One author warns parents not to rely too much on therapy, arguing that increasing dependence is creating a generation of helpless children and is counterproductive to improving their mental health.
Abigail Shrier, author of 'Bad therapy: why children don't grow joined 'The Brian Kilmeade Show' to discuss the risks associated with bathing children with unnecessary therapy and how that affects them in the long run.
“No one has had more therapy than the new generation,” Shrier told Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday.
“No one has had more psychiatric medications. No one has talked more about feelings…No one has had more therapeutic parenting and therapeutic intervention in school, social-emotional learning, and you know what? It's not doing them any good. In fact, I “I would say it's counterproductive. It's making them worse.”
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He highlighted that despite increased access to therapy, the number of people suffering from disorders and other struggles has not decreased.
That's why Shrier says mental health professionals, while well-intentioned, aren't actually helping the mental health crisis among young Americans.
“Mental health experts say, 'Oh, we're just firefighters. We're just responding to the fire.' That's not true,” Shrier said.
“They are the arsonists, and here's why. We've been providing preventive mental health care, flooding these kids with therapeutic techniques and methods and mindfulness and wellness techniques, for a generation.
“No one has received more mental health intervention. No one has received more diagnoses. 42% of them have a mental health diagnosis. They have been in treatment for a generation, and you know what? The self-centered ones, the feelings are focus, parents' reliance on mental health experts to raise their children. It doesn't help,” he continued.
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Ultimately, Shrier argued that children who receive the most unnecessary mental health treatment are less likely to want to take risks because they don't have the same type of independence as other children. Kilmeade asked what the increase in mental health resources is robbing children of.
“Effectiveness. Feeling like I can do this. I can figure it out. I can take a risk,” Shrier responded. “They're very afraid of trauma. They think they can't. They think they've been bullied. They think they've been traumatized. These kids think they have PTSD if they're abandoned.”
As a result, the situation has produced children who have everything from “menu anxiety” to “PTSD” as a result of oversaturation.
Abigail Shrier, author of the book “Irreversible Damage: Transgender Madness Seducing Our Daughters.” (Screenshot/interview with Abigail Shrier)
She stressed the importance of children being able to take risks and learn responsibility, something that can be ingrained in them through things like household chores and empower them to make some of their own decisions.
“We've let these kids get so frantic and worried, and then we bring in these mental health experts…supposedly as the solution,” Shrier said. “They are not the solution. They are the ones raising concerns and creating the problem.”
Shrier emphasized that psychiatric therapy and medication are necessary in some cases for children, but warned parents about the risks.
“What I want parents to know is not that therapy is never appropriate, nor that psychiatric medications are never appropriate… But every medical intervention, every medication, even Tylenol, carries risks and so does therapy,” he concluded.
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