How to Release Fears and Traumas with Hypnosis

 Alright, we are living. Welcome, guys. Welcome to the journey within It’s a journey of deconstruction and reconstruction of death and rebirth and today, I’ve got a very special hello hypnotist the founder of Twin Ravens Hypnotherapy and Research J Robert, Parker, In The House. Thanks for having me, man. Thank you. Thank you, dude. I think this will be a fun conversation cuz I mean, we. Absolutely. We both study hypnosis and I’d be very interested to get your perspective, you know, and how you got into this. So, um yeah, if you can share a little bit about who you are, how did you even get into this strange world of hypnosis? Uh, that’s an odd story. Um so, previously before the pandemic had been working as a chef uh that restaurant was actually where I met my partner. We did the stereotypical line cook ends up with the waitress thing. Interesting. And uh the the pandemic hit. And I had kinda seen the writing on the wall long before it had an effect. Long story short, you’ll say we both ended up out of jobs and it failed me to kinda pull something out of my bag of tricks to make money. I live in a very, very small town and there’s not a lot of ways to go about that. So, I ended up reading tarot cards professionally. And I was making a pretty good living doing that. And I noticed that I was reading people’s fortunes so to speak. And more using the archetypes of the tarot cards. Uh reframe their problems to them and help change their perspective And I got a lot of satisfaction out of that. And I started looking into what is a way that I can do only that. Uh and of course in an abnormal way. That I can do that cuz why not? And the Facebook algorithm. uh that one random point but HMI in front of me. previous to that, I hadn’t had any experience with hypnosis. I wasn’t even sure if it was real. I was in that camp And I talked to someone from admissions and they intrigued me. I figured why not give it a shot? This seems very interesting. And I think I was about two classes into 101 before I got my mind blown. The first time I saw the physiological responses of hypnosis. The things that can’t be faked. That is just reactionary. it just blew my mind. And then eventually I got to perform hypnosis and then, eventually, I got to experience it and that was a profound thing because uh going to that school, taught me a lot about myself and one of the things I came to learn is uh a lot of what I considered to be unusual behavior in myself. Uh wasn’t and a lot of what I consider to be unusual behavior in others, was it? I was just very extreme on one end of the suggestibility scale and I remember in class, they were explaining the traits of the intellectual suggestible of it’s like, oh, cool. That’s me and I took the suggestibility test and I scored like, eighty-two, my first time I wanna say. Jeez, man, that’s such an interesting thing because you’re, I mean you’re so rare and for you to be in hypnosis and experience hypnosis, uh I’m curious like who hypnotized you and how do they do it, right? Because you’re like the hard type. it was actually in a practice and it was with somebody I mean, I guess I should mention, this guy named Paul Villa Real and he’s since graduated, I believe. And uh, I told them what my suggestibility was and he said, cool. Can I try something? And he did what’s called an auto dual induction and that was the first time that it happened to me and that got me. It got me well enough that the next day, I wrote my custom version of that script uh based upon what worked for me and that was a very unusual thing because Previous to that, II did most of my experience with trance with self-hypnosis. Like, I can kinda help people along whenever they’re practicing on me because I was very aware of that state in myself and where I’d been there in the past, all that stuff. but in terms of outright just being hypnotized by somebody, uh that was the first time, and uh That was profound. Uh, the things that I learned and saw in that first time still kind of uh guide a lot of what I do for my clients. Because one of the things cuz I don’t remember too much of what was addressed. But one of the things that stands out to me as I was introduced to the future version of myself like 5 years in the future or so And that was profound to me. And that person that I saw kind of sticks out in my head and every day I think about what I can do to get to that point. And I have used that to a very great therapeutic effect with certain clients. Uh, I got the specialization in transgender hypnotherapy And one of the things I found with my transgender clients is that that class made me realize so much that it wasn’t just a psychological thing that it was a it was a physiological thing. And in that, that means that your brain is telling you that you look one way. And what you’re seeing in the mirror is telling you something very different. What if you were able to meet who you know you are? What if you were able to meet the person that looks how you know you’re supposed to look? And I find that having that, giving that to that person is substantial to their sense of self and their sense of well-being. Interesting. So, that does sound intriguing for so for someone who is, you know, they’re looking to meet their future, you know, 5 years from the future self. How how can we do that? Um, do you do that through self-hypnosis? Is this a visualization? Um. Um. Visualization. Visualization. I tend to use the LAL. Uh the uh for anyone listening that doesn’t know what that is. It’s a type of hypnotic induction or deepener where you start at a certain floor on an elevator and go down. The elevator opens and you meet this person and I make no attempt to describe this person. It is simply you in advance and II tell you to notice how this person looks, how they hold themselves, how they smell, like how, how they and depending on your suggestibility is kind of how profound that experience is. I um I don’t get hardly any visualization. Uh, I get weird flashes. Uh, I can’t smell anything. I don’t get anything auditory but I get a very heavy kinesthetic response. Uh. Interesting. Fuel things. Yeah. In imagination, right? In hypnosis. It’s not like you can’t smell things right now. Yeah. In the context of hypnosis. Right. Um. feel like if you tell me to walk downstairs, I will like to feel the stairs under my feet and things like that. That’s fascinating. Okay. So, uh for people who are listening, they’re like no idea like suggestibility type, intellectual, physical, you know, you know. Maybe like. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Cuz like we know, we know exactly what we’re talking about cuz we’re from the same college but um I mean, you break that down and uh yeah. Yeah, just go from there. Okay. Well, you’re the host. Why don’t you explain suggestibility to your audience? I’m Good, man. I could, I could. So, I was like, yeah, why not and you can critique me. But I’m not the one So as you, like you were saying, right, we’re all, first of all, we all can go into hypnosis. That’s a very, very natural state. And um, we, but we’re just on this kind of this uh, scale of suggestibility and some people do better with certain suggestions. versus others, and I lean towards kinda where, where you’re at, where it’s like, we do the, the indirect stories, and then on the other side is the very more paternal, hey, you’re gonna feel this, this is gonna happen, you are now in hypnosis, X, Y, Z, right? And that still does, that can work for me and you know, for others, but, not honestly for you, right? Cuz you’re, you’re very objectively something. If you are literal with me, you just hit a brick wall. Yeah. So I mean like go ahead. Go ahead. I respond very well to stories and um that is so my entire life like I literally when I was a teenager my friends used to text me and just say tell me a story. I just make something up. And to this day if you tell me to make up a story, I can. Like, just off the top of my head. And I uh, a big revelation and it was initially thanks to the man that uh ended up being my mentor. uh, Joe Burns. Oh, dude. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, and he told me, to throw the script away. Don’t work off script and I took that to heart because it’s much more intimate and so now, that’s what I do. I make up stories. Those same stories that I used to make up for my friends. I now just make up for clients that a lot of the paperwork that I have them do uh for their life history and the um the questions that I ask and the initial consultation and session are kinda getting to know like what story you wanna be told, how you want your story told, and for example, I have a client who recently came to me and this person is a software engineer. Uh a somnambulistic software engineer nonetheless and II just decided because this came at a time in my career I become very frustrated with pre-written scripts. Like I had thrown one away in the middle of a session. Hm. And those three sessions that I had that day I told myself like I’m not gonna prepare a script. I’m gonna figure out my inductions. I’m gonna ask some questions. And I’m just going to make myself go. And I did. And those were three of the best sessions I’ve done. And what I end up doing with the software engineer is I spoke to them with metaphors of code, visualizations of computers, and debugging. And um, Sure enough, that that that safe place in their head was represented as a computer bank. what the way they perceived that computer bank uh mandated where I took that therapy. Just to kind of adjust their visualization. And that’s had fantastic results. Right. So, it’s like when we tailor the therapy to the individual client who’s gonna have, you know, a different background. They’re gonna have different metaphors and um now, this is good cuz um the way I explain like the unconscious and the conscious is that the unconscious is just the realm of metaphors and emotions and it that that seems to be the reason why uh we humans love stories. It’s all. Yeah. Metaphors. Exactly and I ask people. One of the examples I give is, have you ever watched a movie and gotten angry or sad or happy? Uh based on what was on screen. Of course, the answer is inevitably yes. Yeah. So, yes, why? You consciously, logically know that you are watching a falsehood. You know these things aren’t happening. So, why do you feel these emotions? And the answer is that. Your subconscious does not differentiate fact and fiction. It’s a metaphor. It’s a and that’s all it sees that’s well, everyone but the high physicals. Uh, the high physicals don’t tend to dig the metaphor or anything like that. You just gotta tell them how they wanna be and it’s fine but uh for everyone else, it’s and at this point, because of this mentality I’ve taken with my I guess be hypnotic storytelling. Every time I watch a movie now or read a fiction book. I start noticing ways that I can retell that story for different applications or specific scenes. One of the most amazing movies I’ve seen recently is uh have you ever seen that Disney movie Inside Out? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Uh. Yup. Have you seen it recently? No, that was like, wasn’t that like a decade ago? Yeah. You should rewatch that. Uh mental health professionals helped write that movie and it is still used in the mental. Well, that makes so much feel today. Yeah, that makes so much sense, dude. Yeah. When you rewatch it, with knowledge of the subconscious and metaphor It’s it blows your mind. So, okay. There’s that scene where they enter the subconscious and the critical mind is represented by those two idiot guards. And how do they pass by the critical mind? They confuse it. That’s my hat. No, that’s my hat. Wow. They do a confusion abduction to get rid of the gatekeeper of the subconscious. And more than, when they’re actually in the subconscious, and this speaks to a lot of what I say about fear. One of the first things they see is a giant vacuum cleaner. Um because the way that girl’s subconscious remembered that is because the way we remember our fears is in that moment in time. Frozen at that moment in time. So to that fear and that perception. That’s a giant vacuum cleaner because she was very small when she got that fear. And that has a lot to do with how I address fears and hypnotherapy. Because one of the things I stress is when we have a fear or a trauma which I argue is the same thing because we’re not afraid of something and we as we’re traumatized by it and if we’re traumatized by something, we have a fear. And what I it’s all where it happened at the time. For example, if you became afraid of a vacuum cleaner as a baby or a very small child, the vacuum cleaner would appear much larger because according to your memory and your perception, which cannot be changed until it’s addressed in hypnosis, that thing’s giant or maybe you were bitten by a dog when you were a child and you remember it as just Kujo, some giant, hell hound that almost tore your ankle off because it was so intense and traumatic. Where and hypnosis, maybe it’s just a Jack Russell Terrier that bit your ankle. Hm. When you were 6 years old and you had the emotional intelligence of a 6-year-old. So, you’re going to retain that memory as a 6-year-old until you readdress it and allow that person to uh gain a new subconscious understanding and association of that event. So, I’m gonna try to play advocate here and say, okay, I get it that, you know, when we were six, maybe we’re scared of a vacuum cleaner cuz it seemed very big or a dog or whatnot and we had to distort perception, right? But now that we’re adults and that we have developed our prefrontal cortex and our reasoning and now, we can go and we can experience that, you know, dogs are generally safe for the, for the most part, and happy and man’s best friend, or the vacuum cleaner, you know, it’s fairly harm is. Right and so uh why can’t we just maybe um do a little bit of exposure therapy, a little bit of cognitive behavioral therapy, and just say, hey, this is uh, this is false, this, you know, you can, sometimes. Um, and it depends on how traumatic the memory is. And really, a lot of the way that fears are addressed in hypnosis has to do with uh, desensitate, desensitization, that the same things you would do in the physical world you can do mentally. If you were afraid of dogs rather than go so far as to address that fear live and in person with the dog you could go through that same process of consciously and realize that you have control over that emotion. There’s uh as you know there’s something called circle therapy. Where in hypnosis you are presented with a fear or an anxiety and you are asked to recall that fear and the emotions associated with that fear. Consciously. So, you bring it up on purpose. And then it’s at the same time you tell them to bring it back down. And the purpose of this is for one, every time you tell them bring it back up. It’s a little less. But they gain the understanding that your emotion and your reaction is under your control. The way that you choose to react to this fear is 100% under your control. And once there is that realization, fear tends to fade. or it’s not yours. Uh, that’s an interesting thing I’ve encountered before. What do you mean? Oh, it’s not yours. just that. Um so, I did uh a podcast couple of months ago. Uh about fear. It was called fear. It’s run by two clowns and they were interviewing a German spy who had a fear of heights. And I uh and this is on my website by the way. Everything I’m about to say you can listen to this interview. But this person, this man, um not the shy away from it. He’s a government killer. Like he is what he did. He was in special operations. He went into places he couldn’t talk about and did things he couldn’t talk about. He was afraid of heights. As unusual as that is. And uh this was all done in about twenty minutes. I transit him. I took him back to that moment on the plane. Cuz he got that fear from his first training jump when he was seventeen. And in the process of just walking him through that moment. He realized something. That he had forgotten about until that moment in hypnosis obviously, this person was a very high physical. So, they said they could feel the vibration of the engines. They could smell the gas on the plane. They were there. Um, the kid that jumped before him screamed in terror and he went from being fine and calm to terrified. But he didn’t remember that. And so at this moment, he realized that this fear he had been carrying for decades wasn’t even his and I called him out of a trance, and within 5 minutes of that, he was hanging off the side of a balcony. Saying like, I don’t feel a thing. Huh. So, yeah. This is all in hypnosis. Yes. Um. And not the balcony thing. Yeah. That’s what’s interesting. So, he remembered in hypnosis the um. The other kind. Where’s my cause? Just got scared. And it wasn’t even his fear that that kid’s fear transferred to him and before he had time to process it, he was kicked out the door. So, this entire time, he’s been perceiving this event as his fear when as you know, if we’re around someone afraid or scared or happy, if but for a short moment, we feel that before we process it out as not ours but what if you didn’t get that chance? What if you feel that fear and before you could be like, man, that kid was scared. Somebody’s grabbing you by your collar being like, your turn. and he just perceived that as his fear. So, yeah, fear didn’t belong to him. Wow Yeah. So, I’d be curious um on your philosophy when it comes to trauma, right? So, for that particular case, I guess he just, he was able to kinda remember and and and bring up that unconscious material and then, oh, hey, this is not my fear. Um but do you think for trauma? Before we even get to that, what do you mean when you say trauma? Trauma is any event. leaves an impression later down the line. Usually negative. Uh, I guess it should be specifically negative. Um, something that leaves an imprint, something that uh like, okay, this would be just seen in the movie Inside Out. Trauma is when a negative memory becomes a core memory. that that it becomes a core memory is an aspect of your personality. So, it’s. Oh. Whenever something negative becomes a core aspect of your personality. Because of course, we all go through negative things but what if that negative thing is so extreme or its perception is so extreme that it formed every opinion and perception that you had after that event because it was a core part of your personality? Hm. That’s why that movie’s so good. Like, dude, I need to rewatch. You do. I took notes. I’ve got notes somewhere on that damn movie. Well, yeah. I feel like I’ve matured so much since then and then with the knowledge of hypnosis and now, parts therapy. So, I don’t know if you ever heard of uh internal family systems or any kind of parts therapy. I’m sure you, I mean, we, it’s, it’s been mentioned here and there in the college. Yeah. But um yeah, it’s so amazing now that I’m in like parts therapy and I’m sure it would, you know when you see all the different emotions like, oh, that makes so much sense. Like, yeah, we have all these different parts of us that sometimes different things and it gets into conflict, you know? So. One of the things that I’ve really kind of come to realize through doing this work and that I tell all of my clients is we are all at our core children. We are all scared eight-year-old kids. We’ve kind of got that cuz that’s when we form our core beliefs from zero to eight. So, by the time we’re eight, that’s our core self. Yeah. And that, that you, all exist and that what it means to be an adult is to learn how to parent yourself. How to parent your inner child. And that’s a perspective that I ask a lot of my clients to take. Because II asked them especially the ones that have children. Like the way, you talk to yourself. When you talk to your child like that. Yeah. But is that the way your parents talk to you? if you didn’t like that, why are you continuing to treat yourself like that? Why, why don’t you give yourself that same understanding? Because what, think about it. We all wanna stay up later than we should. We all wanna eat **** that we shouldn’t but we have that voice in our heads. Like, no, you have obligations in the morning. You have to get up or you know, that’s gonna upset your stomach or whatever have you and it’s the same things you tell a child but you have to tell yourselves. So, the way that you speak to yourself in that regard is very important. Yeah. Um what I’ve realized at least for myself, is that there’s even more than one inner child. Yeah. You know, there are lots of parts of us um that that have different goals and different perceptions and might get, you know, yeah, might get into fights or something. Um and so, it’s not even just the inner child but like, how do we parent all the different parts of us and realize that there is no bad part? You know, you wouldn’t call a child bad. You just would. Exactly. You know. Um, re-educate them. I heard something. I can’t remember if it was in class or in something I was watching. But it said that everyone has good intentions. Yeah. Everyone. No matter how evil or messed up. If anything there are always some manner of good intentions at their core. Yes. It could be wildly misperceived. It could be a mental illness. there are always even, even crimes of hate, even when somebody murders someone else, they’re trying to satisfy something in them. They’re trying to make something in them go away. So, they’re trying to take care of themselves. Yup. Or they feel some weird obligation to fulfill. It’s all manner of reasons but all all of these things boiled down to. They are for themselves or someone else or whatever have you. It’s good intentions. Just like your subconscious Yes. Always has your best intentions in mind. Even with traumatic things. Even with bad reactions. It is still just trying to protect you. Yeah. Just trying to preserve its homeostasis. It’s normal. yeah. Now, that’s powerful. And I think when we understand that, you know, I think sometimes we can like vilify the subconscious or vilify these different behaviors but they’re all serving some kind of purpose. So, you know, if you’re, if you’re traumatized, it’s trying not to get you into that painful situation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, if you have crippling anxiety, it’s you’re subconscious, it’s your mind trying to protect you. You just have this fear reaction that’s out of control. And It’s there’s a lot to be said in terms of healing just for the awareness of that. So much of my work and especially my breakthrough work with clients has been through subtle changes in perspective. And that’s it. It’s not much more than that. It’s sometimes there are some changes to behaviors or thoughts changes. But a lot of it has to do with um the way you look at a situation, how you perceive it, why you think this way, why you think this way about yourself Although it’s stereotypical in therapy, I find myself asking the question, why are you feel that way? Where does that come from? A lot. Right. And there’s always something. There’s always another layer deeper until you get to that aha moment. And you can tell whenever something has left their mouth that even they didn’t think of. They’d never even made that association before. And just by having that come into their conscious mind by being able to consider that logically. You’ve already gone so far in that healing. It’s like when we raise our awareness and take different perspectives, then, behaviors start to shift. Well, it’s like uh I’m not a big NLP guy but there are some aspects in neuro-linguistic programming that I like and one of those is the mindfulness aspect. The idea of being aware of what you’re thinking. Uh taking control over your thoughts. I thought Joe did a very good example when he talked about how he was crossing the road and he started getting this perception of these men in this car at this crosswalk about how they wanted to do him harm and he started getting anxious about this imagined situation and he stopped himself and he forced his thoughts to something ridiculous. I forgot what he said he pictured those guys in this car doing but immediately changed his thought pattern. Yeah. And he was able to just walk away and he looked back and he said, they’re just both on their phone doing nothing. And that’s right. He’s told me that story too. That’s right. Yeah. And II love that story. It’s hilarious But it’s a very good example. Because so so often we let our thoughts kinda run out of control. And it does us some good to stop and think like why do you think that? Why are you thinking that way? Why? Why do you believe like there’s something to be nervous about in this situation? Where is that coming from? Hm. All your trail back. Figure out why you’re nervous. So we’re so for somebody who likes you asked them that like oh why are you nervous? Why are you afraid? And they’re like I don’t know. No idea. Well. What? How did you ask? Mhm. What makes you nervous? How do you feel when you’re nervous or afraid? Um did you, were you always afraid of this? If you weren’t always afraid of this, when’s the last time you remember not being afraid of it? When is the first time you remember being afraid of it? most time in my experience, people haven’t taken that logical path back. They just stop with, I don’t know. They it’s that self-examination is difficult. Um, a good example of this is I had a client that said that They wish that they were able to perceive themselves as others perceive them, as strong as others perceive them and I said, well, why don’t you think you’re strong? got into a car wreck and I felt like I could have done better and I felt like I failed. Why do you feel like you failed? Well, because I couldn’t be there when my grandfather died. and there was just this dawning realization when they said that. And I was like, you never said that out loud, have you? No. There you go. So, that is currently on the table for the next time and uh it’s just a good example of just keep following the path back. If you do, there there’s always a reason for the behavior. It’s never an I don’t know. There’s an I don’t want to remember. There’s uh I choose not to know but. Yup. There’s not a mystery. There’s always a reason that Could be had through questioning, figuring out when and where, and all of that. Yeah. Yeah. So, I’m curious cuz there are different schools of thought and not even hypnosis but in therapy that maybe, hey, don’t go back to the cause.  You know, that’s just bringing up things that um that don’t necessarily need to be brought up or you can retraumatize people. X, Y, Z, focus on the solution, focus on the future, and more of like the positive thinking kind of approach. Um, I’m curious about what your thoughts on that are. It depends on the trauma Uh if it’s something like that they view as very grievous, it is something bad. I don’t ever ask people what their traumatic thing is. Like, you can just tell me that something bad happened in 2,000 seven. And that’s all I need to know. Uh, beyond that, all I, with, with that, I will, there’s a couple ways. But you, there’s no direct reexperience. You don’t take them back and make them live through it again. It’s antithetical to the goal. What you do is you take away that association. You make that not a core memory. They don’t focus on the events. They focus on the resolution. And the letting goes after that resolution. There’s a method that I very much enjoy that involves having them perceive this event on a screen. And they fast forward and rewind and fast forward and rewind until all that exists before the event and after the event. that that association is. And then after you establish that, you let them let go of that memory, of that association. And Trauma is very dependent on what happened. And uh sometimes it’s dependent upon um my referral. Because many times whenever it’s complex trauma uh I’m speaking to them on referrals from a mental health professional. Mhm. And a lot of it has to do with my communications with that mental health professionals. Whatever you learn. You know you’ve done. What do you need to be done? Um, it’s very important if you do find yourself working with uh medical doctor or mental health professional to get on the same page with them. Like involve yourself in that client and have them help you, help them, help that client. It’s a team effort at that point. It’s so dependent because II work with people with combat PTSD. I have uh postpartum depression. It’s just a matter of where this trauma and negative behavior come from. Often, uh with the combat PTSD, it’s always really heartbreaking to do those and I’m very happy that I get a chance to work with those men and women. there’s a lot that’s, for example, like what they’re not allowed to feel. Because you’re expected to, I literally soldier on. Hm. And there comes a time that that’s not a thing anymore. That you have to address what has happened to be able to heal. And I see a very similar thing in combat veterans that I see in people who suffer from trauma. they’ll go back to the closest safe save point in their head Uh it’s usually sometime when they’re a late teenager or soldier. It’s generally seventeen, or eighteen. And they’ll start adopting the traits that age. because they have all of these traumatic memories from older when they were older. So, it seems like psychologically, they just go back to the last time they were safe and untraumatized because it’s no longer safe to be an adult and I see that repeated time and time. Yeah, it’s. Wow. Interesting yeah, it must be very, very difficult to work with. Yeah, people who experience extreme, extreme trauma. Mm-hmm. So. I’m glad you are. But it’s one of those things like, once I realized what hypnosis was capable of and what it could do I kinda felt obligated to offer my services to them because it doesn’t matter what you think politically. It doesn’t matter what you think about war or the war or soldiers, the government, or anything like that. It has to do with these are deeply traumatized people who not getting the care and resolution that they need. I just feel obligated that if I have this toolset that allows me to give them that resolution, I should, that it doesn’t matter anything at all if I’m anti-war, pro-war, anti-government, pro-government, none of that. None of that matters. It’s just people. It’s just men and women who have seen things and done things that no one should be asked to see or do. And that’s it. That’s all it is. I’ve had a chance to see a wonderful change in those people because so much of it is it’s just difficult for them to deal with that, to face that. Whatever it is that they see. to do that is profound. To give them a safe place to do that. That is guided and secure. And it’s an interesting thing that for some reason people are hesitant to seek out psychotherapy. I have no problem with hypnotherapy. That. Really? Yeah, and I don’t know why that is. it’s fine and generally, I will encourage someone that if this isn’t something that they’ve seen a therapist for and they need to in the process of things, just be like, okay, now that we’ve kind of helped you through this, you need to consider bringing on someone else as well.

