How To Diagnose
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/KIRK to get 10% off your first month.
00:00 Introducing Isaiah
01:16 Case study #1
05:56 What questions do clinicians ask to differentiate a diagnosis?
10:03 Case study #2
17:00 Why do therapists diagnose their clients?
26:04 Case study #3
35:15 How does Isaiah structure his practice?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Deserving listeners. Today we have a special guest on the podcast, Isaiah from Psychology Today, the YouTube channel. You can check out his podcast. And are you an audio podcast as well or just a YouTube channel? |
| 0:12.8 | Oh, just YouTube. |
| 0:14.1 | Just YouTube. So psychology today is what it's called Isaiah in Virginia, a counselor. |
| 0:21.3 | And so he suggested that we go over three vignettes. |
| 0:25.8 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome to the podcast, Isaiah. |
| 0:29.1 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 0:30.7 | These are AI-generated fictional case studies. |
| 0:33.6 | They are meant to be ambiguous. |
| 0:34.8 | They are not based off of any person. |
| 0:37.1 | So I will read the case study. We'll talk about what we would diagnose these people with. This is purely to illustrate that different clinicians might have different ways of seeing the same case, different approaches to care, and just illustrating how we go about thinking about these diagnoses and our diagnostic processes. |
| 0:55.7 | This is not meant to say like who's right or who's wrong. |
| 0:58.0 | We're just playing around with the idea and illustrating that in real time for you all. |
| 1:02.1 | We've both looked at these cases beforehand and so we each have some thoughts, |
| 1:06.4 | but we're going to be going back and forth. |
| 1:08.1 | So please do like and subscribe. |
| 1:09.9 | Check out Dr. Kirk's |
| 1:10.8 | channel in the description below. Give him a follow and let's get into it. Great. All right. Case study |
| 1:17.2 | number one is Daniel, age 32. So Daniel is a 32 year old middle school teacher who recently |
| 1:23.5 | moved to a new city after ending a five-year relationship. Over the past six months, |
| 1:28.2 | he reports persistent fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and disrupted sleep. He often lies awake |
| 1:35.2 | replaying conversations from work, worrying that he said something inappropriate or that |
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