How to Use Your Diagnosis (Without It Using You) | Being Well Podcast

Receiving a diagnosis can be emotionally challenging, and leave a person with a lot of understandable questions: What does this mean? What do I do now? How do I relate to this?

On this episode of Being Well Dr. Rick Hanson and I explore what a diagnosis is, how the diagnostic process works, the limitations of diagnosing someone, dealing with the emotions that come up, and how we can better think about and relate to receiving a diagnosis. Throughout the conversation we focus on how we can come to understand ourselves better, and be liberated by that understanding rather than burdened by it.

As a note, ADHD is used frequently during this conversation as an example, so if you have an ADHD diagnosis this episode could be particularly interesting.

Key Topics:
0:00 Introduction
2:55 What is a diagnosis, and what is the process used to give a diagnosis?
6:50 What is the purpose of diagnosing someone?
9:10 Situating what defines pathology within our evolutionary and cultural context
11:50 Origins of mental health conditions, social environment, and privilege
14:55 How diagnosis done, and differentiating between different diagnoses
25:40 More discussion on environmental and cultural effects
32:00 Three subtypes of ADHD
34:05 The emotional complexity of receiving a diagnosis
39:15 What helps people in working through the emotions that come up?
47:25 Paying attention to your emotional experience as much as solving your problem.
50:55 Mental health awareness, resources, and support from others
52:25 Rick’s response when someone is given a diagnosis
1:00:40 Recap

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