
In "Bad Therapy," Abigail Shrier boldly challenges modern parenting's over-therapization. Endorsed by Joe Rogan and featuring Jordan Peterson, this provocative critique asks: What if our "gentle" approaches are actually preventing kids from growing up? A cultural lightning rod that's reshaping how we raise resilient children.
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What if the very thing we're told will help our children is actually making them worse? Between 1950 and today, we've witnessed an unprecedented expansion of mental health services-therapists in every school, apps on every phone, medications for every mood. Yet during this same period, teen suicide rates quadrupled, anxiety diagnoses skyrocketed, and each generation reports feeling more psychologically fragile than the last. This isn't just correlation-it's a warning sign we've been ignoring. Any powerful intervention carries risk. We understand this instinctively with surgery or chemotherapy, yet somehow therapy gets a pass as harmless conversation. The medical term is "iatrogenesis"-harm caused by the healer. Consider psychological debriefing for trauma victims, once considered best practice, now known to worsen PTSD symptoms in 40% of cases. Police officers who received mandatory counseling after witnessing violence showed 41% more anxiety symptoms than colleagues who processed the experience naturally. Burn victims given therapy exhibited higher rates of post-traumatic stress than those left alone to heal. The pattern repeats: well-intentioned intervention disrupting the body's innate recovery mechanisms. The risks extend beyond immediate harm. Therapy can reorganize someone's entire identity around a diagnosis, creating what psychologists call the "sick role"-a permanent patient mentality that replaces resilience with dependency. It encourages rumination, that toxic mental loop where we rehearse grievances until they calcify into permanent wounds. It can fracture families by reframing normal conflicts as abuse. Most troubling, therapy often goes unmeasured and unmonitored. Unlike physicians who track side effects and obtain informed consent about risks, therapists rarely warn clients that treatment might make things worse. Studies suggest up to 10% of therapy clients experience significant deterioration-highest among those with milder initial symptoms, the very people with least to gain and most to lose.
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