Dr. K

All you can control.

So the mind, I mean, this is the problem is we can't, everyone thinks we can control the mind and they try, right?

It's like trying to swim up a waterfall.

So when I do psychotherapy with a patient, let's say I've got a patient who's got suicidal ideation.

So they want to kill themselves every single day.

So they come in and I can't control their thoughts.

They can't control their thoughts.

They don't want to be suicidal, but the thought comes, thought comes, thought comes.

Okay.

So then they don't control their thoughts.

But as we do work, we change the thoughts that are automatically generated in their mind.

You do?

Yes.

By responding to the thought differently when it comes in?

I talk to them in certain ways.

I say certain things to them.

And then as I say something, this is why a good psychiatrist is really important, right?

So the whole point of a good psychiatrist is that they can change your mind.

You come in, you're suicidal.

I engage in an evidence-based practice.