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

But that doesn't necessarily mean that they need to rush and get medication or get into intensive once a week therapy for the next ten years.

It's a normal part of life.

So it's important to make that distinction between

I think people need to be good consumers of mental health care out there.

And they can interview a few people try to get a sense of what that practitioners approaches?

Are they more short term and goal oriented?

Or do they believe in very long term therapy where they're diving deep into

someone's early history and childhood and there may be a place for that but for a lot of disorders for anxiety for example or mild depression i think a treatment plan that's that's limited say three to six months usually works cognitive behavioral therapy i find to be quite effective and that's where you look at how someone thinks so that's the cognitive part part of it and

and then how that translates into certain feelings and behaviors.

And that's one that we can usually get pretty good results from.

Well, it does feel good because we all need someone to vent to.

So if you had a bad day at work or a fight with a friend, why not go in and get this off your chest?

And I'm all for that.

However, I think there needs to be more direction to it, because if you're just going in and venting and then doing it all over in a week or two weeks,

you might become dependent on that therapist because it's almost like reinforcing.

You feel lousy, you go in, you bitch, you get things off your chest, you feel good, and then you do it all over again.

So, I mean, some people, that's fine.

I mean, it's a big investment of time and money and go for it if it works for you.

I'm just encouraging people to be a little more careful about what they're buying and the service that they're getting.

Most people, I think, want to learn how to

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