I always love when SSRIs are depicted as fast acting and something that is taken on an as needed basis

@Eonsplay

5 ай бұрын

And it's effects are basically MDMA

I feel like "high-functioning" is mostly used to describe that a person is able to interact with society in a normative way regardless of their disorder(s). It doesn't really describe how well they are able to handle life in general, but more whether they can fulfil their expected societal function in an adequate way. As long as you show up to work on time, do what you're paid to do, and interact with other people in a "normal" way, you'll be described as "high-functioning" regardless of how your private life looks.

@misspinkpunkykat

Жыл бұрын

I'm autistic but was always deemed "high functioning". I never could get proper help for it because all the services were used for "low functioning" people. With autism at least, I feel like functioning labels are used to describe how much of a burden you are on other people. "Low functioning" autistic people who are often non verbal aren't taken seriously and the "high functioning" ones can't get the help they need because they are so "high functioning"

@VS-re1sr

Жыл бұрын

I subscribe to the concept that "high functioning" means that with a little support, the person can live an independent life. That said, I understand it can be used to refuse support to the high functioning because they "do not need it" and low functioning because "it will not help." I do not know that there is any terminology that will not be used to support this dismissive approach.

@cadejust6777

Жыл бұрын

​@@VS-re1sr If You Were Wrongfully Convicted Of A Crime That You Didnt Do/Commit And Ended Up Spending 10 Years In Prison For That Wrongful Conviction Would You Be Justified In Murdering Innocent 😇 People To Get Back 🔙 At Society For That Wrongful Conviction?.

@kaycollarfeild

Жыл бұрын

I hate the term high functioning, :/. My therapist Says I'm high functioning, but the amount I struggle with and the problems I have are much greater than my other "high functioning" friends, they've even commented on it a lot. I need quite a lot of help and don't think I'd be able to live fully independently alone. But I am working up to the point of being more functioning, just without help because they don't deem me bad enough to need any help ~

@hoodiegal

Жыл бұрын

@@kaycollarfeild that's just lovely. the chasm of "you're not well enough to manage, but not unwell enough to recieve help" is *so much fun* to be in (/s). I'm in the same place with ADHD.

What I've noticed is that if someone is cetagroized as "high" or "low-functioning" is only used for describing how the person interacts and impacts the neurotypical people in their lives. Can they work with neurotypicals without "causing a disturbance", can they have a "normal" day on their own and so on. They are not necessarily helpful in targeting the person's actual needs or strengths. Due to their narrow lenses they can even be the barriers preventing people with disabilities from getting needed aids because there too "high/low" for the aids they actually need.

@ReubenRovak

Жыл бұрын

Autistic, and can confirm. I'm labeled "high-functioning" because I can do ADL's on my own, but I still can't hold a job or navigate social relationships well. I'm in my 40's and even though I want a significant other, I have no clue how to make that happen, and I've tried. I will need social skills training for the rest of my life, since I find it so impossible to keep friends/partners.

Thank you for pointing out people should be weaned off their psych meds slowly. Due to some kind of issue in my mom's doctor's office's computer system that prevented her from getting a refill my mom was forced to go cold turkey off her long-term Zoloft for 3 weeks and ended up having a mental breakdown and suicide attempt. It's definitely no joke. Also, as an American with an anxiety disorder that is only effectively treated by a benzo, I do love my klonopin. I haven't taken it for years but a low-dose taken during a difficult time in my life (for a year or two) literally saved my life.

@kbaylor123

Жыл бұрын

That’s awful! I was on clonazepam and had it suddenly discontinued due to it NOT showing up on a drug test even though I was actually taking it. Thankfully it wound up being ok but wow it was roughhhh. Malpractice if you ask me.

"High functioning" was a bit of a curse for my former fiancé and meant "you can deal with it by yourself" Because he didn't present his autism in a way that people could identify, much less understand, it wound up being something that he didn't feel able to talk about and where others (including me despite my best efforts) didn't understand his thinking or feeling.

Thank you for addressing the misconceptions about feeling numb on ADT, so many people cite it as a reason they hesitate to take medication and I often struggle to explain how that works to clients

Psychedelics are great, one time I was trippin on too much acid and I was staring at a fire pit and the fire pit turned into a mini world with little people and buildings, that was 2 years ago and it's such an experience to remember. would love to try out the psilocybin mushrooms next, Psychedelic’s definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression just don't know where to get them, so hard to come by

@Jerryberger9235

Жыл бұрын

@@sarahh321 where to search?? Is it Instagram?

