Doctor Mike

I don't remember the example offhand, but I felt like two things were true at the same time that felt like they couldn't be true.

There were two individuals speaking.

One was an expert, I believe, in the mental health space, maybe a neurologist.

And they ended up going down this pathway of...

oh, did you do this in your childhood?

Oh, did your mom do this while she was pregnant with you?

And they went down this checklist and he's like, well, that's why you're feeling this way.

And my thought right away in that moment was, A, that's bullshit.

because you're not really evaluating the situation you can't know.

And B is it could be true because there are some examples of maternal exposures and how they impact the development from a neurophysiological standpoint.

So it's like you need to have in your head, this is bullshit, but also can be true at the same time.

How do you, do you feel like those worlds coincide?

Yeah, I think about in the medical side of things how I watch either like a house MD go down a checklist and make this miracle diagnosis.

I'm like, oh, that's so not realistic.

Or on the flip side, I see some influencer huckster that's like, oh, you have headaches?

It's because you're not consuming enough pink Himalayan sea salt, some wild claim like that.

And to me, there's obviously various forms of misinformation there.

But to me, what bothers me on a larger scale is that it's ruining people's understanding of how we actually go about making a diagnosis.

So it creates a barrier next time they go see a doctor.

Has there ever been a patient where you've seen them come into either a therapy session or a medication visit?