Mental Health on the Joe Rogan Experience

“Study after study shows they have two cohorts of people. They've got people that exercise and eat whole foods, and then they have people that do antidepressant…”

Calley Means claims studies show people who exercise and eat whole foods without drugs or therapy have demonstrably better depression outcomes than those on antidepressants and therapy.

“I generally think it's a good thing because I think 58% of our rural markets today have no psychiatrist available and something like 50% or roughly have no men…”

Dr. Phil claims 58% of U.S. rural markets have no psychiatrist available and roughly 50% have no mental health professional of any kind available.

“I just told you only 40% of people are responding to these antidepressants that are standard of care”

Patrick claims only 40% of people respond to standard-of-care antidepressants compared to 30% who respond to placebo.

“in 2017, the National Institutes of Mental Health suddenly changed its estimate for the percentage of people with schizophrenia in the US from 1.1% to 0.3%. Th…”

Berenson claims NIMH secretly changed its US schizophrenia prevalence estimate from 1.1% to 0.3% in 2017 without public notice, implying a cover-up.

“the word is that 25% of women between 40 and 50 are on antidepressants and 10% of adults in the country”

Weil claims 25% of American women aged 40-50 and 10% of all adults in the US are on antidepressants.

“58 individuals attempted suicide. We showed that within three months, what was it, 91% had a 50% improvement.”

Andrew Marr says his foundation's uncontrolled cohort of 58 suicide-attempt veterans showed 91% achieved a 50% symptom improvement within three months of the TBI/hormone protocol.

“Because doesn't it affect somewhere in the neighborhood of 1% of the population? Yeah. That's a lot of people. It's a lot of people.”

Rogan states that schizophrenia affects roughly 1% of the population, and Hart agrees.

“Well, listen to this since 2010 and 2011 There was a 62% increase for older teens 189% increase in depression for preteens 70% increase in suicide for older te…”

Dr. Phil claims that since 2010-2011 there were sharp percentage increases in depression and suicide among teens and preteens, implicitly attributing this to social media and influencer culture.

“I was reading a statistic yesterday that one in 10 adolescents has considered suicide, which is that, that's terrifying.”

Soh states that one in ten adolescents has considered suicide, citing a statistic she read.

“Jonathan Haidt's work on this has been really interesting. His book uh The Coddling of the American Mind is a great one. And it's all about what you could see …”

Rates of self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide among girls rose sharply beginning around the advent of social media, per Jonathan Haidt's work.

“this guy Alex Berenson wrote a book about it it's called tell your children and uh it's about how there's a certain percentage of people that especially with h…”

Joe Rogan states that Alex Berenson wrote a book titled Tell Your Children arguing that a certain percentage of people, especially with high-dose THC, can experience a schizophrenic or psychotic break.

“But you know that there's a direct correlation that almost all school shooters are on psychotropic drugs.”

Rogan claims that almost all school shooters are on psychotropic medication.

“if you look at teenagers, for example, who want to switch genders, 95% of them are unbearably confused.”

Peterson claims that 95% of teenagers who currently want to switch genders are simply confused rather than experiencing genuine gender dysphoria.

“In any hierarchical system, when you stress the system, the disproportionate amount of that stress falls on the people who are in the lower rungs because they'…”

Peterson claims that in any hierarchical system a 1% increase in unemployment produces a 5% increase in psychiatric hospitalizations, because stress falls disproportionately on those at the bottom.

“the satanic ritual abuse accusations that emerged in daycares in the 1980s. And that was a consequence of women going into the workforce en masse, leaving thei…”

Peterson claims the 1980s satanic ritual abuse daycare panic was caused by mothers entering the workforce and developing pathological, sometimes borderline-schizophrenic fantasies about strangers caring for their children.

“Now, deleting social media from your applications, from your phones, does that give you a 10% boost to happiness? What do you think the percentage is? I think …”

Musk agrees that deleting social media apps gives roughly a 10% boost to happiness.