The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
In her 2024 book “Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up,” investigative journalist Abigail Shrier turns a spotlight on the mental health industry and the unintentional harm it has inflicted on adolescents and teens. Psychologists, school counselors, teachers, and parents all looked to therapy as a way to produce happy and emotionally healthy children. Instead, Shrier argues, their well-meaning efforts have brought record-breaking numbers of young people being diagnosed as “challenged,” traumatized, suicidal, and anxious, among other emotional and mental problems. She writes, “Forty-two percent of the rising generation currently has a mental health diagnosis, rendering ‘normal’ increasingly abnormal.”
