For one week, I decide to check out a different show, and everybody is wondering if I dropped Attack on Titan. The day I drop Attack on Titan is the day I drop dead.  I'll ask the Devil, you know, you could do what you want with me, but just let me at least finish Attack on Titan. Let me know down below in the comments if you would ask the Devil the same thing. Alright, let's get to the show. 73, Savagery.  I'm a rapper, I told you. You're talking to Mikasa and Armin. I don't believe you. Not with the look that Falco gave Hangee. No, I don't know what they're doing with her. Ain't nobody influencing Eren. Eren does what Eren wants to do. Oh, this dude definitely is taking acid. Yeah. Huh? That's right. You can be Kasa, still having hope in Eren. I don't know about that either. I don't know about that, but that face he's making. Yo!  Oh my God, this isn't Eren. This is nearer. Eren backwards. Like, who is this guy with the man bun? I forgot Gabby was in the room. Yo, Zad, Gabby is shook. What? Oh my God, Armin looking more like Babababababook. Every single day, more and more. Oh my God, look at those eyes. That's evil. Yeah! Bro, why does Eren's forehead get bigger every episode? He is like my kind of forehead right here. The Akamins were intentionally designed to protect Eldius King. Eren knows everything. He knows how God was born. I mean, he is God. He knows how he was born. Look at me, Kasa! It's like a different person. It's like a whole different character. Yo, her heart. Her heart is broken right now, the way Eren's talking. Like, she loves him. She'll do anything for him. And this is how he's talking to her. Like, they've never met. Like, they're the enemy now. And... Oh my God! Yo, she's going. She goes in her mind. Bolted him. How much did he figure it out this episode? My God!  What are you implying? What?! What?! Yo, no! What are you saying?! No, no! What?! He either really means this, or he's saying it to protect her. Either way, you need to put her on a 24-hour watch right now because she might do something to herself. Because I've hated you. Listen to her breath, like her breath of racing during that part. Like she knows what's going to happen, but she doesn't want it to happen. Right here. Wow. Oh!  She protected Eren. That's... He literally just went over that.  Look at Armin's face! Yo, he is...  Eren is heartless. He has no heart. His heart was ripped out. I refuse to believe he has a heart right now. Look! Oh no! Oh, I wasn't planning on being emotional today, man. This is heartbreaking. Eren! What's going on, bro? No! Eren! I don't care if he's just... No, no, no. The kid who killed Sasha, too. I'm surprised he cares about that.   Like, Erwin's soul is within now. They're completely different characters, but they have the same goal. They have the same heart. The Tatakai heart. Eren looks weird this episode. Look at that, bro.  Look at that. Yo, that does not look like Eren. Yo, this guy is trying to break their souls.  Oh my god, we're back in the forest.  No, man, no, no, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'll be getting a battle, though.  By the way... Why? Oh my god. Oh my god! They all drank the wine! Bro, I'm shaking right now. Oh my god, the imagery with the book, with the book falling.  Dude! Dude! Dude! What? Does this show ever stop getting better? If I drink this, will I become a Titan? I'm dead. I'm dead, too. PICT! PICT! PICT! He's had the drink, too! Don't tell me all these motherfuckers had that drink. Even the horses. No!  This is his ultimate plan! Look the way he's dead in there! We're gonna see God Mode Levi now.   Listen to your captain next time. That dude has Donkey Kong cheeks. Yo, it's just him! It's like a one man...  Let's go! When he does that twirling thing. This makes it even worse. He's killing like his comrades.  I don't get it. It's too quiet. It's too quiet. Don't know. I don't know.  Oh! Cousin, come here. He has a lot of space, oh shit!  He's brutalized, man! Oh my god, this brutal! I'm getting demonetized thanks to UZ. The fourth thing. Yup, he killed them all! Ew! What the... No, no, no, no. Don't do that again.  One more time. Uh-uh. What the... Yo, sometimes Attack on Titan has the best animation I've seen. But sometimes they do that. I don't know what that... It's like they took Donkey Kong out of Mario Party 3.  Oh no, killed him already. No, that's bad.  That's putting him to life. Oh, here we go, baby. Come on! No competition!  Levi's 3 at home! That's Zeke! No competition. Zeke had no chance with all the Titans on his side in the forest. He had them all drink the wine and he's still lost. That fast?  Was that as hard? No way! I forgot about this guy. Bro, did he give you 40 years?   I don't know who this motherfucker is with purple hair. Tommy Pickles over here. But, okay.  Oh, I feel bad for him. They're gonna shoot him.  I don't know, man. Y'all Yeager is out there. You gotta let me know in the comments why. Why you're Yeager is, because I just don't get it.  I don't know where this came from.    Especially Tommy Pickles in the middle.  How did they say that on command?  How did they know at that exact second to say for the sake of LV's future we give our hearts? How? Unless they like went over in the back, like they huddled up before and said, alright guys, we're gonna say this at the exact moment.  No, man. Why? I used to like him. That's right. Oh man, that's so sad, bro. Oh my god. That's so sad. You're gonna see that, man.  That's what the F stands for of Floak now.  But bro, I liked him. I liked him. I liked how he was acting after the whole Irwin thing. Like how he wanted to revive Irwin and not Armin. Like it was good to see that side, but now he's like fully brainwashed. I don't, I just don't like it, man. I don't. Look at him, man.  Oh my god. I wish, I wish I had. Where is it? Y'all got the ODM Titan gear? I got a hammer and a knife. I better not see him on screen again in this episode. I'm putting these down for now. Locking them up while Irwin looks at the birds. Oh my god. He healed. He looks like a pepperoni pizza. Why are you around here? Don't just be a fuse.  Relieve I was prepared. That's how I look like in high school. That's why no girl talked to me.  Literally, that's what I look like.  Fuck, bro. This is, this is worse than death. Yeah. Yo! Yo! What? Yes, Levi! There's the baseball again with Irwin and Zeke. We're throwing the ball to each other. Is that Grisha? No, Grisha looks like he just ate a whole pack of Doritos. Miss Saber! Listen, I love villains. And I love villains, but when you don't know what someone is, it's very hard to love the character. I love what's going on. I love the story. That's not what I mean at all. But I'm saying as far as like a character that I love as my favorite and that I don't want anything bad to happen to, I used to like, of course, Aaron was like there. Aaron was my boy. Now I just, I want Armin to- If there's one person I feel bad for, it's not Zeke that guy's limbs ripped off. It's not the comrades that turn into Titans. It's not Levi for having to kill those same comrades that turn into Titans. It's Mikasa.  Now, I don't know if that's a way to protect her. Like you have these characters in shows or movies where they say something to get a character that drift away from them. So they could protect them.  But either way, protect or not, hearing those words or saying those words to somebody like Mikasa, her existence is because of Aaron. Aaron saved her from that, from death, like her parents.  No matter what, always protecting him. And to hear those words, it's like, wow. Like, what is going through Aaron's head? Why is he talking like this? Why is he acting like this? He's seen something. He's being corrupted by that Titan inside of him. This isn't the Aaron that we know, or is it? I don't know. I don't know. But y'all got to let me know down below. Wait, wait, wait, before I get to the question.   Went by like, like, I can't snap my fingers. I don't even know why I'm attempting it. It went by in like 10 seconds. No chance. Not the forest. The comrades that turned the Titans.  Like, none of them had a chance. Not even Zeke turning into the Beast Titan. Maybe he lost because of the CGI. Maybe because he was a CGI Beast Titan that time. That's why he lost so quick. They were like, this one is definitely a downgrade. But my question is, if you are a Yeagerist, why? Let me know down below. And if you're not, explain to me why you're not. I think it's pretty clear why I'm not. I'm a Hanjiist. I'm on the Armin Mikasa Levi side. I just love them. Even Gabby. I'm on Gabby's side. And Falco. Like, I feel bad for them. But that's gonna be it for today's video, guys. I will see you all in tomorrow's attack on Titan Reaction. Yeah, I said it.


