doctor got the idea of cutting the cornea to

00:04:33.620 improve people's vision. And a few decades later, LASIK was born. So in short, some of the major,

00:04:39.600 most of the major medical specialties have done something new and noteworthy within the past

00:04:46.340 century. There are marked improvements in their areas of health, which can be directly tied

00:04:52.740 to these advances. A lot of these, many medical specialties have also done horrible things over

00:04:59.200 the last 100 years, but there have been advances. So if you ask the typical doctor,

00:05:03.380 what has your particular branch of medicine accomplished since the early 1900s, you'd get

00:05:08.440 laundry list of accomplishments that have impacted millions of lives. But there is at least one

00:05:14.740 notable exception, and that is the field of psychiatry. Psychiatrists, therapists, mental

00:05:19.580 health professionals are the only doctors who cannot point to a single quantifiable achievement

00:05:25.500 in their entire field since its inception. There has never been a documented, verifiable moment

00:05:32.820 in which psychiatrists have ever made a true measurable advancement. They haven't stumbled

00:05:39.320 into any major discoveries. All of their alleged breakthroughs, particularly the discovery of ADHD,

00:05:45.400 the closure of the asylums, all the gender derangement, the rapidly increasing list of

00:05:51.880 mental health, of mental illnesses that they're constantly inventing as the DSM expands and

00:05:56.260 expands and expands, the mass prescription of SSRIs and hormones and speed. These have all

00:06:02.340 turned out to be counterproductive, to put it mildly, and dangerous, particularly for children.

00:06:08.040 They told us that depression was caused by a lack of serotonin in the brain, only to admit decades

00:06:11.920 later that they had no idea what they were talking about. But by the way, they still prescribe SSRIs,

00:06:17.980 which have an effect but aren't going to solve the problem. Their primary achievement is not

00:06:24.660 finding new ways to cure or treat diseases, but inventing new diseases that cannot be cured or

00:06:30.160 treated at all. And most importantly, as we will discuss, by every measure, okay, their area of

00:06:36.860 health, mental health, has declined rapidly and catastrophically as the field has become more

00:06:44.120 powerful, more pervasive, and better funded. So as the mental health industry has expanded,

00:06:50.340 mental health in our society has plummeted. And yet the industry is never held accountable for

00:06:57.600 this. These dots are rarely connected. We never stop and say to these people, hey, what exactly

00:07:03.960 have you people done for us? What have you done? Certainly the drugs have been a total bust and

00:07:11.240 therefore the only tool that's left in their arsenal, the only way for a mental health

00:07:14.500 professional to discover a breakthrough in the field, aside from coming up with a new drug for

00:07:18.540 a new fake mental health condition, which they do all the time, is to experiment with new methods

00:07:23.820 of talk therapy, you know, and that's really all they can attempt to do, just talk to people in

00:07:28.620 different ways and say different things in the hopes that they'll somehow fix their patient's

00:07:32.420 problems. Now, in other areas of medicine, finding a major breakthrough means conducting lab

00:07:36.980 experiments and high stakes, you know, procedures. In the field of psychiatry, finding a major

00:07:41.940 breakthrough means having a different kind of conversation with your patient and sort of hoping

00:07:46.060 for the best. And unlike the legitimate fields of medicine, the breakthrough is not measured in any

00:07:50.900 kind of objective, verifiable way. There's no subjectivity to the question of whether or not

00:07:56.960 your heart medication is working. It's either working or it isn't. But the success of psychiatric

00:08:02.180 treatments is entirely measured by, first of all, the subjective judgment of the patient who is in

00:08:09.060 the treatment in the first place because they're troubled and mentally unwell, and therefore

00:08:12.820 perhaps unreliable narrators about their own mental health, and by the psychiatrists or therapists who

00:08:18.880 are, of course, very incentivized to count their own methods as successful. Now, if you read the

00:08:24.960 Wall Street Journal recently, if you have read it recently, you might be aware of the latest

00:08:30.080 conversation that therapists are pushing. Increasingly, therapists are telling their

00:08:34.700 patients to cut off contact with their own family members as a way of, quote, protecting their health

00:08:40.440 and, quote, allowing for emotional growth. And the numbers here, as the Wall Street Journal

00:08:45.320 tabulates are pretty staggering. Quote, about 25% of the U.S. population is estranged from or has

00:08:51.580 cut ties with a close relative at any given time, and 10% is estranged from a parent or child,

00:08:56.480 according to research by Carl Pillemer, a family sociologist professor of human development at

00:09:01.920 Cornell. Among some 7,000 estranged parents surveyed in April, a third believed their adult

00:09:07.600 child's therapist had influenced or recommended the decision to end the relationship. So yes,

00:09:13.520 one third of estranged parents believe that a therapist convinced their adult child to cut them

00:09:18.780 off and a quarter of the population is now estranged from somebody in their family now this

00:09:24.340 is what they call going no contact which is a phrase you've probably heard it's become increasingly

00:09:29.160 popular i never even heard that phrase until a few years ago and now it's everywhere uh and you

00:09:35.200 know it's you'll go on tiktok or or you know you'll find instagram you'll find gen z and

00:09:40.720 millennials constantly talking about, well, I decided to go no contact. Have you gone no

00:09:45.500 contact yet? It's like a coming of age ritual for Gen Z and millennials. The day when they

00:09:52.880 decide to go no contact, which is cut off their own family, isolate themselves even more.

00:10:00.600 And a huge number of them, as the Wall Street Journal has found, have decided to go no contact

00:10:05.240 from their parents. And we have the mental health industry largely to thank for that.

00:10:10.720 Now obviously there are certain situations, before people jump down my throat, there are certain situations that would justify cutting off a family member. No one is claiming that it's always wrong to cut off family. If your parents are actually abusive monsters, I mean actually, who are destroying your life in some tangible way, then cutting them off is totally justified.

00:10:32.840 Now, I'm not going to say that people have an obligation to endure relentless abuse just because they're related to the abuser,

00:10:38.100 or they have an obligation to maintain a relationship with a parent who abused them as a child.

00:10:43.080 But that's not what we're talking about here.

00:10:45.140 You know, we're not talking just about parents who are legitimately, genuinely abusive and were rightly cut off.

00:10:51.120 What's happening in these cases very often is quite different.

00:10:55.440 Therapists have their clients icing out family members, cutting them off completely, essentially disowning them,

00:11:01.120 for reasons that often have nothing to do with actual abuse. Now, in many cases, therapists are

00:11:08.160 simply affirming whatever their client tells them without questioning whether

00:11:12.600 that person is telling the truth. In other words, instead of functioning as an independent advisor,

00:11:19.060 therapists are acting like yes men, which is what they usually do. This is one of the

00:11:24.780 fundamental problems in the entire industry. It's the affirmative model of therapy, which has been 0.99

00:11:28.900 a catastrophic disaster across the board, where they will just basically agree with whatever

00:11:34.620 the person, they will affirm their feelings. If the person sits down and says, I feel this way,

00:11:40.920 this is how I feel about my parents. Well, then for a lot of therapists, God forbid,

00:11:46.800 they're not going to tell, they're not going to suggest that, well, you know,

00:11:49.700 maybe your feelings are wrong. Maybe, maybe you're wrong. You ever think about that?

