 For a licensed therapist, the things that she was saying about antisocial personality disorder were quite harmful in my opinion. For someone who markets herself as a destigmatiser of mental health, she sure added to the stigma surrounding antisocial personality disorder. Others, so using anything they can to get their needs met. People aren't people they're just tools to be used in their life for their game whatever it is. Well but they don't have emotions so like they wouldn't cry. They might have they thought it made them fit in or like get what they want because they're deceitful. I've met a lot of youtubers. That is terrifying. Yeah that sense that feeling. Isn't that creepy? It's so creepy. It's like we're having to take a shower. I mean nearly every time that she describes it she uses fear mongering words and treats the disorder as if it's disgusting and something to be feared which is the exact opposite of how a mental health professional should be talking about a mental health disorder. Especially when this whole documentary was trying to diagnose someone with something without their knowledge or consent and creating fear about something that's already incredibly misunderstood and then to broadcast that to millions of people it's just very harmful and Katie was marketed as a voice of reason on this documentary and a professional in her. A widely misunderstood disorder is going to make people believe her. Not once did she mention that the disorder was true. All of that Shane Dawson is guilty of perpetrating this as well but in my opinion the way that she dealt with this disorder was incredibly unprofessional and ultimately very harmful. Then there's the whole ethics of going in as an undercover therapist in the first place to try and evaluate someone with the expectation that they have an undiagnosed mental health disorder without their consent for a documentary is something that never sat right with me. Dr Todd Grande made a great video unpacking the ethics of this from his perspective that I will link fully in the description and he talked about the code of ethics that therapists are supposed to follow and the ways in which this documentary potentially violated them. He's also done a video about all of the things that Katie got wrong about antisocial personality disorder which I'd also recommend and let's not forget the time that she called Shane Dawson an empath. What am I? Because like I feel like I attract sociopaths. Potentially. I'm not so soft. Yeah like I'm not calling out people I'm not saying there's certain youtubers who I've like done videos with or any of that I just mean in my real life like yeah I feel like but I also feel like I like get them and I want to help them and all of that because you're a empathic. Why is Steve you wonder always smiling because he doesn't know he's a n***. Whoa just a vow. I've heard that before. Yeah like it's essentially like we feel for other people. That was kind of racist wasn't it? I didn't mean it to be oops like soci- this is the opposite an antisocial personality disorder or a sociopath would be your antithesis like the complete opposite so every time you think oh but like that must really suck for them they would have none of that. But this isn't the only way in which Katie has been seemingly going against her mission statement of destigmatizing mental health and helping her followers. This next issue with Katie Morton surrounds her promotion of the app Better Help. Now Better Help became infamous a few years ago when influencers were being called out for promoting it. The app promoted itself as an online counseling platform where people could contact licensed therapists and mental health experts who are available to help people over at the app via text phone call or video chat. However people started to notice that the app's terms of service told a slightly different story than that of the marketing campaign that YouTubers were promoting. They found that though they promoted licensed therapists using their platforms their terms stated that we do not control the quality of the counselor services and we do not determine whether any counselor is qualified to provide any specific service as well as whether account. Yeah special news thanks to YouTubers who have promoted this website. It's been all over reddit my own subreddit I always see these ants try online therapy try online therapy and you too can grow a magnificent beard just like this guy. Well what is Better Help? Well it's been marketed as cheap affordable and private online therapy with a professional that's right hooray professional. I discussed Better Help in a previous video where I first heard about it and I was cautious about calling it a scam because I've seen not just YouTubers but actual therapists shilling this service. Totally really believe it. You're a sociopath by the way this video is sponsored by online therapy. So what's wrong with Better Help then? You can have online therapy without leaving your hand. Okay so one of the online gurus that I particularly enjoyed over the past few weeks is Tech Lead. Do you guys follow Tech Lead? So he just removed a bunch of videos that I wanted to play but here he is saying child support. Oh my god I lost my child support case. This is going to destroy me. I have to pay like $5,000 per month in child support for the next 15 years or something like that. So my retirement is out of the window now. You know I was going to retire last week actually but it seems like I'm back onto YouTube now churning out these videos and I