Food Junkies Podcast Episode 271: Clinician's Corner | "Nobody Ever Asked Me What I Wanted" — When Clinicians Stop Listening & Why It Harms Recovery
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Mar 5, 2026 A deep dive into how clinicians' models can overshadow individual needs. They examine clinical bias, the Rosenhan study, and epistemic dismissal. The hosts explore diagnosis as tool or trap, why people may perform recovery, and how autonomy and curiosity drive real change. They urge clinicians to work from not-knowing and to check whose anxiety shapes treatment.
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When Diagnosis Becomes a Floodlight
- Diagnosis can illuminate patterns but becomes harmful when it erases the person behind symptoms.
- Clarissa and Molly compare a diagnosis to a flashlight that can turn into a floodlight, causing clinicians to lose sight of individual context.
What Epistemic Dismissal Does To Trust
- Epistemic dismissal is the active or passive rejection of a person's own knowledge about their experience.
- The hosts link it to clinician prejudice and how it undermines someone's credibility as expert of their own life.
ADHD Diagnosis That Ignored Longstanding Clinical History
- Clarissa recounts a client who was diagnosed with ADHD after a single intake despite long-term clinical knowledge to the contrary.
- The new medication triggered a panic attack and exemplified clinicians ignoring longitudinal data and other providers.
