How Therapy Speak Is Ruining Your Love Life and Life in General

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🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. Okay, one of my peeps, Mallory, sent me this article today and I jumped up and down
0:33.0	with great delight. How therapy speak is ruining your love life.
0:41.2	I think it's ruining your life in general.
0:44.4	So what they point out in this article, which is by Dr. Isabel Morley, M-O-R-L-E-Y,
0:52.1	and we always post somewhere, the articles.
0:56.1	I have no idea there's somewhere that I get some ideas from.
1:02.8	It's a long article, and I'm just going to usurp the parts that I adore.
1:08.2	Knowledge about healthy relationships in mental health becoming increasingly widespread
1:14.5	thanks to the Internet and social media.
1:18.3	People are considering themselves psychology experts.
1:23.1	So at this point, I was already giggling.
1:25.8	Someone can become sure that they could identify a boundary
1:30.5	violation. What does Mother Laura complain about with the psychobabble nonsense? Red flags. I like
1:39.2	red flags, though, and that their date is a narcissist, and they know when they're triggered,
1:46.0	and they have PTSD from a minor event that happened 30 years ago.
1:53.0	The article goes on to say,
1:56.0	Therapy Speak is a good thing gone way far. Many now feel comfortable, hurling labels and
2:05.1	diagnoses like gaslighting, sociopathy, even if they are inaccurate, inaccurate, and they
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