I had been diving down the rabbit hole of my family's deep dark secrets and avoidance of trauma for a few years now, but your videos are very much like talking about it with a very understanding friend. Thank you for sharing your life and your work with us.

Hi I was stunned to hear your video on your journey to growth. I nodded all the time. It was like you were talking of me. I started my journey with a psychotherapist that in the beginning helped me a lot, then there was a major change in him and I "met"upon his trauma. He said it all was in me. Very very dangerous , it nearly ended with the worst case senario. It has been a struggle back to life , but paradoxically because I had started my journey, it didnt collapse. I have noone that has traveled these roads in them selves and that is hard. I understand why you called it , gold , finding someone. Thank you. Gina

Hi Daniel . Thank You for what you do with . Speaking Out . for the Vulnerable & Disadvantaged that's Awesome ! Would it have been possible to covert movie film the Tragedy of Lives for those detained as Staff . I found that my Mobile Phone was confiscated . my room searched . other Patients found also conversations listened to from Staff & any mention of recording was responded to with the Patients mobile phone being confiscated . Staff & the Conditions were blocked from being reported to the outside world . Notices were put on the wall banning bringing in & the use of Laptop Computers because as staff manageress said " don't like issues being reported on social media "

Hi Daniel, I listen to your videos a lot, and you even inspired me to make my own (although I don't have the knack of it yet - getting there). I am a Certified Substitute Teacher, currently out of work because of Covid 19 and life devastation - also hold a BA in Psych and partial MS in Education/Special Education. I also started an MS in Clinical Counseling once, but dropped it due to the system I cannot believe in. I'm a musician as well - and just enjoy your perspective.

feeling rough in this era, you´re one of those who make me feel less insane. thank you

Hi Daniel. I just wanted to express some gratitude for your documentaries and videos, which I devoured last summer as though I hadn't had a bite to eat in years. They felt like the first deeply relatable thing I'd come across since becoming an adult. I'm 22 and was becoming increasingly numb and schizoid until I figured out to look back at my foggy history, and to dig up my deep feelings about my parents and childhood. Well on the path now - feeling more alive every month. Cheers! - Darius

I begin this in tears. Daniel, your struggle is so mine wouldn’t be alone. If you wanna assign a purpose to it. Use that. My parents did not ever love me either. Ever. I’m 61. The Bible says the truth sets us free. But how could I face a truth like that alone. I am. Except your videos. My parents jailed me. They said I had a genetic defect. I lost babies. I was perfect not defective. At sixteen. I was like you. Sensitive to the truth about the world in a world that won’t see hear or speak about or acknowledge negative things. If you don’t how can you ever know the urgency upon us to insist we all have no room for anything but creating good things. You and Laura Delano are examples of the best and most necessary things I know of. I love your song called “Bullshit”. It’s great. I feel like you’re my friend. If I ever saw you in person the only fear is I’m sure I’d fall in love with you which would not be cool probably. You’re just so handsome and sweet on top of being so compassionate why wouldn’t anyone love you? This is just pure fan mail. I hope it makes you happy. That’s my intent. I live in Southwest Florida and I hope to form a group Just some hand picked people locally who want to talk about getting depsychistrized. Like maybe fundraise for Inner Fire. Or Inner Compass project The new Soteria Beatrice Birchs inner fire. She called me. I’m getting myself ready to do something soon. This grief sucks though. I wish you were my in person best friend. I’m needy as heck for a friend like you it’s better I don’t meet you. If there were a lot like you it would ease a lot of needy pain a lot of people require to get free of ...Bull shit.....Bullshit.... I see so much bullshit for miles and miles. Bullshit bullshit. My parents natural instincts were rendered not accesssble because my moms a therapist and my dad a big time corporate attorney. And they both were programmed by lethal BS doses from the Nazis I guess and the drug companies and Meyer and friends of the DSM so I was ambushed with Thorazine at twenty then again with closeril at menningers in Topeka I got off it in 2001. I think I was Ginny pigged. No informed consent. I wasn’t a candidate. No reason. Whatever. I got off prosac in 2007. I was jailed like MLK civilly disobeying the ER. Lee County is bad. NAMI my former employer is a child abuse front group for white coat dope dealing and istrogenic metsbolusm and invasion of America via the route of the frontal lobe. My parents jailed me saying elder assault. To get me drugged. All this meant. Bye bye mom and dad. Some things you gotta not automatically forgive Hence. I get you. Totally. And your videos. Thank you Daniel Mackler abd thanks too for the two email responses you sent awhile back. They are prized possessions and sources of great encouragement and it is an honor that you replied. If I can ever support you please do ask me. I’d relocate. To work for you. You’re that great.

