271: Abigail Shrier: Bad therapy is hurting our kids

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Abigail Shrier joined Brendan O’Neill on the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about her new book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up. Abigail and Brendan discuss the rampant overdiagnosis of mental-health disorders, how therapists are harming kids and undermining parents, and why human beings are far more resilient than we think.

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hi it's Brendan here.
0:18.8	Before we kick off with this week's episode,
0:22.0	I want to invite you to my next very special live recording of this podcast.
0:27.0	On Thursday 21st of March at 7 PM, I will be joined by the brilliant Matt Ridley, a science writer and the co-author of
0:34.7	viral the search for the origin of COVID-19. Matt and I will be live and in
0:40.4	conversation via Zoom talking about the cover-up of the Lab League Theory, the dire
0:45.2	consequences of lockdown, the perils of net zero and other things too. We'll also
0:50.5	be taking questions from you, the audience so if you have something you want to ask Matt,
0:54.9	now is your chance. This is a free event exclusive to spiked supporters, our online donor community.
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1:36.2	W W. dot spiked hyphen online dot com slash supporters. I'll see you there on Thursday the 21st of March at 7 p.m.
1:46.4	with Matt Ridley. People don't even question therapists. They assume they can only help and we have as a result the most vastly
2:05.6	disregulated anxious, depressed, and honestly incapacitated kids. These young
2:11.7	people they think that every bit of nervousness is social anxiety every bit of sadness is depression every bad memory is PTSD suddenly telling a generation that they've been traumatized is so much more profound and harmful than even the trauma itself.
2:28.0	Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neil show with me Brendan O'Neil and my special
2:36.1	guest this week, Abigail Schreyer.
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