The medicalization of language | Nora Perley | TEDxColby College

Allow me to paint you a scene. August 28th, 2025. It's 2:40 in the morning and your alarm is set to trigger noises that will make you your family think the purge itself has arrived.You can't sleep. College movement day arrives in 5 hours. So you sit.Your brain cycles. How will you introduce yourself. What ice breakers or antidotes can you prepare.Will people like you. What if you aren't interesting enough. You synthesize and you collect stories to tell.And when you start sorting through them, you notice som ...