Doctor Mike

Does that ever start becoming addictive, perhaps...

contagious where they're like, Ooh, this person's getting support.

Maybe I'm all, I too am suffering with that.

And they kind of see themselves in those people, especially younger and more influential minds.

being comfortable breaking the stigma and sharing that you have a mental health diagnosis versus wearing it like a badge of honor almost?

Like, how do we balance that?

Yeah, I've definitely seen a fair share of my patients, meaning that I've seen stigma be broken to some level on social media where people are more open to talking about their mental health journey.

And I view that as a win.

But then I also see patients of mine that have not been seen for some period of time.

They didn't have insurance, lack of access, et cetera.

end up self-diagnosing because they saw someone so i'm trying to obviously i would love for them to spend time with a psychiatrist like you and have the ability to reflect on these emotions but knowing that many of them won't what are some guardrails that individuals can have for themselves when watching content online

Yeah, so what do you do in a scenario like that where someone comes in and they kind of self-diagnose with ADHD and they are looking for a stimulant or believe that they should be on a stimulant?

and you do the research, you talk to family members, you look at report cards and you don't see that pattern.

What are you doing?

Do they ever get negative about that?

And you're very confident in going that route.

I feel like psychiatrists then are the perfect profession to be on social media.

Because part of being on social media is tolerating that experience of people being really mad at you.

What's been your experience making some of these reaction videos, commentating on superheroes and villains?

Do you ever get the sense of... Someone just mentioned an example.