@nishaelvert1104

Жыл бұрын

I literally don't know why but shrooms make me giggle so much like I be cheesin for no goddamn reason

@hannahanderson5881

Жыл бұрын

just finished a trip (haven't had one for about 2-3 months) and it was a mess, it wasn't bad or good, it was weird, haven't ever had such a meh trip kept going outside for a walk, like searching for something, but never found it, I just got back from working months abroad and wanted to trip but it felt off, everything felt unorganized and I was on edge most of the time, kinda felt lonely swell, but oh well

@sarahh321

Жыл бұрын

@@Jerryberger9235 yeah, He has variety of stuffs like mushrooms, Isd, DMT even the chocolate bars

@Jerryberger9235

Жыл бұрын

@@sarahh321 Thanks, I’ll get some right away

I got diagnosed as having depression during my teenage years which a lot of people quite close to me find quite odd because they saw me as an overall cheerful person with an extroverted nature (bf calls me a human golden retriever). But when I entered college, I took an MDQ and they found out that I was actually cyclothymic. It just fascinated (and albeit, scared) me how the hormones of your body would be interpreted differently as you aged, as it might mean other people got medication for the wrong disorder and the fact that some of them are genetic. In my case, my dad had bipolar with IED.

Maggie holding the fan up to Lisa's face was the funniest moment in the episode

Can you do a discussion and share your take on "high functioning anxiety". Im hearing this term be used more & more, and would be interested to hear your thoughts/opinions on this. 😊

I recently started taking an anti-depressant and I found this video surprisingly helpful and educational

Mirtazapine was an interesting one. I had vivid dreams before, but on that it was intolerable. It felt like being transported to some horrifying alternate world or dimension every night. And there was a weird time dilation effect so it felt like I was trapped in each one for days or weeks even though it was really 8 or 9 hours. Interestingly, my senior cat had been prescribed a transdermal form purely as an appetite stimulant, and I did notice a difference. It was an ointment you'd rub on the inside of their ear (like the pinna part, not too near the ear canal).

@bsev1232

Жыл бұрын

Mirtazapine was very weird for me so I am happy to see someone have a similar experience

@PurpleAmharicCoffee

Жыл бұрын

Mirtazapine made me sleep like a log with few minor hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations. But it was also making me gain weight.

@emmajackson661

Жыл бұрын

oh yeh it intense and I found it so sluggish and hard to wake up in the mornings I'd feel like a zombie

I laughed when you said "antidepressant weaning should be done slowly and gradually" because in the state of Montana here in the US, the very first thing they do when you're admitted to a psych ward is take you off of all of your meds for anywhere between three to five days to "reestablish your baseline". And I'm not a psychologist, but even my untrained, ignorant self could see how bad the results were.

Functioning labels only refer to how much other people are affected by someone's condition. They don't actually describe the person's experiences or struggles. They also serve to invalidate the struggles of those labelled 'high functioning' and the abilities of those labelled 'low functioning'.

Went to school with a non-verbal kid. Not sure why, but everyone was extremely protective of him, especially this one 6'2" 250 lb kid we called T-Rex. Super nice but incredibly dense. Anyways, one day at lunch this 10th grade POS is bullying the non-verbal kid. After a minute or two of this, T-Rex gets up, grabs the bully, and proceeds to stuff head first into one of the cafeterias trash cans.

@tylerlawrence1997

Жыл бұрын

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"I always have a case of the Mondays. I feel you Lisa" 🤣

"High functioning... in whose eyes and in what way?" I think you nailed it; it's far too vague a term dripping with normalcy bias.

I wonder what impact Homer strangling Bart has had on him it must have affected him somehow.

@macmcleod1188

Жыл бұрын

clearly it strengthened his hands and forearms.

@johnr5745

9 күн бұрын

This.

I think high functioning is useful nowadays, for a quick descriptor of how much support a person needs. I have a friend with high functioning autism who is doing a PhD, and has some social struggles. I also have an autistic brother who is not fully verbal, needs constant care and supervision, and who would not understand the concept of what a PhD is. It's clear that my friend is high functioning and my brother isn't.

