Dr. Alok Kanojia (HealthyGamerGG) is a psychiatrist and co-founder of the mental health coaching company ‘Healthy Gamer’, which aims to help with modern stressors, such as social media, video games, and online dating.
If you live for the validation of others, you’ll die by their rejection.
“I am just gonna do the best that I can and I will never succeed… and that’s OK” – resonates strongly with me!
Psychiatry has become an awful lot of pill pushing, and not enough of actually listening to what is going on in patient’s lives. Medications do not solve the root problem, they merely inhibit the symptoms while leaving the real issues unsolved. I think it is absurd that you can have someone you love die, and within two weeks if you are not over it you can actually be diagnosed with major depression and be given medication indefinitely. There is a massive overmedicalization of normal human emotions and a lack of understanding of how to deal with these emotions in a useful manner that results in one’s problems being solved in the long term.
I’ve been following Dr K for a few years now and his work has been a huge part of the transformation of my life from addicted to on the path to self-fulfillment. His talks on awareness, addiction, ADHD, and how interconnected they all have quite literally changed a portion of my life. I remember it stuck when he said the following: “It’s not about willpower, it’s about awareness.” That quote on the Ice Coffee Hour bound together everything I’d been learning to that point and started me on a now 3-months long journey of self-reflection, meditation, and self-improvement. Thanks, Dr. K!
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