Dr. Matt May

I thought that was a beautiful answer.

I thought that was a beautiful answer.

I've almost forgotten the question. Treating schizophrenia.

I've almost forgotten the question. Treating schizophrenia.

So I think it's true that people... All people have multiple problems. So one might be they've got schizophrenia or bipolar, but then they'll also have other problems in their life, just like anyone else. They might have social anxiety. They might be feeling down about themselves, judging themselves, etc.

So I think it's true that people... All people have multiple problems. So one might be they've got schizophrenia or bipolar, but then they'll also have other problems in their life, just like anyone else. They might have social anxiety. They might be feeling down about themselves, judging themselves, etc.

So we would treat that in the same way, but we would also want to treat whatever biological problem that was affecting their brain. Schizophrenia and bipolar, there's a lot of evidence-based treatments out there to help folks with the symptoms related to that. There are other biological problems that exist that affect the brain.

So we would treat that in the same way, but we would also want to treat whatever biological problem that was affecting their brain. Schizophrenia and bipolar, there's a lot of evidence-based treatments out there to help folks with the symptoms related to that. There are other biological problems that exist that affect the brain.

But we would also want to treat – mostly we're treating the person with those problems and trying, as you said, David, to identify what are their goals, what are they hoping for. And then we can come up with a long – list of methods that could be helpful to them and help resolve those problems. It might include medication or other methods that they could engage with.

But we would also want to treat – mostly we're treating the person with those problems and trying, as you said, David, to identify what are their goals, what are they hoping for. And then we can come up with a long – list of methods that could be helpful to them and help resolve those problems. It might include medication or other methods that they could engage with.

But yeah, to have a diverse set of skills and tools to offer somebody to address both the biological, psychological, social components to their suffering would be important.

But yeah, to have a diverse set of skills and tools to offer somebody to address both the biological, psychological, social components to their suffering would be important.

I love what you're saying there, David. It reminded me of something that was helpful to one of my patients who had pretty intense feelings of paranoia. And their experience was that they couldn't. explain different coincidences that were occurring to them, that it seemed unlikely that they were just coincidences. And then I recalled a statistics class that I took in medical school

I love what you're saying there, David. It reminded me of something that was helpful to one of my patients who had pretty intense feelings of paranoia. And their experience was that they couldn't. explain different coincidences that were occurring to them, that it seemed unlikely that they were just coincidences. And then I recalled a statistics class that I took in medical school

where the teacher was looking at a case, an unusual case, where an individual had been struck 17 times by lightning. Wow, that's weird. It was really weird, and the teacher asked, well, why did that happen? Was it something with their physiology? Were they different in some way, etc. ? and the class took all these guesses which were in fact wrong.

where the teacher was looking at a case, an unusual case, where an individual had been struck 17 times by lightning. Wow, that's weird. It was really weird, and the teacher asked, well, why did that happen? Was it something with their physiology? Were they different in some way, etc. ? and the class took all these guesses which were in fact wrong.

The correct answer is that statistically speaking, if you take the number of human beings on planet Earth and the frequency of human beings being struck by lightning, that there will be a few people who are struck 17 times by lightning. If you just run the math, it would be a more bizarre

The correct answer is that statistically speaking, if you take the number of human beings on planet Earth and the frequency of human beings being struck by lightning, that there will be a few people who are struck 17 times by lightning. If you just run the math, it would be a more bizarre

more weird set of circumstances, more likely to be a conspiracy theory if there was nobody who was struck that many times by lightning. There actually wasn't anything different about this person. They didn't have a different physiology, higher sodium levels in their body, nothing like that.

more weird set of circumstances, more likely to be a conspiracy theory if there was nobody who was struck that many times by lightning. There actually wasn't anything different about this person. They didn't have a different physiology, higher sodium levels in their body, nothing like that.