A must-read for everyone. Our thoughts shape our reality—and now, even our thoughts are being shaped by algorithms.
Most people never stop to question the healthcare system or the mental health industrial complex. Why would they? If you’ve never had a reason to look deeper, it’s easy to blindly trust. That’s exactly how the system was designed.
For me, the wake-up call was deeply personal. My healthy husband died by suicide just five weeks after being prescribed Zoloft for insomnia—by his general practitioner—shortly after starting his dream job. He had no history of depression. No signs. No warnings. When something like this happens, you investigate and question everything.
That moment shattered everything I thought I knew—about doctors, the government, the FDA, even the advertising industry I’d built my career in. My entire belief system was upended.
My awakening began with one question… then another. I sat in the discomfort. I walked through my own dark night of the soul. And I realized just how programmed I had been.
I’m grateful for you, conscious thinkers and truth-seekers who aren’t afraid to ask hard questions. Who approach these issues not just philosophically—but personally. Because that’s where the real shift begins.
I’m so sorry. Some would believe his death was a pre planned gift to your soul so that you would expand yourself and your beliefs. We are much more than our physical bodies.
Yet Meta (or rather FB) is where I uncovered the truth about medications. FB has been a lifeline for hundreds of thousands who are seeking answers and guidance regarding tapering and the like.
Wonderful article. I knew things were crazy when I started following Dr Jason Fung and docs like him who promoted the low carb, keto diets-those diets that go against big food, big pharma... Some of the docs were getting blackballed, having license to practice challenged. People were getting healthy yet they were told not to go against the"standards". I lost weight and got healthy. Then we had the COVID thing and we saw how that went, the the craziness of the trans drugging and surgeries of children and the psych/med organizations were supporting and promoting it... So then I found your podcast and see all I was believing about psych meds and brain imbalances was all lies...I bought into that and have been trying to help 2 family members who experience anxiety and depression and have been on various drugs, I think now to their detriment. As a conservative and also a Christian, I have also found I am in totally different camps from a lot of friends as well as family. It's so strange just feeling like "how can you believe THAT!" all the time. Sometimes you just have to not bring up most subjects will people in your life just to keep any kind of peace. I can't even look at my friends and family from my home state of Minnesota (I've been in Texas for 34 years) because it's gets my blood pressure up reading their responses to wants going on in the world. I think before social media we weren't aware of everyone's opinions on things. Knowing all these things can drive you crazy! And I think social media really is making people unwell and separated of into different categories. I just watched a podcast from Dr. Joseph Witt-Doerring- he had to defend his choice of talking about how Matt Walsh was right about something to do with Big Pharma and psych meds. People were complaining about him talking about Walsh again even though he's one of the only journalists taking about the truths of the topic. It's insane-people can't hear truths when it's coming from a party or a person the don't like...
I know firsthand the power of belief, especially when it comes to healing. I have also seen the damage done by doctors who prescribe neurotoxins for so-called disorders. But the dangers of SSRI's have been known for years and I have resigned myself to this information never becoming common knowledge, as there is just too much money is at stake.
Keep up the good work! Keep truth telling. We are being manipulated on all sides. Money and power corrupt in government, big food, big pharma, education, media, health industry, in every aspect of life... this is truth out there and there always going to those who don't want you to see it and challenge the corruption. We could live in ignorance in years past but that's what's gotten us to where we are.
I've been "blackpilled" for going on 20 years now. Wearing a military surplus gas mask between classes, looking intently up at the checkerboard sky.
In my youth I thought I could change the world by cracking open (metaphorically) the heads around me. Part of my becoming a man was discovering the kingdom within; those were the gates that needed to be stormed.
A long time ago I internalized the maxim "don't volunteer". It only ever made enemies for me. I have always been ready for the people in my life who ask a pointed question, though it has never happened. This doesn't upset me. I won't lead horses and I won't attempt to compel them to drink. I just keep the troughs clean and full.
Your insight to psychiatric and physical health is spot on- thank you for sharing. Also a big thanks for coordinating a group of like minded doctors and psychologists- it's really critical to our survival! Happy Easter
I encounter the use of the algorithm mostly n the online newspaper comments section.