00:11:53.940 you have this feeling about your family member. Maybe you're the jerk here. Have you ever 1.00

00:12:00.500 considered that? It might be you. That should be the first thing a therapist says. First thing

00:12:07.420 should be, okay, let's look at this and find out if maybe you're the problem. And very often,

00:12:13.760 that just doesn't happen. So if a client is delusional or self-centered and wants to cut

00:12:18.840 off his family for a dumb reason, the therapist isn't going to stand in the way. Going back to

00:12:23.400 the article, a lot of therapists are taught to believe whatever the client is saying at face

00:12:26.720 value, says Peter Anderson, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Beverly, Massachusetts,

00:12:30.940 who helps families with estrangements and conducted the surveys. They're forming conclusions based on

00:12:35.980 one person's account. People are coming into a therapist's office and parroting what they hear

00:12:39.680 on social media. Anderson says they're looking for affirmation for a decision they've already made.

00:12:45.360 now there are also which by the way that's another problem for that's a problem that doc that even

00:12:53.400 real doctors across every medical field deal with now that's part of the consequence of you know

00:12:58.240 allowing direct consumer advertisement with pharmaceuticals uh and you know now ai and google

00:13:04.880 diagnosing people web md people go into the doctor already having decided what their problem is and

00:13:11.260 they're just looking for a doctor to affirm it and give them a drug. And again, a real doctor,

00:13:17.220 a good doctor is not going to do that. But in the therapy field, most of them, that's exactly what

00:13:24.140 they'll do. Now, there are also many cases in which therapists take a more direct role and try

00:13:28.620 to plant memories of abuse or trauma, quote unquote, in their client's head. And if that

00:13:33.920 sounds implausible, you should know that there's a long history of therapists and psychiatrists

00:13:39.340 doing exactly that, convincing people they were abused when in fact they were not.

00:13:45.260 You could go all the way back to, you might remember, or maybe not, the

00:13:48.540 repressed memory scam of the 80s and 90s, when it became fashionable for people to concoct

00:13:56.160 narratives long after the fact, often with the help of their therapist. This became an epidemic

00:14:01.700 where people were going to therapists for some problem, and then in therapy discovering, oh yeah,

00:14:07.300 actually I was abused. I never remembered that until this very moment. Lots of lives were

00:14:13.400 destroyed because of that. For these memories, it ended up being false memories. Didn't really

00:14:18.360 happen. You just convinced yourself of it or your therapist helped to convince you of it.

00:14:22.700 There are notable cases of this, famous cases, probably the most famous case involved a woman

00:14:26.880 named Eileen Franklin Lipsker, who became something of a celebrity in 1989. Eileen alleged that she 0.98

00:14:32.800 had suddenly recovered a repressed memory of seeing her father, 51-year-old retired firefighter

00:14:38.160 George Franklin, sexually assault and murder an eight-year-old named Susan, who lived next

00:14:44.660 door. And the alleged memory was more than 20 years old by that point. The killing had happened

00:14:48.940 in 1969. But the media took Eileen's claim seriously, and so did the prosecutors. Watch.

00:14:55.460 in california eileen franklin says just one look from her six-year-old daughter

00:15:02.280 jarred a memory so terrible she repressed it for 20 years all right listen to this one meet

00:15:09.460 eileen franklin eileen franklin was the center of a very important landmark case

00:15:15.280 the murder she witnessed happened 20 years ago and the murderer was her father reporters literally

00:15:23.500 fell over each other. The story Eileen Franklin told in court in 1990 happened when she was a

00:15:30.460 child. The way I remember it is that I was eight years old and I was in my father's Volkswagen

00:15:37.820 van with him and we drove around the corner from my house and I saw Susan playing outside

00:15:43.880 and I got really excited and I asked my dad if Susan could get in the van with us 0.89

00:15:49.020 and so we stopped and Susan got in

00:15:52.960 and in the back of the van there was a bed

00:15:54.900 and Susan and I were bouncing up and down on the bed

00:15:58.580 and my dad drove us out

00:16:00.760 to an area that's wooded

00:16:03.660 and he pulled over to the side of the road

00:16:06.580 and Susan and I were playing on the bed

00:16:10.100 and he came back into the back

00:16:13.560 and he

00:16:16.480 I went up into the front 0.96

00:16:18.900 And when I looked back, he had Susan's arms pinned above her head and he was on top of her.

00:16:31.200 Horrible details you hear there that were entirely made up.

00:16:35.740 One of the details that Eileen provided as part of her newfound recollection of events was that a ring had been smashed at the crime scene.

00:16:42.920 The authorities took that claim as proof that Eileen's memory was accurate, since a ring had indeed been recovered in the investigation.

00:16:49.960 Defense lawyers attempted to point out that several media organizations had reported on the ring back in 1969, meaning it's possible that Eileen was simply remembering news coverage that she had seen.

00:16:58.920 Well, the judge didn't let the defense lawyers make that argument in front of the jury.

00:17:02.360 Not that it would have mattered. By all accounts, the jury had fully bought into the idea of repressed memories.

00:17:07.360 As the L.A. Times reported, quote,

00:17:08.880 Frank Lipsker's story shifted and changed.

00:17:10.620 In one account, her sister Janice had been in the van

00:17:13.120 and another she wasn't.

00:17:14.540 The murder was in the morning,

00:17:15.540 then in the late afternoon,

00:17:16.600 but the contradictions did not cause jurors

00:17:18.200 to disbelieve her, said Harry McLean,

00:17:20.300 who wrote about the case in the book,

00:17:22.300 Once Upon a Time, a true story of memory,

00:17:24.240 murder, and the law.

00:17:25.180 The problem was the jury sat there 0.99

00:17:26.600 and took that as evidence of how damaged she was

00:17:29.540 from having George Franklin as a father, McLean said.

00:17:32.440 It was making her more sympathetic. 0.78

00:17:35.120 Now, the prosecution was also assisted by quack experts who went on national TV to push this narrative of repressed memories. 0.86

00:17:43.160 Watch. 0.73

00:17:44.500 Why did she wait 20 years to report it?

00:17:47.320 She had repressed it.

00:17:48.840 So why is it that some people can remember beginning at an age when you do remember things, you know, 7, 8, 9, and other people absolutely do not?

00:17:57.280 In psychiatry we call these things dissociation, which is to separate yourself from what's going on, to feel unreal.

00:18:03.400 Dr. Lenore Tehr, a psychiatrist and expert witness for the prosecution, explained on

00:18:08.620 television what she presented to the jury, a theory of repressed memory that would be

00:18:14.140 further popularized in a television movie about the case.

00:18:17.240 Do you know what that would cost her?

00:18:18.740 This whole case depends on proving repressed memory.

