Everyone I know seems to be diagnosed (or self diagnosed) with some kind of mental disorder. It's one of the defining traits of the zoomer generation. I know it's considered a kind of blasphemy, but I really think therapy is hurting our culture.
Therapy trains people to only think about themselves. If someone isn't completely perfect, we're told to cut them out of our lives. If your dad gets upset because you're not doing chores, he's abusive. If she doesn't text back after 2 minutes, she's avoidant. It just adds a really sick and toxic layer to every single social interaction.
People aren't perfect. I know I've done things that upset people in the past and people around me have made mistakes. It's called being human. Not every mistake or miscalculation is a product of evil manipulation or mental illness. Therapy seems to make the self the center of the world and reduces every relationship to something transactional. "My way or the highway."
I think that's part of the reason why our generation is so lonely. It's hard to really bond with people when you're constantly afraid of being a victim. You really need to be forgiving and be willing to see the best in people if you wanna make it in this world.
I went through lots of emotional trauma, my mother, a drunk, had a bad taste in men. 3 husbands and BF in between. All except the last one beat her. We lived in more than 50 places as kids, and half of our childhood was at Gram and Pop's. Abused by husband #2 in the bathtub (I barely remember) and again as a tween (2 seperate perps). Thank God I didn't get involved with the system.
I self-medicated on weed off and on most of my life, and I suffer the health consequences of that, but its preferable to the mental/emotional health industry, and what they do to people.
The worst abuser of my mom killed my too-young to be away from mama cat when it piddled on the floor. He made me bury it (As if it was my fault). So I like to tell people "I might cry, but I can still bury the cat" People need to quit being whips and become strong. God can see you through anything.