Similarly, people often offer the advice, nothing changes if nothing changes. To those who find themselves stuck, be it in their personal life, career, or even their relationships. Now, would you agree with these sayings? Because if not, then the paradoxical secret we're about to tell you now is bound to surprise you and make no sense. Defining the Sherlock paradox. See, the way our minds work is a lot like the great detective Sherlock Holmes. Always looking for clues and piecing things together. And the Sherlock paradox of attraction posits that our perceptions of ourselves, which we confirm with evidence from our experiences and environments, greatly influences how others in turn perceive us to be. In fact, a 2012 study by Kranz, Friedberg, and Andrew Seven found that the effect of physical attractiveness in predicting a person's popularity depended on their self-perceptions, regardless of how objectively attractive they are. So whatever it is we believe about ourselves, we then start to interpret our experiences and other environmental cues in a way that confirms these beliefs. This is called a self-fulfilling prophecy, which researchers Madden, Willard, Gull, and Schur define as a belief that leads to its own fulfillment by shaping an individual's behaviors in expectancy consistent ways. Simply put, this means that even if we believe something about ourselves that isn't true, we make it come true by thinking and acting as if it already is. A very good example of this and how it relates to our relationship and romantic attractiveness is the idea of contingent self-esteem, or CSC for short. First studied by researchers, me, Bush, Conveo, and Cook in 2008, CSC is a core component of our self-perceptions based on external factors, such as popularity, romantic success, the approval of others, and how we think we compare to those around us. Like most of our beliefs, CSC is often formed in our childhood. Our early experiences teach us what to think of ourselves based on how other people treat us. If they like us and we have a lot of friends, we might get the idea that we're wanted, attractive, or well-liked. If they reject, criticize, or abandon us however, then it'll form this belief in us that we're not enough for that something is wrong with us. And once we have this belief about ourselves, be it positive or negative, we then begin to behave in ways that are aligned with these beliefs only making them stronger over time. Say, for example, you have a negative perception of yourself. Perhaps you think, I'm unattractive.  You don't make much effort to look good, you don't try to flirt with your crush, or let them know you're interested and you always put yourself down, never believing anyone who compliments you. People like this, who are overly self-critical and insecure, then become unattractive to others, not because of the way they look, but the way they act. Ways to apply the Sherlock paradox. Now let's turn it around, shall we? The question I'm sure you're dying to ask, the entire reason why you're even here in the first place. How do we use the Sherlock paradox to make ourselves more attractive? Well, it's simple really. The principle is much like that of a Chinese finger trap. The more you try to get something, the harder it seems to be. So you have to do something paradoxical instead. The opposite of what you want to achieve. But how on earth is that supposed to work? You're wondering. Keep in mind these two things, reactance and reverse psychology. Recall a time when someone tried to push you to do something or act a certain way. Didn't their pressure only make you wanna do the opposite? That's called reactance, and it happens in romantic attraction too. The main reason why reverse psychology works is that when people feel pressured to act a certain way, they often prefer to do the opposite in order to assert their autonomy. And this is based on Brehm's 1989 reactance theory. So to answer your question, there are two paradoxical ways to attract your crush. First is to act in a way that's the opposite of what you want. And second is to make yourself more attracted simply by believing it. Some concrete examples include giving them space when you wanna get closer to them.  Showing a willingness to be less physically close or intimate when you actually wanna be more physically affectionate. Making less of an effort to woo them and get their attention thereby making yourself seem more secure and sure of yourself. And most important of all, planting a belief that you are attractive and that your crush would be lucky to have you. Then look for signs that point to yes and act accordingly to strengthen this belief and make it come true. So what are some ways you plan to start applying this paradoxical secret to attracting your crush? Remember nothing in life is possible if we don't first think it possible. Confidence is key to attractiveness and a strong sense of self-confidence starts with a simple belief.


Which one is better, the Aura Ring or the Whoop 4.0? Now I've been wearing both the Aura Ring Gen 3 as well as the Whoop 4.0 for around 8-9 months, both on the same arm, putting them through their paces to make sure that I am making a fair comparison. Now keep it real with you, I personally would choose the Aura Ring, but let me break down both so you can truly make a decision that is best for you. And for me, I really do think it comes down to three main buckets when comparing the two, form factor, health tracking, as well as the app experience. Now when it comes to form factor, there's clearly two differences in designs here. With the Whoop, it's your standard fitness tracker that goes on the wrist. It's fairly light and you can choose between a variety of different bands, claps, hooks, so you can make it fully customizable. It also comes with a water resistant battery pack that you can put on the device so you can have charging while on the go. It's also interchangeable with different apparel where you can wear it in the actual Whoop body clothing line, which I'm definitely trying to check out in the future. Now the Aura Ring on the other hand is not your traditional fitness tracker. It's a lightweight titanium between four to six grams. It only comes in four colors of silver, black, stealth, and gold. And then the box, it does come with a separate charging stand. Now what I really love about both is that they're minimal and have a low profile design. There's no screen or crazy smartwatch features. Both are durable and water resistant with the Aura Ring going up to 330 feet and the Whoop is water resistant up to 32 feet for two hours. Now from personal experience, I definitely used the Whoop more when I was working out at the gym. I kind of was a little bit afraid of using the Aura Ring just because of fact that I thought I was going to mar it up and it's a pretty expensive device. However, I did find myself wanting to use the Aura Ring a lot more throughout the day. I just found it a little bit more versatile. I could go play basketball, read my Peloton, and then if I wanted to go out to dinner or go to a social event, this is the one that I would choose over the Whoop because I just didn't want all this stuff on my wrist. I just wanted something that was nice, fashionable, low profile, and still was able to give me my metrics for the night. And if I was to say which one had the edge in this category, I definitely would say the Aura Ring would probably went out. Now when it comes to health tracking, you would be a bit surprised that they are both very similar. Ultimately, they both have 24-7 tracking of your sleep and your body's stress due to activity. But what I noticed is that they classify the metrics a tad bit differently from each other. For example, Whoop has a recovery score while the Aura Ring has something called readiness. Now this is where I started to notice some of the key differences as well. The Aura Ring definitely focused more on movement. For example, they have your activity goal progress on the home screen. They track your steps. Now the Whoop, on the other hand, had way better live workout heart rate monitoring for a variety of activities versus the Aura Ring which was just running, cycling, or walking. So if I was to say which one was the best in terms of health tracking, honestly it's a toss-up and it would be a tie in my opinion. Now when it comes to the overall app experience, you definitely want to pay attention to this because this is where they really start to differentiate from each other. The Whoop, the layout is super simple and easy to navigate with just a few swipes and clicks here and there. It provides a high level of view of your sleep and activity and it's really highly focused around the strain and stress that you put on your body. The three main categories that they focus on are strain, recovery, and sleep. They provide a strain coach which is basically giving you an optimal strain number to hit during your workouts based off of your previous night's recovery score. They also have a sleep coach where they provide a sleep time and a smart alarm and something to really highlight is they have a really dope community aspect where you can share your different stats on social media. You can connect with other communities by signing up or creating your own team so you can compare your metrics and stats which can be kind of motivating but also a little bit of a let down because sometimes you're like how does this person get 100% sleep all the time? Like how? Aura on the other hand is a more in-depth and a bit more insightful layout. When you load up the app, they give you the three key scores of readiness, sleep, and activity. And then when you dive into each of the tabs, it breaks down the category even further diving deeper into the individual factors that affect the primary score. For example, their short and long-term contributors to your readiness score such as the recovery index. Now something that was a little bit of a bummer, it doesn't have like a coaching feature. However, it does provide a brief summary of what to improve each morning under each individual score which for me is pretty insightful and actionable and I don't see a lot of fitness apps doing that. Now while the Woop has a community tab and the Aura doesn't, the Aura does have a special feature which is the guided and unguided meditations along with helpful videos and content that explain the meanings and the benefits of the different numbers and graphs that you see in the app. For me this is super helpful to break down any confusion around terms or maybe stats or metrics that you don't understand. Now what I really do appreciate about both is they have great breakdowns of sleep performance. They each do the sleep stage breakdowns where you can see where your REM and deep sleep were, they focus on sleep efficiency through your disturbances, timing, and they also provide areas where to improve to encourage sleep consistency. They both also offer weekly and monthly reports or as weekly and monthly reports focus on those three scores that I mentioned earlier and includes high level trends in each area and they recently released this new quarterly overview where you can understand your sleeping and heart rate patterns, the total number of steps you take in just kind of giving you an overall trend of how you compare against the rest of the world. Now the Woop has weekly performance assessments where you can look at your weekly strain and sleep performance and trends and areas of improvement. Their monthly performance assessments are a tad bit different. It's basically the strain and sleep trends over the 30 days along with associated habits based off the journal inputs that you put in daily. Okay, so why did I choose the ORA ring and how should you decide between the two of them? For me personally, I wanted a more in-depth, holistic look at where I can improve areas of my health and I felt the ORA ring gave that to me and honestly, I just wanted something that was even more low profile than something that can go on my wrist. I have three fitness trackers, which can just be super distracting. However, when making a decision between the two, it depends on how deep you want to go in terms of understanding how your body is performing and operating on a daily basis. So really, you could see them in two separate focus areas. On the one hand, you have the ORA ring, which is more focused on wellness and has more in-depth numbers and insights that you can dig through while the Woop is more focused on athletic performance and recovery. I see it better if you like a variety of different workouts. In fact, I'm curious, let me know in the comments, are you wellness focus or athletic performance focus? If you want to check out my recent video talking about the five top ORA ring metrics to pay attention to, check this video out right here. Or if you want to check out another video of my favorite fitness tracker, check this playlist out right here. Remember, stay healthy, be happy, and embrace the hype fam. Woop!


