John Oliver explains how our national system of treating mental health works, or more often than not, how it doesn’t. Connect with Last Week Tonight online.
As one who suffers from mental illness I find it distressing that I cannot afford help. I understand I have mental issues but cannot afford proper treatment because of lack of insurance, lack of monetary means to afford it myself, and lack of help from government programs. I make to much money for help in programs but not enough for proper medical treatment. My current wage leaves me in limbo. With my cost of living I simply cannot afford proper treatment. I find this severely disheartening. I'm left to fend for myself and try to find remedies that probably will not work. Self medication only will drive more problems that shouldn't exist i.e. alcohol abuse and everything that goes with that. (Drunk driving, domestic violence, and suicide.) Drug abuse which opens even more doors… Isolation which deprives individuals a life line knowing they ARE cared for. This is a sad and frustrating state of our country. With proper help and guidance many of our population would make much better contributions to our society. I've been left on my own after suffering catastrophic instances in my life. I've found a way but it is far from perfect.
I wish these nutcase psychiatrists would separate the externalists from the internalists. I don't believe in this bogus shell-shock syndrome in the regular world. I believe, our problems are internally linked, such as genetics, diet, biological factors, and growth factors. Don't try and hand me the pansy media took effect, or some psychopath had a psychological warrant on me, etc.
Man republicans are just the worst. They blame it on mental health and then do nothing to fix that problem. Ban guns and cut your military budget in half and use it all to find mental health research
I hate that I'm forced to watch this guy every week for a college class that I have, he has good points, but he's attacks one side of politics more than the other and the fake laughter it just annoys me. So glad this semester is almost over.
2:48 this is a bit misleading. 2 out 3 firearms related deaths in the United States are suicides. So clearly there is a mental health issue when it comes to access to guns. I know that's not the point he was trying to make but it is important to note.
Substance abuse boomers have tremendous mental health problems and issues more intensely problematic than most millennials do and it should be mandatory for long term substance abusers to get treatment and not negatively affect others by making them also mentally ill as well and Big Tobacco is gaining profits from its “customers” by committing various criminal activities just to continue to abusing the same substances and the tobacco industry is literally committing mass genocide against most people and the military and national guard as well and my father views his own various smoking habits as a legitimate form of “pride’ and social acceptance and his literally been smoking and abusing tobacco cigarettes before me and my Asperger’s older brother were even born and I believe I’ve inherited my asthma due to him being a clueless deadbeat parent and father and he honestly thinks and views tobacco companies are actually benefiting and profiting the world and society in amazing ways and he literally almost burned down the entire neighborhood and the house TWICE and he STILL thinks and treats ALL tobacco companies are committing more justice than injustice and my father is a pathetic lawyer and he thinks the whole tobacco industry should merge with EVERY industry and pressure society so much that cigarettes and alcohol to be socially accepted and normalize and thinks tobacco cigarettes do not create various air pollution and my thinks cigarettes are promoting healthy oxygen and fresh air and thinks every generation should just embrace tobacco and my father even thinks the tobacco industry would profit tremendously from the food industry if the tobacco industry and companies try to infuse various tobacco plants into various meats for better taste and my father also thinks various world leaders and presidents should encourage and embrace tobacco and he honestly thinks it should be mandatory for a 1 year old babies and children to have various foods and beverages that has tobacco in its ingredients and than once that child gets closer to 2 years old than they should have there first cigarette
I don’t like guns but I can’t help but be offended when they blame the mentally ill for violence. It does nothing but promote the stigma around getting diagnosed.
Been mentally ill since age 12, started with social anxiety, then depression, psychotic depression, then I got paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis. I live in Poland and stigma surrounding mental illness here is huge, but despite that and even because of that – I'm open about my mental health issues and about many mental disorders, I try to explain to people irl what it really means to be mentally ill, I try to chase away demons surrounding mental illness. I started doing this online too, my YT channel is dedicated to talking about various mental health issues. Please guys, try to listen. Us, mentally ill, have had enough sh** in our life 'thanks' to our mental disorders, we don't need any more negativity and ignorance coming from other people.
You know why Kennedy did that? Because he had a mentally challenged sister that his parents put in an institution. He didn't want any more people to suffer.
The pharmaceutical industry OWNS John Oliver. A trillion dollar a year drug industry doesn't deprive itself of profit. The pharmaceutical industry manufactures vaccines. Deaths from viruses already declined BEFORE vaccines. The pro-vaxxers know nothing about vaccines. They also know nothing about autism. I have autism and it's defintely NOT how it's portrayed on sitcoms or in movies. Such ableism sickens me.
