Culture

Is Therapy Making Us More Depressed?

Maybe it was a global pandemic or merely the influence of an entire generation comfortable with venting each and every emotion online, but there’s been a huge cultural shift around the idea of therapy and counseling just within the last few decades.

By Gwen Farrell4 min read
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It feels as though we didn’t hear anything about it, and then, all of a sudden, everyone we knew from our mom to our therapist’s therapist is going to counseling and publicly praising the benefits.