I am Dil Bhatrai from Nepal, the watershed area of Pancas-e-Fewalek. And we are under visiting of Bangladesh under community-based adaptation, CBA-10 conference. And we are visiting several places in Bangladesh. And we talk with the children, we meet the public school, and we are now visiting, observing the practice of root crop gardening. These practices are so good for the adaptation, especially to address the climate change. Because all the cities are growing very fast and becoming the concrete jungle, you know. So this type of practices are good. And children have to also know about the climate change, and they have to talk about this and they can change. We learn more, especially for the climate change adaptation, under the community-based adaptation approaches. Like these examples, home gardening are so useful. We can replicate these type of practices, especially in the urban areas. Whatever we can, however we can convince the rich people or the businessmen, they can replicate this easily and they can, you know, hunt for these approaches.


We good. Can you hear this dosed? I can what about that? Yeah, I like that What about what about this one?  Thank you to every resource on patreon Subscribing it felt like a button and I'm not wearing any pants.  I need to I need to figure that out. Thank you Yeah, we need to free that out Fafa on stupid babies, you know it Fafa's new upcoming film It's called avash avasham avasham It's with Fafa and the director is Jethu Madhavan who directed the know that name who directed the The Ouija board film with the Subin earlier this year That we saw that that We both liked I really loved And so it's it's his direction when Fafa in the lead and so we didn't get Did we get a Fafa film last year good Lord? No We couldn't have because he would have been in consideration for oh, no, no, no he did it was that it was like that like Um Like rom-com-ish one, but we didn't see it. We didn't see it. It didn't come here, and then I didn't hear anything about it I remember so he did. Yeah, I do forget but anyways here. Let's just get into this. Let's get out of this Make sure your subs are on by the way on the captions. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Hold on. Let me Captions It says English India. Yeah Indian English. It's it's known. That's what I want. Yeah Yeah, here we go. Sorry, just think about Fafa. That's our yeah, I could tell yeah Yeah I'm better. Yeah, that's it. What do you mean? I'm gonna be a way to do it. Yeah What am I? Runganna, don't do it. I don't get it. Okay. I'm just gonna talk about it. I'm just gonna talk about it Yeah, I'm gonna do that. But I can't do it. I'm back. I don't want to I don't know why you'd have to reintroduce Fafa, I don't know why you'd have to reintroduce Fafa. That looked like it was going to be a lot of fun.  And you know there's going to be a lot more to the story than what they give in the teaser especially. I mean they hardly give anything away in their trailers. Why aren't you logging me into IDB? Sorry, I was trying to look it up on IDB. That's all right. Looks fun. I'm down for Fafa in a crazy character man. I'm always down for Fafa most every time. Written and directed by this gentleman. Produced by Fafa and his wife, I believe. Yeah, Naziria Nazim, we've seen her before. They're the producers in it. It showcases a family who lives in Bangalore following them as they play Ouija board. Again? Is it Ouija? Ouija is OUJIA and take this for the grain so this is IDB so I don't know what you know they're they're weird right but as they play OJO board is what it says. Again with that? But I did. I don't know if I don't know what that means Ouija, you know. Yeah, hold on. I'm gonna look up something else on a separate thing and see what pops up. Is it in relation to that movie at all? Like is he? Like is it a universe? Is it like a universe of some sort? But I didn't think that's how you spelled Ouija but I didn't know maybe maybe they spell it right or maybe it was a misspelling or it's just wrong because I didn't see anything about a Ouija board in there did you? Nothing but this was just a teaser. What's interesting is this a remake of what? Because there's a there's a film of the same name that is a Malayalam film from 1979. Uh-huh. What's it what's it say? That's all it says. There's no breakdown it just tells you who the cast is and it just says the movie was rich with action scenes and that the lead played a double role. So it looks like this could potentially be a remake of that or retelling Malayalam film yeah. Looking it up right now. It starts his lead's role, scores, doesn't know references, no it doesn't really give me anything even on Wikipedia. Interesting yeah you guys have to let us know about that. The standouts were just it looks like it looks like this director likes comedy in his style like like the way he does his cuts or his dialogue he likes doing that's it because it felt the dialogue felt like it did in the whatever that Subin film I can't pronounce it. Yeah what was that Subin film? I'll tell you right now it starts with an R. Is it Raman Cham? Yeah that's it yeah. Yeah I'm looking at an article here about this from a few months ago it's a spin-off of that film. This is a spin-off? This is a spin-off of Raman Cham. So it might be in the same universe? It might be in the same universe and it looks like what you read is just the way they're spelling that because... Yeah because on that one it spells Weegee board correctly on on iDuby. Yeah yeah. That'd be weird to have. I mean not that way if it's a spin-off you could have a spin-off of but Fafa wasn't in that movie right? Not to my right collection no. I don't remember him being in that movie. As long as you know me as long as like that film I was thankful that they they depicted it in an accurate. It would also be weird because they didn't like obviously when we saw the trailer of the Subin one obviously the Weegee was all over it that was because that's what the movie's about they didn't. I don't remember if we got a teaser for that though and then a trailer. But you should reference it if it's in relation at all. I tend to think that that's not accurate because it'd be weird to come out with like it had nothing to do with Weegee in that whole thing. Well it's a Malayalam teaser that they sell them and sometimes they're you know they're they're we always talk about movie trailers and teasers being the menu especially a trailer being a menu to the film. That doesn't really fit in Malayalam cinema. Their trailers and teasers are their own things so we'll see. Regardless one also it said it when did it come out April? April April that's really I mean it's Fafa and I get it but that's early for a Malayalam film. This is really early to have some kind of a teaser for that for a film releasing in April yeah. I mean maybe they want the hype up but anyways I'm looking forward to it. Fafa being all being all crazy I am a hundred percent down every day of the week yes. Let us know you thought about the teaser if you're excited for it anything else we need to know down below.


