Stop Letting Social Media Diagnose You #5

This week we sit down with therapist Leah Miller to talk about the TikTok-ification of mental health and why it might be doing more harm than good. The pendulum has swung. Mental health is finally mainstream, which is great, except now everyone is self-diagnosing from 30-second videos and walking away convinced something is deeply wrong with them. We get into the words that are suddenly everywhere (narcissism, gaslighting, trauma dumping), what they actually mean clinically, and how they're being used in ways that are making people worse, not better. Leah explains the algorithm trap that turns one curious scroll into five days of doom content, the difference between being sad and being depressed, and why "asking for what you need" is not the same as being a narcissist. She also gets into the bigger idea underneath all of it: the human experience can't be captured in a soundbite. Most of what you think is wrong with you isn't a disorder. It's just being a person. If you've ever spiraled after a mental health TikTok and walked away convinced something was broken in you, this one's for you. Leah is one of those therapists who can take the most over-used buzzword on the internet and hand you back the actual meaning in a way that feels like a deep breath. 01:16 — Mental Health is Mainstream03:50 — Stop Overdiagnosing Yourself06:21 — The Algorithm Keeps You Spiraling12:00 — Deconstructing Viral Mental Health Myths16:38 — Your Quirks Aren’t Mental Illness22:00 — You're Not Incurable. You're Human.28:28 — "Trauma Dumping" is a Problematic Term36:50 — Trauma: Big T vs. Little T41:00 — What "Holding Space" MeansSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.