Dr. Colman Noctor

Don't do it.

So I went and bought the car.

And for a month, I was just driving from petrol station to petrol station and eating homemade sandwiches to try and survive.

And after two months, I had to say, I have to sell this and lost my ass trading it back in and bought a nice diesel car afterwards.

But unless I had bought it and tried it and failed, I would just still be driving around going, I wish I had a Prelude.

I could have done that.

And some people will come to therapy and say, I can do this on my own.

And you go, okay, try it on your own.

But if it doesn't work, you always have a license to come back.

And they'll oftentimes will, you know.

Yeah, there's a few things.

I mean, again, there are people who would feel really disenfranchised by people making claims that they have OCD because they like things to be orderly or tidy, because that's not what OCD is.

It is a most persecutory condition around cleanliness and germs and intrusive thoughts and everything else.

So there is the danger that people would dilute the meaning of an experience, which really does... And again, I would have said this, and there were people saying...

You know, I had depression, but I went and I did an Ironman and I felt really better.

There's people who would can't lift their head off the pillow with depression.

Never mind, go off and do that.

You know what I mean?

So sometimes, even with the best will in the world, it can dilute the intensity of the genuine experience.

And again, I think there's a lot of TikTok diagnosis as well, which moves away from mental health promotion, which is what we should be promoting, mental fitness, and becomes mental illness promotion.