why do you think so many girls are drawn to therapy culture oh I think it's a lot of things um I do think this is kind of a cliche thing to say now but I do think therapy culture has replaced religion um and that's not a new thing to say people have been saying that for a long time so Christopher Lash was writing about that in the ' 70s uh Frank Farudi writes about it really well now but in recent years since social media I would say therapy culture has just escalated um to the point
where I think young women don't see it as a worldview they just see that as kind of life so they interpret everything through this therapeutic lens so their lives their relationships their emotions um and I think it has elevated to the level of religion um so you think of you think of all the kind of characteristics of religion we just mimic them with therapy culture so instead of praying we just repeat our like positive affirmations um instead of like seeking salvation you'll go on like a healing journey um instead of like you know resisting temptation
from the devil you'll reframe your intrusive thoughts um and so I think for young women in particular who are becoming less religious this kind of therapeutic worldview has completely replaced that void what does a therapeutic worldview consist of what what what does that mean um like seeing problems in your life kind of pathizing problems and experiences as something medical rather than I'm just experiencing this emotion or kind of age-old anxiety now it's become a medical issue um so things like talking in the language of attachment styles uh and and trauma and losing the language of
just ordinary hurt and disappointment and things like that and for some reason this is giving some kind of solace or comforts order being brought out of chaos i think it gives the comfort religion gives and the consolation of like you see young women on Tik Tok saying things like um like they won't pray to God but they'll give a request to the universe and like have faith in that and so I think it gives all the comfort of religion but it takes away the inconvenient parts so the any actual demands on you or kind of
restrictions on your freedom or anything like that being held to standards of behavior etc so it has what women are craving in modern life I think which is belonging and security in something and faith in something but it's it's a much easier version of religion slippery religion yeah yeah how many of these girls are in therapy do you think a lot um there there was a study recently showing that 32% of all 12 to 17 year olds in America have either had therapy been on medication or had some kind of treatment in 2023 um in
a over a single year one/3 which is insane and I was talking to someone about that statistic and they were like oh that's great that's amazing and I was thinking that's a bleak statistic um so yeah I think there's there's the girls that are in therapy which is a lot but then there's also the girls who are just like living in therapy culture so it's just they scroll through Instagram and it's all about attachment styles trauma they go on TikTok and it's like a trauma informed therapist telling them like red flags they should watch out
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