Dec. 15, 2024 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| So, do people overeat? | |
| Like, is a woman obese, as is often the case, in my humble opinion and experience, one of the reasons that women and sometimes men overeat is because they were repeatedly sexually abused as children. | |
| In other words, having an attractive figure or an attractive frame draws sexual predation and... | |
| They want to wreck their bodies so that they don't get preyed upon even more. | |
| Now, if a woman is overeating because she was sexually abused as a child and she associates physical attractiveness with bringing on endless midnight rape, well, what's a doctor supposed to do about that? | |
| What's a health insurance company supposed to do about that? | |
| Somebody says, my friend has always had health problems, but doctors can never find exactly what's wrong. | |
| Every couple of months, it's something new, right? | |
| Now, there's a battle, right? | |
| And there's a battle, I can see both sides of it. | |
| One battle is That this person has something genuinely wrong with them, genuinely physically wrong with them, but the doctors can't find it, in which case we have massive sympathy for him. | |
| But on the other hand, and this tends to be a little bit more female, although certainly not exclusively female, people get their way by being unwell. | |
| Oh, you're giving me a headache. | |
| Oh, you need... | |
| Oh, this is upsetting to me. | |
| Oh, my stomach... | |
| Like, you know when you're a kid. | |
| Come on, we've all done this, right? | |
| I can't go to school today. | |
| My tummy hurts. | |
| I mean, I write about this in my novel called The Present, which you should get at freedomain.com slash books. | |
| Great book, if I do say so myself. | |
| But we all did this as a kid. | |
| That I would get my way by being unwell, faking illness, right? | |
| Faking illness. | |
| I remember when I was six in boarding school, I was trying to sleep and there were these kids who were making massive amounts of noise in the next dormitory and I complained that I had an earache. | |
| They gave me a couple of drops. | |
| I think everybody knew I was nonsense. | |
| But I couldn't say, make these kids quiet down. | |
| Oh, these kids have given me an earache. | |
| You can write, they put some drops in my ears and sent me back to bed, right? | |
| Oh, this woman says, simple carbs increase dopamine in the brain. | |
| So people can literally self-medicate trauma with sweets and associate food with pain, Absolution, yeah. | |
| Women get food addictions the way men get video game addictions. | |
| Yeah, or pornography addictions, right? | |
| For both parties, right? | |
| Get them checked for Lyme disease. | |
| I had a friend's mom who had it for 20 years undiagnosed. | |
| She had one issue pile on top of another until finally they found the root cause. | |
| Is that a bioweapon? | |
| Would not surprise me. | |
| Would not surprise me. | |
| So, it's tough. | |
| You know, child abuse can lead to myriad amounts of health problems and how are doctors supposed to fix that? | |
| and there are people who fake illnesses to get their way. | |
| They pretend to be ill to get their way. | |
| I mean, obviously this is a TV show, but there was a TV show called Sanford and Son when I was a kid where an old comedian, Red Fox, whenever he didn't get his way, he'd pretend to have a heart attack. | |
| So there is a battle, and of course there's also fraud. | |
| There are, of course, people who are drug addicts who go into the emergency room complaining of extreme pain so they can get their opiates. | |
| Oh man, it's killing me. | |
| You've got to give me something, man. | |
| And they're really committed. | |
| They'll be there for hours. | |
| Right? | |
| Because they want to get their opiates. | |
| Because they're addicts. | |
| So there's a battle between the real and the fake. | |
| And it's not easy. | |
| It is not easy to solve that stuff. | |
| Oh yeah, you're saying this. | |
| I really appreciate your additions tonight, Dennis. | |
| As always, it's great stuff. | |
| Not to mention how abysmal the psych field is in terms of reproducibility. | |
| It's the lowest reproducibility out of all the sciences, so nothing is able to be proved or denied effectively. | |
| Yeah, I was talking about this years ago, but thank you for bringing it up. | |
| It's a really good point. |
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