The boys welcome the creators of "Thank You For Sharing" (@tyfsharingdoc) to discuss mental health, its history, their own personal journeys with mental health, Ivan Illich, asylums and how to change a broken system. Thank you for Sharing is a documentary about the bizarre and absurd aspects of our mental health landscape and how it came to be. A very healing and interesting conversation awaits!
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0:00- 3:30 Jenna and Sonia who created Thank You For Sharing introduce themselves.
4:30- Personal mental health journeys and what led to the making of the film. Alternate ways of handling mental health and conceptualizing mental health.
8:30- Being Ivan Illich Pilled and not liking "do gooders," Why is mental health getting worse despite the amount of effort spent on it?
26:00- The problem with "lived experience" - the dishonesty of those who believe they are "helping mentally ill people"
49:00- Information becoming centralized- data analytics/marketing/algorithms making all mental health advice exactly the same.
1:06- Different "mental health crazes" multiple personality disorder, Tourettes, gender ideology
1:23- The problem with diagnoses and how it limits the complexities of human experiences.
Thank You For Sharing w/ Sonia Zawitkowski & Jenna Taylor