Why is the generation that has received more childhood therapy than any other so screwed up? Could it be too much therapy? From Brad Jones at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
Preventive mental health therapy for children may be doing more harm than good—and there’s research to prove it, author Abigail Shrier suggests in her new book “Bad Therapy.”
“What you might not know is that the stuff that travels under the headline ‘mental health’ is really harmful for kids,” she said at a recent book-signing event hosted by the Lincoln Club at Newport Beach. “I’m telling you that according to the best psychological research available, it’s exactly what you would want to do if you wanted to break kids down.”
In “Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up,” which hit The New York Times’ best seller list, Ms. Shrier investigates the mental health industry and its negative impact on children, and concludes that when it comes to preventive therapy—especially for children—more is not always better.
‘Irreversible Damage’
Ms. Shrier’s previous book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” led her to the explore the potential harmful effects too much therapy can have on children.
“Irreversible Damage,” exposed the “social contagion” and phenomena behind the sudden spike in the number of teenage girls identifying as transgender.
“Twenty percent of seventh-grade classes were deciding they were transgender, and the terminus of this journey, as they call it, was a double mastectomy and infertility,” Ms. Shrier said.
This just in from Pink Floyd:
Leave those kids alone.
Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full time job and children.
Bill Hicks
Children should not be allowed cell-phones (or tablets or any form of portable computer). They would then have the freedom to engage in all the usual, healthful childhood activities such as creative play, physical endeavours and imaginative wanderings within the Natural world.