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And the reason that I don't I don't know if this kind of makes sense, but the reason that psychiatrists suck at altering your perception is because that is literally the one thing that we cannot do, right?
So, as a psychiatrist, I can talk to you about your emotions. I can validate your emotions, I can decompress your emotions, I can give you a hug, I can tell you I think you're a wonderful human being. I can do all this kind of stuff.
We can also do things like cognitive behavioral therapy. We're going to We're going to make charts. What are your cognitions? What are your behaviors? What are your emotions? We can do all this stuff because it involves words, right? It involves actions.
But, the one thing that we can't change is the way that you see the world. And so, the problem with this now is that since we aren't good at it as psychiatrists, we actually don't have interventions for it because it's something that happens within you.
And since we don't have a sort of interventions for it, what this means is that this one part of the cycle of depression has been horribly neglected by the field of psychiatry. And the real problem here is that this one part of your brain that's been horribly neglected is actually the most important part for propagating the cycle of depression.