I have severe OCD and severe Clinical Depression and the guy at the beginning is correct, Mental Health does indeed carry an unwarranted stigma that is 100% uncalled for. Many people see OCD as just a disorder of people wanting to be nice and tidy, but that isn’t the case. My OCD is contamination and my sister triggers an anxiety and panic spike as well as outsiders, which then activates the second part of OCD which is compulsions. My compulsion is washing my hands until it goes red or bleeds, or take a shower for 2 or more hours multiple times a day, it’s disgusting how Mental Health carries such an unwarranted stigma and how far our mental health care has lacked behind medical care.
you're so right! but I think we can even start changing something the way we talk and listen to each other. If we would be more reflected, we wouldn't need too much professional help, because we would have real friends who listen to us! ?
I'm 42 and I've been dealing with mental illness my entire life. It's hard to deal with everything else in life when you can't even figure out how to navigate your own mind. I don't have insurance, so I have no doctor or medication. It's hard to get out of bed 90% of the time, and the other 10% I'm bouncing off the walls with no direction or focus. I just want to live a normal life, but I don't know how
People need to be educated better in the ways of helping people with mental illness or helping people to understand and help that person efficiently. We need to change the view that mentally ill people are "crazy", not only is that insulting and demeaning, it only worsens our mental health. One of the problems is that other people don't seem or even try to understand. How would u feel if someone told you that ur just being "over dramatic" or that its just "all in ur head", yes I know that but when has knowing that ever helped, oh thats right! Never!, it's like telling a severely depressed person to just be happy, wow I'm suddenly happy yay! Said no depressed person ever after being told that other then sarcastically.
Please take your mental health seriously. I didn't and found out that I was nearly at the edge. My life came to a standstill because I would joke about it. I probably should have started therapy when I was about 13, I started at 23. I know that I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for the one person I for some reason decided to listen to. It opened a giant box with problems I didn't know I had, but I know them and can work on them. It's terrifying to open that box, but you can't work on them if you don't know you have them and it will affect you either way.
For three years I've known the word clusterfuck, not knowing from where I had learned or exactly what it meant, now, seeing this again I finally can rest assured that I've learned it from John Oliver, and that's the best thing that happened to me in the fucking horrible year that is 2020
TBH, I'm not sure why I thought this would help with my depression…. you do dumb things when you're stuck, I guess. I wish I knew how to access Assertive Community Treatment, but every time I try to assert myself about that stuff, I get told that I'm "doing a great job" which is not helpful. :/
I often suspect I'll only get taken seriously once I've killed myself, if then.
I am on Social Security Disability for my mental illness. I used to be a computer programmer. As my bipolar disorder got worse, I could no longer concentrate. I currently can't hold down any job because I can't stay on task. I have several friends who say they talk with me and I just phase out. Not in a rude, "you're so boring, Amber" way, just in a "I can't keep up with conversation right now, be back in a bit". You can't run a cash register at CVS if you can't keep up with the person giving you directions on how to run the register or just drift off in the middle of an order. However, much of the time, I'm coherent, so people don't "know what the problem is". I also have a high IQ (not sure I can pay attention well enough to take one now), so people think I can't have mental health problems. A lot of intelligent people have mental health problems that prevent them from coping with life. I currently live in housing with a case manager and attend day treatment every weekday (well, not this very second). I can usually cope with day to day
I have Social Anxiety (where I genuinely get very scared in most social settings, sometimes leading to panic attacks) and when in class I used to rarely talk to the people next to me. People always asked me provokingly “why are you so quiet” some even saying that I seem like I’ll be a serial killer when I’m older (what the fuck by the way). And all I have is Social Anxiety which I think in most cases isn’t seen as a very polarising mental illness. I can’t imagine what some people who struggle with much harsher illnesses go through. Poor souls.
https://youtu.be/Wafepa1Ep7A
This video very much helpful to manage mental health…
Thank you #Tibetan_Monk
As one who suffers from mental illness I find it distressing that I cannot afford help. I understand I have mental issues but cannot afford proper treatment because of lack of insurance, lack of monetary means to afford it myself, and lack of help from government programs. I make to much money for help in programs but not enough for proper medical treatment. My current wage leaves me in limbo. With my cost of living I simply cannot afford proper treatment. I find this severely disheartening. I'm left to fend for myself and try to find remedies that probably will not work. Self medication only will drive more problems that shouldn't exist i.e. alcohol abuse and everything that goes with that. (Drunk driving, domestic violence, and suicide.) Drug abuse which opens even more doors… Isolation which deprives individuals a life line knowing they ARE cared for. This is a sad and frustrating state of our country. With proper help and guidance many of our population would make much better contributions to our society. I've been left on my own after suffering catastrophic instances in my life. I've found a way but it is far from perfect.
