I survived child sex abuse to become a child heroin addict. Started at 14, Iv user by 16. I began attempting to seek help around 21, but around 26 I was misdiagnosed and began deteriorating sometime around 2020 You've helped me to begin my escape of this hole i was born into, Dr. K, and I just want to say thank you.
Great for you, I assume you also know it’s yourself, not what you’re born into. Not trying to take away from your trauma and abuse, but as he teaches the only way to deal with it is by looking inside yourself and processing emotions. It’s not your fault, but it’s only your fault. Or at least it’s ur responsibility to “cure” yourself. Forgive yourself and what happened, and realize it’s not a part of you, just the ego
Good luck, whatever you are going through keep in mind other people are going through the same thing. So you are not really alone. I wish you a lot of love and peace ❤ Life is tough, but we are stronger.
Not sure what age you were in 2020 (unless you meant you were 26 then, maybe?) but I'm sorry it's been such a rough journey for so long. I fully believe your 30s and beyond can be so much better. I'm glad you found Dr K. He's so helpful to so many of us.
@@kateginger We are just very temporal prototypes, so you're not stronger than life, you will be dying soon enough, whether you want that or not. The error-correction of 'normal' people is just as miserable as everyone addicted, or distorted in another way.
_Time-Stamps : add onto at rewatch_ 01:55:25 - Test of Addiction *Synthesis* I/Change Your Life 02:06:39 - II/Complete Honesty _"You are as sick as your secrets."_ 02:13:45 - III/ Practice Self Care 02:15:34 - IV/ Don't bend the rules
I've quit methadone and weed all by myself,no therapy,nothing. it was one of the hardest things i've ever done,especially methadon. All of my bones hurt ,couldn't eat,couldn't sleep,it was literally hell. Was on methadone for 3 years and weed for 10 years. Now i am 8 months sober and i would never do drugs again. In 8 months i've managed to do so many things that i didn't do in 10 years of weed. Now my addictions remains gaming and cigarettes. I like watching your videos. Sending love to all who struggle with addiction. Strength comes from within
Dear Dr K., Would you please consider developing a guide for addiction in the Dr K.'s guide framework? I think a lot of us would benefit greatly from it! Thank you so much for what you do, your channel is always the source of information that I turn to whenever I feel lost.
Hello I'm a clinical psychologist and this was very informative and on point talk. I'm gonna use it to explain things to my patients. Thanks from Spain. 🇪🇸
@@nocosa Glad to see some adoption in Spain! I’m curious-are Dr. K’s “holistic” and “semi-spiritual” practices and conceptual insights at all recognized or acknowledged among clinicians in Tarragona or Barcelona? I was diagnosed as Asperger's at the IGAIN center in Barcelona, but unfortunately, they were quite dismissive of Dr. K’s ideas. The same goes for approaches involving certain psychedelics, which have been transformative for me in addressing both substance and behavioral addictions. It seemed like anything that strayed from the DSM “bible” was met with skepticism. That said, my experience with 3-4 clinicians (who were supposedly among the best) might not be representative. I’m genuinely curious about your perspective-do you find that Spanish clinicians tend to be resistant to adopting new models, or does it strongly depend on the individual psychiatrist?
@Pangea_RPE Hi, I'm not the best to answer that cos I'm an outsider in official mental health. I think the majority of psychiatrist and event psychologist are materialistic in essence and close minded. I'm more integrative and even into transpersonal and spiritual approaches as you say.
Quit drinking for 3 months, relapsed, quit drinking for 6 months, relapsed again. Currently 16 days sober. I've been in therapy for 4 years, and only in the last 2 weeks have I felt like I've made breakthroughs in understanding where my addiction and underlying insecurities are coming from. Also just read the body keeps the score, and damn, what a book
You got this dude! For me, viewing alcohol as poison really helped. Cause in reality that's what it is. No amount is "safe" or "healthy" for you. if you are gonna do a substance, coffee and Marijuana are much better alternatives but of course, super sober is the best for longevity and overall happiness.
You're already doing so much better!! This reminds me of the fear Bojack Horseman expresses to his friend in the show: Bojack: what if I relapse again? Todd: Then you’ll just get sober again! Todd's simple answer is still the key to remember. Keep trying to do better is all despite hiccups.
Keep it up! I am in therapy for around 4 years now and have many doubts sometimes whether it's worth it, some people get better a lot faster... But yeah it helps, gradually, I feel better about myself then I did a few years ago...
The fact that you said that good sleep is critical to overcoming addiction really resonates with me. I've overcome Ambien addiction, and as you take less of it the less I would sleep, so I would have to conjure willpower out of nowhere
What is your mindset to drive you through that, or how are you "rewarding" yourself? Is it soley the potential outcome of overcoming the addiction? Regardless, are there any tips you can throw on to that just through your thinking of this?
@@zeph3070 at that point I was taking ambien for 3 years and I out blackout and do things I couldn’t remember frequently. I reached a point where getting rid of the addiction was a enough reward.
@@SpicyViolinist Dr. K’s video on how to improve sleep really helped. In the beginning it was tough of course, but I really managed to build a life where it’s easy to fall asleep. I did have one crucial moment where in the process of stopping to take the drug I had an opportunity to buy some more “just in case” I relapsed, I chose not to and didn’t take more ever since
This was so comprehensive and really helped me understand my addiction much better. Just bought the workshop and looking forward to it. Over all these years, by listening to and applying your content irl, my life has changed. So I’m very happy to support.
Any content on life with chronic physical pain..? No family support, no job I can endure, no higher education, a lot of mental and emotional trauma because of parents' divorce....... Life has become 'mission impossible'... still... the biggest problem is definitely the physical pain that cannot be resolved, it has to be lived with...
Probably not as I would imagine it's not a very large percentage of his audience, wishing you the best though. Maybe something to pursue with your own psychologist?
@@ajlamesic4705 dr K has a video on Psychosomatic illness actually. But Dylan's recommendation is great too. I had to deal with terrible chronic pain for most of my life, but these last 5-6 years I've become 99% completely pain free. You can too if you really put your mind to it. Look up Nicole Sachs. She's like the next generation dr John Sarno. Some of her stuff helped me tonnes
As someone who has been crafting a new lifestyle that I can plug into in order to kick my edible (weed) addiction I would put this video in the top 5 HG videos maybe even top 3 because as someone who is already in the process of changing their life hearing all these things is connecting dots that I have identified but not connected myself. It's really helpful
I've been sober 17 years via AA. This was the first real explanation of how that whole process worked for me. It explains a lot as far as the newcomers I see as well as my own experience. I can see now how AA, rehab, meditation, and the 12 steps works. I can even see how addiction swapping is such an issue-great topic, and pretty close to home for me to be sure. I think this lecture will be helpful for me personally, as well as some of the people I sponsor.