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And therapy isn’t the cure-all. It’s great for a bunch of things but sometimes you need other stuff. Yeah. Yeah. In fact, like, the way I see it is to attack it from every angle. Mm-hmm. Absolutely. Yeah. There’s no reason not to bring in everyone who could help. Yeah Perfect. So, uh I’m just going back to um you know, how you got into hypnosis and you talked about, you know, self-hypnosis and I’m sure that that has helped you and I mean, it’s helped me. I think it can help a lot of people where they can just utilize this modality, get over, get over some fears maybe, you know. Absolutely. I’m curious how, how you do self-hypnosis and what’s worked for you. So, that’s changed recently Longest time I did it as we were trained. And uh one of the things I’ve started to focus on recently. my self-hypnosis work and with my clients is nostalgia. This weird thing that exists in our minds seems to be separate from everything else. And what I do to self-hypnotize now is II focus on one of my far-off memories. Like one of my distant distant nostalgic childhood memories. Now form that as solidly as I can and just start doing breathing exercises. And focusing on that nostalgic moment and gets me right into a trance every time. Interesting. And do you think that would work with other intellectual suggestions? You know, high E note? Uh, I have clients that nostalgia has started to become a major part of our work. Because, um, I don’t even know how to define it. It doesn’t exist in a space like other memory. It’s it’s different. It’s more intense. It’s standard memory. It doesn’t have that feeling that’s associated with it. And I don’t know what that feeling is. Um actually, that’s one of the things that I want to focus on the most with research as that’s what nostalgia is and what its uses are about hypnosis. Yeah. Um and it’s, I’ve already started using it with a few clients, this notion of focusing on intense nostalgia to facilitate trance and I’ve had very good effects. Yeah. Well, that’s that reminds me of Erickson and I’m sure you know his story by the way, for people that are watching that and not familiar with Eric’s uh Milton Erickson, he was one of the greatest hypnotherapy of all time and did very indirect, artfully, vague, lots of metaphors and stories and god just brilliant results as a genius and um you know, when he was younger, he had polio, couldn’t move, thought about a memory of when he could and then all of a sudden 30 minutes later, he found himself Maybe. Well, that’s why a lot of the clients that I’m working with nostalgia are my clients that have self-perception issues and self-confidence issues Because nostalgia exists in a point of pure happiness. You don’t have negative nostalgic memories. Really? And yeah. This nostalgia by its very definition is positive. Huh, and it’s it may or may or may not be true because memory sucks but it doesn’t matter because your perception of that memory is nothing but positive. Nothing but happy. And so by recalling these memories, you’re able to recall this happiness. Uh, one of the more interesting bits of homework. That I’ve given my clients is uh sometime between now and our next session. Go on YouTube and look up an hour of old commercials or old cartoon intros from your childhood or something Like that. Um. Cartoon Network. Yeah. Something. I’ve uh I spent like 2 hours one night just watching intros to cartoons from the nineties. Like that’s it. And I’ve kind of become very focused on it. I very much love that sensation of nostalgia. I think it’s important therapeutically. That’s kind of why I put so much effort into exploring it myself. Yeah. Uh, Anytime I have like a nostalgic memory or thought, I kind of try to capture that and examine it and like figure out what I could do to bring myself back to that time and just that ponder ance alone has a hypnotic effect And I don’t know what it is about where nostalgia exists in the memory. it’s its present. there is an odd field of science. That’s kind of coming up now. That’s the quantum sciences. And there are some individuals doing work right now. or up to it including hypnosis that are fascinating. Um, the main person I’m speaking about is this guy named Doctor Dean Raiden who is the head of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. And yep I heard of them. Uh, he wrote a book called Real Magic. That is the scientific research and analysis behind certain processes. Like ESP whatever have you. Um, and it’s done strictly from the view of science and research. And These things are related to hypnosis because if the institute can be said to have any goal or direction, it’s consciousness research. Why? What are we? Why are we? I kind of think. Yeah. And the book doesn’t answer any of those questions but this book does provide uh an interesting indication of the direction of science and what we’re looking at in the next twenty years. One of the most fascinating things uh about living in this time certainly isn’t the plague or climate death but uh there is a concept called the singularity and there’s a version that exists in AI and there’s a version that just exists as humanity and the idea of the singularity in terms of humanity. Are that human technological eras exponential? That to get from the bronze age, the iron age was like two 2,000 years from the iron age to the industrial age like a thousand. Industrial age. It only lasts two hundred. Then, you get to the point now that the internet age only lasts twenty years. So. Oh, we’re not, are we, Oh yeah, you’re right. Uh-huh? I was just trying to think like, well, yeah. And. Previous to that, the computer age only lasted like fifty And so, now we are approaching this point in human evolution and development that um progress. The human era can no longer be measured. That each human technological era begins to overlap itself. And that progress became becomes foreseeable by the organic mind. we have a date for that. And it’s twenty-forty-five. Uh between twenty forty-five, 2055 is when the singularity is supposed to occur. And what? So what is that what is that mean exactly? That means human technological progress becomes infinitely fast. Every day there are new technological breakthroughs. Every day there is more progress. Um. How does even determine this state? Do you know? Well. I don’t know. Smarter men than me have done this math. Yeah. But it’s you see it evident in human evolution. These cuz there’s there were times in our history when thousands and thousands of years were spent the same. centuries were spent the same. There was no real development. It was just kind of an age. Living in the era that we live in now, it becomes very difficult to conceive of that. Because even if you’ve been around for twenty years, you’ve seen insane amounts of progress. And that simply just didn’t happen. Previously. Right. Ever since the industrial age for better or worse, we’ve sprinted towards this exponential progress, and as to what singularity looks like, oh no. Uh, I surely just hope it’s not a new iPhone a day. Uh, I’m hoping it’s not the AI, you know, um. Oh, god. Take me over the world and. The matrix. I uh. I’m kind of opposed to AI. Kinda not. Because to get AI, we have to first solve the consciousness problem, and we solve the consciousness problem. Good luck. That pretty much unlocked the singularity right there. But at the same time okay, let’s say if we unlock consciousness, let’s say we’ve created an artificial intelligence. We have created a thinking, feeling machine. The feeling of what? How do you know that consciousness implies emotion? What, how do you know what that emotion is? Right. Right. It’s defining consciousness. Mm-hmm. Which is the tricky part. So, and then one of the interesting questions I’ve, it’s been posed to me is does emotion evolve? Are we more emotionally intelligent now than we were 500 years ago? You gotta remember 500 years ago, what was considered fun was watching the local heretic gutted in the public square. So, I have to think that, yeah, we have grown. I, I do think we’ve owned in some ways, and at the same time, you know, there’s always going to be some kind of watching people get, you know, it’ll be a violent movie. Um. Yeah. Yeah. US, UFC, you know, we I mean II remember. Yeah. I don’t know how old you are but. I’m almost forty. There was a show on in the 90s called America’s Funniest Home Videos. That’s right. And it was hosted by Bob Saggett for some reason. And uh there used to be a rule. But it first came out. That no one could get hurt. And the video. It was an explicit rule. What? no1 could be injured. Yes. Well and then the dude getting hit in the nuts by a football One 3 years in a row. And they realized their entertainment value. Exactly. Cuz when I watched it, it was like 80% of people getting hurt. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And uh that’s an interesting aspect of humanity that to my knowledge, only the Germans have attempted to quantify. Uh, they have a word called uh Shodden Freuda. Which basically if I remember right, translates to the sad joy. And it is the pleasure that you get from other people’s pain. It is you who laugh at someone falling downstairs. It’s the reason you laugh at anything like that. Though the Germans have a word for it. It is Yeah. It exists Universally. And that is the very reason that um that that things like America’s funniest home videos or **** exist. Yeah. And it has to be II wonder really what is it psychologically that makes us like that? Is it a survival aspect of that ain’t me? Yeah. Yeah, I don’t know. Well because one of the weird questions I’ve never heard answered is uh why do we laugh? Like what even is laughter? Right. What is humor? Yeah. Uh-huh. and um because it wouldn’t exist for no reason. Laughter has to have a function the most interesting notion that I’ve heard is it was made as a diffused mechanism. The whole idea of why we find humor or awkwardness humorous. Because of like let’s say you were walking around the pack way back in the day. And you heard the Bush’s Russell. And everyone gets scared. You see the rabbit jumps out, so you laugh. And that signal which creates a neurological response in any human that hears it Is a way to signal the all clear. And maybe it’s a way to signal that hey that wasn’t me that just slammed into a **** curve on a bicycle or something like that. Like I don’t know what that is. I don’t define what humor is or why we laugh, to begin with. Right. Difficult question. And then you make it even more complex by the fact that some animals laugh. Really? Uh. Huh. Rats will laugh. Horses will laugh. Um, horses have displayed complex humor. Rats will laugh. Rats, you could tickle a rat. It’ll laugh. Giggle. That is so strange. Wow. They’re hyper-intelligent. Um, A horse. There’s some search horse prank on YouTube and you will get nothing but videos of horses taking revenge on people and laughing about it or playing a prank on their handler or something. it’s pretty. That’s always been the strangest thing to me because that implies very complex emotional intelligence to have humor. Yeah. Well, we’ve strayed. This is a very interesting topic for sure, man. Philosophical, psychological, like cultural, uh what’s called anthropology, anthropological questions. Um kinda tying it back to hypnosis. Well, I mean and you were talking about singularity and consciousness. Was that, were you going somewhere that in terms of hypnosis? Who knows? Um well, probably where I was going with that. Um if not, where I’m going now is that what we do is going if it’s not already it is going to become vital to consciousness research and what it means to have that type of increased development that we can analyze ourselves and others in ways that we haven’t been able to in the past. I’ve heard some theories that the notion of metaprogramming. Being able to actively change our thoughts and behaviors is uh an evolutionary step that is not something we’ve always had. That this ability to change everything about ourselves to suit our purposes is evolutionary. And I will take that one step further one of the things that I propose in many of my interviews is we don’t have free will. If everything of what we do is a product of association and learned behavior. How is that in any way an expression of choice? Now where free will comes in is when you choose to alter that behavior to suit your life when you choose how you want to view something. When you choose how you wanna act and react to something. Right, but aren’t those also dictated by past programming, by culture, um your knowns, so to speak? Yeah. You know. Could be. But it is the conscious choice of say if you have anxiety and you wish to resolve it. That is a conscious choice. Um. Right. Another example of a guess is if you don’t like a certain food, well, it stops. Like it. But you can’t. Okay, well, what if you could make that choice? What if you could just choose to make a certain food or like reading or like something in particular? What if your association was different? And that’s where the change comes in. That’s where the choice comes in. At least I think. That’s just uh the logical quandary that I like to present to people. Yeah. You know, this whole free-will discussion, man. That’s above my pay grade. I do mean on most days, I lean towards, you know, there probably is in free will but What I will say is I think it’s important for us to believe that there’s free will even if there’s not. Just to function in society and for mental health and yeah. Um, there are a lot of things like that that you don’t have time to get into today but it exists for you. You just have to play along to function. The biggest landmine in thought projects I could think of is simulation theory. Because you can neither prove it nor disprove it. So you could just continually fall that rabbit hole. So what is simulation The idea that we live in a simulation? Okay yeah, the matrix. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah yeah. There is no way to prove it. There’s no way to disprove it. Yup. And I have no couple of people that fell far down that hole. Yeah. So, now, this is not a lot of quantum physicists, okay? And obviously, I’m not anywhere near that realm and intelligence but from what I’ve heard and read and understand as a layman is that there is an interpretation that will lead to us being in a simulation, there are some quantum physicists who would say that, and um. Uh, who’s the deal? That it is. Yeah. Statistically more likely that we’re in a simulation than not. Is it? Yeah. Yeah. And it the singularity comes into that because it assumes that any civilization that gains enough technology to run a simulation will do so simply to gather information and that given our technological progress, it is more likely that we have reached that point and we are in a simulation, then, it is not. So, wait, maybe the similarities are just when our when our holes pop open and we all get to come to to play in the real world. You know what? I think this ties nicely into hypnosis. Yeah. Okay. Because our beliefs, our core beliefs, a lot of them, are just BS. Yeah. It’s all perception. Reality is perception and as hypnotists, we can help you change that perception. Yeah, I don’t know if you, if you’ve been part of like a stage hypnotist show, hypnosis show? No, I’m opposed to stage hypnosis. What? Uh. It’s something I’ve to develop and like, yeah, I get that reaction a lot but speaking to clients and speaking to podcasters doing interviews, Stage Hypnosis is responsible for 90% of the misconceptions and falsehoods about hypnosis. And I could say To me, hypnosis and hypnotherapy is a very, very, very powerful tool and it needs to be regarded as such and if we’re up on stage using what is supposed to be a powerful tool to make people stand on their head, that doesn’t allow people to view it with the, the gravity that they should because, to them, it becomes this, this parlor trick this and more than that, I’ve encountered people who’ve had negative experiences with stage hypnotists. Uh because of what they’ve experienced on stage, they would never get hypnotized again. I’ve thought about that a lot. Would I ever do stage work? And I think at this point, the answer is no. Uh, I would do parlor work within a small setting like Transing one person in front of a small group just as a demonstration. That’s fine but doing it as a spectacle in front of a crowd. I think personally, this is only my opinion that it robs hypnosis of some of the dignity that it deserves. Hm. And I understand why it exists cuz yeah, it’s a neat thing But like, given how important I feel that hypnosis is to, in the understanding of it is to our health. Did damages its capacity to do so, by it being a stage show. Here, here’s my kind of argument. Um, because if show somebody that, you know, hey, I can make you bark like a dog, cluck like a chicken, uh via the power of hypnosis. Imagine what it’ll do therapeutically. Imagine how easy it is for you to quit smoking or lose weight or you know. How many are to go to anxiety? Going to be convinced with that versus how many people are going to be convinced that it’s fake or that? Yeah, I know I get a process or that it’s mind control. Yeah. And that’s the contribution to the negativity that comes in. And the media doesn’t help because every time you see a movie where hypnosis is involved outside of uh black magic, that one movie from the forties. Um, it’s all **** Like it’s all just weird. if that’s not actually how that works. But it makes people believe it. That’s why you ask someone to imagine what a hypnotist is. The first thing they think is that. Yeah. I have one somewhere. Hey, it’s a legit induction man. It works. I know. That’s the whole reason I dug mine out is because like man if I’m a hypnotist I wanna trans someone with a pocket watch. Exactly. That’s why I got it too. Just for that. Yeah. Yeah. I got you. Oh, I feel like this might be a good stopping point, man. It’s been a fun conversation. I don’t know if there’s anything that you. Yeah, man. Thank you for coming on and um uh is there anything maybe you wanna end with before um you know, ask you how people can find you and work with you? Um well, one of the things I always like to end with, you’ve already mentioned that hypnosis is natural. It’s normal. It’s not a metaphysical thing that this is a natural function of the human mind and that there’s no reason not to utilize it for positive change. It’s there anyway. We’re not adding anything. So, it’s something that I believe anyone can benefit from But if anyone wants to get a hold of me, uh like I was so enthusiastically introduced, my name is Jay Robert Parker. I own Twin Ravens Hypnotherapy and Research LLC and you can get a hold of me through my website at WWW dot Ravens dot ORG. Very nice. And you are doing group hypnotherapy as well. Oh, yes. Um I, if you go to a meetup, uh meetup .com and search for twin ravens hypnotherapy. I have a bi-weekly group hypnosis that I’m starting up. Uh, just kind of as an experiment, see how well it catches on but it’s just uh every other week, just doing some general relaxation, motivation, just basic stuff, and way. Anyone that wants to be able to experience hypnosis gets the opportunity. It’s not the same as one-on-one but your results may vary. Some people get a very profound experience. Some people likely do but you always get something. You let them know what it is. Yeah. And awesome. Great talking to you man. Absolutely. And I just wanna vouch for Robert’s skill and his compassion and passion in this work cuz I’ve been in one of those group uh hypnotherapy sessions. And it was very powerful. So I recommend anyone who wants to experience the power of hypnosis, to change their lives, to go with, to with Robert and you’re in good hands. So, thank you, man. Thank you for coming on. Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Alright. Peace out, guys.As found on YouTubeHUMAN SYNTHESYS STUDIO 👀🗯 Attention: Have Real Human Spokespeople In Your Videos Saying Exactly What You Want In MINUTES! 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How Does Exposure Work For Anxiety? Habituation vs Inhibitory Learning (Podcast Ep 226)

