The Truth About BetterHelp, Life Coaches, & Positive Affirmations | Dr. Ali Mattu
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Rebooting psychotherapy: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26162113/Mental health for all by involving all: https://youtu.be/yzm4gpAKrBk?si=cTioab_Bzcj9YzL781 words episode of This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/204/81-wordsBetterHelp: https://www.thecut.com/article/mental-health-therapy-apps.htmlKaiser mental health strike: https://www.kqed.org/news/11929713/kaiser-mental-health-workers-appove-new-contract-ending-10-week-strikeMyers Briggs: https://youtu.be/Q5pggDCnt5M?si=z0vxswUuD-Enc9gaFollow Dr. Ali Mattu, clinical psychologist from Columbia University and YouTuber, here:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClIZqOLqUCro7bKztUjYCNAInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alimattu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/AliMattu
00:00 Intro01:09 Social Media Doctors07:16 When To Start Talking About Therapy11:30 Triggering Language22:57 Medical Turf Wars49:00 Thought's Don't Matter56:19 Life Coaches / School Curriculums1:14:24 Affirmations / Manifestations / Ice Baths1:26:20 Punishment1:38:00 BetterHelp1:58:14 Hacks / Meyers-Briggs / Astrology2:10:35 The Quesadilla Story2:25:35 Doctors As President / Pokemon Go2:33:44 Perks Of Being A PsychologistHost and Executive Producer: Doctor MikeProduced by Dan Owens and Sam BowersArt by Caroline Weigum
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| 0:00.0 | I was interning here at Bellevue Hospital and I did a rotation where I was just working with forensic patients, people in the correctional system. |
| 0:07.8 | Whenever I looked at the patients chart and looked at the experiences they've gone through. It's like trauma, poverty, neglect, |
| 0:18.7 | like all these layers of things that we do know lead to very difficult problems. |
| 0:27.0 | Do you believe it absolves people of their wrongdoing? wrongdoing. podcast, Dr. Ali Matu, clinical psychologist from Columbia University, who has also an |
| 0:47.0 | immensely popular YouTube channel where he talks all things mental health, doing a lot of the |
| 0:51.4 | same debugging that we do on our YouTube channel. |
| 0:54.4 | We're going to get into some really interesting topics from the better help controversies |
| 0:58.8 | to whether or not life coaches are the same as psychologists. |
| 1:01.6 | Huge thanks to Dr. Alima too for being so open, |
| 1:04.4 | sharing many things personal and professional. |
| 1:07.0 | Let's get started with the checkup. |
| 1:08.8 | Be whoop. |
| 1:10.2 | Let's solve mental health |
| 1:26.4 | That would be imagine after this conversation. We're like hey, did we just solve mental? I think we did. Wow. Yeah that would be powerful that would be cool that would have a headline on the Daily Mail. Doctors sit in podcast self-mental health. These days though when I look at some doctors and |
| 1:30.2 | medical professionals and mental health specialists talk on social media like they do |
| 1:34.3 | podcasts or they clip things. Yeah they act like they're solving things. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:38.7 | I see that happen a lot these days. Totally. What's your take on medical professionals in media as it exists today? |
| 1:46.4 | Because I think if we look ten years ago and we saw the Dr Ozs of the world, there was a different |
| 1:50.1 | take. |
| 1:51.1 | What's it like for you now on social media? |
| 1:53.0 | There's so much diversity. |
| 1:55.0 | I mean you've got you got short form of content, |
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