@AimeeColeman

Жыл бұрын

@@foolishlyfoolhardy6004 You've read and inferred a huge amount into the specific words I've used without taking in any of the message. My brother is low functioning. It's not a shameful thing for him to be so.

@fathimahoosen3159

Жыл бұрын

I get that it's necessary to differentiate especially due to the vast variety of symptoms, and also that to a lot of people high functioning and low functioning terms aren't offensive and so it's ok for some people to use those terms, however the phrasing in the DSM has shifted into categorizing people in terms of support needs, which I think a) explains it better because the main point of functioning descriptors are to describe support requirements anyway b) avoids the term functional which is good because functionality doesn't mean the same thing for everyone and the question of what we define a functional person to be differs, also someone who gets the support they need might be more 'functional' than someone who doesn't even if they have the same capabilities c) it just avoids sounding offensive ti anyone who might find it so Idk if that makes sense or was a bit too wordy, but I just wanted to share it because I find the shift in phrasing quite interesting.

Ssris were...life changing for me. But that is for my particular issue and my brain. I had elements of depression but a really severe anxiety disorder. Still do...but really well treated. I would have about 3 panic attacks a day, agoraphobia and frequent crying bursts. On my better days I could go out and function but I would still be close to crying and just had this baseline uneasiness. It just didn't seem to have a correlation with any trauma though...it was just debilitating on and off for years. They tried a few meds and over about 10 years I was put on paroxetine. It just worked on my brain. I'm still very much the same person except I find I have more room to be me...because I don't have this constant worry. My mental health issues aren't fixed I still need work...like we all do I guess...but I just have some breathing space now.

@FlyingFox86

Жыл бұрын

I have a similar experience with SSRIs. Also had (and still have) elements of depression and a lot of anxiety. I could no longer go to school and got my high school diploma through homeschooling. I then went to university, which actually was a little more doable than school with regards to my anxiety. But I still couldn't manage to successfully go through exams. Then I finally got prescribed paroxetine and managed to get my diploma. Like you said, things aren't fixed. In fact, in my case things are more problematic now (15 years later) in a way for a variety of reasons. But, the anxiety itself is mostly reduced to a level I can handle. I'm not debilitated by it as much as I once was.

Love your videos! Please, do more Bojack analyses.

It’s pretty convenient Homer allows Bart to call him by his first name and not ‘strictly dad’ otherwise it’ve blown his cover

Been taking lexapro and welbutrin for years now, totally changed my life tho I still struggle with mood swings. I am terrified of not taking them, and so grateful for my doctor prescribing them and to the people who makes them. People look at medicine for moods and depression as some happy pill that takes away your personality, and it's not true. It makes your life livable, where you can be who you are instead of some angry person who cries all the time.

The high-functioning/low-functioning differentiation is helpful within psychology and psychiatry in two ways. One, as a shortcut for determining a best starting point on the pathway to getting support (eg what sort of neurodevelopmental professional should we speak to first to get our bearings on what's happening and discuss options for further support). Two, in the extrapolating on group-wide data (eg how much funding is needed for support staff in public schools based on a statistical model looking at average support requirements for different groups). It doesn't give real information about the needs or the experiences of any given individual, though.

Not the glamour toad in the back there...

@rafadalcin4526

Жыл бұрын

I thought I was gonna be the first to notice lol

I'm "high functioning" being autistic "level 1" with ADHD and I am not a fan of the term because my functioning (ie how well I live up to expectations in a capitalistic society) comes at the cost of other areas of my life. Physically I live with chronic pain and bowel issues, my social life becomes non-existent, and I mask all the time at work and uni which is exhausting. I do still see myself as privileged in terms of not facing certain types of ableism, but at the same time i have my needs denied because "I don't look autistic"

With regards to your question about high functioning as a classification, I have what many people call 'high functioning' autism. High functioning is a fine enough thing to call someone, but it necessitates the existence of people who are 'low functioning' -- which seems a pretty crappy thing to call a person. I also can't speak about other conditions, but in ASD functioning is fluid. I have days where I function 'higher' than others. People generally prefer me to act 'high functioning' than to act low, and because I am generally 'high functioning' people will often treat me like I have no right to act 'low functioning' even if I am in distress. In broad strokes I get why this is a medically useful label, but I think it is overly simplistic and doesn't account for a person's ability to grow, learn, or struggle.

