to pathologize
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9.5
- verb
- /pəˈθɑlədʒaɪz/
- US
- It is essential to avoid the tendency to pathologize emotions that are natural reactions to life events.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd we then pathologized feeling not good.
- And we then pathologized feeling not good.
- And often those people are demonized, burned at the stake, pathologized, called hysterical.
- He also cautions against pathologizing sadness.
- They just say you're rebelling and they pathologize it.
- We we kind of have this situation that's happened in my lifetime where we've gone from pathologizing difference, difference was bad.
- So, but as far as I know, it's not ADSM diagnosis and thank goodness it's not because that would pathologize it, right?
- Codependency is a term that has been too widely and unfortunately appropriated to pathologize survivors of narcissistic abuse.
- But yeah, my, my anger grew the more I was pathologized because I just felt like I, I was a, a victim of this insane.
- It's like judgement or pathologizing people, you know, experiencing homelessness or on the other hand, like charity, compassion.
- So I'm obsessed with how we pathologize all these incredible traits that we evolved to have to be excellent surviving anxiety.
- If you don't respond, even if they pathologize, you're not responding.
- And so we pathologize almost every Yeah, right.
- And they literally don't think there's anything moral about our system, which they've pathologized as whiteness.
- And when I look at Maria and what she's going through, you don't want to pathologize your daughter's the fact that she's upset.
Examples
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Firstly, young people who are aggressive with their parents or caregivers are usually victims themselves; therefore, it is inappropriate to pathologize them as 'perpetrators'.
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On one hand, the goals should be to avoid pathologizing daily life, and on the other hand, to provide people with adequate diagnoses and treatments.
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I mean, we can pathologize everything, you know, essentially you can.
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One must exercise caution not to pathologize the sufferer's behavior, as this may lead to unwarranted treatment.
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He also cautions against pathologizing sadness.
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There's something very reassuring in a way, I think about pathologizing your emotions, about giving them a label.
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Like Eve, the Sybil miniseries is preoccupied with narratives of good and bad motherhood and tends to pathologize single women.
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Psychologists warn that if we pathologize normal behaviors, we risk mislabeling individuals and creating unnecessary stigma.
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Consequently, we should not pathologize every instance of anxiety, recognizing that it can be a normal part of life.
Synonyms
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7.2
To treat a normal feeling or behavior as a health problem needing care
Antonyms
How Medicalized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pathologize comes from pathology, with patho- meaning 'disease' and -logy meaning 'study'. So to pathologize a behaviour or feeling is to treat it as if it were a 'disease' or medical problem.