296. What 30 Years as a Therapist and Coach Taught Me That No Influencer Can Teach You

Send us Fan MailIt takes about fifteen seconds for a TikTok video to convince you that your mother is a narcissist, your ex is a borderline, or you finally have the ADHD diagnosis you always suspected.Join Anna and Tim as they break down what gets lost when a real clinical process gets compressed into a fifteen-second hook. Anna draws on thirty years as a therapist and a coach, including two client stories where a label someone brought in from the internet turned out to be nowhere close to the full picture. She digs into the research behind why so much popular mental health content on social media gets it wrong, and makes the case that the problem was never the information itself; it's what happens when nobody checks whether it actually fits you.This Episode Covers:Why a shortage of licensed mental health providers helped create the wellness influencer boom in the first place.The actual numbers behind how much popular ADHD and autism content on TikTok gets wrong.Why people are five to eleven times more likely to inaccurately self-diagnose than to get it right from content like this.Two real client stories, one convinced his wife was a narcissist, another told by another therapist that a partner was a borderline.What actually separates a working diagnosis from a label picked up in under a minute.Why Anna says the friction in real therapy is the system protecting you, not failing you.The difference between someone moving through a narcissistic season and someone with an actual personality disorder.Mentioned in this episode:Quiet the Noise group coaching cohort: https://www.annamarcolin.com/coaching-packages/p/quiet-the-noiseUntil next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com