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  • Is ADHD Overdiagnosed? You Are Not Your Diagnosis

    Is ADHD Overdiagnosed? You Are Not Your Diagnosis
    2026/10/13
    "We've made it advantageous to have a diagnosis."Is ADHD overdiagnosed? Nation asks a plain question first: somebody walks in convinced they have ADHD. How do you find out whether they do? Roger's answer is the diagnostic triage.There are two roads to a diagnosis. Psychometric testing, with the MMPI and the MCMI as the gold standards. Or the diagnostic interview, where each category has a list of criteria and you have to meet three of five, or six of nine. Then three more tests that some clinicians have stopped applying: it has to cause significant distress, it has to last, and it has to be unrelated to life events. If your mom dies, you have every symptom of depression. That is not depression. That is grief, and we know its course.Then the buckets in the DSM: mood, thought, developmental (where ADHD sits), personality, eating, anxiety. The diagnostic language used to be contained within a profession. The internet democratized it. Read the manual and you are convinced you have everything in it.Roger says overdiagnosis is a piece of the story without a doubt, and he names the incentive. Schools give extra time on a test to a kid with a diagnosis. Social media rewards a self diagnosis worn as a badge of honor. A friend's daughter reports that nobody at her high school is a jock or a theater kid any more. They are in the "I have this disorder" group. Victimhood pays, so you get more of it.The negativity bias explains why it sells, and Tierney and Baumeister's The Power of Bad explains the bias. Then the therapist's side. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and a therapist's best tool is the diagnostic category. Behind it is a training problem: eight students a class in his program, thousands in two-year programs now. What do you call the person who graduated last in medical school? Doctor.A mental health diagnosis is a cluster of about eight symptoms, and calling yourself mentally ill when you are not does a disservice to the people who really have the illness. You are not your trauma. You are not your diagnosis. There is far more to you than those narrow categories.The conversation continues in Episode 77: Seligman's farewell address, character strengths, and why everybody's life is hard.What we cover:Distress, duration, and unrelated to life events: the three tests that get skippedGrief looks exactly like depression and is not depressionThe DSM buckets, and where ADHD actually sitsWhy overdiagnosis is a piece of it without a doubtDiagnosis as a badge of honor: self diagnosis on TikTokExtra time on the test: how schools made a diagnosis advantageousThe Power of Bad and the negativity biasIf all you have is a hammer: the therapist whose best tool is the diagnosisDiploma mills, and what you call the last in the classYou are not your trauma. You are not your diagnosisBooks shown: the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association) and The Power of Bad by John Tierney and Roy Baumeister.Chapters0:00 We've made it advantageous to have a diagnosis1:26 How do you find out if you have ADHD? The diagnostic triage2:12 The MMPI and the MCMI3:49 It has to last, it has to distress you, and it has to be unrelated to life events4:08 Grief looks exactly like depression. It is not depression5:23 Normal problems in living7:01 The DSM buckets: mood, thought, developmental, personality, eating, anxiety8:24 The rise in ADHD diagnoses since the 90s9:10 The DSM used to belong to a profession. Then came the internet10:44 TikTok and the diagnosis as a badge of honor11:56 We've made it advantageous to have a diagnosis12:50 Rewarding victim status: the friend's daughter at school14:16 If it bleeds, it leads: The Power of Bad and the negativity bias16:04 If all you have is a hammer: the therapist's best tool is the diagnosis17:15 Priests, incantations and the box of tissues19:42 Eight students a class then, thousands in two-year programs now20:26 Diploma mills, and what you call the last in the class21:41 I am my diagnosis. No, you're not22:24 You are not your trauma. You are not your diagnosis22:54 Next week: Episode 7723:13 Share this with a friendImages: DSM-5 cover via Wikimedia Commons (public domain); The Power of Bad cover via Open Library.Second Thoughts, Episode 76.Dr. Roger Hall is a Peak Performance Psychologist who helps leaders master their thinking and achieve greater power, freedom, clarity, and calm.Send us Fan MailSupport the showThank you for tuning in to this episode of Second Thoughts with Dr. Roger Hall!If you enjoyed today's insights, don't forget to subscribe for more content on leadership, productivity, and personal growth. Share this episode with friends, colleagues, or anyone who could benefit from these powerful strategies.🎧 Listen & Subscribe: Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.🌐 Connect with Dr. Hall: Visit drrogerhall.com for resources and more.🧭 Work with Roger: compassconsultation.com📧 Have a question? Submit it for a chance to be featured in a ...
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    24 分
  • The Three Kinds Of Wounded Healer. How To Choose A Therapist