There's a book called Blitz or Blitzed (something like that). It covers most of that story and it's written in such a captivating way. Super interesting book.
Thank you for the deep dives Dr. K!! I LOVE this content and all of the physiologic details. It's so fascinating and very useful to understanding the world. And thank you team for making it all happen ❤
I’ve tried quitting weed in the past and although I’ve been able to do it for months at a time I always seemed to come back to it for some reason.. I’m currently off it again and this is the exact information I needed to get off of it for good. Thank you
Alok and team thank you from the bottom of my heart. Addiction and the pain I have runs so deep and I don’t have the income to get coaching/therapy yet so I was so happy to see this come along. Love you all
I was literally playing Candy Crush while listening to this when you called out Candy Crush. 🤦♀️Not the worst of my addictions but talk about a much needed slap in the face.
😂 way to catch yourself though. It feels important that we don't beat ourselves up when we become aware of our addictive tendencies. We all have them 🫂
Dr k. You are the goat my man. In a world filled with people trying to addict you further to phones, porn, weed, you speak the truth and in a compassionate but firm way. Thank you for all you do 🐐🔥
Addicted to doing nothing. Dxd with Adhd 25 years ago plus BED and Hoarding. I have control of coffee, max 8 cups/wk for 30 yrs. I have control of alcohol, max 8 standard drinks/wk for 8 years
Processing emotions and suppressing emotions are not mutually exclusive. Emotions and thoughts can be suppressed temporarily and processed later on. This is especially useful to get work done or to enjoy social events. “Suppressing emotions” is a loose phrase that can mean multiple things: 1. Avoiding analyzing the internal emotions. 2. Avoiding talking about the internal pain externally. 3. Avoiding feeling the internal pain. 4. Avoiding external emotional expressions of internal pain: i.e. crying, screaming, etc. *We should generally analyze the internal pain to an extent. How much we should analyze the internal pain varies from person to person and day to day. *Sometimes we should talk about the situation to others depending on the person and situation. *After some processing, we should force ourselves into healthy, leisurely activities and/or work. How much and when we should force ourselves varies from person to person and day to day. *We should rarely hold back from crying as crying will reduce the pain, even just temporarily. Analyzing the internal pain is often conflated with analyzing the external problem. Emotions are not toothpaste in a bottle. After we process them, they often come flooding back later. Often times bringing negative unconscious thoughts to the conscious level (“surfacing”) will trouble people significantly more than they did when they were unconscious. Developing cognitive flexibility is necessary for achieving emotional regulation. Cognitive flexibility allows us to alternate between processing and suppressing in a healthy manner. It’s crucial to find a balance where emotions are acknowledged and dealt with without getting stuck in a cycle of rumination.
If you have that sort of problem there's sources that could help : - @Andrew Huberman, A.M.A "Protocols for Intrusive Thoughts" ; derived from the protocol of James Panabaker, the GOAT of expressive writing, a.k.a therapeuticly effective Journaling. -@Dr.K : • "Why you're so clingy'' • "How to have boundaries" ; Trust me that viewer interview, there's high chances you've got some of the same issues as him. - @Psychology with Dr.Anna : Limerence
As a friend who is living very far from a recovering alcohol addict, what is the best way to help and support? I understand calling and just checking in, but what else can I do? And what can we do as society to bring addicts back and support them in the reintegration with society?
This is awesome. Just made the decision to kick my nicotine addiction recently, so this couldn’t have come at a better time! All of this is very spot on with my experience of addiction
I developed a benzo habit a while ago. I took it for a while because of my anxiety but after 3 weeks I realized it was pretty shitty and stopped. That was the worst week of my life I couldn't sleep for 5 days and became psychotic. I couldn't do anything except meditate and go out for a walk every now and then, juuust walking. Towards the end I was communicating telepathically with all sorts of people and had a story in my head that a third of humanity had become telepaths. That we are on the precipice of a new stage of human evolution where the consciousnesses of humans are merging into a global super ego. Fun times Benzos are the devil, stay safe kids.
@@nostalji93 Dankeschön 🙏🏼, Ja wesentlich besser. Leider habe ich immer noch keinen Psychologen gefunden um an die Wurzel des Problems zu kommen. Ich war sogar während meines psychischen zusammen Bruchs im Krankenhaus. Die haben mich wieder Weck geschickt da ich nicht dass Bedürfnis verapüre mich um um zu bringen noch anderen den Schädel ein zu schlagen. Ich bin zur Symptom Behandlung erstmal auf Antidepressiva umgestiegen, die ich by the way auf Umwege beziehe weil mein Hausarzt sich weigert mir etwas anderes zu verschreiben als Globuli. 😮💨 Unser Gesundheitssystem ist am Ende...
As someone who’s been smoking marijuana steady for over a decade, I can guarantee you addiction and withdrawal are prevalent with the drug and anybody who says otherwise has no clue what they’re talking about.
I was a chronic smoker for atleast a year, I couldn’t go a day without weed. When I ran out of I would exhibit extreme drug seeking behaviour and/or panic if I was unable to get any. However when I moved to a new place, the addiction disappeared almost entirely, now honestly I can take it or leave it. I no longer feel the need for it and the 10 min walk it would take to buy weed is enough to discourage me from wanting to. Very strange.
@@chodie1fan21 for the first week of me quitting smoking I can’t sleep, have no appetite and have extremely volatile mood swings typically anger / frustration / impatience
i used to get prescriptions for adhd but since i turned 21 in germany youll need to find a new psychiatrist then specialized for adults. I didnt do that and hadnt had the meds for a while now. Ive recently started getting it off the street and in powder form, i used to overdo it back then but now im just going way beyond what would be called a healthy dose. I thought i could do it to get thru my exams more collected, which would work, cause it calms me down rather than making me hyper, if i wasnt an addict to begin with. I drank a bottle of whiskey a day 2 yrs ago which simmered down to some beers every few days, which i cant not drink. Hope this video helps me cause i cant seem to stop it :/
From one mental health professional to another; I recently discovered a few of your podcast interviews; and can I just say that I thoroughly enjoy listening to you! Esp the humor ... [me: immediately googles 'Hitler on meth'] 😂 ... Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insight with the world!
