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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Topic: Insomnia and parental neglect

"I have two problems to talk about, although maybe they're one.

"I've suffered from insomnia for a long time now and medical interventions are not helping. I heard Stefan talk about his own a few times, and thought he might be able to help.

"Also, although I'm in my mid-40s, I only recently came to understand how badly, in some respects, my parents neglected me as a child, and I'm trying to figure out how to come to terms with that, and especially how to do better with my own children, whom I fear, lacking a better example, I'm doing the same with.

"To be more specific, growing up, my parents didn't really give me any advice or instruction about things like making friends, girls, building a career, almost anything. And I now I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT ADVICE IS SUPPOSED TO BE for my own sons.

"Thanks for your work, Mr. Molyneux, whether or not I get to talk with you again."

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0:00.0

Okay, great. Nice to meet you. Look forward to the chat. And I'm all here. I guess your message was a little scant. If you want to just sort of tell me about what the issues are, we can take it from there.

0:14.8

Well, there's two things. Or as I said there, maybe it's one thing. I don't know.

0:25.5

The more immediate pressing thing for me,

0:27.1

which has been a problem for some time,

0:32.6

is I have been dealing with insomnia for a while now.

0:34.6

And I remember you talking about,

0:42.1

you mentioned a few times that you dealt with that and, you know,

0:47.2

medical interventions didn't seem to be working and you realized it was because you needed to rearrange your life, basically. Yeah, I mean, technically I didn't take any medical interventions,

0:53.9

but I didn't take sleeping pills or anything.

0:56.2

But, yeah, it certainly was true that I needed to sort out my life.

0:59.2

So go ahead.

1:02.0

And the other thing, which this makes me feel kind of foolish because I only kind of recognize this sometime in the past couple of years.

1:13.6

And I'm in my mid-40s.

1:16.2

But I realized recently that, like, my parents didn't really give me any advice, any instruction about so many things,

1:39.0

like, you know, how to make friends, you know, how to deal with girls, you know, how to, how you know,

1:46.9

build a career. And like I said, I'm, I'm in my mid-40s and like, when you're a little kid,

1:57.0

like, you don't have anyone to compare it to. So unless there's like obvious, obvious abuse, you're just like, I don't know, this is what families are.

2:06.4

And so I, and so, like, you know, looking back, I'm like, oh, that's what they're kind of supposed to do.

2:13.2

And I'm looking at, you know, I have kids and I want to do better, but I don't know how to

2:20.2

hand on what I didn't get, if that makes sense.

2:25.1

It does.

2:25.9

Just tell me what you mean by you don't have anything to compare it to, because, I mean,

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