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[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

I go live this Thursday! Lots to chit-chat about. Come listen and bring your questions.

If there's a particular topic you'd like me to touch on, or if you'd like to submit your questions in advance, head to my chats and drop them in the June chat here:

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If you have any questions about mental health, support, diagnoses, symptoms, or remedies, I'm happy to answer them (if I can). I also love giving referrals, so if it's something I can't answer right away, I'll do my best to point you in the right direction.

Clinicians - this is also a great place to ask practice-related questions or seek clinical guidance. I'm here to serve!

Remember: I am NOT your therapist or your supervisor. Any feedback I provide is my personal and professional opinion based on my experience and training - not therapy, supervision, or individualized clinical advice (gotta keep the legal folks happy 😉).

See you all Thursday at 3 PM PST | 6 PM EST.
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[Will Coleshill @WillColeshill]

YouTube is MASSIVELY SUPPRESSING my interview with Sammy Woodhouse, who led the Rape Gang Inquiry!

Less than 10% of the views our recent videos have got.

X seems to be the only safe place.

Please do share this out far and wide to people you know to help combat the censorship.

Many people won't read the report unless they hear a little about it first. The only way to break through is with you sharing this.

Shame on YouTube. Disgusting.

[Disaffected @DisaffectedPod]

The West needs an exorcism.

[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

ALL 👏🏼 OF 👏🏼 THIS 👏🏼

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Psychotherapy is today one of the largest helping professions in the West. The American Psychological Association (APA) counts more than 172,000 members, and the US government counts 204,300 psychologists, 483,500 mental health counselors, and 77,800 marriage and family therapists at work. The share of adults who saw a mental health professional in the past year more than doubled since the beginning of the century, from 10% in 2001 to 24% today. One recent study put the number of adults in outpatient talk therapy at nearly 22 million a year, up from about 16.5 million only three years earlier. In 2012, the American Psychological Association declared psychotherapy “effective and highly cost-effective.”

And yet psychological problems and psychiatric disorders keep rising. Depression among Americans aged 12 and older rose 60 percent over the last decade, from 8.2 percent in 2013 and 2014 to 13.1 percent in 2021 to 2023. The share of adults ever diagnosed with depression is today an astonishing 30%, almost ten points above its 2015 reading.

A 2016 study in Pediatrics tracked the share of adolescents reporting a major depressive episode rising from 8.7 percent in 2005 to 11.3 percent in 2014. A 2024 study of 1.7 million young people found clinical depression up about 60 percent and anxiety up 31 percent in only four years.

“Endless psychotherapy is a waste of time and money at best, and harmful at worst,” writes psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert in a new book, Therapy Nation. I spoke to Alpert last week, and our conversation follows the video above.

Of course, mental distress was rising before the creation of psychotherapy, and psychotherapy can produce real benefits, particularly for specific conditions. In the late 19th Century, a neurologist chronicled an epidemic of nervous collapse he named neurasthenia, marked by fatigue, anxiety, and depressed mood in an 1881 book. The French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot reported that anxious neurasthenics made up the bulk of his own private practice. And a skilled therapist can ease a particular patient’s anxiety and even lift an episode of depression. Millions of people say, and have shown, that psychotherapy has helped them.

But the fact remains that psychotherapy grew in popularity over the same periods of time that people have reported worsening mental health. This is true not just over the last 120 years but also over the last 20 to 35 years. The rate of depression among adults under 30 more than doubled, from 13% in 2017 to 28% in 2026. Anxiety disorders among people aged 10 to 24 rose 52 percent globally between 1990 and 2021. If psychotherapy is, as APA says, “effective,” it’s either, at best, not effective enough or, at worst, contributing to the problem.

And there is evidence that psychotherapy often makes things worse. A 2006 study of 1,868 individuals found that people who received less psychotherapy achieved greater “reliable and clinically significant improvement” than those who received more. While this could simply represent the reality that people with worse mental distress require less counseling than those who do, it could also mean that psychotherapy worsens mental health.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, recovered memory therapy persuaded thousands of patients, often young women, that they had survived childhood sexual abuse that never happened, resulting in false accusations. A Houston jury awarded one woman nearly $5.8 million in 1997 after therapists implanted false memories. By one estimate, more than 50,000 American therapists accepted the theory of repressed memory uncritically.

And large studies challenge the credibility of the entire field of psychotherapy. A 2018 review estimated that 5 to 20 percent of psychotherapy patients suffer adverse events, including new or worsening symptoms. A 2024 reanalysis of youth depression trials concluded that about one in five young patients got worse during active treatment. Across studies, 40 to 60 percent of psychotherapy patients never reach recovery.

