"Therapy speak" refers to the significant expansion of psychological and medical language and concepts to daily life, outside of the academic context.
This could include but is not limited to:
- using terms like "toxic" or "gaslighting" when talking about interactions, friendships, or relationships in situations that do not meet the academic definition of these terms
- referring to the urge to tidy up as "OCD", or a temporary inability to focus as "ADHD"
- partaking in speculative psychiatric diagnoses of others, including public figures