E274. Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren't Growing Up - Abigail Shrier

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Abigail Shrier returns to talk about her latest book Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren't Growing Up . She and Bridget discuss what led her to write the book, her initial premise, how it changed along the way, why kids today seem to be in a lot of psychological pain, the potential harms of too much therapy, the overuse of the word trauma, how talking about and focusing on your pain can make it worse, and how kids are being taught to make their pain an organizing principle of their lives. They cover how our blanket culture of therapy can feed on parents' insecurities and how they really need to take back their authority, what kids today are really anxious about, how being a parent means you have to do things that are uncomfortable but that are good for your kids, why a certain amount of repression is healthy, how important independence and risk taking is for children's development, overmedication and how numbing a kid to the ups and downs of life has a lot of consequences, why you should research your therapist the way you would a surgeon, and what you can do as a parent to counteract these issues. Sponsor Links: Patriot Gold: Call 888-614-9238 AG1 - https://bit.ly/AG1-WiW Varnamtown: https://bit.ly/wiw-varnamtown Pluto TV: https://bit.ly/WiWPlutoTV

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0:00.0	very excited to sit down this week with Abigail Schreier.
0:04.3	The thing that I tell parents to ask themselves is,
0:07.1	you have to ask yourself the question that we're never asking,
0:09.9	which is, will this make my child stronger?
0:13.0	Not, is it going to upset her right now?
0:16.4	So, you know, in the book I talk about bad therapy,
0:19.2	and what is bad therapy?
0:20.4	Bad therapy is something that makes symptoms worse or introduces new symptoms to a child or teen.
0:26.0	And one of the biggest things that school counselors are doing and therapists are encouraging
0:31.0	is that we let kids out of their responsibilities, right?
0:35.0	Oh, you don't have to take untime tests anymore if you have math anxiety.
0:39.9	Not a severe condition, not dyslexia, a little math nervousness we let them out of their
0:45.5	tests right we tell them they don't have to hand in their homework well guess what
0:49.7	what does that do to the child it makes them more afraid to take a math test.
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