LOL I just noticed that affirming Ginger Minj in the background 💕

Yea I've been on a LOT of different anti-depressnats(with mood stabalizers for my bipolar) and I don't recall seeing any happy faces anywhere! That's not fair, all they did was make me less depressed!!

@berf9445

Жыл бұрын

@@foolishlyfoolhardy6004 some did

Thank you for addressing the high functioning terminology. I am autistic and would be classified as "high functioning" - however I find these labels to be unhelpful and even harmful to us. Autustic people who are classified as "low functioning" are treated like they are incapable of doing anything whatsoever, and us labelled as "high functioning" are assumed to be totally fine with no need for any accommodation. Resources available to us are very limited no matter how "functioning" we are, so I find it to only serve the idea that autism is a spectrum from low to high functioning, where we all know that ASD looks nothing like a spectrum at all in practice. Our symptoms and our needs vary from case to case. Somebody "low functioning" in regards to social interactions might not be very bothered by lights or sounds the way that I need to have headphones with me at all times because I can so easily be overstimulated and shut down! We're all different.

Also, there's the episode where Bart becomes friends with Ralph. Given how Ralph acts, I would love to see if you could diagnose him as well as your reactions to how Bart acts around him before and after they become friends.

Omg this hit home because (I understand that I'm volunteering relatively sensitive information but) I have so many records out there of "challenging behaviour" in my youth when i was referred for mental health reasons (surprise surprise, I have autism) when I wasn't harming anybody but myself. Looking back I literally have no clue what it was specifically referring to. Also as you mentioned this is in the UK

I feel that anti depresseants, during the time i was taking it, was more like being on the edge of a cliff and VERY slowly moving towards stable ground. Many of my family members knew i took medication but viewed it as a cure all.

I was prescribed with Zoloft in my teens. I am surprised to hear that it isn't licensed for children in Britain.

@Shadow-zf5uc

Жыл бұрын

Holy crap same! I was 16 when I was given Zoloft

Your videos are the best

It’s so funny because you mentioned sertraline and I thought, “hey my dog takes that” and then you mentioned pets taking SSRIs 😂

I always hate how negatively antidepressants are potrayed. They can be life saving and the negative image caused me to be very hesitant trying them, even though they have improved my life so much. So much pain could have been avoided. Dont get me wrong, i dont think antidepressants should be the first measure to fight depression, however, when it is really severe or chronic, it can be such a help

@botflyguy7814

Жыл бұрын

Exactly the same for me and I just left a comment saying pretty much the same thing lol

0:56 You know, don't you, that ADHD has many manifestations, including hyperfocus?

@emilylaing6127

Жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking too, Bart can concentrate for a long time on certain things like pranks because they are hyperfixations of his.

As depressed stoner and pysadlic head I find they do help mainly short term as it helps u feel better and at one with nature as well as makes u think and connect dots to where u feel ur coming to under stand urself better

Hey good episode! I always like looking at cartoons and trying to see if they work well in real life or not. I don't know if the comments is the appropriate place for requests but if you'd ever wanna look at another House MD episode you might enjoy "The Itch". An episode about a severely agoraphobic man. I was always curious if that episode took the condition to the unbelievable extreme or if it was a faithful representation! Either way keep doing what you do! Love

Hi Dr Carthy love love love your channel! - I am thinking of studying clinical and forensic psychology and I was wondering if you could give a video on the day in the life of a forensic psychiatrist and how you work with a forensic psychologist? Can you give tips on how to distance yourself from terrible stories you hear so you don't let it get to you? Also, a number of years ago years ago I was diagnosed with a very mild case of schizophrenia which later turned out to be schizoaffective disorder with the presentation of a hypermania...I have never had another episode and am high functioning and have a normal life and work in an office. Would you be able to do a video on how not everyone with schizophrenia is disabled - i.e. people who have it can be high functioning and have normal lives and contribute to society with this condition? It is still highly stigmatized - even among the medical profession I find. Maybe explain why mentally ill people are usually not dangerous - because you still have moral reasoning when you are unwell.

My vet prescribed fluoxetine for my dog as one of a few tools to try and manage her aggression towards shapes on the TV - and it did diddly squat!

9:32 Has this always been the case? I was prescribed Sertraline by CAHMS for OCD in my early teens.

you should do a video on veterinary psychiatry please!!!!!!! would love to see comparisons between animals and humans and how its treated :) love your vids!

