There's so much wrong with this I don't know where to start, but it's nice that you're benevolent enough to 'soften' on someone for having a paradoxical reaction to a relatively common medication. It's amusing that you feel he's done something that you need to 'forgive' him for. I guess he must have given you a personal assurance that he'd never use anti anxiety medications or something.
First, I don't know why anybody even cares about this. Either what the guy says is generally true and useful information, or it isn't. Even if he somehow failed to live up to his standards (as people like you seem to think), that doesn't mean that he's wrong for advocating those standards or that the standards themselves are wrong. So throwing out someone who generally gives pretty decent advice and seems to have his head screwed on right seems silly to me.
Second, psychologist != pharmacist. Psychologists don't even deal with drugs, typically. That's up to a doctor or nurse practitioner in a partnership with the psychologist/psychiatrist.
Third, if someone took any other drug and had a paradoxical reaction to it, would you hold it against them? If someone took a drug for its advertised effects, would you bitch and moan to them about the possible adverse side effects? Yeah, there are always risks. Sometimes you take the risk and suffer the consequences. Some people are going to get unlucky. And it is my understanding that he'd been basically unable to sleep for weeks or months due to a number of factors including his wife having a likely terminal cancer. If desperation to sleep drove him to try something with a higher risk, well, I can hardly say I blame him.
Peterson likely ended up on high doses of tranquilizers because he knows
Mind reading and assumptions. Fuck off.
Peterson is just a guy, like anybody else. If he let you down from some god-level pedestal that you'd put him on and now you have to "forgive" him, well, the problem is with you, not him.
(now accuse me of simping for Peterson, when I'm doing nothing of the sort. I'm just tired of reading pious midwit takes about him)
There's so much wrong with this I don't know where to start, but it's nice that you're benevolent enough to 'soften' on someone for having a paradoxical reaction to a relatively common medication. It's amusing that you feel he's done something that you need to 'forgive' him for. I guess he must have given you a personal assurance that he'd never use anti anxiety medications or something.
First, I don't know why anybody even cares about this. Either what the guy says is generally true and useful information, or it isn't. Even if he somehow failed to live up to his standards (as people like you seem to think), that doesn't mean that he's wrong for advocating those standards or that the standards themselves are wrong. So throwing out someone who generally gives pretty decent advice and seems to have his head screwed on right seems silly to me.
Second, psychologist != pharmacist. Psychologists don't even deal with drugs, typically. That's up to a doctor or nurse practitioner in a partnership with the psychologist/psychiatrist.
Third, if someone took any other drug and had a paradoxical reaction to it, would you hold it against them? If someone took a drug for its advertised effects, would you bitch and moan to them about the possible adverse side effects? Yeah, there are always risks. Sometimes you take the risk and suffer the consequences. Some people are going to get unlucky. And it is my understanding that he'd been basically unable to sleep for weeks or months due to a number of factors including his wife having a likely terminal cancer. If desperation to sleep drove him to try something with a higher risk, well, I can hardly say I blame him.
Mind reading and assumptions. Fuck off.
Peterson is just a guy, like anybody else. If he let you down from some god-level pedestal that you'd put him on and now you have to "forgive" him, well, the problem is with you, not him.
(now accuse me of simping for Peterson, when I'm doing nothing of the sort. I'm just tired of reading pious midwit takes about him)