if these people were already intent on signing up to better help then you're
spewing the Study Group's decisions man I thought all this better help stuff was
over but the right opinion just made a betterhelp video and he actually
brought up some really good points and might have exposed even more in the
mental health industry that we need to talk about right now what is everybody
this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but
focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is all about
mental health and something I'd like to do is pull different topics from the
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that notification bell so the right opinion just released a video and I want
to focus on the part where he talked about the studies it's like a 40 minute
long video one of my subscribers named you from I think I'm saying his name
right he focus on one specific part though
so anyways some of you have been around for a while you know I made some videos
about but for those of you who are new full disclosure I am still a betterhelp
affiliate and I still will continue to be one of the main reasons is that my
beautiful girlfriend uses better help and met her amazing therapist the
through betterhelp that is local here in Las Vegas and she's been using it
ever since but outside of the friends who use it so I'm just gonna leave it at
that because I don't want to do any more better help videos defending this stuff
like figure out what you want to do and that's it by anyway see they're still
here we're gonna talk about some pretty important stuff when it comes to mental
health as a whole so something that the white opinion was talking about in his
better health video was the studies they did okay and how those studies were kind
of like biessed a little bit of things like that now I will say this I although
I support better help like I just want you to like try it if you want right and
then like make your decisions off that I don't think anybody like just logic
anybody anything success rates like reviews are even
difficult to base anything off of whether they're good or bad so part of
my experience just so you all know I worked in mental health treatment for
the last three years okay over three years now part of my job has been
working on the outcome studies so we call an outcome studies kind of like
what the white opinion was talking about these are outcome studies so he was
pointing out the percentage of people who benefited from the service decrease
and all of that so this is just something like absolutely like it's kind
of like the corporate issue and this is why all of you need to be more educated
on all of these mental health subjects like if you want to get the best mental
health help please just do your research watch videos like mine or other people's
like the white opinion actually understands how research and studies go
so I like really respect so I became particularly in treat when I noticed on
their front page they boasted a 98% rates of individuals involved in their
programs making significant progress despite the fact that only 70%
experienced an alleged reduction in depression which is a rather sizable
margin considering I'd assume a reduction in symptoms is correlated with
the idea of progress I want to talk about some more stuff today when it
comes to antidepressant medications so yeah when I first read the book lost
connections freaked me out because you may not know okay I just want to get the
proper information out there okay the research that goes behind this stuff
okay so basically back in the day dr. Irving Kirsch I believe and he wrote a
book called the emperor's new drugs and what he did was you know he
I believe a psychologist or psychiatrist clients who have been benefiting from
antidepressants but he wanted to kind of find out more about this like what's
helping how are these how how is this helping because you might be watching
this video but you might be the perfect example why do antidepressants work for
some but not others right if this is a chemical imbalance issue shouldn't you
just be able to take some of these it balances out the chemicals and
everything is all hunky-dory but that's how it should work
right so something that urban started doing was he wanted to like kind of like
you know evaluate the numbers right and take a look so typically when you're
doing research on any type of medication what you'll do is you'll have the actual
antidepressant in this case we're talking about antidepressants then
you'll have a placebo which is like typically a sugar pill okay so you give
one group of people the antidepressant what people the sugar pill and you kind
of just see their progress and see what happens okay but one of the issues that
were vain came across is that no matter what you're taking there's always going
to be a placebo effect all right so that placebo effect is mixed in with the
actual potential result of the medication that you're taking so
something that they had to kind of figure out is like you know are people
just getting better with time or because of their situations like something I try
to teach all of you is like although chemical imbalances are real clinical
depression like the way our brains working you know create different
neurotransmitters that is very real one of the things is when's the last time
you actually went to the doctor and they checked their serotonin levels or
detected dopamine levels well it check turn or Pinet for new levels you know
what I mean like they don't do that so we just got to kind of like hope that
these medications are gonna work right so to do a better study what they ended
up doing was they got three groups okay three groups so the first group that
gave them pills and they said these are antidepressants but the pills that gave
him more actually placebos they were just sugar pills okay then in group two
they actually gave them antidepressants all right then in Group three they
didn't give them anything they didn't give them anything at all they just
track their progress over time so one of the things is is that this third group
was extremely important like they had to see it
if people who had the symptoms of depression just got better over time
so like the best analogy I can give you is it's kind of like having a cold right
like you can go take cold medicine but is it really speeding up your recovery
because most people who have a cold even though depression and colds are
different that most people have a cold they could just you know they will get
better like the body just creates you know the natural antibodies and you
recover from a cold so that's why the third group is important because they're
