https://www.commentary.org/articles/heather-wilhelm/bad-therapy-abigail-shrier/
“With unprecedented help from mental health experts, we have raised the loneliest, most anxious, depressed, pessimistic, helpless, and fearful generation on record,” Shrier writes. Moreover, “as treatments for anxiety and depression have become more sophisticated and more readily available, adolescent anxiety and depression have ballooned.”
The broader calamity, Bad Therapy argues, is that our supposedly kind, gentle, and obsessively empathic therapeutic culture boasts some disastrous unintended side effects—and at this point, they’re being “crop-dusted across the entire population.”
Dwelling on your problems, it turns out, can often magnify them. “Gentle parenting” often leads to lost and sullen teenagers—or, even worse, undisciplined monster preschoolers capable of terrorizing an entire airplane full of innocent passengers just trying to make it to spring break. Done poorly, excessive therapeutic techniques can induce negative feedback loops, fresh phobias, poor coping skills, self-absorption, unhealthy obsessions, and a laundry list of bonkers ideas.
Maturity occurs when you realize "Hey, my parents were right to make me eat my vegetable, make my bed and go to sleep on time."
ReplyDeleteThe 1960's generation never had that moment. They never clued in that their parents were trying to teach them discipline so they abandoned that and raised a self-indulgent generation that can't handle any criticism. And now that generation is having kids and social media is worsening it.