Jordan Peterson’s wife, Tammy, still in hospital after surgery complications

[munaychasumaq]

Thanks for the update Beau. Jordan Peterson will take all this adversity into positive experience and transmit to all of those who are ready to learn,and maybe his experience with clonazepam will be told to his followers and who knows the reaction of the big farma.Wait and see..Happy to hear Tammy is doing fine

 

[A Jay]

Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question. Has anyone from the group tried to contact Peterson for an interview? Sorry if this is noise but you could only imagine it been a mutually beneficial conversation.

Yes, we contacted him a couple years ago for an interview, it was for The Truth Perspective I think back when he was first rising to prominence, but we missed the response email with the date and time of the interview so we never got the chance to talk to him. If I remember correctly, someone's tried a time or two here and there to get another interview, but we've not gotten anything back.

 

[Scottie]

I'm pretty sure Joe and Niall tried to interview him too, but they weren't doing video at that point so he (or rather his wife) said no.

Then he became so popular, it was (and still is) pretty difficult to get a slot in his schedule.

 

[Voyageur]

In JP's own words, he posted this today:

3. On the personal front: I have been taking a small dose of an anti-anxiety medication, Clonazepam. When my wife was diagnosed with serious cancer, in March, I upped my dose of that drug, without sufficient awareness of the danger of doing so. Although I have some training in psychopharmacology, I didn’t know that a reasonably large fraction of users of benzodiazepines—clonazepam is a benzodiazepine—experience terrible withdrawal symptoms when they decide to decrease the dose of the drug they are taking, or to stop taking it. Apparently, I am within that fraction of users. In consequence, I am currently in a hospital attempting to manage the withdrawal symptoms. I decided to check myself in because the symptoms I was experiencing (a) from too much of the drug and (b) from the withdrawal were very stressful to me, but also to my family. They needed a break from worry, after the hell of the last five months with my wife Tammy’s cancer. My daughter Mikhaila made a video with a full explanation. You can find it here:

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[Learner]

Thank you for the recent update, Voyageur. Good to read that Jordan Peterson decided to get into the hospital, so that his withdrawal symptoms can be taken care of. Hopefully everything will go well in this direction, while Tammy continues healing as well. I send some prayers towards them from time to time, aside from thought (gathering, they welcome prayers).

 

[Gwenllian]

Mikhaila Peterson gave a very quick update about Jordan and apparently he suffered from a severe allergic reaction to medication, at least that is what she said. He's out of the hospital now and is fine [@ 1 minute into the video]:

 

[Voyageur]

Another note by JP (his weekly) on his mental health and his wife's past illness - she is doing well!

On the health front (I am looking very much forward to the time when I don’t have to write this section any more): I have plans to leave rehab within the next two or three weeks, God willing. Once I am back into my life, which I hope and pray will be soon, I will conduct a Q and A session and people can ask me about my experiences. I believe that those who have been listening to my lectures or reading what I have written deserve an explanation. It’s deeply surreal to be arguably the world’s most well-known psychologist and also to have found myself in a situation where I required psychiatric care. My wife, Tammy—who suffered through a sequence of surgical interventions this year for cancer—seems to be doing very well.

 

[Voyageur]

As an update (and JBP Weekly offers general points) there are some postponements in his schedule JP is also working on his next book, and most importantly, working on his overall health. I agree wholeheartedly, his focus should be on his own health and that of his family until he feels ready, if ever, and not before.

Because of ongoing troubles with my health, which I have written about now in this newsletter ad nauseam, I have had to cancel my public lecture at the Apollo Theater in London on November 30th. I am not certain I could presently deliver a lecture equivalent in quality to my usual talks, or tolerate the radical time change that such a trip would require. In the meantime I am working diligently on my next book and trying to put my health in order.

Since the thread topic name is about Tammy, and she seems to have rebounded, the name could be modified to reflect both the Peterson's?

The note above was #4, and as an example, JP had this to say of the new film released; which offers contacts should there be interest to view it in ones local area (that is great!):

Another documentary, The Rise of Jordan Peterson, has also opened in longer form on campuses and in some theaters in the last two weeks (see https://www.holdingspacefilms.com/rise) for information and screening locales. The trailer can be found here: (http://bit.ly/RiseJBP). The film has been plagued by cancellations due to complaints by those who are theoretically opposed to its contents from an ideological perspective (here’s an article about the censoring of the film in New York from Newsweek (http://bit.ly/NewsweekJBP, although most media reviews claim that it presents a very balanced picture of the political controversies in which I have been involved (see the review, for example, in Wired at http://bit.ly/wiredJBP). Because of this, the film-makers, Patricia Marcoccia and Maziar Ghaderi, have partnered with two sign-up sites, (https://ca.demand.film/rise-jordan-peterson/) in Canada and Gathr in the US (https://gathr.us/films/the-rise-of-jordan-peterson) so that interested parties can request a screening in their vicinity.