u/Fun_Needleworker7136

TL;DR

I'm an old fan of Jordan's -- I really liked 12 Rules and watched a lot of his early lectures. First discovered him in 2016, when he was still relatively unknown. I've met him a couple of times and found him to be patient, generous, and a genuinely kind person.

I drifted away from him post-2020 when I observed his output on Twitter becoming more angry and less thoughtful. I've never been a fan of alternative medicine so couldn't get on board with Mikhaila's advocacy with the all-meat diet.

But hearing about these new issues, I looked up benzos and brain injury and found this YouTube video. It's a psychiatrist talking about BIND - (benzo induced neurological dysfunction.) The way the psychiatrist talks about the injury that these medications induce is horrific. I am surprised that they're even allowed to be prescribed at all.

That being said, I am not anti-psychiatry, or anti-psych med. I think SSRIs help a lot of people. And I don't think benzos and SSRIs should be conflated, as they are very different classes of drugs.

But the video did make me more sympathetic to Jordan's plight. He really has suffered profoundly from using this medication, and a lot of it really has been outside of his control.