Ryan Burton

I've heard of that concept.

I have, this is something I was thinking on the drive up.

I heard of this word called infantilization, which I think I do to myself occasionally.

What does it mean?

treating either yourself or others as though they're a child uh or again the term infantilized infant so for example if i was like oh so and so they're 23 well he doesn't know any better he's only 23 he doesn't know it's like i find myself being like woe is me like i'm a i will call myself like a drama queen and i'm like oh god this is so hard for me when it's like i'm 27

I'm a grown ass man.

I know what I need to do.

And I should not baby myself and make excuses.

And I think it's I think it's amazing that people are putting an emphasis on mental health these days.

But then I also find that there's a huge cohort of people who sort of weaponize the mental health industry or whatever.

And they sort of.

They don't have trauma or they don't have actual serious ailments and they just sort of feel bad for themselves all the time.

And it's like they become permanent victims, you know, because there's people with real issues and serious things.

And there's people who just are going through life struggling.

And if they, for lack of a better term, pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and snapped out of it, they'd be doing better.

So I was going to ask you, like, how do you.

How tough are you on people?

Do you immediately go like, oh, you have trauma and you need help and there's something in your childhood that that's why you are the way you are?

Or are there situations where it's like, yeah, dude, you're just being a bitch right now?

It's concurrent, but we don't call them bitches.