What going to breakpoint a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth? For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

You know the old thing that goes to a hammer, everything looks like a nail?

Well among the hammers today is psychotherapy.

Too many that are wielding it are convinced that every human problem is a nail.

However, the unprecedented rise of mental health problems among Gen Z suggests that the overuse of this tool has actually done more harm than good.

In another bold book, Abigail Schreier confronts the idea of psychology as an all-consuming ideology.

The book's called Bad Therapy, Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up.

In it, Schreier argues that much of what's now taken for granted about psychological and emotional trauma is that The thesis of this book aligns with that of her previous book, Irreversible Damage, which exposed the reckless push to medically transition gender dysphoric kids, especially girls.

This push has been driven mainly by the mental health industry.

And now, in bad therapy, Schreier points out the many indications that the whole approach of

our therapy-obsessed age has gone awry.

Most obvious is that despite living in one of the most

objectively prosperous and safe times in all of human history, our young people today

are in mass more mentally sick and more emotionally sad than ever.

In fact, over 40% of young adults today have a mental health diagnosis,

which is twice the rate of the general population. In other words, the generation that is most treated

for psychological well-being is doing the worst psychologically. So how do we get to this point?

When a recent podcast with former New York Times columnist Barry Weiss,

Shrier told the story of her grandmother, Bess, who grew up during the Great Depression.

Bess was orphaned and so malnourished that her teeth grew in gray.

She then contracted polio and spent a year in an iron lung.

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