Doctor REACTS to South Park | “Ass Burgers” or Aspeger’s Syndrome? | Dr Elliott

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This Doctor Reacts video is looking at thenexy episode of south park called “Ass Burgers” which continues our discussion on clinical depression, autism and autism spectrum disorders, why there has been a false link between autism and vaccinations and rates of depression in autistic people. We also explore how depression can damage relationships and how this can be improved with specific types of psychotherapy.

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How do you go on when nothing makes you happy the hopelessness huh excuse me a minute Stan okay uh hi Miss bronsky did we vaccinate Stan Marsh for the flu last year we did uhoh I think he’s got Asbergers it’s time to watch another South Park episode and continuing from

Where we last left off to talking about depression autism and as we’ll come to see on this video vaccinations and I feel that this is quite timely because in the UK at the moment we’re getting alerts because of a spike in measles cases owing to the number of people that

Are not vaccinated based on some pretty fraudulent data from about 20 years ago so ready let’s crack on big har and M in the morning talking about the new hit movie and when the last episode everything sounds like saw the movie last night big Harry and it made me laugh so hard this

Movie’s about a he was suddenly all like and the morning is often the worst time in depression we’ll talk more about it but let’s get to some music we call this a DI variation in mood the last time we watched South Park it was the episode immediately preceding this and we talked

About depression leading to negative cognitive bias we put more weight on negative feelings and negative events happening in our life in the context of depression than we do on positive ones a depressed mind is more lik to latch on to those feelings and those events that

Are in keeping with our mood but those very same cognitive distortions then perpetuate the depression itself this is the basis of many techniques in cognitive behavioral therapy and cognitive analytical therapy Target these pathological ways of thinking as a means to treat depression the mornings are definitely

The worst time you kind of wake up with that feeling of oh what is the point and people often wake up much earlier Jurassic Park and lost in the same TV show dinosaur lost human future yes Stanley eat your waffles no thanks to me this shows just how all-encompassing depression can be

It affects your sleep you get apathy anhedonia this loss of pleasure in things that you once found pleasurable changes in appeti I could go on on the news Cal the school is going to make us all get shots again but this time it’s so that we don’t get WS in our

Vaginas yep that’s only a vaccination for girls stupid not anymore why are they saying that getting vaccinated at school is going to make us all [ __ ] because some people think vaccinations can give you autism or Asbergers wait what that’s what they’re talking about on the news wait there’s a disease

Called Asbergers yeah this the American you so lying there is no disease caus Asbergers so the controversy about vaccines and autism I’m going to have a go summing this up as soon succinctly as I can in 1998 a then practicing gastroenterologist in the UK called Andrew Wakefield and 12 of his

Colleagues published a case Series in a very reputable Journal called the Lan this suggested that the measles Ms and rebella vaccination May predispose to pervasive developmental disorders including autism spectrum disorders this was an uncontrolled study only included 12 subjects and the conclusions they came to were purely speculative unfortunately despite it being a

Terribly designed study it got published in a very high-profile Journal got the attention of the mainstream media and very understandably parents were really scared and vaccination rates dropped immediately afterwards bigger better epidemiological studies were conducted and completely refuted this link and any association between getting the MMR vaccine and being diagnosed with autism

Is purely because the vaccination schedule had people having this MMR vaccine at around about the same time as we would see traits of autism start to become more evident and therefore when autism becomes actually diagnosable 10 of the 12 authors then retracted their input going on to say that no cause of

Link was established between the MMR vaccine and autism as the data were insufficient they also stated that Wakefield failed to disclose Financial conflicts of interest in that he’d been funded by lawyers who had been engaged by parents in lawsuits against vaccine producing companies for the record the

MMR vaccine is safe it’s effective it’s life-saving it does not cause autism was fraudulent science and so children at noon today all the girls will go to the gymnasium for their vaccinations and boys will head on out to recess do the girls get their shots right in the

Vagina no Butters that’s not how it works Mr Garris said these three boys were caught playing hookie did you guys know there’s actually a disease called Asbergers in the UK now the HPV vaccine is available to all children regardless of gender with a recommended age of

Vaccination of 12 to 13 years old this is designed to provide future protection against cancers mediated by the herpes Poma virus oral cancers cervical cancers anal cancers penal cancers okay okay Stan you you got to try and pull yourself out of this okay I know that your parents recently got divorced

Okay that’s got to be hard okay I know that that’s bad but when you walk around all mopy okay and saying everything is just shitty well that’s called being a Debbie Downer stand okay nobody likes a Debbie Downer okay I mean you got to you got to snap

