Psychologist Says Taylor Swift Is Really Messing With Her Practice

Taylor Swift fans are losing their minds and claiming that they don't know how to compose themselves before she gets on stage and need to take the day off after seeing her in concert. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I should listen to more Taylor Swift. Apparently I might
have to fully digest to this article. I was just
reading from a psychiatrist in private practice op ed in
the New York Times about how Taylor Swift has rocked
her psychiatry practice and interesting and how many women lean
on Taylor Swift to try to help them through, you know,

(00:23):
the bumps and bruises of adolescents.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
And everything like that, and adulthood for that matter.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
As the Taylor Swift tour was coming closer to the town,
the psychiatrist resides in the Taylor based therapy issues reaching
a boiling point with more clients saying things like, how
am I going to stay calm before she goes on stage?
I need to do remote work today because I can't
get COVID before the concert. How am I going to
go back to regular life once it's all over? They

(00:50):
were all saying they needed to calm down, and to
help them do that, we dug through the bag of
tricks behavioral, cognitive, existential and explore these patients' relationships to anticipation,
to enjoyment, to self regulation to suffering all around the
Taylor Swift concert come to town.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, yeah. And then the second part of it is
that Taylor Swift in her lyrics is so like confessional
and open about dealing with the challenges of womanhood that
they have a very unique bond with her. So I
thought was interesting just as a consumer of.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Music, Taylor Swift doesn't force you to choose between these
two things, because you can be the lucky one. She
is beautiful, gorgeous, everybody wants her and every bit the
anti hero you are inside suffering with all the am
I good enough? Do people like me? Stuff of being
a girl? That's interesting. I've listened to a fair amount

(01:48):
of Taylor Swift music because my kids kind of dug
the catchier stuff when they were younger. Now, of course
they've reached the age where as boys they have to
really really hate Taylor Swift. But I didn't, Yeah, I didn't.
I would have never guessed that it was a phenomenon
like well, like what's being described by the psychiatrist there.
It just sounded like typical of that genre, pop music.

(02:12):
But there must be something unique about it.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, well, I think it's what I was talking about.
I mean, it's so accurately like in a fairly down
to earth way describing the ups and downs and glories
and heartbreaks and that sort of thing that people see
her as some sort of friend from Afar, like a

(02:35):
really good friend.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
And you think that is a good thing or a
bad thing or a neither.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's interesting. I mean, you know, I'd go to see
a band I liked and really admired them and stuff,
and even thought their lyrics were fantastic. But it's not
like I wondered how I could go back to real
life afterward.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah. I think having to see a psychiatrist because you're
fa hired with a concert.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
T shirt is how I went back to real life.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Having to see a psychiatrist because your favorite music act
is coming to town doesn't seem like a good place
to be on the whole resilient scale. Yes, And so
I was looking at the charts the other day that
came out. David French was writing about it in the
New York Times. Kids' attitudes about themselves, you know, I'll

(03:22):
never be happy or all these different just horrifying trends
along with suicide rates, particularly among teenage girls. I mean
it's I mean, when you see it on a chart
and the curve, it's just It's crazy that this isn't
a bigger topic.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
But yeah, if it was a physical disease, the CDC
would be putting out news releases every single day.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
About Oh, we'd have closed the schools and altered our
lives in all kinds of tragic ways. Oh yeah, but man,
so huh? What is going on with teenage girls that
they're killing themselves, need medication and can handle Taylor Swift
coming to town. That's not good.