 Drew Linsalata This week on the anxious truth. We’re going to get a little geeky with it. We’re going to talk about how exposure works. Why sometimes? It only works part of the way and you wind up prone to setback or relapse. We’re going to talk about habituation versus inhibitory learning. I promise not to get too technical. We’re going to keep it friendly. Let’s go Hello. Everybody welcome back to the anxious truth. This is podcast episode number two to six recording in September of 2022. I am Drew Linsalata creator and host of the anxious truth. If you are new to the podcast or the YouTube channel and have just stumbled on the anxious truth is the podcast that covers all things: anxiety, anxiety disorders, and anxiety, recovery. Welcome. I’m happy you’re here, And I hope you find it helpful If you are a returning listener or YouTube viewer. Welcome back, Always happy that you’re here. Thank you for your continued support. Today we are going to talk about the mechanics of exposure, how exposure works sometimes and why sometimes it doesn’t work fully and why some people wind up in setbacks, and how we can maximize the value of our exposure. Essentially, this was requested by a lot of people when they asked about the difference between habituation and inhibitory learning, So it’s gon na get a little bit technical and a little bit geeky, but I’m such a nerd about this stuff. I dig this way back in school, at the masters level, to go through all of this stuff, But I promise I’m going to keep it a little bit friendly and that we’re not going to get too technical here. I’m going to keep it within the context of recovery, So before we get to the meat and potatoes of the episode, I just want to remind you that the anxious truth is more than just this. Podcast episode There are 200, something other free, podcast episodes. There’s a bunch of years worth of free social media content. There’s my free morning newsletter and podcast called The Anxious Morning. There are three books that I’ve written about anxiety and anxiety disorders and recovery. There is a free one-hour recovery, one on one seminar and there is a webinar that I do every month with my friend Joanna hardest. She’s an anxiety and OCD specialist from Cleveland. We do a webinar on the art of distress, and tolerance. All of those things are the anxious truth. Com Go check them all out. If you are already reading my books and you’re digging them maybe head on over to Amazon and review them for me, it helps me out And if you are enjoying my work, it is helping you and you would like to help to keep it Free of sponsors and advertisers All the ways that you can do that are at the anxious truth, com support. It is never required, but always appreciated, And thank you guys for all the different ways that you support my work. I appreciate every one of you So let’s get into this habituation versus inhibitory learning, So we know about exposure and we know about going toward the things we fear and not avoiding or trying to escape. We’re not trying to engineer our life so that we never get triggered. We know that exposure is an effective tool when it comes to anxiety disorders. We’re going to start from that premise because we know this to be true, But how does it work? I’m going to give you the TLDR. It the too long and didn’t read if you want to stop listening now ready Here. It is Old school exposure based on habituating to anxiety, which is all about learning that you’re, okay, as long as anxiety decreases or disappears Now that sort of works, But it leads to a fragile state of recovery and frequent relapses and setbacks. Current models of exposure are, in many cases a little bit harder. They’re a little harsher, but they’re based on learning that you are okay and can handle it even when or if you get anxious or panic. That leads to more durable and wider states of recovery, So habituation will get you to I’m okay. As long as I don’t get anxious, whereas inhibitory learning we’ll when we allow it to happen, we’ll get you to. I’m no longer worried about being anxious. It doesn’t matter Now, which do you think is better? I can tell you this when you encounter a fully recovered person that does not experience relapses or setbacks. You’re talking to somebody that wound up with the second result, not the first Alright, so that’s like the Reader’s Digest version of this episode. If you want to hit the eject button, go ahead and do that now, But we’re gon na get more detailed, So this can get super technical and geeky as I said, but I’m not going to get technical and geeky on you here. Now I could link a bunch of research papers in the show notes for this episode, which will be at the anxious truth com two to six, But that is probably a bad idea, And here’s, why. I know that many of you listening wind up almost obsessively researching recovery techniques and methods reading and reading and trying to make sure that either you have the best way to guarantee that you are doing it right because you need to do it right to Try to guarantee that you absolutely will recover or to get immediate relief. It can be way too easy to dig yourself into a ditch and a hole based on obsessively trying to research recovery and get it exactly right. So you can Google on your own. If you must, but I’m going to say if you are prone to that kind of habit, Please sort of think twice about doing that. Alright. So a few important points point that we want to get into here I’m working from notes today, which is a little bit unusual, but it is a little technical. So I want to make sure that I hit all the points So exposure. Let’s talk about exposure Exposure is not the thing that you are doing: right, driving, walking staying home alone, or holding a knife in your hand that’s not the exposure. The exposure is to the sensations, thoughts, and emotions that you will experience when you do those things right. So nobody listening to this podcast is using exposure to learn how to drive again or to walk to the park or nobody’s. Doing listening to the podcast to learn how to stay home alone or to hold a knife, We’re learning, and you’ve heard me say this so many times, probably sick of it. By now, we’re learning how to relate differently to the way we feel when we do those things. This is important, right? Keep this in mind as we go through this podcast episode. The exposure is the anxiety, the symptoms, the thoughts, the sensations all of those things, the emotions that are the exposure. We only use driving staying home alone, and holding a knife to trigger those things. So keep that in mind. Exposure is about coming into contact with good exposure right Where we’re going to try to leverage the mechanism mechanism of inhibitory learning. Good exposure is about coming into contact with those sensations. Those scary thoughts, then the emotions, the feelings, the symptoms, or trying to come into contact with those things, while also resisting the urge to perform safety rituals or compulsions that you are hopeful will take away the bad feelings And the fear that, because you hate that right, So what are some examples of that would be going home when you panic at work, if you’re out trying to practice driving turning the car around when you get anxious, while you’re driving and going home like exiting the exposure, only Doing certain things with a safe person Using safety devices like men,’s or snacks, or essential oils or ice packs, or always having had water with you in case you get anxious Another one would be automatically calling somebody a partner or a friend or somebody to Have them talk you through? If you get anxious And the last one is, I mean I’m involved in this one instantly. Turning on a podcast episode, when you get anxious, If you start to feel yourself panic, if you immediately run for your favorite episode of the anxious truth or your anxiety, toolkit or the panic, pod or all the hard things, whichever podcasts you like, if you immediately Run to a podcast episode that’s a safety and escape behavior right. Do you do any of those things? So let’s talk about those things that speak to the idea that when I do difficult things I’m trying to make my anxiety decrease. I need to make it a lesson that speaks to habituation Right? Habituation is a natural process, humans and animals habituate. So the idea of habituation is that you start to get used to it right When we looked at exposure based on habituation getting used to something so so that your reaction to it decreases. We kind of had that right, But we were missing some important parts of the puzzle And when we looked at some of that, when I say wave the royal way, everybody in the behavioral sciences and clinical circles, not me and you. But when we looked at this stuff over time, we started to see that hey CBT is super effective, like old-school CBT. That was just you know, exposure get used to it, get used to it, and then it goes away. When we looked at the success rates there, they were way better than other forms of therapy. True but then the relapse rate was pretty high Right, So the relapsing setback rate was pretty high with that And what is the situation we find ourselves in now? Is that a lot of people, because they tried to get a basic understanding of exposure like okay? I get it, I just have to do the things. So if you think that exposure is just doing things, then you are kind of accidentally relying on habituation. You expect that, if I do it, then anxiety will lessen over time because I’ll get used to it And yes again, that happens. Habituation is part of this for sure all the time, But that’s kind of an old-school way where exposure was done incrementally Sounds familiar right? Lots of repetition Sounds familiar, but more simplistically, simply trying to get someone acclimated or habituated to anxiety. So if you are hoping that you can just keep pushing through your exposures and engineering them so that they are as easy as you can make them and remember our list of safety behaviors, then you are purely banking on habituation to get you to a recovered state. What’s the problem with that? This often leads to partial recovery or good enough recovery. The acceptable bubble you hear me talk about this is where you can do most of what you need to do and manage life daily. You’re not completely restricted anymore, but you’re usually doing that with a big set of conditions and restrictions. So I’ll get I’ll. Give you a couple of examples. I can do the school pickup now, But if I’m having a really bad day, my partner does it. I bet this one. I can stay home alone now As long as they know that they’re or someone around that. I can call in case. I get anxious or have at this one I’m pretty good at handling my intrusive thoughts now, But I still can’t watch any movies that have babies in them or I spiral Right So that’s sort of good enough recovery. Partial recovery is acceptable, but a bubble recovery that kind of recovery has a limit. And when you cross that limit, you often experience anxiety and fear again, which you then think you can’t handle, because you’re not used to it in those contexts across your limit lines right? So a partially recovered person does some things with conditions but refuses to do other things because of how they might feel if they do them A partially recovered person just got used to it by powering through over and over and over or learned how to make It stop or lesson will tell you that they are okay in the supermarket, but still can’t go to the movies and are afraid to try So fear extinction, which is like an old term that we used to use you’re trying to make Your fear go extinct Based on habituation, tends to be very specific like habituation is okay, But it essentially teaches us that we are okay as long as we can be sure that anxiety won’t be there or it won’t last very long, And we see this when a partially recovered person may experience one or two episodes of intense anxiety and then winds up in a setback or relapse. Now, as a side note a little bit of geekiness that I’ll throw in here, we kind of know that we never actually unlearn our fear right? That’s, not a thing. I know we talked about that And I mean other literal people who are sort of building a brand on unlearning anxiety, but you don’t unlearn that fear response, So that response is kind of coded permanently in your brain once we learn it and we Have experiences that are associated with that response And this kind of helps to explain how sometimes setback and relapse are so easy for people to fall into to some extent right. We’re, not unlearning our fear. What we are doing when we recover is that we are learning new ways to relate to it and new ways to handle it and new ways to get through it And those new pathways get encoded into your brain alongside the old pathways. So you will still kind of have that fear for the rest of your life, But that’s, okay, Because now you have stronger pathways that you can travel down in your brain is a gross oversimplification just for visualization purposes. When, when it comes up, I can pick that pathway as opposed to the old one, but the old one is still there. We never actually unlearn it if you will erase it. So if we’re aiming at fear, extinction, or making your anxiety go away, relying solely on habituation, getting used to it, just repeating it enough, so that you get used to it, makes for a bit of a fragile state, full of conditions and prerequisites for being. Okay See the problem there So now let’s go into inhibitory, learning, enter inhibitory, learning, So inhibitory, learning, isn, ‘t so much concerned with making anxiety go away as it is concerned with teaching us that we can tolerate and navigate through anxiety when it happens And at this point, you’ve got to be sick of hearing me say words like tolerating and navigate You’ve heard me say them 1000s of times, but now you’re starting to understand the reason. So let’s bring it back to some of the things you hear me talk about on this podcast And you see me write about all the time when you hear me talk about changing your reaction to anxiety and fear or giving up the fight or surrendering All those words that I use all the time, Where are we are in inhibitory learning territory there. When you hear me tell somebody to mix up their exposures and have varied experiences, because that’s most effective, We’re banking on the mechanism of inhibitory, learning right, it works better And again. This is a lot of research on this. It works better when we have a varied range of experiences to work from When I tell you to be incremental and keep adding difficulty to your exposures over time. We need them to be difficult. We’re leveraging the power of how inhibitory learning works in your brain And when this is a big one when and it’s a big one. To me, to be honest with you, When I plead with you when I’m practically begging you to take the lessons that reality hands you, and I did an entire podcast episode on this one. I’ll link it in the show notes because I don’t remember which one it is When I beg you to. Please take the lessons that the universe hands you after an exposure that nothing happened, except that you were afraid and had thoughts and sensations. I am pointing you in the direction of inhibitory learning when you refuse to take that lesson Yeah, but I had I was anxious I was afraid, but I panicked You’re, you’re saying I can only be okay. If I don’t panic – or you can only be okay if it decreases, You’re, relying on the fact that you might get used to it That’s the habituation model, I’m simplifying. But when I tell you, no, you it doesn’t matter. You just have to take the lesson that said you’re afraid, but nothing bad happened. I’m trying to get you to move closer to the way your brain works in terms of inhibitory learning, So it’s important for me. I think to say that inhibitory learning it’s not so much a technique like this isn’t a technique. It’s, not a method. Inhibitory learning is not a method. It’s more of a model that we came up with to describe how brains achieve a wider and more durable state of recovery. I’m relating it to recovering from an anxiety disorder, so be careful. Like don’t go to a therapist and say: do you do inhibitory learning here I mean a good therapist who specializes in anxiety sort of should understand what you’re saying, But they would correct you like inhibitory learning is not a therapy. It’s. This is not a therapy type, It’s, not a method. It’s not a technique. It’s a model that we use to describe what’s going on in our brains. When we learn more deeply and effectively that we’re okay – And we can get better that way, Alright, it’s a different way to get better And our brains are. We can do it. We just have to make sure that we do things that use the power of our brains to be able to do those things. So this is not so much about guaranteeing that your fear goes extinct, which would be the old way, But rather it’s about knowing that. Even if you do wind up afraid, you’re still, okay And you can move through and past that. This is why, if I have a rare panic, sell panic attacks now, but they’re very rare for me. If I have one a comes, it goes. It’s over. I’m, literally not thinking about that panic attack an hour later. I just don’t care, So you know this ties into some of the other things that we’ve talked about, And I just wrote about this in the anxious more newsletter last week. How can I not care? Well, the mechanism of inhibitory learning, if you gear your exposure to take advantage of the fact that your brain can do it, that way, will teach you that you, don’t have to care. So it’s not like you, can just snap your fingers and decide to not care about your anxiety. You can stop trying to do that because it’s not going to work, But when we leveraged the inhibitory learning model and our exposure work and our recovery work, we learned that it’s, okay, to not care anymore right? So it’s really important. That’s, why I say we’re learning this way, newer ways that, even if we do end up anxious and afraid we’re okay can move through it at that moment and then past it going forward in the long term. So then, let’s bring it back to sort of recovery And what that means, Because if we don’t have, we have no way to apply this in what we do, the things we do to try and get better then we’re good at it, So I can give you some hints here and I’m – going to wrap it up in a couple of minutes here. I don’t want to get too long on this one. I literally could go for hours on this stuff. It’s, goofy, I don’t know why I’m so into this, but I always have been So. That explains, I guess why I’m behind this microphone Anyway. What are the hallmarks of exposure and recovery work? That kind of taps into the power of that inhibitory learning process right, So your exposures should be focused on tolerating and navigating through anxiety, not making a decrease. That is huge Because if you’re approaching your recovery, so that’s okay Drew says, I have to do scary things. I’m going to do scary things, But I’m going to try to make them as less scary as possible Because I don’t I’m trying to make the anxiety not happen or happen at a low level. You’re missing the point. You want the exposure to teach you how to tolerate that anxiety and move through it. Yes, even full-blown panic. So some of this, if you’re going to try to gear your recovery work toward this model. Some of that involves an openness to say: if you insist that panic is too much and you can’t do it that way, then that’s – okay, I’m not going to try to convince you otherwise, But you can’t. Have it both ways? You can’t draw a line in the sand and say I cannot tolerate certain levels of anxiety and also want to do this. You can’t have both, So you got to have that openness to accept that this might be true and that what I’m saying might actually work for you And that you actually can do things. You think you can, And you have to focus your exposures on the act of tolerating and moving through anxiety, not trying to make it not happen. So if you’re gon na go drive on the highway today and you’re going to try and find ways to do that without being anxious, you’re missing the point. You want the anxiety you want that to happen, and you want to practice moving through it that’s important. The other thing that you need in your exposure and recovery work is an openness to experience all anxiety during exposures, rather than trying to minimize it, which is what I was just talking about. So we’re looking for exposures that have varied experiences. Now the cool thing is like you can’t just recover, you’re also living your life. So often life will hand us a lot of varied experiences. You can’t very few. People have the luxury of just sitting on the sofa and just doing exposure for a day and then going back and sitting on the sofa until it’s time to do more exposure. You’re gon na be challenged all the time except the challenges that life hands you, even if they are small, take even the small ones that’s fine, and use them to have varied experiences. I don’t care. If you drive every day Now, I did it by driving every day, but I also started doing other Things like what I did Mike And it’s funny cuz. When I wrote the anxious truth, I talked about how recovery will accelerate, But recovery accelerates. When you can take the lessons from one exposure and bring them to the other, that’s when you need those varied experiences, So mix up your exposures, Remember what I said at the beginning of this episode. The exposure is the anxiety and the panic, not the task, So drive walk, stay home alone. Go shopping, go to a pizza place and sit down, have a slice of pizza, whatever it takes, mix them up as best you can Right? So we’re still talking about using, like fear ladder and moving up you don’t go from housebound to a world cruise in two days, But within that fear ladder just mix things up that are in sort of that same difficulty level. It helps Important is super important. We’ve talked about this, the RP part of ERP exposure and response prevention, which all exposure ultimately is ERP, whether you’re dealing with OCD or not resisting the escape avoidance and safety rituals is very important. You can’t, you can’t try to hang on to your meds, your water, your phone, your partner, your safe person, your oils, your ice pack, and also do this. Now, if you are going to hang on to those things to get started, I’ve said this before go for it. I would rather, you see get started and then start to leave those things behind than never. Stop Just know that at some point you’re going to have to leave the safety, the escape rituals, the safety rituals, and those safety devices you’re gon na have to leave the crutches you’re gon na leave him behind. Keep that in mind you’re gon na, have to at some point next thing. The difficulty we need exposure to be difficult. They are supposed to be difficult. That’s the whole point of the exposure, Like one of the things that we know from the research and a lot of the stuff around the inhibitory learning model is difficulty is important, And in fact, a lot of the. If you look at some of the literature in the OCD community, they’ll, they’ll acknowledge that like yeah, we need it to be harder now, So that your life can be easier later. Keep that in mind, But we need your exposures to be challenging If they’re not challenging, then they’re, not exposures Right? So I say this all the time. If you are bored now taking a walk to the park with your kids that’s not an exposure anymore, So it’s good, to go ahead and take the walk. The park, the kids, that’s life. I hope it’s good and you’re enjoying it. It’s a good thing for you guys, But you can’t keep calling it an exposure. So exposures are a difficult thing. We need them to be challenging tiptoeing through life, trying to not be anxious and doing things here and there When you feel good That’s not exposure, So that’s just tiptoeing through life And then the last thing that I’m gon na throw In here is when I wrote the anxious truth, I talked about changing your reactions And the third reaction is the reaction.

