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“Yeah, okay, and it's like a bunch of white dudes get together in a room and say, "Here's what everything is."”
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the hood. Not just emotionally, but neurologically. Dr. Dan Yohai is a clinical neuropsychologist founder of the Neural Assessment Center. The guy, people go to when everything else has failed. Dr. Dan Yohai, how you doing?
I am so excited to be here. Thank you for having me. Well, thanks for joining us today. Where you come from, in Sino? Yes, that's for my offices. I really wanted to prop myself for you, but it is actually
really true that I do see the cases where people don't seem like they have any hope left. Good. They let's get right into it. You call what you do neurocognitive therapy, break that down for the audience in plain
English. What are you actually doing to people's brains? Neural cognitive therapy is holistic in a sense that it works both on what's happening neurologically and emotionally.
So basically, you'll come in, I'll do an assessment on you, then you'll do actual treatment
and we'll do cognitive, like rehab and then after that, I show you and I graph your results in terms of the improvements that you've actually had. So instead of actually just coming in and saying we're going to talk about our feelings, it's a little deeper than that and I like to show like evidence demonstrating the result. So through the testing, through the testing and through real life.
So it's ecological, which means my lens is based on what's happening in real life, not on tests. I'm also not traditional in that sense where that clinical information of what's happening
“in the client's life is way more important to me than what's happening on the test.”
Okay, let's move on. You're blending neuro psychology, mindfulness, attachment therapy. Sounds like a lot of science and soul. How do you keep that from turning into mumbo jump up? I think that we as psychologists have stolen a lot of people's philosophies, like Buddhist philosophy, Judaic values and all those things and I think I really like to get to the roots
of it. And most research does dictate that the therapeutic alliance, meaning the attachment that you have with a person determines how well you do. So I could throw five different therapies at you. It doesn't mean anything. No, you have the trust of the patient, you have nothing because you're not getting anything.
And that's what's the most important thing for me is that there needs to be an alliance
that emotionally corrective experience of actually trusting someone that's here to help you and actually getting to know you and pushing you is way more important than I'm doing
“DBT, CBT right now, and they see that in my office and I think that's more important.”
Okay, but it's true holistic treatment is what it is. Yes, it is. If you're going to put all those things together, okay, you're treating the whole person, right? God, you talk about treating the whole person. There it is. What does that mean? Like, what happens in your office that doesn't happen anywhere else?
So I look at things of all scopes, whether it's actually your blood test results, nutrition. I look at your emotional results. I talk to you about your family. There's no stone that doesn't get unturned in the office. Holistically speaking, I like to look functionally at the root cause. I only know one doctor who does all of those things, including working out with the patients, right? Teaching them how to sail on the surfboard, right? Whatever that's called.
Check all their medications to see how they're interacting, looking at the blood work.
I know one doctor named Kenneth Spiel vocal, and he works for us.
You're the only other doctor that does that type of thorough evaluation and treatment.
“I think that guy is particularly special. I'm not a specialist or guy, but what does make me”
special is I do do exposure therapy and I will go to people's houses and I'm playing exposure therapy. ERP exposure and response prevention therapy. Oh, that really helped everybody. Okay. It just means that I'll meet you where you're at in your life. I will go outside of the office. You're not just going to sit in my office. I'm going to go outside of the office. I'm going to meet you where you are in your daily life, whether that's,
you know, I've attended classes. I've prolonged long time helped with an adult community integration program, meaning I helped autistic adults date. So basically exposure therapy is if you've got an agoraphobic, someone who's afraid to leave the house. Okay. Then you'll make certain that you take them out of the house to give them exposure to the outside and little increments so that at some point they're like, oh, this isn't so bad. In a way, I will meet them
in classes. If they're having a hard time doing school, I will meet them in night clubs.
I will meet them where I need to meet them to make sure that they never met anybody at a strip
bar. I have, I do things that are uncomfortable and I'll get a lap dance. No, I did not. You were in a strip bar and didn't get a lap dance. Absolutely. You know, that was an exposure therapy for me. I have a germ. Give germ a photo. Yeah. And you made it up any of the strip club? I did. Yeah. That's bad. Can you imagine how he mended out in the strip club? Unfortunately, I can't. No disrespect to how he mended out. Love you. Yeah. No,
I put myself in uncomfortable positions and they put themselves in uncomfortable positions. Why shouldn't I? There it is. Good for you. You've got people out there saying functional medicine is
“BS. What do you have to say to that? I think it can be BS. I think anything can be BS. As we talked”
about earlier, it's the trust that you have with your provider that determines the symptom relief. Well, let me let me just go in there because I am a huge believer in functional medicine. Good. I think what you mean is and you do functional medicine. So it can't be BS. What's BS about it is there are so few psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists that actually have the ability to help anybody. So when they try to do something, okay, it's not top notch.