wanted to explain for you the child support situation for you. I recently lost my case because you too may find yourself having to pay child support someday whether intentionally or even unintentionally as what happens to many sports superstars and I'll explain for you the calculations here. But before I begin I want to clarify for you what happened. About three years ago my Japanese wife just one day took our son three years old at the time and abducted him taking him off to Japan and about a year ago I lost contact with them and she has been blocking access ever since. So recently she came after me hiring an American lawyer and went after me for child support and she's still out there in Japan. Now this is not a video meant to trash her or anything like that you know like I'm just here to try to educate you that value is what I'm trying to provide for you. So this really isn't a personal video and you know some people by the way are going to say I'm a dead beat dad. I want to clarify that you know my son was the most important thing to me in my life. He was the one thing I could not lose. The most important element in my life that left me very much traumatized and many fathers who end up losing their children do end up unliving so to speak and so really the fact that I'm even here alive and somewhat productive is a feat in and of itself that requires tremendous emotional willpower. A lot of people say that I refer to my son in the third person as the child rather than my child and the reason for that is because it just makes it too personal and emotional for me sometimes to talk about this matter. So he's got a lot of honest compelling content that I think just sets him apart from most everyone else but he seems to have also been going into a tailspin and his life seems to have been falling apart and there was a good essay back in September 25, 2020. YouTube channel Tech Lead hit rock bottom in a video uploaded in early June entitled Living with My Parents in My Man Cave as a Millionaire. So Tech Lead is Patrick Shoe and he greets the camera with a cup filled to the brim with beer and as always he informs his audience that he's an ex-Google ex-Facebook with a net worth north of seven figures and he's here to whip us into shape to show us how to live a life as enviable as his. Today that means giving us a tour MTV crib style of his spare bedroom in his mom's household that is currently shacked up in due to an intensifying storm of personal calamity. So he got arrested, he went to jail and he tells us how much money he's saving by living with his parents, says I don't have to cook, I don't have to clean. So moving home with his parents is alpha, that's what he says. How can you beat this lifestyle? It's just too alpha for you. So the austerity is intentional he says so he can maintain razor focus when he's gaming. So it used to be that Tech Lead had a normal YouTube channel and he just presented himself as an ordinary successful tech guy and he played the game and won and now he's here to help you get on his level and he'd recommend books to read and recommend what to do that it all started to deteriorate in the summer of 2019. Kind of a convoluted tale but his wife left him, took his kid, went back to Japan and he appeared utterly swaggerless for the first time as he wrenches through the saga, his apartment is empty, trying to pick up the pieces and his relationship with his wife deteriorated because she did not appreciate the financial privilege of being with an ex-Google, ex-Facebook millionaire he claims. So he never seems to take much responsibility either he chose a psycho to marry or a normal woman wanted absolutely nothing to do with him and left the country to get away with from him. So either way there's a lot of personal responsibility to take and never really does it. So he gets millions of views for these videos why my wife left me, I went to jail managing and protecting money in a relationship, the tyranny of alimony and finding a way to generate child support money by complaining about child support. So he has fully monetized midlife crisis. So here's some of the sample titles on his channel, how to make hard choices as a millionaire, what I wish I knew about side hustles as a millionaire, the millionaire mindset, five millionaire habits that will change your life as a millionaire, why I'm a millionaire as a millionaire, why I have no friends as a millionaire, how I became confident as a millionaire, well why I have no friends as a millionaire. That sounds like something that Elliot Black could get behind. So let's see what he has to say. Many if any friends at all. And you know if I were to be honest about this, I would say that it's really because it may be that I'm just too successful, you know, like I could be too good because the fact is it is lonely at the top. So how can I explain this? It's kind of like in the old days with the kings, you know. Yes, I recognize that he's trolling a great deal, but there's also some truth I assume to the the downward spin that his life has taken over the past three years. They had a lot of servants around them. Like even when you're trolling, you're revealing things about yourself. Every word we use reveals us. The type of trolls we do reveals who we are. But they didn't have so many friends and you know, who knows, maybe there's some nobility in me. I could have some royal blood, right? You don't know that. And if that were true, that may explain why I'm stronger, faster, smarter, better than other people. And where was I? Oh yeah, why I