How Therapy Speak is Ruining Your Love Life

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:29.9	Okay, one of my peeps, Mallory sent me this article today and I jumped up and down with great delight.
0:36.7	How therapy speak is ruining your love life.
0:42.5	I think it's ruining your life in general. So what they point out in this article,
0:48.3	which is by Dr. Isabel Morley, M-O-R-L-E-Y, and we always post somewhere, the articles.
0:57.4	I have no idea there's somewhere that I get some ideas from.
1:04.1	It's a long article, and I'm just going to usurp the parts that I adore.
1:09.6	Knowledge about healthy relationships in mental health becoming increasingly widespread
1:15.7	thanks to the Internet and social media.
1:19.6	People are considering themselves psychology experts.
1:24.4	So at this point, I was already giggling.
1:33.3	Someone can become sure that they could identify a boundary violation.
1:38.3	What does Mother Laura complain about with the psychobabble nonsense?
1:41.3	Red flags. I like red flags, though. And that their date is a narcissist, and they know when they're
1:46.0	triggered, and they have PTSD from a minor event that happened 30 years ago.
1:55.0	The article goes on to say, therapy speak, is a good thing gone way far.
2:03.1	Many now feel comfortable hurling labels and diagnoses like gaslighting, sociopathy,
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