Have we taken therapy culture too far?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
A growing number of young people say their mental health diagnosis is an important part of their identity. But by medicalizing imperfection – could young people be losing what makes them uniquely human?
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| 0:40.3 | This is on point. I'm Megynchakrabardi. More and more young people these days are openly talking about their mental health. And that's mostly a good thing. |
| 0:54.5 | But they're not just talking about it. |
| 0:57.1 | They say their diagnosis defines the entirety of who they are. |
| 1:04.2 | Honestly, I would say 80% of my personality and how it is is driven by my ADHD. |
| 1:10.3 | Discovering that I am autistic has saved my life. |
| 1:13.6 | Before I had an understanding of the way that my brain worked, |
| 1:16.6 | I always thought that there was something wrong with me. |
| 1:20.6 | Okay, I need to get the second cart because two is my safe number today, |
| 1:24.6 | and this first one definitely has some kind of bacteria on it. When I tell you, if you have OCD, I have never in my life felt so seen. |
| 1:35.3 | This fan even picks a second grocery cart. I don't know. I just feel like his content is so relatable and so needed right now. |
| 1:43.3 | Hello, sorry for not texting it back for a month. |
| 1:46.0 | I got overwhelmed by the number of notifications I had in my messages and avoided checking them until I was pretty positive that all of my friends hated me. |
| 1:52.0 | I heard someone say to be autistic is to be misunderstood and I think that is absolutely spot on. |
| 1:58.0 | My entire life I've been misunderstood. I have trauma from the fact that I've |
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