Yes, it's really it's quality to determine is really what you're. Yeah. Let's be real. Most therapists, barely understand trauma. Let alone the brain. What do you see them missing every single day? I think a lot of people haven't done their work. Like your own personal work
“and they don't look in the mirror. I think having your own therapist as a therapist is crucial.”
I think consulting with other people is crucial. I've been in therapy since I was four. I'm still
in therapy. Being aware of myself knowing my limitations and understanding what I can't do is important. And I think that that's really the differentiation there is really knowing those differences and also understanding that maybe you're projecting your trauma on someone else. Maybe this time you don't know. Maybe you need to look a little deeper into what you can know and maybe you shouldn't write someone off right away or maybe that person just doesn't want to help themselves and maybe you
just need to accept that. When someone's been through hell, trauma or addiction, relapse, whatever, what's the first thing you look for neurologically that's broken. I think neurologically speaking, I am looking for not just executive functioning, meaning for instance, there's certain tests that see how often a person is obsessively compulsively like not willing to let something go. They get stuck in a thought pattern called preservation and they can't let things go. And sometimes that's a
thing that a lot of people miss look and don't spend enough time looking at. It's not just working memory. It's not that at all. Sometimes they really can't let something go and that I think is a big part of me looking at. How is this affecting you and what's the difference between how you are in terms of pre-morbid intelligence? What I mean by that is that someone reads and through their reading, I can tell what their intelligence was before any injury, before any addiction. It's kind of
Reading his shown to show with people at least that are English speaking.
intelligence is. So if your pre-morbid intelligence doesn't match your actual testing, describe to the viewers what pre-morbid intelligence. Pre-morbid intelligence is what your intelligence should have been. What have been if you didn't get through experiencing the trauma that
you went through. So it was basically before you had your drug use or your trauma, where you were
a right before you. Exactly. And what your capacity was, what your capable of. And now why doesn't you know? How the hell can it tell what your capacity was? That's horseshit and I'll tell you why. Okay, that's complete horseshit. I couldn't read when I got out of high school. I mean, I could read, but I couldn't understand what I was reading and if I'd read out loud, I couldn't understand any of it because I was too focused on the actual reading to deal with the
comprehension. It's not reading comprehension. It's reading out loud. Okay, reading out loud. Reading out loud. I still sucked at it. I could barely read a top myself to read it. A team with
the sports page with studs like Jim Murray and Scott Osler and J.A. Don Dey. And, you know,
“that's how I taught myself how to read because that was pretty much the only thing I was interested”
in at 18. Right? Now, I'm clearly not that. I mean, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed. For sure. Okay. I may not even be the smartest man in any room I'm in. That's fine. Okay. But, you know, I am the chairman of a health care corporation. So I'm not completely devoid of talent. And if you would have checked, pre-truck use, what my capacity would have been, I'd be homeless. Yes, I think that you're, you have to use the proper norms and the clinical history is applied.
If someone has like reading issues, you certainly wouldn't use that to determine their capacity.
So to speak, excellent. What would you use? You'd use a clinical interview. You'd use basically,
some people use the toffle. The toffle is a test that basically asks you about your childhood and asks you about where you grew up. It asks you about what your parents did or didn't. And I'll be candid about, that's good. Yeah, the limitations of neuropsychology. Oh, that again? The toffle. The toffle? Mm-hmm. So that's the pre-mode. Are they only available from like October or November? They're available all the time,
but I do love white truffle. But no, it, it's not as good as actual act truffle, even truffle. Not to me, but I'm just not. Right. Okay, go on. I do think that being able to determine someone's
“pre-mode with intelligence is a grandiose task. I think that you can't really tell what someone”
really does or what their intelligence is just through testing, which is why I go out of my way to look at advanced norms and look at people's family's histories and things of that nature as well. And I do know the limitations with on that definitely. Nice. Nice. Okay, that whole shit thing might have been a little harsh. No, it's chill. Okay, push me. Can the brain actually heal or are we just learning to live with the damage better?
