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#725 - Seerut Chawla - The Problem With Taking Therapy Advice From Instagram
Modern Wisdom
Misconceptions and Coddling in Mental Health Awareness
There is a lack of real discussions around mental health, with focus mainly on anxiety and depression. Mental health awareness often gets diluted by Instagram therapists and pastoral counselors, leading to watering down of important concepts like trauma and PTSD. This creates a coddling effect, conflating minor issues with serious ones. The speaker highlights various common misconceptions in popular psychology, such as labeling everyone as a narcissist, equating every unpleasant experience to trauma, and normalizing everything. These misconceptions contribute to a blanket coddling effect, hindering genuine discussions about mental health.
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