Mental Health Hot Takes #3
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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00:00 Intro
01:16 There should be therapy for friends
03:55 Therapists incentivise their clients to act immorally
04:41 Self improvement is a loop that leads to dissatisfaction
05:37 There is a lack of resilience of those born after 1990
12:09 Highlighting your inner child implies adults shouldn't act like that
13:36 Modalities of therapy are just placebo
14:57 Post-partum is just pathologizing women
18:24 People with high trauma & anxiety hide behind introversion
21:46 Diffusion of mental health concepts complicates conversation
22:09 Psychopaths can be good people
24:35 Too many people have ADHD
24:55 Poor mental health is persisted by poor living conditions
27:13 Licensed experts should have social media badges
31:55 People need to learn how to deal with discomfort
32:17 Disassociation should be prevented
34:38 'I don't owe anyone anything' makes society cold
35:09 Caring vs. worrying for myself
35:41 Pathology vs human experience
37:26 Some cultures need less therapy
38:14 Self diagnosis should not be taken seriously
38:35 Jungian typology is helpful
38:46 Emergency responders struggle the most with their relationships
40:35 Those that put others above themself care less about themself
40:57 Empowering women intimidates men
42:09 Too much therapy can be harmful
42:45 Beating yourself doesn't lead to healing
43:12 Avoiding hugs is from trauma
47:26 There is no such thing as faking mental illness for attention
51:08 Online dating advice is useless
53:39 You can be autistic and an asshole
54:24 Not showing up for your friends isn't holding boundaries
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. This is the third installment in which I read your mental health hot takes |
| 0:06.4 | and comment on them. The first installment was the collaboration with Isaiah from the Therapy Today |
| 0:14.9 | YouTube channel. This was his idea to poll the audience, each of our audiences for mental health |
| 0:20.6 | hot takes, and I our audiences for mental health hot takes. And I received |
| 0:23.5 | hundreds of mental health hot takes from y'all. And in the first episode with Isaiah, I think |
| 0:29.6 | we only got to about five of them. So I thought I would do some more episodes reacting to your |
| 0:35.3 | hot takes. And in the second installment, I, in my solo episode, |
| 0:41.1 | only got to about 20. So I, I need to seriously go faster. So let's do it this time. |
| 0:51.3 | Carson, oh, and by the way, I have a cold. I don't have COVID or the flu because I test, or at least indications of the test are saying I don't have COVID or the flu. You can never know for sure. But I am stuffy. And if that annoys you, maybe don't listen to this episode. Um, But the show must go on whether I am sick or not. |
| 1:15.5 | So Carson from upstate New York, he says, there should be friends therapy, like couple |
| 1:23.0 | therapy, but for two friends. And of hot take. Absolutely. I agree with this, Carson from upstate New York. |
| 1:30.3 | When I was first planning on becoming a therapist, I wanted to be a therapist for bands, |
| 1:38.3 | for music artists because I, as a musician in bands and as a fan of bands like the Beatles or other bands that |
| 1:46.8 | have broken up, I thought that it was a very important service that should be at least available |
| 1:56.4 | for bands to have therapists who specialize in this kind of work. |
| 2:01.9 | Because, you know, if you're going to have therapy for individuals, yeah, that makes |
| 2:06.1 | sense. |
| 2:06.3 | If you're going to have therapy for families, makes sense. |
| 2:08.3 | If you have therapy for couples, it makes sense. |
| 2:10.4 | But why do we stop there? |
| 2:11.7 | Why don't we have therapy for bands, for friends, for coworkers? |
| 2:17.3 | These relationships are just as important or impactful or problematic, conflictual, as any sort |
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