I wish these nutcase psychiatrists would separate the externalists from the internalists. I don't believe in this bogus shell-shock syndrome in the regular world. I believe, our problems are internally linked, such as genetics, diet, biological factors, and growth factors. Don't try and hand me the pansy media took effect, or some psychopath had a psychological warrant on me, etc.
Man republicans are just the worst. They blame it on mental health and then do nothing to fix that problem. Ban guns and cut your military budget in half and use it all to find mental health research
This comment section is a clusterfuck.
the tobacco industry has manufactured incompetent parents and those parents are literally the Baby Boomers themselves
John should do a follow up of this and a story about psychiatric facilities.
I hate that I'm forced to watch this guy every week for a college class that I have, he has good points, but he's attacks one side of politics more than the other and the fake laughter it just annoys me. So glad this semester is almost over.
I still believe that mental illness / bad parenting is the cause of school shootings
Namaste
As per ancient hindu practise gong (or bell) sounds are deeply healing and connects us to our Self within.
All hindu temples have a bell.
One can check gong therapy videos on internet and check how they resonate with it.
2020 and still a problem
Whacko? Psycho? Wait was this episode dedicated to president Donald "Spanky" Trump??
Little did he know Liberalism is a mental disorder.
It's 2020 and nothing's changed. It's getting worse.
2:48 this is a bit misleading. 2 out 3 firearms related deaths in the United States are suicides. So clearly there is a mental health issue when it comes to access to guns. I know that's not the point he was trying to make but it is important to note.
#SubstanceAbuseISAPandemic
Substance abuse boomers have tremendous mental health problems and issues more intensely problematic than most millennials do and it should be mandatory for long term substance abusers to get treatment and not negatively affect others by making them also mentally ill as well and Big Tobacco is gaining profits from its “customers” by committing various criminal activities just to continue to abusing the same substances and the tobacco industry is literally committing mass genocide against most people and the military and national guard as well and my father views his own various smoking habits as a legitimate form of “pride’ and social acceptance and his literally been smoking and abusing tobacco cigarettes before me and my Asperger’s older brother were even born and I believe I’ve inherited my asthma due to him being a clueless deadbeat parent and father and he honestly thinks and views tobacco companies are actually benefiting and profiting the world and society in amazing ways and he literally almost burned down the entire neighborhood and the house TWICE and he STILL thinks and treats ALL tobacco companies are committing more justice than injustice and my father is a pathetic lawyer and he thinks the whole tobacco industry should merge with EVERY industry and pressure society so much that cigarettes and alcohol to be socially accepted and normalize and thinks tobacco cigarettes do not create various air pollution and my thinks cigarettes are promoting healthy oxygen and fresh air and thinks every generation should just embrace tobacco and my father even thinks the tobacco industry would profit tremendously from the food industry if the tobacco industry and companies try to infuse various tobacco plants into various meats for better taste and my father also thinks various world leaders and presidents should encourage and embrace tobacco and he honestly thinks it should be mandatory for a 1 year old babies and children to have various foods and beverages that has tobacco in its ingredients and than once that child gets closer to 2 years old than they should have there first cigarette
I don’t like guns but I can’t help but be offended when they blame the mentally ill for violence. It does nothing but promote the stigma around getting diagnosed.
Been mentally ill since age 12, started with social anxiety, then depression, psychotic depression, then I got paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis. I live in Poland and stigma surrounding mental illness here is huge, but despite that and even because of that – I'm open about my mental health issues and about many mental disorders, I try to explain to people irl what it really means to be mentally ill, I try to chase away demons surrounding mental illness. I started doing this online too, my YT channel is dedicated to talking about various mental health issues. Please guys, try to listen. Us, mentally ill, have had enough sh** in our life 'thanks' to our mental disorders, we don't need any more negativity and ignorance coming from other people.
You know why Kennedy did that? Because he had a mentally challenged sister that his parents put in an institution. He didn't want any more people to suffer.
