Greg Lukianoff

And that was one of the things that, you know, that the CBT is what led me to notice this in my own work, that it felt like administrators were kind of selling cognitive distortions, but students weren't buying yet.

And then when I started noticing that they seemed to come in actually already believing in a lot of this stuff, that would be very dangerous.

And that led to calling the American mind and all that stuff.

But the thing that was rough about writing Canceling the American Mind, and I've mentioned this already a couple of times, I got really depressed this past year because I was studying.

You know, there's a friend in there that I talk about who killed himself after being canceled.

I talked to him a week before he killed himself, and I hadn't actually –

I hadn't actually checked in with him because he seemed so confident I thought he would be totally fine because he had an insensitive tweet in June of 2020 and got forced out in a way that didn't actually sound as bad as a lot of the other professors.

He actually at least got a severance package, but they knew he'd sue and win because he had before.

And so I waited to check in on him because we were so overwhelmed with the request for helps.

And he was saying people were coming to his house still.

And then he shot himself the next week.

And I definitely – and because everyone knows I'm so public about my struggles with this stuff, everybody who fights this stuff comes to me when they're having a hard time.

And this is a very hard psychologically taxing business to be in.

And even admitting this right now, like –

I think about all the vultures out there.

They'll have fun with it.

Just like the same way when my friend Mike Adams killed himself.

There were people celebrating on Twitter that a man was dead because they didn't like his tweets.

But somehow that made them compassionate for some abstract other person.

So I was getting a little depressed and anxious.