Episode Details

Mental health awareness has come a long way — and that's genuinely a good thing. But somewhere between "it's okay not to be okay" and where we are now, something got twisted. Diagnoses became identities. Anxiety became a reason not to do hard things. And a lot of people stopped asking whether getting better was actually the goal anymore.

Robbie isn't anti-therapy and he isn't minimizing real mental illness. He deals with his own anxiety and depression and he's open about that. But he's also willing to say what a lot of people are thinking but afraid to put into words — that the conversation has gotten unbalanced, and that accountability and growth are still part of the equation.

Topics covered: how mental health awareness shifted from "get help" to "this is my identity," why bad therapy can be worse than no therapy, the difference between acknowledging your struggles and letting them define your limits, the missing conversation about accountability in the mental health space, and what real growth actually looks like when you're dealing with anxiety or depression.

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