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They DON'T Need to Believe

30 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video by Amber Hollingsworth offering practical strategies to overcome stigma about counseling when talking with loved ones. Main advice in this chunk: avoid stigmatized words like "get help" and instead use alternative phrasing such as "let's get some advice on this issue from someone who knows something about it," and validate the person's perspective first.

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I don't believe in counseling. A lot of people have a bunch of stigma and bad imagery in their head about the idea of even talking to counselor and it just seems boring or dumb. So one of the ways that you can avoid and get around this one sometimes is you can say you can either sort of like agree. I can see where you're coming from with that. The other thing you can do is don't use the really common phrases that I know most of you use. Don't use the phrase like I want you to get some help. Just that word right there. Help. Use a different word. Let's get some advice on this issue from someone who like know something about it. If you say the word get help, you're going to get the eye roll. Oh my God, really? Here we go again. So use a different word, something else and you know your loved one best and find a way to, to couch it, frame it.