In a recent report covering 80,000 youth globally, it found that symptoms of depression and anxiety doubled during the pandemic,

with 25% of youth experiencing symptoms of depression.

5.8 million kids were diagnosed with anxiety between 2016 and 2019.

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University have found that suicide rates are climbing among 13 and 14 year

roles. The study found that suicide rates for teens more than double from 2008 to

2018. And that is some of the things that this generation of Americans, maybe

around the world, are going through. Why do they need so much therapy? Why are they going through so much? Americans and She's an independent journalist and author of a brand new book that you're going to be hearing about if you haven't heard about already. It's called bad therapy. Why the kids aren't growing up.

Abigail, welcome back. Thank you so much for having. I should say welcome back.

Welcome back to the, I guess the book tour, because you did irreversible damage.

That's the name of the book.

And that caused controversy.

People didn't want to hear that message.

You got cancelled. Amazon said, don't sell this book anymore.

Yeah, you know, a lot of people were very angry, but four years later, even the New York Times is writing about it.

So, you know that even the New York Times is admitting all the risks I talk about for gender

medicine, then they must have been so obvious by that point that they had to admit it.

What was your approach in writing this book?

And here we are a time in which we're trying to we're seeing kids go through all these

depression psychotropic drugs all these things and you think it's had a bad effect on them

that's right nobody has gotten more therapy than the

rising generation. No one's had more psych meds. No one's had more talk about

feelings. No one has had more therapeutic parenting and therapeutic intervention in school

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