Both. Some of the brain actually can rewire through the neuroplasticity. Some say it's through neuroplasticity. Some call it a higher power. Some things we just don't know, but yes, I do believe that there are ways for the brain to not just heal but get better. And there's also ways for it to just stay slanted for where it's at. And it's case by case dependent.
“I certainly think that there are some people who just you have to accept that that's where they're at.”
And some people and stabilize them there so that they don't enter fee. Harm reduction. It's all about understanding what someone's limitations are ethically. Absolutely. Okay. Was ethics have to do with it? Well, you know, a lot of people who are per se neurodiverse on the spectrum, all these other things, they think that there should be functioning at a certain level. Sometimes they're pushing these people beyond their comfort.
They have all this weight on their shoulders or supposed to perform a certain way. That doesn't help them. Ethically really means what do they want? They want to perform better. They get to make their own decisions. Right. And sometimes they do want to perform better. And sometimes you have to tell them where they can and where they can't. And if they do want to perform better, you tell people that they can't do something.
Sometimes I do. Yes. Like give you an example. You know, maybe someone wants to become a basketball player and they're, you know, five one and you're struggling with grandiose.
Those do you.
basketball player. I worked at treatment settings and I had someone really just think that that's what
they wanted. He was trolling you. Give me another example. You were in a treatment setting. This guy's in rehab and he's not trolling you. Go on. No, I really, truly believed he was all about basketball. That's all he talked about. I don't know if he was trolling me. I really believed that
“that's what he wanted. Okay. I'll sweet. What else do you use? What else do I even what other”
cases? What have I said? You know, sometimes, you know, it's even like when I counsel other therapists. So some therapists come to me for therapy and I have to acknowledge my own limitations. You're not going to understand what it's like giving birth. You're not a woman. I am sorry. That's something that maybe a woman can only experience. You have to know what literally are. You're limitations. I am not going to become a astronaut. I wish I could. I don't
have the capacity for it. There are some times you have to tell people what your limitation is. What's the difference between being in recovery and being recovered? Now, this is an excellent question. What's the difference between being recovered and going through recovery? I'm going
to get past the semantics here. I think you're always in recovery. I think every day is a fight.
And that's what it's like for me. That's what it's like for you. Yeah, I'm sober. No, but every day is a fight. What you're going to see if people are coming to you in crisis, they're not coming to you on a winning streak. Okay. So every one of those people that you've seen, right, is, you know, in recovery. They are in recovery. You relieve somebody can be recovered.
“I think you have to fight for maintenance. I think that's something that you have to hold on to.”
Okay, so you haven't read my book. It's called Transcendence. Okay. Okay. And it's about you can recover. Right. Let me give you an example. Okay. I was in Italy a couple of years ago. Four years ago now. Three years ago now. God, this is good TV, isn't it? So three years ago, I went to Italy. And I was in the most beautiful place with my feet grounded in the sand, looking over the Mediterranean. It was sparkling like diamonds were dancing. I mean,
it was, and then I turned around and I looked at the marble mountain, a mountain made out of marble. Okay. And I was just in there. And this whole scene just made me well. And that's why I call the Treatment Center, Carrera Treatment Wellness in Spa, because I named it after the town Carrera that I was in. It was one of the most magical times I've ever had. Now, I had a glass of one. Okay. And I'm sober. Right. But I asked the guy to pair my foot. Never had it. I wanted to
pair the foot. And well, there was one dish, but he did it. And I'm drinking the wine and about halfway through the glass. I feel it. And I went like this. I pushed the glass away to the center of the table. And my thought was, this feels nice. This is nice. Now, what the addict brain does is this feels nice, more is better. That's the addict mind. Okay. So the fact that you can do that. Right. And the sandside probably had
10 glasses of wine. Never went to a second glass. And I don't think I've ever finished a glass.
But it feels nice. And so I do it. Now, wreckage. Never a problem. Help everybody I can.
“Right. Don't harm anybody. I think that there's a point where there is no struggle. And I know”
many people who have transcended addiction and alcoholism. That's a thing. And it doesn't get talked about because everybody wants to adopt the disease model. And that's a lie. There is no tumor. There is no virus. Where's the disease agent? There is fun. Am I wrong? I think that that perspective is a good one because it brings some
Positive change.
90% of the people don't get to transcend. And the reason they don't get to transcend is because
they didn't do the work in order to transcend. It's something that you've got to work on. For example, I've got therapists back in the day. I found out that one or two of them didn't have their own therapist. And I told them they had a week to get their own therapist or they were gone. Because you can't give something away that you don't have. Same type of thing. I think being transcended as you put it also requires a certain level of respect and maintenance.