don't have friends. So I wanted to get into this mindset about success and what makes me so different from other people and what makes it difficult for me to get along with people. Pop quiz, what's better than friends? Better for it because the thing is successful people will own their projects and to end and they'll over prepare for everything and take care of every single possible contingency. So I find a lot of people are out there whining, complaining, making excuses, trying to make themselves look better because maybe because they haven't achieved enough in their own life and they feel this lack of confidence. So they want to overcompensate for that and make themselves appear better due to these insecurities. But I find this focus on the problem does not help at all. And I would prefer people just focused on the solution, which makes it pretty difficult. Okay, here's another YouTube video that I enjoy, Joshua. I've been procrastinating making this video, but I feel like I owe it to you guys seeing as I wouldn't have anything I have in my life without you guys or the channel or the support that you guys give me. In short, the TLDR of this video is I feel like I've, I've let you down. I've let you down. Let me kind of back up a little bit and give you a recap of where I'm coming from. If you've seen this channel over the past couple years, you would know that there was a year in my life where things just seemed like they couldn't get any worse. There's a lot of real talk on this channel. So I like Joshua Fluke's channel. I like Tech Leads channel. But who would you say are the YouTubers who seem to be on a virtuous spiral rather than a downward spiral? Because even a lot of these YouTubers who I like like Katie Martin, Joshua Fluke, Tech Lead, they seem to be going into downward spirals. There was family issues. There was relationship issues with girlfriends and friends and all sorts of things. And I tried to be strong and power through that. You're tired of it. I was tired of it. But behind the scenes, in between videos in my life, I still process a lot of what goes on. And to be honest, it's a little embarrassing. It chipped away at who I was. This channel, at least when I started it, it was supposed to be about helping people. That's what I wanted to do. And you can go look over the past couple years and you can kind of see how I've fallen away from interacting with the audience. And you might have just assumed because you have a bigger channel now and you can't possibly get to everyone. And it's not feasible or anything like that. But it wasn't like that. It has affected me and my personality to the point where meeting new people and doing things usually triggers a reaction of what do they want from me? How are they trying to manipulate me? And what is their real agenda that they're hiding behind? Just meeting ordinary people. And it's just an instant reaction that happens. And I have to walk myself through and be like, no, they deserve a chance. And basically I started pushing people away. I kept everyone at an arm's length distance, even more. And it just... So who are the YouTubers who are flourishing? Because so many of them seem to be in a downward spiral. And I think it comes down to the dangers of the e-personality. What I'm doing right now is very dangerous for my well-being. It's very dangerous for your well-being. That doesn't mean nobody should do it. But certain tendencies start pushing at you once you start doing what I'm doing right now. That there can be a high from doing this. So it can become compulsive. It can become obsessive and compulsive. It's a similar high to what you see in pathological gambling. And the way that we see ourselves and evaluate ourselves is changing as a result of our participation in the virtual world. And so because I get to control this space, all right, I can try to then extend that out into the world and control my interactions with others. And that's not going to work so well. Because I've got 11 people watching me right now, all right, it would be easy to have an exaggerated sense of my own abilities to develop a superior attitude towards others that the new moral code that I adopt online, I then would take into real life, which would lead to failure, right? Once you go online and you start opining, whether it's just in text messages, whether it's on a Reddit forum, or whether you're making a YouTube show, there is a great tendency towards impulsive behavior. At the same time, a tendency to regress into childlike states and to share morbid things that you would not otherwise share with people when you're just face to face. So these traits combine into a whole new you. This is from this terrific 2011 book by the psychiatrist, Elias Abujaid. He's based in Silicon Valley, virtually you the dangerous powers of the e-personality. So the internet is fundamentally changing us how we think, how we speak, how we interact, how we read, right? And these online traits are unconsciously being imported into our offline life. So that's why I think so many YouTubers are in a downward spiral. Our idea of what a real life community should be is being reconfigured by our experiences of the online world and our offline persona increasingly resembles that of our online avatar. This wasn't fair. It wasn't fair for HR lady. It wasn't fair for her family. It wasn't fair for my friends. It's not fair for you guys. I just don't want to be the 50 year old guy ranting on the internet about what companies could do better. I want to actually help people. And I know