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Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
813 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

Sound just travels along nerves into the brain. So scientifically it made zero sense whatsoever. But unfortunately, people really bought into it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

The whole thing was so illogical. You've got to feel for these people's position because I think Marco Rubio was saying things about this weapon. They were being called in and they were being told by the highest forces in their country to hide behind walls and to be frightened.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

The whole thing was so illogical. You've got to feel for these people's position because I think Marco Rubio was saying things about this weapon. They were being called in and they were being told by the highest forces in their country to hide behind walls and to be frightened.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

The whole thing was so illogical. You've got to feel for these people's position because I think Marco Rubio was saying things about this weapon. They were being called in and they were being told by the highest forces in their country to hide behind walls and to be frightened.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

These are the TikTok tics, essentially. So there were a few quite active people on TikTok who were demonstrating their Tourette's syndrome. It led essentially to an outbreak of not exactly Tourette's, but Tourette's-like syndrome throughout the world. So young people began presenting to doctors with Tourette's-like symptoms.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

These are the TikTok tics, essentially. So there were a few quite active people on TikTok who were demonstrating their Tourette's syndrome. It led essentially to an outbreak of not exactly Tourette's, but Tourette's-like syndrome throughout the world. So young people began presenting to doctors with Tourette's-like symptoms.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

These are the TikTok tics, essentially. So there were a few quite active people on TikTok who were demonstrating their Tourette's syndrome. It led essentially to an outbreak of not exactly Tourette's, but Tourette's-like syndrome throughout the world. So young people began presenting to doctors with Tourette's-like symptoms.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

symptoms, but they obviously didn't have Tourette's because often these psychosomatic conditions, they are your idea of what a seizure would be like, or they are your idea of what Tourette's syndrome is like more than they are like the actual thing. That swept the world. But the problem with these things is that most people will be fine because most people, this will be a passing thing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

symptoms, but they obviously didn't have Tourette's because often these psychosomatic conditions, they are your idea of what a seizure would be like, or they are your idea of what Tourette's syndrome is like more than they are like the actual thing. That swept the world. But the problem with these things is that most people will be fine because most people, this will be a passing thing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

symptoms, but they obviously didn't have Tourette's because often these psychosomatic conditions, they are your idea of what a seizure would be like, or they are your idea of what Tourette's syndrome is like more than they are like the actual thing. That swept the world. But the problem with these things is that most people will be fine because most people, this will be a passing thing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

It'll happen to them and it'll disappear. But vulnerable people We'll go to doctors and have tests and this can all get very out of control. So for a small number of people, it's probably been a persistent problem.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

It'll happen to them and it'll disappear. But vulnerable people We'll go to doctors and have tests and this can all get very out of control. So for a small number of people, it's probably been a persistent problem.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

It'll happen to them and it'll disappear. But vulnerable people We'll go to doctors and have tests and this can all get very out of control. So for a small number of people, it's probably been a persistent problem.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

Again, that's coming back to my current theme of overdiagnosis, which is when does worrying about your health become hypochondria? It's when it stops you living a normal life and it disables you. So it's perfectly okay. to worry about your health and to be a person who thinks, what's that? What's that? We all have a different kind of personalities and we all have different foibles and so forth.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

Again, that's coming back to my current theme of overdiagnosis, which is when does worrying about your health become hypochondria? It's when it stops you living a normal life and it disables you. So it's perfectly okay. to worry about your health and to be a person who thinks, what's that? What's that? We all have a different kind of personalities and we all have different foibles and so forth.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

Again, that's coming back to my current theme of overdiagnosis, which is when does worrying about your health become hypochondria? It's when it stops you living a normal life and it disables you. So it's perfectly okay. to worry about your health and to be a person who thinks, what's that? What's that? We all have a different kind of personalities and we all have different foibles and so forth.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

If it isn't disabling you, I wouldn't call it hypochondria.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

If it isn't disabling you, I wouldn't call it hypochondria.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

If it isn't disabling you, I wouldn't call it hypochondria.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Suzanne O'Sullivan (on over diagnosis)

Okay, that makes sense. No real consequences. That's precisely the thing, isn't it? We're really into using medical words to describe our personalities and the way we feel now. It's a trend. And then once you start using the medical words, then suddenly you find yourself potentially being diagnosed with something. But the line in the sand has got to be disability and impairment.