Back to episode — Episode 1527 Scott Adams - Today I Will Test My Fake News Filter on the Lying Megaturds in the Media
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ngs are going pretty well for them, until you get to know them and then you find out that they're just basket cases. Well, we got a little glimpse of that. As if you couldn't tell already that Megan Fox has body dysmorphia issues, fairly serious mental disorder. If you've got that, you're not happy at all. And her boyfriend says he's got PTSD from past drug use and other experiences. So these two…
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So I'm not talking about the deep depression stuff where you really need some help. I'm talking about the people who just couldn't get through the pandemic without some mental damage and can't get through modern life and managing their smartphones and their social lives and everything without actual mental damage. Why can't we teach kids the basics of good mental health?
Let me ask you this. How many, just in the comments, let me know how many of you have kids, let's say between 10 and 17. How many of you in the comments, because I don't know if this crowd has a lot of kids. Oh, they do. A lot of kids. I'm seeing lots of yeses, and the answers especially on Locals. So a lot of you have kids in that 10 to 17 range. So you know exactly what I'm talking about here.
How many of those kids between 10 and 17 have wildly different sleep schedules on the weekend than they do during the school week? In the comments, how many of your kids have wildly different sleep patterns on the weekend than the weekdays? I'm seeing more no's than I thought. Interesting. I think that suggests maybe a more conservative audience here. But yeah, it looks like most of you are saying yes to that.
Now, are the children being taught in school that having those wildly different sle
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ep patterns guarantee that they'll be depressed? Guarantee it. It's not even statistically, oh you've increased the chance that you're going to be depressed and sleepy and unhappy and have mental problems. I'm not talking about increasing the odds. I'm talking about you got it. You messed up your sleeping pattern and now you have some mental problems. One-to-one correlation. Now ideally they're t…
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