Is Therapy Bad for You? with Abigail Shrier

Conversations With Coleman

Coleman Hughes

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Today we discuss Abigail Shrier's new book, "Bad Therapy". She explains the harmful effects of therapy, particularly on children and adolescents, and the risks associated with overdiagnosis and overmedication. Shrier also explores the treatment prevalence paradox, where the rates of mental health issues continue to rise despite increased access to therapy. She emphasizes the importance of authoritative parenting and the negative impact of excessive mental health interventions in schools. Additionally, she discusses the controversy surrounding ADHD diagnosis and the ineffectiveness of drug education programs. We discuss the impact of mental health surveys on children, the influence of social media on mental health, the role of mental health professionals in social contagions, the rarity of happiness, the power of exposure therapy and the therapeutic approach, the contagion of Tourette's on TikTok, the controversy surrounding multiple personality disorder, the overdiagnosis of seasonal affective disorder, the importance of exposure therapy in dealing with anxiety, and the implications for parents in approaching therapy.

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0:00.0	Oh, Yeah, yeah. Welcome to Season 4 of Conversations with Coleman.
0:33.0	Many of you have been wondering where I've been.
0:35.0	Well, as you can imagine, I've been very busy promoting my new book,
0:39.0	The End of Race Politics,
0:41.0	arguments for a colorblind America. If you haven't grabbed a copy of the politics, arguments for a color blind America.
0:43.6	If you haven't grabbed a copy of the book,
0:45.4	please do so or listen to the audio book,
0:47.9	which I actually read myself.
0:50.1	I've been so busy promoting the book, in fact,
0:52.4	that I had to take a hiatus from this
0:54.1	podcast and I'm sorry about that but don't worry I'm back and quick aside for
0:59.6	supporters of the show I actually turned off donations effective New Year's Day so no one who
1:05.2	donates monthly should have been charged in the past two months. During my hiatus
1:09.9	I've had a chance to reflect on my own workflow over the past three years of doing this
1:15.5	podcast and I'm amazed it's even been three years and I've come to some conclusions
1:20.5	about the way I've been running things and the way I would prefer to run things going forward.
1:25.2	The past few years I've been running two feeds in parallel, one for supporters of the show and one for everyone else.
1:32.4	And I've been releasing an episode every one for everyone else.
1:33.2	And I've been releasing an episode every week or technically two episodes because of the parallel
1:38.3	system.
1:39.6	Not only that, I've been recording and running ads every week on the public feed. Now this system has worked,
1:45.6	but there was always a trade-off involved for me to run things this way. The demands of
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