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Train by day Joe Rogan

all day.

A pleasure to meet you. I've really enjoyed your conversations online. I love your perspective and it's really a real pleasure to have you in here.

Well, I really am happy to be here with you. Thank you. My

pleasure. This book the myth of normal. This is your book. Yeah it's called the

myth of normal trauma illness and healing in a toxic culture and it kind of sums up everything I've ever

learned. What exactly is toxic about our culture? Is that a too big question? No, it's the central question.

Yeah.

If you imagine you're a microbiologist in a laboratory,

growing microorganisms in a Petri dish that's called the culture you know you put in a brew and

with the right nutrients and the microorganisms thrive and I multiply but if a lot of them start getting sick and a lot of them started dying,

you'd say this is a toxic culture. Now if you look at what happening in North America now,

there's an article in the York Times, 10 days before we speak, of a teenager

being on 10 different psychiatric medications, 10 different psychiatric medications.

More and more kids are being diagnosed with ADHD with anxiety with depression the

rate of childhood suicide is going up and everything what's going on here

why is this going on more people getting autoimmune disease mental health

issue is the overdose crisis in the states over a hundred thousand people died

of overdoses either we assume that these are all accidents and sort of blows of

misfortune or we get that there's something about this culture that's

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