The reason a large chunk of people who've ditched addictions, did it without help, is because 50% of quiting anything is doing it for yourself. If you have a tiny, weak voice in your head that wants to quit, and a large ugly voice coming up with excuses to not try, there is an imbalance of power in there. Both voices are you and both will always be there. you need the 2nd voice even though it seems like the cause of all ur problems. It's the voice that battles the toxic incarnation of what we think of as our good voice when it starts to delude us into a fantasy. The only person who can choose which "wolf" to feed in there is you. Help offers you perspective on your motivations but it won't help if you don't start choosing not believe in the seemingly valid reasons for why the therapist is wrong and there's no hope for you. That choice is hard to realize on your own but if you find it you can start to do incredible in life even if you don't seek outside perspective that helps prevent your demons from adapting and sabotaging you in ways you don't see coming.
Cara você é sensacional. Muito obrigado pela galera que paga os conteúdos eu não consigo no momento mas esses conteúdos gratuitos ajudam de maaais. Tenho dois problemas o TDAH e o vício, vou lutar contra ambos.
@@hollo0o583 do you know if I can find it on Spotify? I’m scared they’re gonna take it away because it looks like many people are skipping the intro music :o
Addicted to kratom, phenibut, klonopin, weed, nicotine, completely alone, isolated my whole life, but im making progress and I am learning more and getting better everyday, but I still cant help beating myself up even when I do things right. I have a lot to work through.
@AcidGubba I have taken it for three or four years straight, for about a year I was taking 40gpd minimum, a month or two ago I started tapering and I am now down to around 7-8 grams a day. I split my dose in two, one for morning and one for the evening to keep a stable level. I take it in tablet form, each tablet weighs around .25 grams, I try to drop one tablet a day, I have been successful to an extent but I am still struggling with the negative effects on emotion, thought and sleep. I have had windows where I have seen a greater clarity and depth of emotion but that only lasts for a couple hours. It has been a slow process but I hope I can put it behind me soon and move on to my other addictions. I hope I can have the clarity and mental purity of soberity again someday but until then I have to learn acceptance on a very intimate level. I have a lot to learn.
@@AcidGubba My husband is in the process of quitting kratom. What he's doing is decreasing capsules gradually and tracking his use. We got him a large weekly pill holder, and he counts out capsules weekly, tracking the number in a physical notebook. He reduces the number of capsules every 2-3 weeks, when he has gotten used to the lower number of capsules. I think it's going to be harder when he gets down to under 4 per day because each reduction will be a higher percentage of reduction. When you go from 10 capsules to 9, that's a 10% reduction. But when you go from 3 to 2, that's a 33.33% reduction. And going from 2 to 1 is a 50% reduction. Dropping that last one may be the most difficult. I'm quitting cannabis at the same time, using a similar method. We share the notebook so that we are accountable to each other. HTH
@AcidGubba for some reason my comment didn't get posted. I was taking about 30-40gpd, over two or three months I've tapered down to around 6gpd. I also quit weed cold turkey two weeks ago. I've been stuck at 6 for a few weeks now, I tried going cold turkey a week ago but I caved in during the second day because of the symptoms and my very hectic life and not having any support. I've been trying to get used to the symptoms of coming off high dose thc vapes I used heavily 24/7, I know not everyone gets symptoms from that but I do and it made the k withdrawals to difficult to taper anymore. I need to start tapering again but I have family coming into town and don't want to get even more anxious and depressed than I already am naturally, but I know those things are excuses and I could grit my teeth and bear it.
Thank you,, this helps me understand my daily struggle better. It seems that managing dopamine is my full time job, which is Parkinson's. Severe apathy is a normal symptom of the disease, but the medicine, which is essentially a dopamine replacement can cause addictive behavior,, because the medicine floods the whole brain, not just the substantia nigra.
2:27:55 "the Guide to Addiction" maaaan I know you meant the guide to ADHD but please can you make an actual guide to addiction? You have a lot of materials already prepared for the workshop, and you are very prepared on the topic. I think many of us would benefit from it
Please go on addiction podcasts with this data and please list this info in short snippets so we can share. This info needs out there!!!!!!!! Thank you for all you do.
A question regarding the addictions workshop: will there be any chat or ability to ask questions and respond during the live stream, or before/after? Doing some deep inner debates on the topic already 🤔💭
Why does so much of this information on addiction resonate with my experience with trauma? Honestly, some times learning about addiction helps more than the trauma stuff- sometimes. It’s interesting.
From my understanding people who have more trauma, experience more and more intense negative emotions, so they are more likely to get addicted to things to get a relief. So they are very connected. I think he has said in the past that if a person has an addiction and depression you need to get therapy for both. Because they are causing each other to happen, and getting treated for only one of them is not enough.
I have been taking Kratom for 11 years and every day for 9 years. I am quite successful professionally as a computer scientist, but I am slowly starting to think that in theory I can never stop. So I only go on holiday to countries where it is not forbidden. My consumption has levelled off at 2kg for €400 a month. The financial side is not a problem, I earn very well. Before Corona I was at 1kg a month. I also do a full blood count every year and everything looks good, but for the last 3-4 years I have been thinking about stopping. I don't weigh it either, I usually take a heaped tablespoon a few times a day when it is convenient. Of course I take less in the morning than in the evening. Nevertheless, I have become pretty unmotivated. My reason for taking it back then was mainly because I have bipolar 2 disorder and there are phases where I have a very strong desire to consume something. And with Kratom I was able to stop all other substances, but now I am stuck with it. I don't drink alcohol and don't take any other drugs apart from caffeine. Do you have an alternative? I chose Kratom because I didn't want to be intoxicated and wanted to be completely cognitively present. I don't drink alcohol because of that either. Basically it's a subtle feeling, it also has a slightly euphoric and relaxing effect and it's legal, which was my main reason for trying it, because I'm on my feet and nobody knows except my doctor. Well, maybe a few ex-girlfriends. I was diagnosed at 23, before that it was diagnosed as depression. With Kratom I managed to keep my life somewhat stable. I started taking it when I was 25 and I think it helps me to reduce the symptoms.
