Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Nagor again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

Thank you again to all of our followers here in the United States and internationally.

I appreciate all the comments and the feedback and the opportunity to consult with you guys and to help and educate and demystify and send a

message of hope, which I truly believe in and have seen in being involved in this field,

which is a privileged opportunity to have individuals tell their stories and the stories often are

filled with pain, with hurt, with confusion, with disbelief. And it's, you know, it really is a privilege to be able to do what I do for a living

and I am grateful for this opportunity.

Today I wanted to focus and kind of staying on the, you know, the realm of existential type

of thinking is, you know, there's terms like metacognition,

which is essentially thinking about thinking.

And if we all kind of step back and look at, do any of us do this, I'd say a vast majority of people don't.

We think in a very automatic, fast-paced way,

and I've mentioned this before,

there's no such thing as the unconscious.

Everything is conscious and everything is, things are more automatic.

And I wanted to kind of focus on how we compartmentalize our thinking into a past, and future oriented, um, kind of landscape.

And I've alluded to this stuff in the past, but I want to kind of try to connect it all together

because thinking is really the most crucial

part in treating a vast majority of psychiatric conditions, depression, anxiety, bipolarity,

even behavioral problems.

And, you know, there are some disorders where thinking does require certain medications

such as like schizophrenia or any of these psychotic disorders.

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