Out of it Debbie just be more positive you’ve got to stop thinking this way okay problem solved thanks the frustrating thing about watching Clips like this is this is what really happens this isn’t just cartoon land this is reflecting what many people’s experiences are in real life how do you

Go on when nothing makes you happy the hopelessness huh excuse me a minute Stan okay uh hi Miss bronsky did we vaccinate Stan Marsh for the flu last year we did uhoh I think he’s got Asbergers the hopelessness is a symptom of depression which then kind of feeds

The apathy the anhedonia and the low mood itself and it can create real barriers in being able to engage some in sort of more active parts of treatment like in psychological therapy where a bit of wed engagement is actually needed because what’s the point it’s not going to work rates of

Depression are actually higher in autistic people in fact rates of pretty much all mental illnesses are higher in autistic people and the reasons are undoubtedly multifactorial being neurodiverse and trying to navigate a neurotypical world including the neurotypical way in which Psychotherapy is often delivered quite rid thinking

That is a feature of autism that can make those cognitive distortions of depression much more difficult to shift a lack of access to autism informed medical and social support that’s just the start the list could go on the first documented case of a child developing Asperger Syndrome from school

Vaccinations has put the government in a tight spot at a press conference today the media heard from the young boy’s father steamy RAR a speculative link followed by media hype again this is undoubtedly this is what the show is based on this is what really happened in

The late ’90s when that paper came out and the controversy about vacine safety has meant that there’s been reductions in the uptake of a lot of vaccines particularly in the MMR vaccine which then leads to the reemergence of preventable illnesses and the significant harm that can come with them

Particularly measles and MPS which you know are doing the rounds much more frequently and currently we’re having a spike in measles cases in the UK it’s pretty shitty when you work so hard to be a great parent and then the government comes along and with one shot turns your child into a mentally

Incapacitated freak I mean look at him he’s disinterested depressed self-loathing it’s most likely the reason his mother and I got divorced no add to the kids problems um the diagnostic term today is autism spectrum disorders previously there was a separation of autism versus what was at one point called high functioning autism

Which you know high functioning autism as a term just it’s meaningless and harmful and just used to deny people support that otherwise had theonomous name of asperges syndrome in the UK we say asper not Asbergers we don’t call it Asbergers syndrome anymore because ASD is frankly better it’s a broader term

That recognizes the variety of ways that autistic traits can affect people both in terms of giving people strengths and underpinning some people’s difficulties and again the term high functioning is meaningless and sometimes a harmful qualifier it is yet unknown if any other children have contracted Asbergers from the vaccinations but if so multi-million

Dollar lawsuits are probably not far behind so after the waful cont University the Lancer eventually did retract the paper but it was only after the GMC so the General Medical Council that regulates doctors found Wakefield to have committed deliberate academic fraud including the falsification of data and ethical violations in that he

Was uh studying children without ethical approval it’s really bad and he was struck off the medical register as a result what the what is this a hamburger a what why are there hamburgers in your underwear the most literal interpretation in the world my God you’re saying I have Asbergers Asbergers

It’s another example of Americans not being able to speak English properly sorry not sorry it’s asperges and while we’re at it it’s en keyop ofy not enop ofy from the Greek Enos another reason we got rid of the term Asperger syndrome is because H Asperger quite a naughty

Man bit of an ansy I can’t keep doing it Wendy I know he has an illness but godamn it’s like being around a black hole that just sucks the life out of everything look maybe what we should do is all go over to his house together and

That way we could no I can’t Wendy all his negativity is starting to make me depressed I have to let him go and whatever happens next I’m going to embrace with a totally positive attitude depression does have substantial indirect impacts on the people around you and I’m sure anybody that’s watching

This that has had a loved one experience severe mental illness will tell you that it can be very very hard to balance maintaining your compassion and empathy for somebody who’s ill while also not reacting to those defenses that are designed to kind of push you away where people with depression will often push

People away to prove to their depressed brains that you’re unlovable and that people don’t care and that you truly are alone we come back to what I keep saying on videos about paying attention to the counter transference the truth is we still know very little about Asperger Synder Mrs

Marsh all our patients here show the same social awkwardness that your son EX exhibits good morning Mr Ms goodbye doctor social awkwardness is a very subjective term specific things that we assess for when doing autism assessments include differences and in some cases difficulties in social communication and social interactions across multiple

Contexts for example a lack of reciprocal back and forth conversation or when the dialogue is very literal and very factual and lacks emotional content we also look at differences in non-verbal communication gaze eye contact gestures differences and distinguishing between different types of relationships what makes a professional relationship different to a

