15 Amateurish Things Therapists Say (2019 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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January 23, 2019
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners, it's just me today. |
| 0:09.0 | So I was teaching class a couple days ago, and I was talking with my students. |
| 0:16.9 | And a couple times the students would say a word that was a sort of pet peeve of mine. |
| 0:24.2 | Like one student used the word committed suicide, for example. |
| 0:31.6 | You know, she was like, oh, well, so-and-so committed suicide. |
| 0:35.5 | And I just sort of cataloged it away I didn't respond right then |
| 0:39.3 | because I thought you know why why be pedantic in this moment you know it's it's week two of |
| 0:46.4 | the quarter these are first quarter students I don't want to I don't want to cause you know |
| 0:51.3 | more insecurity and more anxiety for the already super anxious first |
| 0:58.3 | quarter students. So I didn't say anything. But then later in the class meeting, our class |
| 1:02.4 | meetings are three hours long, so there's a lot of opportunities for things like this to happen. |
| 1:06.0 | But later in the class meeting, another student said the word codependent. They were saying, |
| 1:10.6 | oh, the so-and-so is very codependent. |
| 1:13.2 | And I, you know, responded to what they were saying. |
| 1:18.1 | And then I said, and by the way, codependent is kind of a hack word because of blah, blah, blah, and I explained why. |
| 1:26.5 | And then I said, and while we're on the topic, I should also say that the phrase |
| 1:31.3 | commit suicide is also not the preferred nomenclature. |
| 1:35.5 | Now we say killing yourself or completed suicide because committed suicide implies a sin |
| 1:41.6 | or a crime and that doesn't seem like the way we want to talk about suicide. |
| 1:47.5 | And then I, you know, start moving on with class and then someone raised their hand and they said, |
| 1:52.9 | so is it a hack thing to say if you say red flag? You know, that's, that raises some red flags. |
| 2:04.3 | And I, and I said, oh, I don't think so, |
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