"White Bear" is phenomenal. It really makes you question your sense of morality and your perception of justice.

I never have been psychotic but have an obsessive fear of it, its mostly a fear of losing control and harming others. people have no idea how horrible ocd is when they joke about it

If I can push any, I would love for you (Dr. Elliott) to do a deep dive on the episode USS Callister. It's such a fascinating thing that people seem to resent addressing, both in coping mechanisms, dealing with insecurity and narcissism, finding healthy coping and support structures. The "Captain" was a mess and didn't need to be, but what could have helped him not be.

Someone close to me has been experiencing psychosis for the last few months and your videos on them have really helped me understand what he's going through a bit better so thank you. This one's also helped me like Bandersnatch more I remember coming away feeling that it was a bit rubbish at the time! Favourite episode: Basic choice but it's got to be San Junipero.

Put "eleganza" at the end of anything and I'm automatically interested 😂

The summary (from this stand point) could be you (the player/watcher) are causing a young man to spiral into paranoid psychosis. The creator needs to make more of these (even though he said he really didn’t want to make it in the first place)

My dad has untreated unmedicated schizophrenia paranoia persecution. It’s very difficult trying to live with the paranoia. I wish he would let doctors help him.

Thank you for this break down! I couldn't get through the episode because it was so true to what I experienced with my ex boyfriend that ended up having a psychotic break. Your analysis on this and other media has been very helpful in untangling what happened and continues to happen for him and allowing me to accept there was nothing I could do.

this movie was SO crazy

A slight correction! Back in the day, Absinthe contained wormwood-which itself contains a psychoactive compound. Some absinthe today still contains wormwood, but in these cases the wormwood has had the psychoactive compound removed.

So glad you are reviewing this! It’s one of my favorite’s in Black Mirror! My other favorite episode is Shut Up and Dance and White Bear! I love the twist endings, even if you can see them coming.

bandersnatch is amazing, i think my favorite episode is white bear. So good

Good analysis as always, doc! My favorite Black Mirror episode is Hated in the Nation

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I would love to see you react to other sections of Bandersnatch, though I get that might not be great for the ol' algorithm

The best episode of Black Mirror is San Junipero. I love it with my whole Sapphic heart

Playtest is probably my favourite episode, and I think that one might even be worthy of a watch on this channel.

One little touch I love is how subtly they depict Stefan’s dislike for his dad. His dad caused his mother’s death by hiding his toy. Since then, his dad has picked up smoking. That’s why Stefan reacts so negatively to the cigarettes. That’s also why he specifically grabs the ashtray to beat his dad with.

playtest is my personal favorite. i love that kind of horror

I watched this years back but now when i am in psychiatry training this movie feels very different but in a pleasant sense..

I remember when it was interactive, so the ending would be different depending on the decision you chose

i really like the miley cyrus episode, "rachel, jack, and ashley, too" xD it was so trippy and such a ride lol

Favorite episode is hard, I really liked 15 Million Merits and San Junipero a lot. Though I know it's controversial, but as someone who's non-binary, I loved the idea of a VR set that somehow makes you feel fully like whatever body you're in the mood for. As someone who's also Aro, choosing to just be single for life is something I can fully relate to. But, I don't think they expressed his choice (the man with the cats, forgot his name) as being a truly happy one, which is a bummer. I wish they would have made it seem like he embraced it more.

I think my favourite was The Black Museum, with Hated in the Nation and Shut up and Dance coming a close joint second. I really liked Loch Henry from the recent season

Aberrant salience is something I didn't know they have word for. Novelists are waaaaay into it. Some of them at least.

San Junipero was my favourite episode, followed by Hang the DJ

Watching this on netflix and going down all the paths paints a clearer picture. That being said this particular 'run' you are watching was very similar to my first one. A lot of things people say to the main character are actually directed at you, the viewer, the one making the decisions.

I strongly disagree with the idea of singular favorites since ranking "your children" is arbitrary and weird. The most important episodes for me off the top of my head are Hated in the Nation, San Junipero, White Christmas, The History of You, Nosedive (that's super happened), even USS Callister. All things I feel we have done or are capable of doing or are going towards doing.

