PODCAST EPISODE: OUR THOUGHTS ON NETFLIX DOC: I JUST KILLED MY DAD
Added 2022-11-29 22:59:49 +0000 UTCDr. John and I share, just for our Patreons, what we took from the popular Netflix documentary by Director Skye Borgman.
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Very late listening to many of these. Dr. John said he's dealt with depression for many years. He reminds me of Eeyore from Winnie-the-Pooh, even before he'd said that. Part his tone, part the blue/gray shirt he often wears (Which I like by the way). Lauren, if I were to pick a Winnie-the-Pooh character for you, it would be Tigger. Tigger is so curious and usually upbeat & at times a little sad but always empathetic. I love Winnie-the-Pooh and the analogy of each character to an emotion within a child, except maybe Kanga!! Both adorable characters. I don't have Netflix but enjoyed this analysis regarding actual mitigating mental circumstances. Not all is at it appears on the surface and motivations. Thank you!
Mary Salgado
2024-04-08 07:03:14 +0000 UTCDr. John your candor is so appreciated. I see so many men close to me in the medical field, especially providers that won’t take care of their mental health nor allow for medication because of the stigma. Here you are a highly successful provider publicly speaking out. I like the thought of normalizing mental health treatment, but how do we make that happen? Even women. I have used my special needs children as an “excuse” for anxiety treatment.
Jess Trump
2022-12-21 17:54:52 +0000 UTCWhen he was asked if he could have a normal life to me was a strange question. His knowledge of “normal” is much different. My dad was raised in an orphanage from the age of 5 during the depression. I remember asking my mom why my dad was different than all other dads. She answered that he didn’t have a family and had no idea what a family was and he was trying his best. This boy is going to have to piece together what a family is and how to be. It’s a long hard road. I wish him well.
Nora Ann
2022-12-15 03:58:34 +0000 UTCHmm, I’m going to have to go and watch that, thanks!
Crafty Criminalist
2022-12-01 19:49:12 +0000 UTCExcellent, thank you for doing this one, it's so interesting. Speaking of fathers, would you please do a video on the peacock documentary about Casey Anthony? Against all expectations, it has changed my view of that case a little. Most of all: the father had access to the car during the 31 days, the creepy things he said at Caylees funeral, the fact that he used to bury family pets in a similar manner to how Caylee was found - and if Casey was indeed abused, he is dangerous. The other thing that made me change my mind is how she has lived her life since then and the strong, positive, consistent relationships she has built with the people who were her defense team as well as the obvious deep gratitude she feels for them. Not at all what I expected. I would love to hear your thoughts about all of this 😊
Isabel G.
2022-11-30 12:33:35 +0000 UTCIt seems to me that bureaucrats have become too fearful to act. They fear intervention will escalate problems. They fear making a deadly mistake by pushing a case over the line of day to day violence and into deadly consequences. I think in some situations that authorities shirk intervention because they are unsure of who is at the actual core of the problem. We need more highly skilled, trained and properly compensated social workers with a narrow enough work load to be effective. The evaluations need to start quickly, with appropriate skills and information brought to bear, and the intervention needs to be executed quickly and followed by full professional support.
Roberta S Treacy
2022-11-30 05:32:26 +0000 UTCIMO, there is plenty of blame to go around. To say I'm enraged is an understatement. Putting a child in a cage is inexcusable. No excuses for Arthur, NONE. You're an elderly man who's been left with a one-year-old? GET SOME HELP. Sorry, not sorry. No excuse for Susan's actions, either. She could have saved Anthony. She eventually left Burt after many years of enabling him. Let's give her a medal 🙄. After she left him, why didn't she go straight to the police or try to locate Teresa? I am also having a great deal of trouble accepting that it was so difficult for Teresa to locate Burt. Hire a private detective, FFS. He had a job, he owned a car, he had gotten remarried. He was not living off the grid. It's called public records. Plus, why was Anthony not in the system as a missing child? She put up missing person posters. So what? People do that for dogs and cats. Sorry, not sorry. 🤬
Erica A. Zwick
2022-11-30 02:11:54 +0000 UTCYou are very fortunate to have found a way out of the darkness. Unfortunately, many people are unable to do that. While we love to label people as evil, there is always a reason (not an excuse)for their behavior. Take Charles Manson for example: Manson's early life marked him for trouble. The illegitimate son of a heavy drinking, promiscuous sixteen-year-old girl from Cincinnati--who would enter prison for armed robbery when Charles was five--, Manson spent most of his life in institutions. By age thirteen, he had committed his first crime, the burglary of a grocery store. The next nineteen years were a parade of crimes, apprehensions, incarcerations, escapes, and paroles. Most of the crimes were non-violent, the major exception being Manson's 1952 sodomization of a boy while holding a razor to his throat. Psychiatrists saw Manson as "a very emotionally upset youth," "slick" but "extremely sensitive" (1951), "dangerous" with "homosexual and assaultive tendencies" (1952), having "an unstable personality" but being potentially able "to straighten himself out" (1955), being "unable to control himself" with "a tendency to cut up" (1956), having "work habits that range from good to poor" (1957), being "erratic and moody" and "a classic text book case of a correctional institution inmate" (1958), as an "energetic person" who hides "his loneliness, resentment and hostility behind a facade of superficial ingratiation" (1961), being "emotionally insecure" and tending to "involve himself in various fanatical interests" (1963), and, finally, as "in need of a great deal of help in the transition from institution to the free world" (1966).
Erica A. Zwick
2022-11-30 01:19:15 +0000 UTCOps continued , I would say, today is a brand new canvas and you may paint your day into any creation you want just keep in mind, YOU decide. We have the power to respond instead of react in this lifetime and you, we, can make beauty appear even within the darkest of times. The composition cannot have depth without dark AND light. Balance. Indeed. And so, we all move forward with the arrows in our quivers we have forged and those that we discover and create ourselves, along the way. Anthony deserves hope and prayers. I will send both. May you both continue to be blessed as you continue to illuminate our world with light and insight. I send you my love.
Paula Marie Cornell
2022-11-30 01:09:51 +0000 UTCThe resilience of the human heart ( and even that if creatures) is truly magnificent. After the abuse I suffered through my family of origin and then the profound abuse of my 21 year marriage I have found myself. I CHOSE to find “my way” to my healthful place in society. I will always have scars, of every kind, but at 58 I have found my voice and my light. Now this is my purpose, to journey with others as they do so through life ( and of course as they face death as an end of life doula). Also, as an aside, when my children were little and if they were struggling when they woke I didn’t ever try to talk them out of the good , bad or ugly ( or all three at once lol) I would point out paintings ( some of which were mine) and I would have them tell me about what they saw. If they saw dark colours and light effects, or the reflections within the painting. M
Paula Marie Cornell
2022-11-30 01:04:38 +0000 UTCAnd not just killing awful people, but those who have slipped through the cracks. Dexter.
April Bowman
2022-11-30 00:24:31 +0000 UTC