I remember going on fluoxetine and being told that it was the most effective and that I'd be alright on it. I started badly dissociating, wanted to hurt myself but Sertraline finally worked for me when I had that 😅

Hypothetically, I once took psilocybin and pain was not pain for an entire year. I have chronic muscle pain, so this was useful. I still felt sensation, but no “pain”. In Minecraft.

I went on a drug trial that used mirtazapine (Avanza is one of the brand names in Australia and is the one we were given) to assist in the process of ceasing chronic, heavy marijuana use. Whilst the drug definitely helped me cease my smoking habit, it came with the unacceptable (for me) side effect of massive weight gain (30kg in under three months). Never. Again.

I hear a lot of people having bad reactions to fluoxetine, but for the time I took it I didn't have any negative reactions, other than slight hand trembling, I don't know if I'm an exception, or if it's just like each person reacts differently to different drugs.

@Shadow-zf5uc

Жыл бұрын

It's the second one. Unfortunately/fortunately everyone has different experience with every type of psych medication. For example, Fluoxetine basically gave me massive diarrhea for months before I went off it

1:12 I actually tried to get myself diagnosed with conduct disorder as a kid. It didn’t work.

Mirtazapine is also used in cats, particularly those with chronic kidney disease, as an appetite stimulant and antiemetic.

Hi Dr. Carthy, I love your videos. I've been on Fluoxetine/Prozac for years and was wondering why you said they shouldn't put Lisa on it?

It should also be mentioned that most antidepressants are designed to be non-addicting , therefore they take many weeks to begin showing positive effects, which keep slowly increasing as time goes by. Going through weeks of adaptation period over and over as you are testing different medicines and gauging their final positive effects vs side effects is one of the bigger problems. i remember having one, that made me feel like i'm in a rocking boat every timei lied in bed trying to sleep. Screw that. That said, there's also real happy pills for emergency cases. Those do cause addiction. Addiction differs wastly from the symptoms of quitting antidepressants gradually or cold turkey. For starters, because the onset of positive effects is so slow, even though you will feel crappy, you will usually not feel the debilitating craving for the SSRI.

@FlyingFox86

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. As someone who has been taking SSRIs for the last 15 years, quitting them does have physical effects. Especially noticeable when doing it too fast. But there is never a craving for the pills. Not like there is for other addictive substances and behavior, like sugar and videogames.

This American doesn’t love Xanax…did almost nothing for me. I took a beta blocker for awhile, it kept my bodily anxiety symptoms low but that actually made it harder for me to recognize when I was feeling anxious and needed to use other strategies (deep breathing, yoga, etc) to reduce it.

Lexapro and Mirtazapine keep me going, but I miss the third element have helps with my anxiety, cannabis. Aussie & NZ are prescription only, and just haven't had the motivation to jump through the hoops.

I think there is another anti-depressant besides mirtazapine that is a sedative and someone can correct me if I'm wrong but trazodone which is an antidepressant also is used as a sleeping pill

It took me ages to ever see a Dr and try anti-depressants because I've only ever heard bad things and how they make you feel worse etc plus depictions of them in the media like this that imply taking them is a bad thing. A couple years ago my depression was getting quite severe again and I was prescribed sertraline (zoloft). It quite litterally saved my life. My only regret is not taking it sooner. I think a lot of the people who had a bad experiences with SSRIs were maybe the ones who were overprescribed and didn't actually have a depressive or anxiety disorder that warrants their use. Unfortunately, people who it didn't work for tend to be the loudest while those it did work for just move on with life.

Off topic, but I was wondering if you could do an analysis episode of House Season 3 Episode 12 titled "One day, One room". It's a powerful episode covering rape resulting in pregnancy, philosophy, and religion. This will be day 2 of me asking. 💘

There's an episode where Bart goes to Juvie and is paired up with a girl with very highly aggressive tendencies. I'd like to see your reaction to that.

What do you suggest people do to discourage kids from using that reactive formation? I know how harmful it can be in normalising the idea of abuse = love so was wondering what should parents or teachers do when they see this? How should we talk to both the person receiving and dishing out this? behaviour

They sort of got Add medication right in another episode. South Park seemed to think it was an antipsychotic when its more related to amphetamines. Methylphenidate made me focused and also less tolerant of distractions. Plus a few autism like traits. It can also make people psychotic if abused. Simpsons got it right

High functioning angers me so much, as a teacher, youth worker and ND myself it's absurd. What they really mean is how normal you act. I've been called high functioning, what they really mean is I can behave 'normal' for a reasonable amount of time.