Yeah that moment when I would become paranoid and just feel something is 'off' and the phenomenon of apophenia where meaningless things become "connected", I've experienced it. I think it is because human beings normally seek patterns, like in the wild, it pays for us to know that if we see bear marks on a tree or carcasses, that it is better to assume and be wrong but act on a potential threat than it is to ignore it and get eaten by a predator in some sense. For human beings, we are actually supposedly more adept at "noticing the traces of other humans", when we see patterns in nature we get sometimes that sense that "this isn't a natural thing, this is a person's doing". Or when we see irregular patterns, I'm not sure it was just interesting to me. But what I can say is that the narratives that get weaved can form over weeks, if your episode is ongoing, you can connect unrelated events and get sucked into a sort of 'story', that becomes so impossible large its like, you aren't living in the same reality as other people anymore. That truck with a sign on it that just happened to coincide with your thoughts as if you were being sent malicious messages, is related to the same thing you saw a month later. For me I think of it like, my real body is laid down on a table or something, and my mind is kind of 'plugged in' to an artificial reality that a malicious scientist or someone else can mess around with. They can change reality to attack me the same way any god could (I'm atheist, and I know a lot of it sounds absurd as well, it is just hard to 'hold on' to rational thoughts when you get deep into episodes), it can happen to the most skeptical people because its an illness that affects you, and illness can be experienced by anyone at all. Sometimes I have to grit my teeth and hold on, keep trying to ignore my mind when its going. Keep reminding myself of what's real, what is "possible".

My favourite Black Mirror episode has to be "Shut Up And Dance" out of all the other episodes that have futuristic and fictional tech that episode decides to keep the technology to the modern day and it makes the episode hit that much more, it absolutely is an episode that could happen today (and probably has). We spend our time rooting for the protagonist thinking he was being exploited for something harmless and then they gut punch us in the end and leave us completely hopeless, it's a 10/10 episode for me.

I have not watched all episodes, but "The Waldo moment" is an old favorite of mine.

You should do an episode of Monk! Maybe the cult one!

Loved Bandersnatch!

My fav episode was San Junipero:). I'm a sucker for that 80's music:)

My favorite black mirror episode is San juniperio and also the black museum

Nosedive and The History of You are top tier

This is one of the many series I want to watch but never seem to find the time or something comes along to change my plans. 😥

I’m not sure if this is a bit out of your wheelhouse bc it’s an indie film, but I would love to see you cover Don Hertzfeld’s “It’s Such a Beautiful Day.” The film has heavy discussion of dementia, strokes, memory loss, and some delusions.

Demon 79 (with San Junipero coming in at joint first)

I understand that you obviously can’t do all the endings but considering that it goes to some out there places and explanations, it might be worth looking at doing a second part

demon 79 is also really mental health related

I know definition of psychosis is something along the lines of not knowing what is real and what isn't but how could ever truly know what is real and what isn't?

YES he did it! Bandersnatch

I need to watch black mirror

pretty old and probably on the edge of or backyard in terms of content you'd want to react to, but I'd be interested to see the your reaction to the West Wing episode Noel. It's about a psychiatrist trying to interview an uncooperative member of the president's staff that has PTSD.

San Junipero is my favorite episode although 15 Million Merits is very close.

Favorite episode? Black Museum or San Junipero

Shut Up and Dance is the best. So harrowing.

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Highly insightful and as educative and reflective as always. Regrets about the past? I know all about that ruminative nightmare. But --- here is CBT based book that may help - "IF Only...Finding Freedom From Regret" -- Dr Robert L. Leahy 2022 Guildford Press.

Fav episode? Shut up and dancee

Black Museum

White Christmas is the best!

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Guys, Dr. Elliott Carthy is factually incorrect in this video. The best black mirror episode is called "Nosedive", and not whatever he said. I thought he wanted to stop misinformation, not spread it...

Please try to keep the tangent gif references to a minimum. Feels a bit forced, tbh.