Glenn Beck’s tale of a neurological disease that makes him “look crazy” is looking like it’s just the kind of baloney we suspected.
A few days ago, I posted about Beck’s tearful, melodramatic monologue detailing his bizarre symptoms. He claimed that the eventual explanation was autoimmune disorder and adrenal fatigue. Since then, Raw Story did some investigating and what they found calls a lot of Beck’s story into question:
Raw Story’s first point is that Beck’s medical guru, “chiropractic neurologist” Dr. Ted Carrick has been dismissed as a quack by Yale University neurologist Dr. Steven Novella. As someone who has been involved in alternative medicine, I will not condemn Carrick or Beck just on this score. But this certainly fits in with the red flags about Beck’s credibility in the rest of what Raw Story wrote.
Besides Beck’s doctor, Raw Story raises a question about the diagnosis:
Raw Story spoke with a representative of Emory Health Care in Atlanta who pointed out that Beck’s symptoms do not actually match those typically associated with adrenaline fatigue, which is a syndrome that affects people exposed to high levels of stress over long periods of time.
…Many of Beck’s symptoms, however, are common to patients suffering from panic disorder.
Yale’s Dr. Novella is also skeptical of Beck’s narrative and called for him to disclose his medical records to back up his claims:
In a conversation with Raw Story, Novella said, “If you’re going to use your personal medical history as a public figure in order to make a point, then I think you’re obligated to make your medical record public.”
…“I care about this because I’m a physician,” Novella explained, “and he’s promoting a dubious diagnosis and a dubious practitioner and we have absolutely no way of knowing if anything he’s saying about his own medical history is accurate.”
In my post, I wrote that despite my suspicions about Beck’s tale, I’d take him at his word until there’s some evidence pointing elsewhere.
I’d call this evidence.
You can watch Beck’s videos below.
(H/T Aria)
“Sorry, but find this article incredibly insensitive. I am in the same boat after suffering a life-threatening seizure. Nothing to joke about here. Not classy!”
http://www.newshounds.us/glenn_beck_says_he_has_a_rare_neurological_disease_that_makes_him_look_crazy_11102014
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Photo Op Hannocchio also needs intensive, life-time psychiatric care. He has a lot going on inside his dark soul. There’s another side of him that is troubling.
We have a dirty secret about these frauds. Many of them are so screwed up mentally they turn to drugs and alcohol to soothe their mental pain. It’s very common in the film and television industry. News folks are not immune.
NOTE TO MASSES
Beck isn’t the only one who is troubled.
As for the hack docs he’s consulting— he’s hardly the last or the first to reach out frantically to people like that when traditional medicine doesn’t offer him anything to hang onto to explain his problems. The man needs intensive, long-term psychiatric are — not from Ablow, but somebody competent — to sort out his problems, but that’s an idea many totally screwed-up people can’t deal with.
I feel sorry for him, actually. Chronic cognitive dissonance is hard to live with.
Even if he didn’t know the name of the condition, he shot off more medical exposition than a House marathon.
Which brings me to one of Beck’s biggest and most obvious tells: The more he’s lying, the vaguer he gets, especially when it’s healthcare issues, or a miraculous recovery story. He was very general with this symptoms, and his medical pedagoging was almost non-existent. That was a huge red flag, even without the sketchy way he was acting.
