Is therapy overprescribed?

Therapy is valuable, but everyday discomfort is increasingly medicalized instead of met with resilience, community, or time.

The pathologizing of everyday life stressors has led to an overreliance on professional therapy for challenges that were previously managed through personal resilience and community support.

Therapy expansion has helped millions access care for real, previously-ignored suffering, and "things people used to just handle" often meant silent struggle, not genuine resilience.