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After and in that book, I wrote about the story that you tell yourself and everybody else after the challenge is over. The last thing I’m going to talk about is that it’s an openness to accept the outcome of the exposure based on the fear of disaster not happening rather than how you felt like this is where you hear me say again and again, and it Sounds cruel and it sounds cold and it sounds all of those things. But when I tell you that I don’t care how it felt, I only care what happened That’s, where I am like begging you to see that. I know that it was hard And I know that you were terrified. I know that you thought you were going to die And I know that it felt like you were going to go insane, But you are now here an hour or a day, or a week later telling me that story Because none of those things happened So it’s so important to be open to the lesson that the exposure teaches us, which is that surprise. The thing that you are terrified of will happen. Doesn’t happen That’s so important. Now, if you’re listening to me, you may say, but the bad thing is the anxiety I get And for some people, it’s, not that the anxiety signals a danger because, for most of the community, it’s. Well, I’m terrified to panic, because when I panic, I think I’m going to die or think I’m gon na go insane Or I’m going to pass out or I’m going to have a psychotic break For other people. It’s just No. I don’t think that I’m just afraid of the panic itself, Because the panic itself tells me that I’m failing, I’m weak. I’m broken. I’m less than I can’t. Do this, this shouldn’t be happening, But even if that’s the way, you fear it and you don’t fear, death or passing out or a heart attack. In the end, the panic came and left, And again nothing bad happened. That does not show that you are broken or weak or less than at all. So you’re going to have to begin to accept that lesson that, like oh look, I did that again. I tolerated it again Instead of saying it was wrong for happening knowing I did a great job getting through it, So it’s so important to be open to the lesson that the experience teaches you other than just recounting the experience as a nightmare and something That you never want to happen again. That is so important And it’s why we say all the time we do. Don’t care how it felt we only care about what happened. We only care what happened So that kind of gives you. You know. 25 minutes on the difference between habituation and inhibitory learning and a rough idea of how that fits into exposure work, And I hope near the end here is how you can start to gear. Your exposure and recovery work to take advantage of the inhibitory learning model and not just try to get used to anxiety or make it go away. The key takeaway here is: am I doing these hard things to try to make it go away, Or am I doing these hard things to learn that I can do hard things and it doesn’t matter? If I get anxious that’s, really where you want to be That’s, where I want you to be, I want you there. I know that you’re trying to make it go away. We all want it to go away, But I say all the time go away is a happy secondary effect. It’s a secondary outcome. It’s a happy secondary outcome of learning that you’re. Okay, even if you do panic So please, if you take anything out of this episode, take that you should not be approaching recovery as a way to feel better and make it stop. You should be approaching recovery as a way to learn that it’s. Okay, even if you do get anxious and panic because when you get there and know that you can handle it, no matter where you are or what the situation is, then it starts to go away And it goes away more durably. It goes away across context. You don’t have to worry about like well. I can go to restaurants, but I haven’t gone to the movies yet So I got to do six months where the movie exposure to be able to go. No, you know that I’m okay if I panic in a restaurant, so I’m okay if I panic in the movies It’s, there’s magic in there. There is So that is my 2627 minutes on habituation and inhibitory learning and the mechanics of exposure. Hopefully, it has been helpful. I’ve been looking forward to doing this episode to be completely honest with you, And it was going to be super geeky at first. But I’m pretty proud of the fact that I didn’t get too deep into the technical woods here And I hope that I’ve been able to present it in a way that’s understandable and relatable. More than anything else. More than anything else, So that’s it We are done. This is episode 226 In the book. You know it’s over because of the music, that is Afterglow by Ben Drake. That is a song you hear at the beginning and end of every one of these podcast episodes. If you’d like to hear the whole song or know more about Ben and his music, you can visit his website at Ben Drake, music com. 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Study with me 24h before my FINAL EXAM (med school vlog)

 Hello Kermamedic friends here, and welcome to a new potion… Finally, here it is! In a previous video of my Oski exam in the Faculty of Medicine, I announced a major event in the future. Today is tomorrow!! Let me show you something. That’s what the last two weeks have been about. And tomorrow is Oski’s day. This is Oski’s final week in medical school. The biggest, hardest, most notorious, anxiety-inducing test. … is tomorrow… And I want to tell you that I have lost the will to live as well as the desire to study for this exam. I am okay You’re done, boy. You’re done. So well, honestly, those last two days have been a solid, rigorous study and I got through it and that’s why I don’t plan on doing that much studying today at all. I have a list of a few things that I still need to reconfirm and after I’m done I have to go through this list I just want to go over the 4 main exams, abdominal scan, cardiovascular, respiratory, cranial nerves, and motor exams of the upper and lower extremities because they are very likely to Come on the exam so I’m going to do it one last time to be in the best shape I can and well and that’s pretty much it after that I’m going to the gym for gym and then I’m going to play video games with my sister and I’m going to rest and relax because I’m over it and I’m almost done I want to…. ah ah Scream, this is what we’re going to do. We’re not going to think, we’re just going to stop thinking I’m going to study another day and I’m going to start studying today and I’ve got some delicious strawberries and I’m about to get some coffee, and let’s do this. Well, let’s do this, put the phone on silent. And we throw him on the bed again, like the last time I was preparing for OSCEs in the fourth year, and if you haven’t seen his fluke I advise you to see it I like it very much and I will put it for you here and I use this book and it is my main and it is completely falling off let me show you as you can see All the pages are falling off and I’ve used and benefited from this book very well so the first thing on my list and I’m going to learn about it are decisions and directions that you can make in advance about your treatment in case of future aphasia and not being able to make those kinds of decisions on your own so I’m going to read this and then Moving on… { …………. ……………… } Today is Mother’s Day in the Arab world so we sent my mom some flowers and the card she had just received… and I’d run back to her..and say, “Have a nice day.” Anyway, we’re back at work. So I spent about an hour studying. It’s all over for that first little sticky note here. I’m just going to get rid of it and throw it away and now I have this second sticky note with things on it that I didn’t know would make it into the exam until my good friend Georgina told me about it yesterday. This is what we will study now. One of those things is a C spine imaging or C spine X-ray. I’m going to see a random YouTube video about that if you’re wondering what this thing is right here on the side screen on the iPad here. This is a video game that I’ve been running in the background doing something very weird, not necessarily fundamental so I can stay sane here and make my time at this desk more enjoyable. It’s kind of like an incentive for me to sit here and study and every 10 minutes or so I click here a little bit, play a little bit of this game and that’s what’s kept me up for the last day. It is what it is. Anyway, without further ado let’s watch this video and take some notes Honestly, I can’t stress this enough. If there’s something you don’t understand or something you’re learning for the first time, I find watching YouTube videos to be the best way to do it. These are the people who have already learned the thing you are trying to learn and are now trying to explain it in an easy-to-understand way with all kinds of beautiful pictures, maps, locations..etc. This is often much easier than your 50-minute lecture I’m sure many 50-minute lectures cover cervical spine X-rays but you know a lot of detail is going to come out and a lot of research and history coming to where we are now I want to know how to interpret C spine X-ray and spine X-ray. So this is what I need… Well, I’m going to present this as if today is the exam I’m looking at the spine C and the x-ray of patient John Smith a large man of fifty-five years old who was coming to the hospital OK the patient history record and communication is two parts of the Oski exam. We also have things like exams, procedural skills, and assessment stations. So it all involves doing hands-on things with our hands talking to patients and examining them with things like a stethoscope and a tendon hammer also and please avoid everything you see here the exam is tomorrow I don’t want to clean my room right now. If you recall, inside some of my previous vlogs was We Have Sonic the Hedgehog, this big damn game that I can check out and it was useful but I just threw it in the trash. So that’s why it’s gone but instead, what we have is Mr. Chair, oops let me get a patch I found ok Mr. Chair so Mr. Chair is 24 years old and he presented to the emergency department with severe shortness of breath. So I’ll check it out and mark the screen and hope I don’t miss anything. Practice exam skills. What’s funny about this, my friends is that: when we first started preparing for the OSCII exam in year 2, in fact, you probably already knew this if you were watching my videos at the time, I used to complain a lot about the six-minute timer we have to complete these exams is too short and how can we do All we need to do in the six minutes they give us and now when we practice for these exams as final year medical students we only pass it in one minute and sometimes even a minute and a half depending on the exam it’s terrible when you think back on it but I think it’s a testament to show That practice makes perfect. Keep working on something..you’ll get better at it, etc..so let’s get started, and study for the exam Hello good morning, my name is Nasir and I’m a final year medical student in the emergency department I’m going to confirm your name and age please my name is Mr. Chair, I’m 24 years old Hello Mr. Chair, nice to meet you today. I’m going to check your lungs. This would include looking, listening, and examining your hands, your face, and your chest. Is that OK? Yes, sure, well, thank you very much, just to explain a few things to the examiner with me first, if that’s possible. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much. So, we have a minute and a half left on the timer. Assuming I haven’t missed anything major which is always possible. Let’s go to the marking chart and have a look, introduction – patient details, cones, screening of cervical lymph nodes aahhh check the lymph nodes in the back of the patient and feel for the supraclavicular nodes here…… then we go to the submandibular salivary gland in front of the ear note; Don’t forget to check the lymph gland ooh oh yeah Fremitus Vocal 99 99 99 When you are listening to the patient’s chest in all the different areas you are supposed to listen to him again and ask him to say 99 99 99 99 99 This is a test called Acoustic Fremitus. And if you have coherence or a lump in the chest, then the sound will travel better, so you’ll hear 99% louder over the areas where there is reinforcement versus those where there isn’t, so this test!! Well, I remembered almost everything pretty much I didn’t do a fremitos audio 99 99 and check the lymph nodes and in my humble opinion this would be easy with the station and then of course you have to summarize your findings and you have to report this to the specialists etc. And if you forget these two things. It’s okay, it’s not the end of the world. Well my friends, what’s the deal? With every check I do, it is expected that I will forget some things that are OK. But I have to reduce the number of things I forget. And that’s why we do the exercise. This puts in the big picture. Missing a few things on an exam is expected. It won’t be the end of the world. It certainly won’t let you down. But I want to forget as few things as possible. Hours later, we’re about to get to 1 pm. I have just written down in my diary all kinds of major steps and special tests that are done in all the musculoskeletal, shoulder, ankle, hands, and then also peripheral arterial and vein disease examinations and I feel ready. I feel good. Honestly, I don’t think I would do anything else. Study wise for the rest of the day I’m going to ask Kenji and Georgina if either of them is rehearsing history to rehearse for a day earlier and later, but other than that I think I’m done with a very nice sunny day today so I’d like to enjoy that at least a little bit. I want to go to the gym, and maybe also play some video games with my sister in the evening. Just relax, take a break, and calm down before the test date. So I’ll get some food, get some lunch, and yeah, we’ll get on with the day.  I try to relax and take a break, and tomorrow is tomorrow… When testing, we have to look our best and that means clean shaven and then some formal wear with a shirt. Then confirmation. I have to get all that fluff out and trim those lines a little bit. Let’s do it I don’t know why I would, if I would wear a mask all the time. It won’t make much difference but if you look good, you feel good and it generally gives you confidence. Therefore, I think it is worth it. I am surprised that this camera has not fallen so far, as it is a bit of a miracle. Well, we’re all done. Let’s get some food. Good. We’ll make ourselves lunch. And we’re going to watch the new episodes of Top Boy it’s awesome and as you all know, this is my favorite eating stand that just brings things together and makes everything so much more convenient. It makes me look like a grandfather. That’s the way it is. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. By the way, bye to the moderators, not to spoil the show. Hello my friend how are you? Good, and you? I feel like your laptop will fall off the table, not that it is fixed with a stand on the back. Hello, Massad Al-Khair, my name is Nasir Kharma and I am a doctor here. Can you say your name and age, please? My name is Paul and…………!! Well, on my way to the gym, look at the beautiful weather we had here last week. Alas, I have been confined at home studying and preparing for the exam but I kind of went to take advantage of this once the exams are over anyway let’s start with the exercise step the stress of sweating just to rest and rest my head and I’ll see you in peace oh well this is well first day one of my friends, I’m just waiting outside the site which is a very nice place I got myself a quick coffee and my general plan is to get in at the last possible second. To listen to my music as often as I can. That’s what I’m going to do for five minutes and then I’m going to the hall for the exam and I have to take the electronics so I can get in afterward. And I’ll see you after that Peace… Oh my God Oh my God Well day one is done I’m not going to lie It was a lot more complex than I thought It wasn’t as straightforward as previous OSCE systems. I believe they deliberately tried to deceive us when going to the Respiratory Check Station, which later turned out to be the ATP Station. Well, then there were other stations where the wording was completely unclear. A lot of students complained about misunderstandings, what they wanted us to check, or what they wanted us to do, and they came and took feedback from all of us on how to change the wording moving forward. So you could have done a better job. But that’s okay, I wasn’t feeling great about two of the six stations we had today. Then there are six more stops tomorrow. But once I get the written feedback from the examiners, I guess it kind of puts me at ease. The comments there were much better than I thought I did I’ll be fine. Anyway, that’s it. The first exam is over and another one is tomorrow. We have to start at 8 am and we have to stay until 11 am and then we do the exam and we are quarantined again until 1 pm until other students are counted in other universities around London and so we stay in quarantine and so that the information is not shared outside I think that’s good I think it good. I think it’s good. This is the end of my walk after the exam… I’m going home, I’m going to do some prescribing practice for today only, it’s possible to take one exam like this and nothing more than that I’m going to sit with Nour, it was very fun yesterday Anyway, see you my friends, peace… … Hey my group (my friends) I’m home on the couch, just chill out and relax a bit. I’m going to call Kenji and Georgina just to debrief about the stations we had today and the exam, talk about it a bit and get it off the chest and then maybe do a little practice description. I think I’ll finish it there I’ll pick up the camera again When I start calling it hits me that this is almost over as if medical school university is finally almost over. Mad madness, well see you in a little while. well, to PDF H 32 or 32, Article 32 or Page 32? Article 32….! Well, let’s say guys, as I said before, more studying today won’t make any difference for today. And I think more study won’t make any difference at all for tomorrow. So we’ll end it here. It’s five in the evening, I’m going to rest and pack my bags. I’m ready to fly on Thursday early in the morning. So I can go out and celebrate tomorrow evening with everyone and I won’t have to pack for travel, and yeah, that’s what we’re doing for the day. almost done. See you guys in a little while, Hello, Alright, so I’m going snowboarding tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow with about 10 of my friends from high school to celebrate finishing medical school, hopefully finishing medical undergraduate and all is well Alright tomorrow (let’s grab the wood) But let’s get started Time is running… Well, I’m packing up. It’s pretty much there. I just need to put some last things in tomorrow. Now it’s time to sit down with Noor… and play an episode of Eldon for a few hours. To relax and enjoy the night and that’s it. I’ll see you, my friends, tomorrow morning. Good morning and welcome to the day of the second OSC exam… I will be in a different location today, I am on the train and they separate us in different locations as Kings College London students so that we can see different examiners with different groups and things like that. It’s very popular this video of me releasing it tomorrow I put it on Instagram now I’m simply trying to relax as much as I can for a bit, before the exam I come early and I have some time, … hello … oh still filming … we are back on the youth campus. I guess today didn’t work as well as yesterday. I think there were a couple of stations that I found challenging and I don’t think I got the intended diagnosis in the end. But I hope my communication skills and everything else in history taken away will make up for it. But anyway, I wouldn’t think about it. I just had a meal with Aaron and Georgina I’m going to put the picture here..now I’m going to go to a coffee shop there and meet some friends to rest and breathe it’s been almost a week since I last logged in I forgot to close the blog and I just realized I hadn’t done it yet during this time I went skiing In Austria I came back..and surgery started this morning, I get up at 5 am everything was so crowded, but that will be another day for Flock. I just want to thank you for taking the time to watch this video. I hope you enjoyed it. And if you enjoyed it….. please don’t forget to like it and subscribe to my channel for more content to come in the future. And I’ll catch you on the next one, …..Peace…….. I’m done…Peace…… Hello friends Next peace, What’s up guys You’re right.As found on YouTubeHUMAN SYNTHESYS STUDIO 👀🗯 Attention: Have Real Human Spokespeople In Your Videos Saying Exactly What You Want In MINUTES! 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Top 10 Lucid Dreaming Teas/Herbs COMPARED And Explained

 All right welcome back so today we’re going to talk about the best lucid dreaming teas   that will broaden your dream life and make your dreams more vivid more likely to become lucid and   in some cases they’ll help you remember your dreams better as well so if you’re new to   lucid dreaming or you just want to enhance your dreams in some way but you don’t want to take   these supplements like Galanza means 5 htp hhuperzinemaybe you’re worried about the side effects or   you just want something milder and you already drink things like tea well lucid dreaming tea is   a great way of enhancing your dream so let’s just get right into it okay we’re going to explain the   10 best lucid dreaming teas that you can try and how they work and what effects they’ll have people   from all over the world have you know from many different backgrounds and spiritual traditions   have recognized the value and power of lucid dreaming and many of these civilizations and   cultures have used natural things like herbs and teas to enhance the dreaming experience   this is not a new thing so a popular approach to supplementing is actually to   drink tea that is infused with herbs that support lucid dreaming so many of these herbs can already be found in teas in the market in kind of a pre-packaged form that will save you the   time that it would take you to actually supplement and do things like that   so what are the best herbal teas the best lucid dreaming teas that you can find   well number one we have and by the way these are not in any particular order okay I’m just going   to explain the best 10 lucid dreaming teas so you have things like kalia zzakatttaichinow this originated in Mexico and it’s been known as people kind of call it different things like   it’s been known as being called bitter grass okay it’s native to kind of Mexico and central America   it’s known for hallucinogenic properties as well as significantly enhancing dream imagery and   recall it’s really useful for helping you enter hypnagogia sleep hypnagogia which is where you’re   kind of in between being asleep and conscious by the way I do have individual videos for   all of these teas and herbs which you can find in the description or just on my channel so number   two we have Guayusa and I think I’m pronouncing that right now this is cultivated in Ecuador Peru  and Colombia and in addition to aiding the dream experience many people love guy user because it’s  packed with caffeine so it brings you a positive energy boost in more of a long-term   sustainable way than coffee because it’s not going to give you those jitters it’s also a strong   antioxidant and it helps with the weight loss as well now the interesting thing about guayusa   is that it has a stimulant effect on the brain but it also at the same time has almost a sedative effect so this is why it helps you to lose a dream so well because it keeps you asleep   and tired and sedated while at the same time it stimulates your brain in a certain way   that promotes consciousness and lucidity number three we have valerian now this tea is frequently   used to treat insomnia it’s also been shown to improve anxiety and blood pressure issues as well   it’s also a muscle relaxant so this is the um kind of the reason that it’s a good lucid   dreaming tea is because it helps you sleep it’s a muscle relaxant and it also kind of helps improve   dream recall and makes dreams slightly more colorful so it doesn’t directly induce lucidity   but it does directly help you fall asleep stay asleep and then also remember the dreams you have   number four we have Shatavari now this is kind of like a root herb   and it’s often associated with women’s fertility issues and it’s also used to aid in lactation   with women but it also has kind of properties that help you to relax and it’s frequently used   throughout Nepal India and the Himalayas number five the intellect plant also known as Celestron  paniculatus I think I’m pronouncing that right native to India it can grow as high as   1 800 meters it’s one of the most popular herbs in ayurvedic medicine and the intellect, the plant is   known to improve memory and concentration part of the reason why it’s so helpful for lucid dreaming   and the lucid dreaming experience is that it helps you improve your memory and focus so if   you drink this right before bed it usually takes about a week of continuous use so drinking it   every night before bed for the effects to fully come in okay so it’s kind of a long-term thing   it’s not something you can just drink and then immediately improve your lucid dreams that night   number six and I have no idea how to pronounce this but I’m going to give a try the sshoesroot   and which is spelled with an x x-h-o-s-a indigenous to south africa okay this root is one of the more   obscure herbs it’s not very well known but it usually is formed into a powder and then turned   into a foam so it’s kind of a very weird one it’s not something you can just easily drink in a tea   like you would put a pg tips tea bag in a cup it takes a bit more preparation anyway after   ingesting this foam for three consecutive days the people of the tribes would come together and   share their dream experiences so this one to be honestly, most of you are not going to be able to try   this one it’s hard to get hold of and it’s even harder to prepare number seven a classic mugwort   this is also known as artemisia vulgaris it grows abundantly throughout the world really but you   know it grows in England it’s found around the rest of the world often alongside roads and it   can grow up to three feet when it grows in the wild now mugwort and lucid dreaming have shared   a relationship for a long time I wrote a blog post on my sitehouseoflucid.com I’ve spoken   about this a lot before and mugwort is one of the most easily available lucid dreaming teas online   by the way there will be links to as many of these as you can buy online in my description   of this video or on my site howtolucid.com number eight we have wild asparagus now this is known in Chinese as the heavenly spirit herb commonly used ayurvedic medicine can have profound effects on   a person’s dream world so it’s a very interesting one now it’s said to help lucid dreaming   practitioners have more adventurous dreams so although it won’t directly induce lucidity   it will help those dreams when you do become lucid to be more adventurous exciting and I guess you   could say dangerous feeling number nine is Clary sage now sage is known as an antidepressant   as well as its ability to enhance the dreaming experience but it’s also considered one of the   most powerful healing herbs in the world we have the blue lotus now is a plant known for being   a sedative okay so it’s going to help relax your body and mind and keep you asleep but it’s also   known as an anti-stress herb an anxiety reliever and it also has mild psychoactive properties it’s   said to induce a kind of a pleasurable euphoria when ingested nothing too crazy but just enough   that you notice it now I should mention that all of these herbs and teas are perfectly legal   depending on obviously which country you live however, they’re not regulated by the FDA   if any negative side effects occur you should stop taking them immediately none of this is a medical   recommendation by the way a full disclaimer you should research any of these yourself   and you should take responsibility for anything you do or do not ingest so how can you use tea to   lucid dream the video is not over yet I have many important tips to share with you especially if   you’re considering buying any of these well the lucid dreaming experience is an adventure, okay   most people want to have lucid dreams, and almost everyone you know the vast majority of beginners want the instant magic bullet the quick fix okay but you’ve got to remember that supplements   herbs teas pills and devices don’t answer all of the questions don’t do everything for   you they won’t directly induce a lucid dream you need to do that work yourself as well and I’m sure   many of you who watch this channel kind of know that okay we on this channel lucid dreaming   experience we know that it takes work you can’t do it instantly or you know overnight so it’s   going to take some work and I hope that if you’re watching this video at least you understand that   however, you can use those things lucid dreaming teas are included to make it more likely so here’s   what I would recommend that you do okay pick one of these t’s whichever everyone calls out to you, sounds the most exciting have a look in the description of this video see where you can get   it online it’s usually pretty available you know at least most of them and then just try it out   but you should only do this once you’ve researched yourself you’ve read about the effects of the   t obviously and you have a lucid dreaming practice meaning you’re writing your dreams down   you’re doing reality checks and you know how it works and you know how you’re going to lose   a dream at least that’s the bare minimum that you should aim for so I hope this has helped   check out my channel for other tutorials don’t forget to subscribe and I’ll see you next time As found on YouTubeHUMAN SYNTHESYS STUDIO 👀🗯 Attention: Have Real Human Spokespeople In Your Videos Saying Exactly What You Want In MINUTES! 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Free- weeding, No-tillage, Easy LIFE Gardening by JADAM