that, you know, giving examples of this and that helps people. But if you go look at my videos before, they were way more interactive. And I really enjoyed that because I enjoyed seeing people make progress and people make change. And I just I benefited from from his his videos. I think he's got a lot of sound things to say about getting a job, keeping a job, navigating a new job. I mean, there's a lot of real talk there on Joshua's channel. So think about the people that you like in real life, but their online persona or their email persona is really unpleasant, right? So people now have to face a challenge of trying to separate the flesh and blood real human being from, you know, the the beast blithely roaming through cyberspace spreading confusion and pain wherever they go. So the result of all our online interactions is the unwitting creation of an e identity a virtual hall that is greater than its parts. And it's unfettered by the old rules of behaving and social exchange and etiquette and etiquette. So this new virtual persona is more aggressive, tends to be less restrained, tends to be darker and sexier. And it has advantages, right? Having an e personality can liberate you can help you to transcend debilitating shyness to let go of stortifying inhibitions to forge connections and friendships that would be impossible otherwise. So often your virtual you will complement the actual you and act as an extension of the real life you and that's what I'm aiming for. I think that's a healthy use of the virtual you. But the online self is prone to being dangerous to being irresponsible to running rough shot over all sense of caution and self control and other people's feelings and needs. Our online self can encourage us to pursue unrealistic and unhealthy goals to make us feel smarter and more knowledgeable than we are can encourage us to behave more selfishly and recklessly. So the internet with its fantasy fulfillment and anonymity makes it difficult to resist doing all sorts of things which are bad for us. So we can reinvent those portions of ourselves that we don't like. And we can engage in behaviors that are more responsible selves would put a stop to in the harsh light of day. And the darkest of the dark is the catalyst of suicide. So I don't allow people in my life to talk about suicide. I get out of those conversations. I won't have them. I won't allow people engaging in say suicidal ideation in the chat or on the show. It automatically enforces policies. So you don't have so this is a show about. Nice. Are you hearing that weird feedback? Technology. Let's try to face timing. Oh, there she did. Finally. Hello. I sorry about that. I don't know what's going on. But how are you? Yeah, you had it today because today we're going to be filming. So I'll just go here. My hate groups are so incredibly active lately that I've been put in a position where our decision is a team to ignore it can't happen anymore. Okay. So I basically have to do a video today that's answering to a lot of their allegations because I'm losing some contracts. So I noticed people love to talk about how, oh, I'm being forced by my haters to do things. Well, you're not really being forced. You don't actually have to respond. You don't have to respond it in a vitriolic way. People love that out of, oh, I'm being forced to do XYZ. I remember talking to my therapist about an acquaintance who was being obnoxious almost every time I saw him. And so I was telling my therapist, okay, I need to either confront him or I need to just walk away or I need to, you know, do XYZ and my therapist said, why do you need to do anything? And in the end, I didn't do anything. And this acquaintance became a very valuable friend. Okay, what's going on there? I'm going into this in this video, but basically the situation has been created where because so many people find belonging in this group of mine, which created Teal Tribe, when they have a phone out with me for any reason, it could be that I don't answer an email or something like that. They sort of look around for where to belong and the only place I suspect that they're falling out with Teal Swan, generally speaking, for far more significant reasons than just not answering an email. It's the longest with people who hate me. So this platform has grown to thousands of people. So they go crazy, but I meant, but they're like active, I mean, active active to the degree where they're like turning me into the no fly list, calling the cops on me, doing protests, okay, so that sort of behavior doesn't usually just come out of the blue and you did absolutely nothing. All right, we usually play a role in how other people react to us. Right? I mean, why is Ethan Ralph and Baked Alaska, you know, why are they going through these travails? Because they've triggered a lot of people into retaliation against them. My Amazon ratings threatening my publishers that if they don't get rid of my books, they're going to boycott the company like really serious shit. Like, for example, one of the monitors that my haters have given me is the suicide catalyst, is if I'm promoting suicide. So I'm going to basically answer to all of these things from my perspective. Well, you can make a really good case that this woman is promoting suicide. Thought I would have to work my way up to asking about things like her critics and the suicide allegations, but it's not even two minutes in and we're already there. Where did the suicide catalyst come from? That actually, the suicide catalyst then came from a girl who lived with