Protecting Your Mental Health on Social Media with Colette Delawalla

Colette Delawalla graduated from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis with a B.A. in Psychology and most recently completed her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology and Master of Science in Quantitative Psychology at Ball State University. She is presently a Clinical Psychology PhD student at Emory University and is working to translate findings from pre-clinical work on compulsive alcohol use to an empirically derived model of compulsive use in humans. When she’s not studying, she loves spending time with her husband and rescue pup, Happy. Colette also enjoys painting and gardening.

In this episode we talk about:

• the definition of a mental disorder as defined by the DSM
• the definition of Trauma/trauma and how it is often misused
• boundaries and what they really mean
• self-diagnosing on social media and what it really takes to get a ADHD or ASD diagnosis
• how to critically think about the mental health advice you are getting on social media
• how to discern the credentials of the people sharing advice on social media

SELF CARE LEVEL 1000 is a podcast about the many ways we nurture ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually so that we show up more fully in the world and do the good work that needs to be done. We will get curious together about how we can practice self care in multiple ways with many modalities, leveling up the love we show ourselves every day. Hosted by Erin Polley (she/her) - a community organizer, yoga teacher and healer who is obsessed with sharing tools with people so they can heal themselves and the world.

CREDITS: Edited by Evan Polley. Music by John Larner.

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