White Lie Diagnosing and Lazy Millennials
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/KIRK to get 10% off your first month.
00:00 Why do we treat everyone like a cashier?
21:55 Do clinicians tell white lies about diagnosis?
30:02 The landscape of borderline
58:23 Am I falling behind in life?
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September 22, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Bob, so switching gears from our long conversation in which we talked about a lot of personal things. |
| 0:08.0 | Yes. |
| 0:08.5 | Let's talk about personal things related to patron emails. |
| 0:12.8 | What do you say? |
| 0:13.4 | Yep, let's do it. |
| 0:14.4 | Middle tier long-term anonymous patron. |
| 0:16.5 | She says, Dear Dr. Kirk and Bob, I wanted to take a moment to thank you both for the incredible impact your podcast has had in my life. I found your podcast when I was searching for information |
| 0:25.5 | on borderline. I hadn't ever heard of it until I had a quote unquote nervous breakdown and went |
| 0:32.1 | down and went looking for the cause of the nervous breakdown. Bob, hearing your story was like a light bulb moment for me. |
| 0:41.6 | We're the same age, and from what I can tell, we share many similar experiences. |
| 0:46.8 | To hear you voice the feelings I've struggled with for years was honestly mind-blowing. |
| 0:53.1 | I have the same tender heart that you do, and it felt like I was finally being seen. |
| 1:00.1 | One of the biggest things that resonated with me was how you both talk about love in therapy. |
| 1:06.6 | I've always had extreme abandonment fears in a deep belief that I'm a terrible person that if anyone really knew me, I'd be abandoned. |
| 1:15.4 | But hearing you talk about the possibility of love and connection and therapy was incredibly healing. |
| 1:20.2 | It's given me a sense of peace and made me feel less alone with these feelings. |
| 1:25.3 | I'm also lucky to have found a trauma therapist who really gets me and their care has been a |
| 1:31.3 | huge part of my healing. |
| 1:33.1 | The insights from your podcast have helped, the insights from your podcast have played a huge |
| 1:39.4 | role in helping me be, in helping me to open up and understand myself better. |
| 1:44.6 | I am a DBT rock star. |
| 1:48.8 | I have three children and four grandchildren so far and I will and I will be here to love them. |
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