How Bad Is Social Media For Your Mental Health? - Seerut Chawla

Seerut Chawla is a licensed psychotherapist and founder of The Trenches, an organisation focusing on mental health and social media dynamics. There is a trend of online influencers who can identify your trauma and diagnose your attachment problems over social media. Is this an important new frontier for discussing mental health? Or cod-psychology over the internet. Expect to learn the biggest problems with coddling how it enables victimhood, the difference between pain and trauma, why being triggered is your responsibility, what everyone gets wrong about self worth, why we spend so much time obsessing over emotion in the West, the biggest problems with self-healing and much more… Sponsors: Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 4.0 at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ Buy my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - 00:00 Seerut’s Issue With Coddling 03:27 Negatives of an Overprotective Society 10:00 What We Get Wrong About Victimhood 17:30 Lowering the Bar of What is Unacceptable 26:19 Obsessing Over Our Own Emotions 31:30 How Therapy Has Changed Our Culture 40:14 Are People Actually Discussing Real Mental Health? 46:00 Best Things to Rely On to Improve Mood 54:21 Why the West is Self-Obsessed 58:38 How People Misunderstand Self-Worth 1:02:53 Looking to Sam Harris as an Example 1:11:50 Where to Find Seerut - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

Chris WilliamsonhostSeerut K. Chawlaguest

Dec 30, 20231h 12mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: December 30, 2023
Duration: 1h 12m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Seerut Chawla is a licensed psychotherapist and founder of The Trenches, an organisation focusing on mental health and social media dynamics. There is a trend of online influencers who can identify your trauma and diagnose your attachment problems over social media. Is this an important new frontier for discussing mental health? Or cod-psychology over the internet. Expect to learn the biggest problems with coddling how it enables victimhood, the difference between pain and trauma, why being triggered is your responsibility, what everyone gets wrong about self worth, why we spend so much time obsessing over emotion in the West, the biggest problems with self-healing and much more… Sponsors: Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 4.0 at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ Buy my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - 00:00 Seerut’s Issue With Coddling 03:27 Negatives of an Overprotective Society 10:00 What We Get Wrong About Victimhood 17:30 Lowering the Bar of What is Unacceptable 26:19 Obsessing Over Our Own Emotions 31:30 How Therapy Has Changed Our Culture 40:14 Are People Actually Discussing Real Mental Health? 46:00 Best Things to Rely On to Improve Mood 54:21 Why the West is Self-Obsessed 58:38 How People Misunderstand Self-Worth 1:02:53 Looking to Sam Harris as an Example 1:11:50 Where to Find Seerut - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

SPEAKERS

Chris Williamson
host
Seerut K. Chawla
guest

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Chris Williamson and Seerut K. Chawla, How Bad Is Social Media For Your Mental Health? - Seerut Chawla explores coddling Culture, Pop Psychology, And Social Media Undermine Real Resilience Psychotherapist Seerut Chawla argues that modern coddling, safety culture, and pop-psychology are stunting emotional development and confusing normal human suffering with clinical mental illness.

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