Jonathan Alpert

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

And I just think we need to reevaluate where we're getting information from.

It is and I think where my concern is that these terms are being used too loosely and if we start to label someone that we just don't like as a narcissist or a work environment as toxic just because you have a demanding boss, it just starts to create this almost like this societal

pathology where everyone starts to be seen as difficult or the conditions that you may surround yourself in as as toxic or pathologic and and i just don't think that's healthy we need to be more careful about how we're perceiving situations and people because if everyone's a narcissist no one really is truly

Well, I would urge therapists to be more careful about how they're treating patients.

Don't be so quick to call someone a personality disorder, like a narcissist.

And don't be so quick to label someone as depressed because these labels carry a lot of mean meaning.

I recall in the winter that I was in a social setting and I

this conversation where they were complaining about how cold it was.

And one person said to the other, I think I need to up my antidepressants, it's so cold.

And I just thought to myself, are we at the point where we're actually

treating cold weather with antidepressants.

I don't know, I'm just a believer that you bundle up, maybe wear a few layers to deal with the cold, not run to your doctor and get antidepressants.

But doctors are very quick to give out medications and consumers, patients are very quick to ask for it.

And I do think this comes from my profession where they're pathologizing so many ordinary life experiences, like feeling blue in the winter.

Well, why are they doing that?

Why are your colleagues doing this?

Well, that's a really good question.

I think some may not be trained so well for starters.

I think they're just giving the patients what they think they need.

I think also patients come in and they're equipped with this lexicon and the jargon because they see it online.

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