    The Three Kinds Of Wounded Healer. How To Choose A Therapist
    2026/10/06
    "The wolves always know where the sheep are."Roger has one rule for how to choose a therapist, and it starts with admitting that a wounded healer can be any of three very different people.Nation opens with the phrase everybody repeats: hurt people hurt people. Roger does not like it. Some hurt people do hurt people, but most of them do not, and the phrase quietly hands back the responsibility of the ones who do. What it also erases is everybody who was harmed, who was traumatized, and who decided not to pass it on.Then he narrows it to his own profession, and the answer is a taxonomy rather than a verdict. There are therapists who were wounded, worked through it, and came out wiser for it. There are therapists who are still wounded and have not finished, and they make a particular kind of mistake: they assume you have their problem, whatever it is. And there is a small subset who are predators, who chose this work for the access it gives them.That is where the proverb lands. Where do children congregate? Schools. So schools are full of wonderful teachers, and they are also where a predator goes to be near children. The therapy room is the same shape. The wolves always know where the sheep are.Roger takes the same idea through medicine. A surgeon who has had surgery is fine, and may be better for it. A surgeon with a tremor is not. The injury only matters when it touches the work. He also repeats a hypothesis he is careful to label a hypothesis, that a subset of orthopedic surgeons carry a little sadism, and he is quick to add that his own best friend from high school is an orthopedic surgeon and is nothing of the kind.Then the practical half. What do you actually ask? Not "have you had trauma." Ask how people change. Listen for a hypothesis rather than a cure. Watch for the therapist who spends the hour on their own problems.The rest is Gavin de Becker's The Gift of Fear, and one story from it. A recently divorced woman needs a house painter. He arrives clean cut, in uniform, with a clipboard and a good price, and the dog goes crazy. Her friend says he seems nice and the price is good, are you going to use him? She says no. My dog didn't like him, and my dog's never wrong.De Becker's point is that she trusted her dog over her own judgment, when the feeling was hers the whole time. Say no and you lose a low bid. Say yes and you might lose far more than that. Or, as Nassim Taleb puts it, you are picking up pennies in front of a steamroller.What we cover:Why "hurt people hurt people" gives the wrong people a passThe three kinds of wounded healer, and which one is dangerousThe wolves always know where the sheep are, and why schools are the clearest exampleWhen an injury matters to the work and when it does notThe orthopedic surgeon hypothesis, hedges includedThe question that actually screens a therapist: how do people change?Mass attracts mass, and the clients a therapist never seesPeak performance work against traditional therapy, and where the power differential is realGavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear, and the woman who trusted her dogPicking up pennies in front of a steamrollerChapters0:00 The wolves always know where the sheep are1:26 "Hurt people hurt people" and why Roger won't use it2:33 Born bad, and Bad To The Bone3:16 The three kinds of wounded healer4:46 Where do children congregate?5:23 The same is true in the therapy profession6:16 The surgeon who had surgery, and the surgeon with a tremor8:27 The therapist who talks about their own problems10:27 How do people change? The question that screens11:32 A hypothesis, not a cure12:47 Power, freedom, clarity and calm16:11 Mass attracts mass18:18 Orthopedic surgeons and a little sadism20:03 Where the power differential is real22:29 The Gift of Fear, and the dog that was never wrong25:30 Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller26:12 Choose somebody who doesn't give you the creepsImages in this episode: via Pexels.Second Thoughts, Episode 75.Dr. Roger Hall is a Peak Performance Psychologist who helps leaders master their thinking and achieve greater power, freedom, clarity, and calm.Send us Fan MailSupport the showThank you for tuning in to this episode of Second Thoughts with Dr. Roger Hall!If you enjoyed today's insights, don't forget to subscribe for more content on leadership, productivity, and personal growth. Share this episode with friends, colleagues, or anyone who could benefit from these powerful strategies.🎧 Listen & Subscribe: Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.🌐 Connect with Dr. Hall: Visit drrogerhall.com for resources and more.🧭 Work with Roger: compassconsultation.com📧 Have a question? Submit it for a chance to be featured in a future episode!Follow me on socials:X - @DoctorRogerHallFacebook - Second ThoughtsInstagram - @DoctorRogerHallLinkedin - @Dr Roger HallYoutube - @DoctorRogerHallRumble - @SecondThoughtsOpinions expressed are not therapy or constitute any professional relationship with ...
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    27 分
  • The Essential Quality Of Masculinity.

