Steven

Yes.

Usually, yeah. Okay.

Usually, yeah. Okay.

I mean, it's happened before, yes.

I mean, it's happened before, yes.

I was just wondering then about, as you were talking, I thought you were going to talk about how sometimes when I set an alarm, I seem to wake up like five minutes before the alarm.

I was just wondering then about, as you were talking, I thought you were going to talk about how sometimes when I set an alarm, I seem to wake up like five minutes before the alarm.

What does this say about the nature of trauma and other mental health illnesses like depression, anxiety, et cetera? Because is this a misfiring of my predictions? I say this because predictions reliant on something happening in the past and forming a pattern, like a pattern recognition system. So if I grew up and there were certain patterns that are now not the case.

What does this say about the nature of trauma and other mental health illnesses like depression, anxiety, et cetera? Because is this a misfiring of my predictions? I say this because predictions reliant on something happening in the past and forming a pattern, like a pattern recognition system. So if I grew up and there were certain patterns that are now not the case.

So if I grew up and every time a man walked into the room, he hit me. And now when a man walks into the room and I'm 35 years old, I'm getting that same sort of prediction in my brain. So I've got a fear of men, for example. Does this somewhat explain childhood trauma and why it's so hard to shake and why as adults we can sometimes have dysfunctional lives?

So if I grew up and every time a man walked into the room, he hit me. And now when a man walks into the room and I'm 35 years old, I'm getting that same sort of prediction in my brain. So I've got a fear of men, for example. Does this somewhat explain childhood trauma and why it's so hard to shake and why as adults we can sometimes have dysfunctional lives?

Cause and effect.

Cause and effect.

And she was also shown how she should be responding to that by watching Oprah's show and watching these other individuals responding in a certain way.

And she was also shown how she should be responding to that by watching Oprah's show and watching these other individuals responding in a certain way.

My mind's a little bit blown for a number of different reasons, because it's a real paradigm shift to think that we are giving meaning to the thing that happened in our past. And sometimes that meaning is coming from watching other people give it meaning. And we're inheriting that meaning that... Oh, yes.

My mind's a little bit blown for a number of different reasons, because it's a real paradigm shift to think that we are giving meaning to the thing that happened in our past. And sometimes that meaning is coming from watching other people give it meaning. And we're inheriting that meaning that... Oh, yes.

It's like a cultural... It's like a contagion.

It's like a cultural... It's like a contagion.

You talked a second ago about therapists try and make you think about the past differently. But I do think there's an underlying belief in our culture and society and on social media that if something happens to you, almost like this Freudian approach of if this happens to you, this is who you become. And I was reading that book, The Courage to be Disliked, over Christmas. And it kind of...