America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?

Re:America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Healt... by candiodari on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:14PM (#37399093)

There's plenty of studies coming to the same conclusion. Mostly, the conclusions are that therapy can improve a near-absolute lack of human contact but not much else. Famously, going to a sports club, even sometimes just once per 6 months, had more positive effects than 2 hours of therapy a week.

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Re:America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Healt... by dwaltrip on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @09:30PM (#37400306)

I’ll be an N=1 counter example.

My somatic therapist dramatically changed my life and helped me overcome some pretty deep wounds and traumas.

I’ve done a lot of things in recent years to get better, and working with her has been definitely near the top of the list in terms of effectiveness.

To be clear, this is a different modality (somatic and touch work), which for me was far more effective than the therapy I had tried prior.

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Re:America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Healt... by candiodari on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @02:34AM (#37401930)

These days I'm not so sure how this would be judged. Earlier, like >20 years ago it wouldn't have mattered: you were functional (~able to hold down a job and live reasonably for >2 months) before therapy and after. The problem is that there's plenty of non functional people that therapy doesn't seem to be able to help.

Glad you thought it helped you, though.

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Re:America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Healt... by benterix on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @06:05AM (#37403183)

Can you give some examples of such studies?

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