Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

The lateral movement is a consequence of an absence of forward movement, right?

So the real thing, if you really want to give up technology, there's a bunch of research that shows this.

You have to have a reason to quit, right?

Otherwise, you'll just replace it with something else.

So one other thing that I want to talk about in terms of existential depression, which is the sense of profound desperation.

When I sit with my patients, I don't know if this kind of makes sense, but they're like – like this is sometimes where their suicidality comes in, where they're like –

I don't care.

I just can't live in this fucking life anymore.

Like, I just don't want... It's the same damn day over and over and over again.

I've been doing this for years.

I can't do this for 30 years.

I can't do this for 40 years.

So sometimes it manifests as suicidality, but sometimes it manifests as like highly reckless behavior.

I just want to YOLO.

It's not that my patients are oftentimes suicidal.

It's that they long for...

Like, I want to become something or nothing at all.

Like, I want to go all in on something in life.

There's this fascination and love for YOLO, right?

Like, you only live once.