"Everyone Needs To Go Therapy" Are Young People OBSSESSED WITH MENTAL HEALTH?

Agreed. As a healthcare professional and provider for over 20 years…the system is over saturated with people (especially after COvid) with people who claim to need therapy especially the young ones and are actually taking up space for the patients who desperately need these services.

Everyone needs therapy; Not a therapist.

No, not everyone needs therapy. Many people do, but unless you have a mental health issue, trauma, or some other personal problem that a therapist is qualified to treat...there is no reason to go to therapy. Therapy is expensive and no one should assume that financial burden or time commitment unless it is truly necessary. Thanks for another longer video, you guys!

Imagine if you told someone they had the flu when they are perfectly healthy and they started treating themselves for the flu because of it. Taking time off work, taking medicine, laying in bed… they lose money, they lose physical activity, they are putting meds in their body they don’t need… it’s more harmful than good. Don’t tell people they are sick and make them focus on trying to get well when they could be employing their time to better themselves in other ways. If you focus so much on being sick it can actually make you sick. Mental health isn’t a game. Talking about ignorance??? You don’t understand the consequences of the concept you’re pushing.

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I'm 22 and have a B.S. in psychology and a B.A. in philosophy who has dealt with mental health barriers since I was very young due to several non-ideal childrearing environments. Even in my professional career has an adult mental health case manager (i.e., I worked in the non-profit sector and largely had to supply services to the marginalized and disadvantaged) I would simply provide the option for counseling/therapy; though I had several clients who likely would have benefited from extended cognitive behavioral therapy, I would never dream of demeaning or trying to ostracize someone in the same capacity that these ladies did for not wanting or needing to engage with the service. To do so is extremely counter therapeutic. I agree with Aba in the sense that pop-psychology is a disease in my field, I regularly had to dispel misleading self-diagnoses. Without a shadow of a doubt the demographic that I had to do so the most often was young women in the same contexts as Aba describes. They do frequently equate a pathology with simply going through a difficult time, many people do not understand the difference between a defined reoccurring set of symptomology (i.e., a mental disorder) and experiencing negative affect.