I really love your work and recommend it to many. I have been involved with “mad” folks all my life and am often considered as one myself. I help run a hearing voices group in the New York area and have been involved with hearing voices folks for many years. I am in hopes with having a dialogue with you about breathing and madness as I find learning to breathe properly conserving CO2 allows for easier processing And unraveling of Disturbing thought much of which may well be PTSD from early or even later trauma. Ron Robbins developed and has had it duplicated and early research about it published as a one session effective treatment for panic attacks called the panic protocol which can be seen on the internet. I pointed out to him that “body starter” that trips a person post hypnotically into the start of a panic doesn’t work unless they are already over breathing usually outside their awareness until it really accelerated in the panic and they are usually mouth breathing as well losing the calming effects of adequate CO2 maintenance especially in the brain as well as the significantly reduced release of oxygen from the hemoglobin which takes place in over breathing as per the Bohr effect further robbing the brain of its fuel to think clearly creating more right brain survival processing and the further generation of the sympathetic fight or flight effects I.e.danger danger danger. I would like to open a dialogue with you about the research going on about this and possibly be connected with other interested researchers.

I watched your interview with Martin Miller. I have all of Alice Miller’s books. I appreciate your work. It’s been a long journey for me. All the best to you, Sherri

Hi Daniel, Just wondering if you've come across John Paul Rice and his movie 'A Child's Voice'?

Daniel, Thank you for caring enough to do what you do. What I think makes your insights so remarkable and healing is that instead of pointing fingers at the afflicted, you point out what is truly going on - which is unhealed trauma. But more importantly, you emphasize the saddest thing of all - which is that untold harm is done not just from massive trauma, but also from being treated with disrespect - the effects of which can be profound. And more tragically, I find disrespect to be the hallmark of most of the psychotherapeutic community, with psychiatry in particular. But I think your videos are helping to remedy this situation in a way that’s unique. For me, video is more real and immediate - it’s just more tangible and relatable, and therefore more effective than reading text on a page. And I certainly appreciate a human face and a human voice. To me it verifies your authenticity, the lack of which is another hallmark of the “therapeutic” profession - that and basic human decency. And that’s what comes through in spades in your videos - your decency and respectful attitude towards your fellow human beings. You explain how this is where true healing begins. It’s the only “treatment” anyone really needs. Thank you again, maria

Really informative stuff you've written. There's a new book out too that may interest you. It's called Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Our Relationships by Brian Earp and Julian Savulescu.

I wanted to thank you for your brilliant critique of Alice Miller’s breakthrough observations on the multigenerational impacts of child abuse and, consequently, of unaddressed/unresolved childhood trauma. Your post “Alice Miller in a Nutshell: A Brief Critique” (2013) perfectly aggregated and summarized the somewhat disjointed thoughts I have been having after reading “The Body Never Lies” and then “Drama...” I know that, in 2020, I am a bit late to the party of discovering this revolutionary and radical idea that there are unequivocally lifelong impacts of childhood trauma. However, my personal journey has brought me here now and I am so grateful that you have taken the time to share your critique so clearly and eloquently on your site here.

Hey Daniel, I am curious your thoughts about “Toxic Masculinity” and what might constitute healthy masculinity. I’m also curious your opinion of Open Relationships. Thanks, Buck