00:18:21.920 According to Dr. Tehr, traumatic repression is substantiated by repeated violence in childhood.

00:18:28.600 But in order to fit Dr. Ter's theory that repressed memories involved repeated violence

00:18:33.760 in childhood, Eileen had to come up with other violent experiences that she had repressed.

00:18:39.920 And then my father held me down on this table.

00:18:44.800 She recalled repressed memories of sexual abuse by her father.

00:18:49.240 At least she said so.

00:18:53.920 Traumatic repression.

00:18:56.920 the reasons why we're kind of harping on this a little bit is because uh this is the uh this is

00:19:02.600 the this is the pattern for the psychiatric industry they've been doing this for decades

00:19:07.620 they just make things up just just you know you have some weird guy who's sitting around and you

00:19:13.820 know what that sounds right i bet there's traumatic repression i bet your mind is like a box and you

00:19:20.300 store in it like things that are really bad that happened to you that you can't remember and then

00:19:25.200 you got to go to a therapist and they'll give you the secret key to unlock the box. That sounds

00:19:28.980 right. This is not, it's never based on any data, anything, just this guy thought of this.

00:19:33.760 And, and then it takes over the entire, uh, psychiatric industry and lives are destroyed.

00:19:38.800 And we've seen this, this same pattern has played out with the gender stuff, with depression, 0.69

00:19:44.340 SSRIs, ADHD, it's just them inventing things with no data. And then lives are ruined. 0.90

00:19:51.500 And then eventually they say, yeah, you know, maybe we were wrong about that. And they just

00:19:54.780 kind of move on. There's no accountability. Now, in the end, despite the total lack of

00:19:58.620 physical evidence tying him to the murder, George Franklin was convicted and sentenced to life in

00:20:02.500 prison. The judge said he regretted that he couldn't hand down a death sentence in the case.

00:20:07.140 And after he served more than six years in prison, Franklin was released. A federal judge overturned

00:20:11.320 his conviction, saying the trial court had made several errors. And shortly afterwards,

00:20:16.420 Eileen's sister admitted that Eileen's repressed memory had been unearthed via hypnosis. It wasn't

00:20:22.940 really a memory at all. It was suggested to her, that's what hypnosis is, that Eileen torpedoed her

00:20:28.700 credibility further when she announced that she had yet another repressed memory of her father

00:20:32.120 committing a separate murder. But that claim didn't go anywhere because DNA evidence proved

00:20:36.260 her father was nowhere near the murder scene at the time. Now, the saga of this particular fake

00:20:40.900 repressed memory led a memory scientist named Elizabeth Loftus to conduct an experiment which

00:20:46.120 was published in 1995 in the journal Psychiatric Annals. In this experiment, researchers assembled

00:20:51.240 a pool of test subjects and then interviewed their family members to learn about three real

00:20:55.560 events from their childhoods. Then the researchers told the test subjects about four events

00:21:00.080 from their childhood, three real and one that was made up. In every case, the made up event was the

00:21:06.900 same. The subjects were told that they had been lost in the mall when they were young and were

00:21:11.200 rescued by an elderly woman. Now in the experiment, 25% of participants said they developed partial

00:21:17.960 or complete memories of the fake event that never happened. In later experiments, test subjects

00:21:24.320 became convinced of other events in their childhood that never took place from dog attacks to near

00:21:29.240 drownings. 25%, that's an incredible number. It just shows you how kind of naturally malleable

00:21:37.080 and gullible people are, especially when they're going into therapy. These are extreme examples,

00:21:42.080 but there's no reason to believe that the psychiatric industry has changed to any

00:21:45.360 significant degree. These are people who will happily tell children they're born in the wrong

00:21:49.640 body, sign them up for a lifetime of hormones and chemical castration, if not outright mutilation.

00:21:54.640 To this day, all over the internet, you'll find videos from alleged experts about how repressed

00:21:59.200 memories are supposedly real, even though it's been debunked for decades. For example, here's

00:22:04.380 licensed therapist Elizabeth Cappelletti on this point. Watch. Repressed memories are a real thing.

00:22:12.680 And basically what that is, is we've had things happen in our life, usually pretty traumatic,

00:22:18.240 that our brain just do, do, do, do, do, do, it buries.

00:22:21.720 It's like it never happened.

00:22:23.720 And if you look at that, you can realize like the benefit of that.

00:22:27.040 So I don't have to keep thinking about this thing all the time, but it doesn't mean it's

00:22:30.120 not affecting us.

00:22:31.420 And the crazy part is, is we can have these memories laying dormant, like totally out

00:22:36.960 of our awareness for years, decades.

00:22:39.660 and sometimes they stay buried and sometimes they don't. Sometimes what will happen is something

00:22:45.800 will trigger us and all of a sudden some of these memories start popping up. This can obviously be

00:22:51.200 very disturbing, very distressing, very difficult and I just want to say to you that you are not

00:22:57.500 alone if that's something that's happening for you. Sometimes if we have kids, when our kids

00:23:01.820 hit a certain age, maybe about the age where we experience that, that can be part of what triggers

00:23:05.660 I mean, there could be umpteen reasons of why that might be.

00:23:12.340 Okay, so this is a current licensed marriage and family therapist. 1.00

00:23:16.880 With junk science, this is a woman who gets paid, people pay her a lot of money, I don't know how much, 1.00

00:23:22.400 to solve their problems and their marriage problems. 0.99

00:23:24.600 And what she's saying is junk science, it's debunked, it's not true.

00:23:27.780 Nothing she said is true. It's actually not, it's not real, okay?

00:23:31.620 Now, you can certainly be reminded of things that you haven't thought of in a while.

00:23:34.560 after encountering some kind of relevant cue.

00:23:37.140 That happens all the time.

00:23:37.760 That's just called remembering something, okay?

00:23:39.440 That can happen.

00:23:40.740 But the idea that you can have a deeply repressed memory

00:23:43.420 of a highly traumatic event for decades

00:23:47.100 that you don't remember at all, like it never happened,

00:23:50.100 and then one day it's triggered and comes rushing back

00:23:52.560 or your therapist figures out the secret key

00:23:54.560 to unlock the hidden memory

00:23:56.020 and the hidden memory compartment in your brain 0.63

00:23:57.900 is complete nonsense.

00:24:00.040 I mean, if you suddenly remember something awful that happened to you 30 years ago, it's much more likely that the thing didn't happen and you're imagining it.

00:24:12.420 If you never remembered this thing for 30 years, let's say, and now one day you're 37, you're like, oh, yeah.

00:24:19.580 The much more likely scenario is that you're imagining that you got that from a combination of suggestion, a movie you saw, a dream you had, whatever.

00:24:30.740 Now, if anything, based on all the people who say they have PTSD, the problem with traumatic memories normally is that they don't go away.

00:24:40.620 It's not that they're buried for 20 years in some kind of secret compartment in your consciousness that no one can identify.

00:24:46.580 They stick with you. And that becomes the whole problem is that you think about them too much.