    The Essential Quality Of Masculinity.
    2026/09/29
    "A neutered man is tame. He is easy to control. And he is of very little use."That is Roger's answer to what healthy masculinity actually is, and he gets to it through a bull.A woman in a court ordered parenting class told the room about her father's farm. He keeps cows, and he keeps one bull, and the bull is mean. Stay away from him. Her son asked the only question that mattered: then why does grandpa keep the bull?She said she did not know.That answer is the episode. You keep the bull because without him there are no calves. The thing that makes him dangerous is the same thing that makes him worth having, and you cannot take one out without taking the other with it. Geld him and you get an animal that is calm, obedient and useless.Roger is not talking about cattle.The essential quality of masculinity, in his account, is not looks and it is not strength. It is initiative: the willingness to start something and take a calculated risk on it. Testosterone comes with that, and so does aggression. Aristotle got there first, in a book he wrote as a letter to his own son. To be angry is easy. To be angry at the right person, at the right time, in the right amount, for the right reason: this is not easy.Good men learn to discipline that drive. Bad men never do. A culture that cannot tell those two men apart ends up trying to remove the drive itself, and then wonders why the young men it raised are told their own nature is the disease.What we cover:Why the bull is mean, and why the farm keeps him anywayInitiative and calculated risk as the essential quality, not looks and not strengthAristotle on disciplined aggression, from the Nicomachean EthicsThe young bull elephants that killed rhinos, and what changed when the old bulls arrivedLeader against bully, and the test that separates themWhy healthy masculinity is very often boringMoney and fame as side effects of initiative, never the pointMalignant masculinity, and the influencers selling it as the cureWhy parents are the prototype for what a child expects a relationship to look likeChapters0:00 A neutered man is tame, easy to control, and of very little use1:14 The bull on the farm2:50 "Why does grandpa keep the bull?"3:56 What an agrarian society knew and the suburbs forgot5:03 Stallions and geldings6:07 Initiative is the essential quality6:42 Aristotle: to be angry is easy8:11 When a boy's nature became the problem8:36 Malignant masculinity, and the influencers selling it10:59 The young bull elephants that gored rhinos12:31 The father is the prototype13:47 Two bulls in the field, and what the herd did17:24 Money and fame are the side effects, not the point21:50 A leader and a bully23:01 Healthy masculinity is very often boring25:21 The guy in the corner nursing his drink27:32 Why we need old bull elephantsImages in this episode: elk in rut by ForestWander (CC BY-SA 3.0 US). US Army trucks, Korea 1952, 809th Anyang collection (CC BY-SA 4.0). Cancer cell, National Cancer Institute (public domain). Ivory stockpile, US Fish and Wildlife Service (public domain). Elk herd, National Park Service (public domain). Remaining images via Pexels.Second Thoughts, Episode 74.Dr. Roger Hall is a Peak Performance Psychologist who helps leaders master their thinking and achieve greater power, freedom, clarity, and calm.Send us Fan MailSupport the showThank you for tuning in to this episode of Second Thoughts with Dr. Roger Hall!If you enjoyed today's insights, don't forget to subscribe for more content on leadership, productivity, and personal growth. Share this episode with friends, colleagues, or anyone who could benefit from these powerful strategies.🎧 Listen & Subscribe: Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.🌐 Connect with Dr. Hall: Visit drrogerhall.com for resources and more.🧭 Work with Roger: compassconsultation.com📧 Have a question? Submit it for a chance to be featured in a future episode!Follow me on socials:X - @DoctorRogerHallFacebook - Second ThoughtsInstagram - @DoctorRogerHallLinkedin - @Dr Roger HallYoutube - @DoctorRogerHallRumble - @SecondThoughtsOpinions expressed are not therapy or constitute any professional relationship with anyone who watches or listens. For education and entertainment only.
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    28 分
  • Evil Is Not Mental Illness: He Was a Nice Man and a Good Boss

