Bad Therapy Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

basically it's called bad therapy why the kids aren't growing up and the two things are related these kids are a wash in diagnosis they don't need therapy they don't need therapeutic parenting constantly feelings focus constantly accommodating their bad feelings and unfortunately it's it's led to a generation that is exhibiting the known harms of too much therapy

we're teaching kids that anything any little harm could be trauma that elementary kids if they got picked on or they got teased a little bit have PTSD it's not true it was never true but it's doing them real harm

we're giving kids unhealthy lives where they're constantly monitored where there isn't a dad around where there is no belief that they are strong and they can go off and do things by themselves without being monitored we give them this unhealthy life we don't punish we never tell them no and then when they act out we pour in mental health resources expecting that to cure an unhealthy life it's not going to cure it it only makes it worse

And she's followed it up now with Bad Therapy and it's out right now.

It takes a hard look at the over-therapization of children.

And you know, I'm very pro-therapy. I've been to lots of therapy. She's got some questions in there about adult therapy as well, but it's about how we're therapizing these children now in school with non-trained, you know, armchair therapists who don't have any sort of appropriate degree who are also really into trauma porn.

So, you know, every day at school now the teacher's like, okay, think of a trauma and how did you handle it?

And they're trying to bring the child back to something terrible that happened to him or her, which in and of itself is not great for them.

in Abigail Shire's book she talks about the bad therapy the bad therapy is divorced from spirituality divorced from the Judeo-Christian foundation

There's a lot of criticism and skepticism at the moment about therapy and therapy culture. Abigail Schreier recently wrote a book called Bad Therapy. She went on Joe's show, she came on this show. What do you think therapy looks like when it's at its best?

Abigail Shire wrote a book called Bad Therapy, yeah, and I fundamentally disagreed with a lot of the ideas in it, so I thought, and I messaged a friend before I was going to do it and said this is my plan for the episode, I want to make my positions known and not step in and throw a life boy to try and fix the problem. And the, you know, perennial recovering people pleases out there may sort of feel the same, that you say a thing which is going to induce some discomfort or something which is it stops, it's got a harsh end to it, or whatever. And then you say would it be, would that, you sort of bring this thing into land by offering, so how can it be the case that therapy, all therapy is bad, because it allows you or causes you to focus on your, yourself and your issues, but you also include in that CBT something which is unbelievably practical and shows up as an evidence-based intervention for lots of people's disorders. Is it that, and then it's the is it, that you step into soften the blow? I see, so throughout that episode in particular, I had to ask these questions and then as I watch the guest get to this point, which is exactly the reason that you ask a difficult question as opposed to there is this compulsion inside of me, I'm dragged forward to go, what would I mean and, and throw this sort of life boy to them, because sitting with that discomfort.

But one of the things that he argues for, Abigail Schreier, and in her excellent book, Bad Therapy, also mentions this sort of thing where they want children to have the freedom that they had when they were growing up.

Her upcoming publication, Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren't Growing Up is slated for release in early 2024.

And she told me with my last book, I was doing the Lord's work.

She's in her sixties and she really wanted to be of help with my new book, Bad Therapies.

So I want to thank you for that. It's an incredible accomplishment. But I do want to start with your book Bad Therapy. Tell us about your new book.

Sure. So my book Bad Therapy, Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up, it's all about why this generation, the rising generation known as Gen Z, why the generation that has received the most mindfulness tips, the most wellness tips, the most therapy, the most mental health diagnosis and the most psychiatric medication, they should be the picture of mental health. Instead, they're the picture of despair.

I wrote the book to show it isn't true and to try to stop the constant pushing around of parents by mental health experts.

I want to encourage you to check out Dr. Abigail Shryer's both of her books. They're so well written, so well researched. Bad therapy why the kids aren't growing up by Abigail Shrier.

Check out bad therapy and irreversible damage get them as a combo pack.

Abigail Shire has come out with this new book called Bad Therapy basically saying why are kids more screwed up now when there's more mental health resources than anything else maybe it's the mental health resources that are the problem and in a lot of cases that's what's going on the further these kids get into this process and being processed through the mental health system

I am going to read this book. A buck has got his own copy as well.

bad therapy really just says that, you know, the, the question is why are these, why is this generation think it's so unwell?

to talk therapy can induce rumination, trapping kids in cycles of anxiety and depression.

Focusing on feelings, which we know are inconstant and often even inaccurate guides to whether we have been hurt or injured or whether we're in the right.

Bad Therapy While the Kids Aren't Growing Up is the book.

Bad therapy, why the kids aren't growing up by Abigail Schrier.

I am going to read this book.

Uh, Buck has got his own copy as well.

Bad Therapy is the book, Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up.

Abigail Schreier, the author of Bad Therapy While the Kids Aren't Growing Up is the book. Recommend you all get a copy of it now.

Abigail Shrier, author of Bad Therapy, Why The Kids Aren't Growing Up.

I can't wait to read this book I know you said you read the opening uh it's the number one book on amazon uh of course did not make the new york times list which we can have a conversation about my book american playbook was the best-selling nonfiction book in america the week it came out did not make the top 15 new york times bestseller list abigael schreyer's book hit number one on amazon kind of a big place where they sell books uh and did not make the top 15 on um on the overall times list so it's interesting how the times claims to care about truth and accuracy and won't even share the books that people are actually buying on its list

Bad therapy why the kids aren't growing up by Abigail Schreer.

Talk therapy can induce rumination, trapping kids in cycles of anxiety and depression.

Social emotional learning handicaps are most vulnerable children in both public schools and private.

Bad therapy is the book why the kids aren't growing up.

Abigail Schreyer, the author, bad therapy while the kids aren't growing up is the book.

I'm reading Abigail Shrier's Bad Therapy right now. Oh, it's amazing. It's so good. I can't put it down. It's really a great book. It's coming out soon and Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier highly, highly recommended.

Gentle parenting has been a fad now for at least 20 years and it's the therapeutic approach to parenting where kids' feelings are always front and center...and the parent avoids all punishment, tries never to say no.

I don't think it's particularly helpful...if you go on the parenting chat sites where people have tried this and the kids get more and more and more violent, it would be hilarious if it weren't also a little tragic.

Our default must be with kids, you're going to be just fine, because if they hear that, they're much more likely to realize it's true and they're much more likely to develop the internal resources to make it true.

Abigail Shrier, independent journalist and author of 'Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up,' joins the FOX News Rundown to discuss why she believes gentle parenting is failing America's children and causing more mental health issues in young people, and shares parenting style tips to keep kids living a structured life.

I began from a point of taking seriously their pain.

A lot of people look at them and say, oh, they have no reason to be upset, and they've lived through no world war and no great depression. Why should they be so bummed out?

But we have a generation that has lonelier, sadder, more depressed, more anxious than anyone we've ever seen, and interestingly, they've also gotten the most mental health resources.

They've had the most therapy of any generation, fortunately 42% have been in therapy. Huge numbers are on psychiatric drugs, and the question is then why aren't they the picture of mental health, instead they're the picture of despair?

The mental health professionals have been participating in the problem