How we defeated yesterday's DDOS attack on freedom servers, and how you can help protect yourself if you get a DDOS on your website or servers. It started with just one IP bombarding our servers and we blocked that IP fairly easily. But then the hacker got creative and he started activating a lot of IPs to hit our server. We blocked all those and we thought, good, problem solved. And then he started changing the packets that were sent. There were no longer predictable, we could not filter the good traffic from the bad traffic. So we tried a lot of more advanced techniques to block these, but every time we found something that worked, the hacker did something else to counter our measures. And so what worked in the end was we enabled a $200 a month advanced DDOS service that's available for you or anyone who wishes to use it and it stopped the hacker cold. All of the traffic that was being generated from the denial of service attack was blocked by this service. And what is that service? Well, look behind me. It is Cloudflare. Cloudflare has a free model, but that does not include DDOS protection. They have a pro model and then they have a business model. So we bought the business model and that allowed us to enable the advanced DDOS protection that Cloudflare offers and it did it. We saw the traffic go down to normal levels almost instantly. So tell me in the comments below if you noticed any changes on the freedom servers such as our dashboard. Do you now see once in a while a Cloudflare message asking you to prove you are human in case they may suspect you are a hacker. Now this is an automated system. There's no humans involved.  It's because their automated system is just double checking. They do spot checks as well. For once in a while you'll get a message even if your traffic is normal. So tell me in the comments below if you were asked to prove your humanity in the last 24 hours using the freedom website or our dashboard. And tell me in the comments below if you have any experience with Cloudflare. Have you used Cloudflare to help you defeat a DDOS attack? Have you used it for any other reason? So we can all benefit from each other's experience and grow together as a family. Tell us your experience and that'll help everybody grow together. This is freedom. And who am I? I am George, founder of Freedom and we have a $20,000 car that we're giving away. How do you enter for a chance to win? Click here. That'll take you to the video that has the $20,000 car giveaway explained in full. We're also YouTube certified. That means Freedom passed a rigorous exam that I thought was pretty hard and we had some training that allows us to now claim that Freedom is YouTube certified to help you grow. And how does that help you grow? How does that make us a more professional YouTube company? I'll click here and that'll take you to the video that talks all about the YouTube certified status that we now enjoy. Do you like these cards, these YouTube cards, that little eye up there? Do you use YouTube cards in your videos? It's a pretty cool feature. I prefer it over the traditional annotations because you can actually see all of the links in one place. Normally, when you say click here to get heartbeat chrome, you only see that one link. And if you want to see others, you have to fast forward through the video. But now when you look at the cards, you can see all the videos that you link to in one place. I think it's pretty cool. What do you think? Tell me. You know the drill. I am also the founder of MGM, the multi-gaming network and MGM is for me because I'm a gamer. Are you a gamer and is MGM for you? Find out at youtube.com slash MGM. Check them out and tell me what you think. I am George and you've been watching Let's Discover Freedom. Click the first video to learn what is freedom and how it helps you grow. Click the second video to learn about sponsorships for all freedom partners even if you have just 10 subscribers. And click the other videos like How Do I Leave Freedom to learn more? Click Get More Views to learn how to build your audience faster on YouTube. Click Get More CPM to learn how to make more money from your channel. And click Get More Music to learn where to get more music to spice up your videos. Click the first playlist to watch The George Show on Freedom. That's my show. Or watch The Anthony Show or The Alex Show also on Freedom. And we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family. You are part of it. We are all part of it and we're all growing together. So grow with us and partner with Freedom. That play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started.


Listen man, I said I wanted our universe to play it safe, but seeing the Android 17 just kind of do whatever he wants It's fun to watch. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel. My name is Jack the Buster. I should know me I'm on 103 of Dragon Ball Super today and the tournament is heating up 17 in the last episode knocked out rebrand's friend She's not happy and yeah, I get I just like the D dynamic He brings the tournament not wedding not waiting for her to power up but sticking up for his universe They're here fighting for their universe is of course He's not gonna wait Goku would disagree, but I would also disagree with Goku. We're gonna hop right into it You can do this channel. Don't forget to drop us up and let's get started Yeah Yeah, too overconfident man, that's been like half this tournament is over confidence I know I know You villain Say your name Universe nightmare Android number 17. He's playing into it. Yeah, I'm surprised it kind of seems like he's having fun Warrior of love face your doom. Who is this? This is this is an Android 17. I've never seen before You evil doer Yeah, let's let's see how far rebrand can go man for true power I'm guessing she's the strongest from that universe. I'm the I believe so it's played her up to be Oh my god, brah she launched her butt cheeks at him. Oh My gosh, man, can we knock this one out? I Know they're horrible. They're horrible because good so was weak your weak sauce game I'm sorry. Goku should not be struggling right now, but he's also not even in super Sam. That's what I've said He needs to save his energy That was a sick shot of the cutting of him in the foreground. Oh, that was good. That was good sucker for that kind of stuff Dude, did she ever run out? like actually It's like a minefield Huge pretty woman Now beer is chill man. If Goku gets knocked out this early, I just I would be amazed Absolutely 17 with a bubble he used a bubble that god dang bubble that rolled me in Kakarot That god dang green glow, baby. I know it like the back of my hand. No, thanks. I'm doing just fine Are you are you? Oh my gosh. She shattered it or was that 17 dropping it? He's right behind me, isn't he? Oh He's using him against her This fight has been very What has he learned except fighting against her in particular? He just murdered her. Oh, she's out Gigi. Oh, wait. No, I guess come on.  Don't do this. Oh You can make this easier on assault if you go over the edge on your own.  Oh Take my hand my ladies. What is that? What is oh my god, bro, dude, I love 17s involvement in all this and how has he sort of developed already Yeah, you don't need to worry about Goku you know about everybody else.  No way the booze done. So I'd like to take him myself. I was gonna say go on and pick a little alone Is overkill. All right, he's all yours kid teamwork guys. Come on I'm not expecting much from a tom. I'm gonna be honest wait He didn't watch the tournament at the beginning of super. He wasn't there. Was he did they not breathe him?  He's not just gonna lay into him. Uh-uh hang on Chill chill chill chill chill.  Is he thinking you can overload but Tomo curious about your son's fighting skills, too. Yeah Okay, never mind he was brief. Okay, cool. It's my turn now. Maybe he wants to make what Tomo overconfident. Wait, what? Hey, what starting to lift him up surely by punching him Oh There's no way but Tomo disappoints this hard a second time around now. Where's my get-up? I gotta come swinging in It's not that easy. It's never that easy No shot. Oh my gosh. No wait wait. He's falling very slowly He's gonna try and take him with him Oh my god Botano disappoints again, dude the first from choppa's universe He's so disappointing for how strong he could be Dude, that's why I love go honey. You know the finish the god dang job What in the 10th that's The rebri ends I mean either way we know some of the big hitters now rebri ends gonna make a comeback eventually Who knows where jeering is like I feel like there's so much going on at the same time Oh, I thought that was one of their opponents Take off the maidens 10th universe has been a limit. Who else is in the 10th? They've taken out another one seems we must oh that's goba sues. That's no bodybuilders. We still have two more chances We will save the 10th universe from destruction. No. Yeah, let's go challenge the Saiyan and the Namekian I feel like Gohan and Piccolo are gonna obliterate these two No, because it botano was too easy.  Oh dang. Oh, there's a reason they've lasted this long so far Everybody here on out is skilled. I I think Everybody that's kind of troll as Just because they've lasted so long that you have to have some sort of intelligence or power to have lasted this long I've been waiting to face such a worthy.  I forgot what you guys told me to call it I don't remember the name mystic. I think so. I think most comments had mystic gohan We know that you can do it obny win this for all of us. Oh gola sue. I'm sorry, bro It's over now that one of our own is actually performing.  He's not gonna get past gohan. I'm sorry But that doesn't mean they're done. All right, I won't count them out. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Joe. I'm sorry It's speaking directly to me. You must be feeling pretty desperate. Your blind attacks are missing me completely Are they missing or just cutting off all your escape, bro? Ziggatad! That's exactly what goku just kind of did Oh, I I thought he was gonna find a way out of it. No, he's gonna be fine No, he's not. I thought he'd have some ultimate defense.   Get out of my ring! Damn! Oh shoot. Oh shoot. I think we're about to see our next universe eliminated and it's goa sue Dude, no man. No need to worry.  