 Hello, everyone. This is youngsang cho the founder of JADAM  In today’s episode, I would like to elaborate you how to create the most successful organic garden. As we all know that the global food crisis is at our doorstep.  Therefore, I believe it is time to start our life gardening to protect our food, life, and our family from possible hunger. According to the Global Trend 2040 held by the National Intelligence Service of the United  States, a food riot could occur worldwide within 10 years due to problems such as global warming and food crises. And IMF (International monetary fund)has declared a severe food crisis in 48 countries around the world.  Furthermore, President Biden hosted the first food security conference in 50 years. Despite this dire situation Korea, the world’s fifth-largest food importer,   has the lowest grain self-sufficiency rate in the world.  And The use of pesticides in agricultural products is even more than 10 times that of Western countries. In addition, local counties are in danger of low population due to aging. You might think a growing couple of vegies is enough,  But you have to consider that vegies are also very important food to us. I strongly urge you to actively participate in sustainable organic gardens to become self-sufficient in the upcoming future. Just because I said this doesn’t mean farming will suddenly become easy.  Many people face difficulties they never expected when they start organic gardening. Firstly, there are major problems in organic farming which are weeding, pest, and disease control. Then the next problem is using machinery. And JADAM is here to ease all of these problems. Many People thinks, if the soil is healthy crop will be growing without any pest and disease problems. But the truth of organic farming is far more difficult than what people usually thought of.  Because we are not farming native and wild seeds. The seeds that you get from the store are bred to suit the taste of humans.  Our will and tongue made bananas, and strawberries to be much sweeter, softer, and larger.  And those planted first gen seeds have 0 experience to defend themselves. Therefore, Organic gardening or farming cannot be continued without any pests and disease solutions. JADAM is one of the most well-known companies in the field of self-made natural pesticides. And with the basis of this information, we have shared our journey from soil to fruit on youtube which will upgrade your life of gardening. This is a website that we have been running since 2003.  If you have further questions leave a comment on the bulletin board or you can live a comment below for any question you have. And this is our first book, that Been translated into English.  It has about 700 reviews with close to 5-star ratings and  It is now distributed globally through amazon.com. This is another book that we have published 2 years ago.  It focuses on pest and disease control in detail. Apart from these, we have been working hard to translate the books into 20 different languages.  And those books are going to be uploaded to the google playbook store. So shell we now begin with organic gardening.? The picture you can see is my farm. It is about 650 square meters in size. You can start with 600 square meters, but this is not mandatory. You can start small from 60 to 100 square meters. The size of the land doesn’t mean you are not capable.  Quality matters not quantity.Once you can control   all the pests and disease You will experience happy farming. The size of the land In this picture is about 80 square meters and there are about 40 to 50  different crops. This means in this small size of the land you can have tasteful organic vegetables for your family. After harvest, you can rather dry it to make a powder shake or you can quench the vegetable for future food. It is a one-time harvest in a year but you can have it for a whole year. It is not very necessary to farm such a diverse number of crops.  I farm a lot of kinds because I’d like to test my JADAM natural pesticides on different kinds of crops. And because of my habit of researching, my family also loves to help me farm. This is the tiny house that we built with my friends.  It is tiny but we have made beautiful surroundings.  we built it because we wanted to showcase how Organic gardening could be peaceful and lovable One unique part of this house is that, It has a compost toilet.  Many people worry about the smell. But if you mix 1 % of any starch into sawdust,  There is barely any smell for weeks until it is disposed of. And later you can also collect human feces to make your compost.  Which means you don’t have to rely on purchasing the compost. Collect all the feces in one place for 3 months to make compost out of it.  And because of the starch, there is barely any smell. If you learn how to do all JADAM methods,  I believe you will overcome the difficulties of different crops for organic farming. Not just vegetables, it also means fruit trees and more. And one of the most interesting things is the strawberries.  We all know that strawberries are perennial plants.  But in fact, many farmers pull out once the harvest is completed. However, with the JADAM method, the strawberries are producing for more than 6 years  And every year the yield has increased compared to the past years.  The pest and disease control on strawberries is not that difficult.  And it is our first crop to be harvested in a year. Not just strawberries, We tested the JADAM method on   lettuce, cabbage, and small radish for kimchi, paprika for barbeque and broccoli for salad. And the world’s favorite plant to consume potato also hasn’t had any difficulties to produce. Not just potatoes, we can also farm sweet potatoes and more. Farming cucumber in an open field is known to be a pretty hassle.  But with the JADAM method, you can farm it all. And one of our favorites is the chili pepper. It is the most basic yet, but most confusing plant to grow, and we are the best producer in South Korea. The high yield comes when you be able to master the JADAM technology. And JADAM technology is simple.  So let me tell you how to solve all the issues with JADAM methods. First, the wedding, The problems of weeding come with the plastic mulching that lasts for a year. This means, after harvest, it is mostly destroyed.  And the other problems are the high temperature inside of the mulching then the ventilation of the field. The purpose of mulching is simply for weeding. But the mulching causes a problem due to heat. To solve these issues, we have chosen to use landscape fabric.  Which is a breathable material and lowers the high temperature. Although the price is high, you can use it for more than 10 years.  And some are even much more durable that can last about 20 years. Which is similar to the life span of solar panels. It helps the soil by creating shade on the soil, Which leads to a higher expansion of active microbes inside the soil. As a result, the landscape fabric helps the roots to reach even deeper and makes better soil quality which leads to a high yield. So let me show you how to make the beds first.  Prepare some powder that could indicate the line on the field. The width of the bed should be 1meter 30 centimeters to 1 meter 60 centimeters.  We will first create drainage on each bed.  To create the bed and drainage, we will use the machine just once to protect the soft soil. and this structure is going to be permanent. We are not going to use rotary machines forever after the first construction. Many of us learned that tilling soil is necessary every after harvest and before planting to mix the compost with the soil. But the surface application of the compost is good enough.  You can simply scatter and spread the compost then cover it with the landscape fabric. When you have completed covering the bad with landscape fabric,  Now it is time to use the white marker to make an indication of where you are going to make the hole for the crop.  Use the string then stretch it up and mark the string with the 30-centimeter gap. Then cut the fabric along with the indication. But do not cut it cross because it will loosen all fabric at the end. And before planting germinate your seedlings into leaf mold soil mix water. Diversity of the microbes in the seedling’s roots will prevent possible diseases occur in the future. Then use the narrow hoe to plant the seedlings. Once you have completed planting, the next step is watering.  You can use the irrigation hose to do this but for the vegetables,  It is much more convenient with a sprinkler. Sprinkle water for about 50 minutes with 1-3 days term depending.  And sometimes you can also mix the JMS along with it. As I just mentioned about the no-till and surface application on the bed of the crop.  Let me show you how it is usually done.  After harvest, pull out the fabric then put it on the side.  Once the harvest is completed your soil needs to be reorganized. After that, I scatter the organic compost on the surface of the bed and then spread it firmly with the wreck. Many people think   the soil will harden if it is not tilled,  But by using the JADAM microbes and compost, the soil stays soft enough. Then later cover the bed with the landscape fabric. It should be performed once every harvest,   and in Korea, it happened only twice in a year. One in May and the other one in September. we have uploaded other videos on how to make beds for the fruiting crop.  So you can have a look at that too. Apart from just lettuce and other vegetables,  How are we going to deal with root plants such as radishes or carrots? It will be quite a hassle if we try to plant in between the fabric.  So to plant a root plant, we will just cover the fabric for about 15-20 days before planting.  Then the weed inside will not be able to get photosynthesis,   eventually, the seeds won’t be able to sprout. After 20 days when you uncover the fabric, you could see the bed is clean from the weeds.  Then organize the bed with wreck then create a line with 30 centimeters intervals to plant. You might get worried that the weed grows back again, but root plants such as small radish grow quicker than weeds as it is all eliminated which leaves no space for the weeds to grow because all the nutrients were absorbed by the plant itself. So in this way, the crop will not be going to have nutrient competition with weeds. And the next thing we want to talk about is Organic pest and disease control.  One of The most interesting parts of JADAM’s natural pesticides is that they won’t have negative effects on humans.  It is safe even if you inhale or mistakenly spray it on your face. Moreover, we know that people worry about spiders and bees but it won’t heavily harm bees and spiders. When you start farming, soon you will realize that there are a lot of circumstances with pests and disease problems. However, Don’t try to view the problem with a microscope.  Just simply focus on 2 things in farming. Aphid and Powdery mildew. If you have enough capability to control aphids, means you can control almost all pests. And if you have enough capability to control powdery mildew,   you can be confident in controlling diseases as well. Aphid is the one major problems for farmers but to us, it is just a piece of cake. By utilizing the simple JADAM method on aphid and powdery mildew,  You can control almost all problems. And we have uploaded all the detailed videos on Thrips, anthracnose, and Aphid on youtube. All the method of mixing ratio is also published in our book. We are having a seminar after 3 years, due to covid 19  In the seminar, we are going to release our new recipe that does not need a water softener. Also, we will now prepare for a world tour as well for the next year. Thank you for watching and I will see you guys in the next video.As found on YouTubeHUMAN SYNTHESYS STUDIO 👀🗯 Attention: Have Real Human Spokespeople In Your Videos Saying Exactly What You Want In MINUTES! REAL Humans, REAL Voices, With A NEW Technology That Gives STUNNING Results Choose Your Human + Voice Type What You Want Them To Say Render your “Humatar” What You Are About To See Is Unbelievable…

6 Signs and Symptoms Of ADHD

 – [Amanda] As a quick disclaimer, this video is made for educational purposes only. And if you have further questions or concerns about ADHD, please consult with your doctor first. With that said, let’s start. I’m sure you’ve heard of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD before. It’s a neurodevelopmental disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention or hyperactivity that interferes with your functioning and development. Though ADHD is most commonly diagnosed in childhood, it can also affect adults. Unfortunately, there’s a significant lack of research into adults with ADHD. Many scientists believe that since ADHD is a developmental disorder, it can not develop in adults without demonstrating any signs during their early childhood. But, signs and symptoms of ADHD often persist into adolescence and adulthood. According to the NHS, by age 25, 15% of those diagnosed will still present symptoms. Of those diagnosed, 65% will have symptoms that affect their lives. Here are six signs and symptoms of ADHD to look out for it if you think it’s affecting your life or the life of someone you know. Number one is inattentiveness. One of the hallmark signs of ADHD is inattentiveness. It goes beyond simply not being able to pay attention. It can also look like the inability to focus on a task, finding it hard to pay attention to others, or overlooking details. Know these symptoms can also be caused by stress. Pay special attention if you find your focus shifting often. Number two, hyperfocus. On the opposite side of the spectrum, you can also experience hyperfocus with ADHD. Hyperfocus can cause a person with ADHD to become so engrossed in a task that they forget about everything else going on around them. It’s important to differentiate between hyperfocus versus when you’re in a state of flow. Flow emerges from a state of deep concentration or engagement in something, and being in flow produces a positive feeling, like a sense of accomplishment. Hyperfocus, on the other hand, is a result of an inability to regulate your attention span. With hyperfocus, you can’t always choose what you focus on. You might be doing something important like homework or hyper-focused on scrolling endlessly through Kylie Jenner’s Instagram Feed. Hyperfocus can lead to setbacks in your relationships with friends or partners, or hurdles at work and school. To help with this, you could prioritize your tasks and accomplish them one by one, or ask your family and friends to text you at specific times to help you shift your focus onto more important tasks. Number three is impulsivity. Do you speak out of turn, or do you regularly get yourself into socially inappropriate situations? Do you rush through tasks? And these all are signs of impulsivity in ADHD. It runs a lot deeper than just making split-second decisions. ADHD impulsivity can disrupt your life, and can potentially get you in trouble.  You might others during conversations, making them less inclined to talk to you again, or you can act without much or any consideration of the possible consequences, and this can land you in hot water. Number four is disorganization. We all have hectic lives, but for someone with ADHD, things may feel a bit more chaotic than usual. If you have ADHD, you may have trouble establishing order in your life, and it can be difficult to keep everything in the right place. And adults with ADHD may struggle with these organizational skills. This can include, problems keeping track of tasks, and trouble logically prioritizing them. Number five is mood swings. Because this symptom is present in many other disorders, it’s not an inherent sign of ADHD, but if you’re someone with ADHD you may experience mood swings or irritability. There may be days you feel good and grounded, and other days when you’re in the emotional gutter. You can try writing your emotions down, which can help you keep track of your emotional patterns, and prepare you for the next mood swing. Setting a schedule will help you establish a routine and avoid the possible stress from disorganization. And number six, lack of motivation. Does it seem like you’re doing everything at once, but feel unmotivated to go about your tasks? Lack of motivation is a common symptom of ADHD. A lack of motivation combined with other symptoms like poor organizational skills is problematic when it comes to accomplishing tasks or being engaged at work. There are many ways to help fight a lack of motivation, though. For example, you could break down your chores into manageable tasks, or write down the positive feelings you’re experiencing throughout the day. These techniques can help you find the motivation to finish your tasks. Do you think you might have ADHD, or does someone you know think they could have ADHD? Do you think these signs will help you or a loved one? Go ahead and like and share this video if it helped you, and you think it could help someone else too. The studies and references used are listed in the description below. And don’t forget to hit the subscribe button for more Psych2Go videos. Thank you for watching, and we’ll see you next time.As found on YouTubeHUMAN SYNTHESYS STUDIO 👀🗯 Attention: Have Real Human Spokespeople In Your Videos Saying Exactly What You Want In MINUTES! REAL Humans, REAL Voices, With A NEW Technology That Gives STUNNING Results Choose Your Human + Voice Type What You Want Them To Say Render your “Humatar” What You Are About To See Is Unbelievable…