@DoctorElliottCarthy

Жыл бұрын

high functioning usually refers to ones ability to mask or camoflauge (and therefore also used to deny people access to support unfortunately)

For me all SSRI except Fluoxetine cause apathy and emotional blunting (sadly Fluoxetine stopped working) after switching on SSNRI (Effexor) everything goes more smoothly i have more motivation and energy and less depression, of course everyone is different

Why did you say don’t put her on fluxotine? Is there something wrong with it?

Elliot: "Please don't put her on fluoxetine PLEASE DON'T PUT HER ON FLUOXETINE." Therapist: HOW ABOUT IGNORITAL

My boyfriend takes Mirtazapine for depression which is the same thing my mom gives her cats if they have trouble with their appetite

I personally hate the term low and high functioning since it just seems like a way for allistic people to grade us on how uncomfortable we make them and how good we are at masking. That I am labeled as high functioning when i can’t cook and clean for myself just because i mask in social sitiations is infuriating. Carrie Beckwith-Fellows’ really summed up my feelings on it in her TEDx talk ”Invisible Diversity”. I highly recommend it to everyone, especially those who are autistic and anyone who works with us.

Lisa seems to be going through some type of existential crisis in this episode. And while 8 might seem young for that, my oldest went through one at 7. He's now 11 and in a gifted and talented program. He's also had other existential crisis' since then. Lisa is also shown as being very bright in the show.

Paxil made me hella sleepy. I'd get to 8 pm and say, "well, I don't have anything else for today" and still need an alarm at 7 am the next day! They also gave me horrific motion sickness when playing first person shooter games and took away the blues. I mean the music. I would listen to Tom Waits and Johnson and all I heard was cacophony Also, sexual sides. ...let's just say the soldier would come to attention but could not salute Current pristiq makes the soldier slouch and have an unenthusiastic salute And does nothing for the paranoia. I have the WORST imposter syndrome all the time and live in perpetual fear of being fired, abandoned by friends, etc. And I had 4 friends die young (47-52) between 2013-2018 and my mom and dad die 2021 and 2020 respectively How do we fix a world that doesn't want me alive?

I've experienced an eeriely similar effects to those of Lisa by abusing pregabaline. Always happy, sedated, giggly and function impaired? Yeah, 6 pills of Pregabaline would do that for me xD

You know, the scene where Homer thinks Milhouse is El Barto completely contradicts an earlier episode, "Large Marge", where Homer already knows that Bart is El Barto. Continuity fail anyone?

I have NEVER seen any cartoon like characters/animals while on LSD. its a body-mind thing. Try visiting a waterfall of rail bidge whil on it.

@kbaylor123

Жыл бұрын

Although maybe if you were a cartoon character yourself you would? 😂

Have you ever taken a look at clips of a game called We Happy Few? it is a really twisted game where society expects you to take Joy Pills on the regular and it completely alters your perception of reality or the film Smiley Face (2007) with Anna Faris?

How do you feel about legalising Ecstasy for Anti-Depression?

@DoctorElliottCarthy

Жыл бұрын

Well there are two separate questions there which is whether I think drug use should be regulated rather than criminalised (in my view, yes) and then whether the evidence suggests psychedelics are therapeutic for mental illness (possibly but still not clear if they're any better than standard treatment, but the only way we'll find out is to reduce the restrictions on dispensing the drugs for research so we can get bigger and better quality trials)

Do Awakenings and or Rainman next.

"Come to psychiatry! It's great!". Me: runs towards psychiatry... as a concept. And I HATE the term 'high-functioning' when it comes to mental illnesses or disorders or anything like that. It implies that it's 'better' in a way, it can make people feel even more imposter-syndrome about their mental illness and people who arent't 'functioning' even more broken. I was really scared that my SSRIs would make me numb, but they have just raised the bar, made me more stable. And yes, I get the numbness from depression too. Way too scared to take psychedelics, ever, though! I don't even drink anymore :')

Not the Glamour Toad herself in the background..

How about you react to the episode of Family Guy where Peter is diagnosed with a mental disability? Also, South Park has an incredibly outdated episode where Stan is told he has autism and that autism is just an excuse for people to act like assholes. Ass Burgers is the name, I'm sure you'd have thoughts.

