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Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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00:00 The current political landscape
28:01 Does it help to talk about it aloud?
35:40 Living with abroad with a host family
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April 11, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So, Berto, you walk in the door and you look down and stressed out. |
| 0:06.5 | And I asked you why, and you said... |
| 0:09.2 | April Fool! |
| 0:10.1 | No, just kidding. |
| 0:10.7 | You said that you're thinking about moving out of the United States because of the current federal government. |
| 0:17.7 | So how do you feel him? |
| 0:19.4 | Yeah, it's been stressful because, so, you know, |
| 0:22.1 | the first time I felt what the impact of not having control because of higher powers was in |
| 0:31.5 | Columbia, but I was too young to sort of like appreciate all the complexities of it, you know, |
| 0:39.3 | meaning that when I was living there, when I was in my, I was like 14, 15, in the late 80s, and before I moved here, |
| 0:45.2 | I was witnessing uncontrollable forces on a daily basis causing chaos, death, and destruction, |
| 0:51.0 | right? And there was nothing I could do about it and nothing anyone I knew |
| 0:55.1 | could do about it, right? So I did feel a sense of helplessness and hopelessness, but I wasn't in |
| 1:00.8 | charge of, you know, a family. I wasn't in charge of my own finance. You know, I was just seeing it |
| 1:05.9 | sort of as an observer. And then I moved up here and it felt like a big relief and all these things. |
| 1:10.2 | Okay. The second time was when the OJ trial. And you would think like, well, how does this affect me? |
| 1:18.2 | But it was just because, you know, I had this illusion of like, well, law and order, especially |
| 1:22.7 | in the United States. It's like consistent. And like if someone did something, they go to jail. |
| 1:26.3 | And to the point where when I saw the car chase, I thought, oh, that's weird. Oh, he must just go straight to jail. |
| 1:31.7 | Like in these cases, they must just send him straight to jail. And I watched the whole trial and I got |
| 1:36.3 | really depressed about it. And I think we've talked about this before. I also talked about it |
| 1:40.1 | with my therapist. But I think it was re kind of bringing up trauma around lack of control. |
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