Really appreciate you sharing this! ❤️

@@DrScottEilers what is the test called?

There are many reasons, and not all of them have to do with us. But the most fundamental reason is that we wouldn’t even know what to look for. We don’t know exactly what any mental illness even if physiologically or whether it’s the same from one person to the next 😫

It is because taking a person with mental health issues to currently available “objective” investigations would result in either “normal”, but he/she is obviously not feeling that way which makes it meaningless, or that we found out in the sufferers some part of their brains tend to do something differently than others, but it is not necessarily the direct cause and surely not the only nor the biggest. What’s more, there’s nothing medical we can do about it, we can’t re-wire the brain or anything, not at this stage anyway. That’s why we don’t do it. In other fields of medicine, we generally have a pretty good understanding of what’s gone wrong in the body in order to have caused that particular illness. If those main problems can be de-bugged, there’s a targeted treatment. If either we can’t pinpoint to the main processes that was causative, or that the problem cannot be solved with currently available medicine, then we turn to give symptomatic medications, making you feel better but not actually treating the illness itself. In mental health, I would say psychotherapy works more on treating modifiable causes (and training you how to live with the illness in the meantime), and psychiatry drugs works on symptomatic relief. It completely makes sense in medical terms. I’m an example, a 30 year old physician (not in the US) who’s been on SSRI and mood stabilisers for 20 years (before I decided to stop it few months ago). Drugs do make you feel better at times but it does nothing to solve the problem. When I turned to psychology videos I realise of course I’m depressed, I have not learnt or tried ever in my life to address to my own needs. One can end up in clinical depression even if nothing is inherently wrong with the brain except for the fact that the person have not learnt to take care of it properly. And while that is contributing so much to mental illness, that’s the culprit vein, the only reasonable solution is we try to cut it. Except this time no other person holds a scissors, and that’s why psychologists can only help to tell you how it’s possibly done. But scientifically it has the same theory, and Dr Scott’s methods aren’t any more blindfolded than Surgery in some sense. P.S. it’s still incredibly painful… but there is also no other ways around. Cheers, whoever watching the videos🥲