I do know that heaven forbid you don't maintain routines that brought you there, that you can fall back.
“Absolutely. And that's what I mean by never fully recovered in my opinion. I think that it's”
something that you can get to. But I do think you need to maintain it. Well, you need to help the lifestyle, right? So when I wake up in the morning and I roll out of the rack and I do my prayers and I get quiet for five minutes. I get in the shower. I come out. I work out. Don't worry. I don't get sweaty because I don't do it hard enough. Okay. And you know, I take my medication. I give myself my shot and you know, I have my coffee and go to work. Now, that's my routine in the
morning. It's been my routine now for 15 years. At least. Can you imagine what would happen if you didn't have that routine for a year? Yeah, I go insane because if you don't move your body,
you get sick. And that's my point is that you always have to work at it. And I think that's something
“that people get to remember have to know. You don't just get somewhere and now you're fine, right?”
Look, you're in great shape. Aren't you? You're in great shape. For 59? I'm not pissed. Well, just for a human, you're in great shape. That requires maintenance. If you don't maintain that, it's going to go away. Right. And that's the point. There is a gray area here. There's color. It's not just recovered and not recovered. There's something more here. There's a process. Good. Okay. We're saying the same thing. We are different ways. Beautiful. Well, that's how people learn, right? They hear it. They hear
it in different ways. And, you know, they get clarity. Clarity is power. And then they can use it. Can actually be applied. Do you ever get pushback from other doctors like, who does this guy think he is? What's he doing? Yes. I do. And that's not an example. I like to stay partially employed and contracted. I do what I think is best. And I do. You work for yourself. I do work for myself. But it be canceled. You're top notch. People are going to come to you because they want the
finest of everything. I try to maintain a humble stance and understand that I'm not at your level.
Oh, please. I'm in the way. First of all, I'm not a big shot. I'm at nobody's level. I'm fine. No
on. Okay. Easy to say from where you're sitting. Okay. I'm sitting in the same chair. You're sitting again. Yeah, but you own a dude. Come on. If you want the chair, you can take it with you on the way home. Well, it won't fit my car, but I appreciate the gesture. Okay. Go on. I don't get along with everybody on blunt. That gets me into trouble. As you can tell, you know, you are a blunt person as well. And you just sort of say how you feel. I don't mince words in
that way. And I do get in trouble for that. Sometimes there's treatment team has like 20 different chefs in the kitchen. It's like, oh, this person said this. That person said that. This person said this. And it's like, you know, I understand, but just like in a restaurant, there's a chef. Have you ever gotten to a room with a team of people charged with treating one client and sat there in front of the client and the doctors and said, you're all idiots. Listen to me? No, I should try that. It deals really
good. I don't know if, sometimes I think I'm the idiot, honestly. But I don't know if that would be good for the client because I think the client needs to trust the treatment team. I also don't like triangulation. The treatment team is horseshit and they're not serving the client. Wouldn't
“you tell everybody in public that that's what's happening? No, generally what I do is I have a”
discussion with the team. I don't want to humiliate anybody or myself or the client. No, no, of course, you would have had the listen. You of course, you would have exhausted all of the varieties. And you would have had the conversation with them. But I'm just assuming I that doctors a lot of them have gone complexes. Right. Yes. And I try to put mine in check all day every day. I look in
The mirror and I try to make sure it's not my baggage.
there and I have taken people that I have been with me for years out of treatments to different
places that I thought were better for them because the team wasn't aligned in a collaborative
“approach. That's right. That's exactly right. The client is my boss. And that's how I do it.”
But you have a therapeutic alliance with your client. Absolutely. Do the fact that you are the psychologist and he's got medical doctors or whatever the hell he's got, right? You're the psychologist. You're the one with the therapeutic alliance. You're going to get what you want. I want an egalitarian approach for the client learns to trust themselves. And I don't tell them what to do with their own life. I don't want them dependent on me. I want them to leave me
eventually and come back later. And if they need maintenance work with me, that's fine. But that's
word ends. I am not an enabler. And I will never be that therapist. That's a grandmother that's
sitting there, petting someone who's stuck in the same circle their whole life. Where do the five pillars? The five things you build every person around when you're rebuilding a life. And if it's a horrible question, you don't have to have five pillars. You could have two or three
“or whatever it is. Yeah. Five pillars or two or three. I think when I think I have to look at”
first of all where they came from and what it is that they want in order to build a proper foundation. To me, that means a strong support system. A no support system. Forget it. Well, don't you create the support system? I try. It's show me how. What would you do? I can tell
it comes in no support system. I go to 12 step meetings with them at times when they're scared to go.
