The Problem With Taking Therapy Advice From Instagram - Seerut Chawla - #725
Modern Wisdom About this episode
Seerut Chawla is a licensed psychotherapist and founder of The Trenches, an organisation focusing on mental health and social media dynamics. There is a trend of online influencers who can identify your trauma and diagnose your attachment problems over social media. Is this an important new frontier for discussing mental health? Or cod-psychology over the internet. Expect to learn the biggest problems with coddling how it enables victimhood, the difference between pain and trauma, why being triggered is your responsibility, what everyone gets wrong about self worth, why we spend so much time obsessing over emotion in the West, the biggest problems with self-healing and much more… Timestamps: (00:00) Seerut’s Issue With Coddling (03:27) Negatives of an Overprotective Society (10:00) What We Get Wrong About Victimhood (17:30) Lowering the Bar of What is Unacceptable (26:19) Obsessing Over Our Own Emotions (31:30) How Therapy Has Changed Our Culture (40:14) Are People Actually Discussing Real Mental Health? (46:00) Best Things to Rely On to Improve Mood (54:21) Why the West is Self-Obsessed (58:38) How People Misunderstand Self-Worth (1:02:53) Looking to Sam Harris as an Example (1:11:50) Where to Find Seerut Extra Stuff: Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ Buy my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ - Episodes you might enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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