Laura Delano
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735 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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I'm not saying it's always like this.
I'm sure there are plenty of exceptions, but.
It never once crossed my mind as a young woman in once to twice weekly therapy that I might one day not need to be in therapy.
I just took it as a given.
I'm on meds for the rest of my life, and I'm in therapy for the rest of my life.
And I think the reason why that has become the norm is because medicalizing our culture doesn't just mean...
um turning suffering and pain into you know a list of symptoms of a diagnosis needing pills it also means viewing help as something that you can only find from someone with letters after their name like a trained professional the number of times i've heard people say you know oh so and so came to me and they were in this intense crisis and i said i'm not a mental health professional like maybe you should go find find someone who knows what they're doing
To me, that speaks to how profoundly disconnected we are from the power we each have as humans to be with each other through dark nights of the soul.
So I think the professionalization of help has also become this monolithic, you know, taken on this monolithic force in our culture where...
Here I am as a former patient.
My expertise is the experiences that I've had navigating all this stuff.
And I can sit with someone in suicidal despair and not be afraid of it because I've been there.
And I can walk next to someone who's trying to figure out something in their life and
because I've had to do that in my own life, it feels organic and innate to be able to do that for someone else.
But a lot of people out there would say, that's dangerous.
She's not qualified.
And that to me is at the heart of this medicalization crisis is like we have to take back
that power to help ourselves and each other.
Not to say no one should ever go to a therapist again, but we've forgotten that that's just one way of getting help.
Even more tragic, I think a lot of girls and young women would hear, you know, this idea of suffering as not pathology as an insult.
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