The pharmaceutical industry OWNS John Oliver. A trillion dollar a year drug industry doesn't deprive itself of profit. The pharmaceutical industry manufactures vaccines. Deaths from viruses already declined BEFORE vaccines. The pro-vaxxers know nothing about vaccines. They also know nothing about autism. I have autism and it's defintely NOT how it's portrayed on sitcoms or in movies. Such ableism sickens me.
https://youtu.be/9Rxv8vkbgqc
I have severe OCD and severe Clinical Depression and the guy at the beginning is correct, Mental Health does indeed carry an unwarranted stigma that is 100% uncalled for. Many people see OCD as just a disorder of people wanting to be nice and tidy, but that isn’t the case. My OCD is contamination and my sister triggers an anxiety and panic spike as well as outsiders, which then activates the second part of OCD which is compulsions. My compulsion is washing my hands until it goes red or bleeds, or take a shower for 2 or more hours multiple times a day, it’s disgusting how Mental Health carries such an unwarranted stigma and how far our mental health care has lacked behind medical care.
you're so right!
but I think we can even start changing something the way we talk and listen to each other. If we would be more reflected, we wouldn't need too much professional help, because we would have real friends who listen to us! ?
I'm 42 and I've been dealing with mental illness my entire life. It's hard to deal with everything else in life when you can't even figure out how to navigate your own mind. I don't have insurance, so I have no doctor or medication. It's hard to get out of bed 90% of the time, and the other 10% I'm bouncing off the walls with no direction or focus. I just want to live a normal life, but I don't know how
I’m autistic, severely depressed and I have symptoms of ptsd and I would never hurt someone..
People need to be educated better in the ways of helping people with mental illness or helping people to understand and help that person efficiently. We need to change the view that mentally ill people are "crazy", not only is that insulting and demeaning, it only worsens our mental health. One of the problems is that other people don't seem or even try to understand. How would u feel if someone told you that ur just being "over dramatic" or that its just "all in ur head", yes I know that but when has knowing that ever helped, oh thats right! Never!, it's like telling a severely depressed person to just be happy, wow I'm suddenly happy yay! Said no depressed person ever after being told that other then sarcastically.
Anyone else think that is Jordan B. Peterson on the "Mental health" Graphic? Or am I going crazy?
YouTube really demonetized this video, which wonderfully de-incentivizes putting effort into being an activist for this cause
Please take your mental health seriously. I didn't and found out that I was nearly at the edge. My life came to a standstill because I would joke about it. I probably should have started therapy when I was about 13, I started at 23. I know that I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for the one person I for some reason decided to listen to. It opened a giant box with problems I didn't know I had, but I know them and can work on them. It's terrifying to open that box, but you can't work on them if you don't know you have them and it will affect you either way.
For three years I've known the word clusterfuck, not knowing from where I had learned or exactly what it meant, now, seeing this again I finally can rest assured that I've learned it from John Oliver, and that's the best thing that happened to me in the fucking horrible year that is 2020
TBH, I'm not sure why I thought this would help with my depression…. you do dumb things when you're stuck, I guess. I wish I knew how to access Assertive Community Treatment, but every time I try to assert myself about that stuff, I get told that I'm "doing a great job" which is not helpful. :/
I often suspect I'll only get taken seriously once I've killed myself, if then.
I am on Social Security Disability for my mental illness. I used to be a computer programmer. As my bipolar disorder got worse, I could no longer concentrate. I currently can't hold down any job because I can't stay on task. I have several friends who say they talk with me and I just phase out. Not in a rude, "you're so boring, Amber" way, just in a "I can't keep up with conversation right now, be back in a bit". You can't run a cash register at CVS if you can't keep up with the person giving you directions on how to run the register or just drift off in the middle of an order. However, much of the time, I'm coherent, so people don't "know what the problem is". I also have a high IQ (not sure I can pay attention well enough to take one now), so people think I can't have mental health problems. A lot of intelligent people have mental health problems that prevent them from coping with life. I currently live in housing with a case manager and attend day treatment every weekday (well, not this very second). I can usually cope with day to day
5:58 lol bus has 6 wheels. (or 8 depends who you ask.)
I can stutter man https://youtu.be/R3p5N1-MEoY
I have Social Anxiety (where I genuinely get very scared in most social settings, sometimes leading to panic attacks) and when in class I used to rarely talk to the people next to me. People always asked me provokingly “why are you so quiet” some even saying that I seem like I’ll be a serial killer when I’m older (what the fuck by the way). And all I have is Social Anxiety which I think in most cases isn’t seen as a very polarising mental illness. I can’t imagine what some people who struggle with much harsher illnesses go through. Poor souls.