Raw Comics vs Slab Values | Kang Fired?? | Comic Book Talk


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figured Murphy's not going to be watching because he's too busy watching the game right now so obviously what up defects thank you for stopping by tonight we all know we got playoff hockey so we're all excited about it but we're here with you very excited about tonight's show uh always love when uh the Haas the Haas shows up to the show and hangs out with us so you know he's coming in with some with some uh statistics him and Matt him and Maddie together make like a freaking all of a sudden I feel like I'm unlike the FBI and [ __ ] I see the reflection of the game in in guys uh glass and then tomorrow night when Jay goes live on whatnot if which we're all going to be there if this is still in the background you're gonna just have that on the background Jay or what I mean I think the game should be over by 9 45 but if it's not I'm gonna be pissed off and if I do bad on whatnot I'm really gonna be [ __ ] pissed that'll be the last that'll be the last time oh yeah that'll be the last 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in a month I think right there you go look at that irregular yeah you must be doing something wrong to be honest with you then I'm getting to that uh that number of appearances that no longer matters anymore like the collectibility is dropping off this is true this is true good to have you here brother um just to give people a quick recap of how this you know came to be like just a few days ago um you put out a video I I want to say it was uh what Friday was that a Friday video yes end of the week last week okay had a video that was basically an unboxing of uh awesome book and I'll let people go watch it if they won I don't wanna I don't want to spill all the all the details but the the second half of the video which you you rolled into very very nicely might I add was basically talking about you know Rose you know to simplify it basically raws versus graded and and what's the better buy right now and what's what are what where's the Demand right now and and and why um and I think you kind of gave a really good um insight into you know what 2021 caused you know with raw uh books being essentially at least priced the same as their graded counterparts now whether they sold that way I think a lot of times they did or close to it but almost every like listing you saw if the book was a near mint it was selling for almost like the nine six the nine six price you know and if it was a 7-0 it was selling you know they had it listed four the seven five price you know so it was like you know that's what 2021 did and I mean what was kind of your you know your quick kind of overall conclusion to kind of you're like just it was only you talked about it for about six or seven minutes and and kind of like give us like your kind of wrap up to that video and kind of lead us into where we're gonna talk about tonight yeah for sure I mean I'm glad you you guys wanted to talk about this because like you said you know in my video I only talked about it for a few minutes but I feel like there's so much more to unpack with the topic but my general thoughts going into it were you know a lot of people for whatever reason always kind of pegged me as a guy who was like the champion of the raw comic books even though that's really not The Stance I've ever had it just I happen to have more raws and then over time people would tease me because it's like oh swag you're buying all these graded books and my uh opinion on that was it's like it's not me that all of a sudden wants created books is that the market had changed you know in the last couple years where all of a sudden prices like you said were essentially the same so at a certain point it was like well why would I but before I used to be able to buy the raw book for you know you maybe save a little bit the grading fees and maybe a a little bit of I I don't know what you would want to call it like the the risk that it doesn't actually hit the right fee right and then over time like you said the price is kind of equalized and then at that point it was like oh I might as well just buy the graded book because it's already you know cgc fees are included in this um and now we're kind of just hitting a point where I feel like the demand for raws have started to come up more and a lot of the graded books especi I mean depending on what book you're talking about but especially like you know mid-grade level you know say bronze and silver books like those prices are really really hurting um and in the book that I was unboxing I just kind of had a situation where I was like yeah here here's me buying this raw book that now is way more affordable than my graded book or the graded book equivalent would be for it uh once again so that was kind of what the video was about and and uh to kind of sum it up very very well put together by the way which which most of your stuff is so I'm not really worried about when I go watch your stuff but um awesome book awesome oh yeah thank you yeah yeah and it's nice to have like obviously the two copies that you know that yeah that's that's that was the outcome obviously you wanted a raw copy too and and a slab copy right yeah yeah it was it was just was a it just became a thing where it's like I wanted to upgrade it and also I didn't mind getting a raw cut because like aesthetically you know it just yeah it bothers me when there's like a raw and then a grade and then a raw you know it looks all funky to me so I just wanted I didn't mind getting it so you like symmetry you're saying you know we gotta we you know as companies we gotta have our like I mean look at all our backgrounds you know it's like this is all deliberate you know that means you need an Emmy on for the other side though yeah yeah it happened anytime soon you gotta balance it out um so you know I think so much we've and not really on purpose um but the past two months we've really talked a lot about grading and cgc and some of the mishaps um and again not not the best as you see you know we try to put that out there every time but these things are happening and we have to cover them um and you know this is a conversation that kind of kind of leads to that you know I don't want to say and I know Jay has some some opinions about this so I'm going to throw it to him first but I think there's there is a lot of factors to you know that that are going to support the stance that you know maybe the values aren't equal as far as the dollar value but like you were trying like Mickey you were trying to say that maybe the not the numeric value but the actual value as far as how much is on the bone compared to how much you bought it for and what's your upside versus your you know a slab just being that price and it's not going to move much you know maybe there's other contributing factors to it and we've talked a lot about them on this channel with you know mistrust in some of the grading companies right Jay and and that being a factor as to why some people maybe the slabs aren't as desirable right now what do you think yeah 100 I mean we see what cg3 cgc ncbcs been going through in the last year maybe even longer than that and like we talked about on the show in the past we see you know we see mistakes and we hear about it in the community all being community members and you know um Everybody in the chat being a Community member I mean more mistakes now so than ever uh way longer waiting times no matter what tier you're sending in you're still not getting your books back when you're supposed to in in most cases right um defects books that are getting nine eight that shouldn't get nine eights with visible defects on the book even through the slab so I think in this conversation it it really does come down to the specific book and the specific grade just like Mickey said you know so we'll use examples and and we'll get into that as the show goes on but um me myself I've been leaning I haven't submitted a book in what Matt about a year a year and a half it's been about it's a little over a year for us and the reason being is I haven't bought many grills there's not I pretty much checked everything off my list as a collector I stopped buying so much of everything and just focused on the characters and the books that I wanted um when it comes to Grails listen I'm not going to keep a grill raw any book that's over you know fifteen hundred two thousand dollars I am going to submit to cgc I am going to send it to era to get pressed and cleaned up before that and all that is money um so I you know I'm a little on the fence I I still tend to think slab slabs are gonna fetch the higher dollar amount because it's it's your guaranteed grade right we'll say guaranteed in parentheses so but again man like I watch PJ Morris and morbius and I I get their point man with not slave in any of these books because who knows it depends on the grader is the book really a nine eight is it really a nine six is it really a 5-0 so so I get that but I do send in to like the bigger books to slab as an investment as something to save just in case and we've said this before something happens to me my wife my son they they have an idea what that book could sell for just by pulling it up on eBay but I'm I'm with these guys right now man I'm with more abuse I I'm with PJ I'm with all these other old school role collectors that don't want to submit their books I get it man I I get it um as far as moderns I'm not sending in any moderns to cgc anymore I'm not sending in any more minor Keys um it should this that's how I feel right we'll we'll get into price point yeah go on but yeah I mean you know and I think that is a whole the the slab to not slab is a whole except not that it's a separate conversation but that can be a separate conversation you could have a whole show just on that the reasons why to do one or the other um you know and like Jay said we do have a couple examples to kind of show you know maybe maybe like heat one of the examples is almost like a heat check like what's What's um what's hotter and I know Mickey during your video you kind of mentioned that like what is hot or not necessarily what's selling for more but what is more desirable at this time yeah and then there's another example that I have that is gonna show dollar for dollar um on a I don't want to say a Grail but a major Silver age villain key um so we're gonna we're gonna show those two things off and kind of dive into it now I saw a lot of com I got a lot of DMS and I saw some comments even before the show that people had a lot of um strong feelings about this even before I got slabs will always be more money slabs will always be more money and and while on the surface that's probably a statement I would agree with um I think there's some Nuance to it and I think there's there's a there's a little bit of a deeper dive as to you know again dollar for dollar may be right maybe on that nine eight maybe on those higher grades you're that's always going to be the case but what about you know the lower grade or what about the non-keys or what about you know um you know filler but you know so so that's why I said there's a couple of different examples and there's two specific books that I want to look at now it's hard to do this with um raws versus slab right because with slabs you have a grade scale and you have places to look that up sale for sale with the raw stuff it's it's very hard you almost have to you have to sit there grade the book out yourself and say I think this falls into a 9496 category and then compare it to uh the latest slab on that we can't do that for 12 books here it we would be on for four hours right yeah but the problem with that is especially when you're talking about like a nine six to a nine eight when you're looking at a raw book you may think you have a 9A but that price point from that 9 6 to that nine eight is so significantly different it jumps so high so there's the problem with that and yeah you send it in for that nine eight but when it comes back that nine six is it worth cracking it out so someone does the same thing you do oh maybe I could potentially get the 98 with this you know what I mean and who's to say they won't you might crack open a 9-6 sell to someone they submitted in and then boom there's the 98 and that's the problem with the Grading Company right there what do you got guy he's muted or frozen or something what do you got guy I was frozen I'm sorry I I missed everything you said uh what are you out there on the screen for Super Chat oh for me Supreme love he said thanks for making a list and my NC relaxing he said through rain sleet snow defects will show so I like that I like that little that little kid it always says man the books they look so nice in the mylord dude there's nothing you throw a 5-0 book and a mylar it could look like a NATO you know what I mean but true yeah and and another thing that comes into play is buying and selling raw verse slabs right because if if I'm buying a high grade a high dollar value book online I've been burnt too many times to buy a raw copy man if it's a Grail I'm I'm buying it slab yeah at the end of the day just because it's it it's safer um because you don't know what you know you may get pictures you might get this you might get that but you don't know what's going on on the inside of that book you don't know if there's water that stuff that the camera can't pick up so you know modern's different you buy a modern online you're all right you know you you're buying silver age and maybe even some Bronze Age books online eBay what not Instagram you know you don't know what you're gonna get so that's where I tend to I'll buy a celeb and spend that extra money knowing the guaranteed grade rather than rolling the dice yeah what were you going to say Mickey god well there's so many answers when you're bringing up uh the people who are instantly kind of reacting to the thumbnail and stuff and and I I'd say that I think we'd all agree like in a vacuum of course the graded book is always going to be more expensive I mean just grading fees alone just is always going to make it more expensive but I think what it is is it's like the demand aspect or like how like what's going to be easier to sell and and kind of like Jay what you're saying like there's there's definitely a price point where it's like yeah if it's above like fifteen hundred dollars like grade the book by all means but then when you get into that like it's a 500 book range all of a sudden you're in this weird spot you know if if like let's say there's a you got a 5-0 book that's graded and then you have what looks like a raw 50 book I feel like a lot of people would almost rather buy the raw one for whatever reason like maybe it's a psychological thing or like they just think oh I can just like I can press that one up or like I don't need it in a slab and that one might be easier to sell or be faster to sell now and I think that that's kind of maybe what what at least this conversation is too you know right and it's funny that you said that because I was going to kind of talk about the demand um you know you had said you know going it's taking a step backwards a little bit we had said that you know during 2021 and early 2022 There Was You Know The Raw books you know were were listed equal to the graded and and some of the sales they were really close um and do we do you think it's because because and I think the same goes for now but then the demand for everything was so high yeah and there's less places to look up a raw value than there is obviously a slab value and and it created almost like a frenzy where books were going so fast that you didn't really have time to think is this like am I getting the right price for this raw book you just saw that book somebody told you you had to buy it it looks like it's priced and a lot of new buyers not knowing that uh near mint book is not the same as buying you know uh nine eight or a nine six or even a nine four right technically shouldn't be um but do you think that the supply I mean excuse me the demand is what's really um driving some of these prices raw and slab because you even mentioned that the consolidation of certain grades where we are seeing higher grade books sell for less than lower grade books because at that time maybe just nobody was looking to buy that book maybe one was bought on a buyer now and one was bought on an auction when no one was really looking somebody's I and you showed a a book that a 5-0 sold for like eighty dollars less than it's count like then a 4-0 and not too far apart yeah so I feel like that's got to be demand causing that right yeah I think so for sure I definitely think that the the demand has cooled down so like it's it's uh not like there's any given day like any of these books just depending on who's watching you know could sell lower or higher so like there's just a lot of like volatility in that middle section and then but compared to 2021 and 2022 you know I think there was a point where it's like let's say you had a book that you know the graded version can get you a thousand and and then maybe it was like normal for you to sell the raw for I don't know like 700 bucks right but then all of a sudden I think people just started to kind of get greedy in 2021 when everything was going crazy and you're just sort of thinking to yourself well why would I sell mine for 700 when I know this guy's just gonna send it in to get graded and I'm leaving money on the table you know all of a sudden so that's kind of why I think people were raising those raw Book prices because they just knew that oh if you're just going to get it graded and it's going to double the value like why wouldn't I just sell it for that yeah and I like what you said about the the you know kind of the flip and you know I know some people it's like a bad word but not on this channel you know it's like you know if somebody buys that rule book they think there's more potential for it down the road and and again with an overall dip in the market you know maybe you're buying for a longer term hold maybe you're buying to try to you know maximize your value and I think I I think it was what we just talked about like the lower the higher grade selling for less one week apart this and that is just a result of a a big downward dip in in the market right so a lot of things are coming into play that are causing you know some of these weird prices on on slabs um sprinkle in some some really big missteps this year with with grading companies people's desire to have that that book in a mylar if it's an older book and now you're starting to see a little bit more demand for raw books than graded books which is just gonna naturally cause an increase in price I mean yeah again there's gonna always be those steadfast rules right the nine eights the modern nine eights nine sixes you know certain like books over a thousand dollars you're always going to see that but I mean for me just in the past three months since I've started kind of starting to buy comics again I've been paying attention to a lot more auctions of books that don't necessarily have anything to do with news or keys or anything like that and what I've been seeing is you know those lower grade Silver age books that aren't necessarily that expensive you know a four or five you know in this book in a four or five sells for seventy dollars but a raw four to five oh you know 4050 is selling for 90.

and and I've seen that my own personal experience and I've seen it over and over again and I think it's a reason it's it's because of all the reasons we've been talking about so I don't have a specific example it's just I have been seeing this time and time again over the last few months have you guys noticed something like that as well I mean because I I keep seeing it happen and it's kind of sometimes it doesn't Shock Me A lot of times it is because I'm like that's not really like a filler book like that's kind of like a book that I could see people having in that grade but obviously not to these group of buyers they'd rather have it for more money in a slab I mean in a mylar totally do you think there's like a is it like there's always the like I've kind of said it in jest in my video but it's like if my book is raw and I know it's a VG there's always like in my mind like well maybe it's a 5-0 right you know versus like when it has the number on it I know this is the number and like good point I don't know so do you think that there's like a weird collector psychology that's kind of coming into play these days even with the number on it is it really the number right that's what yeah yeah good point I don't know yeah I'm just a piggyback you Jay that's all yeah no and I like what Roy said in the in the chat and supreme said something that I I'm gonna disagree with that you know these graders are human and everybody makes a mistake and listen I get that but when it comes to money and collectibles and you're paying top dollar to have these books graded you're paying top dollar to get your books pressed and cleaned before all this happens I don't want to hear it's a mistake and I think it's a combination of people maybe smartening up with money a little bit and losing faith in these grading companies listen people aren't blind that cgc got so many artists coming in and they're so distracted by this and there's private signings and I get it listen me and Matt spoke earlier today and Matt said it if you live somewhere where there's not big cons where you can't get these books signed it it gives collectors a great opportunity to send your books in to get them signed but it seems like cgc pushes everything to the back burner for these signatures now I mean they're having kit Harrington there they're having the girl from Hawk like this it got to stop at some point focus on what what you're there for to grade books right I don't want to hear oh we made a mistake no I don't want to hear that because they don't refund you in any way yeah they really don't make things right and we've heard I have a horror story that we're going to talk about in a little bit um the person happens to be in litigation with cgc and we can't talk about it right now but when that's all said and done we're gonna talk about it and it has to do with them losing books and it and it's a disaster man like listen I don't want a mistake and if and if my book is I think it's a nine eight and they bring it back a nine two and nine four or even a nine six and there's no notes [ __ ] that I want to know why this book didn't hit that 9 8 at least give me that respect you know what I mean yeah so it's not even about respect you deserve to know you're paying right exactly yeah 100 you're paying for it take take respect out of the equation you're paying for a service so when you pay for something you expect the service in return especially if it's like like I think of like Amazing Spider-Man 300 like the price between a nine eight and a nine six is like yeah thousands of dollars right so like and you sent it in like you you need that explanation like why is you know yeah correct what do you got there and I just think I think overall is collectors and now you know everybody being in the community and being in a Facebook group or being on Instagram and seeing all these mistakes that are being made I think people are starting to lose faith in cgc and greater books and I think that's another main reason why people are gravitating towards raw copies if you get your hands on the raw then you can take your time and you have it and maybe when things get fixed or things get better you can send it in so that's another reason why they're gonna they're gonna grab them now while they can and then this way they have them in their hands in their possession but Dave Cerrone is yelling out and wants some Eva for swaggle house he said King of the charts and grass so give them a little Eva hey that defects guess who's back for some more Super chats yeah baby let's go defects let's go defects it's either going to terrificon possibly wow possibly he couldn't even say that with a straight face there could there could be something in the works yeah you never know oh spoilers all right I never know you never know that's all we'll say all right let's look at a little bit of data there's I didn't want to get too crazy with the detail on this because it is a little hard to work at so we're gonna give two specific examples where's that low Super Chat very good yeah he comes in a perfect timing look comes in perfect timing no like whatever he's always lurking he's got us on in the background while he's flipping through about 10 000 books at a time so let me bring so one book that came to mind that's been hot so it kind of doesn't give an excuse right it's a hot book so it kind of levels the playing field there's Kanan number six right we all know that's been in the news right for for uh one reason or another and I think that's that started around I think April 6th or 7th I think that's when the trailer came out so I tried to kind of look up uh I want to look up some raw copies so let me share my screen if I can [ __ ] do this share screen Chrome tab there we go okay now we could just bring it up all right so I wanted to bring it back to around the seventh and again I'm not you know some of these are best offer so it's not I guarantee that this this second one here sold for 120 but let's just assume it was close right so obviously this news I'm trying to get to the first raw copy this is right okay so right around here you have this 85 dollar sale for a very fine near mint you guys can still see me right yeah all right then we have this 140 Plus you know best offer obviously let's just assume it's somewhere between 125 and 130 for this this near mint book right on that first the first day um you know if I just kind of scroll up 115 120 100 let's go back to the first page sorry about that my screen's skipping a little bit uh let me bring it to the bottom for whatever reason my screen is not cooperating here we go it's kind of skip over the raws for now uh I mean the slabs for now you know this was an 80 copy near mint so that was a really good deal I would say 90 uh 80.

Back in the 80s now we're getting back up to the 117s you know we're back on the rise right 81 uh this was 175 uh best offer so that's I mean even if it was 140 that's still a definite jump this was 140 best offer so to me I mean you know this was a little lower that I look I think I looked at that earlier I had a spine tick this was like a VF near Main copy this 85.

basically anything near mint you can see this 160 for a raw wow you gotta assume that's near mint or better um you know you're you're over a hundred thirty dollars for these near mints and and that kind of the price was kind of set and it kind of just stuck around again this was an 88 book I looked at it had a spine tick uh 147. anything with no spine ticks was you know right in this 110 115 range to like 130 140 range right you'd see another one sold just under 140.

um so it's hard to you're not gonna really take a nine eight and say like Oh look The 98 is cheaper that's that's not what you're gonna see here right it's just this is a book that kind of has held its value for the last three years um but I wanted to just look at it compared to as far as the heat check like clearly a book sold today 145 Dollars near a minute so that that near mint price for raws is really holding strong right um so let's go over to the GPA for the 98 okay it seems like it seems I can get a better deal on on uh some other platforms other than eBay yeah I mean it's possible I'm just saying we're we're just saying can you see that this GPA you guys able to see that not yet can't see it okay hold on I should probably turn it on right there you go so GPA 9A Kanan number six um right here is when those 9 8 started selling and you can see 500 549 500.

okay those first two nine eight sales right after the news down to 450 down to 400 down to 388 jumps back up a little bit and then level is starting to level back down again 425. okay so not a ton of sales I mean it's a decent amount of sales one two three four five six seven eight eight nine eight sales in the last 10 days I mean it's not a cheap book right I mean it's strong right I mean if you look at the March 30th price let's just say let's assume that these people kind of knew something was happening right buying up these nine eights um but if this three you know this four to this 350 to 400 price range in this past month or two you know that's where where the price was so even at this later price we're obviously still above that but to me this does I mean to go from 549 to drop to 425 in less than 10 days while the raws have remained if anything have gone up you know I think the demand and again we're not talking dollar for a dollar we're talking right now in this instance Raw versus slab we're talking demand and where the value is it it looks like for this book it's people are looking for that raw book and that near me copy is still on the rise yeah I I think it may be it's just people because obviously if you can buy the book for 150 with the potential to get the nine eight I think people just would rather do that like just they just just the demand to be like you know what why am I gonna I do I really need to guarantee myself a 9 8 and spend 250 extra dollars I just think a lot of people kind of like I think what Jay you said earlier were just people just being more cautious with how they wanna do this you know I think that that's what you're seeing so people are like I'd rather just buy the raw and assume it's going to be a 9-8 or go for the nine eight or send it in and hopefully it hits and now especially with this book this book's going to be an all-time high um right you know everybody's buying up at the news I think yeah you know is the book gonna come down I think so so why invest whatever that was 569 and buy it at an all-time high when you could roll the dice and buy a raw copy and potentially get that 98 especially with a newer book like that you know but then there's other stuff going on eulers thanks for the shout out dude because I sold Oilers one of these books and he got a 9-8 on that from an old YouTube auction so thanks for that shout out dude nice um another thing man is don't forget now guys cgc is starting to give books purple labels for cleaning and pressing so that's something you gotta be on the lookout for too that's gonna change the game for a lot of people you know what I mean especially if they're hitting you with a purple label for a cleaning service that's you know we got to talk about that that's something like yeah another show but we gotta address that yeah and real quick some old school collectors like that they don't like the idea of a clean and oppressed they think they consider it restoration do I no I I don't but some people do and you gotta respect everybody's opinion on it and just like great adverse raw you got to respect everybody's opinion on it right if you look at a A Fantastic Four number five a first Doom whether someone has it raw or slab that's still a [ __ ] fantastic book man you know what I mean so I just think people are getting a little more hip to the game when it comes to cgc and you know reading the backlash and the horror story so I think that plays a big part in this too I wanted to give one more example because again you know people were immediately jumping saying the raw book is always going to be worth more I mean the the slab book is always going to be worth more and I found an example and again this wasn't hard to find it's not like I had to look forever to find this um an example of a pretty pretty big book I think um so Silver Surfer number three and this book I picked for a reason and maybe you'll see later on why but I'm not going to explain why right now um so this Silver age major villain key okay in a lower grade um sold for 3.95 best offer I looked it up it actually went for 365.

