CEREBRAL - A Predatory Medical Empire

The medical industry is rife with predatory practices in America, but Cerebral is a lesson in just how bad things can get, when a multi billion dollar startup is predicated on industrial exploitation.

Today we look at the rise and fall of a Pandemic born "Tele-Health Solution" that went down all the wrong paths and become an engine behind the very thing it pretended to cure.

#medical #healthcare #cerebral

[UpperEchelon]

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[silverwolf]

The Resident Evil 1 soundtrack at 13:00 added to the impact of how a pharmaceutical giant was being irresponsible. I see what you did there UE

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[Yoda_Gaming]

another huge issue is that people will just lie about symptoms and their mental state to feel "different" or "special" not all the time but a lot of the time a therapist that is physically there can see right through people faking theses things. I cannot imagine the amount of high school aged kids diagnosed with adhd or anxiety or some kind over the phone which has led to their detriment probably both physically and mentally.

[thebosley]

I work at a start up pharmacy and cerebral prescribers are black listed— we don’t fill them. This is due to countless cases of meds being sent over without proper care being administered with cerebral

[connorself]

“It’s more profitable to treat than to cure, and it’s so much easier to charge what you want when there’s no one to contest you” -My mother
I haven’t watched the video all the way through but this seems to ring true. We live in a society where mental health is becoming less stigmatized but on the flip side of the coin, it’s becoming toxically glorified. Many people will feel sad and think it’s depression and then self affirm that feeling until it does become depression. With therapy and mental health treatment being a tricky business even in person, this opens the door for medicine to be prescribed to those who don’t need it by nurses who may not fully be qualified to prescribe them. Yes I’m aware nurse practitioners can prescribe, but they have not gone through med school, they have not done a residency or fellowship. These years of experience that a doctor has over a nurse help contribute to the mindset a doctor has when treating their patient. This becomes easy to exploit on both ends, for people trying to get their hands on stimulants or antidepressants for illegal use or for a company who feeds off the ills of an individual. The shady review swaying is questionable and makes one question the legitimacy and actual purpose of Cerebral. Medication is fine and all, but it should never be the first go to in a situation unless it’s an emergency. This is what I’ve been taught by my mother (who works in the medical field) and by my medical academy teachers. Especially in medications that interact with your psychology. Some of these medications can cause more harm than the relief they provide and could be more detrimental to the individual than therapy. Therapy and medication should work in tandem, it achieves the best results. Cerebral seems extremely predatory on the “customers” that are reliant on the medication to function and negligent to the “customers” who supply drugs to your local Joe the Adderall dealer.

[SmeargleRocks]

You're on fire with all of this under the radar stuff

[jhoughjr]

Adderal is certainly not harmless, but it is a miracle drug and safe if used as prescribed.

[emperorarasaka]

"Prescribers" is basically their corpo-term for Sales Agents. What an amazing business model!

[snakeplissken]

We life in a time where a lot of people are just so eager to have someone diagnose them with certain mental issues (those that may allow you pretend you have it harder then anyone else anxiety/depression/adhd but aren´t as stigmatized like schizoprhenia) just so they get an excuse for everything they do/don´t do and to be more special then others (they need to "struggle" more then you do cause they allegedly have a handicap).
That someone wants to exploit those people isn´t really surprising me.

[Wampa]

The background music was a really nice touch and fits your rapid-fire presentation style. Well done.

[zergolicious]

dude the amount of work you do for your videos is astonishing keep up the great work

[ithuhalinqua]

As someone who is of the opinion that mental health issues are already diagnosed in ridiculously high amounts, this is terrifying to me. In a majority of the cases of diagnosed mental health issues, the patient is in poor physical condition leading to poor mental health (being tired all the time, having no motivation to do what they need or want to do, and so on). What these people need is how to build their mental and physical health and to be motivated to do so - what they absolutely do not need is someone telling them "just keep messing up your own health, because we have this magic treatment that makes it all better."
I struggle a lot with sleep deprivation, but I'm under no disallusion that this stems from depression or anxiety or anything like that - it's me being in poor physical health and staying on the computer during the evenings, as well as me stressing over my exams other stressful but temporary situations. I do not need sleep medicine, I need better habits - like physical excercise, spending less time on the computer and decompression exercise. The magic pills would just give me an excuse to ignore what I actually need to become healthy.
Obviously this isn't the case for everyone - some people do need mental health medication, but even then it should primarily be used as a tool to get out of that evil spiral. After all, if you break your leg, you eventually take off the cast and learn to walk again. Some people never fully recover from the injury, sure, but the vast majority of people do - but right now we're trying to prevent that recovery in favor of shortcuts making their lives harder in the long run.

Also, I hate this ordeal about it being "cool" and "trendy" to have mental health conditions. It's not. If you have a serious mental health condition, it is debilitating and horrible. In other words, unless you're a proper masochist, you'd do anything in your power to mitigate the power the condition has over you - including reluctancy to share it with every single individual crossing your path. The condition does not make you a lesser human being, but it is also by no means a badge of honor.

[SeanS]

Excellent work dude. I know how exhausting it can be to wade in wave after wave of how shitty humans can be to each other. I'm proud that you are recognizing this and taking the mental health steps to help prevent it from burning you out. I will also say your work is helping so many more people than you know. I'm proud of you.

[Slashxx]

A person I know well worked for them as a therapist. It was a nightmare, the company is the definition of top heavy bureaucracy. That massive firing they just did? None of the executives or upper management got canned. They have hired more executives in the last year than they had on the entire board before, more than doubling the number of seat at the top of the company. They are all nepotism hires too, "I have known Sue for 10 years prior and she is a great friend!" All the therapists were happy to hear the CEO hired someone for millions a year with no real job to do, while the company slashed their pay and put 300 people on a single team with one middle management person over them.

They wanted therapists to treat schizophrenics virtually. People who needed hard antipsychotic meds, and probably inpatient care in some cases. They just told the therapists "You can not opt out of seeing them" effectively telling them "risk your license and this persons life because we will get paid for sending them meds."

[mattpinap]

As a Pharmacy Technician you can absolutely tell this is happening. Anybody who has worked at a Walgreens or CVS you know what I'm talking about. People withdrawing due to nationwide shortages of stimulants like adderall, Concerta, methylphenidate, and dextroamphetamine salts make people absolutely terrible. Even Elon musk said Adderall was an "anger amplifier"..

[Mondoness]

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You been killin it lately.
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[JuliaClark]

That commercial was so long I almost left.

[Defensor]

This is a problem with the pharmaceutical industry in general: how do you maximize your profit, when most people just don't need your products?
There seem to be only three options:
- overprice your products (up to 5000%) so people who need them go bankrupt
- convince more people to use your stuff even if they don't need it, potentially making them addicted
- do both of the above simultaneously

[xxtingyxx]

You sort of touched on this at the end of the video, but what you are seeing is what I believe a tiny fraction of what has been going on since 2020. I was seeking some help and was prescribed a 30 day supply of Xanax and four different "new" drugs with less than a 15 minute zoom call.
This wasn't from one provider however. I was so surprised from the first interaction that I scheduled 4 more times from different clinics, trying to walk in or at the very least have multiple conversations with someone before being prescribed drugs and they all ended the same way. Under 15 minutes with at least one prescription. After the second one I blocked my camera to see if there was any hesitation and to my surprise, nope. Same result. This isn't just one company. This is the entire mental health sector doing this.

[CorpseTank]

I love how you put in the Resident Evil Theme from Marilyn Manson in. Very nice touch especially on that thematic.