Oh, this is so sad Yeah, he's giving gohan a fight, but there's a mountain ahead of him, man He's gonna show how much gohan has to overcome in this tournament Already, I mean nobody in this tournament is a joke to be fair He's gonna have figured something out It'd be an AOE attack. I just figured out how to find you watch. How? Is that mystic gohan? The music is swelling. It's optimistic He just took it. He's letting himself get hit then counter attack. Oh my gosh But he just hardens his defenses. He gets hard Beerous man, chill! They're giving it their all for you Realistically, Pigalo should help but these guys' ego is crazy. What is your name, boy? My name is Gohan, but as we'll tell him, he's gonna be gone soon He's gonna give it his all. Oh, I feel kind of bad. This guy's nice Yep, he has to put it all into fighting and that now gohan's got his number Oh, this poor guy Rip on me, bro That's it Sino, please man. Gohatsu's so nice All warriors of the 10th universe have been thrown from the ring Oh, sevens in the comments for grandpa Gohatsu Thank you, Avni.  There is no god dang way.  It's like they're just gone Nothing can bring them back. Nothing can change, but it's us or them But dude the locket of his family was just a knife in the heart And it was a very specific situation that showed gohan the real stakes of this and probably reminded him in his own head Who he's fighting for that's why it's like I get the say in spirit It's like you want to fight them at their best, but this is for everything Everything this is not just a fight for your life. It's everybody's lives But a pretty solid fight I liked the the sort of twist of how gohan had figured it out and how gohan had sort of formed a counter attack It's literally just get hits. You know, which one is him It's so simple, but it's so cool the lightning aerator said as it goes on It showed like hit disbo all those those strong warriors standing there It's just going to get the more and more really really intense fights that I don't know who the outcome could be In favor of because that's been it for my reaction today. I hope you did enjoy drop a sub if you knew and I catch you in the next one space


Good morning esteemed colleagues. Today I would like to discuss the psychological implications of the COVID pandemic and I would like to focus on one model in trauma psychology but mention others. We can discuss the aftershocks of the pandemic by using several models. A very famous model was invented by the Swiss psychologist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and it is the cycle of grief. She identified five stages of grief and mourning and what has happened with the pandemic is the equivalent of an external shock such as for example the death of a loved one or a divorce or being fired, becoming unemployed, etc. In all these situations there is a reaction that is tantamount equivalent to grief and mourning and she identified five stages denial followed by anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Now I'm not sure what this webinar represents if it represents denial of the pandemic or acceptance of the pandemic but at any rate these are the stages that she's identified. She made very clear that these stages are not consecutive. People can go back and forth which I think we have been doing in the past six months as the news about the pandemic have changed from hope to despair and back to hope and back to despair. Lockdowns imposed, reimposed, abandoned and then applied again. We are being subjected to what is called in psychology intermittent reinforcement, bad news followed by good news, followed by bad news, followed by good news and this is eroding our psychological immune system and leading to something which is called narcissistic modification. Narcissistic modification is a second model that I would like to mention and it is the intense fear I'm quoting from Freud, Zygmunt Freud who was the first to describe narcissistic modification without calling it so. So Ronningstam, a famous psychologist, paraphrased Freud. So narcissistic modification is the intense fear associated with narcissistic injury and humiliation. The shocking reaction when individuals face the discrepancy between an endorsed or idealized view of the self in a drastically contrasting realization. This is what the pandemic has done to us. It forced us to look in the mirror. We can no longer avoid ourselves. We can no longer look away. We can no longer flee or run. The pandemic has forced us to take a time out, consider our lives, consider our societies, consider our healthcare systems, consider issues such as racism and implicit discrimination and bias, consider the relationships between minorities and majorities between men and women, consider the interpersonal interactions within couples, among friends in workplaces. Working away from home is another experience to working in an office. So we are subjected to a psychological experiment, the likes of which has never happened before. Not even in previous pandemics such as the Black Death in the 14th century or the Spanish Flu, the beginning of the 20th century, not even then were we subjected to one-tenth of the psychological stresses, dislocations, disorientation and fears that we are facing today. Rothstein, another psychologist, wrote that narcissistic modification is a fear of falling short of ideals with a loss of perfection and accompanying humiliation. And this fear extends to intimacy in interpersonal relationships, as Fiskalini noted, unrealized or forbidden wishes and related defenses, as Horowitz noted, or as Kogut so aptly summarized it, he usually summarized things well. It's the fear associated with rejection, isolation and loss of contact with reality, loss of admiration, loss of equilibrium, loss of important objects. Is this not a perfect description of our condition today? Kernberg augmented this list by adding fear of dependency, fear of destroying the relationship with important significant others, fear of retaliation of one's own aggression and destructiveness and of course fear of death. And this comprehensive list which comprises narcissistic modification is a perfect description of the absolute universal condition that we are all faced with today. Narcissistic modification is therefore a sudden sense of defeat, loss of control over internal and external objects or realities caused by an aggressive event or person, by a compulsive trait or behavior. It produces disorientation, it produces terror, not fear, terror. It produces a damning up of narcissistic or ego or libido defenses. This was described by Eidelberg in the 50s. The entire personality is overwhelmed by impotent ineluctability and a lack of alternatives. There is a process that today we call decompensation. All our defenses are not working. None of our, I mean our habits, the coping strategies we have developed, everything is rendered useless in this new environment. It's an inability to force objects to conform to or rely on goodwill. Modification reflects the activity of infantile strategies of coping with frustration or repression. And it creates grandiosity and attendant psychological defense mechanisms, primitive ones, like splitting, denial, magical thinking. What I'm trying to say before I come to the third and last model is that the pandemic is pushing us, regressing us, pushing all of us to become children again, children in the sense of a feeling of helplessness and trying to compensate for this feeling of utter helplessness via grandiosity or disintegrating completely. It's a bad, bad situation and it's been going on for six months already. The pandemic of COVID-19 hit everyone simultaneously as a universal, inescapable external shock. Several elements in the progression of the pandemic rendered it very traumatic. Number one, the exponential inexorable contagion which fosters a feeling of impending doom. That's an extreme stressor. Number two, the extreme uncertainty regarding every facet of the disease. We don't know anything or close to anything about the pathogen, the nature of the illness, the long-term social and interpersonal effects of the desperate and ever-escalating attempts to rein the virus in. This all-pervasive ubiquitous uncertainty leads to rising rates of anxiety, depressive helplessness, hopelessness, suicidal ideation, disorientation and dissociative symptoms which I will come to a bit later. Number three, the pandemic creates a lack of clear horizon and a clear timeline. In this agenda, a sense of alarming insecurity. Number four, there's a mortal fear of disability and death. Simple. We're afraid to die. Number five, the familiar, one's own body, one's nearest and dearest, one's family, one's habits, one's familiar landmarks. All these have been transformed into alien, menacious, estranged entities to be avoided on the pain of life as a condition for survival. We must avoid the familiar. We must suppress our habits. We must avoid the people who provide us with sacor, with support, with a safety network, psychological safety network. We must avoid all this. We are on our own in the purest, existential sense of the word for the first time, perhaps, in everyone's other life. There's a breakdown and incapacitation of all support networks, human and even non-human technologies. The COVID-19 pandemic is a major traumatic event and the question in this presentation, will it result in mass post-traumatic stress disorder or will we simply dissociate the events and return to normal, return to normal the minute an efficacious vaccine or a cure are found? It's an interesting question. Some people say after the pandemic, everything will change, even if there's a cure, even if there's a vaccine, even if a virus were to vanish tomorrow, everything will have changed. And some people say nothing will change, everything will continue as before. And some people say we will be so traumatized, we will be in the throes of complex trauma, complex post-traumatic stress disorder. In countries which succeeded to control the outbreak, the indications are, I'm sorry, in countries that succeeded to control the outbreak, the indications are that people are not experiencing PTSD. What people do in these countries, for example, Thailand, South Korea, China, New Zealand, these are countries where the outbreak has been stamped out largely. In these countries, people develop traumatic dissociation and this gives rise to anxiety and depression. And I suggest that there are homogenizing effects worldwide. I think in today's world what happens in China happens in Russia, what happens in Russia happens in Israel, what happens in Israel happens in Saudi Arabia, what happens in Saudi Arabia happens in the United States. It's a single global village. There are powerful homogenizing effects worldwide, mediated via social media, via the mass media, via identical measures introduced by political and medical authorities in every corner of the globe. We are all undergoing the very same experience, never mind where we are. It's the first time in my view in human history that every single individual, regardless of where he is, what language he speaks, what culture he belongs to, what society he hails from, every single individual has the