Friendship to which is different to a romantic relationship of course that’s not to say that any of these things are bad things that’s not to say that any of these things are causing difficulties in people’s lives but these along with a much more broader assessment using validated tools are some ways that we

Can start identifying autistic traits in people asperos is serious but unfortunately because of its name people think it’s a disease to be made fun of for Example all right everyone let’s have a seat some believe the autism is overdiagnosed I am not one of those people I think the rise in rates of diagnosis can be explained by a few things one is the change in diagnostic terminology to ASD seeing this as a

Spectrum of states of Mind a spectrum of traits and seeing these differences without necessarily automatically only reserving the diagnosis for people experiencing profound difficulties it’s not a one-sized fits-all model and this is particularly so for females who are often much better at masking some of those differences there’s potentially

Better awareness that leads to better detection rates and I think a gradual shift in Psychiatry I can I can say in my field away from this s blanket seeing everything through this model of Personality Disorder to then appreciating more the role of trauma and neurodiversity we’re not fully there yet

But that shift is happening and I think it’s in the right direction all right San listen up we don’t have a lot of time you’ve been been told Aspergers is real it isn’t it’s just a front that we use to stay hidden wait it’s not a real

Illness of course not if there was a Social Development disease you wouldn’t call it Asbergers that’s just that’s just mean we’ve already said how H Asperger was not a good man you know we don’t say vna’s granulomatosis anymore we call it granulomatosis with polyangitis because friedrick vegna has

Also been associated with Nazi war crimes though I don’t think that’s ever been definitively proven we don’t say Rus syndrome anymore we call it react of arthritis again hands writer bit of a Nazi R syndrome is a term I think that’s on its last legs for a genetic neurological disorder in children

Because Andreas Rett has also got his associations with Nazi Physicians it’s a pattern emerging here but aliens are putting out a brain wave that keeps most people seeing a false reality aliens or robots from the future whatever the point is they need to keep everyone in a blissful state of ignorance yeah

Everything used to be awesome and cool but now everything’s gone to [ __ ] and nobody knows accept us yeah because of aliens or genetically altered humans whatever you conspiracy theories aren’t in and of themsel you know a psychotic symptom but some mental illnesses will increase your suggestibility to be taken

In by these types of theories particularly when it then colludes with pre-existing paranoid ideas oh this is only going to make everything better depression and whiskey stuff it down with brown that’s what Frank says isn’t it from Sunny stuff it down with Brown oh cool much better alcohol is often used as a form of self-medicating and A coping mechanism the initial disinhibiting effect can cause Euphoria and have an anti-anxiety effect you feel better but then you know when you start drinking a bit more it then has the opposite effect it then creates enormous

Anxiety worsens one’s mood worsens the depression which then kind of leads to the cycle of drinking more worsening depression drinking more worsening depression crucially in treatment both should be addressed at the same time the alcohol use and the depression see loss of that impulse control and that disinhibiting effect

Now causing problems you’re a piece of [ __ ] though you and this pattern of I love you pushing people away and then pulling them back push people away kind of as a test to see if they truly love you or not how much will they fight to still be

Around in your life or not but then if they do as you ask and they stay away it reinforces those views that you’re unlovable and then you desperately cling to them Push Pull Push Pull push pull no no we don’t hang out anymore oh right like someone would just walk away from a

Friendship like that dude I didn’t walk away I turned 10 and everything he wanted to do seemed shitty to me S oh sure anyone would ditch out on their best friend cuz they weren’t feeling good now stop playing games and tell us why kartman burgers are so delicious I don’t

Know this is where interpersonal therapy can help using relationships as your model to try and gain insight into your own mind and make the necessary changes you need to try and treat their mental illness it specifically focuses on at least one of four different types of interpersonal dynamics that are often

Now causing problems grief interpersonal role disputes transitions in people’s roles in life and in that friendship and interpersonal deficits look I know you got Asbergers from the school and I I’m sry sorry but your negativity is poison to me oh right like a friend would walk

Out on somebody who was diagnosed with a serious illness well if you use your anger in the midst of an illness to push people away keep them at a distance from your emotional vulnerability or as a way of communicating your own feelings again listen to The Counter transference it

Will tell you not just about you it will tell you about them as well the problem comes in if it successfully achieves its sort of cognitively cognitively distorted aim which is for people to stay away now you’ve proved to your depress mind that nobody cares and everybody leaves and it just leaves you

In more pain than when you started and this is where those negative cognitive biases just serve to reinforce the illness of depression and why the role of psychotherapy alongside anti-depressant medications is so important sbut through all its Ridiculousness actually continues to convey some really accurate messages about mental health while love watching

It on this channel but let me know what you thought in the comments below and I will see you for another video very very soon love you bye