Jonathan Alpert

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146 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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Something You Should Know · Has Therapy Gone Too Far? & The Hidden Genius of Birds · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And to go back to 2012, I wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times called In Therapy Forever, Enough Already.

And the piece proved to be quite polarizing.

People in my own profession were pretty upset that I wrote such a piece.

And in that piece, I really talked about how if you're going to therapy and you're not getting better, you may want to reconsider the therapist or the approach that you're taking.

But then once I got into writing the book, I realized the problem is much bigger than just therapy.

It really extends way beyond that and affects how we relate to each other in society, dating, relationships, and so on and so forth.

How so?

uh well i think therapy speak has migrated way beyond the therapist office and we have people who are throwing out therapy terms like narcissist bipolar borderline these are serious clinical terms but people are throwing these out in everyday life so they may label a friend as bipolar or borderline

a boyfriend as a narcissist or an ex-boyfriend as a narcissist.

And it becomes dangerous because people start to identify with that.

And it really waters down the true meaning of of these serious conditions.

We also see it a lot online where we have

so-called social media influencers who are just spewing what I would consider nonsense.

They may have checklists, like here are five things to look for to know if your significant other is a narcissist or if your workplace is toxic.

And a big one that I've seen a lot of lately is ADHD.

So these influencers will put out there

here's how to know if you have ADHD, this is a serious disorder.

And just because you may forget something or misplace things, that doesn't necessarily mean that you have ADHD.

But part of the problem is these influencers who have huge followings, they also have great influence as the name would suggest.

So people really take what they say seriously.

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