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Today is another command performance by my friend Mark McDonald.

I can't get enough of Mark.

The book is Freedom from Fear.

He applies his psychiatric acuity to the undiagnosed epidemic of fear addiction.

Fear itself has become... I get overwhelmed when I even think about how miserable the fear has been deployed in this country.

The Instagram is at the Mark McDonald.

The McDonald's spelled M-C-D-O-N-A-L-D.

Twitter is at M-M-M-M-D. Substacked, Mark MacDonald M-D-A-L-D. Twitter is at M-M-M-D-M-D-M-D-M-D-S-Substack.com. And the website is dissident-M-D-D-com, which I just love. I love the dissident quality. Did you ever think you'd be somebody pushing back so hard on so many things in our world? I had no idea. Were you that kind of person always? Never. Yeah, me neither. No, the editor from my book actually came up with that dissident MD because he said this encapsulates everything about what you're doing. Is it uncomfortable to be a dissident, so called? It would have been a few years ago because I had a bit of a negative, I felt there was a negative connotation to a dissident, somebody who's just

sort of negative to be negative. Yeah. But now basically dissident encompasses anyone with a difference of opinion. And you're involved with Dr. Carriardi, too, right? Is he in your camp? He is. He is actually a colleague of mine, and we've spoken quite a bit and actually gone on a few projects together. He was fired. I mean, here's another guy that was, you know,

ahead of the Bioethics Committee for the University of California, Irvine, mainstream psychiatrists, teaching psychiatry, winning teaching awards. All of a sudden, he's a dissident? He's now a dissident for saying we individuals have the right to decide what sort of medical treatments we receive, and he essentially lost his job for that.

For saying that.

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