00:24:51.580 Not that you're not thinking about them at all. And the point is, this woman is not an outlier.

00:24:55.440 She's very representative of the therapy industry in that her job is to mislead her clients with fake science and voodoo.

00:25:04.220 If you go into her office and conjure up a repressed memory of your father doing something horrible 30 years ago,

00:25:09.960 she's not going to tell you that you're making it up or that it seems dubious.

00:25:13.420 She apparently won't even say, you know, okay, it's possible you're just imagining this if you just remembered it now 30 years later.

00:25:22.820 That's a possibility at least.

00:25:24.320 let's look at all the possibilities. She won't even do that. Well, it popped into your head 1.00

00:25:28.860 now. It must have happened. It must be true. It must be real. She'll affirm it, and she'll

00:25:34.060 encourage you to cut your father out of your life. That's how this works. It's one of the

00:25:38.280 reasons why this no contact thing is becoming so popular. Even though the repressed memory idea

00:25:43.280 has been thoroughly discredited and debunked for years now, still, this again is a theme in the

00:25:48.120 psychiatric industry. The industry invents myths like repressed memories, like chemical imbalances,

00:25:52.140 like gender identity, and even after those myths are exposed and debunked and proven not only false

00:25:57.300 but disastrously harmful, still the industry will keep peddling them. And millions of hapless people

00:26:02.760 will keep paying thousands of dollars to the purveyors of these discredited, harmful myths.

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00:28:25.340 That's why you can easily find thousands of videos of therapists and so-called life coaches

00:28:29.920 informing children that if they don't want to be associated with their parents, then it's

00:28:34.900 automatically their parents' fault. You don't need to do any kind of analysis or engage in

00:28:40.480 any amount of introspection or even communication. If a child cuts off his parents, then by definition

00:28:46.840 the child is justified. This is the more common scenario. You know, it's more often rather than 0.97

00:28:52.540 someone going to a therapist and inventing some memory of being abused from 30 years ago, what

00:28:57.600 more often happens is like they just have a litany of complaints about their parents, most of them

00:29:02.860 quite petty and all of them for many years ago. And, um, and they just feel like, okay, I don't

00:29:09.300 want to talk to them anymore. And the therapist will from the therapist, uh, perspective. If you

00:29:14.840 feel that way, if you feel like you want to just cut your parents out of your life entirely, then

00:29:19.720 it must be the very fact that you feel it means that it must be true. That's really what they

00:29:25.280 think. That's what they teach. For example, watch. If your kids no longer want to speak to you when

00:29:32.620 they become adults, that's 100% your fault as the parent. What most parents don't seem to understand

00:29:38.760 is that the parent-child relationship is not the same as the adult-to-adult relationship.

00:29:44.260 So if you raised your kids and you think, well, I put a roof over your head, I paid for you to

00:29:49.100 have food, and I provided for you, that's the bare minimum. And if that wasn't enough for them

00:29:58.100 to want to continue a relationship with you as an adult, chances are there were some significant

00:30:03.740 problems within the household. How you treated that kid, what your expectations were of that kid

00:30:08.680 or what they are of them as an adult are probably completely misaligned. So you either didn't treat

00:30:14.620 the person well, you were either trying to take advantage of the person through making them

00:30:20.500 parentify by watching a bunch of other children, forcing them to work, turn over part or all of

00:30:26.180 their paycheck um you tried to force your political um and religious opinions on them

00:30:32.260 whatever it happens to be um there is a break in there somewhere that you have responsibility for

00:30:37.980 and if you think to yourself oh i have no responsibility for this i guarantee you're

00:30:42.280 the problem so if you're a little bit more on the side of common sense and you go you know there

00:30:47.540 was probably some things that i really didn't do right that i may need to apologize for and tell

00:30:51.920 okay that's enough of this good with this but that's enough of this guy bloviating oh yeah

00:30:57.840 yeah uh if you force your kid to do some work oh no oh no you you force them to like contribute

00:31:04.520 well you're a bad parent yeah if your adult child at the age of 32 wants to cut you off because when

00:31:12.740 you were 16 you made him get a job it must be your fault no it's not that that 32 year old 0.93

00:31:17.620 is like a spoiled little punk that needs to get over it? It can't be that. It can't be that the

00:31:23.920 32-year-old is an egotistical, arrogant, ridiculous, petulant brat that needs to grow up. 1.00

00:31:29.360 That can't be it. That can't be it. It's got to be, no, no, no, because he's in therapy. So 1.00

00:31:34.860 whatever he, everything he feels is good. Everything he feels is valid. Oh, and God forbid

00:31:43.140 you force your religious opinions on your child, otherwise known as raising them in the faith.

00:31:47.620 in your faith, which is what, I don't know, every generation of humans have done since the

00:31:53.140 beginning of human civilization. But by this guy's telling, and according to many other people,

00:31:58.180 especially therapists, if you were raised in a way that is totally consistent with how billions

00:32:03.960 of other people have been raised, then you're a victim. You are now morally justified in disowning

00:32:09.960 your family. You have suffered undue trauma. You experienced something, the same thing that

00:32:18.200 8 billion other people have experienced, but for you, but no, no, you're a victim.

00:32:24.700 You're a victim because you feel that way. This again is a very common idea. It's one of the main

00:32:31.240 reasons why so many people have cut off their family members at the urging of mental health

00:32:35.020 professionals. But, you know, a few things are lost in this way of thinking beyond just basic

00:32:40.120 logic and common sense. And first of all, if you are an adult, again, putting aside cases of actual

00:32:46.520 real abuse, putting aside those cases, if you are an adult, and this is what your therapist should

00:32:53.920 be saying to you, but they won't because most of them are terrible, it's time for you to grow the

00:32:59.460 hell up and get over whatever complaints you have about the way you were raised. Okay. Maybe your

00:33:06.020 dad didn't attend your dance recital. Maybe your mom had a little bit of a temper. Maybe she yelled 1.00

00:33:11.720 sometimes. Maybe your parents made a whole laundry list of mistakes. Maybe horror of horrors, they

00:33:18.000 force you to go to church with them or get a job. Maybe they even made you do chores around the

00:33:24.220 Maybe they didn't take you to Disney World, okay? Maybe you drew them a picture and they didn't seem excited enough about it or something.

00:33:34.120 Whatever your complaints are, you are an adult now, okay? It's time to move on. It's time to get over it.

00:33:41.900 The fact that there are people in their 30s and 40s, grownups with kids of their own, still obsessing over minor offenses committed by their parents when they were 11 is pathetic and insane. 0.99

00:33:56.600 Yes, your parents made mistakes. They did. You don't need a therapist to tell you that. Your parents were human. 0.99

00:34:03.640 You know what your parents were doing? They were doing what you're doing. They're stumbling along, fumbling around, trying to figure things out as they go. Just like you are. Age and perspective should make you more understanding, more forgiving of your parents' faults, not less.

