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The Daily Motivation

Why Mental Health Diagnoses Make You Worse with Dr. Caroline Leaf

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8893 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Caroline Leaf reveals why mental health diagnoses can trap you in permanent victim identity and shares a revolutionary approach to treating anxiety and depression as information signals instead of lifelong diseases. This conversation will completely shift how you view your mental struggles and give you tools for real healing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:12.4

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0:16.3

Then make sure to go to make money easybook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is going

0:24.8

to help you transform your relationship with money this moment moving forward. We have some big

0:30.8

guests and content coming up. Make sure you're following and stay tuned to this episode of the

0:36.9

Daily Motivation Show.

0:38.5

Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:49.7

When people self-diagnose that they have a mental disorder or mental problem, you're saying that's very dangerous.

0:56.7

But what about if we go to a mental health specialist, a therapist, a doctor, and they give a diagnosis that where ADHD or whatever might be, is that helpful or hurtful?

1:09.0

And what should we do next after being diagnosed with a mental health

1:13.6

disorder? So that's really a good question. It's an excellent question. It'll make it worse because the thing

1:19.5

that what we've seen from the research, and there's quite a few of our scientists that are trying to

1:23.9

counter this narrative. And the narrative is that get your, get your label, get your

1:28.2

diagnosis, get your medication. And it feels like you're solving a problem because that's what

1:33.4

you do if you have diabetes or if you have, you know, something wrong with you, go sort it out.

1:38.1

And I'm all for sorting things out. But you don't need a label to sort out a life issue.

1:43.2

Do you need a label if it's cardiovascular disease or something because we've got, that's dealing with physical symptoms. But when we deal with stuff that's happening in the mind that does affect your physiology, which I've mentioned already. It could be an invisible disease, right, or an invisible symptom. Well, that's the thing. It feels invisible. That's because

2:01.0

we don't understand the mind. But it's as we've got this thing that if I feel it physically,

2:06.2

it's more important than what I can't feel physically. But we've got to shift our perspective on

2:11.2

what do we feel physically. If you feel anxious, you feel terrible. If you feel depressed,

2:15.1

you feel terrible. If you feel guilty or jealous, you don't

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