Not to mention voluntarily installing some of the worst spyware…
For actual tips though, healthygamersgg on YouTube/Twitch is an excellent resource. He is a licensed therapist and has a ton of adhd videos and other topics.
This might be a personal issue, but to me the vibes feel off with him. I’m not against someone self promoting, it just seems like every video of his I’ve seen has him wedging his $75 guide and $600 “group coaching” into conversations whenever he can. I’m not saying he’s wrong about anything or that his videos aren’t useful, he just comes off as very used car salesman to me.
A lot of his approach seems to be based on vedic philosophy, and all that is available free if you don’t want to go through him. You can walk into a temple and leave with free books because they believe knowledge should be free. All they ask is you pass the book on when you’re finished.
I’ve got nothing against the guy though, I don’t know enough about him, just pointing out that you can get the knowledge free if you want to.
I like Dr. K and think the content he puts out is important and useful, but there are a few items with his approach that I don’t appreciate. In a few of his earlier videos, he uses an example of a farmer vs. a hunter (or something thereabouts) to explain why certain unproductive thoughts can be reoccurring in people. I find that this has a lot of overlap with evolutionary psychology, which has an evidence problem and is often employed by “mindset grifters” to move product. I’m not saying that Dr. K is one of those grifters, but I’m concerned that his employment of it might “soften up” viewers to that kind of logic. So that when an actual grifter employs it, the person would be more receptive to being scammed.
But even so, I still want to stress that I think there’s a lot of good in his content and I think offering as much free content as he does is a public service.
Edit: sorry, i forgot to tie this back to your comment. He often in his earlier videos tied back those evolutionary psychology examples to concepts in Vedic philosophy and meditation. I think that could be dangerous for the reasons above, with the added issue of tying evidence-based science to things that can’t be evidenced (like someone having a certain tendency present in Vedic thought). I have the same objections to that as I would astrology. But of course if people find either of those things helpful to their mental health journey, more power to them.
Why is that wrong? He also has an insane amount of free content on YouTube.
It’s not wrong but any time someone is giving advice and selling something at the same time, it calls into question their motives and integrity.
Just means we should be suspicious, that’s all. Lots of scammers out there.
He’s literally a licensed therapist
and Dr. Oz is a cardiac surgeon. not to say healthygamergg is scamming or anything, but medical professionals with media careers should be treated with at least a little skepticism.
That’s a really extreme and insulting comparison. Can you post an example of anything that’s remotely questionable content from healthygamersgg?
I mean that thing where he said to stop eating any/all spicy food and eat plain yogurt if you have anger issues seemed a little weird. Like can offer some plausible deniability but it seems like the notion comes more from “traditional medicine” and iirc there’s not much research on the subject. One of his chatters challenged him on it and he basically told them that maybe some of the ancient wisdom actually has a point, the science just hasn’t caught up yet, trust him on this one. I don’t disagree with the sentiment in general, science won’t always have the answer to a specific question, but I do get weary when people use try to use that to offer their specific remedies.
Maybe something like the sponsorblock addon could help
Slightly off topic - describes most social media influencers in a nutshell… particularly sponsored reviews lol
Edit: clarification
If he wants to sell his guides for $75, yeah I think that’s overpriced but he can set the price he wants. It’s the whole group coaching thing that seems most sketch to me. A group of up to 7 people all having what he legally can’t imply is group therapy, but the website advertises that it helps reduce anxiety and depression. His brand is all about mental health, and to me it just skirts too close to doing a bait and switch.
I’m also not a huge fan of the math on their customer cost:coach payment. For group sessions it’s $30/session/person, but their coach base salary is $20/hour and “up to” $37.50/hour. There aren’t any insurance costs or office rent or anything else like this being eaten up here.
All of this stuff is technically legal, I just find it distasteful and it makes me suspicious.
Also if you think $75 for a guide is expensive, a single therapy session can be $90+
I’ve paid more than that for therapy sessions, I’m well aware of how fucked the costs are. But they aren’t comparable. Therapy is a one on one session with a licensed professional who is providing you with an evaluation and potentially treatment, versus an ebook written by a doctor. I’m not saying it’s useless information, but you can probably get comparable books from your local library for free.
“I think my phone is more interesting than gardenwork”
Bro that’s ADHD!
“I sometimes forget where i put my keys”
That’s ADHD for sure you should get medsOn ADHD-TikTok everything is ADHD
I was about to comment something rude, until I read the last line.
THATS ADHD!!!
Anti- Tik tok instant upvote 😎 lol
I’m sure 1 in 100 TikToks are probably good, but I just can’t make it through the amount of bad videos on there… the good stuff gets shattered on other platforms anyway.
By the way, I was helping a buddy job hunting… holy cow, TikTok has a huge number of open jobs, like 650 in Seattle alone.
Why would anyone trust tik tok ad a source for ANY information at all?! That’s like watching the Sifl and silly episode where they dance to the Du Hast video to learn German.
The only “resources” on tiktok that might actually help, are just videos of users giving the viewer general words of affirmation and support. And it’s not gonna fix you; it would just boost your mood a little and maybe get you out of a slump.
TikTok does have a ton of misinformation, projections of learned helplessness, and recommendations of pseudoscience/under-studied treatments; but if you are a TikToker and really want to get ADHD tips there, here are a few users I’ve found that actually seem to know what they’re talking about:
- HowToADHD (Jessica McCabe)
- The_ADHD_Nutritionist (Marley Alex)
- ADHDVision
- ADHD_Coach_Ryan (ADHD Coach Ryan Mayer)
Though even with them, take what they say with a grain of salt, do your homework, and talk to your doctor/therapist/executive function coach before implementing stuff that may impact your wellbeing. Also, be mindful of recommendations that are also paid sponsorships.
I follow a couple more, personally, but I don’t feel comfortable recommending them because their suggestions and the information they provide can be a bit dubious at times.
Thank you! I’m on The struggle bus as is, I’m not trying to put a brick on the gas pedal.
I prefer this misinformation vortex
idk why but i never got tiktok. the all-powerful mystical algorithm that hijacks your brain just didn’t work on me. it’s all politics bullshit and lame facebook memes.
hell, the fedi (both lemmy and the microblog-verse) has “wasted” more of my lifespan overall than tiktok.
If you told it you didn’t like that content it would just try something else. Or searched your interests so it knows what you’re looking for. My feed is full of only my interests 99.9% of the time. Everyone complaining about only getting cringy content is really telling on themselves here lol
Everyone complaining about only getting cringy content is really telling on themselves here lol
even in the deepest, darkest, secret-est parts of my soul i have no interest in any content (a) in Arabic and (b) of imams. i can’t even understand a word of Arabic and am not religious, yet apparently that was the most up to date profile tiktok had on me the last time i tried it out. (which was the 3rd time or so) and i even made an account and signed in.
the politics bullshit and lame facebook-grade memes were the “best” it could muster. as in, the only things i understood.
maybe it works better in an english speaking and not-religious-asf country.
Nah you probably just didn’t give it much of a chance then. Especially if you think it caters to the religious crowd lol. They get torn apart in my little corner of tiktok. My entire feed is cooking, crochet, gardening, gaming, cats, random memes, and for some reason chickens. I don’t know why it decided I wanted to see people’s pet chickens but it was indeed very correct. The only political stuff I get for the most part is people I follow in politics
I love “misinformation vortex”. Too true
I intentionally don’t do TikTok for this reason. I would literally get nothing done. I do watch tech videos on the side while working. Then YouTube started pushing shorts aggressively and I caught myself scrolling shorts for 2 hours and did zero work.