Episode #92: Hannah Spier: Depression Is Your Body Speaking. Are You Listening?
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Hannah Spier discusses her journey from psychiatrist to stay-at-home mother and the cultural factors influencing women's mental health.
In this eye-opening episode, Norwegian psychiatrist Hannah Spier joins us from Zurich to share what she discovered after years of treating anxious, depressed women in outpatient clinics — and why she ultimately walked away from a high-flying career to become a stay-at-home mother of three. Hannah is the voice behind Psychobabble with Spier , where she analyzes the psychological patterns in our culture that quietly incentivize dysfunction. What started as a conversation about her clinical work turned into something far more personal — and far more powerful. I'll walk you through: ✅ Why so many women in their 30s are flooding therapists' offices — and why it's not a psychological problem ✅ How modern therapy (including CBT) has drifted toward endless validation instead of real behavioral change ✅ The moment Hannah realized she was on the same path as her most struggling patients ✅ What happened when she put her daughter in daycare at 7 months — and what it cost her family ✅ Why she calls feminism "an ideology of resentment" — and how she broke free from it ✅ The surprising statistics on Norwegian mothers extending maternity leave at their own expense ✅ How Cluster B personality…
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