Dr. Alok (Dr. K)

Like basically if you have an anxiety disorder or a mood disorder,

there is if you have narcissism, there's basically one technique which will help everything.

which got me really curious from like an outcomes perspective, right?

Because if all of these diseases are different, how is it that there's like one treatment for everything?

And we sort of see this on the physical side as well.

If you look at something as simple as exercise, if I have a heart problem, if I have GI issues, if I have blood pressure issues, if I have insomnia, we can look at something like exercise is a whole scale treatment that improves all of these things.

and i i think it's in a sense i'm not too surprised because i think in in you know in the yogic discipline they're not super concerned with a particular pattern

of suffering or mental disturbance, right?

They're just like, okay, there is a, the contents of the pattern are not what's important.

It is a certain amount of repetitiveness.

So the two things that I kind of pulled away from this conversation are compulsiveness versus consciousness, which I think he, you know, said several times.

And the second thing is the misidentification with the self, right?

And that's stuff that we kind of talk about.

And the interesting stuff is, I think he had a couple of good points about, you know, science and Western science and those were super fair.

And I think that what we've found is that that's, you know, there's a lot to that.

I mean, we know that when you think your thoughts are true, when you no longer have space between you and your thoughts, we talk about some of that as like getting distance or even detachment vairagya.

when you and when there is a compulsive way of thinking, that's absolutely correlates with mental illness.

So he's like spot on there, right?

So if we look at OCD, generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, what is the root problem?

The root problem is a certain compulsion to a way of thinking.