Are We Talking About Therapy Too Much?

Does everyone really need therapy?
The destigmatization of mental health problems-and the normalization that many people do struggle with severe mental illnesses-has been one of the great cultural transformations of the 21st century. But has this shift carried unintended consequences?
After all, what if therapy is less like exercise-something everyone should do to be healthy-and more like prescription medication-something you should only really use if you need it? Host Jerusalem Demsas talks to Dr. Lucy Foulkes (www.psych.ox.a...) , a researcher at the University of Oxford who has become increasingly concerned that raising awareness is not unambiguously good.
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[@vanessac1965]

Pathologising the individual instead of the environment

[@alst4817]

This is hardly surprising. It has been known for a century at least that medical students are prone to diagnosing themselves with horrible fatal diseases! Humans are blessed and cursed with a highly adaptive and imaginative mind. If we believe ourselves to be sick, we feel worse…

[@Whet-wb9jt]

A lot of mental health os REFUSAL to change or do something about your problems. This idea of "learned helplessness" is very convenient and very American.

[@ricardodsavant2965]

What does Dr Google say?

[@vooteimer1234]

Therapy isn't prevent your narcissism nor projection of worst qualities. Why is that?

[@Whet-wb9jt]

An exampld is "zoom anxiety"...one of the stupidest things ive ever heard.