me in the very beginning of my career. It was girl Cameron Clark who turned into my first principal hater. But during that same period of time, I had a client that I was seeing a personal client who had a psychiatrist. She was really, I mean, suicidally depressive. She was on medication. She was being seen. Of course, like usual psychiatrists weren't doing anything. Nothing was helping. And I was seeing her on over the period of the year with her husband. That was Leslie. And no matter what I would say, she would never actually apply it. She would never do anything. And what I wasn't really understanding at that time is what she needed was 100% presence, which was not something I could actually give her and it was not something even her husband could give her. At some point while working with Leslie, Teal went on a vacation. As Teal tells it, she went out to the desert to disconnect and watch the eclipse. But when she got back in cell range, she turned on her phone and was flooded with missed calls and texts. The first few from her and from the husband saying that she was in trouble. And the next one him screaming his head off because she had committed suicide. So I noticed in the 12 step world that a lot of people have this attitude that they need to get their sponsors permission to do things. You don't need to get sponsors permission. So people often want to offload responsibility. You're going to say debt is anonymous. Oh, I need to get my sponsors permission before I make the following purchase. So a lot of people who are adults like to redress to a childlike state and to take on mentors or therapists or gurus and then turn over responsibility for their life to such people. It doesn't tend to work out well. But that's also on the guru and the therapist or the individual to put a stop to it. So any any sponsor that I have who talks about, oh, I want to get your permission for XYZ. I just like stop that right there. No, you never need to ask me for permission. All right. You don't look to a sponsor for permission formed insider look at mental health topics. If you find this video to be interesting or helpful, please like it. And this is Dr. Todd Grant Dawson's YouTube channel. This video is titled World of Jake Paul part five. And it features Shane Dawson, Katie Morton and his psychiatrist people. The question is, was Katie Morton's undercover role in this video appropriate? So if you see my channel before, you know that my channel is science and logic based. I'm not going to offer any commentary on someone's character. I'm not going to make any determination of right or wrong in terms of ethics, laws or standards or anything like that. I don't know any of the people involved in this video. And really, this is just a review of the evidence I have available that I'm going to offer my analysis concerns. And I hope a learning opportunity for those interested in clinical work and members of the public. So I find this guy pretty commonsensical. He's obviously not losing charisma. He's just common sense. So when I talk about evidence, what evidence am I talking about? But also coming from his education as a psychiatrist and a therapist. Well, this particular video I mentioned, of course, and the assumption that Katie Morton is a licensed marriage and family therapist in the state of California. And also some of this information, I believe, probably comes from some of the earlier videos in the same series. I did a video on part two a little while ago. Now a licensed marriage and family therapist is similar to a number of the master's level mental health clinicians, like counselors, social workers and other professions. I'm just going to refer to all these professions together as mental health clinicians, but no, there are some distinctions between them. So I mentioned what we have in terms of evidence. Well, what don't we know? Well, potentially a lot. Events could have transpired, of course, that weren't featured in the video. There could be other conversations and agreements that I don't know about. So again, it's not exciting to give this kind of context, but it is responsible. Just going on the evidence I have and trying to offer an objective analysis. So just to give a little background in terms of this video I'm talking about. Ostensibly Katie Morton was there with Shane Dawson to evaluate, but not diagnose according to disclaimer, an individual named Jake Paul. And this evaluation would take place through observation and asking questions and also feeding questions to Shane Dawson. The suspected condition that they were looking for or looking to evaluate was sociopathy. Now in prior videos I talked about sociopathy, so I won't go over all that now, but we have this construct of psychopathy and sociopathy, and sociopathy really relates more to antisocial personalized order, which is a mental disorder in the DSM. Now in addition to all this, Katie Morton was undercover. She was pretending to be a producer in this video. And according to this video, Shane Dawson had a verbal agreement, looks like it was a verbal agreement, that indicated that Jake Paul could be evaluated by a therapist with no limits. So I have a few concerns about this video. What was Katie Morton's role in this video? Was she a therapist, mental health clinician? Was she a consultant? Was she there as Shane Dawson's friend, just coming along to ask a few questions? The video would have us believe that she was there to assess mental disorder symptoms. Another concern, why did she need to be undercover? Was it to gain