Don’t let the backlash to therapy culture stop you from doing therapyThe Spinoff Daily, Monday August 26
Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: The realities of understaffed supermarkets, the case against selling (some of) Kiwibank and a night at Auckland Irish Club with radical leftists.
“My guess is that, taking into account the lagging pace of social change in Aotearoa relative to the rest of the world, we’ll only have to put up with another couple of years of everything being ‘valid’ and ‘triggering’ before we move on to a new post-therapeutic mode of expression. But as Insta-therapy is hosed off our cultural house, trickling down the same drain as lolcats and ban-men feminism, I am here to make one plea: don’t let the backlash to therapy culture stop you from doing therapy. In short, therapy culture encourages a person to revel in the status of victimhood; to see their mental health problems as a core part of their identity rather than challenges to overcome; and to hold the people around them (and the world more generally) responsible for meeting their needs and keeping them safe. Therapy culture breeds snowflakes and crybullies, and its preferred parlance is like an email from HR: saccharine and earnest, but also vaguely threatening. But therapy culture is not the same thing as therapy. Often, the two are more like opposites.”
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