Seeking Relationship, Therapy Required

Looking for love sounds more like chasing the high of an extreme sport, trust falling with someone you don’t really know like that. It demands exacting reciprocity, extreme vulnerability. It brings out people’s basest and most primal instincts and a frightening desire to merge into someone else. When the girlies on TikTok talk about dating, they ra... See more

The social standard this culture offers is one of controlled, placated solitude. Its narrative often insists that you’re surrounded by toxic people who are trying to hurt you, and the only way to ever become the person you’re meant to be is to cut them all off, retreat into a high-gloss cocoon of talk therapy and Notion templates, and emerge a non-... See more

BIBLIOTHERAPY: CAN READING HELP TREAT YOUR DEPRESSION? , dazed

Bibliotherapy, a form of therapy that uses literature to improve mental health and overall well-being, is on the rise, with trained bibliotherapists prescribing books to clients — millennial and Gen Z women primarily, it seems — based on their individual needs. The practice aims to prov... See more

i really think too much introspection is a disease, one that has really sunk its teeth into millennials/gen-z. i see it all the time: people who get addicted to therapy because they love talking about themselves, people constantly engaged in insipid self-reflection, obsessed with their horoscopes, consuming nothing but self-help literature/content,... See more