I've been watching a lot of HeathyGamerGG lately. Is he good?
I've been watching a lot of HeathyGamerGG lately. Is he good?
For those who don't know, he is a twitch streamer/youtuber that talks a lot about mental health, specifically for gamers and people in the internet generation.
In some videos, he does "therapy sessions" (technically they are not for legal purposes, but they definitely feel like therapy) with various people in the twitch/youtube sphere. I am really interested to hear the perspective of different therapists regarding his content.
Are his interactions with people similar to what you see in real therapy sessions? Most importantly, would it be worthwhile studying how he conducts these sessions and learning from them?
Thanks for any insights!
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I hadn't heard of him until I recently watched a discussion he did (can also be watched without YouTube's ads here), with a guy whose work I've been looking at. The guy in question is called Dr Mark Horowitz and he's a training psychiatrist, and I think he passed med school and he did a PhD.
Anyway, a lot of this guy's work is looking at withdrawal symptoms from antidepressants, and they talk about that. E.g. how withdrawals can be pretty severe for a lot of people, especially people who have been on them for years. Some people can take a year or more to come off antidepressants, slowly reducing the dose over that time.
Yes this community is about therapy, and antidepressants are a tangential topic. But still related to therapy and mental health topics. Perhaps the video I linked to is not of interest to you, fair enough if so. I found it interesting because I have tried different solutions for my own mental health, including counselling, and antidepressants. It's interesting to find out more about antidepressants and potentially other solutions for mental health problems.
Super interesting stuff. And yeah antidepressants should at best be used with therapy. I'm not totally against them, because they do work for some people, but you just have to be careful about using/prescribing them. I tend to agree with Dr. K's perspectives on antidepressants.