What's your problem with Dr. K (HealthyGamerGG)?

[Cred]

I've seen some people here criticize him, and frankly I don't understand. I am a big fan of him and see nothing wrong with him (I'm not an uncritical person). I'm interested in the perspective of the people who criticize him from a high conscious position.

Edited yesterday at 02:23 PM by Cred

[Wilhelm44]

I think i watched one video of his once where he used some technique of 'shaming' onself into changing, which didnt feel right to me. Im sure he has a lot of valuable stuff. But for example, which specific video on the topic of neuro divergence has he done, which really spoke to you ? @Cred

Edited yesterday at 01:38 PM by Wilhelm44

[PolyPeter]

I love Dr K. very practical advice

But, although he mentions having had training as a monk, he does not understand what consciousness is. 

I think he has a very technical background on psychiatry and he is very good at psychology, and also encourages meditation which is nice.

He does not care about philosohpy at all, he is all about practical things.

He talked about psychedelics but he is too scientific about it, and current science only thinks of psychedelics as drugs.

[Shermaningeorgia]

Most mental health pros are scum. But he is an exception. He seems to get modern generations, living and how to engage. And he seems pretty upstanding across the board. There was the issue with Reckful, and that was wrong, but the medical board gave him a light censure. There are very few professionals who don't ever get called up for stuff, no matter how minor. So yes, Reckful probably shouldn't have died, and he showed an error in judgment in aiding him, but overall, I feel his work is well done and received. 

He does speak about Indian spirituality and Ayurveda often. Though it seems it's like a supplementary thing and not as proper practice, which wouldbe wrong as it's not deemed practising or evidence-based medicine. 

Overall, I think he's a positive point. I genuinely despise most mental health professionals, but he is a rare exception since he seems to get things and relate tothe contemporary world well.

[Shermaningeorgia]

Furthermore, my standard for any public medical professional is whether they push or advocate for things that breach medical ethics or are not evidence-based. Generally, he doesn't. His psychiatric views are on point for the most part. He seems like a bonafide and trained doctor, and isn't like Sadia Khan who seemingly has no firm therapetic credentials. 

[Joshe]

He has a lot of good takes and is definitely a net positive. I think he's pretty awesome. The only take I saw that I didn't like was in that 'AI bad' video you shared. 

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

He is a self help grifter with mental health specialization

[Shermaningeorgia]

21 minutes ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

He is a self help grifter with mental health specialization

He's an actual doctor. But then mid-western nerds with bad social appraisal just KNOW things without evidence, right?

[Joseph Maynor]

The vibe was off for me immediately.  I don't get it. 

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

1 hour ago, Shermaningeorgia said:

He's an actual doctor. But then mid-western nerds with bad social appraisal just KNOW things without evidence, right?

He is indeed a grifter who keeps pumping out needlesly complicated and needlesly long winded shit videos targeted at a certain niche demographics of desperate people, alluring them with promises of solving their problems throught his specific self improvement sablons - not too unsimiliar from what this site used to be aimed at, and is still aimed at to a certain degree; however the difference is that Leo only strategically grifted during early 2010s to built some attention and capital, and then tramsitioned to a highest level philosophical topics whilst pretty much mantaining a free speech forum, which is respectable. Dr. K is just some fraud who's aim is to keep you hooked on his content, you should focus on therapy bro. That guy doesn't give a shit about you

[Joseph Maynor]

30 minutes ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

He is indeed a grifter who keeps pumping out needlesly complicated and needlesly long winded shit videos targeted at a certain niche demographics of desperate people, alluring them with promises of solving their problems throught his specific self improvement sablons - not too unsimiliar from what this site used to be aimed at, and is still aimed at to a certain degree; however the difference is that Leo only strategically grifted during early 2010s to built some attention and capital, and then tramsitioned to a highest level philosophical topics whilst pretty much mantaining a free speech forum, which is respectable. Dr. K is just some fraud who's aim is to keep you hooked on his content, you should focus on therapy bro. That guy doesn't give a shit about you

But why is this guy seen to be popular or an expert in this area?

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

1 hour ago, Joseph Maynor said:

But why is this guy seen to be popular or an expert in this area?

He definitely does have a knowledge in this area, maybe even an extensive knowledge; he's also gained a lot of experience throught maintanance of his channel, however he's been criticized in the past for certain claims he made which were not accurate or straight up being not true. It would take me ages to dig all of those up and ultimately it's not so important to me as that's besides the point; what's important to me is that the guy's intentions are just not pure, and I feel like that is needed a bit if you want to be a therapist and especially at the scale he's doing it.

It's a business for him first and foremost, and very a scalable business at that; he's clearly operating within the attention economy and the number one objective is to keep being relevant within his niche, that's why he's jumping on a stupid mainstream trendy topics because he sees those are the pain points and problems of his demographics; but he's just keeping them hooked throught talking about these issues in stimulating ways but it's all just a word salad at the end of the day, just a waste of time. And honestly it is a word salad not just necessarilly because of him, but also because the topics themselves are ultimately stupid, such as the loneliness epidemic or whatever. It is just a stupid topic to think about and talk about. You should only think about what you want to do and how you want to do it lmao. But there are more topics than that, it's like he is an expert on everything when it comes to ones life, it reeks of snake oil 

He also offers people egregiously expensive therapy services, I'm not too familiar with all the BS associated with him but there are some people disecting it on Youtube surely

I guess to answer your original point, it is not too difficult to be seen as the expert if you can keep up the charade of an expert as credibly and confidently as possible, you'll get the attention and growth throught saying the right and key words in the right way and now you are seen as trustworthy. We should stop depending on these random internet chuds to help us navigate our life, it's just retarded.

Most stuff about life can be conveyed rather succinctly and understood immidiately, or you understand it throught your experience/experiences of other people/self reflection, if you have some mental issues go to therapy or get prescribed something if it's severe. Simple. Honestly, these days I'm also starting to read up on Bible; a sense of purphose in life is also an important component of psychological health that's completely being ignored nowadays; I know it's going to be largely scoffed at here (and even moreso in a "rational" atheist circles), but so what. If more people were inteligently religious like me then snake oil sellers like dr. K wouldn't be making so much cash, neither would retards like Andrew Tate be so relevant

Edited 43 minutes ago by NewKidOnTheBlock