Okay um and let's look I don't know if I'm going to be able to show I'm gonna I'm gonna zoom in a little bit and then I'm gonna try to bring up a whole book let me see what that looks like I'm gonna have to use the magnifying glass a little bit so this corner can you guys kind of see that yep you know that spidering you know I'm just gonna go slow to me this looks like the back is pretty clean I mean to me this looks like somewhere between a four and a five probably five is on the very high side but if you just say if you just say maybe like a four or five just because of this corner here and The Tear at the top um but even if you want to go high and you want to say five I mean am I in the ballpark yeah I was gonna say a four right off the bat as soon as you started showing I was gonna say about a four but but you know what I'll even give the benefit of that and let's let's just say it's a five okay um now I wanted to see what a four or a five was selling for in a graded copy so remember this was 360.

This book which it's not like it had like a hidden defect that somebody can see these are like right in front this guy had a lot of pictures uh of every corner like you can really and this was I want to say it was best offer okay so again you're not under the gun to uh you know the auctions running down maybe you bid too much and then have that buyer's remorse this is a book that has been sitting out there okay so I want to go to GPA real quick and this will kind of be the last example of this but I had to I had to bring up something just to kind of say are we on to something here uh let me share it with you guys okay so right off the bat let's just say it's a five which again I think that's a little high last sale this month 380. okay um and let's just say it is a four last sale last month not too long ago 340. this raw book at 360. is I by all metrics is basically equivalent or more you're paying more by the time I mean you're paying more for it essentially for a raw book and you would that same book and it slabbed and it's in its slapped form um and this isn't like a tiny book this isn't like a book that nobody's gonna buy in that grade I mean there's been five five sales this year I mean excuse me there's been five five oh sales in this in this book this year that's I mean it's a lot of that's a lot for you know a 1968 you know for one grade it's been four months I mean that's you know in a book that it's not like it's super hot for any reason right now so I mean this is you know maybe it's the exception but this exception didn't take me more than five minutes to find so I feel like this is happening more than people realize expect more downward Trends on this book now that they're gonna [ __ ] gender swap my fist though so expect that book to come crashing down soon well Danner right that and that's the question was it an outlier and we could sit here for hours and look at every raw book and try to grade it out but again this this was literally the first rule book I found it's not like I cherry-picked it you know and I mean we can if you want I guess we could sit here and look for the next raw cell I mean I just want to take a quick look see if anything stands out so that's a good point too because that could be how many sellers does how many you know followers does the seller on eBay had what did he post it as exactly you know what I mean I think a lot of that comes into fact there too yeah I mean that one didn't it just said c I think it said c picks for the uh for for um for Whatchamacallit for condition right it's not like he was just I said if anything he showed every single defect it's not like you were he was getting one picture that maybe somebody didn't look close enough at he showed every picture so here I'm going to show you another one I mean this is actually this is even in a better example um just because that and appreciate you Dan Hart coming coming into the whatnot sale the other night uh where is it where is it let me get rid of that one uh but yeah no that was a good question and actually I'm glad that you made me look at this uh uh stick with me for a second there it there it is share that up okay so this was an election so different style this is an auction um 368 dollars so right in that same price range I want to say that this book is slightly nicer but it has a spine split all right you can't really see from that but that has a spine split right and a decent one um some some spine issues for sure you know that bottom corner is is not as bad as the other one um you definitely that's you know that's worse than the other book that that little Mark right there but that spine split you know one inch spine split you know you have that uh right in the v there you have uh that that cut right in the v or that slice that's that's color breaking um this looks like it presents nicer though it definitely presents better but I would say again though this is probably a Max 5-0 because you have a spine split that's at least an inch um now maybe not as many people know about that you can see that that bottom corner is chewed up you know but maybe not as many people know about a spine split like kind of wrapping your grade but I mean even if you want to say this is a 5'5 right like Max you know so the five fives you know the 5-0 selling for 380.

you know so it's like that they're still very very close right like so you have to assume someone would want to pay to press it and then send it in and do that so whatever that fee is on top you know so it's pretty close oh yeah I mean the great is if you're if you don't know someone and you're saying it let's say you're sending in a single book if you're sending in a single book graded clean pressed to an outside party and then shipped to cgc created that's a minimum and at this price point Silver age I'm just doing some round numbers shipping both way like you're looking at 90 to 100 dollars well unless for everything let's use an Express CBP which you have a discount code just throwing it out there you know so automatically that 360 turns to you know 460. so and again I know not everybody bidding on eBay is going to have that same knowledge of the spine split is thinking of the cleaning and pressing and the grating but again this is the the second book I found right if that second book that I found like is literally the second world sale on this book if that was the second book I found and it went for like two 260 I would say sure then then yeah maybe maybe it's just an anecdotal it's it's a single instance it's the it's the exception again I do think that moreover the slabs are going to sell more but I think you know in certain instances and it's becoming more apparent even in my eyes that the the the raw books are selling for equivalent if not even a few dollars more of their raw counterparts depending on like Jay said earlier depending on the grade depending on the book depending on the error so and guy could you throw up Fizzy's comment real quick because I I like that that's a great comment bottom line is who do you trust more do you trust C uh cgc cbcs more or some Rando on eBay who mindlessly props near mint in their listing title and that and that's a great Point dude and that ex that's exactly why I said in the beginning of the show if I'm buying a high priced book like ss3 um online from eBay from whatnot from Instagram whatever the case may be I gotta buy that book slap just for that reason alone so you're absolutely right when it comes down to that I do trust cgc and cbcs more than some dude posting it up on on eBay or whatever selling platform they're selling it on so I I'm gonna pose one more question to you guys and you just take take over and then we'll move on we'll talk about the Jonathan Majors thing but you know we can sit here and say bad buyer you know misrepresentation somebody overbid it somebody didn't realize that didn't think about the grading and this and that but at the end of the day doesn't that sale still count and doesn't it still set a price point doesn't it still affect the next sale like obviously when it's egregious people just throw it away but Mickey I mean it's it's still it's gonna like if you're looking at that and you see that that book sold for this price aren't you gonna still enter you know put that into your equation of what you should pay for the book 100 it totally counts you know and and I think you know you didn't pull up all of it but even when you were kind of saying like just just in peer it just is empirically true you know because I I agree with you it's we could talk about SilverStar for three but I bet if you pulled up Thor 165 out of Morlock you know you'd see the same types of things going on or if you pulled up like the Wonder first Wonder Man book you know you'd see this it's a lot of these types of you know they're big keys but they're it's not like an ASM one you know like a case point it's like ASM one shirt like you know that that's gonna be different but a lot of these types of things it happens a lot you know and and we're seeing it repeat itself again and again what do you think Jay final word yeah I mean I I pretty much you know spoke my piece on it um uh dependent on the book right just like make said is it is it a big key yeah it's a big key is it a Grail no it's not a grill um I think at the end of the day it all comes down to the buyer and the collector and and and what they want for their I do see a push and raw books being more uh more in demand now you know especially you know coming from King Khan and going more you know you see more people all the time buying these books raw and whether they're submitting or not but it's definitely you know cgc and cbcs they are a million you know big big companies but they are definitely catching backlash from collectors in the community without a doubt without a doubt I mean NJ without just just to kind of put like just an extra piece of evidence in there and again this is this is just our personal experience this is just what we're seeing you know like we've made it clear that we still think that you know slab books overall are going to be more valuable but again we're talking about demand which you know it's more than just a dollar right but Jay without saying any names without saying what book it was without saying the grade or anything like that didn't we just have a conversation with someone that said maybe I should just break out that book and sell it wrong because I'll probably get more money for it yeah 100 yeah you know so this is how right like so I don't know um it's an interesting conversation and as soon as I watched the video that Mickey did and if you guys want to check it out his link is in the description um it just so many ideas like it kind of brought to kind of to the Forefront what I had been seeing these past three few weeks you know just perusing eBay perusing whatnot you know just and and saying to myself I can't believe that raw book just sold more than what I just looked up a 5-0 to go for and I know this book isn't a 5-all you know like so I don't know I think it's an interesting conversation I saw a lot of good comments on there unfortunately there's four of us we I wanted to address every single one but then we'd be here for three hours and yep we can't do it we'd love to but um but don't go anywhere we're not done yet we still have more to talk about after we talk about a couple whatnot shows coming up uh Jay you selling tomorrow night brother yeah I am popping my cherry it's like I said every show for the last three weeks since we announced this I'm officially selling my soul officially tomorrow um YouTube just wasn't working dude I guess this is this is just the only way right now we'll check it out um I won't be selling a lot on there but I'll definitely be selling some cool books that I know are probably gonna go for a lot lower than I'm expecting get your deals it's a good time right it's getting books to you guys in the community everybody's winning I'm making a little bit of money maybe you're getting books you like we're gonna have a good time we'll all be up there chatting like a show so it is what it is right now right let's go that's it yeah Jay's going tomorrow night 9 45 we start off with e-rod seven o'clock at 8 30.

do you hear me I think my earbud died Mickey can you hear me yeah I can still hear you okay so both of you both here yeah it's just Jay then um yeah Jay goes on 9 45 tomorrow night e-rod first at seven very Gary at 8 30 and then we're starting at 9 45 probably go till about uh 10 30 10 45. a couple giveaways gonna be in there and like we said if you haven't been there yet it's all three of us hanging out just like here on YouTube so it's like a little mini show on whatnot we talk about whatever happened there will be something that seems to something that happens either Monday night or Tuesday morning and it's always after our show so we so we've been talking about that on whatnot as well so it's like you get like an extra show um and maybe you buy some books so links in the description even if you're not buying just come hang out with us it's something we can like we said we're giving books away we're bullshitting with you guys so it's more than just selling the books so the defects you're doing another show on another day just come by I mean it's I mean it's content maybe it's kind of what do you ask for that's it so be Supreme love a supreme love I think I still have that Thor 166.

I still have that Maddie right yeah I think so yes you do I think I do you want to DM me you have Instagram DM me there you go sliding that slide in that DM brother um the um so yeah what up thorough in the chat yeah um look at the shirt Link's in the description and the QR codes on the screen look at the shirt keep it thorough baby how did you know to wear that thank you Cog CLG in the house CLG we're gonna be talking about we're gonna be talking about CLG next week we just didn't have enough time this week but we got clg's got some we've mentioned it before on this channel but we got a giveaway for you guys next week so I'll just tease that and we'll leave it at that but make sure you're tuned in next week on YouTube because we got a nice giveaway and if you want a giveaway Jay's doing two [ __ ] awesome giveaways tomorrow and I was like you're giving those books away yeah Jay's in the chat because his earbuds died I don't know if he's gonna jump back in or he's done but we quickly just wanted to talk so tomorrow night what not 9 45 come hang out bookmark the shows that helps us out a lot links in the description or QR code on the screen tell us about the last thing we're going to talk about here well I mean this is just funny I I I obviously it was in the news there's some big chat big channels I mean we're like we're like this we're like this I mean there's some big channels throwing some videos up there about and uh Canyons having some you see what I did there with the words Kang is having some Majors issues we saw this with the ads got him you know got him that's all um I mean guys do you does this hold any I mean how about this I go to my cousin Vinnie does the defensive case hold water so um speaking on the hot mic podcast Insider Jeff Schneider I've heard his name before uh and I've seen I've read this I read this too so go ahead I'm excited for it um brought up uh the cat uh Idris okay and that's that um damson Idris who is set to play opposite Brad Brad Pitt in Apple's upcoming movie set in the world of formula one here's the quote here's here's one I wanted to talk about did you see who got cast in the Brad Pitt racing movie question mark Dame damson address and if you don't know where that is he's from snowfall uh actually I really like that show I think he's from and he says I think he's from snowfall and that's and so that's like a big part right that is the the young hot shot racer opposite Brad put Brad Pitt in this 150 to 200 million dollar racing movie that is a big deal that he got that he noted that the young Talent would be the kind of the kind of actor the studio is looking at if Jonathan Majors gets the boot as Kang and again quote even though there hasn't been any movement on the Jonathan Majors front I've heard that that's the kind of actor who like who like if Jonathan Majors got the Buddhas Kevin someone like damson Idris is the type of person that Marvel may look at to replace him so they literally said they want a devs and Idris like actor swag what the [ __ ] I mean is that that just seems like we want the young gonna be influential in Hollywood for the next 10 years actor right and I want the butcher-esque to be the third defect I wanna I wanna God forbid something that happens yeah yeah what did yeah it's interesting stories like does Disney see these like tests yeah how would fans react to this if we if we recast well yeah before you cut out into Jake can you hear us yeah yeah I'm good I'm good I know I know you wanted to talk I know you had like we have a little bit of a difference in opinion on this so go first just in case you get cut off again but tell me what do you think about this because I know you threw something in the chat I know this was coming from off the Jump I [ __ ] this the mouse don't play dude they're not gonna have a dude that allegedly you know involved in a domestic violence incident and whether it disappears or not they always disappear look at the NFL look at all look look at Sports in general these always disappear because the victim gets paid off in whatever the case may be Disney don't want to be associated with any type of domestic violence especially nowadays and think about all the money they're saving now but an actor that's not as big as Jonathan Majors um I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner I'm surprised it didn't happen when the news dropped but I guess they had to get their lawyers involved and see where they go from there and that's it and you know if if you've been following it whether it's on IG or in the news more people are coming forward that work with this guy's majors and said he has violent tendencies so before anything else bad happens right like Ezra Miller I just seen Lord Brooklyn put it in listen they stuck with Ezra right I mean and that dude allegedly held people hostage but who knows but too much money on the line yeah that's why exactly way too much money on the line I mean I like I like you know I haven't seen Ant-Man 3 yet so I can't tell you my opinion on Jonathan majors portrayal of Kang but I like Kang the Conqueror and if these kids get a step up to do a good job then there you go if there's not going to be any backlash or Disney you know what I mean if there's not gonna be a bunch of protesters outside with nothing better to do than protest a Marvel movie because of domestic violence they don't want that headache so Jay on a positive note I don't know if this was meant for you or not I was dying you want to just read that out loud oh there you go I like it um yeah man I you know they they don't want to be exactly and like Roy says is there any I mean there's people that still go out I'm excited for Guardians three it's gonna be the first movie I go see in the theaters in a in a long long time it's gonna be a fun night Cinco de Mayo think of the last Marvel movie we saw in the theaters um no we saw we saw DC movie in the theaters yeah we saw Batman um I couldn't even tell you the list oh wow Shang Chi we want and we both fell asleep yeah oh yeah yeah the second time I watched that on Disney plus I I liked it I did too you know what I mean um yeah so yeah you know Disney's not playing man you know they're good I don't know man see this is like me and Jay are on the opposite side we have been since the beginning we've got a little side back going honestly I think what like what SWAG said now I'm not saying that he won't get fired because if I think if more comes out or he does you know if the if the case goes 40 does go to trial then it's a different story my thing is I don't think it's gonna get that far I think what's Happening Here is they're definitely testing the waters like swag side but I also think they're also doing cover fire let's say they put this out and and the evidence has already come the the stronger evidence is on the opposite side so far they've all let like the last two weeks all you've seen is all this evidence being put out there in the news and I'll say evidence about how it it wasn't him he didn't do anything the girlfriend's text messages this thing and that thing that that's by design of course so but Disney now has kind of like a look we would have done this if something happened we covered our ass like if this if if this guy was guilty or we felt like he was guilty or it did go to trial we were actively looking for a replacement already so don't don't yell at us I really think this is just more cover they're still waiting to see what's actually going to happen I think if everything That Remains the Same as it is today let's say nothing changes nothing happens this doesn't go anywhere no new evidence you're not going to hear a word about this it's just gonna die off yeah this goes to trial that's a different story if honestly I don't even think it's going to make it that far but it is New York it's a little like if this happened in a different state you know this would be a slam dunk not going to trial New York's they're a little harsher with with the you know domestic abuse so we'll see I mean it'll be interesting I I don't think you're going to see anything happen anytime soon but like if a cell phone video comes out of him him beating him then it's game over so so if you're saying if they were in all of [ __ ] Bama and they killed a good old boy there is no way that this is not going to try it right for that's this equivalent of this yeah to be honest with you I don't even think this goes to trial yeah it can't it can't go to trial if you don't have a uh well we'll say a victim or someone alleging something to begin with and yes he did he did make the 9-1-1 call but you know how Disney is guys it's it's it's a very very mindful liberal company and they want to protect themselves say they don't fire him and something else happens which you never know could and do I feel bad for the guy if it's not his fault yeah absolutely but we all know this is how Disney functions man we it was it was how they functioned but now that they're losing money is it still how they function so that's going to be what's interesting this is a big play right here that's a big play and it's going to be it's going to be crazy to see what they're gonna do with it honestly I don't I don't think he goes anywhere if you don't hear any more about it I agree with Matt and who knows who knows what goes on behind the scenes with Disney they could be they could have been looking to out this guy before it happened he could have had problems maybe more creative references and they're like oh now we got our option to get rid of this guy we we don't we don't know but what what do you think Mickey well yeah I mean like Jay was saying you know you think not that Majors his case is at this level yet but like if you compare Ezra Miller it seems like Warner Brothers is willing to like stick with it versus like Johnny Depp Pirates of the Caribbean Disney brand it was like all right get this guy out like as soon as the the thing came out so Disney I think does have a shorter leash probably when it comes to this type of stuff which is crazy which I'm not to interrupt you I'm sorry but yeah which is crazy which is crazy to me because of Johnny Depp and how big Johnny [ __ ] Depp is yeah okay that that that's an enormous enormous and he he is that franchise no matter how you no matter how you cut it he is that Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and they're [ __ ] for what they did to him well and go ahead Mickey You're I'll let you finish because I'm probably gonna say what I was going to say well go ahead go ahead no no it just and my last little point will be I think it'll be interesting because they probably need to make the decision by Loki right like when we get a Loki trailer will he be in it you know just said in the chat will he be in it we'll know then we'll know before then yeah yeah that's a good point but is but I mean you guys brought up um Johnny Depp and just take it a step further is he the reason why they won't jump the gun this time because they clearly [ __ ] up with him they fired him and and crossed themselves a billion dollars because that's what that movie would have brought the next one it would have brought a million dollars a billion dollars and they cost themselves that because they just jumped the gun yeah I mean clearly there was some stuff there but all of the allegation as to really why they fired him all turned out to as far as we could see in court were false and listen my dog my dog stepped on a Beat what listen at the end of the day Disney doesn't give a [ __ ] about any of these actors they don't give a [ __ ] about fighting that's true if this guy continues to do what he's doing he's out they they have no lawyer none of these companies have loyalty to anybody so don't don't be surprised all they see is dollar signs it's just like they really do have oh sorry I was just gonna say and they really do have the easiest creative out compared to any of these other actors and all that stuff for sure yeah sure it this is a tough one though this isn't like an actor like that nobody knows or an actor on his way like kind of in the Twilight of his career this is a this is an actor that is literally breaking out in front of our eyes yep true right so like this is this is Disney's not gonna just wave a magic wand at this one like they have to be sure because of what happened with Depp what's happening with their bottom line the fact that the [ __ ] whole entire Saga is based around this guy this [ __ ] guy based on what's happening with Ezra Miller like they are this is literally on the their top of their desk every single day trying to figure out what's the best move they're not gonna just they're not gonna just say [ __ ] it and we'll deal with the consequences either way they're definitely not going to dismiss him lightly I'm not saying that they're definitely not going to dismiss them but this isn't just like you know what let's save face get rid of this guy and whatever it is it is like they can't afford to do that right now they are not in the position to be able to do that yeah because think think of all the other stuff that comes along with that toys right yeah merchandise yeah his likeness and all that exactly it's it's this this guy was set to this guy was said to be the next biggest [ __ ] actor dude yeah she still might be yeah he still might be but you know it's it's Disney's viewers and their perception of someone which is which isn't fair to him and just like it wasn't fair to Johnny Depp but listen I I have no faith in Disney and you guys know that who watch this channel so wait is it sorry jay no no go ahead if you guys are Robert Iger what would you do assuming like you've heard different things and you you're just you're clearly you don't know but what would you do right now innocent until proven guilty that's that's my opinion that's how it used to be right yeah that's the law isn't it no it is the law but can they wait that long with all this hinder teetering on it I'll go to jail on this Mr I am the Lord I don't know that's tough that's that's a really Jay makes a really good point because if they wait too long if you go too far down the rabbit hole I mean right now is the perfect time because if you didn't see Ant-Man spoiler alert three two one John the majors character we don't know what happened to him maybe he died maybe he did it maybe got sucked back into a different realm we have no [ __ ] clue but they could easily say he went away and it changed the face of every Kang variant I mean it's literally built into being the decision being made right [ __ ] now and that's what makes that's the problem with the easiest out they have the easiest out they always do they had it before problems like this with the Multiverse oh this is [ __ ] up let's just blame it on the Multiverse that's a lost my interest you know what I mean give me a character and let him stick around from this universe don't give me all these other guys and multiple oh [ __ ] a supreme love I got I gotta I gotta I know I know just said something too a supreme love yeah he's saying the projections are low but we'll see Mike Tyson for Kang all day it's in the Multiverse I gotta follow him I gotta follow him through the through the strategy all right guys I think we're gonna wrap it up you guys have anything else to add before we get out of here everybody what do you got going tell us you know I'm Mickey I know your your Kickstarter just wrapped up yeah you just wrapped up with the kickstarter uh give us a quick uh how did it go how was the experience yeah it was great uh you know last time I was on the show you know you guys helped me out and got the word out which I really really appreciate and we we hit our goal and so you know there's no turning back now now I gotta deliver and so I'm working on that so it's it's really exciting and and yeah I can't wait to to get the book out to everybody so and you want to you want to officially uh tell the people where you're gonna be in the next couple of months uh well tomorrow I'm going to be going to uh a what what not auction right the principal defect what not one oh look at that I'll be there right and then uh yeah I'll be at uh I'll be going to terrificon I think hopefully we all get to meet up in person for the very first time so that's that's definitely yeah I don't know if that's gonna be good for you but okay start taking your milk thistle now everybody buy stock in uh in uh Pedialyte I'll tell you that I love the rose comment I think Standalone films by Marvel and DC are the way to go so do I dude it's like a reading a One-Shot comic and you could do everything doesn't have to be intertwined I don't understand why they get this concept that every I I get why they do it a standalone movie dude would be awesome like I'd rather uh uh and not from Disney I'm not gonna say Disney but I'd rather a standalone Punisher movie I'd rather a standalone Daredevil movie like movies used to be then everything tied in and then you got to worry about this and that so great but but do they have to be absolutely Standalone I mean the model that worked in phase one two and three I mean those movies while they were intertwined they didn't necessarily feel like it until the end and if and if there was it was like one single point of the movie yeah that only a hand only a certain percentage of the audience actually understood that there was a connection that model worked it was proven right I mean they were putting the Avengers together to fight you know basically a common phone damn it Thanos in The Infinity Gauntlet but it worked but it's not working now it's not well I I feel like they've amped it up and right past the point of where it worked I mean why not a standalone movie every once in a while agree you know what I agree I mean still in the same universe there's still going to be that connection no matter what but like why you don't have to make it be like where does this fit in like you just said like a standalone Punisher yeah it doesn't necessarily have to fit into what they're doing right now I would definitely like to see that I feel like they probably should have done that was just the Standalone thing and then throw in the hey there's cap Shield Easter egg you know yeah in The Shield building that they walk into you know Chad Chad makes a good point he said the single greatest thing done in cinematic history there's 23 movies culminating with the last two it was epic and would probably never be done again and that's the problem so we're trying to looking like it yeah they're trying they're trying to yeah yeah they're trying to do it you're trying to recreate awesomeness like and you know what maybe you can and DC does it look at Batman you just get a Batman movie you know what I'm saying that's totally separate from everything else that's it just don't leave celestials in the ocean I think that's something you know just just like have smaller scale third act fights oh yeah seriously listen this is this is see like we're getting into a topic now another topic that we could talk about for hours and hours and hours but hopefully in two weeks we have good news well it would be yeah it would be two shows from now that maybe maybe Guardians changes things a little bit we'll see we'll see we'll talk about that next Monday but uh I think we're gonna get out of here this was a really great show Mickey swag I really appreciate you number one loaning us or giving us the the starter fluid to get to continue this conversation that you started uh make sure you guys are you subbed up the swag make sure you're watching his videos the link is in the description and I really appreciate you coming on here with us yeah thank you so much for having me on it was a lot of fun Jay guy appreciate you boys as always see you guys tomorrow night see you in the chat if you're going to be hanging with us and whatnot tomorrow night we're going to do a little bit more discussion while we sell some books all three of us so come come hang out all right boys and girls appreciate your defects we'll see you tonight if not