I'm doing sober October for weed and I stopped drinking when I'm alone and I barely felt any withdrawal. I believe the trauma I got from cocaine and Xanax withdrawal was so terrible that my mind was just scared of quitting weed and alcohol because it thought it was gonna feel like that again. Now that I know I can stop without withdrawal Im feeling more secure in my ability to quit substances. However my negative self talk and my negative view of the world is depressing me more now that I don't have weed to distract me. It's like I wanna bot care about problems out my power but I can't. I just look for reasons to be scared or depressed with or without drugs
Love the awareness and love you bro 1:51:53 it’s a daily thing take care of yourself (I don’t do it myself enough) and Jesus died for you and loves you too fam
I am heavily addicted to kratom and to dextromethorphan. Kratom ruins my whole life but dextromethorphan really helps with my depression. On the other side dextromethorphan will make me demented if I don't stop right? I heard it's harmful for the brain. Is that true? 😪 Please answer me Dr K. ♥️
@@loveistheanswer5924 I looked it up again and it actually has a neuroprotective effect in low doses and can be used for epilepsy and damage in various brain areas. It Also has an antidepressant effect and has been approved by the FDA for severe depression. But that probably applies to doses that you far exceed if you use it for fun. In those doses, it seems to have a similar toxicity profile to ketamine or PCP. However, I would also like to point out that most antidepressants are neurotoxic in the long term, a fact that is irresponsibly often enough dismissed. I personally have suffered damage because of this. But I'm not an expert either, just a dude with an interest in pharmacology and pharmacology is insanely complicated. I don't know your circumstances, but I would strongly advise you to seek help - is this a possibility for you?
@PabloPerroPerro those creatures are generally people who have suffered sexual, emotional, and physical abuse since early childhood, generally from a low income background.
3:39 What is this video - disclaimer that this isn't therapy or replacement for therapy ----------------------------------- 5:52 Coaching ad ---------------------------------- 6:29 START - His journey with treating addiction 7:30 What is an addiction 10:36 How does someone get addicted to something
Not Dr K listing out every single thought ive had before when encountering a snake, and then following it up with "thats not how the human brain works" 😭 Maybe i am a bit psychotic
I was thinking too that some people really do think that way about snakes though. We are trained to not necessarily be afraid of all of them as poisonous despite our base instincts. If we've learned enough about snakes we think ago these things. But the instinct emotional side is supposed to be scared by default, i believe. But humans are varied. What's psychotic is thinking a snake is there when there isn't and it's just a hallucination. But I think it can be a sign of trauma or autism or some kind of detachment from emotions sometimes to feel no fear by default at snakes or really extreme heights etc. I do think the fear response is different in some of us than others but also... to be entirely thinking not feeling is a little unusual i guess. Interestingly everything Dr. K listed as "not how the human brain works" was dead on to how it might work in like your case. It was too close to on point. I think deep down he actually was being a little realistic maybe without realizing it but. He was using his human brain to react to a snake another way...
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I survived child sex abuse to become a child heroin addict. Started at 14, Iv user by 16.
I began attempting to seek help around 21, but around 26 I was misdiagnosed and began deteriorating sometime around 2020
You've helped me to begin my escape of this hole i was born into, Dr. K, and I just want to say thank you.
Great for you, I assume you also know it’s yourself, not what you’re born into. Not trying to take away from your trauma and abuse, but as he teaches the only way to deal with it is by looking inside yourself and processing emotions.
It’s not your fault, but it’s only your fault. Or at least it’s ur responsibility to “cure” yourself. Forgive yourself and what happened, and realize it’s not a part of you, just the ego
Good luck, whatever you are going through keep in mind other people are going through the same thing. So you are not really alone. I wish you a lot of love and peace ❤ Life is tough, but we are stronger.
Not sure what age you were in 2020 (unless you meant you were 26 then, maybe?) but I'm sorry it's been such a rough journey for so long. I fully believe your 30s and beyond can be so much better. I'm glad you found Dr K. He's so helpful to so many of us.
I wish you the best! As I'm having a hard time to even withdraw from Cannabis, I imagine how hard a way it must be what you have to go through!
@@kateginger We are just very temporal prototypes, so you're not stronger than life, you will be dying soon enough, whether you want that or not. The error-correction of 'normal' people is just as miserable as everyone addicted, or distorted in another way.
3:51 Start
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6:33 actual start
_Time-Stamps : add onto at rewatch_
01:55:25 - Test of Addiction
*Synthesis*
I/Change Your Life
02:06:39 - II/Complete Honesty
_"You are as sick as your secrets."_
02:13:45 - III/ Practice Self Care
02:15:34 - IV/ Don't bend the rules
I've quit methadone and weed all by myself,no therapy,nothing. it was one of the hardest things i've ever done,especially methadon. All of my bones hurt ,couldn't eat,couldn't sleep,it was literally hell. Was on methadone for 3 years and weed for 10 years. Now i am 8 months sober and i would never do drugs again. In 8 months i've managed to do so many things that i didn't do in 10 years of weed. Now my addictions remains gaming and cigarettes. I like watching your videos. Sending love to all who struggle with addiction. Strength comes from within
Wow that’s amazing, keep going 💪🏽 💚
@@mariaalexa7226 Can you tell me how did you do that? I'm also struggling with addiction so I want some advice to break free.
Dear Dr K.,
Would you please consider developing a guide for addiction in the Dr K.'s guide framework? I think a lot of us would benefit greatly from it!
Thank you so much for what you do, your channel is always the source of information that I turn to whenever I feel lost.
Hello I'm a clinical psychologist and this was very informative and on point talk. I'm gonna use it to explain things to my patients. Thanks from Spain. 🇪🇸
In which city do you perform your practice? Spain person also here
@@v.ndeadd Tarragona 😊
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@@nocosa Glad to see some adoption in Spain! I’m curious-are Dr. K’s “holistic” and “semi-spiritual” practices and conceptual insights at all recognized or acknowledged among clinicians in Tarragona or Barcelona?
I was diagnosed as Asperger's at the IGAIN center in Barcelona, but unfortunately, they were quite dismissive of Dr. K’s ideas. The same goes for approaches involving certain psychedelics, which have been transformative for me in addressing both substance and behavioral addictions. It seemed like anything that strayed from the DSM “bible” was met with skepticism.
That said, my experience with 3-4 clinicians (who were supposedly among the best) might not be representative. I’m genuinely curious about your perspective-do you find that Spanish clinicians tend to be resistant to adopting new models, or does it strongly depend on the individual psychiatrist?
