The Psychology Industry takes good basic ideas from individual work and builds out Programs and Apps and Do's and Don'ts for mass audiences. Because it gets mor

The Psychology Industry takes good basic ideas from individual work and builds out Programs and Apps and Do's and Don'ts for mass audiences. Because it gets more clicks it connects with the self-critical parts of us that tell us we're not doing enough, or aren't good enough. Capitalism as a whole has a need to constantly reinforce those things, or else people won't buy more than they need. The adage of "Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from" is a pretty good one for filtering out all sorts of these things. Another is that "Comparison is the thief of joy." In the west and especially in the US with our extreme sociosocietal independence it necessitates individual therapy to connect with our own needs, where in other places community and relationships would take its place. There's no easy pathways especially in this society towards self-contentment.