Joe Nucci | Are you defined by your trauma?

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Emma Gunavardhana

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Joe Nucci has gone viral for his straight-talking posts about mental health and trauma. While it's no bad thing that we've become more comfortable talking about mental health and that struggling with mental health issues is now far less taboo than it was a decade ago, there are elements of the conversation that are unhelpful. Being defined by your mental health doesn't afford you the ability to make changes, progress and move beyond a diagnosis and it's this which Joe is challenging.

When I saw his posts, I knew he had to be welcomed onto the show to expand on his position and explain how he positively sees the conversation changing and moving forward.

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0:00.0	My guest today is Joseph Nucci, although you may know him from his social media handle at Joe Nucci,
0:11.8	where he shares his ideas about therapy speak and the colloquial use of trauma.
0:16.0	You know, when trauma was first formulated as a diagnosis, it was very controversial.
0:21.0	Events themselves aren't traumatic.
0:23.0	Our responses to them are.
0:25.0	You know, once something gets over a thousand views and listens,
0:29.0	it's just not about you anymore.
0:31.0	The, you know, the medicalization of everyday life is something that I think
0:36.2	about and it's something I'm a little bit concerned about as these terms become
0:40.2	more popular by overgeneralizing that everything is just trauma which and
0:46.1	maybe what some people mean by that is life is really hard and life can be really
0:50.0	stressful and which betcha it can that brings me to narcissism.
0:55.8	Listen I'm not saying that there aren't you know empathic people out there you know
0:59.9	whether or not they you know should claim the Empath is a different conversation, but I've seen it more than once in my practice where people come in and they say, you know, I have, you know, I'm an Empath and I do a history and it's like well it also sounds like you have some trauma.
1:13.7	A year ago I had to sleep wherever I could.
1:20.3	I thought well I'll be out here on Christmas Day.
1:23.7	Thousands in the UK are facing homelessness this Christmas.
1:27.6	At crisis I was safe.
1:29.4	I had someone in my corner.
1:31.2	My first day at crisis was my last day on the streets.
1:36.0	Give £29.73 now to help provide urgent care, housing advice and long-term support.
1:42.0	Make this the first day of a life beyond homelessness.
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