there was another one just today about teenage girls and how they come to therapy with 20 self-diagnosis, and the therapist has to unpack all the therapy speak babble they have convinced themselves of because they just use it to obscure their own emotional experiences as systematic pathologies… rather than just like admit the felt bad about something.

it’s getting way worse than pathologizing life, people can’t even process basic relationships without filtering them through words like ‘narcissist’ and ‘gas light’ now. and everyone is convinced they have adhd rather than just admitting they are lazy or distracted sometimes.

and you can see lots of folks here pulling the ‘everyone has to be in therapy all the time’ nonsense…

if you ask me it’s basically just a place holder for what religion did for people in generations past. you also notice how many people talk about it in mantras or like bible verses and just parrot/repeat the ‘truths’ of therapy… and assume that everyone is as traumatized as them… and if they aren’t they are lying.

therapy culture has all this weird cognitive distortions. i’ve always felt uncomfortable how many therapy people like, need to justify their own journey through therapy by insisting everyone else who ever lived also has to go through with it… almost as if they are still desperately trying to ‘normalize’ themselves…