@Pangea_RPE Hi, I'm not the best to answer that cos I'm an outsider in official mental health. I think the majority of psychiatrist and event psychologist are materialistic in essence and close minded. I'm more integrative and even into transpersonal and spiritual approaches as you say.
Quit drinking for 3 months, relapsed, quit drinking for 6 months, relapsed again. Currently 16 days sober. I've been in therapy for 4 years, and only in the last 2 weeks have I felt like I've made breakthroughs in understanding where my addiction and underlying insecurities are coming from. Also just read the body keeps the score, and damn, what a book
You got this dude! For me, viewing alcohol as poison really helped. Cause in reality that's what it is. No amount is "safe" or "healthy" for you. if you are gonna do a substance, coffee and Marijuana are much better alternatives but of course, super sober is the best for longevity and overall happiness.
You're already doing so much better!! This reminds me of the fear Bojack Horseman expresses to his friend in the show:
Bojack: what if I relapse again?
Todd: Then you’ll just get sober again!
Todd's simple answer is still the key to remember. Keep trying to do better is all despite hiccups.
Keep it up! I am in therapy for around 4 years now and have many doubts sometimes whether it's worth it, some people get better a lot faster... But yeah it helps, gradually, I feel better about myself then I did a few years ago...
Your an inspiration man, Feel that AOE healing
Lets goooooo
The fact that you said that good sleep is critical to overcoming addiction really resonates with me. I've overcome Ambien addiction, and as you take less of it the less I would sleep, so I would have to conjure willpower out of nowhere
yep
What is your mindset to drive you through that, or how are you "rewarding" yourself? Is it soley the potential outcome of overcoming the addiction? Regardless, are there any tips you can throw on to that just through your thinking of this?
Damn, ambien is probably a tough one to quit. How have your sleep battles been going?
@@zeph3070 at that point I was taking ambien for 3 years and I out blackout and do things I couldn’t remember frequently. I reached a point where getting rid of the addiction was a enough reward.
@@SpicyViolinist Dr. K’s video on how to improve sleep really helped. In the beginning it was tough of course, but I really managed to build a life where it’s easy to fall asleep. I did have one crucial moment where in the process of stopping to take the drug I had an opportunity to buy some more “just in case” I relapsed, I chose not to and didn’t take more ever since
This was so comprehensive and really helped me understand my addiction much better. Just bought the workshop and looking forward to it. Over all these years, by listening to and applying your content irl, my life has changed. So I’m very happy to support.
Any content on life with chronic physical pain..? No family support, no job I can endure, no higher education, a lot of mental and emotional trauma because of parents' divorce....... Life has become 'mission impossible'... still... the biggest problem is definitely the physical pain that cannot be resolved, it has to be lived with...
Probably not as I would imagine it's not a very large percentage of his audience, wishing you the best though. Maybe something to pursue with your own psychologist?
I would recommend reading the mindbody prescription by Dr. Sarno. It's a lifechanging book when it comes to chronic pain
@@ajlamesic4705 dr K has a video on Psychosomatic illness actually. But Dylan's recommendation is great too. I had to deal with terrible chronic pain for most of my life, but these last 5-6 years I've become 99% completely pain free. You can too if you really put your mind to it. Look up Nicole Sachs. She's like the next generation dr John Sarno. Some of her stuff helped me tonnes
He does happen to have an old video on psychosomatic illness if I recall. Good luck out there
Seconding the Mindbody Prescription recommendation, albeit without knowing your story. Worth a look though!
drugs/avoidant stuff is a short circuit for our shame and negative emotions, but leaves the rest of your life barren and decayed
As someone who has been crafting a new lifestyle that I can plug into in order to kick my edible (weed) addiction I would put this video in the top 5 HG videos maybe even top 3 because as someone who is already in the process of changing their life hearing all these things is connecting dots that I have identified but not connected myself. It's really helpful
Cant wait to hear it! I'm currently quitting weed as well. Down to 2 times a day now 😁
I've been sober 17 years via AA. This was the first real explanation of how that whole process worked for me. It explains a lot as far as the newcomers I see as well as my own experience. I can see now how AA, rehab, meditation, and the 12 steps works. I can even see how addiction swapping is such an issue-great topic, and pretty close to home for me to be sure. I think this lecture will be helpful for me personally, as well as some of the people I sponsor.
I was SO invested in the Hitler on Meth arc. 😂
There's a book called Blitz or Blitzed (something like that). It covers most of that story and it's written in such a captivating way. Super interesting book.
@@SchmichaelArt Thank you!
I’s buy tockets to that metal band
@@OM-qb9lm I'd name the band : Methler
It’s an open secret that a staggering of World War Two revolved around stimulant abuse- I do recommend looking into it
Thank you for the deep dives Dr. K!! I LOVE this content and all of the physiologic details. It's so fascinating and very useful to understanding the world. And thank you team for making it all happen ❤
Dr. K, your advice is life changing. Currently struggling with nicotine addiction and really needed this video. Thank youuu.
15:32 research grant into 'Hitler on Meth' denied.
Woke bs
1:02:17 quote of the year
I was about to say this, and that one part where he said “we don’t get mad at a trashcan for not being able to grill a steak!”
I’ve tried quitting weed in the past and although I’ve been able to do it for months at a time I always seemed to come back to it for some reason.. I’m currently off it again and this is the exact information I needed to get off of it for good. Thank you
Alok and team thank you from the bottom of my heart. Addiction and the pain I have runs so deep and I don’t have the income to get coaching/therapy yet so I was so happy to see this come along. Love you all
Amaaaaaazing. 2HR wrap as a single post would be UNREAL as a reminder to stay on track…. t to bend the rules etc. LOVE YOUR BRAIN and vibe DrK x
Hey Claudia how are you!
“I’ve just been informed that we should not show Hitler on meth on the stream.”
We love you man lol
I was literally playing Candy Crush while listening to this when you called out Candy Crush. 🤦♀️Not the worst of my addictions but talk about a much needed slap in the face.
😂 way to catch yourself though. It feels important that we don't beat ourselves up when we become aware of our addictive tendencies. We all have them 🫂
Thank you Dr k. I love your advice and input and how it relates to me.
Dr k. You are the goat my man. In a world filled with people trying to addict you further to phones, porn, weed, you speak the truth and in a compassionate but firm way. Thank you for all you do 🐐🔥
“It makes you tired” - spot on
Start 02:42:22
Addicted to doing nothing. Dxd with Adhd 25 years ago plus BED and Hoarding.
