Dr. Phil McGraw

that do matter.

And you've got to start talking to them about how to think for themselves and critical thinking that, as I said, is not happening at the universities.

And these universities now, let me give you an example.

You've heard all this talk about trigger warnings.

Yes.

That's going on in schools and stuff.

Trigger warnings don't work.

Trigger warnings are exactly the wrong thing to do if somebody's going to be stressed out.

And that's not my opinion.

There are evidence-based therapies that says if there's something in your life that's going to stress you, you need to learn to cope with it.

You need to learn to deal with it.

And in therapy, we have like systematic desensitization, immersion therapies, things where you learn if you're afraid of snakes or you're afraid of airplanes or whatever, you have to learn to cope with that because there are going to be snakes in the world.

There are going to be airplanes in the world.

There are going to be elevators in the world.

There are going to be whatever it is that stresses you out.

You have to learn to cope with it.

Trigger warnings do exactly the other thing.

They say, oh, is there something that bothers you?

We'll warn you if it's going to come up, and you can go over here and put your head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist.

That doesn't work.