trying to look at the president say do people just get better over time right
mention this book before I've done an entire video on it there's a book called
lost connections and for a lot of us you'll find that you know many things
that help with depression have nothing to do with medications so the weather
they got the results from this test okay they had the three groups so what they
had to do was subtract the people who got better over time some so from group
three then subtract the people from group one okay so the people who got
blessing they're symptoms of depression based on a placebo and the people who
had less symptoms of depression based on just doing whatever just living their
life okay and the results really trippin out okay so check this out
check this out
twenty-five percent it was purely due to natural recovery okay now fifty percent
fifty percent of people had lessened symptoms of depression just based on the
story that they were told about the medications so a big part of the way
medications work is this story that we're told when we when we give you a
pill like this is why I try to teach everybody to meditate and I I'm so like
your mind is such a powerful thing fifty percent of people had less
symptoms of depression just because they were told the pill was an antidepressant
how crazy is that so then the last twenty five percent the medication
actually helped so think about that for a second these antidepressants only
helped twenty five percent of people so this guy Irving he like went through
this data like a million times is like this can't be right this can't be right
these medications are supposed to work they're supposed to be the best thing to
help with this depression but they're only really helping twenty five percent
of time now like something's that the right opinion brought up like who's
doing these studies who is doing these studies now when you're looking at
antidepressant success rate here's what you gotta understand most of those
studies are done by pharmaceutical companies all right think about that for
a second now for all the studies for all the
studies that the pharmaceutical companies do only about sixty percent is
what people see okay so there's forty percent of the results from these
studies that just nobody even sees okay but there's something called the Freedom
of Information Act a few months later and this is important because this is
something that we call publication bias right so an analogy that Johann Hari
uses book loss connections was imagine you take like fifty selfies right and
you'd like get rid of all your bad ones you get rid of the ones with your double
chin so you take fifty selfies and you put the best one online right so the
publication bias at these pharmaceutical companies have
is that they only publish their best results so by them getting all of the
data they can really see you know more so what's actually happening so some of
the medications that they wanted to get like all of the research on was Prozac
Paxil zoloft and effects or I think there was like another one in there too
so something that they found with the Prozac study was that they had 245
people in this study 245 people in this study and only 27 of them had positive
effects from the medication but that's pretty crazy the thing about it right
you get 245 depressed people you give them a medication and it only worked for
27 of them all right so so once they gathered all this data they turn to
something called the Hamilton scale okay this was a scale that was created I
believe in the 1950s to kind of measure depression okay so the lower on that
scale the worse the higher the better okay so the higher the less of the
symptoms so just let you know like on the Hamel scale Hamilton scale in order
to move six points in the positive direction you just need to get better
night's sleep right so people who start getting better sleep they get six points
in the right direction so their depression starts to decrease just by
sleep so protip let's work on your sleep all right
now when they looked at the results of medications is only moved on that hem
Hamilton scale in the positive direction 1.8 points
think about that so less than a third less than a third of the positive
results you get from from fixing your sleep schedule that's crazy that's crazy
now like I said if you're taking antidepressants and they're working go
for it like but one of the reasons I'm making this video is a test because Big
Pharma is big pharma but to like something I always want to tell you guys
is medications will not fix your problem it will never fix your problem
anti-anxiety like they are only going to get you so far because I'll tell you
this if you have been in a dark headspace like I get in when my
depression hits like one point eight points on the Hamilton scale is huge one
point eight points on the Hamilton scale is me getting out of bed one point he
points on the Hamilton scale is me getting out of the house one point he
points on the Hamilton scale is me you know talking with my friends you see
what I mean so I just want to let you know if there's other things that you
can do that can actually help your depression even more so again like I'm
glad that the white opinion made this video and really like you don't deep on
those studies I love that if any of you watched John Oliver of last week tonight
like I highly suggest you watch his video about scientific studies it's
hilarious and you'll get so much insight to how these studies are actually
conducted because every time you turn on the news like new studies say that this
cures cancer a new study says that this takes yourself like whatever but they
talk about that and they give you like some legitimate proof about how most
studies are complete BS but anyways I want to hear from all of you down in the
comments below like what's your experience with these beautiful
antidepressants or whichever ones you take and if if you would like like let
us know down in the comments what do you feel has helped your depression as much
or more than antidepressants there's a reason why I don't talk about
medications all the time on my channel like fixing your relationships changing
the way that you you perceive things in this world
gratitude list making connections with other people joining the reward soldier
Facebook group and talking to other people about your issues having people
help you get into the solution all these things can help in your depression so if
you have any tips that can help people with depression will take your time
baseline with their antidepressants let's have a conversation down below
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