I have control of coffee, max 8 cups/wk for 30 yrs. I have control of alcohol, max 8 standard drinks/wk for 8 years
Thank you, Doctor🙏🏼
Processing emotions and suppressing emotions are not mutually exclusive. Emotions and thoughts can be suppressed temporarily and processed later on. This is especially useful to get work done or to enjoy social events.
“Suppressing emotions” is a loose phrase that can mean multiple things:
1. Avoiding analyzing the internal emotions.
2. Avoiding talking about the internal pain externally.
3. Avoiding feeling the internal pain.
4. Avoiding external emotional expressions of internal pain: i.e. crying, screaming, etc.
*We should generally analyze the internal pain to an extent. How much we should analyze the internal pain varies from person to person and day to day.
*Sometimes we should talk about the situation to others depending on the person and situation.
*After some processing, we should force ourselves into healthy, leisurely activities and/or work. How much and when we should force ourselves varies from person to person and day to day.
*We should rarely hold back from crying as crying will reduce the pain, even just temporarily.
Analyzing the internal pain is often conflated with analyzing the external problem.
Emotions are not toothpaste in a bottle. After we process them, they often come flooding back later.
Often times bringing negative unconscious thoughts to the conscious level (“surfacing”) will trouble people significantly more than they did when they were unconscious.
Developing cognitive flexibility is necessary for achieving emotional regulation. Cognitive flexibility allows us to alternate between processing and suppressing in a healthy manner.
It’s crucial to find a balance where emotions are acknowledged and dealt with without getting stuck in a cycle of rumination.
@52:46 OH! This so so GOOD DR. K! For many reasons…👏👏
Dr. K please make a video on limerance please
If you have that sort of problem there's sources that could help :
- @Andrew Huberman, A.M.A "Protocols for Intrusive Thoughts" ;
derived from the protocol of James Panabaker, the GOAT of expressive writing, a.k.a therapeuticly effective Journaling.
-@Dr.K :
• "Why you're so clingy''
• "How to have boundaries" ;
Trust me that viewer interview, there's high chances you've got some of the same issues as him.
- @Psychology with Dr.Anna : Limerence
As a friend who is living very far from a recovering alcohol addict, what is the best way to help and support? I understand calling and just checking in, but what else can I do? And what can we do as society to bring addicts back and support them in the reintegration with society?
As always. Thank you Dr k.
Love from germany ❤
Thank you so much for all of this 🙏
2:07:28 Geez, the correlation between addiction and dishonesty really hits hard
For 46:55: please do a 50 week or at least long Dr K guide on all the circuits, regions, impacts, changes, etc., of the frontal lobe, please!
This is awesome. Just made the decision to kick my nicotine addiction recently, so this couldn’t have come at a better time! All of this is very spot on with my experience of addiction
I developed a benzo habit a while ago.
I took it for a while because of my anxiety but after 3 weeks I realized it was pretty shitty and stopped.
That was the worst week of my life I couldn't sleep for 5 days and became psychotic.
I couldn't do anything except meditate and go out for a walk every now and then, juuust walking.
Towards the end I was communicating telepathically with all sorts of people and had a story in my head that a third of humanity had become telepaths. That we are on the precipice of a new stage of human evolution where the consciousnesses of humans are merging into a global super ego.
Fun times
Benzos are the devil, stay safe kids.
Hoffe dir gehts wieder gut! Beste Wünsche!
@@nostalji93 Dankeschön 🙏🏼,
Ja wesentlich besser.
Leider habe ich immer noch keinen Psychologen gefunden um an die Wurzel des Problems zu kommen.
Ich war sogar während meines psychischen zusammen Bruchs im Krankenhaus.
Die haben mich wieder Weck geschickt da ich nicht dass Bedürfnis verapüre mich um um zu bringen noch anderen den Schädel ein zu schlagen.
Ich bin zur Symptom Behandlung erstmal auf Antidepressiva umgestiegen, die ich by the way auf Umwege beziehe weil mein Hausarzt sich weigert mir etwas anderes zu verschreiben als Globuli.
😮💨
Unser Gesundheitssystem ist am Ende...
My GP prescribes them like candy.
@@neuemilch8318 wie bist du aus der psychotischen phase rausgekommen? Hast du dich von selbst erholt oder was hast du beachtet?
As someone who’s been smoking marijuana steady for over a decade, I can guarantee you addiction and withdrawal are prevalent with the drug and anybody who says otherwise has no clue what they’re talking about.
I was a chronic smoker for atleast a year, I couldn’t go a day without weed. When I ran out of I would exhibit extreme drug seeking behaviour and/or panic if I was unable to get any.
However when I moved to a new place, the addiction disappeared almost entirely, now honestly I can take it or leave it. I no longer feel the need for it and the 10 min walk it would take to buy weed is enough to discourage me from wanting to. Very strange.
@@chodie1fan21 for the first week of me quitting smoking I can’t sleep, have no appetite and have extremely volatile mood swings typically anger / frustration / impatience
@@chodie1fan21 Do you feel better where you've moved to?
@@neuemilch8318 Don’t think so
i used to get prescriptions for adhd but since i turned 21 in germany youll need to find a new psychiatrist then specialized for adults. I didnt do that and hadnt had the meds for a while now.
Ive recently started getting it off the street and in powder form, i used to overdo it back then but now im just going way beyond what would be called a healthy dose. I thought i could do it to get thru my exams more collected, which would work, cause it calms me down rather than making me hyper, if i wasnt an addict to begin with. I drank a bottle of whiskey a day 2 yrs ago which simmered down to some beers every few days, which i cant not drink. Hope this video helps me cause i cant seem to stop it :/
there with you friend
@@terrormilk384 good luck
From one mental health professional to another; I recently discovered a few of your podcast interviews; and can I just say that I thoroughly enjoy listening to you! Esp the humor ... [me: immediately googles 'Hitler on meth'] 😂 ... Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insight with the world!
Gyatt
Please do a video on chronic physical pain with no pain relief. I'm at the end of my wits here.
