Unpacking Pop Psychology with Seerut K. Chawla

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

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4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The Trenches founder & UK based psychotherapist Seerut K. Chawla joins Jameela this week to discuss mental health within the social media space, what it does to our brains, and why we gravitate towards pop psych trends and Instatherapy. They dig into how our modern mental health labels and terminology are collapsing, with Seerut introducing us to Concept Creep. This is an open and frank conversation about mental wellness with references to sexual violence. Follow Seerut on Instagram @seerutkchawla You can find transcripts for this episode on the Earwolf website I Weigh has amazing merch – check it out at podswag.com Jameela is on Instagram @jameelajamil and Twitter @Jameelajamil And make sure to check out I Weigh’s Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube for more!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Eyeway with Jimmy and a Jamel podcast against shame.
0:04.8	I hope you're well and I hope you forgive me for how blunt today's episode is.
0:09.7	This one's a bit different.
0:11.1	I have over the past two years been trying to shift this podcast into more of a real talk
0:17.0	space and I think this episode does that the most so far.
0:22.5	And we are talking very bluntly in this episode about mental health and whether or not the
0:27.5	current state of mental health rhetoric, especially seen on social media, is actually helping
0:34.2	people.
0:35.2	Now, this is a mental health podcast.
0:37.0	It is supposed to be a safe space for people.
0:39.7	I am sorry if this blunt chat is something that upsets you, but it is a conversation that
0:45.1	I do really want to have because it's something I've been increasingly interested in, especially
0:51.2	as I've been on such a long mental health journey of my own.
0:53.9	And I've tried fucking everything, every approach just to see what sticks, to see what
0:59.1	helps, to see what actually takes me closer to being a bit more fixed.
1:02.9	I don't think I'll ever be perfectly well or, you know, perfectly recovered, but I'm obsessed
1:08.4	with getting myself as mentally strong as possible.
1:11.9	And it's tricky for me because I kind of straddle two generations, the last generation
1:16.0	and this is especially intense of your South Asian, but the last generation that told
1:20.8	you that you are supposed to be stoical and you are supposed to not tell anyone about
1:24.6	your problems, not bother anyone and the more shit you can withstand and the more shit
1:27.8	you can eat, the better and the stronger and more admirable you are.
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