Mental Health Hot Takes #2
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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00:00 Intro
03:21 Post-communist regimes breeds fearful avoidance
06:04 Patriarchy is the reason we say 'big egos'
11:05 First time clients should read a transference for dummies
14:32 More than one thing can be true at once
14:42 Catatonia is much more common than realized
15:27 Anxiously attached people have weaponized attachment theory
17:25 Mob think makes the reasonable unreasonable
18:47 Psychologists are the police of capitalism
20:30 Spirituality has benefit to mental health
25:01 Emergency mental health services are more harmful than helpful
38:54 Personality disorders will eventually be obsolete
45:18 'Being strong' is just hiding your feelings
45:52 Most people take illegal drugs to manage their mental health
46:50 Good mental health begins and ends with compassion
47:01 Mental health is incompatible with modernity
50:28 Too much self reflection isn't helpful
57:20 "I have anxiety" is an excuse for cowardice
1:00:13 You don't need a new diagnosis, you need movement
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Deservant listeners, today I'm going to read your mental health hot takes and talk about them. |
| 0:08.0 | I recently sent out a survey to y'all asking for your mental health hot takes because I was doing a set of co-lab episodes with Isaiah from the YouTube channel called Therapy Today. It was his idea to |
| 0:25.3 | co-lab and it was his idea to poll each of our audiences for mental health hot takes. |
| 0:30.6 | I asked y'all for your mental health hot takes and I got hundreds of responses, but in the |
| 0:36.6 | episode that I did with Isaiah from therapy |
| 0:38.9 | today, YouTube channel, we only got to like four or five. |
| 0:43.6 | So I thought, well, I should just make some episodes on my own and kind of do a lightning |
| 0:51.0 | round of your mental health hot takes. So this is me without prepping, |
| 0:57.6 | you know, about how to say, how to react to each of these. We're going to just read them. |
| 1:03.0 | By the way, I have a cold. I don't have COVID or the flu, apparently, because I took a test |
| 1:09.0 | that tests for various flu and and COVID. |
| 1:12.1 | I don't have that. |
| 1:14.2 | So it's just some sort of other coronavirus is my understanding. |
| 1:21.0 | And I'm kind of stuffed up and I'm a little janky in the brain. |
| 1:29.4 | Insane in the membrane. |
| 1:32.2 | So, but I feel, if I was to record this episode this morning, I don't think my brain would have been operational, but I feel good. |
| 1:41.9 | I feel like I'm at least quick behind a wall of snot |
| 1:45.9 | that's in my nose, if you can hear it. All right. So this for, and I also don't know if you |
| 1:52.7 | can hear the rain outside it has been raining a lot. I know people like Seattle rain, big, |
| 1:58.8 | that's a big surprise. But it actually is kind of weird to have this much rain and this, a volume of water. |
| 2:06.8 | It's always kind of half drizzling in Seattle. |
| 2:10.0 | So to get just like, you know, 24-7 heavy rain is not usual. |
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