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The problem with this style is frequently not your children but other parents. They present a risk via the straightforward thing that they are bad drivers so risk killing your children, they will report you for letting your kids be more independent, and eventually their kids will grow up and be obsessed with "going to therapy" and therapyspeech and will politically espouse helplessness, parasitizing the few productive members of society.

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This comment took a turn from valid concerns into lunacy. Heaven forbid someone seek therapy!

For the ill, the doctor is necessary. But only for the ill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labeling_theory

It's not lunacy to think that labeling kids with "conditions" will cause them to externalize their locus of control in terms of those labels. And then it's not like the medical system is even that competent at treating less-subjective conditions.

If you find sex with a stranger okay there is nothing wrong with a prostitute. If you find laying bare your emotional self with a stranger okay there is nothing wrong with a therapist.

oh but only one is an expert? they both are.

both are doing it for money.

there is no free lunch

Not sure what argument you’re trying to make here.

I would consider them both to be experts.

Not so:

It’s very different a stranger that wants to have sex with me because they want to, rather than just because they were given money.

Also: even if not the majority, volunteer psychologists are a thing.

Well they are finding this constant focus on "feelings" and ruminating on them is having an adverse affect leading to more anxiety, issues, and an increase in medication usage.

The pendulum swong way too far the other way.

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