Andrew Huberman· PhD
So medicines can help that, but we have to have some flexibility around their conception and the modern medical system of like 15 minute visits, to a psychiatrist that are weeks apart.
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So medicines can help that, but we have to have some flexibility around their conception and the modern medical system of like 15 minute visits, to a psychiatrist that are weeks apart.
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Those medicines create more distress tolerance in us. If you can improve someone's distress tolerance and you can use medicines that that take away what clinically is rumination, right? Not a not the standard meaning of that word, but the clinical meaning of it where there are distress centers in our brain that are overactive and then we get stuck in these maladaptive negative pathways where we think about something over and over and over again with no real chance of solving it because that's not what's going on inside of us.