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And Lisa Brady. It's not your imagination that a lot of people are in therapy and talking about therapy.

Mental health awareness has come a long way in recent decades, reducing stigma and encouraging more people to seek care.

But now there's therapy on demand and concern about patients following advice they find online or on social media, sometimes

misdiagnosing themselves and wrongly attaching clinical labels to others. Psychotherapist Jonathan

Alpert calls it therapy culture, also warning about never-ending treatment,

feeling better in the moment instead of getting better. We spoke about all of it, reshaping

the way we view ourselves and one another, causing ripple effects for the country, and his book,

Therapy Nation, How America Got Hooked on Therapy and Why It's Left Us More, Anxious and Divided.

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Rundown Extra. As a society, we've gone from stigmatized mental health issues decades ago to therapy being part of the mainstream, but in some very detrimental ways. Has the pendulum swung too far on this?

Yeah, and Lisa, that's a great question.

And you're right.

Therapy is everywhere, and that's a lot of what I talk about in my book, Therapy Nation.

And you have to wonder, with therapy so accessible and so much more available,

why are rates of anxiety and depression higher?

And we can certainly get into that later.

But I do think, you know, it's probably swung too far to the other side where people are

identifying with mental health disorders and issues far too quickly and readily. And then we also

have therapists who are, I think, almost like

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