The reason a large chunk of people who've ditched addictions, did it without help, is because 50% of quiting anything is doing it for yourself. If you have a tiny, weak voice in your head that wants to quit, and a large ugly voice coming up with excuses to not try, there is an imbalance of power in there. Both voices are you and both will always be there. you need the 2nd voice even though it seems like the cause of all ur problems. It's the voice that battles the toxic incarnation of what we think of as our good voice when it starts to delude us into a fantasy. The only person who can choose which "wolf" to feed in there is you. Help offers you perspective on your motivations but it won't help if you don't start choosing not believe in the seemingly valid reasons for why the therapist is wrong and there's no hope for you. That choice is hard to realize on your own but if you find it you can start to do incredible in life even if you don't seek outside perspective that helps prevent your demons from adapting and sabotaging you in ways you don't see coming.
Oh Wow you make rehab sound so cool. Yes I’d like a psychiatrist to clear the boss at work.
"It's not funny. Well, it IS funny, but..." 🤣 🤣
It's not funny at all.
Could you make a video/talk about the current dating scene and how to navigate it for women? It’s a little given how a lot of guys feel nowadays
Cara você é sensacional. Muito obrigado pela galera que paga os conteúdos eu não consigo no momento mas esses conteúdos gratuitos ajudam de maaais.
Tenho dois problemas o TDAH e o vício, vou lutar contra ambos.
That intro music 🥰
Thanks so much for uploading some real interesting content lately!
ikr? ITS SO FUCKING HYPE!
@@hollo0o583 do you know if I can find it on Spotify? I’m scared they’re gonna take it away because it looks like many people are skipping the intro music :o
Thank you.
Fantastic- thank you
2:13:08 what leads to growth ~> doing the thing
Aw sweet a dr. K video in my feed. can't wait to spark up my daily joint and definitely have a great time watching this
- me 1 hour and 25 minutes ago
Wishing you to be increasingly braver and to face your dragons.
Addicted to kratom, phenibut, klonopin, weed, nicotine, completely alone, isolated my whole life, but im making progress and I am learning more and getting better everyday, but I still cant help beating myself up even when I do things right. I have a lot to work through.
How did you stop using Kratom? Did you take it daily for several years?
@AcidGubba I have taken it for three or four years straight, for about a year I was taking 40gpd minimum, a month or two ago I started tapering and I am now down to around 7-8 grams a day. I split my dose in two, one for morning and one for the evening to keep a stable level. I take it in tablet form, each tablet weighs around .25 grams, I try to drop one tablet a day, I have been successful to an extent but I am still struggling with the negative effects on emotion, thought and sleep. I have had windows where I have seen a greater clarity and depth of emotion but that only lasts for a couple hours. It has been a slow process but I hope I can put it behind me soon and move on to my other addictions. I hope I can have the clarity and mental purity of soberity again someday but until then I have to learn acceptance on a very intimate level. I have a lot to learn.
@@AcidGubba My husband is in the process of quitting kratom. What he's doing is decreasing capsules gradually and tracking his use. We got him a large weekly pill holder, and he counts out capsules weekly, tracking the number in a physical notebook. He reduces the number of capsules every 2-3 weeks, when he has gotten used to the lower number of capsules.
I think it's going to be harder when he gets down to under 4 per day because each reduction will be a higher percentage of reduction. When you go from 10 capsules to 9, that's a 10% reduction. But when you go from 3 to 2, that's a 33.33% reduction. And going from 2 to 1 is a 50% reduction. Dropping that last one may be the most difficult.
I'm quitting cannabis at the same time, using a similar method. We share the notebook so that we are accountable to each other. HTH
You’re strong dude even when it doesn’t seem like it
@AcidGubba for some reason my comment didn't get posted. I was taking about 30-40gpd, over two or three months I've tapered down to around 6gpd. I also quit weed cold turkey two weeks ago. I've been stuck at 6 for a few weeks now, I tried going cold turkey a week ago but I caved in during the second day because of the symptoms and my very hectic life and not having any support. I've been trying to get used to the symptoms of coming off high dose thc vapes I used heavily 24/7, I know not everyone gets symptoms from that but I do and it made the k withdrawals to difficult to taper anymore. I need to start tapering again but I have family coming into town and don't want to get even more anxious and depressed than I already am naturally, but I know those things are excuses and I could grit my teeth and bear it.
Thank you
This video easily justify the existence of RUclips itself. Thanks a lot
becoming aware of my day trading & working addiction wow
As an oldest sibling I just realized that my siblings not having to take care of me when we’re older is a good competing interest
6:33 disclaimer skip
Drugs are everywhere. Even your own lamp is smoking. 😁🚬
19:20
olfatory information doesnt go through the thalamus, it goes straight to the limbic system. Thats why smell is so strongly linked to memory.
1:04:02 suppressing amygdala buys MORE anxiety; like coffee borrows energy from future chasing dopamine is like borrowing peace from the future
1:02:17 - The funniest thing Dr. K has ever said.
Thank you,, this helps me understand my daily struggle better. It seems that managing dopamine is my full time job, which is Parkinson's. Severe apathy is a normal symptom of the disease, but the medicine, which is essentially a dopamine replacement can cause addictive behavior,, because the medicine floods the whole brain, not just the substantia nigra.
2:27:55 "the Guide to Addiction"
maaaan I know you meant the guide to ADHD but please can you make an actual guide to addiction?
You have a lot of materials already prepared for the workshop, and you are very prepared on the topic.
I think many of us would benefit from it
I second this
I bet it is the one he's working on next actually!
@@VioletEmerald I hope so! Indeed, after the trauma workshop he released the trauma guide
Being in a community has helped me stay sober for 6 months plus
I'd be willing to pay 200$ or about that price to buy a recording of the webinar as well. Might not get the access this time.
Obrigado
Please go on addiction podcasts with this data and please list this info in short snippets so we can share. This info needs out there!!!!!!!! Thank you for all you do.
I want Dr. K + Dr. Gabor Mate to have a conversation on addiction.
That would be awesome. Would also like to see a conversation between Dr K and Jonathan Decker (of Mended Light and Cinema Therapy).
A question regarding the addictions workshop: will there be any chat or ability to ask questions and respond during the live stream, or before/after? Doing some deep inner debates on the topic already 🤔💭
Would love to see dr. K and dr gabor mate talk about this!
Very much so!
Yeah,pls make it happen Dr.K!
@@SS4MATTG nah
Hitler on Meth?
Same. Lol
That phone call was hillarious
I wanted to see that
There's video footage of his hands going wild shaking
Please share a great diet, how to prepare, best times to eat and when to intemetent fast..etc, 🙏🏼
"We dont show hitler on meth" is a quite the sentence
Thank you so much for your work.