00:34:22.500 if you are wise, if there's any wisdom in you, then as you get older, you look back at your

00:34:29.660 parents again, unless they were actually really abusive, you look back on your parents with more

00:34:35.440 forgiveness because you realize that, oh yeah, like I'm kind of figuring this stuff out as I

00:34:39.120 go along. I'm not perfect. I'm making mistakes. You know, all those kinds of things. I can be

00:34:44.260 selfish sometimes. I can have a temper sometimes. So yeah, apparently it was the same for my parents.

00:34:48.520 Oh, apparently I'm a human and so were they.

00:34:52.220 This is what your therapist should do when you sit down in their office.

00:34:56.280 The second that you go, and then when I was seven, they should just cut you off right there and say, oh, why are you?

00:35:02.060 How old are you?

00:35:03.200 How old are you?

00:35:03.880 43.

00:35:04.740 Why are you telling me what happened when you were seven?

00:35:08.480 Was it like some horrible, actually horrible thing, like a crime was committed against you?

00:35:12.320 No? 1.00

00:35:12.820 Okay, then shut up. 1.00

00:35:13.860 Like, don't even start. 0.99

00:35:15.280 I don't want to hear about it.

00:35:19.180 And the second point is that your family is your family.

00:35:21.820 Okay, you have an obligation to them.

00:35:23.900 Any mental health professional who encourages you to go no contact from your parents is encouraging you to shirk one of your most fundamental responsibilities as a human.

00:35:34.000 That's why cutting off your parents should be an extreme measure and a last resort, but that's not what's happening.

00:35:38.960 And if you think I'm cherry picking here, if you're under the impression that most therapists are actually useful, then you have to zoom out just like a little bit.

00:35:46.800 And this chart shows the number of adults, as I referenced earlier, in the United States who

00:35:52.080 receive mental health treatment of some kind, whether it's therapy or medications or both.

00:35:56.140 And as you can see, as of 2024, the number is around 60 million people, roughly one in five

00:36:02.320 adults. It's a huge number. In 2002, the number was just 27 million. It's been going up and up

00:36:06.980 and up every single year, just about. And you can see there was a massive spike during the COVID

00:36:12.260 lockdowns for obvious reasons, and it's been increasing ever since then. Now, if we look at

00:36:16.240 talk therapy alone, the numbers are still hard to believe. From 2018 to 2021, the number of

00:36:21.100 American adults receiving outpatient talk therapy alone grew from 6.5% to 8.5%.

00:36:27.180 According to a study from Columbia University, that's a jump from 16 million people to nearly

00:36:32.060 22 million people. And more recent data from 2024 shows that at least 14% of Americans had

00:36:37.400 received counseling or therapy in the past year. I mean, you look closely at the demographics,

00:36:41.000 as you'd expect, the vast majority of those patients are young people. Something like 42%

00:36:46.240 of Gen Z is currently in therapy. That's staggering, which marks a 22% increase in

00:36:54.520 just the past four years. So talk therapy is becoming significantly more common. And people

00:37:00.120 who start talk therapy are more likely to continue in it for a long time, maybe forever. And they're

00:37:07.280 also younger than ever when they start this. These again are staggering numbers. And they mean that

00:37:12.700 virtually every American is either in therapy or knows someone who is. And yet, despite all of this

00:37:19.320 therapy, there is no evidence that mental health is improving in this country at all. In fact,

00:37:25.080 it's getting worse by every available metric. Okay. The CDC found that the prevalence of

00:37:30.300 depression rose by roughly 60% from 8% in 2013 to 13% in 2022 among Americans age 12 and older.

00:37:42.060 And Gallup surveys found that 29% of Americans report that they've been diagnosed with depression

00:37:46.380 at some point in their life. There's a significant increase from 2015 when only 20% of adults have

00:37:51.380 made that claim. Nearly 48 million Americans, 18% of the adult population, claim that they're

00:37:56.100 being treated for depression. And depression among young adults aged 18 to 29 more than doubled from

00:38:01.920 13% in 2017 to 27% as of last year. As a therapist, Jonathan Alpert writes, quote,

00:38:08.120 today, 30% of people between 18 and 29 and 24% of those aged 30 to 39 are affected by anxiety or

00:38:14.420 depression, statistics that are nothing short of alarming. So the problem is pretty clear, okay?

00:38:20.880 We have more therapy than ever, but people are more depressed and anxious than ever. And if

00:38:26.660 therapy worked, you know, you would think that the lines would be moving in opposite directions.

00:38:32.660 If therapy generally helps people to become less depressed and anxious, then as therapy becomes more mainstream and commonplace and goes this way, you would think that depression and anxiety would go that way.

00:38:44.860 That's the kind of inverse relationship we should see if the thing works.

00:38:51.580 But instead, the depression and anxiety line is shooting up, skyrocketing at the same pace as the therapy line.

00:38:57.940 Something is seriously wrong here.

00:38:59.820 An obvious question then is raised.

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00:40:57.100 A therapist I just mentioned, Jonathan Alpert, became something of a pariah in the industry for sharing his thoughts on this question.

00:41:03.160 He was essentially banished from the industry for writing a New York Times op-ed in 2012,

00:41:06.620 which admitted that people are spending too much time in therapy and it's not helping them.

00:41:11.340 And he pointed out that therapists have a perverse incentive in this relationship.

00:41:14.660 He wrote, quote, research shows that in many cases, the longer therapy lasts, the less likely it is to be effective.

00:41:19.440 Still, therapists are often reluctant to admit defeat.

00:41:21.380 According to research conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, therapists who practice more traditional psychotherapy

00:41:25.940 treat patients for an average of 22 sessions before concluding that progress isn't being made.

00:41:31.160 Just 12% of those therapists choose to refer their stagnant patients to another practitioner.

00:41:36.440 The bottom line, even though extended therapy is not always beneficial,

00:41:40.780 many therapists persist in leading patients on an open-ended, potentially endless therapeutic course.

00:41:47.160 Now think of what this means about the industry as a whole.

00:41:50.400 Only 12% of therapists having realized that therapy is not working would tell their patients

00:41:55.200 to go somewhere else. 12%. They could see a patient 22 times with no progress. And after all

00:42:03.480 that, they still will not admit that it's not working because in doing so, they sacrifice a

00:42:09.320 regular payout. That's why psychiatry is the least regarded, least competitive medical specialty.

