Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• “The next year is going to go by whether you’re doing something about your life or not”
  • Sure you’re far from your goal now, but the time is going to go by anyway – make the incremental changes, and every day you’ll be better off
• There’s a stigma attached to mental illness and there shouldn’t be
  • “Having depression or anxiety should have no more stigma than having a knee injury, a kidney infection, or diabetes”
• On using medication to treat depression:
  • It usually only makes sense to do so for a biochemical reason, or for the short-term
  • “I look at a lot of depressed people, and in a sense…it makes sense. How could they not be depressed?”
    • “You don’t need a pill in that case. Put somebody in a chemical straitjacket because their life is falling apart? What the hell is that gonna do?”
    • Giving someone a pill in a situation like that might just keep them off task
      • Pain is a good motivator – it’s not necessarily bad. If you’re in pain, it’s going to motivate you to MOVE to change something. And to dull that pain with drugs is NOT a good thing.
• Medicine has become a high volume business
  • Doctors write prescriptions TOO OFTEN
    • They don’t take the time needed to really discuss things with patients, and see if perhaps there are real external circumstances that warrant the patient’s depression
• If you’re still taking the opioid prescribed to you at the 7 day mark, your chance of being addicted at the 1 year mark is 1 in 12
  • If your still taking them at 30 days, your likelihood of being addicted at the 1 year mark is 1 in 3

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Dr. Phil McGraw is an author, psychologist, and the host of the television show "Dr. Phil."