Mikhalia starts this video off stating she wants to be as honest as possible, because "there's no other way to live". Okay.
In this video from September (which is on Mikhalia's channel, not her father's), she states that Jordan was put on benzos after the stress of a surgical complication (again adding there was a 1 in 20,000 chance of this occurring) that her mother had
after she had been in remission already.
In the February 2020 update video, nearly half a year later, she says he was put on benzos for an autoimmune reaction to food (???) which was then increased in dosage after her mother and Jordan's wife was diagnosed with cancer initially.
That is a very clear discrepancy.
In the earlier video, she also states she was surprised to find out that the drug had a warning label for suicidal ideation, but that she and her family had not been aware of this beforehand, since that label is only on the drugs.
(Unrelated(?): Only a month ago, Mikhalia posted
another meat fetish video and seems to have a normal demeanor. )
Apparently, for the last 8 months, Peterson has felt suicidal due to Akathisia, which is a movement disorder that can be caused by certain medication. Benzos are not one of them. Benzodiazepines are actually used to treat this condition, which is most likely why it's being labelled as a paradoxical reaction.
Akathisia is described as an uncontrollable fidgeting or restless movement, like an autistic stimming that goes on forever. It requires a differential diagnosis from other possible causes such as anxiety, Parkinson's, restless leg syndrome, etc. Which I'm
sure Peterson knows.
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The alternative explanation being that, perhaps, Peterson realised that in spite of all of his lectures and writing on having unwavering courage and bravery, he himself could not emotionally when something actually bad happened to him.
He found himself unable to clean his room after his wife was diagnosed with cancer—a common tragedy thousands of people go through daily. Having a realization that he lacked constitution he so urgently tried to prosthelytize unto others, he crumbled.
It's most likely he began with drugs that had far less potential side effects, but found this identity crisis still gnawing at him until he switched to benzos. They probably helped, but as soon as he felt stable again, he tried to take himself off of them—to prove to himself that he was still a man of conviction, that could still face the dark and evil dragons of the world heroically.
Of course he failed. But that failure had to have been because of others. It was the doctors, the rehabilitation centres. It was not because he, personally, was too weak.
To prove, once and for all, that he's not an addict, he traveled to Russia. Where doctors were legally allowed to nearly kill him so he could save his pride.
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The more I think about it, the less I blame Mikhalia for her actions. She has been raised by this man her entire life, and cannot handle the reality that he is weak and broken as much as he cannot.
She has forced herself to live in a carnivorous diet because it shows that her autoimmune disorders she's had since childhood are caused by what she eats—not because she is fundamentally flawed. Perhaps she witnessed the connection between people who were feminist and people who were vegan are, and seeing how her father viewed
those kind of people, she leaned in the polar opposite direction. As clearly, nothing is more important to her than her father and his approval. Which is a bit more Freudian than Jungian.