Hi, everyone, it's Dr. Nigro.

Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

Thanks as always to our followers here in the US and internationally.

I enjoy doing this program and covering as many different topics and areas of psychology

and trying to break this stuff down into understandable parts without sacrificing the legitimacy

of psychiatric conditions.

And I appreciate the opportunity I have to talk with people.

And if you haven't gotten back to me or if I haven't gotten back to you, I will give you

contact information at the end of this episode.

And as I said before, feel free to post stuff on Buzz Sprout.

It's just if you post something, there's no way that I'm able to respond to that.

But like I said, I'll give you other ways to get in contact with me.

But I flipped through articles and journals and all sorts of stuff, and I came across a title of one that I thought

that would, is something that I see a lot is the problem with self-diagnosing, and especially as relates, I think, to adolescents.

And frequent disorders, people are looking for ADHD, bipolar borderline autism these are the common ones that I think um I've seen a

definitely an uptick in requests for neuropsychiavals for these disorders

and where a lot of this information is being pulled from is the Internet.

And, you know, there's just a proliferation of content around these psychiatric conditions. And many of the people who identify with

the systems, they take ownership of it, even though they've never had a diagnosis.

Mental health used to really be frowned upon, and that was a major catalyst for one of the

catalysts for wanting to

do the podcast was to have a form to talk about this stuff because it's real and it impacts

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