We should all feel sorry for Jordan Peterson and not hold him accountable at all.

let's get right to the point I am NOT
going to repeat any of the information or argumentation that I have already offered on this YouTube channel in videos such as the ones you see on the right hand side of the screen right now what I am gonna do is confront you with the reality of what akathisia is in the human flesh and you will understand immediately why it is that someone like Jordan Peterson would be driven to the brink of suicide when the psychiatric medications he's been taking make it impossible for him to sleep impossible for him to walk they make it impossible for him to sit at a computer and type at a keyboard without assistance you will see what this mysterious symptom akathisia looks like and still still I try very very still [Music] this is what gets frustrating seeing videos and things that I like to do mixed among the Murrah things that require fine motor skills and feel very tense day in in my chest it's it's just very bizarre the misery and hopelessness of that condition interrupting your daily life interrupting your ability to walk talk sleep type at a computer or play a keyboard if you're a musician the misery of that constant contortion tension interruption of your activities is made much worse by the awareness that the misery is not caused by a physical ailment it's not caused by a car accident that damaged your nervous system it's not caused by contracting a disease from a mosquito like malaria no it's caused by brain damage and the brain damage or experiencing is because of [ __ ] advice from [ __ ] artists like Jordan Pearson himself who spent his whole life recommending that his patients get on antidepressants half the time I spend with my clients who are depressed is often the two years long attempt to get them to tentatively try an antidepressant who spent his whole life going on broadcast television and endorsing same drugs that cause this same side-effect SSRI antidepressants I take serotonin reuptake inhibitor which is SSR yes it's like Prozac I don't take Prozac but it's similar to that and I also take a drug called wellbutrin I'm not totally oh do you basically and knowing that you're experiencing these symptoms as a side effect of that drug and the misconceptions still prevalent among the general public and among medical practitioners misconceptions that have already been debunked as pseudoscience look at this very simple diagram many many medications legal and illegal or on the left side of that chart okay going back to World War one the military did research on cocaine you may think of cocaine only in terms of its proven harm and the harm is very real the danger is very real don't do cocaine I'm not pro cocaine I'm anti cocaine but it is in fact a drug that falls on the left-hand side of this very simple diagram because there are medical benefits you can use cocaine as a painkiller and in the type of extreme scenarios that the military has to be prepared for that's the sort of thing they need to research you can use cocaine as an appetite suppressant and to achieve endurance if you have men who are exhausted starving and injured but who must climb over a mountain range in the next 24 hours in which to survive there are in fact arguments for the application of cocaine in the same way that the military uses so-called pep pills I am feta means and what have you so that a pilot flying an aircraft has a better chance of survival in a scenario where he's had no choice he's had to fly a plane maybe for 18 hours 24 hours continuously without sleeping all right it's bad there's harm but there's also a benefit okay illegal steroid use there is very real proven harm from steroid use don't do steroids don't do them it's bad I'm not pro but legal drug I'm not in favor of any of this stuff okay however there has been scientific research done into the benefits of steroid use also I here means specifically the type of steroids used as performance-enhancing drugs some of those same steroids that are used illegally by bodybuilders and athletes some of them are given to patients who are dying of HIV AIDS patients who are slowly dying of wasting disorders diseases that cause you to waste away including HIV AIDS and they say hey look this person has HIV AIDS they may only live for another five years and we can really improve their quality of life by giving them performance-enhancing drugs drugs that are the same drug as steroids used by athletes and they live a better life for those five years or ten years and in general yes these drugs are also harming them but in that scenario the benefit is greater than the harm and that's the sort of thing we have to consider right I have already made so many videos discussing the peer-reviewed proven science that SSRI antidepressant drugs do not have a proven benefit they don't and if you are skeptical about the books and articles that I have cited the experts who dedicated decades of their lives to researching this whom I have quoted if you are skeptical of that you still have to concede the point that even if some medical doctors claim that there is a benefit that claim has been unbelievably difficult for them to demonstrate or prove they have no proof they can appeal to such as the massive palpable body of evidence that there is a benefit from using steroids performance and drugs that there is a benefit for example from women using the birth control pill even though we all have to admit the birth control pill female hormonal contraceptive it also does harm there are a lot of negative side effects but there's both a proven medical benefit and not okay the so-called benefits of antidepressants have never been proven in terms of mechanistic or ideological metals medical science in the way that steroids and the birth control pill that those have really been proven okay there's evidence of benefit for those other drugs there is no proven benefit for SSRI drugs and on the contrary study after study has been debunked as nothing but a placebo effect or an enhanced placebo effect but the harm is real and Jordan Peterson went through his whole life recommending that others sign up for this terrible debunked pseudo scientific psychiatric treatment and now he is himself suffering the terrible consequences some of the most terrible side effects that you can get from years of emotional dependency on psychiatric drugs half the time I spend with my clients who are depressed is often the two years long attempt to get them to tentatively try an antidepressant because they're so guilty that they're relying on an external crutch to sort out their lives that they can't even tolerate it but you know I say well look man what if you had diabetes you know I'm gonna take your insulin it's like try it for God's sake you'll know in a month and you just stop if it doesn't work if you look at the published trials you'll find that three out of four of them show a significant benefit of drug versus placebo if you look at the unpublished trials that shrinks 12% now we had the published trials the unpublished trials we put them all together we did the same kind of analysis that we did before and we get this nice healthy response on average to get being given the antidepressant drug and of an even bigger response I'm Lucy Bowe now it's a placebo response not Sasebo effect but we know that that counts for relatively little the the the spontaneous remission the natural history the placebo response is now accounted for eighty-two percent of the response to the active drug and the difference between drug and approval is less than two points on the Hamilton scale now the Hamilton scale can you can have scores ranging from zero to fifty three points you can get a six point difference just by changes in sleep patterns with no changes in any other symptom of depression that's a small difference and you don't have to take my word for it because there's an organization in England called the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence the acronym is nice and they're very nice organization what they do is to set treatment guidelines for the National Health Service and in revising their treatment guidelines they have established a criteria for clinical significance for saying that a drug is not only statistically but see clinically better than a placebo and that's a three point difference on the Hamilton depression scale or an effect size of 0.5 and as you see that comes nowhere close so we went back to our data and we look at looked at what drugs were the patients in these studies ah somewhere on tricyclics somewhere on us as our eyes somewhere on other antidepressants we did mi a lo inhibitors and things like that and we found there were some other drugs in there too there was some studies that were looking at things like barbiturates and benzodiazepine and lithium for not for unipolar depression and thyroid medications for people without a thyroid disorder unipolar depressed patients and in case after case three-quarters of the response of the drug was duplicated by placebo it didn't matter whether was a tri cyclic an SSRI some other antidepressant or even something that's not conventionally considered an antidepressant and there's yet another drug that we should take into account that I don't have up here and that is TNF T how many of you have heard of TNF t very few TNF teen is a drug that is has been approved by French regulators and it is marketed in France and a number of other countries as an antidepressant the most common antidepressants these days are SSRIs selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors TNF teen is an SSR II it's a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor is are supposed to do instead of inhibiting the reuptake so that there's more serotonin available in the synapses it's supposed to enhance reuptake so that there's less serotonin available in the synapses were there any truth to the serotonin theory of depression and I don't know a responsible researcher in the area that still contends there is it's only in marketing these they'll see that talked about were there any truth to that SSRIs art should not help people recover from depression it ought to make them depressed here's what it does in head-to-head trials against both SSRIs and imipramine and tricyclics so what do you call pills the effects of which are independent of their chemical composition and they should be taken with a grain of salt [Music]