Self-Malingering, Road Rage, and Other Topics

[@MsJenButler]

Dr. Honda, I am in the middle of listening to this episode, and I held my breath while you talked through your thinking around assisted suicide for folks with BPD who have tried all kinds of avenues and are still suffering. Kudos to you for bringing nuance to the conversation. II am appalled that any therapist would give the message to a patient that they are beyond hope. That person should have referred the patient out if they felt lacking in their ability to help them.

[@noniesundstrom119]

I’ve been following the mass rape trial ongoing in France where 50+++ men were enabled by a husband to rape his unconscious wife over a 10 year period. I can see a connection in your catfishing comments relating in some ways to this case. I think many of your followers would be grateful to hear your thoughts. Women and men around the world are trying to process this, and haven’t heard anything more than short quips on European news. I’ve loved listening to your channel for several years, from BC Canada.

[@samanthas8340]

I hadn't heard about this until reading your comment, paused mid podcast and looked it up. This needs to be discussed!!!! We need a deep dive on this "husband" My heart goes out to the wife....I've struggled the find the words

[@DanielleMarieW]

From what I saw on the news, the husband was only caught when he was sexually harassing women at a supermarket and police searched his house and found photos of the drugged assaults on the wife. So she had been wondering for years if she had dementia or a brain tumour due to lapses in her memory. She seems incredible- she divorced this man, and does not allow the shame of what happened to win (shame can be a normal reaction to sexual assault). I hope she is celebrated as an international hero for pursuing justice against so many odds. It is so rare that a perpetrator is caught and a survivor believed. Not everyone has photographic evidence of their assault- what impact will this case have on other survivors?

[@noniesundstrom119]

All men now found guilty, but many others were not identified so not charged. So many men who thought this was OK and not expecting to be found out, unbelievable.

[@noniesundstrom119]

@@DanielleMarieW almost a fluke that a security guard who caught him actually called police and didn’t just let him off with a warning

[@samanthas8340]

45:20 ish I recently got honked at by the person behind me while yielding at a traffic circle near my house. The thing ive seen so many people approach this traffic circle and never yield or ever look to see traffic and people cut off people all the time. So when I saw cars approaching I was waiting to see if they were going to slow down for me to go and because I paused that's when the person honked but I was also right that the car was not slowlying down, but it still ruined my mood for the next 24hrs or so.

[@RaymondJiang444]

Apologies if this may sound like a dumb question, but what would be the solution to treatment resistant depression or other mental illnesses if the person has no desire to die? Not necessarily in a death phobia sort of way, but maybe they don't feel it's their time and still want to make something of their life while they still have it?

[@kontzel]

Regarding the MMPI: I had to take this along with a slew of other psychological tests for my entrance into seminary. That same scale showed some possibility of me doing the opposite of the person who asked the question - that I was downplaying symptoms. The person who wrote the report mentioned it but also indicated that they didn't believe that was the case because of other factors. Im a therapist who got my training through social work training, so I was aware of the MMPI but hadn't studied it. I personally found some really worrying issues with how very much it feels geared toward straight, middle class, white, males. It was actually a little off-putting to me as I was taking it!

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

34:00 I do not think that would ever be possible; one of the criterion from getting authorized for PAS in every place I have seen it legalized is they must have a terminal diagnosis, as in, a physician would have to sign off on the fact this person will certainly pass away from the disease they have. BPD is not terminal, though it can be chronic. So, I doubt there will ever be a legal structure allowing such patients to avail themselves of PAS.

[@eh4518]

Doesn't the person to the right always go first when there is a tie at a stopsign? I thought this was the convention

[@regularguy9861]

There are a few issues I personally have with this idea of physician assisted A doctor is ending this person’s life, it’s not by their own hand. So who’s deciding what’s an acceptable level of suffering? Surely not everyone can be passed through. Medical care is also expensive, who’s paying for this? The depressed patient? A doctor making a business of assisted and no patient can ever sue. Will this make more people want to commit suicide now that it is legal and humane? Will this put the thought in their head? Edit: I wonder if tricking patients into thinking they died, would help cure their depression. I’ve seen many stories of people who attempted and survived and immediately regretted their decision. Just a funny thought.

[@frmaha]

Yeah agree. I think it is just too much of a risk with mental health conditions. Terminal, degenerative conditions, I get, though I understand why some doctors would be hesitant. It is too hard to separate certain issues with social challenges like poverty. For example, in Canada there was a case of a woman with a lot of chemical sensitivities and all the sensitivities could be accommodated, just it would have been expensive to do so. So I just think it is too big a choice and could get really sketchy in cases where it is not clear cut.

[@alma.blackhawk]