They're some toss-up meetings that maybe the client doesn't agree with them. Maybe I don't either. So we leave. And we try to find the ones that actually vibrate with the client. And I try to meet people there. Like that's the exposure I'm talking about. I connect them with case managers that can actually bring them the right kind of people around them. And I try to make a collaborative approach because I didn't really ask you a question. If you have someone that
all they want is to be in a relationship, do you ever send them to like sex and love addicts and anonymous to look for the week one or no? Maybe that's where they come to me from. Honestly, if that's all they want, no. I'm just, I kid. No, no. No, we talk about why that's so important and why they can't find that inside. And why they think that that's going to like say their lives all of a sudden and why that sort of approach may lead to deep code dependency and why that's not
a great approach. Just I just need a relationship and I'll be happy. Right? I be happy before so you can be happier and wholly together with another person. Don't expect the other person to make you happy. That's way too much pressure on a human being. You know, I didn't have a successful relationship until I learned her love language. If I would have understood that principle, right? That just means love her of the way she needs to be loved. Right? Give her what she needs. Right? For example,
I don't want anybody to cook for me. If I had somebody, you know, if I wanted somebody to cook for me, I'd be getting Julia Childs. Okay? That's not my love language. Right? So I guess what I'm trying to say is, do you ever teach them how to have a successful relationship and how to be a real man? Or a woman? I do my best in terms of helping them understand that the world doesn't revolve around them and that it's a painful. That's the truth. You know, grandiosity is a bit
“and someone needs to pull up a mirror and say, hey, you have to see past yourself if you want to”
connect with someone else. And in order to do that, you have to listen. And in order to listen, that's how you find out what someone else's love language is. You know, taking a step back, looking at the bigger picture, that's a huge thing. And I think it's fundamental and good therapy. And that's something that's good with not just relationship therapy, but, you know, people who struggle with that struggle at work because they don't understand what other people want
or what other people need. You're exactly right. And they don't know how to be vulnerable either. A lot of the times. And so we have to work on that. And again, that comes back to trust. You don't trust me. You can't be vulnerable with me. We got nothing. I'm going to send you to someone who you can trust or we can work on trying to trust. But beyond that, if you're unwilling to
Take off your mask, forget it.
with you. Good. Have some integrity. What's the most misunderstood concept in neuroscience right now?
“Something people keep quoting wrong on TikTok or podcasts. Oh, wow. It's a loaded one,”
contentious. Look, people keep labeling things over and over again for the same things over and over again. And it's just continues to happen over and over again, whether it's being on the spectrum and coding neurodiversity as being on the spectrum and neurodiversity actually means that you don't have a regular, you know, neurological functioning. But then, you know, okay, but wait. God, when you're neurodivergent, you're gifted in a lot of areas, but you're weak in a lot of
areas, right? It just means you're wired differently. Okay. Fine. You're wired differently. But are you or are you not gifted in certain areas if you're neurodivergent? You're more likely
“to be, but not always. You're more likely to be sure. You know, I think that's also the”
misconception is that you think someone that is neurodivergent is I'm automatically, you know, has that and sometimes they don't. What I hate about that is when you label them as being somehow less than it pisses me off because a lot of times they're better than, you know, lot of areas and then they're weak at other areas and you build up the weak areas. You know, diagnostics to me, they don't mean a lot as compared to functionality. Okay. Let's, you like,
yeah, you want to do it? Yeah. Give me a rant. It was only a few versions ago that women having a job was a disorder. Shut up. No, I'm not shutting up. I missed it. Yeah. Okay. And it's like a bunch of
white dudes get together in a room and say, here's what everything is. No, it's for ensuring
it's diagnostics, our meant to guide clinicians, but what if our obsession with diagnosis is what's stopping us from getting better, right? And I'm a glorified diagnostician, but I try to practice functionality, right? First, what does this mean functionally? And I'll share a small story if you permit me to. I started out in the field, um, 18 studying music, musician. State run home adolescent kids. Um, I met a kid and, you know, we built a very strong attachment.
At that time, he was 11. He was nonverbal. No, I contact. Um, he had diapers and I learned how to change his diapers. His answer pretty bruised because he, you know, self injury, he was hitting
himself. Um, they told me he would never talk. They told me that, um, he, he just was what he was.