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7 Types of Anxiety Disorders

 Do you find yourself feeling stressed out when you’re studying for an important exam Or when you’re practicing repeatedly in front of a mirror before a presentation? It’s perfectly normal to feel stressed out or anxious now and then Unfortunately for some of us our anxiety can get so out of hand that we feel this way constantly That chronic feeling of anxiousness and fear is the marking of an anxiety disorder Before we begin we’d like to make a short disclaimer Please don’t use this video to self-diagnose! If you can relate to most of the signs, we do advise you to go to a qualified medical health professional for proper diagnosis With that being said, Psych2Go presents to you the Seven Types of Anxiety Disorders One) Generalized anxiety disorder also known as GAD It’s the most common among anxiety disorders to be diagnosed People with GAD suffer from intense and persistent worry a GAD sufferer can worry or feel anxious about a number of events ranging from school or work to their family life at home This anxiety is associated with at least three of these symptoms: Restlessness, Fatigue, Difficulty Concentrating, Irritability, Muscle Tension, Insomnia, or Difficulty Falling Asleep People with GAD, often can’t explain their anxiety using specific fears like those with more specific anxiety disorders can And this is because their anxiety stems from various stimuli Those who suffer from GAD can find relief in a number of treatment options ranging from mindfulness meditation and brisk exercise to cognitive-behavioural therapies and medications. Two) Separation Anxiety Disorder This type of anxiety is more common in children than adults. For many, the mere thought of separation causes a high amount of stress People with separation anxiety worry that something unexpected could separate them from their attachment figure Or that their attachment figure will abandon them This anxiety presents as nightmares of being alone and a persistent refusal to leave their attachment figure Kids with separation anxiety may be clingy and insist on sleeping with their parents at night Children often grow out of separation anxiety disorder, but if it persists for six months or longer, they should be provided help Adult sufferers may also find benefit from the available therapies Three) Social Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, and Selective mutism Social anxiety disorder also known as “S.A.D.” refer to the fear of public situations and exposure to unfamiliar people S.A.D. sufferers tend to avoid situations in which they’re in the spotlight because they’re worried that they’ll be embarrassed or judged by others The thought or the anticipation alone of an upcoming social situation can cause major anxiety-related symptoms like panic attacks or severe stomach pain People with S.A.D. May show signs of stress in these forms: Little to no eye contact, Freezing in place, Running off, or Avoiding tasks like eating in public Children and adults alike can suffer from S.A.D. But some children with social anxiety may also have a more intense ability to function in social situations Selective mutism is a type of social anxiety in which a child is unable to speak in social situations Despite being able to speak normally otherwise Often, this problem arises at school or in the presence of strangers If a child with selective mutism can communicate at all.  They might only be able to nod or whisper Four) Panic disorder It becomes a disorder when an individual experiences panic attacks multiple times in their lifetime Panic attacks are intense bursts of fear followed by a range of physical symptoms, these include at least four of the following: Cold sweats, Muscle stiffness or Trembling, Hyperventilation, which is fast, shallow breathing Lightheadedness, Numbness or the Fear of death and/or Insanity The fear afterward of another panic attack. Sometimes actually provokes more panic attacks More often than not, panic attacks are had in combination with other anxiety disorders Therapy along with medications can help in handling panic disorder Five) Agoraphobia Does your local train station seem intimidating? Do you feel faint in a crowded place? Agoraphobia is the fear of public places Anxiety arises because they deem them as too open or dangerous It’s triggered by fears like becoming a victim of crime or of contracting a disease or illness Its sufferers coop themselves up in their homes where they’re comfortable and familiar with their environment Agoraphobe often become over-dependent on other people to compensate for their inability to cope in public Agoraphobia can develop at any age and can be extremely debilitating Exposure therapy works effectively against Agoraphobia in conjunction with medication Six) Specific Phobia These are persistent and extreme fears about a specific object or situation and cause a ton of stress to the sufferer Phobias can be environmental like Acrophobia, the fear of heights and they can be animal-based Or even situational like Taphophobia, the fear of being buried alive Such phobias often arise due to traumatic experiences that cause people to make negative associations with these objects or situations Someone who was clawed in the face by a cat in their childhood might have an avid fear of cats in their adulthood In cases where exposure therapy may not be safe or applicable Cognitive behavioural therapy can be effective in changing a person’s negative association to their feared object or situation Seven) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCD and Post-Traumatic StressDisorder PTSD Yes, OCD and PTSD were categorized by many psychiatrists as disorders to be grouped with the aforementioned anxiety disorders Recently there have been new findings about these disorders that team them both unique enough to be in categories of their own, However, this is not to suggest that OCD and PTSD are any less important to deal with The common thread that group disorders like GAD, S.A.D., panic disorder, and phobias together Is that sufferers of these anxiety disorders experience future-oriented fear? OCD differs, and though there is anxiety felt in the sufferer’s obsession They can find temporary relief in their ritualistic compulsions Unfortunately for OCD sufferers, this means a life of cyclical ritualism that can affect daily living Those suffering from PTSD May suffer anxiety-like symptoms similar to GAD or even panic disorder But PTSD is unique and that its past oriented The sufferer suffers flashbacks that bring them back to the event of their traumatization If you’re diagnosed with anxiety disorder, it’s okay Millions of people around the world understand what it’s like to suffer from an anxiety disorder, so you’re not alone Understand that every single one of these anxiety types is often treatable and manageable Also, if you know someone who may benefit from online counseling we’ve partnered up with Better Help, an affordable online counseling platform that you can utilize They’re constantly striving to improve their services and terms and conditions. The link will be in the description box Did you find this video helpful? 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Bipolar disorder (depression & mania) – causes, symptoms, treatment & pathology

 Maybe you’ve heard the term “bipolar” used to describe someone who’s moody, or who has mood swings, but this colloquial use of the term is different from bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder, which used to be called manic depression, is a serious mental illness that causes a person to have dramatic shifts in emotions, mood, and energy levels: moving from extreme lows to extreme highs. But these shifts don’t happen moment to moment, they usually happen over several days or weeks. There are a few different types of bipolar disorders, but there are some common features. First, the low moods are identical to those in a related disorder – major depressive disorder, also known as unipolar depression. Individuals with this can feel hopeless and discouraged, lack energy and mental focus, and can have physical symptoms like eating and sleeping too much or too little. But along with these lows, the thing that sets bipolar disorders apart from unipolar depression is that individuals can have periods of high moods, which are called manic episodes or hypomanic episodes, depending on their level of severity. In a manic state, people can feel energetic, overly happy or optimistic, or even euphoric with really high self-esteem. And on the surface, these might seem like very positive characteristics, but when an individual is in a full manic episode, these symptoms can reach a dangerous extreme. A person experiencing mania might invest all of their money in a risky business venture or behave recklessly. Individuals might talk pressured speech, where they talk constantly at a rapid-fire pace, or they might have racing thoughts and might feel ‘wired,’ as if they don’t need sleep. Manic episodes can also include delusions of grandeur, for example,, they might believe that they are on a personal mission from god, or that they have supernatural power. And they might make poor decisions without any regard for later consequences. One way to understand these swings is by charting them on a graph. So let’s say the y-axis is mood, with mania and depression being on the far ends of the axis, and the x-axis is time. The average healthy individual might have normal ups and downs throughout their life, and they might even have some pretty serious lows once-in-awhile, maybe after losing a job or moving to a new place and feeling lonely. An individual with unipolar depression though might have the normal highs, but they might have some crushing lows that last for a long period and may not have an obvious trigger. Now, for the bipolar disorders, the first one is called Bipolar 1, and these are people that have some major lows that last at least 2 weeks, and some major highs that last at least a week or require hospitalization. That said, untreated manic episodes can last as long as 3-6 months. Depression is seen in most cases but is not required for a diagnosis. The second one is called Bipolar-2, and this is when a person experiences similar lows and has additional highs called “hypomania”, which are less severe manic episodes than we see in Bipolar 1. To qualify for a diagnosis, these hypomanic states need to last at least four days. Once again though, these symptoms generally last a few weeks to a few months. Alright the third one is called cyclothymia, or sometimes cyclothymic disorder, and these individuals have milder lows as well as the milder highs or “hypomania” like you see in Bipolar-2, and they cycle back and forth between these two over a period lasting at least 2 years. Sometimes, people with Bipolar disorder can show other, less common symptoms as well, for example having what is referred to as mixed episodes—experiencing symptoms of both depression and mania at the same time. Another symptom they might have is rapid cycling, which describes a situation where a person has 4 or more episodes of depression or mania within a given year. Like most mental health conditions, the exact the underlying cause of the bipolar disorder isn’t known, and there is no single “bipolar gene” identified, but it’s thought that there are genetic and environmental factors that play a part. For example, one interesting clue is that people with family members who have bipolar disorder are 10 times more likely to have it themselves. Another clue is that some drugs and medications can trigger manic episodes, like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (or SSRIs). It’s also worth mentioning that people with bipolar disorder often have other disorders like anxiety disorders, substance use disorders, ADHD, and personality disorders as well, making diagnosis and treatment a real challenge. Even though there’s no cure for bipolar disorder, identifying and treating individuals is important, since there’s a real danger that the person could harm themselves or commit suicide. One of the oldest treatments is also one of the most effective treatments, and that’s lithium salts. Lithium acts as a mood stabilizer—smoothing out the highs and lows they experience. That said, it is much better at treating manic rather than depressive episodes, and so individuals who take it often have to take other medications as well, which can be problematic since some antidepressants (like the SSRIs) can trigger manic episodes in individuals who are predisposed to them. Other treatment options include antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, and benzodiazepines, but many of these—including lithium—have side effects that can be severe and lead to non-adherence which can be dangerous for an individual. Now, unlike certain disorders like unipolar depression, psychological interventions, like talk therapy, or cognitive-behavioral therapy are not particularly effective in treating the manic episodes of bipolar disorder. Having said that, they can still be very helpful tools to help individuals with bipolar disorder in general—especially after a manic episode has ended. They can also help an individual handle stressful situations that might otherwise lead to a manic episode, thereby helping to prevent a potential manic episode in the first place. Alright, so super fast recap: bipolar disorder is a mental disorder characterized by depression, periods of lowered mood, as well as mania, and periods of heightened mood. Thanks for watching, you can help support us by donating on Patreon, subscribing to our channel, or telling your friends about us on social media.As found on YouTubeFUNNELIFY is a new, first-of-its-kind, groundbreaking app ➯➱ ➫ ➪➬ which finally allows you to deliver separately auto-generated mobile pages with unheard before lighting speed. Plus it skyrockets ➯➱ ➫ ➪➬ After using the Funnelify product, you will recognize a great increase in your leads and sales. 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12 signs you might be suffering from PTSD


PTSD stands for post-traumatic stress disorder a condition officially recognized in 1980 to describe exposure to a relatively brief but devastating event typically a war a rape an accident or a terrorist incident complex PTSD recognized in 1994 describes exposure to something equally devastating but over a very long time normally the first 15 years of life emotional neglect humiliation bullying disrupted attachment violence and anger a lot of us as many as 20 percent are wandering the world as undiagnosed sufferers of complex PTSD we know that all isn't well but we don't have a term to capture the problem we don't connect up our ailments and we have no clue who to seek out or what sort of treatment might help so here are 12 leading symptoms of complex PTSD we might think about which ones if any apply to us and more than seven might be a warning sign worth listening to firstly a feeling that nothing is safe wherever we are we have an apprehension that something awful is about to happen we are in a state of hyper vigilance the catastrophe we expect often involves a sudden fall from grace we will behold away from current circumstances and humiliated perhaps put in prison and denied all access to anything kind or positive we won't necessarily be killed but to all intents our life will be over people may try to reassure us through logic that reality won't ever be that bad but logic doesn't help we're in the grip of an illness we aren't just a bit confused secondly we can never relax this shows up in our body we're permanently tense or rigid we have trouble with being touched perhaps in particular areas of the body the idea of doing yoga or meditation or breathing exercises these things aren't just not appealing they may be positively revolting we may call them hippie with a snare and deeper down they are of course terrifying probably our bowels are troubled too our anxiety has a direct link to our digestive system thirdly we can't ever really sleep and we wake up very early generally in a state of high alarm as though during rest we've let down our guard and are now in even greater danger than usual fourthly we have deepened ourselves an appalling self-image we hate who we are we think we're ugly monstrous repulsive we think we're awful possibly the most awful person in the world our sexuality is especially perturbed we feel predatory sickening shameful fifthly we're often drawn to highly unavailable people we tell ourselves we hate needy people but what we really hate are people who might be too available for us we make a beeline for people who are disengaged won't want warmth from us and who might be struggling with their own undiagnosed issues around avoidance sixthly we are sickened by people who want to be cozy with us we call these people puppy revolting or desperate seventh we are prone to losing our temper very badly sometimes with other people more often just with ourselves we aren't so much angry as very very worried worried that everything is about to become very awful again we are shouting because we're terrified we look mean we are in fact defenseless eighth we are highly paranoid it's not that we expect other people will poison us or follow us down the street we just suspect that other people will be hostile to us and will be looking out for opportunities to crush and humiliate us we can be mesmerically drawn to examples of this happening on social media the unkindest and most arbitrary environment which anyone with complex PTSD easily confuses with the whole world chiefly because it operates like their world randomly and very meanly ninth we find other people so dangerous and worrying that being alone has huge attractions we might like to go and live under a rock forever in some moods we associate Bliss with not having to see anyone again how a tenth we don't register to ourselves as suicidal but the truth is that we find living so exhausting and often so unpleasant we do sometimes long not to have to exist anymore 11.


We can't afford to show much spontaneity we're rigid about our routines everything may need to be exactly so as an attempt to ward off looming chaos we may clean a lot sudden changes of plan can feel indistinguishable from the ultimate downfall we dread 12. in a bid to try to find safety we may throw ourselves into work amassing money Fame honor Prestige but of course this never works the sense of danger and self-disgust is coming from so deep within we can never reach a sense of safety externally a million people can be cheering but one jeer will be enough once again to evoke the self-disgust we have left unaddressed inside breaks from work can feel especially worrying retirement and holidays create unique difficulties those are the symptoms so what is the cure for all these arduous symptoms of complex PTSD partly we need to courageously realize that we have come through something terrible that we haven't until now properly digested because we haven't had a kind stable environment in which to do so we are a little wonky because long ago the situation was genuinely awful when we were small someone made us feel extremely unsafe even though they might have been our parent we were made to think that nothing about who we were was acceptable in the name of being brave we had to endure some very difficult separations perhaps repeated over years no one reassured us of our worth we were judged with intolerable harshness the damage may have been very obvious but more typically it might have unfolded in objectively innocent circumstances a casual visitor might never have noticed there might have been a narrative which lingers still that we were part of a happy family one of the great discoveries of researchers in complex PTSD is that emotional neglect with an outwardly High achieving families can be as damaging as active violence in obviously deprived ones if any of this Rings Bells we should stop being brave we should allow ourselves to feel compassion for who we were that might not be easy given how hard we tend to be with ourselves the next step is to try to identify a therapist or counselor trained in how to handle complex PTSD that may well be someone trained specifically in dealing with trauma which involves directing enormous amounts of compassion towards one's younger self in order to have the courage to face the trauma and recognize its impact on one's life rather touchingly and simply the root cause of complex PTSD is an absence of love and the cure for it follows the same path we need to relearn to love someone we very unfairly hate beyond measure ourselves the School of Life offers online Psychotherapy to people all around the world our therapists are highly trained and accredited and are a vital source of kindness Solace and wisdom for life's most difficult moments click the link to find out more



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