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The Truth About BetterHelp, Life Coaches, & Positive Affirmations | Dr. Ali Mattu
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
The Power and Pitfalls of Identity in Mental Health
The speaker discusses the impact of using specific terms to describe mental health conditions, like avoiding the term 'diabetic' to not define a person by their condition. They question whether being overly cautious with language validates insecurities and causes more harm. The speaker points out that while some people may find comfort and community in identifying as having a mental health condition, such as being bipolar, it could also be limiting. This is particularly evident with conditions like social anxiety, where the identity may become a constraint.
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Is that why you brought it up? Well, sometimes people would ask me like, why don't you, you know, you talk about depression, and you talk about this stuff. Why don't you talk about suicide? Oh, I see. When you're saying the word, when I said that you said the word crazy, but you wouldn't speak about suicide. Yeah, but that was a very kind of business-centric mindset. I'm saying it more from like, if I like, what's a good example of this? When I refer to a patient who has diabetes, I try to avoid using the term diabetic because it like, right, brings them to, they're just a person who has diabetes only. That's who they are. And they're not. But at the same time, like they say, you would never say that person's a hyper-tensive. And yes, I wouldn't. And I wouldn't say they're a pulmonic, but I could say that they're asthmatic. So yeah. Are we putting too much emphasis on this, where we're actually validating the insecurities people have around these words by being so careful, where we're being too prudent and actually causing more
Speaker 1
harm? It speaks to the identity issue. Like some people might identify as being diabetic. In my world, some people might identify as being bipolar. And that can be both helpful, that you find this community. I'm not the only one. Exactly. You know, oh, you're bipolar too. Not bipolar too, like too, but bipolar as well. Little mental health joke. That could be both. Yeah, you could be both. But you might feel less alone. And at the same time, it can be problematic if that identity is now limiting you. So I see this a lot with social anxiety.
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