    Evil Is Not Mental Illness: He Was a Nice Man and a Good Boss
    2026/09/22

    "He was a nice man and a good boss."

    That is what Hitler's maid said about him. The psychology of evil is not the psychology of mental illness, and this is the episode that pulls them apart.

    Rosa Mitterer went to work at the Berghof as a teenager and broke her silence in 2008, at ninety-one. Asked what he was like, she said he was charming, that he was only ever nice to her, and that he was a great boss to work for. She was telling the truth. Roger's point is that being nice and being evil are not opposites, and that the man who was kind to his staff and gentle with his dog is the same man.

    So he draws the two by two every consultant draws. One axis is evil. One axis is mental illness. Four quadrants, and the one almost nobody talks about is the person who is evil and not ill at all. Those, Roger says, are the most frightening people he has met. The quadrant that suffers is the other one: people who are mentally ill and not evil, who get lumped in with the first group every time something terrible happens.

    What we cover:

    • Thomas Sowell's tragic vision: human beings are improvable but not perfectible, and there are no solutions, only trade offs
    • Why the founders split power across three co-equal branches, and what that says about what they believed about people
    • The French Revolution restarted the calendar at year zero and changed the hours in a day. The only thing of value that survived it was the metric system
    • Rosa Mitterer, the Berghof, and a dog named Blondi
    • Dignity and depravity: the same person, made in the image of God and capable of anything
    • Children of alcoholics are four to seven times more likely to become alcoholic. Do the arithmetic against the base rate and the death sentence disappears

    Roger's line, and the reason this episode exists: "I don't trust people who aren't really aware of their own fallibility."

    Chapters
    0:00 Cold open
    1:09 The tragic vision: people are a mix
    1:54 There are no solutions, only trade offs
    2:40 Why the founders built three branches
    3:59 The French Revolution started at year zero
    5:21 The guillotine, and Rwanda in Paris
    6:25 Aware of your own fallibility
    6:54 Dignity and depravity
    8:24 Four quadrants: evil and mentally ill
    9:24 The most frightening people I have met
    10:34 Hitler's maid: he was a nice man and a good boss
    11:54 Who actually suffers from the confusion
    12:55 Violent crime, and what the base rate says
    14:39 Children of alcoholics, and the backwards correlation
    16:24 Start with compassion

    Second Thoughts, Episode 73.

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    18 分
  • Ep. 72: That's Not Mental Illness. That's Evil.

    Ep. 72: That's Not Mental Illness. That's Evil.
    2026/09/15

    "That's not mental illness. That's evil."

    Roger's boss said it over lunch, about Jeffrey Dahmer, and it ended the discussion. He has been thinking about it for thirty years since.

    When someone shoots up a school, or walks into a mall with a knife, we reach for the same handful of words. Lunatic. Madman. Crazy. He was nuts. Every one of them points at mental illness, and nobody says that person is evil. Roger's argument is that the language did not drift there by accident. His own profession took the concept out.

