Best-selling author Abigail Shrier explains how normal childhood behaviors are becoming pathologized in the age of mental health awareness and therapy speak.

Gen X was the first generation to start destigmatizing mental health issues and therapy.

While Gen X understands much more about the importance of emotions and vulnerability than their parents and grandparents, the rates of mental health issues in younger generations are on the rise.

Despite growing up in 'safe spaces,' Generation Z has the highest rates of depression and anxiety ever recorded.

Abigail Shrier is a New York Times best-selling author and former opinion columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

In her 2024 book Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up, Shrier discusses how a growing reliance on mental health experts has made today's children and adolescents more insecure and emotionally dependent.