Laura Delano
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735 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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have something wrong with you that, you know, you can pursue treatment to manage.
Like, that's your purpose.
It's how you're going to find your tribe.
You know, oh, look, we all have the same diagnosis.
Oh, look, we're all on the same med.
I think just symbolically, the mental health industry has really...
kind of laid claim to the way we make sense of what it means to be human, especially for girls and young women.
And I think what's happened as a result of this is that we've really surrendered our power in many ways.
I think now about the emotional pain I was feeling.
that got me diagnosed as so-called mentally ill, it was wise.
I was waking up to the intense pressures in my all-girls private school that were just not sustainable.
And I was waking up to how destructive it is to have your sense of self tied up in performance and
If I had had the chance to listen to that pain and actually make sense of what it was trying to tell me, which is that who you are has nothing to do with how you look and how you perform, I think I could have avoided all the psychiatrization to follow.
But I didn't have that space.
And I don't think girls today have that space.
But I do think something's changing.
I think women are waking up to the ways they've been
Betrayed by medical authority, whether it's with psychiatric drugs or oral contraception, we're realizing we've surrendered like an understanding of our bodies and how they work and understanding of our emotions and how wise they are and how much we need to use them to change the world to grow and evolve as people.
I feel optimistic that we're going to start trending away from a medicalized culture.
We might be at the tipping point right now.
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