I'm more and more convinced that these newspapers are wanting to reshape our world. I know my conspiracy friends have told me this for years but actually encountering it brings it into reality. What can make it even worse is that the same newspaper promotes Freedom of Speech and sometimes I might ask a rhetorical question and it gets rejected. Yet other comments are borderline 'hate speech' (whatever that means..) and accepted.
@Lucy J uses the word 'perceptions' and I think these newspapers have an unspoken agenda to keep us in line, but, with their agenda..
"There are nights I lie awake wondering if I've simply traded one algorithm for another, one set of cognitive biases for a different collection. Have I truly awakened, or just changed channels on the reality TV show of our collective consciousness?"
Well-written article, your recognition that we are in different spaces due to various algorithms /information spheres is very helpful. Physicians often have no idea how much big pharma has shaped their information space, and closed them off to the realities of ACE's and other psychological injuries as causes of both mental and physical distress.
Thank you for the eloquent writing and expression of what we face in caring for mental health and well being. So often I’ve felt alone in the way I approach helping others through the quagmire of their anguish. Looking for those absolutes is like navigating where the person or the provider is out of balance and then knowing that balance is not a data point it’s fluid.
I think it is very important to curate for ourselves bases from which to occupy a variety of framing. Habitual patterns of the mind and processes, as well as reinforcing languaging, lock us in place such that we cannot break out of a preset ritual of experience, interpretation, and social shorthand.
You can do it by building historical perspective, cultural, poetry... But you need to seek ways that will facilitate sidestepping ideological lock boxes. I have family who are in these other realities, and heavily invested. My biggest challenge is to ground our interactions in something outside of their learned political frames, and find language and conceptual structures for which there are not already preset interpretations and response scripts. Metaphors are also useful, as long as they are not too explicitly interpreted, so the other person can use their seeking sense to find a new order and understanding. Socratic method questioning can also be good, if you can avoid the behavior trigger landmines in the other person.
A must-read for everyone. Our thoughts shape our reality—and now, even our thoughts are being shaped by algorithms.
Most people never stop to question the healthcare system or the mental health industrial complex. Why would they? If you’ve never had a reason to look deeper, it’s easy to blindly trust. That’s exactly how the system was designed.
For me, the wake-up call was deeply personal. My healthy husband died by suicide just five weeks after being prescribed Zoloft for insomnia—by his general practitioner—shortly after starting his dream job. He had no history of depression. No signs. No warnings. When something like this happens, you investigate and question everything.
That moment shattered everything I thought I knew—about doctors, the government, the FDA, even the advertising industry I’d built my career in. My entire belief system was upended.
My awakening began with one question… then another. I sat in the discomfort. I walked through my own dark night of the soul. And I realized just how programmed I had been.
I’m grateful for you, conscious thinkers and truth-seekers who aren’t afraid to ask hard questions. Who approach these issues not just philosophically—but personally. Because that’s where the real shift begins.
I’m so sorry. Some would believe his death was a pre planned gift to your soul so that you would expand yourself and your beliefs. We are much more than our physical bodies.
Navigating this split of perceptions has been incredibly lonely, isolating, painful and almost psychosis inducing.
I feel like I’m drowning every time I speak and realise I might as well be speaking an alien language to my fellow people.
Thank you for this!
Thank you for the likes, it makes me realise I’m not the only one <3 much love
Those that think like you exist, here on Substack. We have traded Meta for intelligent digital content
Yet Meta (or rather FB) is where I uncovered the truth about medications. FB has been a lifeline for hundreds of thousands who are seeking answers and guidance regarding tapering and the like.
So glad I’ve found you. It’s been very painful.
Wonderful article. I knew things were crazy when I started following Dr Jason Fung and docs like him who promoted the low carb, keto diets-those diets that go against big food, big pharma... Some of the docs were getting blackballed, having license to practice challenged. People were getting healthy yet they were told not to go against the"standards". I lost weight and got healthy. Then we had the COVID thing and we saw how that went, the the craziness of the trans drugging and surgeries of children and the psych/med organizations were supporting and promoting it... So then I found your podcast and see all I was believing about psych meds and brain imbalances was all lies...I bought into that and have been trying to help 2 family members who experience anxiety and depression and have been on various drugs, I think now to their detriment. As a conservative and also a Christian, I have also found I am in totally different camps from a lot of friends as well as family. It's so strange just feeling like "how can you believe THAT!" all the time. Sometimes you just have to not bring up most subjects will people in your life just to keep any kind of peace. I can't even look at my friends and family from my home state of Minnesota (I've been in Texas for 34 years) because it's gets my blood pressure up reading their responses to wants going on in the world. I think before social media we weren't aware of everyone's opinions on things. Knowing all these things can drive you crazy! And I think social media really is making people unwell and separated of into different categories. I just watched a podcast from Dr. Joseph Witt-Doerring- he had to defend his choice of talking about how Matt Walsh was right about something to do with Big Pharma and psych meds. People were complaining about him talking about Walsh again even though he's one of the only journalists taking about the truths of the topic. It's insane-people can't hear truths when it's coming from a party or a person the don't like...
