Dr. Sue Varma

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1,488 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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We assume we know what someone else is thinking, jumping to conclusions, right?

Fortune telling, dismissing the positives.

And so that was a big one, right?

When we, it's called negative filtering.

You're looking at everything through this one negative lens, right?

And you're minimizing or what we call discounting the positives, which is, I am a doctor.

I am connected.

I know a lot of people.

I can get her help, right?

So in those moments, we overestimate the magnitude of our problems.

She's going to die versus underestimating the agency and the control and the power we did have, which is eventually...

problem solving.

Okay, this is where we switch from unproductive worry.

So when you're talking about the patient that comes in, what else can we give her?

Tools.

We want to give her tools.

It's not just sending her with an SSRI prescription, which is very helpful.

I do think that antidepressants, when you do a thorough behavioral health assessment, is this person depressed?

It's not hormonal.

Okay, can you send them, can you get them a referral to somebody as wise as you are, right, in their area?

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