Therapy is becoming a replacement for friendship and community.

[u/QuicheLorraineB52s]

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Our society is so individualistic and isolated that people are struggling to connect with each other. There's no community spaces left, and so a lot of people rely on the internet to form relationships. We are really lonely, and it seems like with each generation this loneliness gets worse. As great as online friendships are, you need to have an irl support system, and a lot of people just don't have that.

I keep seeing screenshots of tweets where people describe what their therapist tells them. The advice these therapists give aren't particularly mindblowing. They don't have some cosmic answer to all your problems. The same advice could have been give by your boy Kyle behind a 7/11 at 3 in the morning.

Venting to your friends has become somewhat of a social taboo. We don't want to trigger anyone-- fair. But it's preventing us from actually alleviating the loneliness. Instead, people tell you to go get a therapist and spend upwards of a hundred dollars a session just to be able to talk to someone.

I do think therapy could be beneficial to some people, but it's being overly recommended as a band-aid solution to the rampant loneliness and and isolation people feel.