very same experience simultaneously. This is like a vibe, a frequency and we all found ourselves riding the crests of this frequency. This homogenization led to a collective trauma, collective trauma and the formation of collective responses replete with dissociative symptoms. But to understand this collective trauma we need to discuss a model in trauma psychology known as structural dissociation. Freud and Breuil observed in 1893, that's a long time ago, 140 years ago. They observed in 1893 that individuals with alleged trauma memories go through numbing, detachment, amnesia and avoidance of triggers and memories. And they also observed that the very same individuals, despite their attempts to avoid a repeat of the trauma, retraumatization, despite all this, they're being triggered consistently. These people become susceptible, vulnerable and they are triggered easily. And trauma is the main topic of study of early psychoanalysis. Now different structures of personality experience too much or too little and different people experience too much and too little. There's the new concept of highly sensitive persons, HSPs. Structural dissociation is the theory in trauma psychology that dissociation is not mainly a defense mechanism against trauma. Dissociation is not merely trying to forget the trauma, trying to deny the trauma, trying to ignore the trauma. No. Dissociation is a failure, a failure in integration of content that is intolerable, unbearable, threatening, frightening, terrorizing and destructive. It's a failure, it's an integrative deficit, failure to integrate. And the symptoms of such failure are both psychopharm and somatopharm. They manifest in the psyche, in the mind, and they manifest in the body. Integration and adaptive behavior depend on synthesis, depend on associating all the components of experience and all the functions into meaningful coherent mental structures. And these meaningful coherent mental structures crucially depend on narratives, on stories, what Betelheim called the enchantment of fairy tales. We all tell ourselves fairy tales. It's a form of self soothing, of making the world meaningful, rendering it meaningful. Because without meaning, we disintegrate. We can survive hunger. We can survive thirst. We can survive anything. We cannot survive meaninglessness. So we are storytelling species. And yet the pandemic ruptured our ability to create meaningful coherent narratives. We can't put together these new experiences because we are not functioning. Experiences go with functions across time and episodically. So we fail in this pandemic. We fail in synthesizing. And the second function in integration is realization. It's the analysis and assimilation of such information via two processes, personification and presentation. Personification is taking ownership of what's happening to you. What's happening to me is happening to me. And to a large extent, I'm responsible for it. I'm in control of it. And that's a story we cannot tell ourselves in this pandemic. We did nothing wrong. Well, almost nothing wrong. It happened to us. It's not us. There's no possibility to own the pandemic. And the second process is presentation, bringing the past and the future to bear on the present, rendering the present meaningful by connecting it meaningfully, significantly, narratively to the past and to the future. How can you do that when there is a rupture in time? The pandemic disrupted this sequence. The pandemic has nothing to do with the past. And hopefully nothing to do with the future. It's an island, a temporal island. It does not allow for mindfulness and reflexivity. And deep personalization is a failure in personification. It's a kind of semantic, not episodic memory. We remember the pandemic verbally, but we don't really assimilate it. We don't really digest it. We still wake up in the morning thinking to ourselves, this must all have been a nightmare. It can be true. And then it is true. Trauma reduces integrative capacity. In premorbid personalities with low integrative capacity, trauma leads to dissociation. And post traumatic dissociation is not the same like a mere dissociative process. We all have dissociation all the time. We all dissociate all the time. Normal dissociation. For example, most of you are dissociating when you are listening to my presentation right now. I don't blame you. Dissociation is normal and dissociative processes are integration failures, but useful ones. But in the case of the pandemic, the dissociation is likely to produce severe trauma. And it's likely to result, as Jeanette said in 1907, it's likely to result in a fracture, fragmentation to or more systems of ideas and functions that constitute personality. Jeanette said that the reaction to trauma is sometimes the fracturing of the personality. It's the outcome of the inability to integrate, owing to physical illness, exhaustion, stressors, or a young age. Dissociation leads to pathological alterations in consciousness, to greater emotivity, emotional ability, dysregulation of emotions, reactive behaviors, reactive beliefs. As early as 1922, Mitchell wrote, each of these psychobiological systems has its own unique combination of perception, cognition, effect, and behavior. Each has its own sense of self, no matter how rudimentary. And the American Psychiatric Association, 80 years later, in 2000, when it published the DSM-4, the APA wrote, dissociation is the breakdown of the disruption in usually integrated functioning. We must carefully distinguish between structural dissociation, dissociated self-states, dissociated personalities, up to, for example, dissociative identity disorder, multiple personality disorder, also known as tertiary structural dissociation. So this is one type. Then there are dissociative phenomena, and then there are non-dissociative self-states or personality states, atypical states. The structural dissociation theory rejects these states as reification, but they probably do exist. The whole idea is that we have action systems. These are inborn, self-organizing, self-stabilizing, and homeostatic emotional operating systems. We all are supposed to have two of these. The first one guides daily living and the survival of the species. The second action system is a physical defense against threat. Both are triggered badly by the pandemic. The pandemic does not allow us to continue with daily life, threatens our survival, and in our worst darkest nightmares, possibly the survival of the species, and provokes our physical defenses against threats. For example, the excretion of stress hormones. When you put these two action systems together, you get a social defense against abandonment and against rejection. That's precisely the component that goes haywire in borderline personality disorder. You get an inter-receptive defense against mental content. These are defense mechanisms, primitive ones like splitting or sophisticated ones like passive aggression. So when you trigger the two systems together, which is rare, which is what the pandemic is doing, you get social dysfunction because you feel abandoned and rejected. Social distancing, social isolation, we know rationally that it has nothing to do with us. It's not our fault. But in the primitive reptilian part, if you wish, of our brain, we perceive this as abandonment, as rejection, and we defend against this and other mental content which the pandemic provokes. Charles Samuel Myers in 1940 observed in acutely traumatized war veterans that the first action system is linked to something that he called apparently normal part, A&P. The second action system is linked to emotional part, EP. Myers called them personalities, but today we call them parts. The emotional part contains vivid trauma recall, flashbacks, vehement negative emotionality. It's associated with fear, with horror, with helplessness, with anger, with guilt, with shame. But it could also manifest as listlessness, non-responsiveness, submissive behavior, or as derealized or depersonalized dissociation. These are all commonly linked to body dysmorphia to a sense of separate self. And all these reactions are acutely provoked in the pandemic. All you have to do is sit one night with a hotline, with a support line, and listen to people calling in. All these reactions are provoked big time. A&P, the apparently normal part, the job of that part is to repress traumatic memories, to avoid triggers. And the A&P will do anything to avoid the onslaught of ego-dystonic, threatening, frightening dysfunctional content. The pandemic is flooding us daily via the mass media directly, indirectly. And when we witness people around us, including nearest and dearest and loved ones, falling ill, the pandemic is flooding us with this kind of countervailing information. It's breaking through the defenses that we had built, cognitive deficits, biases, confirmation biases, and so on. We can't anymore. Our defenses are overwhelmed. It's like levees in a storm. The flood is coming. Hurricane Katrina is coming on each and every one of us. And all our defenses are crumbling. So there's amnesia. We use the most radical extreme measures that we have. Amnesia, sensory anesthesia, restricted emotions, numbness, and in extreme cases, depersonalization. And the emotional part won't stay still, because it is infused with energy from the pandemic. The emotional part, the repository of the trauma, where all the emotions of the trauma, all the memories of the trauma reside, this container, the emotional part, it intrudes, it interferes with the AMP. It's all these trauma-related memories, overwhelming and disorganizing emotions. All these intrusions lead to impulsive, defiant, reckless, maladaptive reactants. We are all being pushed to become narcissistic, psychopathic, and borderline in the sense that we become more and more labile and dysregulated. The pandemic induces a secondary pandemic of mental health. And in this secondary pandemic, depression and anxiety are the tip of the iceberg. The iceberg is the formation of population-wide pandemic of personality disorders, situational, acquired, late onset personality disorders. The AMP, the apparently normal part, is conditioned to fear the emotional part. It reacts to this intrusion of trauma by altering, by lowering consciousness. It resorts to substance abuse, addictions, compulsions, self-mutilation to silence the inner voice of the emotional part, phobias, phobias of mental action. There's phobias of the dissociative parts, fear of intimacy, fear of attachment, fear of attachment loss, fear of normal life, fear of change. You're getting a picture that is fast becoming agoraphobic. It's a massive onslaught of phobias. They are also processes of evaluative conditioning, associative neutral stimuli with negative or positive outcomes