This video came about after I watched a fellow Youtube creator's video & had a rather extreme reaction to it.
I greatly enjoy and respect the work of Dr Syl, a junior doctor in a psychiatry training program in Sydney, Australia (not far from where I live). His recent video entitled 'The Complexity of Psychiatric Diagnoses' really made an impact on me as it featured both many of my glimmers (stimulating/ attention grabbing) and trigger (CPTSD) words and sentiments.
In the glimmer corner were his comments about neuroscience and philosophy. In particular the quest for diagnostic criteria that map neurological activity with human experience (thoughts and feelings/ neurons & perception/ objective & subjective experiences) and the nature of reality. In the trigger corner were his comments around people presenting their diagnosis as an excuse and the link made (implied or explicit) around this being a failure on behalf of the individual to take control and assume responsibility for themselves.
I try to only make response videos when I feel sufficiently inspired to add to the conversation rather than just focusing on semantics & my perceptions so I hope I've done that. Based on the body of work put forward by Dr Syl I've no doubt he'll be a compassionate and effective psychiatrist one day. However, I respect my feelings also and wanted to share my response with you all in the hope it may add a tiny little slither of something positive to the psychiatrist: client/patient (not sure what to call it) relationship.
I've definitely felt much more empowered in my dealings with the mental health crew of late and that's a credit to the everevolving open and honest conversations we're all able to have here online.
So, this is how the video made me feel and my thoughts on what might be going on here. I'm definitely not making a diagnosis or claiming my perception as absolute truth. It's just another part of the subjective reality we call life.