I’m just at the beginning of my journey, but I already see progress.
Why does so much of this information on addiction resonate with my experience with trauma? Honestly, some times learning about addiction helps more than the trauma stuff- sometimes. It’s interesting.
From my understanding people who have more trauma, experience more and more intense negative emotions, so they are more likely to get addicted to things to get a relief. So they are very connected. I think he has said in the past that if a person has an addiction and depression you need to get therapy for both. Because they are causing each other to happen, and getting treated for only one of them is not enough.
thanks for making this
Video starts at 6:24
I have been taking Kratom for 11 years and every day for 9 years. I am quite successful professionally as a computer scientist, but I am slowly starting to think that in theory I can never stop. So I only go on holiday to countries where it is not forbidden. My consumption has levelled off at 2kg for €400 a month. The financial side is not a problem, I earn very well. Before Corona I was at 1kg a month. I also do a full blood count every year and everything looks good, but for the last 3-4 years I have been thinking about stopping. I don't weigh it either, I usually take a heaped tablespoon a few times a day when it is convenient. Of course I take less in the morning than in the evening. Nevertheless, I have become pretty unmotivated. My reason for taking it back then was mainly because I have bipolar 2 disorder and there are phases where I have a very strong desire to consume something. And with Kratom I was able to stop all other substances, but now I am stuck with it. I don't drink alcohol and don't take any other drugs apart from caffeine. Do you have an alternative? I chose Kratom because I didn't want to be intoxicated and wanted to be completely cognitively present. I don't drink alcohol because of that either. Basically it's a subtle feeling, it also has a slightly euphoric and relaxing effect and it's legal, which was my main reason for trying it, because I'm on my feet and nobody knows except my doctor. Well, maybe a few ex-girlfriends.
I was diagnosed at 23, before that it was diagnosed as depression. With Kratom I managed to keep my life somewhat stable. I started taking it when I was 25 and I think it helps me to reduce the symptoms.
I'm doing sober October for weed and I stopped drinking when I'm alone and I barely felt any withdrawal. I believe the trauma I got from cocaine and Xanax withdrawal was so terrible that my mind was just scared of quitting weed and alcohol because it thought it was gonna feel like that again. Now that I know I can stop without withdrawal Im feeling more secure in my ability to quit substances. However my negative self talk and my negative view of the world is depressing me more now that I don't have weed to distract me. It's like I wanna bot care about problems out my power but I can't. I just look for reasons to be scared or depressed with or without drugs
Love the awareness and love you bro 1:51:53 it’s a daily thing take care of yourself (I don’t do it myself enough) and Jesus died for you and loves you too fam
Can anyone direct me to where I might find the track playing before the lecture? It was very soothing.
THANK YOU producer who called off the Hitler video 😂 Really don’t want to see Dr K banned lol
good point
L producer
Banned for what reason?
@@studirytube Google, youtube and most corporations are owned by smol hat tribe and they have never been fond of freedom of speech.
1:56:42 perception of control 😧
34:20 ish : negative emotions are evolved/designed to be removed - that's why they hurt
I really invested more time in trying to find the hitler on meth video/gif then I care to admit, pls comment the link if you find something!
i expected others to find it so didn't bother
@healthygamergg, do you consider an eating disorder (aborexia/bulimia) as an addiction?
I ever time I related or was seen during this video I felt like screaming.
I am heavily addicted to kratom and to dextromethorphan. Kratom ruins my whole life but dextromethorphan really helps with my depression. On the other side dextromethorphan will make me demented if I don't stop right? I heard it's harmful for the brain. Is that true? 😪
Please answer me Dr K. ♥️
As far as I know, DXM is neuroprotective.
But don't hold me to that.
both are the problem, but DXM is a dirty drug and very bad for you
@moom81 Thank you. What do you mean by bad for me? For my body and brain, right?
@@neuemilch8318 I heard that it is neurotoxic... 😔
@@loveistheanswer5924 I looked it up again and it actually has a neuroprotective effect in low doses and can be used for epilepsy and damage in various brain areas.
It Also has an antidepressant effect and has been approved by the FDA for severe depression.
But that probably applies to doses that you far exceed if you use it for fun.
In those doses, it seems to have a similar toxicity profile to ketamine or PCP.
However, I would also like to point out that most antidepressants are neurotoxic in the long term, a fact that is irresponsibly often enough dismissed.
I personally have suffered damage because of this.
But I'm not an expert either, just a dude with an interest in pharmacology and pharmacology is insanely complicated.
I don't know your circumstances, but I would strongly advise you to seek help - is this a possibility for you?
"The human brain is not designed for happiness - it is designed for survival." Thats fucking metal.
1:51:38 Daily Stress & Emotional Regiment 🥹
48 week class on frontal lobes? Yes please, let's gooooooo!!!
1:16:08 That was true in the good old days. Before these synthetic, genetically engineered, ultra potent hugs started being shipped in from overseas.
It's so sad to see the streets full of zombie like creatures just hugging all over
@PabloPerroPerro those creatures are generally people who have suffered sexual, emotional, and physical abuse since early childhood, generally from a low income background.
3:39 What is this video - disclaimer that this isn't therapy or replacement for therapy
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6:29 START - His journey with treating addiction
7:30 What is an addiction
10:36 How does someone get addicted to something
“Dormant emotions manifest in the subjective moment as tiredness. “ 😢 dayum son.
ADHD meds question was never answered at the end :(
Not Dr K listing out every single thought ive had before when encountering a snake, and then following it up with "thats not how the human brain works" 😭
Maybe i am a bit psychotic
I was thinking too that some people really do think that way about snakes though. We are trained to not necessarily be afraid of all of them as poisonous despite our base instincts. If we've learned enough about snakes we think ago these things. But the instinct emotional side is supposed to be scared by default, i believe. But humans are varied. What's psychotic is thinking a snake is there when there isn't and it's just a hallucination. But I think it can be a sign of trauma or autism or some kind of detachment from emotions sometimes to feel no fear by default at snakes or really extreme heights etc. I do think the fear response is different in some of us than others but also... to be entirely thinking not feeling is a little unusual i guess.
Interestingly everything Dr. K listed as "not how the human brain works" was dead on to how it might work in like your case. It was too close to on point. I think deep down he actually was being a little realistic maybe without realizing it but. He was using his human brain to react to a snake another way...
1:05:31 important
man, i literally shed a tear, when he said NO BOORGAR