How Binary Thinking Hinders Us from Truly Understanding People

Pardon the background noise — from my boyfriend’s alarm to my neighbors slamming their doors lol. Anyway, in this episode, I talked about different examples of binary thinking on mental health – how we expect people who are diagnosed with a mental disorder or people who are simply not okay to consistently look the part and how we tend to immediately invalidate what they’re going through when they’re not. Mental health is NOT binary. Mental disorders or feeling pain DO NOT render people incapable of doing or feeling anything else.