Dr. Lucy Foulkes

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54 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 May

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a joke or just as a kind of catch-all term for being tidy or obsessive, for example.

And we interviewed young people.

They're not naive to this.

They know that there is these kind of two parallel usages happen.

But really in the past, and it's happening in relationships as well.

So in the past, we might have just not

being compatible with someone, but now we tend to say that they're avoidant or that they're a narcissist.

We're borrowing these terms that used to be reserved for psychiatry and psychologists.

Yeah, and I think that's something very interesting that's happening, that we've seen almost a kind of backlash towards people using this language.

And it's happening amongst young people, teenagers as well.

And when we interviewed teenagers to understand what they thought about self-diagnosis,

It was fascinating because they had very nuanced perspectives on it, but they kind of police each other.

So there's a set of unspoken rules about what they think is a legitimate case of a person saying they have a diagnosis and what isn't.

So, for example, they think

If a person seems to have spent a long time thinking about it, then that's legitimate.

But if they seem to be saying it too readily, then that's treated with suspicion.

So there is this judgment.

There's also a sense that people are allowed to use this language as a temporary hypothesis en route to going to a trial.

professional, but you're treated with suspicion if you think the self-diagnosis bit is sufficient.

So there's a lot of this policing and judgment.

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