Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Matt Walsh

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
See mentions of this person in podcasts
52035 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

And while it's true that a very small number of patients who suffer from mental health disorders are later shown after an autopsy to have some form of brain damage, the vast majority of psychiatric patients have no biological marker of their disorder whatsoever.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

The psychiatric industry simply kept growing despite the fact that none of their promises actually panned out.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

And at any rate, as Sass would argue, if a mental illness is indeed the result of a physical disorder of the brain, which it would stand to reason is the case with something like schizophrenia, then it is a neurological disease, not a mental illness.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

Neurological diseases are obviously real.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

You can see them in brain scans.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

Mental illness as a category exists to diagnose diseases that cannot be found in the physical brain.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

They are not diseases of the physical brain, but of the mind.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

And this distinction is extremely important, but it's something that most people don't think about at all, including most of the doctors who hand out psychiatric drugs like PEZ dispensers.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

Meanwhile, anyone who criticized the industry, like Soss,

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

was cast aside.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

New York tried to revoke his teaching license.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

They wrote him out of every psychiatric textbook.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

The profession tried to pretend he never existed because they knew he had a point.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

And that's why in the past four or five decades, he's been almost entirely vindicated, at least on some of the major points.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

There are certain bills people just accept without ever questioning them.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

Wireless is one of them.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

You look at the number, you know it's too high, and then you keep paying it anyway.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

$70 a month, $80, sometimes more.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

Pure Talk fixes that problem immediately.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1776 - I Took A Closer Look Into The Mental Health Industry, And It's Really Dark

They now offer unlimited high-speed data for $34.99 a month.