00:42:14.700 It's a very cynical business and a cyclical business. It's patients get trapped in a recurring

00:42:21.320 cycle and never escape. And all of that is by design. Now, in cases like this, the therapist is

00:42:28.500 more like a friend who's being paid to talk to you. And he has no reason to end the relationship

00:42:33.460 because as long as you keep showing up, he's making money. In other words, the relationship

00:42:36.860 between a patient and a therapist is a lot like the relationship between you and the local termite

00:42:41.180 guy. You might not have a termite problem at all, but if you ask the termite guy, he's going to tell

00:42:46.040 you that you should sign up for his termite protection plan just in case. And then he'll

00:42:49.520 stop by your house at some regular interval, collecting a paycheck every time. Same idea

00:42:53.460 applies when it comes to antivirus software on your computer. Your antivirus company has a clear

00:42:58.260 incentive to make you terrified of computer viruses. They never tell you that actually

00:43:02.720 their software is often unnecessary. They want you afraid. And to that end, they'll bombard you

00:43:08.440 with pop-ups and emails and cybersecurity threats that don't actually amount to anything. They'll

00:43:12.500 do whatever it takes to keep you from unsubscribing. And you can find analogies like

00:43:16.440 this across the board in like every, a car mechanic. Okay. If you go to stop by some random

00:43:22.720 car mechanic and ask them to take a look at your engine, it's very unlikely that they're not going

00:43:28.040 to find some kind of problem. They're going to find some kind of problem because if they don't

00:43:32.340 find any problem, uh, then they're not going to get paid. So, you know, this is, these are the,

00:43:37.540 these are the incentives. And when the incentives are applied to things like your car engine,

00:43:40.940 your house because of termites or your computer, then, you know, the dangers are relatively minimal

00:43:47.340 and you just know that you kind of have to navigate that. But when we're talking about

00:43:51.220 your mind, okay, when we're talking about you as a person and somebody being incentivized

00:43:58.620 to convince you that you have problems in your mind or to make sure that if you do have problems,

00:44:04.280 they're never solved, well, that becomes a much bigger problem. And part of the problem here is

00:44:08.640 that therapists themselves are often, not always, but often, incompetent, dysfunctional, mentally 1.00

00:44:16.520 unwell women with degrees in social work and other fields that don't give them any relevant 0.99

00:44:22.580 expertise at all. And the gender dynamics are very important. According to the Bureau of Labor 1.00

00:44:27.300 Statistics, roughly 75 to 80 percent of therapists are women. Now, even if you just look at

00:44:34.160 psychiatrists who have MDs, you're still over 55% female. Women regularly comprise more than 80% 1.00

00:44:40.300 of the graduates in counseling and clinical psychology programs. And these women, generally

00:44:45.000 speaking, are very often not remotely impressive or qualified to give anyone advice about anything.

00:44:53.040 And if you're a man seeking therapy, which is likely a huge mistake on your part, 0.99

00:44:57.180 um well your options are going to be almost all women and there's something quite absurd 0.99

00:45:04.760 about that like how can a grown adult man with his grown adult man problems and anxieties

00:45:12.120 sit in a room with a 29 year old female with a social work degree and expect to get any advice

00:45:20.440 that's useful or relevant to his life what could that woman possibly have to say to you

00:45:26.000 What wisdom could she possibly have that you don't already know?

00:45:29.420 What could she tell you about your life or your mind that you don't already know?

00:45:32.900 I mean, think about it.

00:45:35.980 I mean, if this is an older, like if you're a guy in your 30s and you're sitting down with some like old, you know, some 72 year old man with a lot of wisdom and a lot of life experience.

00:45:48.200 And, you know, the guy's been married for 40 years and he has four kids and they're grown and he has grandkids, like whatever.

00:45:54.040 then in that case, that might be a guy that has some relevant advice to you. But the thing about

00:45:57.640 that is that doesn't need to be a therapist. Like that's what grandfathers are for. That's what,

00:46:01.740 that's what the elders in the village used to be for. Okay. It is possible to sit down and get

00:46:06.040 wisdom from someone. It's not, it is possible that there could be someone in there out there who

00:46:10.100 you could benefit from talking to. But, uh, very often those people are not going to be licensed

00:46:17.460 therapists. Now, to give just one example of what the sorts of people who are populating this

00:46:24.920 industry, here's one. This is a morbidly obese, tattooed, pink-haired therapist with a nose ring

00:46:32.620 who posted a video attacking me for a previous monologue I did on therapy. And she posted a 1.00

00:46:37.700 couple of years ago. I just came across it the other day. I want you to listen to her argument,

00:46:41.760 But also just look at this remarkable specimen and take it all in.

00:46:48.780 Here it is.

00:46:50.260 I think the other thing about this that's really important for us to acknowledge is something we've talked about on the channel before also,

00:46:56.060 which is that there is a lot of hubbub about, like, for example, ADHD diagnoses.

00:47:01.500 This happened in the early 2000s.

00:47:03.500 It's happening now with autism as well, where people are like, oh, people are being diagnosed more often than they were.

00:47:09.980 so clearly we're making it up i'm like no no that's literally not the case what's happening

00:47:15.300 is that we as a culture have gained a collective language and awareness for something that has been

00:47:19.880 happening for like the entirety of time we just didn't know how to describe that we didn't

00:47:25.200 understand what the warning signs were we had no idea what the symptoms looked like and we

00:47:29.140 especially did not have an understanding of how those symptoms presented themselves in marginalized

00:47:33.280 populations because those populations historically have been silenced and so now what we're seeing

00:47:38.480 especially like in regards to autism for example is that we as a psychological community have

00:47:42.640 developed a greater awareness and a better understanding for like symptomatology uh as

00:47:46.780 it relates to femme presenting people right like femme afab uh people who are like you know receiving

00:47:51.920 misogyny we understand now more what autism looks like and how it presents in that population

00:47:56.420 so diagnosis numbers have gone up it's not that we as as mental health professionals are cooking 0.92

00:48:03.260 the books and we're just like have a specific desire for there to be lots of femme autistic

00:48:08.580 people it's just that we imagine that over the course of our profession have learned more we 0.52

00:48:14.240 learn things over time so that's meant that we're better at doing our jobs i know that that's a

00:48:20.700 concept that's probably foreign to somebody who doesn't have a college degree to wrap together 0.99

00:48:25.460 between his meaty little hands oh oh yeah don't have a cop well the fact that this woman can get 0.99

00:48:32.100 a college degree, tells you everything you need to know. Like, if you didn't already realize that 0.99

00:48:36.540 college degrees are meaningless because they will give them to the dumbest, most unimpressive people 0.99

00:48:43.260 who have ever lived on the planet, well, there you go. Now, there's no conspiracy, she says. 0.99

00:48:49.620 There's no one cooking the books. That's all crazy, she says. It's the kind of thing that

00:48:53.100 idiots like Matt Walsh believe because they don't have college degrees. They don't have 1.00

00:48:58.020 college degrees. They're not sophisticated. They're not sophisticated like me, like a morbidly

00:49:03.980 obese woman with pink hair. They lack the sophistication. Now, the real reason autism 0.97

00:49:09.300 diagnoses are skyrocketing, she says, is because there's a lot of femme-presenting people these

00:49:13.660 days who are receiving misogyny. She goes on to beat this point in the ground, saying that I'm

00:49:19.500 crazy for implying that there's a deep state that's submitting fake autism claims or whatever.