    Personality disorders used to be called character disorders. The name changed because character invokes a morality, and a morality implies a judgment. What is left is a vocabulary in which every terrible act has a diagnosis behind it and none of them has a person behind it. The people who pay for that are the ones who are genuinely ill. Roger worked with them for years, and by and large they are gentle, troubled souls. They do not want to hurt people. They just do not want to be hurt anymore.

    What we cover:

    • Why "lunatic" and "madman" are the words our culture reaches for after a tragedy, and what that costs people with schizophrenia
    • Patsy, Roger's boss from the Texas Panhandle, and the sentence that ended a lunch
    • Jordan Peterson's dark triad, and why Roger thinks a psychological label on evil behavior is still a way of not saying the word
    • Axis 1 and Axis 2: the difference between something that has you and something that is you
    • Why "people with schizophrenia" is a different sentence from "schizophrenics"
    • Thomas Sowell's conflict of visions, and the utopian half of it: people are basically good, human beings are perfectible, and anyone who does harm was either uneducated or ill

    Roger's line, and the reason this episode exists: "If you have a conception that evil is not part of the formula, then you're going to come up with a different explanation for behavior."

    Chapters
    0:00 Cold open
    1:16 The question: are mentally ill people evil?
    1:46 What has happened to our language
    2:43 Gentle, troubled souls
    3:29 Patsy, and the Texas Panhandle
    4:14 Jeffrey Dahmer comes up over lunch
    4:56 That is not mental illness. That is evil.
    5:32 How psychology removed evil from its vocabulary
    6:49 The DSM: you, and the thing that has you
    7:45 Character disorder becomes personality disorder
    9:57 What are you going to say about people?
    10:41 Thomas Sowell, and a conflict of visions
    11:41 The utopian vision: people are perfectible
    13:06 Education, therapy, or paternal control
    15:12 Next time on Second Thoughts

    Second Thoughts, Episode 72.

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    16 分
  • Ep. 71: Loneliness Is More Deadly Than Smoking (Touch Starvation Is Real)

    Ep. 71: Loneliness Is More Deadly Than Smoking (Touch Starvation Is Real)
    2026/09/08

    Loneliness is more deadly than smoking, and the man whose research proved it died of lung cancer. Touch starvation is not a figure of speech: oxytocin, the chemical that bonds a mother to a newborn, is released by skin on skin contact, and a society that has stopped touching each other is running short of it.

    This is Part 2 of the 23 July conversation. Part 1 was about ruling out the body before you diagnose the mind. This one is about the other half of the answer: community is not a nice extra on top of treatment, it is part of the treatment.

    Roger opens with two smokers. Gary Berntson was a neuropsychologist, John Cacioppo was a social psychologist, and their fields barely overlapped. They went out behind Townsend Hall by the loading dock to smoke together, started comparing their work, and that smoke break became the foundation of social neuroscience. Cacioppo went on to write the book on loneliness. He died of lung cancer.

    What we cover:

    • Herd animals or pack animals, and which one we are
    • Oxytocin, why birth and breastfeeding release the most of it, and what skin on skin is actually doing
    • Photographs from 50 and 100 years ago: people leaning on each other, arms around each other, and when that stopped
    • Why loneliness is more deadly than smoking, and the research behind that claim
    • Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone, and what happened to the leagues, the lodges and the clubs
    • Entrainment: why singing, rowing and marching in time with other people bonds them, and why doing it alone does not
    • Chicago O'Hare, a missed flight, and what fear smells like
    • The study that swabbed fear sweat, put it under other people's noses in an fMRI, and watched their amygdalae light up
    • The question Roger asks himself: who am I hanging around with?
    • Why AI cannot touch you, and the two things it will never provide

    Chapters
    00:00 We humans need other humans
    01:50 Is community part of the cure?
    02:39 Herd animals or pack animals
    05:03 Two smokers behind Townsend Hall
    06:35 The hormones, and the one that connects us
    07:33 Skin on skin
    09:51 We stopped touching each other
    13:44 Loneliness is more deadly than smoking
    14:52 What happened to community: Bowling Alone
    15:32 Entrainment, and why doing things in time together bonds people
    19:42 Chicago O'Hare, and what fear smells like
    21:55 They swabbed fear sweat
    26:32 Who am I hanging around with?
    28:18 AI cannot touch you

    Second Thoughts, Episode 71.

