The general use of the word insane to describe everyday behaviors is stigmatizing to individuals with severe mental illness.

“people who have psychiatric hospitalizations or a severe mental illness when they hear the word insane it could come off as a like it's stigma”

The overuse of diagnostic labels and the reliance on the DSM can hinder genuine self-understanding and recovery.

“Instead, what we've done is glorified a book of taxonomy. And the DSM is this thick and it's got more numbers than anything we could possibly count and enough to give us all a bunch of diagnoses and all it's doing is labeling.”

Labels like narcissist are applied far too broadly in casual conversation, as true clinical diagnoses like narcissistic personality disorder are relatively rare.

“Only, i mean, at most, 6% of the population qualifies for narcissistic personality disorder at most, and that's probably the clinical population, right? The general population is maybe like 0.5%. There are not that many clinical level narcissists in the world.”

The theory that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain is a false narrative used to promote medication.

“We've been telling them that they fix a chemical imbalance. And it's something that I want to lay out because it's really important because there is a distinction between saying, "Hey, there's something wrong with your brain. You have low serotonin. I'm going to give you a drug to kind of bring it u”

There is no scientific evidence confirming that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.

“There is no evidence that you have a chemical imbalance in your brain if you are depressed. So therefore there's no evidence that that antidepressant you're being [music] offered is going to correct that.”

Psychiatric issues are more accurately conceptualized as brain health conditions rather than traditional mental illnesses.

“we've really come to believe that most psychiatric problems are not mental health issues at all rather they are brain health issues that steal your mind”

The current medical approach to mental health and emotional issues is inadequate because it often neglects to examine the brain.

“essentially the idea that the brain is the part of the body that like if you broke your arm they would take an x-ray of your arm before they did anything to try and make it better but if you go to a doctor and you're struggling with mental illness or emotional issues they don't look at your brain”