HealthyGamer, Beginnings, and License Reprimand
Added 2024-12-30 12:00:09 +0000 UTCDr Kirk Honda interviews Dr Alok Kanojia (“Dr K”) from HealthyGamer about his career, the many achievements of the HealthyGamer team, and Dr K’s license reprimand.
00:00 Introducing Dr. K from HealthyGamer
00:54 Dr. K's experience with UnitedHealthcare
05:38 Why did Dr. K become a psychiatrist?
11:54 Did Dr. K plan on becoming a content creator?
24:57 Reckful & Dr. K's reprimand
42:36 How do clinicians exist in a public world?
51:36 What does HealthyGamer do?
1:08:23 What is a day in the life of Dr. K like?
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December 30, 2024
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Comments
Incredible that Dr K. got a reprimand but Ramani still has her license and continues to spread misinformation and encourage hatred and stigmatization of NPD.
Kadita
2024-12-30 23:57:50 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed this episode. I watched a lot of Dr. K in the pandemic era - the draw for me was the humanization of people that I had watched on Twitch (Ironmouse, Ludwig, MoistCritikal, to name a few). I say this to clarify that I’m not a Dr. K “hater,” I have massive respect for his content, mission, and journey. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed his interviews and much of his educational material That being said, I do have, and have had, a few concerns (I believe maybe last year I made a comment encouraging Dr. Honda to watch one of Dr. K’s YouTube shorts on coaching with this in mind) My issue is twofold - primarily, Dr. K’s view of the modern therapist (reiterated this episode) as being illness/pathology driven. Secondarily, Dr. K identifies a gap in care (which I agree with) and, if my understanding is correct, views this gap as being filled by trained peer coaches utilizing a non clinical but evidence based approach To address the first point, I cannot disagree any more with his assessment regarding modern therapy as illness/pathology driven care, and I assume it’s an exposure bias. Maybe it’s my university, maybe it’s my cultural pocket, but all I hear about at school and in supervision is strengths based care - the minimization of psychopathology as a focus of treatment. This bleeds into my next point, but is the modern therapist not the most well equipped for dealing with the demographic Dr. K identifies? Would Dr. K counter that the issue is there aren’t enough therapists? In my experience, the main reason people don’t seek therapy is because it’s expensive. The coach then is a less expensive option, yet what duties does the coach perform? If the coach is sought as an alternative to therapy, does the client truly, really, understand the difference in role? Does the coach? How is this balance maintained? I’m left with more questions about what, without rigid oversight, may be a slippery slope. The pessimist in me says that coaching is an excellent business opportunity to capture a market and carve out a niche. Yet, the majority of my clients are as Dr. K describes - normal people with some clinical symptoms. Where is the line drawn? I’m sure that Dr. K would help clear up my concerns, but I’m curious if Dr. Honda has his own thoughts on the matter
Kevin Egler
2024-12-30 23:06:06 +0000 UTC
