Today we're joined by author Abigail Shrier to discuss her newest book, "Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up." She dives into the unknown dangers of therapy for children, the differences between worry and anxiety, depression, and sadness and why therapy is different for adults. She also explains the dark motives that fuel some therapists and inevitably cause harm to the family unit as a whole. We discuss whether gentle parenting is a valid parenting style and the dangers of manipulative empathy. Abigail answers a few of the most pressing questions about mental health, such as: Is therapy the "responsible" thing to do? What is "social emotional learning," and why is it in our children's schools? And is the widespread use of antidepressants an example of social contagion?

Get Abigail's new book here: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Therapy-Ki...

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Timecodes:

00:00 Intro
01:30 “Bad Therapy”
03:00 "Irreversible Damage"
04:30 Side effects of therapy
09:00 How therapy is different for adults
17:40 Group therapy
20:47 Therapy in schools
27:00 Empathy
36:25 Gentle parenting & its effects
58:34 Are there good things about therapy?

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