welcome back and in today's video I'm gonna be doing some social commentary
but a person named Kati Morton a licensed online therapist that made some
statements most recently that many feel are hypocritical and harmful coming from
a professional if you're unfamiliar with Kati Morton she has over 800,000
subscribers and just released a video titled 5150 Eugenia Cooney's story she's
had her fair share of criticisms you might remember the better help
controversy at first glance right this seems like a positive thing youtubers
and people on social media opening up about their mental health issues being
more authentic and transparent and hopefully really D stigmatizing mental
health issues D Sigma ties a positive yay I'm all for that but as we dig a
little bit deeper and as people started to talk more about these collaborations
they started to rub people the wrong way where this starts to get tricky and
where people start to have some issues is that many of these youtubers who talk
about better help and are doing some sponsorships with them are reportedly
getting up to $200 for every person that signs up for better help with their
unique link so let's say you watched a video and someone's talking about better
help and they give a code or a link and you use that and you sign up for the
service that youtuber is getting up to $200 for that and so know this starts to
get a little bit murky because what people are upset about is that it feels
like youtubers are profiting off their viewers mental health issues now my own
personal opinions about this is that therapy's process any online program
doesn't properly give respect to this process and by process I do mean that
you often have to go through many therapists before you find the right one
also another part of the process is that some days are gonna be terrible they're
gonna be very hurtful but it's part of the growth a pain is associated with
growth and without that pain there is no growth I kind of believe that it's
playing off of just people that really don't understand about the process and
it doesn't properly educate about that process that being said not only the
Kati Marton promote better health but she's one of the first and founding
people to bring it to YouTube and our online opinion has been at the best
questionable and sometimes harmful it can be seen in the shane dawson series
that came out about jake paul dr. todd grande goes into detail breaking down
several important points i do suggest that you watch that video it will be in
the description below but i had a lot of requests to answer this particular
question and this question is based on a recent video that was on a youtube
creators channel his name was shane dawson and it interviewed another
YouTube content creator named Katie Morton
now Katie Morton is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and just to be
clear from the outset I don't know either one of these content creators so
the description of sociopathy that was offered as part of this video has
offended a number of people and a number of other people who said it's just so
technically inaccurate that there needs to be some sort of adjustment some sort
of clarification offered as I mentioned I received a number of requests to do
this video and if you look at the impact of this particular video it's
exceedingly popular so I'm worried about how some of this misinformation is
getting out there I think it makes some sense to offer clarification to allow
people who are interested to know the scientific facts behind sociopathy so we
already know Katie Morton's involvement of Shane Dawson so a lot of people were
not surprised to see her come out with a video just the other day with Eugenia
Cooney but some of the statements that she made many people felt were harmful
towards mental health yes eventually you they decide like yep you have to
listen to us you have to basically go to this place so I don't know like where
I'm going they like take me outside and they put me in like restraints oh they
strap you yeah it sounds like a 5150 yeah which we've talked I've talked
about this a little bit in the past I know many of you have been in situations
similar to this whether it's because we were suicidal self-injury you didn't
disorder all sorts of different reasons feeling really depressed it can be
traumatized it can be so then like they put me in like like a stretcher or
whatever after I'm like in the restraint yeah and the hospital so then it was
really crazy there was one guy there that was like I guess one of the people
that had a like watch me as I was back there and he actually seemed really nice
like he was kind of like oh like you know I hope it again it's okay for you
because it sounds to me like you got like screwed over here bamboozled a
little bit yeah a lot of us fight hard online to make it okay to talk about
mental health and this not only pushes the stigma but it pushes a dangerous
narrative that 5150 are not okay to do and really scary a 5150 is a scary
experience but because it's a life-or-death situation many have been
hospitalized and been furious for years but come to realize those involved we're
saving their lives and a lot of people are upset with Katie because they feel
Eugenia sincerely needed help but is yet to accept that Katie is participating in
a dual narrative being one of the literal reasons
eugenie as 5150 was called in the very first place this kind of approach from a
professional is problematic I don't think it's lost on anyone that Eugenia
Cooney is upset about being 5150 I would imagine that most people that do go
through this process are not going to enjoy it they're not gonna like it
they're gonna have a lot of negative things to say about it however the
majority of time this happens is because those people cannot see what other
people see I guess sometimes it's still kind of hard to see things the way other
people do sometimes at least for me it was and also I guess kind of like it's
it's like you said it's just kind of like it's hard to actually like realize
and admit to yourself that William the voice the eating disorder voice tells
we're not sick yeah and it like it's always and we know that we talk about
all the time how it'll tell us that we it always has a different goal that we
can never achieve and it once we achieve that what's the different goal and it's
that's the that's why eating disorders can be so difficult to reach out and get
help for the deeper I look into this I see a narrative where it's more about
views in less about actually helping people yeah when we do get 5150 and
unfortunately they don't take you to like eating disorder treatment center or
anything they take you to a hospital and in Los Angeles County unfortunately
we don't have a lot of psych wards that's something that I struggle with as
a professional in the area is like if a patient of mine is having a hard time
for them to have to go to a to be 5150 which I've never had to do in my private
practice by the way but I don't have a lot of options and it can be really
scary because it's in kind of like dodgy parts of town and you sit if you take
yourself to the hospital that you often sit with a lot of homeless people
waiting in the waiting room and and floridly psychotic people who are on the
psych floor itself so it can feel really difficult if we just feel suicidal or if
we've been 5150 to against our will
now you got to remember this is coming from a licensed marriage & Family
Therapist somebody that's not had any professional experience with 51 50s and
let's not forget that when Eugenia was forced to get help after she got out
which was about two days later she did go up to Connecticut where she talked to
doctors that she trusted and was more comfortable with and they said that she
did in fact need help I did end up meeting with a doctor and they agreed
that I should like pretty much have to go into a program at that point yeah and
luckily it was like at my own will so I did yes I got to decide yeah I guess
like decide if I was going to or not which i think is a lot better than we
can't force from a 5150 that was forced onto her by youtuber Jaclyn Glenn but
the most confusing and the most hypocritical part about this is that
this whole process was taught to Jaclyn Glenn by you guessed it Kati Morton
Jaclyn Glenn tweets hey Kati Morton just saw your video Jeanne and thanks again
for walking me through what to do step by step without you I wouldn't have
known what a 5150 even was thanks for empathizing with me on the phone about
how it's hard to lose a friend but still the right thing to do she post receipts
KB says hi Jaclyn thanks for reaching out I'm happy to hop on a call with you
tomorrow if that works for you and fortunately we can't make anyone get
help can't make anyone get help but if she
does have a therapist or a doctor they can 5150 her happy to talk it out with
you I'm so sorry this is happening I know it's really hard to watch and not
do anything what time tomorrow works for you best Katie and here she can be said
thanks for the update agree that the best next move is to get her out of the
house and with you so that you can call pet and get her to see a doctor this is
the psychiatric evaluation team but Wow that being said this is not the cancel
anyone this is not to attack anyone this is not to make anyone angry
this is social commentary to inform the public to make a positive change and
that being said and as interesting as it says there's always sometimes more
interest to me that's right you guys to our energy thanks rich good leave your
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likes is always brothers and sisters I will see you in the next video
it sounds to me like you felt like screwed over here like it's gonna
bamboozled a little bit yeah