And I just worked with what I got. I sang to him. I changed his diapers. I helped prepare his food and, um, held a room. 18. Okay. And we got to a point where one day, as I was changing his diapers, I blew up the rubber gloves into balloons. And he took these gloves and he started hitting them. So it became a ritual where every day I changed his diaper and every day he would take the glove and hit them. Now fast forward a year later, bruises are gone. Fine. He's hitting these gloves.
They're telling me that this home is closing. And, um, I have to say bye to this kid. Now you
“have to remember, I'm so unavolved at this point. Uh, it was a very, very delicate time for me. I was”
attached to this kid. I didn't know how to say bye. I went to go making a balloon. As a parting gift, fun, final time. They're an unloft. I broke down. Um, you know, snotty 18 year old kid with like a, a, a dufro looking, you know, completely unprofessional. He took my hand, you know, which that on his own was special because he doesn't touch people. He took my hand. He took me to his closet. He looked at me and he said, okay, he talked. He said,
okay, for the first time. And then he opened up his closet. There were like 300 freaking balloons
in that closet. He kept everything on one. He gave me one. Um, that moment, like, that made my, my,
My, I was like, I'm addicted.
I broke that. I love that. What's the one thing you believe about the human brain that most
“your colleagues would roll their eyes at? Don't worry. I get that all the time. Okay. I believe that”
there are senses that we're unaware of. I believe that intuition is greater than you know. I do believe in a higher power. I don't believe that everything is science. I believe there's something you just don't know. And I do believe that there are things that some people are able to do that some people aren't. I don't think, I don't think science explains everything. I really, really don't. And I don't, and I do think that our cases were spirituality over rights. I think
because it centers you. It centers you, but it also does things to you that maybe we can't explain
“in the brain. It connects you to people and ways that you can't explain. And I think it's really”
dramatically disrespected and not what that enough. Yeah. If God wants to get involved, it gets fixed. Okay. What's next? Where is this all going? Are we on the verge of a total revolution in mental health? Or are we just dressing up old ideas? I think that people are tired. The client calls I get. People have been through treatment. It hasn't worked. They played thousands of dollars, which different this time. I don't think we're necessarily at a place where things are getting
better all the time. Some people are looking at ketamine. Some people are looking at psychedelics. I think that those are interesting. But I think at the end of the day, we are dressing up old ideas in some ways. I am not happy necessarily with the advancements. I think we're still, I think we don't know that much about people in the brain. I think that we pretend we do.
I think that good health care is what it's always been. A person who knows themselves,
knows their limitations, and actually can give that help to someone. I think those are the real differences. I think mental health and the treatment of mental health is getting infinitely
“better very quickly. I really believe that. And I think it's important to be on the cutting edge”
of everything and every new modality. And I also think that the reason people look. The science is always 15 years roughly. I had a practice. Sure. Right? So I think that's the problem. And I think it's getting better. I really do. And I think with the addition to AI of AI and as that gets better, it's going to assist you and other physicians and it already is. By giving you, you know,
you're first draft. Right? And you're looking at it. Yes, yes, no, no, yes, yes, no. And you
I think it's, do you use AI to assist you in any way? Absolutely. It checks my grammar. It checks your grammar. Yes, it to check your grammar. I have a trotispelling in grammar absolutely. Hold on. Your AI is your English teacher? Yes. God damn it. I 100% you know, I'm not, you know, I want to get an idea out. I want it polished and organized. It helps me do that. I do think that we are AI can be useful. But I do think that sometimes the thing that's overlooked is that like
not everyone and everybody is good at pairing people up with the right person. And I think that
that connection with the person is the most important thing. I do too. But I do, but they're not usually
exclusive. I'll take it. All right. If someone listening right now is barely hanging on what's the one thing you want them to know about their brain, their healing, and their hope. What you're experiencing right now is temporary. It feels like forever. There are probably people in your life that you don't know of enough that would you really matter too. And even though you're worn out
Even though you feel stuck and where you are, don't give up.
perfect. And we are going to end on that. I think if we take one thing from today, it's this.
“Your brain isn't broken. It's adaptive. It's protecting you in ways. You might not even see.”
But the same system that kept you alive can also keep you stuck. And that's where the work begins.
We're not talking about coping anymore. We're talking about transcendence. I'm retutate.
You already know. We're out of time. See you next Tuesday. Yeah.