00:49:24.080 This is a take that, suffice it to say, has not aged particularly well, especially after

00:49:27.880 Nick Shirley's videos from Little Somalia in Minneapolis. Everyone now realizes beyond a

00:49:32.760 shadow of a doubt that indeed the therapists are cooking the books. This is reporting from

00:49:37.560 the Cato Institute, for example, quote, across eight states with publicly available data,

00:49:41.460 combined Medicaid spending on autism therapy grew from 347 million to over 2.2 billion in recent

00:49:48.820 years. The national total is certainly much larger. Minnesota's spending alone went from

00:49:53.000 $671,000 in 2018 to $342 million by 2024. During those years, the number of Minnesota Medicaid

00:50:01.180 autism therapy recipients rose from 400 to more than 5,700, but per recipient spending rose even

00:50:07.940 more dramatically from less than 1,700 to more than 60,000 annually. The federal inspector general

00:50:13.440 has now audited Medicaid ABA payments in Colorado, Indiana, Maine, and Wisconsin. In each state,

00:50:18.580 100% of sampled claims contained at least one improper or potentially improper payment. Confirmed

00:50:23.380 improper payments totaled $198 million, or 31% of the $638 million reviewed. One Colorado recipient

00:50:32.300 was reimbursed for 200 hours of therapy in a single month, or more than eight hours per day,

00:50:36.940 assuming a five-day work week, the vast majority of which were undocumented. In some facilities,

00:50:41.100 notes were signed before the session had even concluded. Session notes were photocopied across

00:50:45.660 dates with identical texts and signatures, and some files contained the wrong child's name. So

00:50:50.220 this is obvious, flagrant, malicious fraud. These are numerical increases that on their face cannot

00:50:57.320 be explained by a surge in femme-presenting people receiving misogyny, whatever that gibberish is

00:51:03.560 supposed to mean. What's happening is that autism treatment centers and daycares hire therapists

00:51:08.860 who look like this revolting person, and these therapists don't need any credentials whatsoever.

00:51:15.940 The therapists then sit in a room eating pizza and billing Medicaid all day. Are they actually

00:51:19.880 talking to any children at any point? Who knows? Even if there are children in the center,

00:51:24.600 they're often part of the scheme because the parents are getting kickbacks from the autism

00:51:28.380 treatment center for enrolling them. And to make matters worse, as we discussed before,

00:51:32.260 the insurance companies are often party to the scam as well. Insurance companies often manage

00:51:36.420 Medicaid programs. On behalf of the state, that's how it works in Minnesota, the insurance companies

00:51:41.520 get reimbursed by the state for any claims they pay out, plus a premium for their services. So

00:51:45.540 the insurance companies have no reason to complain here. They want to keep paying out claims without

00:51:49.880 any concern for fraud because they know that the state will eventually make them whole with

00:51:54.200 interest. So all this to say that the obese woman was wrong. I was right. I wasn't just right about 1.00

00:52:01.360 this one point. I was right about all of my points. And to prove that, here's some more of her video

00:52:05.700 where she splices in some footage from my show, watch.

00:52:10.240 Yesterday on the members block, 1.00

00:52:11.840 we watched this video of a twice-divorced woman

00:52:13.680 explaining why none of the bad things in her life are her fault.

00:52:16.320 Let's watch that again.

00:52:17.620 Things I stopped with after my divorce.

00:52:19.640 People who judge me based off of my choices.

00:52:21.520 Oh, you would never get a divorce no matter what?

00:52:23.160 Cool. Well, I've had two.

00:52:24.400 Be well.

00:52:24.820 Also stopped with the narrative that something was wrong with me.

00:52:27.400 Nothing's wrong with me.

00:52:28.260 Things happened to me that made me the person that I was

00:52:31.320 and have the struggles that I had.

00:52:32.780 You can fix that.

00:52:33.520 Anything that you don't like,

00:52:34.800 Anything that is no longer serving you, change it.

00:52:38.420 Change it.

00:52:38.960 Go to therapy.

00:52:39.500 Do the journaling.

00:52:40.200 Practice meditation.

00:52:41.000 Do the things that you need to do to be the person you want to be.

00:52:44.560 Go to therapy, she says.

00:52:45.940 If we can assume that she's taken her own advice, we see again how therapy has not helped this truly awful person be any less awful.

00:52:51.880 If anything, it seems to have reinforced all of her worst attitudes and beliefs.

00:52:55.060 Like what?

00:52:55.460 By the way, this woman, Leah Marie is her name. 0.97

00:52:57.340 She is a life coach who specializes in helping coach women through their own divorces.

00:53:01.840 The About Me on her website says this.

00:53:03.180 my second divorce was the ugliest wake-up call ever.

00:53:05.740 That's when I knew I needed to do things differently

00:53:07.180 if I was going to find the happiness I really wanted.

00:53:09.480 So I did all the things, therapy, journaling,

00:53:11.660 meditation, reading books, listening to podcasts.

00:53:13.540 I wanted to learn as much as I could

00:53:14.540 about rebuilding my self-esteem, loving myself,

00:53:16.840 taking better care of myself, and knowing my worth.

00:53:19.280 What a sin.

00:53:20.020 She went to therapy apparently 0.55

00:53:20.820 and discovered that nothing is her fault,

00:53:23.000 that everything is everyone else's fault,

00:53:24.580 that she's been divorced twice

00:53:25.600 and yet it was something that happened to her each time,

00:53:27.980 not something that she did or is at fault for.

00:53:31.000 Sorry, did we watch the same video?

00:53:33.180 Did I just hallucinate? 1.00

00:53:35.100 This woman literally made a TikTok saying, I've been divorced twice.

00:53:40.660 I decided that I wanted to work on myself.

00:53:42.540 And so therefore, I took personal responsibility to go to therapy, to listen to podcasts, to

00:53:47.440 read self-help books, to do journaling, and to participate in all of these essentially

00:53:52.480 health-promoting behaviors. 0.56

00:53:54.820 But she apparently is like, this is like the boomer entitlement thing.

00:53:59.440 They just want stuff for themselves.

00:54:01.420 Like, literally, no. 1.00

00:54:02.680 This woman literally took responsibility for her own shortcomings and worked to improve them.

00:54:08.260 Now, before we get to the substance, such as it is, of what she's saying, and not to belabor the point, but just look at this person.

00:54:17.220 Listen to her.

00:54:19.000 The tone of voice, the TikTok lingo.

00:54:22.920 This is a deeply unimpressive, not particularly bright, and obviously unwell human.

00:54:29.580 somebody who can't get a handle on her own diet, much less anything else in her life,

00:54:33.240 and yet she's a therapist. She sits in rooms with other unwell people and offers them guidance.

00:54:39.480 How could a person who is clearly unhappy and dysfunctional possibly help anyone else

00:54:45.920 be happy and functional? It's like hiring a scuba diving instructor who can't swim.

00:54:50.800 All that will happen is that you'll both end up helplessly sinking into the depths of the sea,

00:54:55.920 Or more precisely, you will sink and she'll stay up on the boat eating a snack and waving to you as you descend, goodbye, never to be seen again.

00:55:03.680 This is essentially how therapy works much of the time because a huge number of therapists are only in the field to begin with because they're trying to figure out how to understand and grapple with their own mental problems.

