Konstantin Kisin

And so you have parents thinking, I can't possibly tell if this is my child's personality.

I need to get them

to an expert as quickly as possible.

I think we're going to look back at that and think it was so cruel to teach young people that their personality traits were pathologies.

And then they grow up again with a self-fulfilling prophecy that they can't achieve stuff or do as well as other people because they've been diagnosed.

you know what i mean yeah i think there's there's an expectation young people have of perfection because we're trying to be these perfect products and i think life has become optimizing yourself on the market and so you have to be this pristine product and if there's anything slightly uh off about you or imperfect you diagnose it essentially

And I think that parents are doing that as well, where they're expecting perfection.

And I think one of the easiest things for parents to do is just accept some flaws in their children and in raising them.

And one of the really important things to do is to instill in them that they are a human and they will...

say things they regret.

They will make mistakes.

They will maybe be with the wrong person.

There's only so much you can do to protect from these things.

And I think a lot of the anxiety for young people is that they think they have to be perfect and they have to go through life without making mistakes.

and always inspecting themselves for defects and also worrying when they are too human like when they have a human feelings and emotions that's okay you don't have to immediately categorize that and diagnose it you can just sit with it and know that you're a human being and i think this is something that's getting lost now in a world where we're trying to be products

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, one of the issues with too much mental health awareness is that you lose awareness for people who genuinely need it because everybody's sick.

And I think then everybody thinks they need constant intervention.

And then the people that do need it