Intense emotional reactions do not equal a mental illness... Sometime tell a certain unethical psychiatric family member of mine.

you should react to Bart going to therapy, is a very cute episode

May is mental health month

By using the term high functioning really eliminates a spectrum by creating a binary. Do you deal low functioning or relegate low functioning to someone else? While high functioning means , a functioning almost‘normal’?Eliminating the binary requires everyone who interacts with anyone to know the individual in any situation. Thoughts…

High Functioning means you cause less trouble for other people so don't need to spend any resources on you and are accused of faking or not seeming disabled. Low functioning means you get resources spent on you but you don't get choices and other view you as less than. I hate functioning labels they dehumanise people and are really about how other people view the disabled person not the actual disability.

I dislike functioning labels. I understand that it might be important to differentiate between the way a disorder affects someone's occupational and social abilities though, and so I prefer 'high support needs' and 'lower support needs' terms. I think these terms better acknowledge that everyone with a developmental disorder would benefit from support bc our community doesn't cater for them. I also think functioning is a weird term because it usually just refers to people's ability to engage in capitalism (have a job) and mask their symptoms well enough to communicate, not to someone's ability to feel fulfilled or engage in what they consider important.

ABOUT FANCY, NEW LABELS FOR VARIOUS CONDITIONS: The notion that one can mitigate cruelty towards individuals facing various challenges by continuously altering the terminology for their conditions into more descriptive terms in an unfamiliar language is a bad idea. It's better to address the cruelty head-on and avoid frequently changing terms. Constantly changing labels only serves to exclude people from the conversation, which is essentially arrogance disguised as compassion. Furthermore, why must a label precisely describe the underlying condition? Labels are inherently a form of shorthand; as long as they do not convey direct misinformation, they serve the purpose of providing a quick reference to what is observed. If understanding Latin is required to know whether you're offending someone, it's likely you are not.

I wish that antidepressants worked that well!!

Parts of sociopaths now I feel bad for watching the show. ❤❤ I think this is a newer episode from the 2010s that I haven't seen. Thank you for talking about this because people with Autism and intellectual disabilities are overmedicated where I live and severely punished. I live in a backward area of Pennsylvania that's like Appalachia and it's in the United states. I dislike the term high functioning but where I live you have to use it. Autism is considered a severe intellectual disability in Armstrong County Pennsylvania but not where I used to live. You are probably really confused since you live in the United Kingdom

You should react to S01E02 "Moaning Lisa" Episode. It deals with depression and finding hope ...

Doc I can tell you about women I've been divorced twice the old saying that says if she ain't happy no one's Happy by God that rings true and if she's unhappy long enough she's going to be hat unhappy with most of your stuff

The Simpsons are very funny 😂 and I forgot about this show

That's like MDMA mixed with something stronger.

As for high functioning/low functioning, I'm not autistic so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I don't think it's terrible to use them as generalizations. The terms do lack nuance absolutely but can be fine for describing broadly how a disorder affects someone's everyday. For example im diagnosed with 'mild' specific learning disorder and 'mild' adhd. Those conditions are spectrums and I may have some traits that are more prominent than someone with a moderate or high diagnosis, but generally speaking I'm less affected by the disorders. It doesn't mean that I don't struggle or that they haven't severely impacted my life, it is simply an acknowledgment that for some other people, the impact is even more severe.

this is such a dangerous way of portraying antidepressants, I hate it. This definitely shaped a lot of people's views on them, and it can prevent a lot of people from getting the help they need. I know that from experience.

High functioning is always a harmful term. Just because someone is managing to survive and get things done does not mean that their neurodivergence doesn't have a massive impact on their life and make existing harder in a world that isn't accomodating enough for them. I say as someone who knows full well that I would meet the arbitrary criteria to be labeled as such same goes for when people still use Aspergers as a self identifier instead of just saying Autism as it perpetuates the belief that they're "better" or "not as bad" as other autistics.

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React to the movie " Side Effects"

Maybe they gave her Ketamine.

And the ones lower than the psychiatrists went on to become dentists and those weird people who believe you can heal with Krystal's

3:40 What, you’re not even friends with women? I’m a straight man, and even I have women friends who are just friends.

Heck if you'd been eight-years-old for the last 30 years I feel you be a little bit depressed Lisa take them pills honey

You are adorable and smart and sexy and funny. I’m charmed every time I see a video. I know public/private persona but still adorable!