I know firsthand the power of belief, especially when it comes to healing. I have also seen the damage done by doctors who prescribe neurotoxins for so-called disorders. But the dangers of SSRI's have been known for years and I have resigned myself to this information never becoming common knowledge, as there is just too much money is at stake.
Keep up the good work! Keep truth telling. We are being manipulated on all sides. Money and power corrupt in government, big food, big pharma, education, media, health industry, in every aspect of life... this is truth out there and there always going to those who don't want you to see it and challenge the corruption. We could live in ignorance in years past but that's what's gotten us to where we are.
Bravo, great article!
I've been "blackpilled" for going on 20 years now. Wearing a military surplus gas mask between classes, looking intently up at the checkerboard sky.
In my youth I thought I could change the world by cracking open (metaphorically) the heads around me. Part of my becoming a man was discovering the kingdom within; those were the gates that needed to be stormed.
A long time ago I internalized the maxim "don't volunteer". It only ever made enemies for me. I have always been ready for the people in my life who ask a pointed question, though it has never happened. This doesn't upset me. I won't lead horses and I won't attempt to compel them to drink. I just keep the troughs clean and full.
Fantastic essay sir.
Thanks for getting out a message of reason.
Yes and Amen!
Your insight to psychiatric and physical health is spot on- thank you for sharing. Also a big thanks for coordinating a group of like minded doctors and psychologists- it's really critical to our survival! Happy Easter
Wow - thank you for writing this, thank you for getting it.
Great article. Thank you.
I encounter the use of the algorithm mostly n the online newspaper comments section.
I'm more and more convinced that these newspapers are wanting to reshape our world. I know my conspiracy friends have told me this for years but actually encountering it brings it into reality. What can make it even worse is that the same newspaper promotes Freedom of Speech and sometimes I might ask a rhetorical question and it gets rejected. Yet other comments are borderline 'hate speech' (whatever that means..) and accepted.
@Lucy J uses the word 'perceptions' and I think these newspapers have an unspoken agenda to keep us in line, but, with their agenda..
A brilliant write-up! This especially:
"There are nights I lie awake wondering if I've simply traded one algorithm for another, one set of cognitive biases for a different collection. Have I truly awakened, or just changed channels on the reality TV show of our collective consciousness?"
Well-written article, your recognition that we are in different spaces due to various algorithms /information spheres is very helpful. Physicians often have no idea how much big pharma has shaped their information space, and closed them off to the realities of ACE's and other psychological injuries as causes of both mental and physical distress.
This was an incredibly validating piece. Thank you.
Thank you for the eloquent writing and expression of what we face in caring for mental health and well being. So often I’ve felt alone in the way I approach helping others through the quagmire of their anguish. Looking for those absolutes is like navigating where the person or the provider is out of balance and then knowing that balance is not a data point it’s fluid.
I think it is very important to curate for ourselves bases from which to occupy a variety of framing. Habitual patterns of the mind and processes, as well as reinforcing languaging, lock us in place such that we cannot break out of a preset ritual of experience, interpretation, and social shorthand.
You can do it by building historical perspective, cultural, poetry... But you need to seek ways that will facilitate sidestepping ideological lock boxes. I have family who are in these other realities, and heavily invested. My biggest challenge is to ground our interactions in something outside of their learned political frames, and find language and conceptual structures for which there are not already preset interpretations and response scripts. Metaphors are also useful, as long as they are not too explicitly interpreted, so the other person can use their seeking sense to find a new order and understanding. Socratic method questioning can also be good, if you can avoid the behavior trigger landmines in the other person.