Hannah Spier, MD

I hope you enjoyed this week’s episode! Next Thursday we will cover the Lindsay Clancy case!

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Hannah Spier, MD

A viral voice memo has everyone arguing about timing, pressure and consent. But the real issue is something else entirely.

Once he said the quiet part out loud, she had to contend with the message she puts out in the world.

3 days ago | [YT] | 74

Hannah Spier, MD

New episode Tomorrow: Why Women Are Really Angry at Voice Memo Guy

Everyone is debating whether he was too pushy, whether the timing was wrong, and whether he violated some dating rule.

But that is not what really provoked them.

4 days ago | [YT] | 271

Hannah Spier, MD

We HAVE to talk about tics…

1 week ago | [YT] | 251

Hannah Spier, MD

We spent decades teaching girls to speak up, never change and reject compromise. But what did that training cost?

1 week ago | [YT] | 201

Hannah Spier, MD

Imagine you're a girl born in 1998.
At five years old Disney tells you confidence means defiance.
At eight years old school teaches assertiveness.
At twelve Dove tells you to love yourself exactly as you are.
At fifteen Instagram tells you to protect your peace.
At twenty therapy tells you compromise is people pleasing.
At twenty-five TikTok tells you "No is a complete sentence."

Taken alone, these messages can be dismissed as harmless.

The question is what happens when they all point in exactly the same psychological direction for an entire lifetime.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 1,489

Hannah Spier, MD

They now want to live a soft life- the newest manifestation of feminism!

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 159

Hannah Spier, MD

An important developmental factor in the Cluster B epidemic is the discouragement of trait agreeableness, which is a shared predisposition across all Cluster B presentations.

For the last half-century, the messaging directed at girls has increasingly treated accommodation as weakness.

Where older advice said:

Learn to compromise.
Choose your battles.
Think before speaking.
Be gracious.
Consider another person’s point of view.
Marriage requires sacrifice.

Modern advice recodes the same behaviours as pathology in women:
People-pleasing.
Fawning.
Codependency.
Emotional labour.
Lack of boundaries.
Internalized misogyny.
Male validation.
Pick-me behaviour.
Good girl syndrome.

Girls were supposedly taught to prevent exploitation. But what happened is that they learnt to distrust the traits that kept them from exploiting others, adhere to social norms and temper their worst impulses.

2 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 926

Hannah Spier, MD

Why are young women filming completely ordinary days, getting dressed, eating breakfast and going to work, as evidence of extraordinary psychiatric struggle?

Catch today's episode, where I look at how mental-health language turns basic functioning into bravery and leverage and how that relates to suicide.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 188

Hannah Spier, MD

Next episode will be dropped on Monday! I’m enjoying summer holidays with the kids back home at the “hytta” in Norway!

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