Therapy-Speak Gone Wild: ADHD, Love Bombs & People Pleasers Unleashed

Joe Nucci, a licensed therapist with over 250,000 Instagram fans (because mental health influencers with real degrees > TikTok sherpas), tackled the maelstrom of therapy terms that got flattened by social media. His 2025 psychobabble mythbuster, Psychobabble: Viral Mental Health Myths and the Truths to Set You Free, warns against mentally wearing ADHD like a walking 'Sorry I'm Late' badge instead of trying meds and mindset shifts. He also drills down on love bombing losing its sinister sparkle, now just about dating fast—not manipulation—as if romance needed more confusion. Meanwhile, the 'people pleaser' phrase gets the verbal chop for being about as specific as 'foodie.' And newsflash: learning all mental health jargon won’t heal you; it just fuels your obsessive Google spiral. Turns out, emotional intimacy can be...optional, because not everyone wants to air their neuroses like a personal Netflix documentary. Watching Nucci dismantle these myths is like seeing someone clean the therapy-speak mud off Instagram’s muddy boots — painfully clarifying and very necessary.

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Mockingbird News

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Congrats everyone, now your ADHD isn’t an excuse to be late, love bombing isn’t just manipulating your soulmate, and people pleasing is actually a messy family of issues. Welcome to therapy jargon 2.0: less hashtag, more subtle references you can't ignore.

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Turns out 'love bomber' isn't just that dude texting you 40 times an hour on day two. No, it’s practically a dating speed limit now—because apparently every rom-com villain started there.

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Learning *all* mental health jargon online is like binge-watching a cooking show then trying to gourmet-cook under pressure: impressive info, zero actual results.

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