What went wrong? Why has therapy failed to deliver on its promise? And why does it so often cause harm?...

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[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

@RobertKennedyJr @Cernovich @OutFrontCNN I’ve got a good therapist for that

[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

Who believes this shit???

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇲🇮🇱 U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

"Without Israel, there would not be an America. We owe our very existence to what happened in this land."

Is this guy retarded?

Writer: Oliver
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[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

Take a moment and recognize that President Trump admitted that Israel is bombing innocent people.

Something so many have been saying for a very long time. And the neocons are exploding.

So again I ask, why are we in Israel's war?

[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

STOP GLORIFYING DIVORCE! You are not "cool" or "free" because you got divorced. I'm not saying it's not necessary in some situations - but before you start blaming your spouse, maybe take a look at you for picking them, and be a little more humbled by that realization.

[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

@RealCandaceO @FBI_Response There is something so unsettling about our FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION posting on social media to vent their frustration. Can we pretend we’re a serious government, please

[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

The only organization I FULLY trust for proper training in all things mental health. 🙏🏼

[Association For Mental Health Professionals @AMHPUSA]

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[David Tangipa @DavidTangipa]

🚨 MIDNIGHT TAX INCREASES!

In the dead of night, California legislators passed massive new taxes on insurance, digital software, and employee payroll taxes.

Don’t let anyone fool you this isn’t the federal government’s fault. The math isn’t mathing.

California just passed a $355 billion record budget with record revenue. Yet my colleagues still blame the President.

For context: The state budget was around $170 billion just 10 years ago. Now it’s more than doubled and life in California doesn’t feel any easier.

Sacramento has an insatiable appetite for your hard-earned money. If you’re not paying attention, they will keep taking more.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Let me help everybody out.

Many probably remember Gavin Newsom's infamous French Laundry scandal where he ignored all Covid protocols (which he implemented) to have a private party at the exclusive Napa restaurant.

Well, what many people don't know about the story is that the dinner was hosted by a PG&E lobbyist named Jason Kinney.

PG&E is responsible for igniting hundreds of fires in California, including the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 residents in town called Paradise, CA.

Newsom, who takes hundreds of thousands in donations from PG&E, arranged to have the victims paid in part with the company's stock, instead of cash, and in part with a taxpayer-funded slush fund. Predictably the stock price plummeted after the scandal was made public, leaving the victims billions short what they were initially owed.

He then set up something called the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which was supposed to grant "safety certificates" to make sure PG&E was compliant with safety regulations. Except, per whistleblower complaints, the CPUC was effectively controlled by Newsom, and functioned essentially as a rubber stamp for PG&E.

In short, Newsom ignored court rulings and rigged California law to bail out a major corporate donor, trading policy favors for campaign cash while sticking wildfire victims with the bill.

[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

@calvinrobinson He thinks he’s being so brave and bold, but he’s an absolute coward not standing on truth.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Epoch Health @epochhealth]

Her body was cooled to 60 degrees. Her heart was stopped. The blood was drained out of her brain. Every monitor in the room said she was dead.

Then she woke up and described her own surgery.

Pam Reynolds had an aneurysm at the base of her brain that couldn't be operated on by ordinary means. So Dr. Robert Spetzler stopped her heart, drained her brain, and gave himself 30 minutes to rebuild the artery.

When she recovered, she told him she had watched the whole thing. He told her she couldn't have. She was under surgical drapes. She was brain dead.

So she described his custom-made instruments. The conversations between the doctors, word for word. The problems that came up mid-surgery.

"She described the music they were playing in the operating room while she was brain dead."

Spetzler's own response: "I can't explain it."

[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

I love watching him freak out so much

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

Appalling. They fought beside us. Now, we celebrate talks with the enemy, and the enemy knows more than our ally. This is shocking.

[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

I’ll say it with my full chest: Millennials are by far the worst at parenting. Their “boss babe” culture has produced a generation that believes parenting is an inconvenience. If it takes work and energy away from their personal goals, they’ll find the easiest method to it.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

In a new video, Jo Frost, aka Supernanny, warns that some modern parents are hindering their kids’ independence by choosing short-term convenience over teaching basic life skills.

The Instagram post featuring the video is filled with comments from teachers agreeing with her that it’s a growing concern.

@Jo_Frost

[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

@GavinNewsom We loved it!

[Soad Tabrizi @SoadTabrizi]

@realannapaulina @finkd @KatieBrittforAL @RepLisaMcClain Really? We’re just going to pretend he’s one of the good guys?

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

And this is exactly how you lose younger male voters, actually a lot more than that demographic.
Send in police to haul off an actual American UFC Champion because he used his 1st amendment and criticized Israel.