Capitalism and Borderline Mom
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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00:00 Does capitalism affect our mental health?
13:49 Can teachers ethically be friends with their students?
18:30 How can I set a limit with my borderline mom?
26:23 What do you look for in a marriage and family therapy program?
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July 9, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Rebecca, emails, what do you say? |
| 0:02.1 | I'm in. |
| 0:03.3 | This emails from patron Alicia from Seattle. |
| 0:06.2 | They say, I've been wondering lately whether you think that our overall mental health is worse today than it was in the past. |
| 0:14.2 | Is our overall mental health worse today than it was in the past? |
| 0:18.6 | I'm also wondering if capitalism might be good, bad, or neutral for |
| 0:24.4 | our overall mental health. You've talked about our need for work-life balance, and you've talked |
| 0:29.8 | about the need for us to push back against our employers. However, economic insecurity is also |
| 0:36.1 | a known stressor. |
| 0:38.5 | And so maybe in the past, there was less social isolation, but more mental health difficulties |
| 0:44.7 | due to things like high infant mortality, famine, et cetera. |
| 0:49.0 | And war. |
| 0:49.8 | And war. |
| 0:50.5 | I would love to hear your thoughts on this. |
| 0:52.2 | End of email. |
| 0:53.4 | What do you think, Rebecca? |
| 0:54.6 | So I just recently, so there's a great biography of Audrey Lord out, and I continue to learn more and more about her. |
| 1:02.0 | One of the things I didn't know is that during World War II, we had some of the highest suicide rates ever in this country. |
| 1:11.4 | So mental health has been crappy throughout time. |
| 1:17.6 | We are more public about what is bad about mental health. |
| 1:22.5 | We also have four times the population that we had just 50 or 100 years ago. |
| 1:28.6 | So there are more people to see that they have bad mental health. |
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