and feelings owing to prior association with negative or positive stimuli. So even neutral stimuli, the most basic actions of life, eating, drinking, talking, watching a movie, everything becomes infused with negativity because many of these things get associated with negative news, negative developments, negative events. And they are colored, colored by these and this is called evaluative conditioning. It leads to diversion. It leads to estrangement. You feel that you are no longer yourself. You feel alien to yourself. And in extreme cases, you depersonalize. You feel that you're an autopilot. You feel that you're observing yourself from the outside. Whatever is happening is not happening to you. And an individual can have one ANP and one EP that's primary structural dissociation. But an individual can have one ANP and many emotional parts. If there are multiple traumas, multiple repeated traumas, it could lead to multiple emotional parts. And this is pretty common in, for example, complex post-traumatic stress disorder. And in extreme cases, in dissociative identity disorder. So these are twin, twin conditions. They are allied conditions. Both the ANP and the EP have a rudimentary sense of self and I. And they have exclusive access to some memories. Dissociative parts vary in degree of intrusion, avoidance of trauma-related cues, affect regulation, psychological defenses, capacity for insight, response to stimuli, body movements, behaviors, cognitive shimmers, attention, attachment styles, sense of self, self-destructiveness, promiscuity, suicidality, flexibility and adaptability in daily life, structural division, autonomy, number, subjective experience, overt manifestations, dissociative symptoms. Every part as the pandemic attacks us, fractures us, breaks us apart, fragments us. The parts that are created are very different to each other. It makes it very difficult for us to maintain our sense of core, stable identity. We are all beginning to develop identity disturbance, identity diffusion, which is very common in mental health disorders such as, for example, borderline personality disorder. The attack on our identity, the attack on our identity is such that we are, we fail to maintain coherence and cohesions and we begin to display, to exhibit dissociative symptoms, negative, negative like amnesia, numbness, impaired thinking, loss of skills, loss of needs, of wishes, of fantasies, loss of motor functions, loss of motor skills, loss of sensation. And you have also positive dissociative symptoms. When mental content of functions, one part intrude on another part and this could lead some people to psychosis, to psychotic disorders, schizophrenia like hearing voices, non-volitional behaviors, ticks, imaginary pains. These are conversion symptoms. It's really, really bad. If people continue to be exposed to what's happening today, this would be really, really bad. The dissociative symptoms should be diagnosed only if there's clear evidence of a dissociative part and the symptom is found in one or some parts, but not in all the parts. But how do you do that? How do you do that? When the pandemic occupies 100% of your life, when there is no refuge, no shelter, nowhere to go to, nowhere to escape, where the virus is everywhere, where COVID-19 is around you, where you are socially isolated, where institutions crumble in front of your eyes when you can no longer trust the authorities or anyone else for that matter, when anyone around you could be your angel of death. Where do you turn to? Both A&P and EP, they share a lack of full realization of the trauma. They have obstructive adaptive deficits and significant dissociative symptoms. I'm coming to the end of my presentation. What do we do? Structural dissociation is a permanent pathological state. It requires treatment to fuse the parts together, back again. After the pandemic, we will have to put together people, put them together, reassemble them. Social support and restorative experiences buffer negative post-traumatic effects. We would need to work on that. In therapy, we usually commit three errors and these errors enhance the emotional part and lead to the intrusion of the emotional part on the A&P, on the normal part. First of all, we reify the parts. We tend as therapists, we tend to interact with the parts, not with the total individual. Mistake number two, we put undue emphasis on differences between the dissociative parts and the alleged self, the constellated self. And the third mistake, we put premature focus on traumatic memories. And what we should do is exactly the opposite. We should collaborate with the A&P, with the normal part. When the A&P is well-functioning and dominant, PTSD is delayed. Dissociative symptoms become latent. Functioning is reduced, of course, but still it's much better compared to, for example, full-fledged, flashback-based post-traumatic stress disorder. To my mind, the A&P fluctuates. There are periods of high functioning, alternating with periods of low functioning. And this would explain borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder. And perhaps we should introduce the concept of collapse. Collapse in these defenses leads to submission, to vanishing, to freeze, fall, and flight responses. Leads to covert behaviors like passive aggression and other defenses. So we should consider collapse. We should consider modification because all these are involved in trauma. All these are elements of trauma. My last comment would be about complex trauma, CPTSD. Complex trauma, borderline personality disorder. And the now obsolete disorders of extreme stress, not otherwise specified. That's not all of these represent secondary structural dissociation. And there is, in the DSM, there is something called a diagnosis called other other specified dissociative disorder, subtype 1, OSDD subtype 1. And OSDD subtype 1 gives us an entry, perhaps. Judith Herman, Driessen, McLean, Gallop, and many others argue for the diagnosis of CPTSD. They say that most CPTSD, most complex trauma is being misdiagnosed as borderline personality disorder and associated dissociative disorders. They say we don't need this proliferation of entities. They are all facets of complex trauma. Judith Herman wrote, from Harvard wrote, the data on this point are beyond contention. 50, 60% of psychiatric inpatients and 40, 60% of outpatients report childhood histories of physical or sexual abuse of both. And so we may have a look at OSDD. I think the majority of a population will experience essentially OSDD 1. And OSDD 1 can teach us a lot about this nexus of dissociation because it is a diagnosis that puts together complex trauma, borderline features, borderline features, and narcissistic features. The difference between OSDD 1 and DID, dissociative identity disorder, is the absence of amnesia, the absence of fully differentiated parts. All the parts communicate. In most cases OSDD patients have only one apparently normal part and multiple well-developed differentiated emotional parts. And these emotional parts can be low level, so we have CPTSD, higher level, so we have borderline, and they fragment and they have some kind of differentiation, but they are not full fledged and there's no amnesia. Emotional parts for people with OSDD can handle aspects of daily life, such as exploration or play. They commonly perceive themselves as children. They can either manifest through passive influence or in a safe environment or when triggered through a full switch. The parts of those with OSDD may deny each other, deny each other's memories or deny aspects of the body's physical form or current situation, but that's not necessary. It's not a condition. Not only is the ANP avoidant and liable to react with shame, blame, or hatred, but the EPs are also avoidant. Not only that, but once one allows CPTSD into the mix, the symptoms begin to sound more and more like borderline personality disorder characterized by insecure attachment and emotional dysregulation. The two key components, symptoms of CPTSD in the forthcoming ICD-11, the 11th edition of the International Classification of Disorders. To summarize, in other words, CPTSD has little to do with trauma as it is normally understood and more to do with the subtle but severe traumas that lead to borderline personality disorder. And this is exactly the process we are going through. The pandemic is regressing us to a traumatic childhood. We are as helpless as babies. We have no defenses. Our medicine failed us. Our politics failed us. Everything failed us.  We feel exactly as we had felt when we were six months old or one year old, when we needed to gather dollops of grandiosity just to venture out into the world.  We are going through a process of collective separation and individuation. All of humanity had been reduced to one big toddler. And all of humanity in a baby state has to take baby steps to regain a modicum of what it had before the pandemic. And we, mental health practitioners, professors of psychology, whatever, we have to help in this process. We have to facilitate it. Our own trauma aside, it's not easy for us as well. Some of us are human beings. And so we are equally traumatized, equally broken, equally fragmented. And as terrorized, as horrified, as our own patients, we are all in this together. We don't have any superior position. We should acquire humility in the face of this massive external shock. The number of people who died in this pandemic compared to other pandemics in history, the Black Death of the Spanish Flu, the number is minuscule. It's tiny. The Spanish Flu killed anywhere between 50 to 100 million people. The Black Death decimated one-third of the population of Europe. And yet this pandemic is much, much worse. As far as trauma, it's much worse because it's amplified via means of mass communication and mass media because it reaches every home. And because we have no defense. And this time we know it. We didn't know what caused the Black Death. This time we know. And it is this knowledge that we are helpless, that we are defenseless. It is this very knowledge that is the main found of the trauma. Thank you very much for listening. Any questions for Dr. Sam? Professor Cotera, good to see you. Hi. We've been together in previous seminars, previous webinars. Yeah, I think I think it's very insightful of your idea of this functional association. You know, like many people see association as a problem, but I think you report the benefits of it. I think that was very fascinating. So yeah, I really enjoyed. Thank you. Thank you for being here. So thank you very much, Dr. Sam. People are traumatized by the presentation. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yeah. So moving ahead, I would like to call Dr. Yasuhiro Cotera from University of Derby.


