Stop Prescribing Yourself The Wrong Prescription
The R Spot with Iyanla
Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Iyanla’s heard the same relationship issue again and again – when people self-diagnose the problem, which ultimately leads to misdiagnosis. In this episode, Iyanla’s first caller is a successful businesswoman who keeps finding herself attracting partners who battle drug addictions. A second caller has convinced herself that her marriage is falling apart due to her anxious vs. avoidant attachment style issue with her partner. Both women learn to focus on the core of the dysfunction, as well as the importance of self-growth and letting go.
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| 0:00.0 | I amma I had a baby daddy relationship I spent time in a relationship with a Welcome to the R-Spot, a production of Shandaland Audio in partnership with IHeart Radio. There is a common affliction that many people have when it comes to relationships and that |
| 0:50.7 | affliction is called self-diagnosis. |
| 0:58.0 | We love to diagnose what's wrong with us, |
| 1:03.3 | and then beat ourselves up |
| 1:07.1 | when the prescription doesn't heal the situation. |
| 1:12.0 | Self-diagnosis is more often than not a misdiagnosis. This is my second |
| 1:20.3 | episode talking about this topic. Why? Because it seems like we're not getting it. |
| 1:27.0 | We're not getting it. But in all seriousness, this is a common problem for people in their relationships. |
| 1:36.4 | They think they've identified the problem and that once they put a label on it, they can fix it. |
| 1:43.2 | Well, as we'll see today, when you try to diagnose the problem yourself, |
| 1:50.0 | more often than not, you will get it wrong and both of my callers today have put a |
| 1:57.0 | label on the wrong issues so let's see if we can help them, support them, guide them to the right ones. |
| 2:08.0 | Good day, Angie. Thank you for your patience and what is your relationship challenge issue dilemma that we are going to nibble on together today. |
| 2:19.0 | My dilemma is I see a tracking addict. |
| 2:23.9 | My first husband was a drug addict. |
| 2:26.1 | My second husband was a drug addict. |
| 2:28.8 | My third relationship that I guess ended, |
| 2:31.4 | he was a drug addict. |
| 2:33.0 | I am 57 years old. |
| 2:35.0 | I am a professional woman. |
| 2:37.0 | I am a broker here in Charlotte, North Carolina, |
| 2:40.0 | and for some reason I keep attaching myself to drug addicts. |
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