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The child mental health industrial complex which started in the 2000's and has boomed over the last decade as parents have been bombarded with the message that
by tssva 4y ago
The child mental health industrial complex which started in the 2000's and has boomed over the last decade as parents have been bombarded with the message that they need to rush their kids off to a therapist at the slightest sign of normal teenage angst or they are bad parents. Schools have bought into this and participate in the messaging. Once under "treatment" kids are repeatedly told they have anxiety and/or depression which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. What would have been normal teenage angst which in most cases resolves itself quickly now becomes a long-term issue of course requiring more therapy. This drives even more kids to think they have anxiety and/or depression because their friends have it.
Lately I have started to see push back among my teenage daughter's friends' parents as they have realized that their kids have actually gotten quite worse since starting therapy. Many have started pulling their kids from therapy and quickly seen their kids mental state improve.
- rodgerd 4y ago> The child mental health industrial complex This seems like a rational, evidence-based position.
- Drew_ 4y agoI find it very hard to believe that an otherwise healthy person can spiral into depression simply by hearing about it a lot.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoFormerly it was easy to find on Google, but I guess Corona "fortified" health information and the results are really bad right now because you cannot match the topic accurately. I had no success, but suggestibility of illnesses and conditions is a huge topic in psychology. There were many induced cases of conditions that stopped when the "patients" stopped therapy. There are many reasons why patients would accept such a false diagnosis. I don't believe this is the case here, though.
- revelio 4y agoTherapists have a long history of creating entirely false memories in children, telling them that they were abused by satanists as a child! Teenagers often go through some depression-like episodes due to love interests or whatever, so telling them they're medically depressed is a much smaller leap than what came previously.