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    30 分
  • Ep. 70: Thyroid or Depression? Check the Biology Before the Psychology

    Ep. 70: Thyroid or Depression? Check the Biology Before the Psychology
    2026/09/01

    Low energy. Weight gain. Lethargy. Low mood. That is the symptom list for depression. It is also the symptom list for an underactive thyroid, and a blood test tells you which one you are looking at.

    This episode is about the rule Rich Russell taught him: check the biology before you go to the psychology. Roger is a business psychologist, not a physician, and he is careful about that line throughout. What he is arguing is narrower and harder to dismiss. His own field is about a hundred years old. Physics has had a thousand. Chemistry has had seven or eight hundred. A discipline that young should be slower to hand out a label and quicker to rule out the body first.

    What we cover:

    • Why hypothyroidism produces the exact presentation clinicians call depression, and why a TSH panel comes before a diagnosis
    • Chris Palmer, the research psychiatrist at Harvard whose book Brain Energy treats serious mental illness as a metabolic problem
    • The Mad Hatter was real. Hatters treated felt with mercury, and a high proportion of them went mad
    • Dale Bredesen on chronic inflammation, and why the plaques and tangles in Alzheimer's may be the brain's protective response rather than the disease
    • Why some researchers have started calling Alzheimer's type 3 diabetes
    • The gut and the brain: how what you feed the bacteria in your gut is communicated up the vagus nerve

    Roger's line, and the reason this episode exists: "We have been around maybe a hundred years. Some humility would really be good."

    Chapters
    0:00 Cold open
    1:35 Introduction
    2:26 Rich Russell's rule: check the biology first
    9:20 Psychology is an infant science
    9:49 Hypothyroidism looks exactly like depression
    18:04 Chris Palmer, Harvard, and Brain Energy
    19:31 Mercury, and why the Mad Hatter was real
    21:29 Dale Bredesen on inflammation and the brain
    24:07 Insulin, and calling Alzheimer's type 3 diabetes

    Second Thoughts, Episode 70.

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    38 分
  • Ep. 69: Nice Is Not a Virtue, and Why Real Love Confronts

    Ep. 69: Nice Is Not a Virtue, and Why Real Love Confronts
    2026/08/25

    "He was a nice man and a good boss." That is what a German housemaid said about Hitler, and it is the sentence that made Dr. Roger Hall stop treating nice as a virtue. This episode takes apart unconditional positive regard, the idea Carl Rogers built modern therapy on. Rogers wanted to say love, but in the 1950s love sounded too soft, so he reached for a clinical phrase instead. What got left out was the part that does the work. Real love confronts. Roger explains why insight alone never changed anybody, why a therapist who refuses to evaluate you is failing at the job you are paying for, and why sociopaths score beautifully on unconditional positive regard. He also puts his daughter in a headlock to brush her teeth, which turns out to be the clearest picture of love in the whole episode. 💡 What You Can Learn from This Episode: 🔹Where unconditional positive regard came from, and the word Carl Rogers was reaching for when he invented it 🔹Why insight is neither necessary nor sufficient for a person to change 🔹The difference between judging, which is weighing the pros and cons, and being judgmental, which is thinking you are the better person 🔹Why nice and loving are two different things, and why only one of them will confront you 🔹How sociopaths and con artists can be excellent at surface empathy with no conscience behind it 🔹Why hypocrisy can only be charged against someone who already holds a moral code 🔹What brushing a small child's teeth teaches you about doing the loving thing instead of the easy one 🔹Why value free counseling is itself a value, and what that costs the client If you have ever softened the truth to keep the peace, as a parent, a manager, a friend or a spouse, this one is about what that choice costs.

    Second Thoughts, Episode 69.

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    26 分