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Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece. Today we are going to be talking about quirks, and not in the My Hero Academia way, but in the more traditional sense of an attribute thrust upon a character by the author. Now a quirk is different from general personality traits because what makes a quirk a quirk is that it is particularly unusual. In some cases a quirk may even come to define a character, but One Piece is full of characters with incredibly particular personality features and today we are going to examine some of the very best. Just a warning though, these character quirks are almost entirely subjective, so this particular list will probably feature much more of my personal opinion than usual. Now to be considered a quirk, you simply need to adhere to the simple definition I previously gave. And with that out of the way, let's begin. Welcome to the top 5 character quirks in One Piece. Number 5. Zorro's Sense of Direction We're going to commence this list with a timeless classic involving everybody's favorite green-haired alcoholic swordsman Zorro. Quite often a quirk is considered a detriment to general existence, like some sort of malfunction that needs to be overcome, and this is exactly the case here. Zorro's sense of direction redefines the word horrendous to the point where he seems to be incapable of traveling even the shortest distance or taking the simplest direction. In fact, the whole history behind Zorro becoming a bounty hunter was simply the result of this man not being able to find his way back home. So he just went with it. Another fantastic example of this quirk is during the alabaster arc when the straw hats were looking for the Baroque works bombers and Zorro ended up in some bushes outside of the city. But things go even further than that when this expectation has flipped on its head and as it turned out, Zorro was the first of the straw hats to make it back to Sabote after the two-year time skip. Of course this was 100% due to the help of Perona, but it was hilarious to see Zorro being so overconfident about his sense of direction and even ranking the straw hats by the order in which they'd arrived. So yes, this quirk is mainly used for comic effect, but there's something quite charming about having this absurdly strong character being so challenged in such a basic task. It does a lot to humanize Zorro and make someone like him a more relatable character to the audience. So to me, this is a very successful character quirk. Number four. Hina referring to herself in the third person. Now this one is just adorable. Rather than using watashi, atashi or any other common Japanese pronoun, Hina exclusively refers to herself as Hina. So for example, instead of saying something like I disagree, Hina would say Hina disagrees. Apparently this is a common thing that Japanese children do and it's seen as very cute. Now what really makes this particular quirk is that Hina makes no attempt to seem cute in any other aspect of her personality. In fact, she's a rather serious, stoic and level-headed person who for no explicable reason refers to herself in the cutest way possible. I said in my opening that a quirk can come to define a character, and I don't think there's a finer example on this list than Hina. The contrast of her speech to her general personality makes her a fascinating character. If she were just a super serious marine, she'd be boring. And likewise if she was just a super cute entity. And given that this fusion of traits is almost entirely responsible for crafting a memorable character, I find it very fitting to put Hina's speech patterns at the number four spot. Number three, Virgo getting things stuck to his face. Of all of the bizarre quirks in the entirety of One Piece, I'm not sure there will ever be one more strange than this habit of Virgo. The official explanation is that Virgo is such a messy eater that he just ends up with food substances on his face at all times.   How embarrassing. Well, this is exactly like that, except that Virgo has the entire fried egg on his face or a dango or a half eaten hamburger patty. In fact, this habit isn't even restricted to food because Virgo also seems to attract utensils such as spoons. Meanwhile, Virgo himself is completely unaware of anything that seems to become attached to his face. In terms of how it gets used in the story, this quirk is a lot like Hina's actually a bit of crazy comedy to contrast an exceptionally serious character, except that Virgo takes us a step further by being a pretty daunting antagonist actually.  So I would like to offer my congratulations to Oda for succeeding in providing this man with one of the most absurd quirks ever witnessed in one piece while not taking anything away from his imposing presence. Number two, Kaido's suicide hobby. I suppose that sounds pretty dark and yeah, kind of is. This is the only quirk on this list that is not used for comedic effect, but instead it manages to achieve something much greater. Kaido is currently probably the most terrifying figure in the entire series due to his monumental strength and terrifying personality. And Kaido is so strong that he has access to a quirk that no other character in the series could or even would dream of having, which is the hobby of pursuing death. Kaido has been sentenced to death 40 times, only to have each method of execution fail to render him a corpse. And so Kaido makes an effort to explore any and all potential methods of death, with his introduction into the series being a particularly memorable attempt. Kaido made his way up to a sky island and he just jumped off. He fell 10,000 meters onto solid ground and proceeded to get up as if nothing had happened at all. It was one of the most amazing introductions of a character into the series and this quirk effectively and instantly conveyed to me why he was considered to be one of the four emperors. That's a lot of work for one little quirk to do and this one certainly pulled it off. But even so, we still have one quirk left to examine. Number one, Boa Hancock looking so far down on someone that she's actually looking up. All right, so after number two, this may seem a bit underwhelming, but Boa Hancock's habit of looking so far down on people that she's actually looking up is by far my favorite quirk ever inserted into the series.  And yet it's extraordinarily effective in conveying Hancock's character. Arrogance pride and a general belief in oneself is a very difficult thing to illustrate outside of using dialogue or laughter. But Hancock's quirk gives us everything we need and more from one simple action. My particular favorite moment came during the Marineford arc when Hancock encountered Smoker and immediately plunged into her signature move to speak to a being that she considers entirely inferior. This combined with a couple of her other quirks like constantly kicking puppies, kittens and baby seals that are rather conveniently placed in her walking path may Hancock a decent character. I mean can you imagine if Hancock was all serious or all lovey-dovey all of the time, she would be so incredibly boring. But this quirk brings out the best of her character in actually what would traditionally be a pretty despicable trait. That is a huge accomplishment and the reason why this particular quirk finds its way to the top of this heel list. And also because I really like it and since I'm the one who makes the list it's here. And that pretty much does it for the top 5 character quirks in one piece. I know that you're all going to have very unique lists of your own to share so please do so in the comments section below. But if you enjoyed this video then feel free to like, favorite or subscribe. And if you are in any way keen on supporting this independent channel then please do check out my Patreon, Discord server or Twitter. The links to which are in the handy description below. This has been the Grand Line Review and I'll see you next time.