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Doctor Mike

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

And I'm like, Oh my God, if we think about all the, like, to me, that takes away your frame ideology to some degree.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

Yeah.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

Yeah.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

Where do you stand on psychiatrists or psychologists who have their own psychiatric issues?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

I'm curious, in a scenario, this happened to my therapist, my psychologist that I was seeing, and she pointed out that

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

She was discussing another case, again, with no details whatsoever, but the fact that someone was looking...

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

was saying things about that happened in their life.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

And they were looking for reassurance that what had happened to them was terrible, but objectively it wasn't terrible.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

And I don't remember the exact details of it, but when the psychologist went and told them, Hey, look, what happened to you is terrible.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

The fact that you're feeling this way is terrible, but just so you know, that's not this.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

And it kind of created a conflict.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

The patient ended up leaving.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

But the psychologist said to me that if they were continuing to say that this was actually harm and this was terrible to them when it was a fact not harmful, it would have yielded a bigger problem.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

How do you handle discrepancies like that?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

Do you think it becomes problematic when a psychiatrist or psychologist becomes famous?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

They want to help patients.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

They're trying to educate.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

But does that fame then take them out of the frame?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

Yeah.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Mental Illness | Dr. Eric Bender

I think about, I've had some guests on the show who were taking on patients for nutrition sake, even though they weren't in the nutrition space and they were getting all these great outcomes in their patients.