00:55:15.780 That's the dirty little secret about this industry.

00:55:18.320 The thing that drives a lot of these people to it is because they're interested in mental health problems because they have so many of those problems themselves.

00:55:27.940 Now, the other major problem with therapy is that it encourages people to spend even more time thinking and talking about themselves, which is the whole appeal of therapy in many cases.

00:55:37.100 And that is more likely to breed narcissism than it is to cure it.

00:55:41.040 You know, the truth is that most of your complaints, just like most of my complaints, are petty, not interesting, and not important.

00:55:47.640 There's a reason why you can't find anyone in your real life who will sit down and listen to you drone on for an hour about these issues.

00:55:55.640 It's not because everyone's being mean to you.

00:55:57.600 It's not because nobody cares about you.

00:55:59.360 Boo-hoo.

00:55:59.760 It's because nobody wants to be a sounding board for your navel-gazing rants about yourself.

00:56:07.280 You know, therapy provides that sounding board, which is exactly the problem.

00:56:12.020 There's a thrill that certain people, a lot of people get from talking about themselves.

00:56:19.660 That's why a lot of people like to go to therapy.

00:56:22.660 That is why it's so popular.

00:56:25.580 Because people have a desire to just sit there and they get to tell the story of themselves.

00:56:31.120 They get to talk about themselves.

00:56:32.900 And they can't do that, as I said, anywhere else in their life.

00:56:35.680 because anywhere else in your life, if you try to just sit there for an hour and talk about

00:56:40.040 yourself and your problems, in any other context, that makes you a narcissist. That makes you an

00:56:46.660 antisocial weirdo. That makes you the kind of person nobody wants to talk to. And you can do 0.98

00:56:51.820 it in the context of a therapist's office and suddenly it's brave. Suddenly it's, oh, it's a

00:56:57.400 healthy practice. You're a healthy person. A good therapist would identify that their client is

00:57:03.620 engaged in a pointless narcissistic exercise of self-obsessive monologuing and cut them off

00:57:10.520 and tell them to get over themselves and inform them that therapy is actually the last thing

00:57:16.160 they need right now. A good therapist would identify when someone's only there because

00:57:21.420 they want to talk about themselves and say to them, you don't need to come back here.

00:57:26.100 I don't want your money. This is not what this is about. How many therapists would actually say that?

00:57:33.620 Okay. Very few therapists would ever say that. In my life, I've heard stories of a few

00:57:39.700 therapists who maybe would tell a client to, you know, shut up and get over themselves and

00:57:45.080 go get a hobby or go for a walk instead of sitting in their office whining about petty 0.99

00:57:48.640 bull crap. I'm willing to concede that those therapists would be the good ones, but they 0.97

00:57:54.140 are increasingly few and far between, and they're wildly out of step in a good way with the mainstream

00:57:59.200 of their profession. Now, in that video, the therapist who is in step with the mainstream

00:58:03.420 of her profession, unfortunately, praises this woman for saying that nothing is her fault and

00:58:07.860 that all of her frustrations are the results of things that happened to her. This is called having

00:58:12.620 an external locus of control, and it's one of the worst attitudes you could possibly have. It's one

00:58:16.880 of the most debilitating attitudes you can have. The fact that she's going out and doing all these

00:58:20.360 things, like listening to podcasts, going to therapy, does not change the fact that she

00:58:23.820 fundamentally believes that all of her problems are the fault of other people, especially since,

00:58:27.720 As we all know, the role of these podcasts and therapy is to affirm her narcissism even more.

00:58:34.180 Every generation inherits a world shaped by the decisions made before them.

00:58:37.840 And the question is always the same.

00:58:39.480 Are we giving young people the tools they need to build something better?

00:58:43.280 Well, a good education isn't just about memorizing facts or checking a box.

00:58:46.860 It's about developing discipline, learning how to think, discovering your strengths, and gaining the skills needed to make a meaningful contribution.

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00:59:47.380 Now, most of the time, the actual way to overcome your depression, your anxieties, your insecurities, your quote-unquote traumas,

00:59:53.880 is to stop obsessing over it. Stop thinking about it and live your life. The chances are very high

00:59:59.420 that you're better off going to the gym or going for a jog than talking to a therapist. Now, there

01:00:04.820 may be exceptions in extreme cases, but most people are not extreme cases. I know this is hard for

01:00:09.160 people in our culture to understand, but talking it out is actually not the way to solve your

01:00:15.200 problems most of the time. There's a reason why most people are in therapy forever, because it

01:00:21.620 creates repeat customers because that's intentional, because it's a symbiotic relationship. The

01:00:26.740 therapist needs her clients to come back so the business is viable. The clients want to come back

01:00:31.020 because they have a narcissistic desire to talk about themselves and navel gaze in lieu of actually

01:00:35.680 doing anything to take charge of their own lives. Now, unless we break this cycle, the leftist

01:00:40.940 machine will achieve what it sought for a very long time. Families will be torn apart, local

01:00:44.840 communities will collapse, and the state will inevitably become more powerful as a result. 0.82

01:00:49.100 They want nothing more than to turn as many people as possible into resentful, overweight, narcissistic slobs, and, to bring it back to the beginning, to imprison anybody like Shiloh Hendricks who resists.

01:01:00.600 No matter what issues you may have with your own family, ignore the paid activists and fake therapists who insist that you can't fix those issues.

01:01:08.860 Look at your own life, take personal responsibility, make your own decisions.

01:01:13.180 You'll find that nothing enrages a bad therapist

01:01:15.760 more than telling her you've resolved your problem on your own,

01:01:20.400 which, of course, is pretty good evidence

01:01:22.360 that you never needed her in the first place.

01:01:26.580 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

01:01:28.700 Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday.

01:01:31.240 Godspeed.

01:01:38.760 Once upon a time, there was a country.

01:01:42.180 Not just a country, but a big one, an empire.

01:01:45.020 And in that empire, there was an upper middle class family,

01:01:47.980 where two boys were raised by their mother,

01:01:50.820 who loved books, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Bible.

01:01:54.320 Their father admired the country's leaders,

01:01:56.620 who were patriotic and happy.

01:01:58.700 Both sons went to universities where they were radicalized.

01:02:02.260 One of the brothers read a book

01:02:03.740 and convinced him to try to shoot the country's leader.

01:02:06.180 He was hanged.

01:02:07.580 The other brother read the same books,

01:02:10.040 but decided to lead a movement.

01:02:11.940 First they came for the universities, and no one seemed to care.

01:02:14.940 Then they took over the unions, and again, no one seemed to care.

01:02:17.940 Then they created their own media organizations and took over the cities.

01:02:20.940 And again, most people just ignored it.

01:02:23.940 Change, after all, was something they could believe in until it was too late.

01:02:27.940 Sound familiar?

01:02:29.940 This is the real history of communism, the Russian Revolution.

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 24, 2026

Ep. 1810 - This Insane New Therapy Trend Is DESTROYING Families

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