information that Jake Paul would know? So Katie Morton has gone into quite a spiral after all this. So things to be learned. Don't use psychology as a weapon, probably inappropriate for her to have gone in this direction. Let's see what's going on with Ethan Ralf and Big Delosca. The false flagging thing that I saw going around was pretty comical, and I knew it was bullshit because it was coming from fan fiction types already. So it's like, okay, I'm already throwing some big doubt on it, but of course, they took it and ran with it and was like, oh, Bakes trying to flag down CWC, which is pretty funny, I have to say, because that guy is a rat, and I actually tried to be cool with him and had him on the show, and even tried to smooth some things. Oh, you know what I mean? Like, okay, can this be, can we bridge the gap here? Whatever the answer was, no, because he kept doing snake shit. But yeah, I guess that the narrative was that you somehow had something against him or was like plotting against him. Well, yeah, I mean, I'll talk about it. I mean, it's bullshit. Well, first of all, you know, CWC is literally, go look at his telegram. He's literally doxing everyone's DMs. So it's funny how they're like saying that I'm this report fag when I have not reported anyone. I didn't put out that message or anything. One of my mods, I have a big mod chat, posted a message from another chat that said, hey, fuck these guys report Kino Casino and CWC, whatever. You know, I don't fucking read every fucking message. It wasn't me. I didn't post it. So what you see with a lot of YouTube personalities is that we all naturally gravitate to where we can get the most attention to where we can be the most dominant. And so people like me create a show and we can dominate our show, right? We can do what we're good at and we can feel more powerful than say if we were just participating in real life. So the rush of power and the rush of fun online typically sucks people away from real life activities, right? And we put less and less importance on real life, on family, on friends, in conflict at work, paying less attention to the boss when the boss rep reminds us for tactless, tasteless emails, we're more distracted in the classroom because our online activities where we feel so powerful and we're having so much fun, they are occupying more and more of our attention span, taking this from virtually you, the powers of the personality. I did remove that mod. I know he's a good guy, but I'm like, Hey man, like I don't really want this shit in my chat. I'm not trying to report people. So that's it. That's all they have. And I remove the mod and then they want to say, Oh my gosh, Bank is running a reporting rig. He's reporting all these right wing streamers. Holy shit. And it's like, they all, they just made that, they made that up out of their ass straight. Like, dude, honestly, I'm looking through a telegram now. I didn't even see. So the online world, right? Can produce depression and even psychotic states because the internet responds to our need for escapism by helping us to generate illusions. Right. We can just get lost online. And if we're not tracking our time, then we can lose anchoring in real life, which is this is very common version of the symptom of dissociation. Similar with heavy video and internet game users, too, they experience tremendous dissociation. So we tend to have less inhibition online. We tend to act out more frequently and more intensely than we would in person in the normal break system, which keeps our thoughts and behaviors in check, constantly malfunctions on the information super highway. So that's the online disinhibition effect. We are less inhibited. And it's the anonymity, it's the invisibility, it's the loss of boundaries between people, the lack of any real hierarchy in cyberspace. So we can separate our actions online from our in-person life. And therefore we feel less vulnerable about self-disclosure and acting out. So anonymity makes it possible for us to convince ourselves that these online behaviors aren't really me. And that gives us camp launch to engage in antisocial behavior with much more abandon. Now, in real life, people will avert their eyes and look away when discussing something that's personal or embarrassing. But online, we don't have that inhibition. So we also don't have that big status differential. So it's a background of being disinhibited, dissociated, and we create tendencies towards grandiosity, feeling like the skies the limit when it comes to what we can accomplish online. We tend to be narcissistic, increasingly self-absorbed. We tend to think of ourselves as the center of gravity of the worldwide web. We tend to be darker because the internet nurtures our morbid side. We tend to regress, become remarkably immature once we log on, and we tend to be impulsive and urge-driven when we get online. These are all the transformations and fractures that begin occurring in our identity when we sit down and go online. He doxxed a Paul Gosar intern. Look at that. One of Paul Gosar's intern, who's like a groiper, he doxxed him and he's putting out people's personal DMs and group chats that he did not have permission to post. So I'm just saying, it's kind of like the pot calling the kettle black here. He like, I'm not, you notice, I'm not showing, I'm not putting out private information about people. And I even reached out to CWC, by the way, and I said, hey, man, I know we don't see it. Okay, I think that's gonna do it. I've got a pause over beginning in about 90 minutes.